Combining Two LEGO Botanical Gardens for the ULTIMATE Modular Building!

Check out the incredibly talented Brick Artisan's MOD of the LEGO Friends Botanical Garden, converting it into a full modular building!
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[@brickartisan]

Thank you so much for building the MOC. I really appreciate the detailed review of it. And for the part of choosing the ponds and plants vs putting pavements, I went headstrong in keeping the ponds and plants. This set is just special that I couldn’t bear losing those details 😊 thank you again

[@DuckBricks]

Thank YOU for designing such an incredible build! Rooting for your Modular Museum in the BL program too!

[@seaborgium919]

I wanted this set. But like. I wanted more of it. Just make it look like a real building for display, since I don't really play with it. This is great. Thank you.

[@collisw8302]

Not only a Lego master, but also a master of walking downstairs backwards.

[@benjaminjackson8663]

AND walking backwards in a Lego-filled room without bumping into anything!

[@michealbrizendine8158]

Yeah I would know everything down

[@just4youtube66]

It's reversed video 🤡

[@collisw8302]

@@just4youtube66 do you actually believe that or are you having a laugh

[@just4youtube66]

@@collisw8302 I think I've lost my sarcastic abilities🥲

[@ph03nixflame]

It's pretty nuts to see a Friends set get virtually universal praise. The red Prince of Persia shoulder pads for the Corpse Flower is supreme NPU. Then there's the INSANE MOC double down that everyone was thinking about and Brick Artisan made something truly stellar!

[@foxyfoxfilms]

“We’re gonna walk through the process” literally does that.

[@capybara2671]

Friends has been low key killing it.

[@ChilleBruh]

Love Friends line in general and this Garden is a HIT!! Will be buying multiple for sure.

[@DuckBricks]

It’s so so good!!

[@michaelmursanow7798]

Love your version of the botanical garden. Your collection is stunning, and so is your ability to walk backwards. Thanks for the tour.

[@stormthrush37]

This looks amazing. Given how comparatively unpopular Friends sets usually are, this might be a tremendous opportunity to effectively get a poor man's Creator level set on the cheap, assuming you can find these sets on clearance or something at Walmart or wherever when the time comes. Right now of course isn't that time given the set's on backorder and selling for well above retail for the moment.

[@lavedapeterlin3252]

In your walk, I saw your art school, Brick Artisan has an awesome rebuild for that to make it modular. I did it and it’s great in my city! I just made the Community center a modular as my own MOC and it came out great! This Friends line is terrific!

[@DuckBricks]

Oh sweet! I’ll have to check that out!

[@kristin123a]

I think it’s a bit weird how to indoors tree is replicated on the outside. Like in my view the tree is inside because it can’t handle the outside climate therefore it makes no sense for it to be outside. Would be an easy fix to change it up, tough. Other than that it’s excellent.

[@PlanktonWhisperer]

That opening walk was anxiety inducing

[@VersatileFunDesigns]

Wow, your LEGO collection is impressive! 🤩 Do you do public tours?

[@UltravioletNomad]

I think the proper way to use this in a modular city is to have it connected to a park in front of it, and you can change your roads to tun perpendicular to the park, or stop into a small parking lot. That way the sidewalks of whatever buildings you put near it won't just lead directly into and out of the building, they'd lead to the pathways of the park and go around it. This is me assuming that the front is the short side since thats the side with sidewalk access.

[@anodyneghost]

If you extend the ponds onto a second plate you could bring them together into a larger water feature. You could include a bridge as part of the walkway to the entrance of the building and really make the landscaping part of the larger surroundings rather than unique to just this building

[@stitchingginny]

I just received this set like 5 minutes ago and was looking online to see what plants were in this set and happily stumbled onto your channel. Awesome how you combined 2 Botanical Garden sets to create an even better building. I really wanted my some to be an actual dome and will have to find the instructions to Do this. Thanks so much for creating this. Your Lego city must be amazing!

[@captainbrickkid.9098]

Awesome build! Wanted do do something like this when the set was revealed, I’ll definitely check out the instructions.

[@Jacko75041]

Such a beautiful build

[@martazedbricks]

Really good set!

[@allenthemadman]

Some of the Friends sets puts some of the City sets to shame.

[@winterrain1947]

SOOOOoooo pretty!!!! If I could do it, I would buy THREE of those and also grab a couple extra similar sets at the same time along with a bunch of good tree parts, green plate and slope and work out some kind of a diorama of a park setting with a hillside, trees, flowered park, walking trails, the botanical building in the middle of that. I think a gazebo somewhere at the top of a hill nearby would be a nice touch.

[@tomm2213]

Great review. I think I found your channel during covid and was shocked that you didn’t have more subscribers back then. Well done and well deserved!

[@Osprey2511]

The color scheme reminds me of the 2016 Brick Bank modular.

[@ivanangeli]

my proffesional advice: bussy walls with ton of LEGO is great and fresh idea, especially you moving around them, so we can see them while you talk - supre cool. But, for the city, you need another room with one color walls. You need lights that are focused on the city, and you need at least 4 tables - leave them empty, you will build and add on them, but peopl eneed to feel the scale of it. You also need space enough so you can put thew whole city in the frame, and you can spend some time talking about plans "here I am going to build this and that". The bussy walls with LEGO are amazingly good background for the talk, introductions etc, but for both building and city, you need as little distractions as you can. Btw, I work with LEGO brics, have around 5 tons of them, 40.000 minifigs etc, but almost zero online presence - I would love to have a chat and learn from you regarding your KZbin experience, especially timetables, and experience, if you have 30-50 free minutes at some point :) I feel I have a potential I am not using at all, regarding social networks but I am puting it "for next year" for decade now :)

[@meisterderklemmbausteinemc6732]

Friends is kinda goated lol

[@DuckBricks]

Especially in 2023; it got SO good

[@rickweijers500]

Its looks nice this way! Much better indeed!

[@danieldavidlangley8733]

Gold mask now available in auction in pensilvania

[@adamb2619]

This is incredible! I would also like to thank this set for making my Brick Bank much easier to expand with the green windows.

[@MakroBricks]

heater of a set..love it

[@TheOtherGuys2]

The first time I saw that set, my instant thought was "If I had two of those and maybe some extra bits, I could make that a full building and it'd be awesome."

[@vhacker71]

It looks awesome. I feel tempted to do the same. Great content. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ZachBobBob]

Gonna be my first Friends set

[@1974xela_bricks]

Another Masterpiece from @brickartisan .... @DuckBricks thanks for sharing...👍👍👍

[@theserberus8918]

it really reminds me of an orthodox church

[@Music_listener_guy]

Bro walked down those stairs without struggle especially backwards like what bro is a fox !!!

[@nigeburgess5950]

A great build and moc. Only thing is now the waterfall doesn't line up with either of the ponds...

[@ender7278]

This guy really took the first minute to flex his collection.

[@iambear6887]

Dusting must be a nightmare

[@benjaminryder770]

Looks great! That being said I’d rather combine them so there’s two long wings and one short wing with the waterfall in the middle. That wouldn’t work here since: a) it’d be too long to fit on a single baseplate and b) the back of the model would still be mainly open. Since my modular city build has a courtyard the size of three baseplates I’m thinking of straddling it over two baseplates and surrounding it with garden elements. Not since the 1960’s Batcave has there been a LEGO set that screamed incompleteness.

[@jrdvd]

Love the idea of a complete building but this version looks a little too cramped for me. If I get a second set I will try to make it so the waterfall (and dome) will be the focal point in the middle falling into a bigger pond with the dome flocked on either side by the greenhouses.

[@artbyrobotcat6206]

There's already 4 or 5 different MOCs on rebrickable for 2x builds, with some going taller, some going wider (48 x 32 baseplate soze) so there's a lot of variety to choose from.

[@Nphen]

Wow. This set caught my eye on store shelves. I want to put palm trees under the dome because that's a tropical plant put under greenhouse conditions in temperate areas like here in Michigan. The only palms we see in the state are in botanical gardens. This will let me have palm trees in my Castle town!

[@shawndavis7862]

Am I planning on buying two? Well I am now! Thank you for sharing

[@heatherhorton2547]

Oh I just bought that set and waiting for it coming in the mail and didn’t know the back was open.

[@mattgibbs73]

Really nice. I bought two copies when I first saw it in store thinking of something like this. Hopefully ill get around to it soon.

[@Eisenwald64]

Does the build include a gift shop, bathroom or tool shed?

[@ClassicStudStudios]

Nope!, not the base set or the updated version.

[@Loremastrful]

Six sets, 1 Garden: Botanical

[@hoarder66]

I got my mother into Lego and we decided to do the same thing so on release day we bought 2 copies as well. Built one just to see how we will do it and now we need to actually do it.

[@kevin_howard_photo_arts]

That's a heater alright. Nice and girthy now.

[@Moldeyawsome12]

I’m planning on picking up another copy of this set, I’m just trying to figure out how to fit two long wings with skylights onto the main dome, all on a 32x32 baseplate

[@gigichenoweth3589]

It would be great if you could do a video about organizing your many sets, etc. For instance, how do you find anything when your Legos are all over the many spaces you have? Do you unbuild sets and store them away? How do you organize the bricks, minifigs, etc.? I'm setting up a Lego area (not as big as your space) but it's daunting to figure out how to display sets, organize bricks, etc. Boxes are not thrown out. I like to deconstruct boxes flat for future reference. I like to organize instructions by set #. Can you let us know how you keep track of, store, etc?

[@laurap.sh._lego_hobby_bird9103]

wow🥰👌perfect!👏👏👏

[@brickguy42-misprint-collecter]

Yes the set what made you go insane live on stream 😂

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

Oh did they go insane building it? Or what about the building made them go insane?

[@tomm2213]

Can you modify the tree base so it can be easily removed and replaced to get access to the inside?

[@ravenspurplebeats5412]

agreed also like access to insides of modular, though ninjago market set is big step up from city gardens with how they added removable walls to you can access insides easier.

[@springtrapthebuilder4918]

friend, i get anxiety every time you walk backwards down your stairs and tru your lego collection😅

[@SO-ym3zs]

You don't have enough Lego.

[@uwu6492]

Can you do a tutorial to build it?

[@pedrooscar1890]

This might upset a lot of people, but Lego Friends is impressing me more than Ninjago in terms of being a lego original ip with great builds for the past 5 of ten years

[@KWHCoaster]

Beat me to it. :-) I've bought three sets to merge into a bigger botanical garden.

[@pobvic]

I love it, but I feel it needs twice the baseplate footprint in order to breath, give it some gates and some grass to relax on

[@regzol]

Holy god, how do you manage to dust off all this? 😀 Anyway, I really like the many gadgets. 👌👏🥰

[@ClassicStudStudios]

Friends 10 times better then city, this wave just confirms it!.

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

Hi! I have a question, what will you do when you run out of space, will you expand your basement?

[@captainbrickkid.9098]

He ran out of room in his basement a long time ago😅

[@DuckBricks]

That’s a good question haha - I thankfully have a ton of empty shelves still that aren’t shown on video a ton, but I’m also looking to hopefully move to an even bigger space next year!

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

@@DuckBricks Cool! Your LEGO collection is awesome, amd I think it's even more mega awesome that you will build a museum out of it!

[@KahSing82]

Cool content, however definitely wanna consider picking up some lighting to enhance your output, just two cents, keep it up

[@simongpunkt]

I really hate this trend of lego selling you only half a building cuz "you can always buy two duh". Same with that pyramid from creator.

[@springtrapthebuilder4918]

does any one knoe a few good site for custom instructions for ninjago mocs?

[@nachtwalker]

r u kidding, u can open a museum...

[@Bionickpunk]

Think the double build just needs another wing at the back to give it a more common cross base that these kinds of classical botanical greenhouses have.

[@zomsum]

A lil tap on the wall and you're done for life

[@milkshake519]

Shouldnt you need .....4 copies ??

[@martinutzer8135]

Or you know just get the mould king botanical garden, which doesn't just look better, it also has more pieces and is like around 50$, depending on where you look

[@ClassicStudStudios]

People prefer actual official lego sets lol, also there’s probably some people who prefer the look of the friends one:)

[@martinutzer8135]

@@ClassicStudStudios but like why It's not like Lego's quality is any better or so But yeah before buying other brands than Lego for the first time I also was sceptical

[@ClassicStudStudios]

@@martinutzer8135 my guess is brand loyalty 😂.

[@martinutzer8135]

@@ClassicStudStudios something I'll never be able to understand hahaha

[@ClassicStudStudios]

@@martinutzer8135 you and me both lol

[@eyeyamjstn628]

Bro, how tf do you clean all the dust and shit bruh. Like wouldn’t the majority of your models be covered in dust?

[@JoseFranciscoProductions]

what s your job? how can you afford the equivalent of over 10 million dollars of lego?!

[@Dogsoldier15564]

Hey

[@swanny6627]

Is this a Modular really? Gorgeous but with no side walk it won't match in with the other modulars in a row

[@simongpunkt]

Wdym "is this a Modular" this is Lego. It's all Modular

[@highbloc6082]

Half more like 4th of a set

[@sawiesarip6519]

Can you play Minecraft hardcore please 🥺🙏

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

Does DuckBricks ever build any mocs from their imagination?

[@jamiesworld1690]

Absolutely not he has no imagination

[@bonkleboii5352]

​@@jamiesworld1690pretty much sums up any adult these days tbh.

[@tomm2213]

It seems like he does more than most people already lol. Cant do everything.

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

@@tomm2213 Oh yes, of course! A LEGO collection with or without MOCs is still a perfectly good collection! And he will make a museum out of his LEGO which is awesome!

[@iamthewallace_]

The walking backwards stresses me out

[@CaesarBest]

I just can't get over the fact you walked backwards down the stairs while talking and holding stuff...

[@jamiesworld1690]

Lego friends are aimed at young girls hence city line song msny are simed at biys friends kinecdimer at gitle

[@MK00040]

are you okay?

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

Yes but LEGO can be used by anyone of any age. As long as they have working hands! If they're likely to choke on small parts, they can use DUPLO.

[@ClassicStudStudios]

Ya, friends is “aimed at young girls” but I’m a 16 year old boy who’s been buying friends for years 😂, lego as a product, and theme no matter what the marketing suggests is for everyone.

[@darthbricksthe2nd83]

can you at least learn how to spell correctly before commenting

[@uniformitydubliner9691]

@@darthbricksthe2nd83 Well some people do have dyslexia, which can make spelling and reading very difficult, and some people have dyspraxia, which can make hitting or touching the right keys difficult. Some people might also have a faulty keyboard, and some people might not know the language they are typing in very well.

[@trulsdirio]

Lego selling half a Building for twice the price and then has the audacity to call it a feature because of playability like hinges don't exist. Never gets old.

[@simongpunkt]

spotted the german viewer

[@neilrusling-je6zo]

I am sorry but "having full access" is not "really nice" at all, paying for half a building is horrible. Why would anyone want half a building? If you want people to have access then put a wall on a hinge so it opens up, then you please EVERYONE. The normal reasonable people who like ALL the building are happy and the evil weirdos who are idiots and want half a building are also happy.

[@Madisonbehr]

I LOVE the content, but Chris…dude…please slow down and take a breath! I wanted to enjoy the video but you talk way too fast . It’s exhausting and impossible enjoy what you created. It’s like reading a book without punctuations. Again, great subject matter, but exhausting.

[@calebharch7229]

Kinda hate that people charge for custom instructions. Back in my day hobbyists would love to share their ideas for free. But that’s just the shit world we live in.