LEGO City Update! Jazz Club Placed, Skyscrapers, Town Square 

For the sky scrapers, maybe you can do commercial establishments at the bottom? Maybe like a condo sky scraper?

It’s just like a real city! Buildings changing, roads getting worked on, adding new buildings and demolishing others. And then trying to squeeze in future LEGO sets in the process. Anyway thanks for always keeping us entertained, and it’s great watching the twins grow up too! I live in Orlando and I need to grab the new Disney Castle soon.

You could build the daily planet as a skyscraper

You need to do a skyscraper around the pillar. Your city is looking great!

Just a brainstorm… what if the botanical garden was on top of one of the new skyscrapers? Like you see in new York on top of Rockefeller center or other cities? It would look super cool! Maybe if it was on top of one of the shorter ones in front of avengers tower ? 😊 have a great day!!

town hall would look great extended to the corners

I think a Carvana Style Vertical Car Dearlership would be a cool addition in the skyscraper block

I saw someone say this about the sky scrapers. I love the idea of putting business and things on the first floor. Stores/shopping, resturants, markets, things like that. Maybe a pharmacy, deli, liquor store, apple store, things like that. Cinnabon, who knows?

Your kids are super cute :) can't wait to see them enter the lego city and build around. You could double the height of the Friends School building to the height or you could at least add on floor. Greets from Germany

Adding elevation variance would look awesome! The way I'm imagining it though would involve rebuilding the bottom floor of almost every building so e.g. the back door would be lower than the streetside door to account for slope, which would likely lock the layout mostly in place because every MILS plate would have a unique and contextual edge elevation profile.

I love the idea of elevating you blocks to add some more dynamism to the city! If you look at big cities like nyc, a lot of the neighborhoods have their own character in the steep streets of the west side, or the narrow winding roads of the financial district. I think its the perfect addition, and I love how creative you are being!!

Woo hoo! I love the direction that the Lego City is going in! Can't wait to see what's next!

For the skyscrapers, since you can't build downwards for an underground parking garage, maybe you can have the first two floors be parking spots?

I definitely like the straighter ends to the bike lanes to the "rounded" ones, but overall it adds a nice pop of color to the city!

Elevation changes within the flat city? BOLD... I love it! It's extremely ambitious, but it will push your LEGO abilities to new heights! ;) As part of a trial run, I wonder if there would be a smaller area in the city that you could elevate? Maybe the haunted house or the strip next to your standing hole? It would expose that area for better visibility, and one of the elevated edges could cut off right by the standing hole, saving your from having to build up that flat side with so much extra brick.

I've seen a couple other comments on this, but I think you could add a couple skyscrapers with restaurants and stores on the bottom floor. Also, if you added balconies for a few towers that would be really cool!

Now that the bike lanes are more or less settled you should add rental bikes

Your doing amazing kylie. Good luck on the movie

U should if u want build a stadium of any sport like hockey or soccer

Try acetone on a print part that you don’t mind distorting. To see if you can clean the print of & then you could clean the Zebra crossing instead of buying new ones.

You could use Dublo as the carrying structure under the raised structure. It is compatible with regular lego plates.

You may want to design a cycle crossing, they are like classic zebras but they have just outside lines, look for the image of it and try to lay it in the roads.

I think if you tiled the town square in a pattern it would look cool. It's representative of the town so it being a little fancier makes a bit of sense.

When you move the crosswalk, you should also add a crosswalk to the bike lane.

you can also build an empire state building type of skyscraper. Not just a square shape building but one where it starts out big on the bottom then gets smaller and smaller the taller it goes up and ends almost at a point.

awesome video jordan the skyscrapers are looking amazing so far great job

If you part out the alt build pub you could add an extra floor to the corner garage 😊

For the sky scrapers I think you should try an eco one with plants and trees growing up it to bring some real colour to City sky line.

For the small road plates I believe they have it in the bike lane color blue on PAB!!

Would be nice to see some kind of San Francisco victorian houses on elevated streets!

recommendation on skyscrappers: Go thinner, go taller!

What about putting the sky scrapers behind the modular construction site. Seems appropriate location? Also, you need some pedestrian bridges over some of your roads.

I like your bike accident scene

i think the skyscrappers take a lot of room and attention alone.. maybe thenew hills idea would be best suited for a residential area remake. Also, the smaller houses would be easier to manage on top of a hill than HUGE buildingd

The white one reminds me a bit of First Canada Place, or BMO tower, tallest building in Canada

I know you said you want to not use wood to elevate but if it was me I'd layer brick-height thick wood boards on top of each other then just sit mils on top. Then you only need to change edges/slopes and can easily swap mils plates around after.

Wonderful!

If you do a raised platform maybe you do not need to raise the road plates instead you create cool stairways or elevators to the raised platform which perhaps makes it less complicated 🙂

Another option for your bike crossing are adding the strips, similar to the pedestrian crosswalk, just in dark azure. This is something I believe is becoming more common in the real world.

The elevation is an awesome idea! Loving also the new fountain/park in front of the townhall. If I can give you an advice, you should double also the Diner modular in height, in order to match the new skyscraper area.

Just one small hint i would do the skyscraper base with masonary bricks and modern look (black and white) higher

Lego does make those road plates in the same blue color as the bike lanes. I believe there was at least one in those city wildlife sets (with elephants and lions) if you have that. Wouldn’t hurt to see how it looks as a replacement in the areas where the bike lanes conflict with the crosswalks. Might be a little too wide, but just an idea.

Build Wayne Enterprises as a tower!

I’m a big fan I just had an idea when you talk about rising roads Rise the houses so they are. More visible in the background

Not sure if you've ever added an Area 51-esque set piece to the city, but it'd be cool! 👽🛸

Love the nougat and blue windows building, it looks yummy ha ha couldn't think of a better word. Comment 2 🙂

If you make elevated roads be sure to add a sonic the hedgehog minifigure on a snowboard slide down the road like in city escape from sonic adventure 2

Jordan the skyscraper and bycicle paths...would for the paths not be better the color of the Jazz club looking like gravel? And the skyscraper...ground floor the black unit, then the two with blue curved windows and then the two white...just a suggestion

for elevation to the city, instead of using lego has a base, could think about building a base out of wood like you did the raise platform, then just covering that with lego, mils plating, etc...

Ikea in the US has those white Lego boxes that work well for elevation. Not sure if you have that option in Canada

Why shrink the size of the square in front of town hall to make city more crowded look. Your city doesnt lack of buildings but open spaces like parks, gardens, plazas. Sometimes less is more

I thinking ridden the pub and replacing it with an empty hollow see through tower would be a drop, i get replacing some buildings with towers to form a district or block but please not at other actual content (not standard box sets) expense That white skyscraper design is incredibly obstructive whilst being incredibly see through with no content, your town will be going from heavy deep occupancy to bizarre empty suberb. Perhaps swap the extended diner for the construction site so it looks like they building another skyscraper in the skyscraper district AND keep unique feature filled content

You should add a sinkable plate in the manholes.

It should be an octan business skyscraper

You could increase the construction site to be a taller building

That if instead of the crosswalk you continue the bicycle line with the white line but filled with dark gray brick put the crosswalk after that and use one 8x16 road plate 🤔

Shouldn't it be better if you change one layer of 'fake-floor' plates to bricks with the skyscraper modules? Now a Real floor takes up 4 plates (2 at the top and 2 at the bottom of the next), yet a fake floor shows only 2 in total...

When are you finishing the last floor of the boutique hotel?

Hi Bricksie , I have mentioned this idea in the past and was wondering if you have ever considered making Maple Trees with Red leaf elements ( if they have them ) , in the campground to represent the Fall season , and the Canadian Maple Tree . Just an idea , always enjoyable , thanks and take care. Dreamer 

Hi! We are adding clubs at school and I got Lego club. Where do you come up with instructions for making skyscrapers? I year long goal is to try to build a model of school out of Legos. Also do you know places that donate legos to schools? Thank you

Can you give us some tips on how to build my own Lego city

You should just copy the design of the bricklink construction site to make a skyscraper.

Oh Dear, if you remove all the crosswalks, how will your Mini-figures cross the street?? This could be very dangerous! 😉 😝

need a waterfall with a river through campground. running to ocean.

Again why does it have to be realistic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hiiiiii

i think the skyscrapers should have more detail on the facades like balconies and greenery and more detailed arches and texture

For sky scrapers you should build stepped back profiles so they don't come out just one big rectangle.

The skyscraper with the arched windows looks amazing! I hope you finish the top with a nice period appropriate cornice. It's just perfect.

I love how the bike lanes are coming along. I'd have never used blue, and I'd have missed out because it looks amazing. It really contrasts with the neutral colors of road in a way that makes the road look clean and well maintained

The black and white skyscraper looks too squarish, changing shapes and more details would make it better The nougat one is awesome You could build skyscrapers based off ones irl Great plans for the city

elevation change in the city wouldn't be hard to accomplish, just a very large amount of parts, which isn't much of a problem for you. Just change the road plates to be brick build and do 2 separate one way lines with a boulevard design in the center separating the lanes with foliage. The will also allow one lane to remain flat on the un elevated block while allowing for the other lane to increase and decrease in elevation by hiding the elevation change with a large landscaped planter between the 2 lanes.

I think you should consider supersizeing the town hall to a double-corner-building like your boutique hotel!

you could just not add those tiles to the places that need it because it coulod be old sidewalk thats breaking cause your city is perfect so you should add some detail like that

Add a Mario land from Japan like with the castle custom eating spots and u should get peaches castle and bowsers castle and dry bowsers casle

you should try making a parking garage so all the cars would have a place to park

Instead of a normal sky scraper you could build a lego ninjago borg tower it would look great in your city

Imagine removing the rebrickable corner buildings next to town hall and expanding it to take up the full two baseplates. Think that would look amazing👍

you have another 8x16 road plate piece in the city crane set that you have, last you said you hadn't opened it. I bought a bunch of these on the pick a brick site 2 years ago when the crane or the Stuntz sets were released when that piece became available without the crosswalk lines on it

Hey there, I have an idea for your elevation & buildings integration. I used to live in the midwest and they have basements, I'm talking, very deep basements that are more like foundation. Some of these can be found around hilly areas like San Fransisco too probably. Just build "cement" basements/foundations that are in the hill with the modular building on it? I's hard to explain without pictures. Maybe you can Google buildings in San Fransisco or Midwest (Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, etc) for ideas based on this. You can also build skyscrapers that might have ben damaged in an earthquake or something too?

Since you are Lego affiliate, can't you ask special orders for the 2x2 tiles for example ? Like to get 5000 of those at once ? Since you need a lot and keep ordering these often

First, love the progress what modular will you dubbel up next?

Bricksie, have you looked at the lego set 41705, Heartlake City Pizzeria??? Why I ask? Jazz Club it's pizza place, think you can use one, there? Maybe adding a floor, to that pizza place? As for you crosswalk, use a strip of stone-work. But bicycle lanes are normally on both sides of the road, unless it's so wide, you can go both direction and then you are looking at 1/2 a road wide in terms of wide. Skyscraper, the white, black, white, looks very good. Are you going to use the stone ones for the lower section? Because then you have a classic style lower part and a modern upper part, which would look quite good. Say, how familiar are you with the cartoon Disney made in the 90's, called Gargoyles? It had a castle on-top of a skyscraper. Say Bricksie, what if you could add the Diner to the right side of the Bowling Alley? I think it could actually look very good, if you can turn them into one (bigger) building. Location might then be a problem, though, longer then two baseplates. Be it would add a nice side-wall to the Bowling Alley, while also letting you lay the basis to add in a extra floor to the building. Give it your own twist, to both buildings, by making them one. Helps you counter the similar style problem, both buildings have.

I'd be careful to remember the reason WHY you changed to the MILS plate system to begin with. You can build that elevation on the MILS.

All these double modular you've been doing have really inspired me to try doing it myself, I just found a deal for the sanctum sanctorum and I'm gonna have a go at doubling it up (will probably go 1 and a half baseplate as my inventory of parts isn't huge otherwise I might have gone 48x48) I also one day hope to double up my new daily bugle just like yours! (just got that too, payday is great xD) There are a lot of amazing builders out there, but you really inspire me to get off my butt and actually work towards having my own city, even if atm it is two buildings xD

I think the idea of a skyscraper made using both the white and black flooring sections is excellent, looks great, very modern and similar to some of the buildings I see going up currently. I also go along with the previous comment, have some retail at the base (corner of Yonge and Bloor for example, given Toronto though!), coffee shop, convenience store, news agents , clothing (shirts/tops) store maybe. Would reflect the layout of a lot of skyscrapers.

Hi Jordan. Going up with the mils will gulf parts like crazy. 😂 I’m going up enough so I can run a metro line below my city. It was a crazy idea but hopefully it will work. All the best to you, twins and Jose.

I think some small elevation would be cool. Gove some more variety for road scenes. If you raise them enough in mils format, you could save some money or parts and use duplo blocks. Also, having parts of the buildings above the road level could be a neat design. Have a building a few blocks above the base road level, and the road ramps up between a brick built retaining wall, maybe with a ramping up sidewalk.

Watching your vids with your creative process is fantastic. I love your passion for Lego. Comment 3 🙂

so... wait... crosswalks perpendicular to a bike lane DO make sense. they dont when they are on the same path/direction. people just walk across the bike lane into the crosswalk. pedestrian mini figs have rights too! ha ha

I like the idea of the smooth white alternating with the textured black. Food for thought, around here (mountainous area) we often have a building that's up high, but the sidewalk and road are lower down. There's a retaining wall and then a ramped secondary sidewalk that goes up to the building. I'm not saying so that with the entire block, but maybe one side of it?

You should double up the marvle infinity war sancton sanctoram

next generation of lego city builders already paying attention I see :) also, awesome work on the city, really cool to follow along with the build progress

Very excited for the skyscraper block it will be :_EPIC:

if youre making your city taller, then you definitely have to make the crane and the 'in progress' skyscraper taller as well.

Shouldn't the crosswalk continue onto the bicycle lane?

In my city, they basically turned those white stripes for the crosswalk blue for the bike lanes to keep going and be a street crossing

you could do a mock try with your spare base plates on the rising idea to see what it looks like before breaking up the area you want to put it in the city then you see if it is worth doing without destroying what you have already made streetwise just an idea.

You are cool 😎

You can get dark azure road plates. Also you should use the digon ally set and build a skyscraper that is themed around digon ally.