Downtown Rebuild | Clean Slate!

[@mgmg3000.]

Oh my gosh, big project! Congrats on taking the plunge and getting started. Taking apart a layout and dusting it all is very satisfying. Looking forward to seeing the decisions you make!

[@joe-bowling]

Thanks for sharing your update. This will be fun to follow. Look forward to seeing the new modular, not that I can afford it with how much I'll probably spend on F1 sets next year.

[@soniaholcombe7002]

You’re brave to take that project on! Looking forward to seeing the progress. Good luck. 👍🏻

[@zacharymatter6893]

The first thing you should do is put the jazz club right by where the waterfall comes out and then put the road right in front of that so the waterfall goes over the road in front of your jazz club and then Town Hall goes right next to your jazz club on the Jazz side and I love your Channel😊❤❤❤

[@mathra2523]

It’s exciting that you went with a clean slate! This will be fun. Getting the new modular…YAY!

[@chefeddie6164]

You need to start building a lot of MILS plates and begin converting the city to MILS. The One-way streets alone you could make will save you lots of SPACE! in the city.

[@justcoll3ct]

The UP house, now I gotta find a way to do the same.

[@BrickTrains]

Oh WOW, A clean start! What Fun!

[@alexnunes]

Pun intended! lol

[@Mardigrasman23]

I would like to see two runs of Modular’s back to back with the train running through the middle alley in between the buildings

[@alexnunes]

Hmm, I'll see what I can do.

[@BrickTsar]

Why is a temporarily non existent city so satisfying?

[@alexnunes]

So strange, but I am just gonna go with it. I might lay on the table surface for a bit to relax before I start adding stuff back in.

[@johnvocatura]

You know Alex, if you just turn that ocean of green into an eighteen hole golf course, you will need much fewer pieces.

[@alexnunes]

Hey, now you're talkin!

[@DazmaniaUK]

With no buildings it looks like a massive Space! 😲 It might be nice to keep small elements from your old layouts like a downsized square as the history from Zanderburg.

[@alexnunes]

You would think it would never get filled. This will be a fun challenge though.

[@TheOtherGuys2]

I've just had an idea. You have that sort of courtyard area you showed near the end there, from Zanderburg, and you don't want to get rid of it because it's from the old city, but it also takes up so much /space/ in the downtown. So I was thinking you could double it up with something else. So, follow me here. On the felt, you have say, a train station, and it's large enough to accommodate all the railways that go through the downtown. It could extend pretty far, a short but sprawling complex, complete with a tunnel for car traffic even. On top of this, perhaps a monorail station, and then a large portion of it is covered by this courtyard. Other parts of it could be covered by buildings, modulars and/or MOCs. This way, you'd save on the space of the courtyard, the train stations, and the roads, by doubling up their space with buildings. I hope that makes sense! Yeah, it'd be a bit of a task, but think how cool it'd be to have a whole section of the downtown be practically underground. (Note: I'm suggesting here to use the technique where setting a baseplate on bare studs comes out to the same height as a normal plate.)

[@alexnunes]

I think I get what you're saying. I might need to get a bit creative with that upper loop train as well.

[@OutpostMJ]

OMG. 😱 Well, good luck, Alex. And: enjoy...I guess? 😁

[@SueBobChicVid]

This channel wouldn't be as much fun If your city design was static. I'm excited to see the changes.

[@alexnunes]

Thanks, gotta keep it fresh, right?

[@chriscummings4206]

Hopefully there will be a bigger better airport. Well wishes on your endeavor 😂👍👍

[@roblyons8360]

Where you placed your buildings under the tables looks like jaabo's city layout after everything came crashing down on it

[@alexnunes]

Yikes!

[@bricklover2258]

For the tile patern you had in your old city maybe give it a new spin with some new colors and downsize it because I thought you said that tile build was 4 baseplates maybe you can do it in 2 and center the townhall in the middle of the pattern?

[@alexnunes]

Yes! I think it is time to downsize it and give it some new life.

[@Winters-KX-22]

Are you going to put the new City scrapyard into the city or are you going to make your own ?

[@alexnunes]

Scrapyard? No plans for that at the moment.

[@peterkangas3127]

If i might suggest try using Mill's around your pond to give it depth

[@KrisBrixx]

Whoaa!

[@MayoHosko]

with the clean slate you should minimise as much downtown road as possible. if you think about it residential and commercial modulars don't need to be along roads like what the municipal modulars and skyscrapers do

[@alexnunes]

Totally agree. Time to make this city more pedestrian friendly.

[@dl_bricks]

💪

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

NGL, you'd make an excellent architect. When given free reign to design whatever they want, the result invariably is a big featureless block.

[@LivingRetirement]

I am frustrated as well how easy the white peaces yellow!

[@dd_zzero6827]

Hey Alex. I am late to the party but I wanted to ask you if you have thought about getting rid of the airport? They are just space hogs. You can do sooo much more with downtown if you had that space. You can do the big building downtown, and then have an uptown where the smaller, modulars buildings can be.

[@SusanGaskin]

Thanks for taking us on this journey with you. Looking forward to the rebuild!

[@robrineer6013]

The new modular you mentioned, is that the tutor corner?

[@ANotSoHappyGonk]

what's the use of the felt cloth? for looks?

[@alexnunes]

Great question. It is for looks, just as you guessed, but it also protects the LEGO sets so the baseplates do not get scratched by the wood surface as I slide them around.

[@peterkangas3127]

are you going to try to use mill's plate

[@alexnunes]

I don't think I will this time around.

[@95wave]

Have you considered converting the suburbs into more city? It feels like you're going to start running out of space for new modulars very soon after all.

[@TonyMontanaDS]

You should check out BrickTsar's city for inspiration.

[@alexnunes]

Check! He's always been a huge inspiration.

[@TonyMontanaDS]

@@alexnunes He even managed to combine Star Wars with his city. Truly amazing stuff!

[@mikeconnelly7032]

Get building!! Lol

[@IamAllanC]

Thanks for the update ... but don't rebuild Rebecca Memorial Hospital. You _just_ built that.

[@alexnunes]

I know, I do love it, but it needs some updating really bad. We'll see.

[@subraxas]

Alex Nunes, breaking news: "I am done with Lego once and for all!!!" ".... And I am hereby commencing to build a brand-new city map with a series of 'Action Drivers' playsets from Matchbox!" 😀 😛

[@alexnunes]

Wow! That would be breaking news

[@subraxas]

@@alexnunes 🙂

[@mikeygoad4556]

Alex Nunes haven’t heard that name in years

[@alexnunes]

Yeah, same. That's why I messed it up at first.

[@StillSaber]

Why don't you just make the platform where the airport, hospital, and that hotel are wider so that way you can have more room to work with or how about this just get rid of it all together, because it never really made any sense at all with that whole platform to being with, UNLESS you're doing a mountain range that would require platforms like that Alex, because I know you Alex, you have the attendance to try to keep everything in that city of yours and I know you took out A LOT of stuff from before, but as long as LEGO keeps producing Modulars like they are and other city sets and people doing their own MOCs, you'll just have to keep making changes to your city EVERY SINGLE TIME just to make room for a new Modular set or something, they won't give you guys a break/breather from it, and eventually you would have to make much BIGGER sacrifices then sacrificing a few SMALLER sets here and there.

[@alexnunes]

Great points, I can't really argue with that logic. Similar to the last build, there will be some big adjustments if I am going to make this all work in he long run.

[@southernprojectsyt6340]

Talk bout someone doing his level best to keep the LEGO price point high. thumbs down.