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Go brick is awsome I use them. I will say I think that if I was able to customize the motor and chain(like changing train tracks or mountain bike links, that
All that time and money spent by LEGO trying to create digitally integrated sets lines like Hidden Side and VIDIYO when they could've been designing something like this... THIS is what people want when it comes to bringing their creations to life, not some gimmicky smartphone app nonsense! Hat's off to the tiny innovative Korean company that took the plunge to make it happen!
I disagree. If this were an official release, our eyes would all be bulging out of our skulls at the price and we’d rightfully be questioning where the heck we’re supposed to put such a contraption. As lame as we might think the AR integration has been, you have to admit that it’s an accessibly priced (and easily ignored) value add when it doesn’t compromise the quality of a given build. These, on the other hand, cost $200-$300+ a piece and don’t even come with any cars- let alone theming. Not only that, but they’re notably bulky, which would make them an expensive hassle to integrate into displays- especially larger dioramas. Not every cool thing is practical as a larger scale consumer product, unfortunately.
Miniatur wunderland and a company called magnorail have been doing this kind of automation stuff for almost a decade plus general hobbyist. I’m glad to see someone making a good genuine product out of this now for lego
I really needed an excuse to make sewers/subway under my buildings. But those would have required a lot of support pillars under the roads. So this would be amazing to have! Hopefully they improve the magnet strength so it’s more usable under road plates and for larger vehicles. Also improved turning.
I agree. A thinner top plate with smooth roadways and maybe studs along the side (like the old roadplates) would likely help the magnet strength issue since magnet strength scales exponentially with distance (½ the distance is 4x the strength) and it would also drive a bit more smoothly as a nice side effect. Seems like an easier solution than trying to source stronger magnets (which can get really pricey). Maybe not the solution for everyone, but it would be nice to have as an alternative option.
I already tried a system like this out 3 years back, I put a magnet on the front steering arms of one of my models, with the rear wheels driven by an M-Motor it worked very well, happy to see something like this being sold now!
Definitely cool. It would be great if the magnets were strong enough so road plates or a base plate with tiles could be put on top for a smoother ride and minus the rattling of going over bumps. Another thought is that it won't be long before someone finds a way to sort of program it, like making vehicles stop at a railroad crossing while a train passes by.
That's not possible with a magnorail track like this. If you want to have vehicles interact with eachother and/or their surroundings you need to power them individually and control them with a digital system.
@@midochebaro6402 Yes, but you can only stop the entire track at once. You can't make cars line up before the crossing. That's what I was trying to say.
You could try to do a spacer between the magnet and the Amazon truck in order to barely raise the front tires off the floor. That might make it turn better!
This is truly mind blowing especially now remember how those lights that just came out not to long ago that use a baseplate and are wireless with this it would be amazing.
Really awesome. We’d done some integrated magnorail automation for our table last year (a go-kart track) but the wear and tear on both the chain and bricks was noticeable. Never considered how an upscale and reinforced version of their system would address those issues, but DANG is that cool.
The model railway community uses this technique all the time, but its really useful, we could even utilise these with stronger magnets on the bottom of trains for an automated rail system
These are so cool! I am looking forward to seeing your New York layout. One suggestion is that you put the lego avengers tower set in the NY layout in top of Grand Central Station because that is where it is in the movies.
Would be nice to see the magnet chain dip below surface so it stops a vehicle for a while (like at a traffic stop), and then another chain comes back closer to the surface to make it move again. :D I really like this tho.
I've been keeping an eye on this product for a while and I'm glad to see a hands on review of it. I am hoping they become a little more affordable as I would want a lot of these for our city.
Imagine a city where Lego vehicles have a mind of their own by cruising around like they own the place. I can already picture Lego road rage and tiny traffic jams
Cool! I wonder if there's a way to remove the chain system and have the magnets move independent of each other, with their own motor. There would obviously be limitations to this, but you could potentially have intersections where the cars stop and wait for a light to change, or mechanical switches similar to train tracks. And the motors need not be powered independently - you could use something like those modular electric race tracks where the cars have two brushes making the connection between two rails, to power all the motors for all the vehicles. You could possibly even have different speed settings in different areas. For example, you could have a relatively straight freeway section across the city, where the cars go very fast, but send those same cars back through city streets at a slower speed.
These look good. Im building a lego city and been wanting to make some form of automation to add life to it and these will work wonders for me. Hopefully they make stronger magnets though and more track types
People could also do this themselves by attaching a magnet to a sideways lego conveyer belt and then moving it with motors. Then place some baseplates ontop and attach a magnet to the botton of the car.
True, but LEGO conveyor belt pieces are small. You would have to buy a lot of them in order to make a decent-sized track. That could be more expensive than these Gobrick tracks.
Right! They could have easily come out with something like this, the GoBrick version is honestly super simple and easy to build. It would fit within the LEGO System well.
This is an innovative idea, but the cost in addition to the cost ppl have already spent on LEGO sets is just so much that doing something like this would only be possible by a select few who put a lot of their money into LEGO.
I have a somewhat unique project I'm building. Where I am basically trying to motorize a lego pirate ship. If they come out with more powerful magnets it might work. Not sure it would be sufficient judging from your description.
Woaow !! Hello that's an awesome product! I am in research of this type of product for a long time now that's really awesome and not so expensive. Don't you know if we can tile this type of big bloc of road?😊
can't you use smooth plates on the driving surface to eliminate bumps all together? I'd imagine cars wouldn't be able to get stuck then. It's only a matter of whether the magnets are strong enough to still attract through an extra layer.
That comment about the rounded jumper piece gave me an idea, what if you cover the bottom of heavier vehicles with them and slightly lift the vehicle so that only the magnet and those inverted tiles are touching the base plate? Granted the wheels wouldn't spin but they wouldn't be dragging along either in turns
Not a bad idea, will need to test! You could also just have the front drag and have the back wheels actually spin (like a trailer)... seems to work in our testing
Would this system work with brick built roads? Is this something you could test? I am just beginning to light up my city and although it can be tedious at times, it is so worth it.
In the video he mentioned that it is comparable with the road plate system, meaning the ones released a few years back that work with mils playing, but the strength is diminished a bit. My assumption is that it work well with the baseplates, but the bricks to hide the mechanism and the way to attach the baseplate roads is just more difficult since you cannot stick it to the duplo sized bricks included. Hope that helps
Exactly - it works, but the magnet strength is diminished. You can double up the magnets to help, but you'll still have more success on a straight MILS plate rather than a turn with most vehicles.
The string looks massive, So the new roads we can trow away, i think its only works with old roads because they tinner. Was not crazy about the new roads anyway. A bicycle on it can be fun too. And what of the teaffic lights, in the model world there are more options for that. City come more to life? You didnot even use lights yet. So another new start off your city now? 😂
Basically this is the magnorail system which model railroaded have use for years and now basically people are showing how to build a similar system yourself ( at a much better price lol) basicallyou use derailer gears for bike bike chain and magnets and away ya go
These are really expensive. Feel like you can get the same effect with a cheap electric motor and chain that you inbed into a table. The real perc of this system are those magnetic attacments to the vehicles.
@@AFOLTV I'd rather build a new table with some MDF board for half the price. I get it's neat to have everything be plastic and like it's Lego but if we are talking about such a large thing as a Lego city it gets way to expensive. I'd argue that a diy solution could be even better and cheaper, maybe even incorporating slopes, something you can't do with this.
If the Amazon reaches os going 4 miles per hour and use M for motion deveided by how much he takes to get out of the way, it takes him roughly (3.4 seconds )
Nice idea, but too bulky and "pretty well" is not good enough for so much work and money. I predict it won't set a new standard in Lego city, sorry GöBrick ;)
It’s super cool but in addition of being expensive, shipment from Korea just makes it silly. I was contemplating buying a kit but with $170 shipment that makes it a clear pass. This would mean $517 for the large kit with shipment…
Definitely not cheap, but the quality was better than expected - you can make it do a full lap around a city block, you just need to expand the circuit!
Possibly... but not sure if you'd be able to achieve the modular system as easily, which will make it nice in the future if there are any changes to the layout
I feel like you should elaborate on that because everything is easier said than done. While the physical materials needed to build a magnetic track system might be cheaper, you also need to consider the time, energy, and skills needed to build such a track system from scratch. Time is money you know.
@@faragar1791 Time is not money if you are a lego builder. ;) For those of us that have engineering and carpentry skills, this would be simple to build (and it's been done before).
Thanks for watching and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE!! You can find the link to the magnetic track here: en.gobrick.co.kr/ and you can find instructions for the vehicles in today's video here: afolstore.com/collections/lego-cars-trucks
Go brick is awsome I use them. I will say I think that if I was able to customize the motor and chain(like changing train tracks or mountain bike links, that
All that time and money spent by LEGO trying to create digitally integrated sets lines like Hidden Side and VIDIYO when they could've been designing something like this... THIS is what people want when it comes to bringing their creations to life, not some gimmicky smartphone app nonsense! Hat's off to the tiny innovative Korean company that took the plunge to make it happen!
💯 agree
Right!
But but but...we need to get profits NOW! Just kidding.... you are entirely right
@@l358 miss the old days when industry just focus on Quality Innovations instead of more statistics on Money on their hand and their greedy eyes
I disagree. If this were an official release, our eyes would all be bulging out of our skulls at the price and we’d rightfully be questioning where the heck we’re supposed to put such a contraption.
As lame as we might think the AR integration has been, you have to admit that it’s an accessibly priced (and easily ignored) value add when it doesn’t compromise the quality of a given build. These, on the other hand, cost $200-$300+ a piece and don’t even come with any cars- let alone theming. Not only that, but they’re notably bulky, which would make them an expensive hassle to integrate into displays- especially larger dioramas.
Not every cool thing is practical as a larger scale consumer product, unfortunately.
Model railroaders have been using systems like this for a while now. I wondered how long it would be before someone upscaled it for Lego.
We did too... that's why when we saw this on Instagram we had to check it out!
Just like in real life, railroading shapes the future
If you think about it a large part of model railroading is high resolution LEGO
Miniatur wunderland and a company called magnorail have been doing this kind of automation stuff for almost a decade plus general hobbyist. I’m glad to see someone making a good genuine product out of this now for lego
@@Boypogikami132If you optimize any large vehicle to its logical conclusion, the result is always a train.
Short version: it's a track system (like tank tracks) underneath the cars in a block with magnets which pull the cars along on a set route.
I really needed an excuse to make sewers/subway under my buildings. But those would have required a lot of support pillars under the roads. So this would be amazing to have!
Hopefully they improve the magnet strength so it’s more usable under road plates and for larger vehicles.
Also improved turning.
You and me both!
@@AFOLTV I'm hoping that they make one strong enough for the lego delorean set
I think it would work a little better if it was a smooth surface, just like the road plates, instead of full of studs
You can tile it no problem
I agree. A thinner top plate with smooth roadways and maybe studs along the side (like the old roadplates) would likely help the magnet strength issue since magnet strength scales exponentially with distance (½ the distance is 4x the strength) and it would also drive a bit more smoothly as a nice side effect. Seems like an easier solution than trying to source stronger magnets (which can get really pricey). Maybe not the solution for everyone, but it would be nice to have as an alternative option.
@@themattylee exactly, thank you 🙏🏼
Tiles work, but adding one more layer of plastic between the magnets is not the greatest idea, and it would be even more expensive.
But corners could be a bigger challenge because of much more friction.
I wish Lego would partner with companies like this to make official products like this.
I already tried a system like this out 3 years back, I put a magnet on the front steering arms of one of my models, with the rear wheels driven by an M-Motor it worked very well, happy to see something like this being sold now!
Definitely cool. It would be great if the magnets were strong enough so road plates or a base plate with tiles could be put on top for a smoother ride and minus the rattling of going over bumps. Another thought is that it won't be long before someone finds a way to sort of program it, like making vehicles stop at a railroad crossing while a train passes by.
That's not possible with a magnorail track like this. If you want to have vehicles interact with eachother and/or their surroundings you need to power them individually and control them with a digital system.
@@marktegrotenhuis nah i think it could work out if you get the timing right between the cars on the magnet track and the train on the classic rails
@@midochebaro6402 Yes, but you can only stop the entire track at once. You can't make cars line up before the crossing. That's what I was trying to say.
Robin Hood Bricks has been doing stuff like this with real Lego and rare earth magnets for a while now!
You could try to do a spacer between the magnet and the Amazon truck in order to barely raise the front tires off the floor. That might make it turn better!
This is truly mind blowing especially now remember how those lights that just came out not to long ago that use a baseplate and are wireless with this it would be amazing.
Really awesome. We’d done some integrated magnorail automation for our table last year (a go-kart track) but the wear and tear on both the chain and bricks was noticeable.
Never considered how an upscale and reinforced version of their system would address those issues, but DANG is that cool.
9:59 Its called Miniaturwunderland and is located in Hamburg.
The model railway community uses this technique all the time, but its really useful, we could even utilise these with stronger magnets on the bottom of trains for an automated rail system
These are so cool! I am looking forward to seeing your New York layout. One suggestion is that you put the lego avengers tower set in the NY layout in top of Grand Central Station because that is where it is in the movies.
I hope you can incorporate this into your Lego city!
07:23 That’s not a problem for the police car! You’ve accidentally found a way to create a car crash sequence with LEGO vehicles! 😂
Would be nice to see the magnet chain dip below surface so it stops a vehicle for a while (like at a traffic stop), and then another chain comes back closer to the surface to make it move again. :D I really like this tho.
I've been keeping an eye on this product for a while and I'm glad to see a hands on review of it. I am hoping they become a little more affordable as I would want a lot of these for our city.
Imagine a city where Lego vehicles have a mind of their own by cruising around like they own the place. I can already picture Lego road rage and tiny traffic jams
Cool! I wonder if there's a way to remove the chain system and have the magnets move independent of each other, with their own motor. There would obviously be limitations to this, but you could potentially have intersections where the cars stop and wait for a light to change, or mechanical switches similar to train tracks.
And the motors need not be powered independently - you could use something like those modular electric race tracks where the cars have two brushes making the connection between two rails, to power all the motors for all the vehicles. You could possibly even have different speed settings in different areas. For example, you could have a relatively straight freeway section across the city, where the cars go very fast, but send those same cars back through city streets at a slower speed.
was thinking of Miniatur Wunderland's cars while watching - glad to see it mentioned
These look good. Im building a lego city and been wanting to make some form of automation to add life to it and these will work wonders for me. Hopefully they make stronger magnets though and more track types
Maybe on the bigger vehicles, put two magnetic links in a row and two on the vehicle. It’d grip better and make the cornering more natural.
aren’t magnets just wonderful
People could also do this themselves by attaching a magnet to a sideways lego conveyer belt and then moving it with motors. Then place some baseplates ontop and attach a magnet to the botton of the car.
True, but LEGO conveyor belt pieces are small. You would have to buy a lot of them in order to make a decent-sized track. That could be more expensive than these Gobrick tracks.
Exactly the same way it works with vehicles in model train layouts. Kind of surprising no one ever thought of this before
Very cool product
Stronger magnets would be better
I wonder what system lego uses for Legoland
Lego missed the boat selling it themselves
Right! They could have easily come out with something like this, the GoBrick version is honestly super simple and easy to build. It would fit within the LEGO System well.
It's simply the Faller Car System adjusted to bricks. Railway model fans know it from the first view 😎🚂🚗
This is an innovative idea, but the cost in addition to the cost ppl have already spent on LEGO sets is just so much that doing something like this would only be possible by a select few who put a lot of their money into LEGO.
That's probably how mini land at most Legoland's work
I could probably 3D print something like this. Then you could print a transparent section for easier car placement on the magnets.
I have a somewhat unique project I'm building. Where I am basically trying to motorize a lego pirate ship. If they come out with more powerful magnets it might work. Not sure it would be sufficient judging from your description.
The cars look so cool, but is a bit expensive for me, but I think it would look great in your city.
Woaow !! Hello that's an awesome product! I am in research of this type of product for a long time now that's really awesome and not so expensive. Don't you know if we can tile this type of big bloc of road?😊
Having police cruisers occasionally doing skids could be considered a feature rather than a bug!
The police car doing a 180 made me think of The Dukes of Hazard & Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane,,, LOL!
robin hood bricks did a similar thing with his bumper car ride :)
"IT'S WHISPER QUIET" 😁
🤔 reminds me of the Christmas ornament of ice skaters skating on glass.
Most interesting bit is Lego does have something like this for discovery centres
Not the same system but magnet encoding routes
can't you use smooth plates on the driving surface to eliminate bumps all together? I'd imagine cars wouldn't be able to get stuck then. It's only a matter of whether the magnets are strong enough to still attract through an extra layer.
That comment about the rounded jumper piece gave me an idea, what if you cover the bottom of heavier vehicles with them and slightly lift the vehicle so that only the magnet and those inverted tiles are touching the base plate? Granted the wheels wouldn't spin but they wouldn't be dragging along either in turns
Not a bad idea, will need to test! You could also just have the front drag and have the back wheels actually spin (like a trailer)... seems to work in our testing
Would this system work with brick built roads? Is this something you could test? I am just beginning to light up my city and although it can be tedious at times, it is so worth it.
In the video he mentioned that it is comparable with the road plate system, meaning the ones released a few years back that work with mils playing, but the strength is diminished a bit. My assumption is that it work well with the baseplates, but the bricks to hide the mechanism and the way to attach the baseplate roads is just more difficult since you cannot stick it to the duplo sized bricks included. Hope that helps
Exactly - it works, but the magnet strength is diminished. You can double up the magnets to help, but you'll still have more success on a straight MILS plate rather than a turn with most vehicles.
The string looks massive, So the new roads we can trow away, i think its only works with old roads because they tinner. Was not crazy about the new roads anyway. A bicycle on it can be fun too. And what of the teaffic lights, in the model world there are more options for that. City come more to life? You didnot even use lights yet. So another new start off your city now? 😂
Can we build similar just using Lego?
Maybe we need stronger magnets, but thats easy
If you were to cover the top with a layer of lego tiles do you think the magnets/cars on top would still work well?
Would be awesome if the tires turn in the curves…
But you can made it! I know it! 💪🏻
Day 1 of requesting a custom jumbo jet for afoul store that 12 studs wide for minifigs
Day 2 of requesting a custom jumbo jet 😊
This is super cool.
Looks like it's based on systems like Magnorail.
Could you build something like this with original Lego pieces?
(I am not a Lego builder, just came across this video randomly.)
You could probably make a moving building
that is super cool
Nice product,but maybe if it wasn’t so high , like the hight of a MILS plate, Robin Hood Bricks has done something like this already.
Basically this is the magnorail system which model railroaded have use for years and now basically people are showing how to build a similar system yourself ( at a much better price lol) basicallyou use derailer gears for bike bike chain and magnets and away ya go
These are really expensive. Feel like you can get the same effect with a cheap electric motor and chain that you inbed into a table. The real perc of this system are those magnetic attacments to the vehicles.
You probably could... but this system is modular and allows for customization/ changes down the road which is nice
@@AFOLTV I'd rather build a new table with some MDF board for half the price. I get it's neat to have everything be plastic and like it's Lego but if we are talking about such a large thing as a Lego city it gets way to expensive. I'd argue that a diy solution could be even better and cheaper, maybe even incorporating slopes, something you can't do with this.
Need to see my pirate ship sail with this!
You should!
Does that police car have any drag on the fenders? If so, that might mess with it. If not then forget I said anything.
YEAH MAGNETS
Do Chicago next for the city
Everytime something seems to move like magic is mostly powerful magnets 😂
this is similar to what was used for years on model trains car movement stuff (see magnorail)
looks like they came out with Duplo Technic ;-)
If the Amazon reaches os going 4 miles per hour and use M for motion deveided by how much he takes to get out of the way, it takes him roughly (3.4 seconds )
Does it work if you tiled up the baseplate?
Would this work for the snot technique? Would it work through a whole wall of Part 3008s lying on their side? Would it work up and down hills?
What kind of magnets are being used, it might work better just putting stronger magnets
Nice idea, but too bulky and "pretty well" is not good enough for so much work and money. I predict it won't set a new standard in Lego city, sorry GöBrick ;)
It’s super cool but in addition of being expensive, shipment from Korea just makes it silly. I was contemplating buying a kit but with $170 shipment that makes it a clear pass. This would mean $517 for the large kit with shipment…
This is amazing dude im so investing into these
But how would you integrate this with your smooth-tiled streets? Seem like the studdy roadbed would be a step backwards for you guys. 🤔
You can build them on top of this... this is basically a baseplate (a thick baseplate) that you'd build the city on top of if you went this direction
So cool bro
so if u build the vehicles with working axels it whoud be better?
These have existed for model railways for years...
As mentioned in the video…….
Wow, it is certainly not cheap.😮
It's not, but the quality was better than expected!
i have a lego 6 wide police SUV build idea for you. See if you like it. I can send a picture to you if you want.
I think if lego will work with them, i think the lego city would be more real life. From tiny city to the big lego youtube city
If i could customize the chain tray(add links, extend the lenght) from circle to oval to etc. Would be its own path builder
Yes you can using their track system
Day 4 of requesting a 12 wide long range wide body plane (custom moc)
I'm buying this FOR my model railroad, all the systems are to expensive, I'm not paying $650 to buy and ship a tiny Magnorail starter kit to Canada.
Do you sale Andy Lego planes and how do you post this live ?
Good
I thought it was stop motion wtf thats crazy
very simialr to what is used inthe model rail comunity.
Not cheap and configuration doesn’t allow for vehicles going around a city block, the idea sounds promising though
Definitely not cheap, but the quality was better than expected - you can make it do a full lap around a city block, you just need to expand the circuit!
Do you make tutorials for vehicles like the prime truck?
They have instructions that you can buy on their website
But can it do slopes?
This is pretty cool, however it's going be expensive for a whole city. I'd imagine people will only do certain sections of a city.
Would this work with tiles on top
Yes!
🤯👍
Personally I’d prefer for Lego to make smaller pieces for making regular vehicles RC…
Would be pretty easy and cheap to do this with basic parts found at the hardware store for a ton cheaper.
Possibly... but not sure if you'd be able to achieve the modular system as easily, which will make it nice in the future if there are any changes to the layout
I feel like you should elaborate on that because everything is easier said than done.
While the physical materials needed to build a magnetic track system might be cheaper, you also need to consider the time, energy, and skills needed to build such a track system from scratch.
Time is money you know.
@@faragar1791 Time is not money if you are a lego builder. ;) For those of us that have engineering and carpentry skills, this would be simple to build (and it's been done before).
@@BlackDim100
OK, but not everyone who's into LEGO has engineering and carpentry skills.
Fascinating, but too expensive for just setting up car movement for a small town.
You say I will show how it works with road plates but you didn’t… no one has roads with studs…
I feel like everything that's not made by Lego is cooler than Lego. It was good in our childhood but they became too greedy long ago
Plastic wheels could help
Will the cars still drive if you put a mils plate over it ?
Day 3 of requesting a custom 12 wide narrow body jet (not jumbo jet anymore)
7:07 Drift? What do you mean drift?