Using New LEGO Road Plates With Baseplates & Modulars - Easy, Cost Effective, Looks Good 60304 🚗🚛🛣🏙🏹
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2021
- This is my easy guide to using the New 2021 LEGO Road Plate System (set 60304), including how to combine it with older Baseplates and Modular Buildings seamlessly whilst still looking great. It's what I like to call, the Robin Hood Bricks System!
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Have to say I'm not a huge fan of these baseplates due to their overall cost, but they are definitely more customisable as you've proved here!
Yes, my thoughts exactly. I'm not moving onto these but for a smaller setup, or for in front of a row of modulars on a shelf, it's a great system to try!
you can always buy a base plate for $5 off bricklink
Im gonna wait for a sale and buy some in bulk
This 1 makes so much more sense than all the other ways
Thanks for that!
And ist's so stupid expencive to buy all the extra needed parts. Its not usefull for everybody. This is just a workaround to make it work.
@@SmartenLasVegas everyone building his own city has to buy a ridiculus amount of extra parts. That‘s just How ist works.
That's the best integration of base plate-based buildings with the new road plates I've seen so far. And it works just the same for plate-based buildings from Creator and City sets. Very well done!
Totally agree. Plates can be added the same as baseplates except they will be connected!
You've done a much better job of showing the versatility and attributes of the new road plate system than the marketing team at LEGO. Even with their missed opportunity of how the were incorporated into the sets that they introduced that included them! I was not a fan of them but am now have had a change of heart. Well done and thank you!
I saw the potential but also saw that no one had really shown them off!
I’m not quiet convinced to switch to the new road system when I look at the cost of the new road system and the added cost of having to use more plates to elevate the buildings and to make the road wider to accommodate most vehicles. But it looks like a great solution for the new road system. Thanks for the tutorial. Happy Building.
Yes, it's the best I can do with this costly system!
This is really great. I’d recommend checking Jang’s as well as both of you gave great solutions to these new plates! I would love to see eventually convert your city to these over a long period of time as they offer a lot more customization than the baseplates.
True. It'd take months to do just the roads!
@@RobinHoodBricks maybe sometime in the future slowly do it but it would take ages but who knows maybe you will do it sometime in the year
Hello again. Glad someone finally did a video on this. People thought i was crazy when i said a base plate on top of a regular plate r the same height as 2 plates together. Ur the first to do it right on a video. This will forever be know as robinhoods new roadplate system
I was busy btw
Yeah, nobody seems to know that it’s a thing lol
This is the best system.
Yes, it's the same spacing as all of my raised areas like the Marina. I was frustrated no one had picked up on it so I bought some new roads just to share this with the world, haha!
Right!! I did a video demonstrating the base plate on top of a regular plate for the new road plates, last week of December right before they went on sale. However I breezed over it so quickly due to: A. I assumed everybody ALREADY knew! and B. I was cramming other content into the same video and it was a looong video. In the weeks that followed I was stunned at how popular lego channels just didn't grasp the baseplate stackage and trip over themselves trying to figure it out. Can't beat RHB's super clean, polished, straight-to-the-point and fun demonstration! Loved it!
Great effort - and great solution to the new road plates... but as i've said on other RUclips channels, the fact that you have to come up with solution tells you that they are not really fit for purpose.
The curved curb looks great, but for me, two plates high is too high for paving - compared to a minifigure that is effectively a knee high curb... also, can't agree it's cost effective - what is it, £25 for a a set, which to make wide enough you need to double up, then add the cost of plates to raise everything to the right level... that's quite an expense... but more than that, for me personally - they look ugly. I really don't like the patchwork of tiles you need to make them.
Again, just me - if people like them, great, maybe i'll be able to pick up the proper road plates cheaper on the secondary market! haha
There was always going to be this awkward period when transitioning between the two systems, but if Lego are properly committed to this change I imagine compatibility between sets and roads will become more straightforward. The final straw/nail in the coffin will be if they move to this system for future creator expert (18+) modular releases...
@@andhe I'm sure they will, however it doesn't stop them being incredibly ugly
I think the patchwork is the hardest thing to get used to... and the price!
@@andhe Don't forget they have to bring curves for the new system.
£25 for just one roadplate set??? Where are you buying them they're supposed to be less than £20!
Your raised crosswalk is genius! Keep the creativity coming! I love it.🥰 13:02
Thank you. Will do!
Your so clever at adapting basic lego designs into creative masterpieces!!
Thank you so much. That's my favourite part of the hobby to be honest!
I originally didn't like the new road plates, worried about integration of modulars, city buildings & my MOCs. Now I see that the system can be easily edited, it looks beautiful!
Great for a modular display too, I think!
I love your vision about using baseplates on top of plates that translates in 2 plates. Haven't seen anybody translate it that way and was wondering why. Luckily the "master" of baseplates on plates was the one to tell the world!
It's the same setup I did in my marina, boardwalk, harbour etc but adapted for this. That's why I made the video to show the world!
I love this a lot and agree that the elevation between street level and first floor level of the buildings are THE takeaways from this system. It looks really nice, in fact a huge improvement over the normally flat landscape. The ability to add street level drains as well as drop the crosswalks to street level is just cool! Thanks for posting!
You're very welcome. It's a lot easier/cheaper than MILS and has even more potential!
@@RobinHoodBricks I had decided to use the after market base plates that were 1 plate thick to build my modulars on and just could not wrap mu head around how to adapt your system to the curbs, but it turned out really quite easy. Now I can use your system to adapt those road bases to either base plate style. Thank you again for putting this out there.
This way of using the road plates is fantastic! The Robin Hood system is the best system I have seen so far, and I think it is also great for smaller city's, and the customization options are endless! Good job Robin!😃
I agree. Great for small and very custom cities!
This was the first videos of yours that I ever saw. Glad I found your channel.... been ploughing through your back log of videos. Loving them. Good-Good!
Welcome aboard. Really glad you are doing the backlog, even if they were a little less free-flowing videos then, haha. Good good indeed!
That's a great idea I will have to give that a go Thanks keep up the good work :)
You could honestly do all sorts of crazy stuff with this. Streetside parking, tramway integration, level crossings, multi-level road systems like the ones in Chicago, etc.
Wow! I love all of your suggestions! I’m new to city building and still really small, so I’ve bought several of the new road plates. Your video is totally inspiring and I can’t wait to implement the Robin Hood Bricks System in my town. Thanks!!
Great. Have fun!
Stellar ideas! Thank you so much for sharing! My mind is reeling with possibilities now.
Cool. Have fun!
Thank you for helping me see a different way to use these new plates! I love it!
Really glad it was useful, yay!
This is very creative, I love the idea. Thank you for sharing!
You are so welcome!
You made some amazing improvements Robin! Thanks for the tips
Happy to help!
This is just THE BEST way of using the new road plates. You convinced me they are worth using them. Thanks a lot!!!
Great to hear. Happy to help!
Amazing, you made an excellent video about the road system, so many fantastic ideas! Thanks!
Glad you liked it. Loads more where that came from!
that's incredibly creative and smart! the difference is night and day!
Really glad it was helpful!
3 weeks ago I discovered this video, and indeed this channel, when I learned LEGO introduced these new road plates. After this I got interested and watched the MOC playlist for the fast food corner. And today (3 weeks later), I reached this video again through watching the complete journey playlist (so over halfway!)!
In that time, I dug up my 30 year old LEGO, rebuilt the first 'big' set I got for my 7 birthday 28 years ago (Pirate Forbidden Island 6270), created a small MOC myself (a Japanese style vending machine) and ordered the needed bricks on Bricklink, as well as a big modular.
I guess I'm back into LEGO, haha! Thanks Robin!
That's a wonderful LEGO story, haha. Thanks for sharing it!
Great video - starting to feel more comfortable starting my first city where I'm almost certainly going to have to use the new road plates.
If I were starting now I'd use the new ones definitely. They are so flexible now for side streets, parking bays, different numbers of lanes, crossings where you want them. I like it!
Great tutorial, i love the new roads and this is probably best way to connect them, thanks
Great to hear, thanks!
So many amazing roads you can make, you could also make bus stops which come out into the big road and have a bus shelter on it
There are loads of possibilities!
Looks great. Love the curb and the way you created parking. 👍👍
Thank you so much!
I really liked your tutorial ! Just discovered your channel and will now subscribe ! Thank you !
Great to have you with us!
This is the most brilliant customization for the new road plates I have ever seen!! Great job!
Thanks. It seems the most simple and adaptable method. Corners still aren't great though, haha!
Pretty awesome! Absolute success. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure!
I like the depth and the more customization with these roads.
Exactly!
Excellent video, thank you. Just adding roads to my small city; and as i don't have the old roads, I'm great with how they work and look. You're suggestions will be put to good use shortly. 😁👍
Really great to hear. Send me a photo or two when you're done!
Great idea. Now I started to like the new system 😁
Thanks Robin 👍
No problemo!
This is the by far the best way I have seen to implement this so far and will be doing it to night. GREAT WORK!!!
Awesome. Thank you!
I just bought these road plates for my marvel Modular’s and this is definitely the best way to make it look nice thanks so much for this video :)
Great to hear. Have fun!
This video made me subscribe to your channel. Best solution by using the new road plates with base plate modulars... BY FAR! Thanks a lot!
Yay, cool. Welcome to the channel!
I haven’t seen anyone do the road system like this yet with the drains. To the point where i planned on doing my own lol. Im very proud of myself for thinking of an idea on your level of thinking
Haha, great minds!
Nicely done. I especially like the handicap access at the curb by the cross walks.
Little touches make a city much better!
That looks really great 👍 Thanks for the tips 😉
My pleasure!
Most aesthetically pleasing solution I've see so far. Well done, Robin Hood Bricks !
Yay!
I like how you utilized the new road system. The curbs make the buildings look even better. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.
Thanks, Lois!
You're welcome Robin. I look forward to your videos each week.
I liked these from the start and now I have even more reason... Brilliant as always !
Yay, thank you!
Very cool! Looks wonderful!
Glad you think so!
Those are some amazing ideas. Look forward to trying them in my city.
Please do!
Thank you Robin Hood Bricks, looks amazing! 😍
Glad to help!
This is the best integration of the new road plates I have seen so far. well done.
Thanks a lot. I'm almost tempted to use them in my city as I think this is only the start of what's possible!
Wow Robin this is brilliant and as always full of detail as expected by your level of extra detailed build. It's clean and effective. Thumbs up for the Robin Hood Brick System!! Long life to the Robin Hood Brick System!!😅😅I'm kind of regretting buying my last 4 old road plates... Cheers my friend👍👍
Thank you very much!
Wow! This video has really made me re think about putting the new road plates in my city
I like making people think again, haha!
This system is so attractive. I absolutely love the sidewalks and parking. Great way to use these new roadplates!
Much appreciated!
This is one of the best methods to deal with the new plates that I've seen, thanks!
You're welcome. Also more economical and flexible than some of the more intensive methods!
I've been searching for a solution to this problem for weeks, thank you so much for this tutorial. A true LEGO master builder!
Glad I could help. i knew a lot fo people were struggling with them so that's why I bought them!
Very interesting solution to the problems with the new roads. Great video as always!
Glad you like them!
I have only recently got back into lego and have none of the older style road plates. So I am 100% signed up to making these new ones work and have been collecting a few sets as I go. Really like the double raiser approach detailed here although I was surprised by the "floating method" of connecting just the edges. The double road is an interesting idea, it does however eat space despite it looking and feeling cool! So thanks for the great guide and, as a fellow Brit with the name Robin, I feel it's appropriate I adopt this method :)
A double road is just the same width as an old baseplate. You could create a load of cool parking bays in the extra road space though!
This is awesome! Just found your channel. Great stuff.
Please subscribe and stay for much more good LEGO stuff!
The Robin hood bricks system has made me love the new system even more than I already did and is X100 better than the old system as it looks cleaner and more realistic plus it can use up those random old plates from our collection that we have no idea what to do with I gonna try and use this awesome system in my city thank you so much Robin hood bricks.
Great to hear. Go for it!
Great ideas. Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome!
0:15 Professional Editing!
Thanks!
That's a great solution, the double layer pavement looks very smart. Perfect for anyone just starting a city or with enough free time to redesign one!
Yeah, it would be VERY time consuming to be a whole big city this bespoke!
Just bought my 1st ever Lego set, The Daily Bugle, so i am going to give this road idea a good go! thanks for the video
Hope you enjoy it and it looks great!
This is really good and useful. Great video!
Glad you found it useful!
Awesome way to integrate the new roads. Looks fantastic 👍👍👍
Glad you like it!
You amaze me again! Very creative
Thank you, my friend!
Not only a great method, but some real inspiring ideas for detail work. Great work!
Thank you very much. Yes, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I would do intricate kerb patterns with all sorts of parking and bus lanes etc!
@@RobinHoodBricks I'm a fan for life! Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
Your system is great, thank you for tutorial!
Glad it was helpful, yay!
Excellent presentation of the road plates. Brilliant ideas that I will definitely be duplicating in my city. Thanks.
Great. Have fun!
I wanna thank you for this video it helped me tremendously with my city I just put together. I really like the detail of having the curb throughout the city! Thank you again Mr. Hood!
You're very welcome. I made it with people like you in mind!
@@RobinHoodBricks is there away to contact other then here I would love to show you some pictures of my city and see if you have any other ideas to improve my city
I love this. That´s the essence of Lego, creativity. A lot of People were very negative about the new road system. But I think it looks much better and realistic with this idea.
Thanks a lot for sharing.
Well said. I hope it helps some people!
MIND. BLOWN.
You’ve done more to convince me of the merits of these than all of Lego’s marketing material and the (far too many) video reviews I’ve watched so far. I’m sold.
Haha, be sure to recommend it!
This looks great. Very impressed how realistic this looks
Great to hear!
Well done!
You really do have a huge talent for LEGO, Robin! Loving Fast Food Corner on the new road system, looks rather snazzy.
Thank you, my friend!
Mate you absolutely smashed it! I love it! I think I might have to steal this technique for my raised section of my city :)
I thought you'd like it. It looks great and it'll be nice to see it in action across a whole city district.
I'm not using it in my city as it'd be too big a job to replace what I have.
Incidentally I have more ideas on this system that I didn't cover in the video that you might be able to use!
This would actually give you the opportunity to make a decent corner using 45 degree plates and tiles on a double width road, nice work mate.
Such a good system!
Looks awesome great ideas there buddy.
Cheers!
Absolutely amazing!!
Glad you found it useful!
It’s a excellent idea, because you can use your modular buildings as it is! 👍
And it's a LOT cheaper than some other methods!
This looks AMAZING! Being at the very beginning still just planning to start a lego city, I find it diffcult deciding which system to go with. There are so many opinions going around and I see pros and cons with all of them. I can understand that those with already huge cities have major issues with switching to the new road plates, but I will definitely consider going this way now.
I also see the issue some may have with the sidewalks being a little bit too tall when considering minifig heights, but that was easy to overlook once it all came into place and look so good. Love this!
I think this has a lot more flexibility than MILS and costs a LOT less!
That’s awesome! Thank you! You definitely earned a sub!
Yay, welcome to the gang!
Hi Robin,
I love what you did with the new plates! I must admit, it still takes some getting used to having a sidewalk two plates high, but im very much impressed with the end result! We have a couple of the new sets, so i will again be experimenting with them going forward using some of this technique!
Well you could keep them one high but the plates under the modular would be loose and the connections between the baseplate and pavements would be weaker. Maybe try that!
Very clever method. Enjoyed watching this video a lot 🙂
So glad. Let's hope it drives some channel growth!
Thank you for this
This looks fantastic!
Many thanks!
Very well done,! Now I love those baseplates!!!
The possibilities are endless. Enjoy!
I definitely like your system of using these better than any others i have seen
I thought it might help a few people!
I’m starting to like this more now. Great video
Glad to hear it!
Fantastic!!!loved they way you adapted them!!! I will try it with my LEGO CITY
Please do!
@@RobinHoodBricks Bridge coming soon😏😉
Love the parking space idea!
It's actually very versatile, but quite piece intensive!
Nice one Robin! If you're going to do what every one here is suggesting, whe'll all have Bricknottingham vids for probably the rest of our lives!
Now, just another idea I had seeing you do all this, just for all the enthousiasts out there in the world that would like to start using those plates:
If you use the 'wide lanes' (a complete width per lane), you can even add some pavement or greenery in between, connected on top of studded connector plates.
Could be nice for a boulevard or something...
Yes, that was on my list for a potential second part. Central reservation, crossing islands, greenery etc!
Fellow Nottingham resident here. I’ve watched your videos for so long now but never commented. I quite simply can’t pass without congratulating you on this as it’s such a brilliant solution
Personally I’ve had fun on stud.io with the new road played making integrated tram lines into roads etc.
Definitely love your road technique, think I’ll combine your idea with jangs and use foam board under neath to cut that cost right down :)
Great to hear. A fellow Nottingham boy eh? When will we be allowed out I wonder!
Hello Robin, fantastic update! Finally someone who comes up with great ideas on how to use the new road plates instead of just complaining for complaining. I have started using them in “problem areas” where I simply don’t have space to accommodate the 32x32 grid, like side alleys and semi pedestrian areas. I will certainly try your sidewalk system, love the ramps and sewerage. However, for more stability I fixed the road plates on 48x48 baseplates and moved the buildings on old brick plates which are 3 high - so that should work with your system. It also resolved an issue I had with a railroad crossing... Will post some pictures on Instagram when time permits.
As always, thank you for your inspiration!
Hi Alex. Yes, a pedestrian area is another great use for them. People moan but with time great systems will be developed. At least street features can be added IN the streets now!
really nice!!
You've just saved the world. Congratulations.
Much appreciated!
An excellent system! I'm glad to see that the new road plates are compatible with the modulars.
Yes. I almost want to use these to show what can be done but I have so much else to do, and I've already got the older baseplates!
honestly, you made me change my mind about these! i like them a lot now :D
They aren't perfect but neither were the old ones!
@@RobinHoodBricks exactly
Fantastic ideas to incorporate the new road system Robin! I like alot of your ideas. Gosh I'm so on the fence about what I should do when I build my city. I already have quite a few of the road base plates, but these are growing on me slowly and I like you can make your roadways even wider than the previous system. Well back to the drawing board.. 🤣 Great video my friend!
If I was starting out it'd be difficult to decide but I'm quite energised by making that video so maybe the new ones!
Well done, Robin. Mightily impresive
Cheers, Joe!
That’s absolutely amazing
Glad you thought so!
I first was extremely sceptical of these new road plate systems. I’m not a Lego city builder, but I didn’t see how they could work. But since watching this video and a video by Jangbricks , i realise the seemingly endless options for the new road system. They definitely seem more in line with Lego’s ethos, especially for play. I also think, as pointed out by Jangbricks, make it so much easier to make bridges and raised roadways.
Yes, there is a lot to be said for them but they will certainly not be right for all situations. Cost being a major factor too!