I still like the old road plates as they give you super wide sidewalks. Once tiled, they look slick. The new plates are expensive, too narrow to accommodate cars wider than 4 studs and I don’t like the lines created by all the interlocking brick pieces. Plus there are no proper corners. What city doesn’t have curves? This new system might make sense for new builders, but not anyone who’s already built up a large city on the exiting road plate system. Hopefully LEGO maintains availability of the old plates. I might find some use of the new plates for one way streets or pedestrian oriented streets though.
Personally, I like the new road plates. They’re far more useful and customizable to me, and you can make roads that are more than 2 lanes wide. 40 years and we could never do that until now without resorting to expensive brick-built SNOT roads. If you really don’t like the new road plates, the old ones are still available on Amazon (the official ones from Lego, not just the knock-offs) as of Jan 8th 2021, for MSRP.
@@bobL761 OK, i checked all the big lego RU-vidrs and 0 of them even want a two Line Road. With the new roads IT IS Not possible for easy to Go from one Line to two. They Made the new roads to save space (?) And the next thing everybody should do is to build more lines? Sorry i don't get it. And please don't think you can fix it with some plates and custom Stuff. If you think Like that you would never have needed the new roads in the First place
Cool! That works! Another option: You can save yourself even more bricks, cost and time by getting rid of the tiles and the baseplate you added beneath the new road plates. Simply put standard plates on the table underneath the modular, and place the road plates directly on the table (no baseplate attached to them) and done! The geometry of the baseplate thickness is designed to sit on top of regular plates (sits atop the studs, just wont snap is all) so it stacks the same dimensional height as 2 stacked plates. I made a video too 😀
Great to see someone else who likes these! I always get recommended videos about why these are bad so it’s refreshing to see the opposite perspective. I hadn’t thought of the way you did it before, but I did just post a short video about another different way to do it. Great video!
At first I didn’t like these new roads but I’m coming around to them. I don’t really have much of a city anymore but I did order some of these to set up a little city scene. I’m just going to put an extra 32x32 base plate under my buildings to get them higher. Nice video.👍
As far as I'm concerned, this just proves the new road plates not only look horrible, they are garbage for City building with modulars. Sorry but IMHO the old baseplates are vastly vastly superior and look much better without the gaps on the road caused by the 2x4 tiles.
The new roads are already expensive so I'm not sure about buying more baseplates to go under them. What if you don't throw away the old road baseplates and just stick it under the current modulars to raise them? Or you can just put cardboard under the modulars to raise them. If you want to stay "in system", source the cardboard from set boxes.
Can't you just put the old road plates, which are the size of one baseplate, under the modular to give it the added height and then put the new road plate flush up against it?
A solution which needs baseplates, OMG that's not a solution ! In this case why don't you put your new street system on your old street base plates ... ?
Instead of buying all the extra plates plus the new roads you could also just throw the new road plates away and build your own street with tiles. Personally i dont get why these videos or these problems even exist. I mean just buy tiles and you are good to go. Its cheaper and far less complicated
The new road plates are cool but I don’t know why LEGO didn’t think of these things beforehand. It’s also going to be super costly to replace existing road plates that I already have.
Yeah, it would cost a lot to replace them. Luckily we were just getting started on our city so we decided to start with the new ones rather than use the older road plates. They look nice, but I definitely understand why some people don't like them
“It’s a fake city, right?” Yes very fake 😂 I have had my city roads tiled from the beginning so the transition from these plates wouldn’t be that hard. The new ones look awesome in your layout! Great and informative video
I'm really not a fan of the new road plates. You've just shown a major reason not to get them. Wasting plates so new roads fit. Clearly lego didn't think of this. Major flaw
Right on! I think all these ‘look how to make the new road plates work’ videos are forgetting that these new roads are aimed at kids... 5+ a true city builder will stay with the real road base plates.
Your second solution is the better of the two and looks great and shouldn’t be expensive either. I bought my first two packs of the new road plates today ready for when I start my city. Thanks for sharing your ideas they look great 👍
16x16 plates are expensive just look on lego.com or BrickLink and you need loads + about 20 euros for basicly 1,5 baseplate, which is double the price of 2 base(road)plates. I hope they will keep roadplates because these are a good option for the more poor afol, not like most on yt
I don’t really like those 2x4 tiles that they use to connect the new road plates together. I think it would have looked better if they could connect them from the bottom rather than the top surface.
Well...you did it. I hope your happy. I have now seen am easier way to do this and I take back most of my statements about these roads. I...I may change my mind and get them. 😬
Don’t change your mind. These new roads are more expensive to start with let alone all the extra bricks and work needed to try and make them fit. Illegal technique much... 🤣🤣🤣
@@AussieBricks I didn't say I was changing my mind. I said I may change it. I like the reflective look it has and there are pros to them. As far as illegal techniques...I've cut baseplates up before so I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
Oh Nice! I don’t have any of the new road plates yet myself. Interesting to see them in action. I think I’m going to stick to the old ones though. We bought a huge stack of them so if I decide to favor the new ones, Mike might be sad. 😆
They maybe look good and are versatile but there is more cons than pros to me. Lack of sidewalk - the biggest issue, price is the next thing, and placing the modulars the way you did is gonna be hella expensive too, so I'd say to them: "no, thanks" :D Also, they doesn't look that "slick" either... Thanks for showing them with modulars though :)
- I agree that the new system is cool because it brings a lot more flexibility than the old one. If you are willing to buy additional parts, you can have medians, turning pockets, roads with more than two lanes and a lot more. On the other hand I don't think the new system looks too good, mainly because the borders of the 2x4 tiles are quite dominant in the overall look. SNOT roads look a lot better (but are also a lot more expensive, of course). I would have preferred to get the discontinued 8x16 tiles in dark bluish gray back instead of having these new pieces, if that would have been an option. - Regarding the combination with modulars, you could also put one or two regular plates (instead of tiles) underneath the modular baseplate and put the road directly on the table. That would achive the same height difference with fewer pieces, if you don't need the baseplate under the road for something else. (BlockheadUK mentioned this solution a while ago.) - 1:00 The previous road plates are actually discontinued, unfortunately.
Nope, new system looks awful, and all the solutions to raise the buildings just feel wonky and like they are prone to gliding way too much. I agree on the sentiment that the new road system looks 4+, its just bad. Old baseplate style roads tiled up looks amazing, Lego better keep producing them.
I think your methods are not bad, but the second one is a waste of money because of that many plates. I would stick with the older base plates because they are better and they give more freedom with the side walk because of the plus 6 studs, and the new road plates are very expensive. If you add up the prices i am sure that your methods are more expensive than buying the old road plates.
I was hesitant about the new road plates, but after buying a couple packs, I love them! They are super customizable and you can make some really cool landing pads for space MOC's. And I like that the bottom of the new roads have the anti-studs so you can actually stack them on top of other things.
still they are too shiny, too narrow (8stud cars won't fit well), and no sidewalks for little scenes. AND way more expensive because less surface for more money and with roadplates you don't need to buy additional plates and tiles, the more expensive parts of lego
And ofcourse if you leave the roadplates as they are, they are as ugly as regular baseplates, gotta makes scenes, trees, sidewalk tiling, so on... makes your city more YOUR city, just modulars and roads is something everyone can do, makes all cities the same.
It all depends on how much detail you want to put into your road system .ie, drainage, road width etc but in any case, love your vids and keep up the great content. p.s. i might be too Australian but what does "janky" mean?
couldn't you just go to your local hardware store and buy a pack of those little sticky rubber dots and then just simply stick a couple of them underneath your buildings base plate. They wouldn't slide or more then and it would be cheaper to do so, rather than wasting your lego plates.
Sweet, they do look really good! I’ve ordered a few wasn’t sure if it was gonna work so well but that looks great! Ive got plenty of intersection baseplates that weren’t being used..
Those new road plates look much better with the buildings raised a little higher (second example). The curb is a must have for a city. Also, can you remove tiles from the street? Like to create a pot hole/road construction area?
For me, I'd probably replace the thin modular building baseplate with a thicker one so that the top curbside would sit smooth and flush next to the new road plate. Don't know if Lego ever made a thicker 32x32 plate before but if not I'll use four 16x16 plates instead.
Cool - vid Emily ... some of these ideas I will consider when I do my city - I’m going down the Mil technique initially and will have to factor in the difference in road depth to modulars 👍
I wasn’t super happy with legos decision to do this at first, especially when they retired the old plates, forcing me to try and find them on bricklink. This does help me see how to use them, although they are more excited
Highly informative! Definately a good addition to the Brickin'it suggestions. Allthough all methods mean buying a lot of extra lego. Still very much in doubt if these will be adopted for our #Brickstow legocity or... we should go full MILS. If these things allready cost me extra money .. 🤔
Your solution is the best I've seen so far. Thank you! I also like new road plates - at least on videos, because I don't have them yet. Personally I think old ones are too wide for lego city with modulars, but they are excellent for kids to play. At least that's how I see it - but lego seems to do the opposite.
I wanna try and incorporate both types of roads for my city cause not all streets are the same width. Some roads are extra wide and some are more narrow like alley ways
It's great your enthusiasm for the new roadplates and you're so right about them being customisable because the old road plates were only suited for City vehicles but the new ones can be made wider to fit vehicles for example from Hiddenside or Monkie Kid so I like the new ones as I'm fans of those paticular themes. I'm enjoying your channel and keep up the great work :)
Love the second solution, have plenty of modulars, and just enjoy how the new road plates look more Lego than the previous ones. It makes it more of a system to me.
Nice Method. I like the road plates, but I think I'm gonna use some dark gray paper for my roads I just don't wanna spend 100s of euros to buy Lego roads.
I think the new road plates are ugly and lack some space that I need for my current city. I am glad that you found a fairly easy way to solve the height issue. That makes these more bearable.
Happy to see someone agree that the old road wheren't as good ! Personnaly, I find that it always made too wide sidewalks, not really fitting with modular sidewalks. But I definitely agree that the new road are too high, higher than the modular level. Your second solution seems really good and not so expensive !
