For the big column in the middle to try and blend it in you could build a sea module all the way around it. For instance incorporating sea life under the water level and maybe a sea rescue with a helicopter. This would just blend it in and help the first view of the Lego city not be spoiled by a huge white column. Also in the station you could build a disused water tower or maybe even a signal box? They are quite common
Make a large bridge of some sort for the trains to connect the two parts of the city at 6:00. You could have the tunnel have an exit onto the bridge, have the train go all around the other platform and then return back on the other side of the bridge. You could also make it double decker if you wanted to have pedestrians and cars with it too! The underside of the bridge could have some cool lights to let visitors see whats happening.
I forgot to include this but you could also extend your harbor into a huge ocean area and then include some cool barges and boats. Endless possibilities for yachts and other ships. Looks like that back room is already used for storage so it might be a good way to segment the area off.
As much fun and entertainment the moving/renovation videos were, it is great to seeing you back doing what you do best: Building one amazing Lego City, now with renewed enthsiasm after the break. Which was well-deserved, by the way. Looking forward to all the new projects. Keep up the great work, Bob.
I like the idea of post office i saw in another comment, i think two small booths, one drink concession and one magazine/news with a post office bin beside it, and perhaps some seating for passengers waiting on for the train. I trust whatever you do will be lovely, youre living the dream, hope you can pursue it forever.
@@CharlesChamberlain-rb5ze ah, yeah I should’ve taken a glance at the existing surroundings. The bathroom is a great idea, although I stand by the news stand, that would be a sweet detail
@@jakedye172 I agree on the news stand. Porters moving luggage would make sense too. Maybe a taxi stand. Who knows, maybe a counterfeit money guy making a deal with someone leaving on the train.
The 45 turned upper platform is a great improvement. As an idea for the extra train station space, maybe you can make a crossover bridge to the middle perron.
My first thought was maybe a small shelf around the column for some watercraft to be out in the "bay" and some welcome sign or banner so the column isn't such an eyesore when you first enter the room.
For the new space in the train station that you created you should add a bridge that connects the side platforms with the middle one. It also makes sense because lego people need a way to access the middle platform without risking their lives crossing the active rails
Now that the rural area is expanding, it would be amazing to see an old castle maybe near the village as a tourist destination. You are definitely my favorite lego youtuber. Always look forward to your videos and builds!
Your Lego city reminds me of the cities you’d see on some of the old Lego instructions at the end of the book that’d I’d spend hours looking at as a kid admiring the detail they had. Really exciting to see what comes next ❤️🔥
It would really be cool to maybe do the airport older versus newer. Build it for a time before jet engines. This would overall make it much smaller. Beyond that, your set up is amazing. I'm even in awe of the boxes upon boxes of bulk lego you've not even opened yet. Also, maybe you would consider setting up a camera and simply running a live feed stream of you building. Pretty sure you'd have people glued to it anytime it was up and running. Don't need to talk or interact with people at all while doing it but I think it would be amazing.
So many ideas for the column. You could create something around it or turn it into a tree or a sky scraper with different floors, you could make it a giant cliff with climbers and wildlife, maybe an old castle on a mountain or a tower, maybe a multilevel view of a modern day city with all the different levels of the underground/subway/sewer/etc, you could make an old mine that maybe fits into the old west theme with different shafts and tunnels and rail cars, you could make an old cave system with creatures or monsters with explorers, I feel like the possibilities could be endless and it could be it's own standalone project along with the others.
have you thought about covering the bottom half of the tables with what looks like cutouts from the earth? like layers of rocks, caves and underground water reservoirs? to hide the legs with style :)
I think brown or black curtains are traditional. Honestly though, given that the "outer edge" is the harbor, he could go with a nice blue color. Combine this with the other idea above for making a ocean-themed build around the pillar in the center, and you have a much nicer set-up for the entrance. Plus storage underneath, for stuff that needs to be kept but isn't needed in the "workroom" on the other side of the wall.
I gotta say I really loved the old curvature of those stairs. It was disappointing to see them straitened. For the addition to the train station, you could add some sort of cargo loader or forklift access for anything that can't easily be loaded/unloaded by hand. Possibly tied into the smuggling operation? Receive goods by water and send them out by train? Or vice versa. And with multiple tracks, you could possibly set up a stationary train loading/unloading for more storytelling elements, and still be able to send a train around. Maybe a scene with them unloading the train and loading the goods onto a truck? The only problem with that is the train possibly blocking viewer sight lines. Maybe the smugglers waiting for a train? With a truck full of goods and the loader/forklift ready to go?
I'd find interesting to have more water features. What about extending the sea? Like having a small island which could also be used for Mafia stories Just an idea :)
Water is lovely but also a pain to work with, defiantly doable but not sure it's worth it for this. Epoxy, a water storage and a pump would work. Transparent tiles and light behind would be less hassle and look good for waterfalls etc.
I love the city so far! One thing I might add is that while building airports and so are really fun projects, the city still doesn't really feel like a city on it's own. I think what it's missing are restaurants, cafes, shops and maybe even museums. Maybe some ideas to update your city with further? Good luck, it looks awesome so far!
Have you thought about adding a curtain or skirt along the front of the tables to hide all the legs? Should be an easy fix to help the room feel more focused on the builds. Maybe a brown one to feel like it's a cutaway of the dirt below.
It would be cool to have a smaller train on the background track to create perspective. You could have the main train loop back under the table so they sync up.
Put a post office next to the station. Front is the public side with a nice ornamented frontage. Back is the goods area full of bags and stacks of parcels for the trains on the platform extension. At the side, a yard full of delivery vans and bikes.
Since the harbor is on the edge of the table, it is almost like the open area where visitors stand is an ocean or a bay. As others have said, building a sea-life area around the pillar would match with the harbor, and you could have a river and bridge crossing next to the village in between the airport and the main city portion. A river already runs from the mountains and through the village, it could end at a larger river leading to the bay.
For long building sessions you could try wearing silicone thimbles. I use them sometimes for leather work and they work great. It protects your fingertips but you don’t have to wear full gloves. Give it a try!
It doesn't have to be a huge airport. It may fit better to have a small one that is actually based on a very small airport. Also, do you have new plans for the tramline?
If that pillar is absolutely necessary, heres an idea to at least put it to work: Maybe put a map of the city on it? (When more of it is finalized, of course.) Or like.. Maybe paint or even mount a flat wall build of a giant statue on the side to act as a giant monument, if that's even possible? There has to be SOMETHING that can be done to at least make it look good in the city.
3:10 I’ll admit, i’m coming into watching this whole project at this point so I am unsure if the station has one already, but why not a coffee shop? I know it sounds odd, but in my small town they had modified the station to incorporate a coffee shop in it.
I would put a bike station/bike racks so people can park their bikes there, and get straight to the train station, it is often seen in cities and towns in the Netherlands, or you can put a bridge for people and bikes to cross to get to the other side of the station.
As a smaller project, on your hills you could add a small miniscale rocket platform and support it with with the wall to have the rocket mid air, just a thought but it could be a fun way to tie in with the moonbase. Love what your doing!
Idea for train station expansion: I always associate stations like this with Burger King. At least in my country, it’s synonymous with train stations, so you could maybe build a similar fast food joint, which will add some colour to that part of the city as well!
If you end up needing more space could always move the airport further away if there's room else where? and then connect it with one of those sorta skyrail/monorail trains most airports seem to have now.
Heres a possible idea, in an area closeish to the main line, you create an area where it looks like an abandoned/dug up branch line and have it look like a hiking path, i think it could add a lot more life and detail (or lore) to the city
3:00 Most train stations have benches and garbage bins there. Perhaps one or two rectangular flower planters as well. At least that's my observation as a Swiss guy who visits a lot of smaller train stations.
The parts where it looks like there was a train track but isn't any more give the countryside much more realistic look. Those are actually quite common - train tracks are rebuilt all the time. In recent years they are mainly reused as pedestrian/cycling paths, but in the past, they just created those linear structures slowly becoming nature again. The best parts are unused tunnels and bridges (I am amazed how long a disused train bridge can actually stay unattended - and be reused without much work).
An idea for 3:12: I think that a modern style tram end station on a possibly raised or extended platform would have an amazing contrast with the old style station building e.g. the Croydon tramlink station at east Croydon in London! I love the videos thank you so much for the amazing content!
For the airport, i remember in a previous video you said 2 runways, but i think a single runway and a taxiway would be much more realistic Keep up the good work!
I would add some kind of convenient store, like a 7-eleven, next to the train station. Kind of common here in Sweden and would give an interesting old vs modern contrast.
Add a bicycle repair/rental shop at the end of the rail station. It's a great place for folks to get off the trail, and hop on a bike to explore your city!
I don't know if it would fit with the style of the room overall, but you could surround the middle column with a cyberpunk/fifth-element esque megabuiding, with stores, and sidewalks all around it.
You should add a post office (working or disused) on the extra space in the train station for the mail train like in the olden days Many train station in towns near where I live have a postal collection building that's disused from when the mail train was the main way to transport letters
Some suggestions to fill the space; amusement park, resources harvesting like timber and mining, wilderness area, construction site for LEGO city 2, farmland, racetrack, stadium, industrial zone, power plant, ruins and ski resort. Love the videos, you do a really good job.
Honestly watching your videos are always so fascinating as I really like watching lego cities, modules and just tons of legos being placed together. I've watched every single one of your videos since your lego city updates started and it is just a big wow seeing you from building legos just for fun to literally opening a whole museum for your lego works. Keep up the good work and I will be sure to pay a visit to your lego museum when I have the chance to come to Austria.
Maybe you could build an old fashioned ticket booth to the extended train station area? Also, maybe the pillar could be covered in bricks with signs pointing to the various mock-ups?
Many people dreamed of doing this one day but no one had time, space, money or patience. We have to respect this guy for taking the initiative of building the lego city and showing us what we all dreamed of doing. 🫡
That extra bit of space in the train station is the exact size of the royal waiting areas lots of train stations still have. Back in the day if a king or queen took a train ride they had their own area to sit in while waiting on the train, which was just a small square-ish building. Nowadays lots of those are just normal waiting areas or repurposed for storage or kiosks.
a fountain or statue(or combination of the two) would look nice next to the station. a building would block the view at a child's' eye level. It would also give that corner a focal point for train rides.
In the gap between city and rural village you could put something like a summer camp (some trees with ropes and swings, maybe a little tree-house a lake and some canoes, low barracks with bunkbeds)
3:20 Put a kiosk on that part of the station! And a few benches to sit on! And people standing there in a crowd reading newspaper, listening to a musician placed in the center and standing in a queue to the kiosk!
In regards to airports, you could create an older version airport from the early 20th century; biplanes, crop planes, grass landing strip, even hot air balloons. This style would work with the villages.
Hey! I have an idea for the column that is blocking the view: you could paint some text in there, like "WELCOME TO LEGO CITY" or something like that. Great job and really excited to continue seeing how it evolves 🤗
I think the area between the station ad the angled tunnel could be a little park or something like a public square with a statue in the middle And i think that the airport would look better as a small countryside airport with dirt runaways, to match the country/farmish landscape Thank you for building this dream.
You could make a table on wheels so that if you make something at your workbench around the corner so you can slide it if you make it on the same height slide it on the rolling tabel to your city
That open slot next to the train station could house a forklift for handling lighter commercial freight boxes meant for the stores in town as it means a box truck won't be blocking traffic if the freight is sent by train instead.
Absoloutely loving the move to the new area; however; I think that now that you've moved space, you should upscale the mountain so that it has larger trees.
Some kind of fast food Kiosk would be perfect on that newly gained space on the train station platform. I'd recommend hotdogs or sandwiches. Maybe some icecream too.
My idea for the space next to the train station is a pavilion where a band could be playing, like a mini music festival. I'd love to see a detail like that somewhere in the city.
Build some kind of brick mural or something around the pillar. Or a giant minifig scale skyscraper around it. Or a brickbuilt giant Greek column. Honestly the potential for a huge rectangular brick build with such a sturdy core underneath it is endless.
How would you feel about turning the giant pillar in the center of the room into a giant lighthouse, looking over the city? Like build lego around the pillar, making it look just like a lighthouse.
May I suggest something? The Piller in the middle could get a use to be honest, you could build a small 1 base plate thick ring table around it with some water(trans blue plating) and add fishing boats or any kind of boat on it really. That would give the illusion that where the viewer stands is a lake. Just putting that idea out there :P
On the other side of the room where the airport will go, I’d love to see a big industrial harbor with shipping containers and trains to bring goods into the city. Love your videos so so much. Thank you!!
Connect the TRAINS!!! Moving things are always a way to bring life into the city. Even if it isnt lego made at the end of the day. (Planes, Boats, Etc..)
You can add a small lunch area next to the train station, with outdoor tables and chairs to people can have a place to relax and eat while waiting for the train to arrive.
just leave the extended bit of platform bare, maybe just add like a lamp or some signage. There's no need for a building. Most train stations have large parts of their platforms with nothing of note on them, usually just a lamp for lighting or signs giving people information like where the exit is, what station it is, or what track it is. Just add a fence at the back so people don't fall into the road behind.
I think two runways as you mentioned in previous video is unnecessary. One runway in front should be enough. And behind the runway might be stands for airplanes, hangars, gas station, fire station, control tower... New city next to the airport could be a modern one? One or two highrise buildings, something like monorail connecting them to the airport etc.
Why not automate the train switching? Set aside a long section of track that uses, say, big rubber wheels that lift the trains just off the track, disconnecting three power, and using motors connected to gearboxes move the trains along at a crawl, long enough to allow the other trains to complete and reenter the mechanism, before depositing back into the track where track power again takes over. Maybe this is too ambitious. Just thinking out loud :) Thanks for all your hard work!
A lot of train stations have little coffee outlets where passengers can buy drinks, magazines and pastries while they wait - that could be a good addition? You could also implement a waiting area with a small shelter. Keep up the good work with the city, it looks amazing so far and I couldn’t imagine the amount of work that goes into it!!
For the Extra space at the train Station, I think you could add some Kind of bike stand with a roof. Most train Stations in the Real world have that nowadays, and i think it would fit great into your Station
I can see some type of very simple and modern building next to the train station, fully open, no wall just some bike rack and a few benches, a vending machine
A couple of ideas - 1. On the new part of the railway platform you could have a little coffee shop type kiosk, certainly quite common in the UK. 2. The pillar in the middle of the room is a bit awkward, however you can make it part of the whole concept... the harbour leads to it, so you could wrap a thin wooden plate around it and make the whole pillar into an oil rig or offshore shipping station for boats.
Here’s an idea that I think might go well with the train station. What if you add like a storage/shipping building to go along with the mafia in the harbor. This way they can also smuggle goods using the trains and not just ships?
To make that pillar, blocking the view, more appealing you could cover the pillar entirely with LEGO or DUPLO and make holes for mini diorama's in the pillar.
Super Challenge.......Lego Skatepark within your urban space. . . Think of the curves lol The city trainstation, that new space you made could be a news/coffee stand? as that would fit right in.
I remember that in smaller railway stations, they always have some sort of food stand next to the main building. Something like a booth with Kebab or hot dogs. I feel like this would work out.
i love the city, and the perspective from when you walk up the stairs. for me however, i think the legs and underside of the table should be hidden, maybe with a black cloth stapled to the side of the tables
Not a fan of making a big airport, something rural to complement the town and its farmers or whatever makes more sense to me. But seeing all the extra space on the new place and the massive expansion it allows is a fun development. Also the sidetrack idea to store trains is a smart thing - It can then easily serve as a workshop for your new train designs as well.
you could always have a smaller airport in the background, giving the illusion that it's just far off in the distance, kinda like the mountain
Or just a mini air field
@@seich-of-lacan-getter514 Helipads even.
Honestly, i think thats more fitting.
But it also means less space and detail on the airport itsself.
@@ethribin4188 Not if he'd 3d print an "airport part" that looks like lego, but is smaller.
For the big column in the middle to try and blend it in you could build a sea module all the way around it. For instance incorporating sea life under the water level and maybe a sea rescue with a helicopter. This would just blend it in and help the first view of the Lego city not be spoiled by a huge white column.
Also in the station you could build a disused water tower or maybe even a signal box? They are quite common
That’s exactly what I was thinking! That would be killer and really make the negative floor space look like it’s all part of a big harbor.
Make a large bridge of some sort for the trains to connect the two parts of the city at 6:00. You could have the tunnel have an exit onto the bridge, have the train go all around the other platform and then return back on the other side of the bridge. You could also make it double decker if you wanted to have pedestrians and cars with it too! The underside of the bridge could have some cool lights to let visitors see whats happening.
That is an amazing idea!!!
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3:06 i'd guess some sort of hot dog stand or buffet would look good... Or maybe some kiosk
I forgot to include this but you could also extend your harbor into a huge ocean area and then include some cool barges and boats. Endless possibilities for yachts and other ships. Looks like that back room is already used for storage so it might be a good way to segment the area off.
As much fun and entertainment the moving/renovation videos were, it is great to seeing you back doing what you do best: Building one amazing Lego City, now with renewed enthsiasm after the break. Which was well-deserved, by the way.
Looking forward to all the new projects. Keep up the great work, Bob.
Moving from one place to another isn’t really a break 🤣
I like the idea of post office i saw in another comment, i think two small booths, one drink concession and one magazine/news with a post office bin beside it, and perhaps some seating for passengers waiting on for the train. I trust whatever you do will be lovely, youre living the dream, hope you can pursue it forever.
This is exactly what I thought! One of those city news stands that cells magazines, snacks etc.
there is already a restaurant and fruit stands across the tracks, in my opinion a public bathroom would make more sense in this area.
@@CharlesChamberlain-rb5ze ah, yeah I should’ve taken a glance at the existing surroundings. The bathroom is a great idea, although I stand by the news stand, that would be a sweet detail
@@jakedye172 I agree on the news stand. Porters moving luggage would make sense too. Maybe a taxi stand. Who knows, maybe a counterfeit money guy making a deal with someone leaving on the train.
@@TheIndianaGeoff yeah, that’s right, I forgot about the possibility of adding to the lore, gotta love this city
The 45 turned upper platform is a great improvement.
As an idea for the extra train station space, maybe you can make a crossover bridge to the middle perron.
I think the column needs to be covered in lego.
Ur right he shou,dut the train around it
My first thought was maybe a small shelf around the column for some watercraft to be out in the "bay" and some welcome sign or banner so the column isn't such an eyesore when you first enter the room.
@@sintanan469 I like a neon welcome sign or something. it distracts from the emptiness of the column.
The new upper platform wall looks so much better and opens up the city lots more. 👍
For the new space in the train station that you created you should add a bridge that connects the side platforms with the middle one. It also makes sense because lego people need a way to access the middle platform without risking their lives crossing the active rails
Now that the rural area is expanding, it would be amazing to see an old castle maybe near the village as a tourist destination. You are definitely my favorite lego youtuber. Always look forward to your videos and builds!
Yeah some other focal point/point of interest would be nice.
Yes, it definitely needs a castle!
@@airedale1913 yeah; the case is like this:
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Your Lego city reminds me of the cities you’d see on some of the old Lego instructions at the end of the book that’d I’d spend hours looking at as a kid admiring the detail they had. Really exciting to see what comes next ❤️🔥
It would really be cool to maybe do the airport older versus newer. Build it for a time before jet engines. This would overall make it much smaller. Beyond that, your set up is amazing. I'm even in awe of the boxes upon boxes of bulk lego you've not even opened yet. Also, maybe you would consider setting up a camera and simply running a live feed stream of you building. Pretty sure you'd have people glued to it anytime it was up and running. Don't need to talk or interact with people at all while doing it but I think it would be amazing.
So many ideas for the column. You could create something around it or turn it into a tree or a sky scraper with different floors, you could make it a giant cliff with climbers and wildlife, maybe an old castle on a mountain or a tower, maybe a multilevel view of a modern day city with all the different levels of the underground/subway/sewer/etc, you could make an old mine that maybe fits into the old west theme with different shafts and tunnels and rail cars, you could make an old cave system with creatures or monsters with explorers, I feel like the possibilities could be endless and it could be it's own standalone project along with the others.
have you thought about covering the bottom half of the tables with what looks like cutouts from the earth? like layers of rocks, caves and underground water reservoirs? to hide the legs with style :)
At the very least, please hide them with some blanket/curtain or something - would definitely look better when visitors come up the stairs!
@@streetster20 and means the space can be used for storage, too.
I think brown or black curtains are traditional. Honestly though, given that the "outer edge" is the harbor, he could go with a nice blue color. Combine this with the other idea above for making a ocean-themed build around the pillar in the center, and you have a much nicer set-up for the entrance. Plus storage underneath, for stuff that needs to be kept but isn't needed in the "workroom" on the other side of the wall.
I gotta say I really loved the old curvature of those stairs. It was disappointing to see them straitened.
For the addition to the train station, you could add some sort of cargo loader or forklift access for anything that can't easily be loaded/unloaded by hand. Possibly tied into the smuggling operation? Receive goods by water and send them out by train? Or vice versa. And with multiple tracks, you could possibly set up a stationary train loading/unloading for more storytelling elements, and still be able to send a train around. Maybe a scene with them unloading the train and loading the goods onto a truck? The only problem with that is the train possibly blocking viewer sight lines. Maybe the smugglers waiting for a train? With a truck full of goods and the loader/forklift ready to go?
Hey, i know this is a weird question, but have you thought about adding an actual water feature within the city? like for a large lake park.
yes - I've even startet first experiments, but it wouldn't be worth the effort :)
this would be awesome, all sorts of little docks and details you could add around it
I'd find interesting to have more water features. What about extending the sea? Like having a small island which could also be used for Mafia stories
Just an idea :)
@@Brick_Crafts you could maybe add a ticket office or a small kiosk for people to buy food😊
Water is lovely but also a pain to work with, defiantly doable but not sure it's worth it for this. Epoxy, a water storage and a pump would work. Transparent tiles and light behind would be less hassle and look good for waterfalls etc.
I love the city so far! One thing I might add is that while building airports and so are really fun projects, the city still doesn't really feel like a city on it's own. I think what it's missing are restaurants, cafes, shops and maybe even museums. Maybe some ideas to update your city with further? Good luck, it looks awesome so far!
Have you thought about adding a curtain or skirt along the front of the tables to hide all the legs? Should be an easy fix to help the room feel more focused on the builds. Maybe a brown one to feel like it's a cutaway of the dirt below.
It would be cool to have a smaller train on the background track to create perspective. You could have the main train loop back under the table so they sync up.
An Idea for the train station addition, maybe like a covered seating bench or a food stand?
With baggage trollies
@@MrRofl131 very good idea!
Yea some kind of pavilion structure would look nice for the train station
Put a post office next to the station. Front is the public side with a nice ornamented frontage. Back is the goods area full of bags and stacks of parcels for the trains on the platform extension. At the side, a yard full of delivery vans and bikes.
Since the harbor is on the edge of the table, it is almost like the open area where visitors stand is an ocean or a bay. As others have said, building a sea-life area around the pillar would match with the harbor, and you could have a river and bridge crossing next to the village in between the airport and the main city portion. A river already runs from the mountains and through the village, it could end at a larger river leading to the bay.
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I use them sometimes for leather work and they work great. It protects your fingertips but you don’t have to wear full gloves.
Give it a try!
It doesn't have to be a huge airport. It may fit better to have a small one that is actually based on a very small airport. Also, do you have new plans for the tramline?
Details like these make your builds special. Using different angles, hiding all of the studs. The extra work is well worth it.
If that pillar is absolutely necessary, heres an idea to at least put it to work: Maybe put a map of the city on it? (When more of it is finalized, of course.) Or like.. Maybe paint or even mount a flat wall build of a giant statue on the side to act as a giant monument, if that's even possible? There has to be SOMETHING that can be done to at least make it look good in the city.
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I think a statue of sorts by the train track would look dope
3:10 I’ll admit, i’m coming into watching this whole project at this point so I am unsure if the station has one already, but why not a coffee shop? I know it sounds odd, but in my small town they had modified the station to incorporate a coffee shop in it.
Dutch or italien
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@@miltonamilcar5298 Boiled, of course.
@@s.p.8803 With a biscuit?
I would put a bike station/bike racks so people can park their bikes there, and get straight to the train station, it is often seen in cities and towns in the Netherlands, or you can put a bridge for people and bikes to cross to get to the other side of the station.
As a smaller project, on your hills you could add a small miniscale rocket platform and support it with with the wall to have the rocket mid air, just a thought but it could be a fun way to tie in with the moonbase. Love what your doing!
The airport is really clever way of filling temporary "to be used later" space!
Idea for train station expansion: I always associate stations like this with Burger King. At least in my country, it’s synonymous with train stations, so you could maybe build a similar fast food joint, which will add some colour to that part of the city as well!
You could put some posters on the column in the middle of the room that could maybe explain a bit about the city, the stories, etc.
You should put a little cafe next to the station
The fast removing of the fast tiles was sooooooo satisfying. I could watch that for hours.
You should add a small post office next to the station. Mail used to be transported by trains a lot in the past.
If you end up needing more space could always move the airport further away if there's room else where? and then connect it with one of those sorta skyrail/monorail trains most airports seem to have now.
Heres a possible idea, in an area closeish to the main line, you create an area where it looks like an abandoned/dug up branch line and have it look like a hiking path, i think it could add a lot more life and detail (or lore) to the city
3:00 Most train stations have benches and garbage bins there. Perhaps one or two rectangular flower planters as well. At least that's my observation as a Swiss guy who visits a lot of smaller train stations.
3:09, how about a signal box for the station? :)
what also would be really cool to see is a depot/yard/siding for the trains :)
The parts where it looks like there was a train track but isn't any more give the countryside much more realistic look. Those are actually quite common - train tracks are rebuilt all the time. In recent years they are mainly reused as pedestrian/cycling paths, but in the past, they just created those linear structures slowly becoming nature again. The best parts are unused tunnels and bridges (I am amazed how long a disused train bridge can actually stay unattended - and be reused without much work).
Hey ! Since your lego city is based on Europe, why don't you add castle ruins near the village ? I think that would be great
Or maybe a hill with a train tunnel under and a castle on top?
An idea for 3:12: I think that a modern style tram end station on a possibly raised or extended platform would have an amazing contrast with the old style station building e.g. the Croydon tramlink station at east Croydon in London! I love the videos thank you so much for the amazing content!
For the airport, i remember in a previous video you said 2 runways, but i think a single runway and a taxiway would be much more realistic
Keep up the good work!
I would add some kind of convenient store, like a 7-eleven, next to the train station. Kind of common here in Sweden and would give an interesting old vs modern contrast.
I really hope for maybe a skatepark or a windturbine being added soon since there’s so much space now😮
Add a bicycle repair/rental shop at the end of the rail station. It's a great place for folks to get off the trail, and hop on a bike to explore your city!
I don't know if it would fit with the style of the room overall, but you could surround the middle column with a cyberpunk/fifth-element esque megabuiding, with stores, and sidewalks all around it.
You should add a post office (working or disused) on the extra space in the train station for the mail train like in the olden days
Many train station in towns near where I live have a postal collection building that's disused from when the mail train was the main way to transport letters
Some suggestions to fill the space; amusement park, resources harvesting like timber and mining, wilderness area, construction site for LEGO city 2, farmland, racetrack, stadium, industrial zone, power plant, ruins and ski resort.
Love the videos, you do a really good job.
Honestly watching your videos are always so fascinating as I really like watching lego cities, modules and just tons of legos being placed together. I've watched every single one of your videos since your lego city updates started and it is just a big wow seeing you from building legos just for fun to literally opening a whole museum for your lego works. Keep up the good work and I will be sure to pay a visit to your lego museum when I have the chance to come to Austria.
Maybe you could build an old fashioned ticket booth to the extended train station area? Also, maybe the pillar could be covered in bricks with signs pointing to the various mock-ups?
Many people dreamed of doing this one day but no one had time, space, money or patience. We have to respect this guy for taking the initiative of building the lego city and showing us what we all dreamed of doing. 🫡
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I would have the time and patience. For me really is the cost and space that I need of the legos and room that will be expensive.
@@JordanDoPlay_Mc yeah also
more like nobody has the money
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That extra bit of space in the train station is the exact size of the royal waiting areas lots of train stations still have. Back in the day if a king or queen took a train ride they had their own area to sit in while waiting on the train, which was just a small square-ish building. Nowadays lots of those are just normal waiting areas or repurposed for storage or kiosks.
ADD A SKATEPARK TO THE SIDE THERE it will fit so perfectly
I appreciate your two footed method of laying rail track.
The curved staircase was the first one I watched it’s awesome how much it has progressed from then!!
a fountain or statue(or combination of the two) would look nice next to the station. a building would block the view at a child's' eye level. It would also give that corner a focal point for train rides.
In the gap between city and rural village you could put something like a summer camp (some trees with ropes and swings, maybe a little tree-house a lake and some canoes, low barracks with bunkbeds)
3:08 For that space at the train station, you can add a place for bikes with a little roof, like you did before near the tramway stop :)
3:20 Put a kiosk on that part of the station! And a few benches to sit on! And people standing there in a crowd reading newspaper, listening to a musician placed in the center and standing in a queue to the kiosk!
In regards to airports, you could create an older version airport from the early 20th century; biplanes, crop planes, grass landing strip, even hot air balloons. This style would work with the villages.
Hey! I have an idea for the column that is blocking the view: you could paint some text in there, like "WELCOME TO LEGO CITY" or something like that. Great job and really excited to continue seeing how it evolves 🤗
I think the area between the station ad the angled tunnel could be a little park or something like a public square with a statue in the middle
And i think that the airport would look better as a small countryside airport with dirt runaways, to match the country/farmish landscape
Thank you for building this dream.
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You could make a table on wheels so that if you make something at your workbench around the corner so you can slide it if you make it on the same height slide it on the rolling tabel to your city
That open slot next to the train station could house a forklift for handling lighter commercial freight boxes meant for the stores in town as it means a box truck won't be blocking traffic if the freight is sent by train instead.
Absoloutely loving the move to the new area; however; I think that now that you've moved space, you should upscale the mountain so that it has larger trees.
Some kind of fast food Kiosk would be perfect on that newly gained space on the train station platform. I'd recommend hotdogs or sandwiches. Maybe some icecream too.
1:24 thats trippy....
3:08 a station side Café,
Maybe add a Airfield, there are places all over that trains have to cross the runways of airports between planes landing!
You could make a mini museum in the new area with one of those really old steam engines so It can fit inside a building.
So glad you're back we really missed your videos.
Another great update really like how the city is expanding but also expanding in quality too !! so cool how this could turn out
My idea for the space next to the train station is a pavilion where a band could be playing, like a mini music festival. I'd love to see a detail like that somewhere in the city.
2:40 has got to be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while
Build some kind of brick mural or something around the pillar. Or a giant minifig scale skyscraper around it. Or a brickbuilt giant Greek column.
Honestly the potential for a huge rectangular brick build with such a sturdy core underneath it is endless.
How would you feel about turning the giant pillar in the center of the room into a giant lighthouse, looking over the city?
Like build lego around the pillar, making it look just like a lighthouse.
May I suggest something? The Piller in the middle could get a use to be honest, you could build a small 1 base plate thick ring table around it with some water(trans blue plating) and add fishing boats or any kind of boat on it really. That would give the illusion that where the viewer stands is a lake.
Just putting that idea out there :P
On the other side of the room where the airport will go, I’d love to see a big industrial harbor with shipping containers and trains to bring goods into the city. Love your videos so so much. Thank you!!
Connect the TRAINS!!! Moving things are always a way to bring life into the city. Even if it isnt lego made at the end of the day. (Planes, Boats, Etc..)
You can add a small lunch area next to the train station, with outdoor tables and chairs to people can have a place to relax and eat while waiting for the train to arrive.
just leave the extended bit of platform bare, maybe just add like a lamp or some signage. There's no need for a building. Most train stations have large parts of their platforms with nothing of note on them, usually just a lamp for lighting or signs giving people information like where the exit is, what station it is, or what track it is. Just add a fence at the back so people don't fall into the road behind.
When working at an angle, use jumper plates inbetween the tiles to add more points of connections. It makes for a more stable 45 degree wall.
7:55 I like how there are only 5 trees on that table... Pff such a minimalist
I think two runways as you mentioned in previous video is unnecessary. One runway in front should be enough. And behind the runway might be stands for airplanes, hangars, gas station, fire station, control tower...
New city next to the airport could be a modern one? One or two highrise buildings, something like monorail connecting them to the airport etc.
Why not automate the train switching? Set aside a long section of track that uses, say, big rubber wheels that lift the trains just off the track, disconnecting three power, and using motors connected to gearboxes move the trains along at a crawl, long enough to allow the other trains to complete and reenter the mechanism, before depositing back into the track where track power again takes over.
Maybe this is too ambitious. Just thinking out loud :) Thanks for all your hard work!
A lot of train stations have little coffee outlets where passengers can buy drinks, magazines and pastries while they wait - that could be a good addition? You could also implement a waiting area with a small shelter.
Keep up the good work with the city, it looks amazing so far and I couldn’t imagine the amount of work that goes into it!!
A bicicle parking space would be a cool addition! it also would resemble how people are getting to the train station instead of walking!
For the Extra space at the train Station, I think you could add some Kind of bike stand with a roof. Most train Stations in the Real world have that nowadays, and i think it would fit great into your Station
I can see some type of very simple and modern building next to the train station, fully open, no wall just some bike rack and a few benches, a vending machine
A couple of ideas -
1. On the new part of the railway platform you could have a little coffee shop type kiosk, certainly quite common in the UK.
2. The pillar in the middle of the room is a bit awkward, however you can make it part of the whole concept... the harbour leads to it, so you could wrap a thin wooden plate around it and make the whole pillar into an oil rig or offshore shipping station for boats.
Try and make a small kiosk on the extended railway station. I think it would look good there because a lot of stations have small kiosk here and there
Here’s an idea that I think might go well with the train station. What if you add like a storage/shipping building to go along with the mafia in the harbor. This way they can also smuggle goods using the trains and not just ships?
2:37 that. is. GENIUS!
To make that pillar, blocking the view, more appealing you could cover the pillar entirely with LEGO or DUPLO and make holes for mini diorama's in the pillar.
Bro is living my childhood dream, seeing this brings back some good ol nostalgia.
Super Challenge.......Lego Skatepark within your urban space. . . Think of the curves lol The city trainstation, that new space you made could be a news/coffee stand? as that would fit right in.
I remember that in smaller railway stations, they always have some sort of food stand next to the main building. Something like a booth with Kebab or hot dogs. I feel like this would work out.
i love the city, and the perspective from when you walk up the stairs. for me however, i think the legs and underside of the table should be hidden, maybe with a black cloth stapled to the side of the tables
Not a fan of making a big airport, something rural to complement the town and its farmers or whatever makes more sense to me.
But seeing all the extra space on the new place and the massive expansion it allows is a fun development.
Also the sidetrack idea to store trains is a smart thing - It can then easily serve as a workshop for your new train designs as well.