@@johnsolo74not necessarily. I can think of a combination of a pole, 1x1 with a hook, and a 2x2 plate that works good for signs. I think it’s been used in official sets before.
@@johnsolo74 BrickLink has an entire "Road Sign, Decorated" category that fits this stuff. At a glance you've got stop signs, speed limits, no parking, no entry, a bus, no parking, various arrows pointing in every which direction...
Here's an idea for a future building, make one that is a wedding dress and suit tailor. You could have some mannequins in window stans with some larger windows used for the bottom floor. You could use the first floor as a showroom. The second floor as a fitting room. And the third floor as the room when they make the suits and dresses.
I think you should add more life to the houses. Like people hanging their wet clothes out of windows, people on balconies or people entering their home. I think this helps with how realistic the city is. Keep up the good work❤
I don’t know if you already have a post office but it would be a nice addition, now that you have added a postman. This could be an idea for one of the interiors
I noticed your Lego city doesn’t have enough wildlife like rabbits, dogs, cats, bunnies, etc. When you get the chance of setting up your city, be sure to add some birds as well. You can also do a trick to where you take fishing line, attach it to the birds, and then run a thumbtack on the ceiling so the birds can hover above the city.
@@catx6262 Not sure where you live, but they are not "everywhere". A deer in the midst of the city where I live (outside of petting zoos) would be in the newspaper, I bet, and rabbits do occur in a park perhaps but I haven't seen them that I remember. In the countryside, sure, but suburbs are just too densely built for especially deer to wander far into.
@@landsgevaer We practically have a rabbit and deer infestation lol. You see rabbits every day and deers every week or so. It's just a normal city in sweden.
@@catx6262 Ah, what a coincidence: I'll be cycling in södra Sverige two weeks from now on holidays. I am already looking forward to the bunnies and deer then, won't even have to leave the city for that. 😜 Hei då!
@@SaulFemm yeah and people were definitely suggesting using bikes for delivering mail hundreds of miles across the desert If we're talking about Texas, the Houston burbs are a pretty egregious example of car centric planning
Just a suggestion, but I think it would be great to include a newsagent, coffee shop, or pastry shop in the underground area in place of the two new buildings. It would help open up the area.
Maybe add a schedule for the tram line at the stop? It wouldn't have to be anything too complex or specific, but the little details make everything cooler. Also a few passengers waiting at the stop might add a bit more life to the scene. Love your content!
@@Brick_Craftsits so cool you are from Austria i am from America but my family is from Germany Ive been learning german and i hope to move to Austria im 11 and have 5 modulars i love legos please respond i wanna see you make houses in lego :D
please consider this: if you're still planning a lighthouse, consider building it on a seperate island in the middle of the room so visitors can walk around it.
Maybe between the buildings on the upper platform you could add a small yard: some greenery with a children's playground. Not sure if this exists in Western Europe as well but it would be a nice addition in my opinion
I really think the green building should be a post office center! A sorting room, a place to drop off and receive packages, and maybe an office for mapping mail routes! Would fit with the post-bike
Greetings from the states! Our mail is typically delivered by small trucks in most areas, but in large cities with a lot of traffic and a lot of tall buildings it can be too slow to deliver mail that way so mail carriers will walk to deliver the mail, and they usually have a small cart that they push along that holds the mail and parcels
In the US (or at least where i live) most people dont get mail but if it is a postletter or package then there are community mailboxes which are big, segmented mailboxed that a whole neighborhood shares. Most people will instead just watch the news but when there is a newsletter its always a teenager on a bike with a backpack of newsletters.
i lived in one small town and they delivered letters by foot door to door within city limits. Everything else is distributed from trucks whether government or private. newspapers are private owned and an additional cost if wanted delivered.
In our city in the USA the letter carriers have a truck and they park at the entrance to the neighborhood and then carry a large satchel with the mail and put it in the postbox on the door of each house.
Had a tough day at work today, yet the little mail bike made my day. In simpler times, I used to be a mailman. How cool. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Really like how the city gets bigger and bigger! One of the buildings closer to the visitors can be a cloth shop (minifig torso and legs hanging on holders). Also you can put green tiles between the tram tracks so it would look like some trimmed grass like in real life. Keep up the great work!
You might have already added this, but i think it would be cool if you would add a corner shop/gas station, and maybe A police station. Also the railroad tiling looks so much better 👍
I’m 1:48 in- I really love this new building. Looks great on the angle. However, I think the roof blends in way too much with the adjacent rock faces. The little statue was a cute touch- made me smile.
You should add a parisian bistrot or two somewhere on the upper platform, I think it would make things more lively and add some color with the colorful awnings they always have. And by the way, are there other colors of seats available? It seems like all of them are dark brown!
I dont usually Watch LEGO related content. But your Way of building is so fascinating, the details, the thought put behind. You never choose the easy Way, and the crazy angles is what makes your city and your Lego builds the best. Thanks from Denmark.
I’m sure someone’s already answered this, but in America instead of bikes and trains to deliver mail, we use trucks and planes. The only thing ever delivered by bike anymore is the daily newspaper, but I think that only still happens in more like, rural towns.
Stunning work as ever - it just gets better every time and I can't help feeling that you're going to want to go back and apply some of the later improvements you've made back to earlier work to make it even better. When it comes to the buildings, please consider the following: Corner buildings often have features highlighting their history, or just showing off. For example, statues or sculptures above the first floor, clock towers, or just weird towers for the hell of it are all quite common. Light commercial and shops need to be there somewhere. Take a regular building design and knock down a wall between windows to make a larger window. It's what happens in reality so should fit in well, with the disjoint between the bottom floor windows and those above it. Many buildings are apartments, with doors that open straight onto stairs that then go above the bottom floor which is often an office or small shop. As for ideas for the bottom floors, small shops such as stationers, tourist, snack food, etc should all work well. For a bit of self-referential fun, a tourist shop promoting the city and Brickcrafts would be good. Other light commercial offices tend to be estate agents, parcel shops and similar.
I love your videos I’m so happy to see the new railroads being added. Also there is little to no bike mails services in America, at least on the east coast but I love the bike and how you included that idea
Wow. The scene where you show the rock face around the stairs next to the building and added the 'sculpture' gave me such a rush of inspiration/nostalgia; a feeling of "being alive" and remembering details like that in the world throughout my life, truly showing how human beings mold their surroundings in 'artistic' ways, leaving their touch on areas for decades if not centuries. Beautiful in the world as a phenomenon, and beautiful in your miniature world, both as the phenomenon and the way it's executed. Well done!
Just an idea, would be cool if you had a few pre built construction scenes. Road closed signs, barriers, tractors and crew. Scaffolds and Pylons too. Place them all around your latest build, or the next upcoming area. Maybe a food truck and a portajohn would be funny too.
I think some of the dark grey tiling on the right side of the tramline can be integrated with the light grey next to it, like it is on the left side. I just don't like how the light grey ends with a straight line and I think it should transition a little bit instead. I look forward seeing more from you and this city :D
I am a courier in New Zealand. The postie bikes are used here, and I believe what you created is something similar to what DHL in high density Asian cities use.
Wow this incredible to see how far it’s come. Love the masonry of that new blue building. Might be nice to see a games/hobby shop somewhere. Collectibles on the wall and people playing dungeons and dragons or something in the back.
Maybe a flower shop could be nice for a bottom floor of a building And maybe add a stairway leading to the upper platform intergrated in a building. Everyone can use it but it is part of a building
Are you ever planning to have a large scale castle at any point of your MoC, similar to your old one? I know most of the rest of the space around the table your building on is reserved for the airport but there are so many cool rural things id love to see you build. A castle Perhaps a darker denser forest with more fantasy themes Building made out of marble and potentially even circular buildings An ancient grassy plateau Potentially a giant temple either current or decayed A crystal cave that you can see into from below the first level of table that could even have a minecart track going through it
Absolutely loving what youve done this update!! but i do think the colors of the new house blend in a bit too much with the surrounding, especially compared to its neighbour.
Very neat to see the mail bike. As someone who loves in the northeastern US I haven’t even heard of these things, I knew they rode bikes but with bags over their shoulder but not like this. How cool!
Here in Australia we have Posties to deliver the paper mail, where they ride these red motorbikes with high-vis green bags slung over the back of the bikes. Aus Post has these three-wheeler things for suburban areas on the east coast, but the bikes are still the prominent mode of transport for Posties delivering letters and cards.
Guten Tag Bob! Great video as always. I think on the inner curve you should include another flower bed if possible, as i think the tiling is a bit chaotic.
I love your videos, I do think adding like a trio of Lego Teens trying to climb on the roof of the first building you put in, this episode, would be cool. My mind (As a Teen myself) went directly to, "How cool would it be to climb on top of that roof from the upper city platform".
As far as the mail by bikes go, we have what you would call "Paperboys". What they do is that you have a kid riding a bike going to people's houses to deliver the newspaper. If you want to simulate it, then I would suggest you play the arcade version of paper boy made by Atari in 1985 with Easy Street, Middle Road, Hard Way
I’m loving the progress you’re making! I do want to say that maybe traffic signs, traffic lights, and a hotel, (if there’s not already one,) would help bring a lot more life into this city of yours.
For the majority of locations in the continental US, mail is delivered by the US Postal Service via mail vans; special purpose vehicles designed to give the operating mailman room to store, sort, and deliver mail to mailboxes without having to leave the vehicle. They are boxy and white, with navy blue accents, and are not very big. Occasionally, mailmen will have to deliver on foot, either by leaving their van or as part of a standalone route. For these, they will carry a large cloth mailbag, possibly two, slung over their shoulders. Their uniforms are often shades of blue and grey/black, and vary depending on weather conditions and their individual needs. Polos or dress shirts in light blue; slacks/pants or shorts in grey, dark blue, or black; dress shoes in black, coats in dark blue; and hats of varying design, usually baseball-caps in a matching color to their torso piece. I don't recall ever seeing a mailman delivering via bicycle, but presumably it happens somewhere to suit individual areas' needs.
In the USA, we used to have the mail bikes in small rural areas back in the late 50s and 60s, When the boomervilles came around. now everything is done by truck/van.
Instead of this tiling patern around the tram tracks you could try to put some "gravel" with the little 1×1 round pieces I think it will still looks cool and realistic because in some tram station (In france for exemple) there is some gravel on the ground with some grass and all kind of vegetal things :) Have a good day.
I've never seen a postman use a bike like that before. Here in the UK, they tend to use a van or push a kart. I have seen bikes like that be used for carrying ice creams, although only in national trust places or public gardens.
I have to laugh! It’s funny because I saw one of those postal bikes earlier today here in Maine and thought “Wow, I’ve never seen one of those! I didn’t think anyone in the U.S. uses these.” Thanks for building that! It was very creative and looks nice!
i love love love that little shrine on the rockface, very nice detail. if you havent made one yet, a fun interior concept would be a tailors shop or a boutique/atelier.
To answer the question about the postal delivery bikes at 3:32: Unfortunately in north america, there are very few if any cargo bikes. When they do exist, they usually are simply a novelty for posh city centres. Most of North America is sadly very hostile towards any mode of urban transportation other than cars or trucks. This also means that most cities lack a functional public transit system. I recommend the youtube channel “Not Just Bikes”, they have excellent videos on the pitfalls of America’s suburban car-centricity, and contrasts this with Amsterdam’s diverse transportation options. Great video as always! If I were a minifigure, your city would make a great place to live!
I love the little mail bike you did! To answer your question; Here in the States they aren't too common, although there are definitely exceptions. Because of the "planned" nature of many cities in the US roads are typically wide enough to allow mail cars and vans through. However, some bigger, more densely populated cities (New York comes to mind) in the US employ mail/package bikes as they can get around more quickly and easily. I found your channel a few months ago and I've been following you ever since! I love your work and I can't wait to see more!
For the new buildings that you addaed near the tram, since their roof height is basically the height of the floor of the upper level, i would suggest turning it into a rooftop of sorts. Maybe a viewpoint to the sea or so, or a small little rooftop cafe. Love the progress keep it going!
For the building you could make it for a lawyer or private detective or something like that. In the town it's missing à big long building like a factory or a cool manor building. A swimming pool could be good too (one public for all the town or a top roof one for a rich house owner). You could make a theater too. A university, a garbage collector zone, a car workshop, a bus station, a church, a bank, a grocery store. Hope it'll inspire you for some future cool looking buildings.
Love it ! Do you think you could include timelapses of you creating thoses houses ? It could be interesting to see you try things and eventually have something to show at the end.
I absolutely love the new improvements! I don't know if one already exists in the city, but an idea for the empty building is a smaller book/movie store/ library.
Something to consider for connecting the upper city section is a municipal elevator. I grew up next to a town that has one used to connect a lower city area with the upper town. It has a stair along the cliff also, but an elevator takes up much less space.
6:40 - I would make a metro station in this section, and it would be an interesting building technique, making an inverted, curved, viewable platform. Something to consider
I'd say to fix the window issue, why not build some Lego repair men doing some work on the window. Great way to show of some Lego construction crew, scaffolding, and a fun diegetic way of explaining the window. Would be a fun street scene.
6:00 I think the interior should be a sort of bakery. The front of the building reminds me of a bakery in my hometown that my mom would frequent before she passed away from lung cancer. The second floor could be the kitchen because of the checkered floor pattern or a diner.
Make that little building a secret disco party! Like it's a party goers house which they've converted into a total party pad. Lots of people dancing in the middle of the day. I think that's a fun idea.
It would be cool to see some city animal life! I recall there's little lego squirrels, plus seagulls since we're by the harbor and other small birds, though I don't know how expensive or worth it the pieces are. Little cats in windows or on doorsteps would be very fun as well.
4:21 Nope not in London! Would be cool. The bike currently makes no sense so you should put the building at 6:14 as a post office and put more bikes around the city! Nice mini build!
you could add electricity cables to the tram line, to add a bit more of realism to it, or you could make it like a light metro, the tram can go beneath the surface and have stations below the street
With 1 or 2 of your cottages / small houses could you come up with some fruit trees for them? . . . i don't know if that'd be easy or hard for you. Also, i love the 'weeds' you added around the tramline (those small 3 leaf plants) so simple but so much more character!
I’d love to see a big steakhouse or a fancy restaurant of some sorts! Everybody in suits and dresses, jazz band in the corner, bottles of champagne. I’ve loved having these weekly videos
I'd love to see one of the buildings be a little comic/hobbie/toy shop. Have some of the oddity theme parts and figures like exo force robots and Bionicle minifigs, etc. in the windows. Would be a fun easter egg for eagle eyed guests. (Also, your mail gets delivered by bike! That's awesome!)
Love these new corner transitions! Canadian🇨🇦 here and (much like alot of the US, I am sure) we are all far too car reliant and low density over here to have postbikes.
As a french postman, I can say we don't use cargo trycicle but rather "normal" bicycles with important cargo structure over the front wheel which include stabilizers to keep the bike straight when we jump off of it, and also cargo boxes on each side of the back wheel and over it too. We use backwheel tricycle scooters with huge cargo though.
I think, if you were going to redo the tram curve cobblestone, you should integrate some 1 by 2 curved pieces, as the edge marker next to the tram. It's a curved fence technique usually. Those would allow you to get a much better fill with the cobblestone quarter pieces and dropped tiles for holes. Plus, you could then wrap it around, make it a spiral street pattern. Or at least far enough you can use it to transition the tile into the dark gray tile on the next module. Just as an option.
It would be lovely if you could make the street around the metro rails that you've just added like a family street, to bring another story to the city!
Amazing build, it's fun following the progress! Suggestion for the right-hand side along the tram tracks and towards the harbour: a colonnade, ending in a staircase down to the water
There should be a gradient or a more smooth transition between the white pattern and the dark grey pattern near the tracks, kinda like you did on the other side
4:17 to your question, in the US it normally is the mailman drives around in a car, then stops around every 2-3 blocks and delivers the mail by foot. (At least in city/suburbs, idk about rural areas)
the little post bike can be found in north america. usually in small towns. however they usually carry flowers or retired and out of service flower and post bikes are turned into flower "pots". also i think lego even made a bike like those
in the US, at least where I have lived, the mailman usually walk around neighborhoods with a small mail truck parked nearby. they don't usually bring any packages, usually only paper mail.
I think the blue corner building would make sense if it was a flower shop, with the interior having shelves, with boxes that would contain seeds, and a counter that the owner or person working is behind as well as little stands with flowers, I once visited a place like that in France, it used to be a post office but was converted into a flower shop at some point, so the slots that held mail now held sacks of seeds and dirt for planting and gardening
I’ve been watching for along time ( I stared when the old city was still being built) and I’ve noticed that all other Lego cities have airports in them and now that you have all this space I think an airport would fit in well and I think it would make good content. Keep it up 👍
Add more harbor that is for bathing with maybe a stairs-like platform island for jumping into the water? Legless figures in the water is always a nice addition, maybe one inside a rescue wreath.
I think it would be great to have the buildings in the lower section have some outlet in the raised section. Perhaps you’re planning this already, but maybe have the blank walls facing the street behind them turn into kiosks of some sort. 5:40
I wanna just say thank you for the name of your video. I wasn't really in the mood today and that gave me a small giggle, many thanks and happy building !!
in australia, post is usually delivered by van or motorbike (motorbikes deliver(ed) the letters), and nowadays there are these electric tricycle vehicles that deliver parcels in densely populated areas, kind of similar to what you showed (but the storage is behind the driver).
In the UK we have post trolleys, that the local post officer will push around with all the mail. Of course there are post vans as well for larger parsels or further away places too
