As an AFOL of 40 years, best advice I can give any Lego City builder is....don't use road plates or MILS plates at all. Just paint the plywood. Much cheaper and most importantly you can move the buildings in and out for kids to play with or adjust the city easily. BUT, if you are just building it for show, no function/playability/kids etc.....whatever floats your boat. Same goes for lights.....it makes it unplayable. My city is build for kids to enjoy!
I went for it and went full mils for my modulars and roads because it has more benefits but as you say it’s not cheap, this is the best way I’ve seen to incorporate the new roads without going to mils 👏
One thing I really like about geometry of the 4 plate high sidewalk is that one can easily integrate handicapped-friendly pedestrian crossings on top of speed bumps: The roads are 2 plates high, and the large ramps that are included, when built on top of a few plates, raise the road by 2 additional plates, for a total height of 4 plates - exactly as much as the sidewalk. It won't work with widened roads, but my roads are only 16 wide, which is totally enough for my 4w vehicles from the 80s and 90s.
Wow I love this idea and this is exactly the solution I have been looking for my city. I have been wanting to use the new road system but couldn't find a solution other than mils plates. This will really help an keep the cost way down. Can't thank you enough for sharing this idea.
Also, you’re such a genius! You have the coolest city I’ve ever seen. I love the lighting and how you use solid and flashing and blinking. I love the fun touches like the Batman on top of the building as well as minions. I love your mix of heights and depth and facades and mountains and sidewalks and curves. I love the mix of themes between Lego creator, modulars, Lego city, avengers, etc. I love the different cars and vehicles you have on the road, including colors, themes, sizes, how some are businesses. I love it all man, keep it up!
They seriously need to make a turn in the new road plate style for reals! I will say though, you have the best looking curves thus far that I have seen, for lanes that wide. To me though the new street plates are one lane for me, nearly. I prefer to brick build my roads with 1x3 black tiles, and that way I can add my own road lines and such, but each lane when I do it that way is 10 studs wide (IRL road lanes are 10ft wide), and that gives ever the new Speed Champions plenty of room to drive on. Also there is extra rom by a stud or so beyond the speed champions, so the roads look great if you have some of those speed champions thats are 8.5 or 9 studs wide, or have a big construction vehicle or truck driving down the road.
Awesome video MrBookieboo, I’m definetly going to think about using your idea in my city. I just bought a bunch of the road plate sets at half price so I’ll definitely try out the idea.
My boy got the new green train and the rain station for Christmas and I had a set of these he got from last year and we had a similar problems how to integrate them..... What I did was this : It started because I was lacing road base plate straight but I had just a lot bleu studded plates I got on sale... He wanted a main road in front of the train station and Here in Europe we have these raised pedestrian areas that are higher and Les wide with more side walk etc.....and I mixed it with that because he also wanted a bus stop.... So I put the road plate in the middle so the dotted lines marsh up.... Have a hump on either eind like in real life here.... Then put a double crosswalk in front of the station exit..... And we like it..... looks like a real life thing you can find here in front of train stations and shopping zones etc around here and it solved the problem of the missing Straight.....
ps: love the way you speak in your vids... too many good YT`s speak so fast its hard for a not nativ English speaking guy to folow :) , your vids got a good speed tho, thanks again for a nice vid.... Greatings from Norway
Thanks for the great tutorial! Ordered all the parts and followed your build to add 1 extra stud on each side, like you've done. However, I've now run into an issue at the T-junction, where the road coming off the "main road" needs to be narrower otherwise everything is off by a stud (i.e. not extended by 1 stud). Pausing and zooming into your video, it also looks like at your T-junction (where the Brickbank and Sanctum are), the road that runs off to the left of the screen is narrower than the main one. While it is possible to make it the same width, you'd have to push the modulars to the side by one stud - in your set-up, that would mean the police station for example, would extend one stud beyond where your road ends. Is it fair to assume that that is the reason why your one road is narrower? Is there an easy workaround? Thanks!
Great idea, one small question though, with the limited clutch power of the small pins, does this prevent the corners of the baseplate of the modular buildings from 'curling' up?
Good question - I’ve never experienced any curling. The driveways can sag without enough support but I’ll just span the drive with a solid row of pins and reinforce further back as needed.
Jumper plates wouldn’t fit in the holes in the bottom of the upper baseplate. I didn’t want the modulars floating on top of the lower plates. You can certainly use larger plates underneath, thst would nss as he things even more sturdy.
