Further Developing the LEGO City Layout!

Today I continue working on the new LEGO city layout! I want to try accommodating a boatyard and train yard in this new city, as we have much more space. I also plan to incorporate some of my previous dioramas that weren't previously part of the city. I'll walk through my plans for developing this new city and some of my ideas for a potential layout. We also take a trip to the hardware store, where I find something that will come in handy while working on the LEGO city!
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[@nitesh-maharaj]

It's so awesome that you're back into Lego city construction. Don't rush it, because the longer you take, the more episodes we have to watch :D

[@optifroculon]

Now that there is a city started on the tables, the cloud paintings look even better.

[@Mb63360]

They look soooo good as a backdrop when he looks at the downtown across from the other side

[@scotty9776]

I absolutely love the trial and error aspect of your city layout. Get everything on the table. Move it around. Let the creativity flow. Keep it up!!!

[@KiwiRyanify]

Like the idea of a river running through the centre of the city! It would get rid of the greyness and the squareness of downtown.

[@StrykeSZN]

30 minutes of bricksie? Yes please! 😂

[@Bricksie]

Thank you so much!

[@StrykeSZN]

@@Bricksieof course! i love the daily videos

[@SEBASTiEN33]

@@StrykeSZNyour profile picture looks like my cat 😂

[@runswimsc]

It is exciting to see the city come back together. Have you thought about building a hockey rink? With the new space, it would be feasible.

[@thegriffin2645]

Perfect for the winter area

[@saberspecter]

Brilliant idea! He could make an outdoor rink with custom printed minifigs with Edmonton Oilers jerseys. 😁

[@KasumiRieko]

Make the Ice Rink a cover for one of the holes that could be removable if he needs to get through the hole at a later time.

[@woolseym]

I'm not going to lie; this seems very fun, intimidating, and overwhelming all at the same time.

[@carlsonrobb]

Love the river through the city with the ocean in front. A park next to the ocean would be great. Bike paths. Etc. like Chicago lake front

[@ShedCityBricks]

I like where this is going, but if I were you, I'd put the beach a baseplate back and create a bit more sea around it. It makes a beach pop out more when there's more water around it imo. It also creates more space for water activities.

[@BuildandDew]

I LOVE what you do! I am a teacher. I watch your updates at lunch. When students need an escape, they come it in my room. Thank you for being my co-teacher!

[@rxgeqxit7526]

wish i had you as a teacher💯

[@subman721]

here's an idea! Build a separate table, (Island Table) And the build a Suspension, or Cable Stayed bridge to cross it!

[@GodTierComments]

This would only make sense as a foot bridge. It would look silly if there was a massive road bridge going to a small island.

[@tiffanycatherine]

Coming along great. It would be very cool to have a gradient of foliage from spring to summer to fall to winter through the countryside section to the winter section. Could look really cool and help with the transition to winter.

[@natalieolsen3406]

YES! Love the idea of the water and canal. Need some car and pedestrian bridges too.

[@mjdaniel4738]

I love your water idea to extend the ocean. I was also thinking. Since you have more room, it would be nice to make the ocean wider. Maybe add some boats etc.

[@ScarzXY16]

I think you should move the beach back by one baseplate for more space on the water

[@seanoates6789]

Hope you can find space for a raised trainline again. Loved that in the old city.

[@radbricks8298]

that's a great place for a boat yard between beach and town! expanding the beach town back a bit would be cool. no roads just wide walking paths maybe how cool would a custom monorail be!!

[@Andrew_and_Amelia]

Yes! Extend the water! I think if you treated it as an island more than a city, that would be awesome. Do water the whole way around, it doesn't need to take much space. Maybe just 8-10 studs on the outermost edge. Maybe a bay for the boat yard??? Then the extra tables for the mansion and stuff are their own little islands!

[@thomasgolds4585]

Take your time, I loveeee seeing and hearing the thought process. Everyone dreams of having a space like this, but seeing it come together and become real is fascinating. I feel like we’re learning alongside you, and that’s super cool. Plus it full of shots of awesome builds and sets displayed. Super entertaining

[@Nphen]

Epic Lego table time! Look at that river baseplate! Auction that on Whatnot. Love those knee wheels! I have a set, so useful. For a second table, you have enough space for a 120+ square foot (10'x12') table along with 2 smaller "island" tables. With the medieval stuff on a secondary table, you have space on the main table for an expanded theme park & zoo (which looks so small now!), and still have the mansion on its own island table. You will want that extra space for farmland, countryside mountain, and more residential. Cheers!

[@VanishIntoTheBlue]

Warehouse city is getting better with each video. Here's a suggestion: How about building the mountains towards the back where residential currently sitting? It would help you blend winter village into the mountains. Plus it wouldn't block the view and help the horizon transition into the cloud wall. I think that would look great.

[@Smudgie33]

I think you should push back the beach area so you can make the sea a little deeper and add some sailboats etc to that area.

[@ShedCityBricks]

My thoughts exactly

[@Blue-Ninja2000]

If you have some kind of canal or river, it better be properly hand railed and protected in case a man falls into the river, in Lego City

[@VelvetPlatz]

That comment made me laugh. Thanks for that.😂

[@TayTay77501]

Oooh oooh! For the pop up holes, I don’t know what you said you would do for them before. But you make a custom extending table on castors and build parks on them for the city that will help keep the weight down when lowering them for access. And city will feel more complete

[@smokey95dog]

Hi Bricksie, great work so far. Just a suggestion is to stain the visible 2x6 table legs to the same color as the 4x4 legs if it’s even possible at this point. Would make it look super clean. Also, about the mountain, maybe it’s in your plan, but making it snow capped would look great, and gives reason for water to flow down the mountain. ❤

[@masonryel1502]

Love the city layout! My only suggestion is: I don’t think the train track should go right along the beach in front of the down town. I would turn it sooner and have it go thru down town Also, under your mountain range, you should cut a slot in the table where your under table subway can come up onto the main table via a large ramp, so it’s all connected!

[@cynicaldad3731]

Loving the huge space available Bricksie for countless building options and my suggestion for the one of the two seven baseplate areas. To allow for your boat yard why not move the castles on to their own table area giving you a separate environment for the castles and medieval space. I think this would be awesome and allow for further expansion. GL

[@NobbyWalker]

I'm thrilled about your LEGO city journey! The idea of a river/canal is brilliant-it'll add fantastic colour and activity. Can't wait to see the train line and yard develop. Have you thought the line running through the city with a central station? Could meet the planned subway service too! Your videos are the highlight of my day. I don't have the space/time/money for my own LEGO adventure, so following yours brings me so much joy!

[@TheDutchStarWarsGuy]

A lot of improvement already compared to yesterday, I love your dedication to the city. You're doing so much every day to make sure it looks better than before. Also very nice to see your plan for the entire thing that you made on the computer. Keep up the great work!

[@dinibo]

I can't tell you how happy I am to see the city again. The studio build was interesting but seeing the city back warmed my heart so much. I just can't stop smiling thinking about what it will look like a year from now!

[@BrickHQ]

7:05 I was also thinking that maybe there should be a river going through the center of the city. 13:11 awesome idea Maybe the river should go down the mountain to the waterfall It would be great, I hope you do it 18:45 I was thinking the same, its basically a small industrial area Train line plan is great, the other line going through the mountain makes sense to be a freight line. Also something to keep in mind is room for train stations

[@rachelbateman461]

The cloud background is even more amazing now that the city is on the tables

[@ianvandenbrink2003]

Having a lot of fun following you the process! I would place the train yard underneath the mountains however, it kinda takes up a lot of space. And it would be great to maybe attach some black curtains to wrap underneath the tables and hide the underside.

[@Angrist17]

Looking good. Sounds like a solid plan to get things moving. If you're going to run a train line through the mountain you could hide a couple of sidings underneath for additional storage too. A riverwalk along the front of the downtown area is pretty common in a lot of real cities and should work really well here. Doesn't need any sand in that area either so it can be very space efficient. This will be fun to watch develop.

[@anamarijahalaburic2569]

I love it! Everything makes sense. Almost every capital city in the world has some kind of water running through it so it adds a bit of colour. Looking forward to seeing future projects. I can see Millie and Benji helping out much more as they get older.

[@bricks_in_space]

Very nice to make a plan to move forward. Planning the layout is way smarter before building out such a large space. 830 Baseplates! Holy Cow! Awesome to see the Creeper. That should do wonders for you getting under the tables.

[@jxbradt]

I love the river idea and having a harbor against the downtown. Most cities are built along rivers and bays. That opens up a lot of possibilities with riverwalks and bridge designs, too. I say go for it!

[@robbiebyrne]

For the island tables you were talking about you should have them as peninsulas on each end, one could be open water leading to your mansion island. The other end you could build a cool wrap around harbour or just a cool ocean front part of the downtown with ocean walking paths etc.

[@J2ThaK78]

When Lego started making modular buildings I don’t think they had any idea the lengths dedicated fans such as Jordan would go to to maximise their impact. The effort over the past few months financially, physically and mentally is extraordinary. I’ve never heard so many mentions of melamine in my life but the journey makes it SOOOO worthwhile!

[@karenwelsh-qi7nb]

Oh my god the amount of ideas you have for your city is awesome . I'm really enjoying watching how things are coming along. I love the idea of the water going through the city. It's so cool x

[@lena-loudecary4070]

Love to see the lego city content coming back. I got an idea for you : you could do lower table in front off the water area and make a underwater scene. You could top it off with a plexiglass and transparent blue piece and wave.

[@aminkhalifa8089]

Brick side, this developing your new city process is fun! One suggestion, some of the worlds’ most beautiful cities have a river (or two) running through them with great bridges. I suggest you follow that thought that you had today of having a river running through your city to the ocean.

[@garethsmith2250]

I always step on my Mils plates to ensure that the bricks are fully down... Benjamin was doing a great job at doing the same.

[@temujanradari1105]

I put a chair leg on one of my MILS plates that I forgot was on the floor - was wondering why my chair was wonky Those things are so tough!

[@CountryLongboarding]

Water around two corners of the city gives you so many options to tell stories or have other sets incorporated! Need to get some of the HUGE cargo ships with the single mold hull from the east 2000s

[@TheEvilRayquaza]

Very excited that all the prep is finished and the city is ready to be designed and built. Probably the most anticipated thing over the last couple months haha Can just tell that it's going to look awesome

[@zoltannagy5325]

Hi! If I were in your place I would use those separate two island tables, which you want to establish in front of the big city layout for a medieval layout, and the other could be an " always changing" layout like winter village, mansion, maybe a western, or a Star wars scene layout dependig on your mood what to create.

[@russellkaufman4138]

Even you couldn’t believe it when you said “Really, Dads at work”. Enjoy this time with your kids!! You are lucky to be able to do what you love.

[@DieCastoms]

I would like to see you do one section of city in which the train track is established first and the city is built around the track ... and a second section of city in which the city is established first, and then some buildings are moved or modified to make the train track fit. In the real world, one or the other is usually in place first and has to be worked around. Might be interesting to have the track have some shives and bends in it to show that the city was there first.

[@Niguy84]

You should do a bigger beach like you had before. All the stories like the sand castle competition were cool.

[@ruffasbrutha]

good progress, remember some subway planning too, some subway entrances that cut through the table would be cool, also with mountain range, my suggestion is not to have right in middle, but at center back, so that it doesnt block the view all the way through from side to side

[@greg1968chevelle]

Looks awesome Bricksie. I like the river idea with maybe some bridges connecting two cities or something. I’m a big car guy as well and a car show scene would be pretty cool as well since they have so many muscle cars and cool creations nowadays. You can even create a Lego rat rod

[@benwolfer2320]

Absolutely love how this is going and so excited for the future one thing I could recommend is putting the residential area in the green space behind the beach I feel it would a lot better than being behind the tall skyscrapers

[@marcv5711]

Love watching your city change. I wish I could have a layout this big. I have a suggestion for your open space where there is no tables. I know you said you didn’t want to extend the city table. But I think it would look good to extend the city tables just a little and have an OCEAN SCENE coming off the city.

[@firstreflex8525]

Yes, time to start building the LegoCity, countryside and more. I'm looking forward to see your ideas coming to live. I like your new lay-out plans. I hope to see more water (old watermill) and the castles too in the country side with may be a hill-scape going into the mountain-area. And I would like the idea of having a train in different hights too, to create more depth in yor Lego World, it's not just a city anymore ;). May be you can add a store (supermarket) near the bootyard so sailers and cruisers (I see a lot of them in YT) can provision. In the French coast I have seen smaller trains riding along the coast too. But it's still a bit strange to me, but i'm shore it will work out nicely in your town. I love seeing yor kids immediatly start creating with Lego too! ;)) Warm regards from the Netherlands!

[@lisagaines1813]

I love watching your process as you adapt and improve your layout ideas. This is exactly what I come for, playing with lego! Trying different methods and changing your mind is the best part of this hobby. Thank you for sharing.

[@TheBrickeryLego]

I hope you stay on this exploring phase for a while! It's fun to see how you change everything up! I think you should consider having the train yard in parallell to the train track. It will be more efficient use of the space and it will be easier to get space to park full train sets. If you make a small hole in the table you could also get the subway come up from the underground and in to the train yard.

[@marleyjohnson7190]

Can’t wait to see the boat and train yard, I think the train tracks should be level with the road or sidewalk in the downtown and amusement park area transitioning into ballast in the countryside

[@PhilippeLacoude]

The downtown is epic. I love your ideas. Your Excel plan was awesome. Great use of Excel. It makes great sense to have the train yard close to the shipyard.

[@KasumiRieko]

I still say the pop up holes in the table could be covered and made into small parks or ponds that could be lifted and set aside if you had to crawl back under to work.

[@H0T_Cheese]

The layout of the city is starting to look great! I do think given the enormity of the space you have now, you could probably slide the beach back either half a base plate or a whole. As is, that sliver of water for what would be the beach looks really small in the grand scale of the space you have now. I think adding depth to the water there would really fit the overall display better

[@The_Swollen_Turtle]

You can out the winter village at the tallest mountain to conserve space but also make it super cool. I think it makes sense for it to be high above the ground. Ans finally the lego building has started! Can't wait to see what you will make Jordan!

[@justaddbricks5527]

I definitely think a river flowing through the city and downtown core would look amazing! Especially if you were to raise the core up a few brick heights, just to give a better definition in height. But a river would definitely break things up and look great.

[@petersavoca7820]

You should push the beach and water front back a half bp or a full bp itll give you room for the boat yard and make the beach look bigger. Yeah itll be alot of water work but ill give the effect that theres more water goin off the edge of the table plus like i said itll give you more room for boats. Also i wouldnt make your mountain that big and if you were to make it that big dont make it such a rectangle. Make it a more natural shape ie. A square or l shape just something not so square

[@paulroy3673]

So happy for you. All the hard work/sacrifice leading up to this point. I’m so looking forward to the journey. Thanks for taking us along.

[@clarky204]

The best part of the day is when I watch the daily Bricksie video 😊 The progress you've made over the past couple of months is incredible. The city is going to be amazing

[@ryanhussey7903]

Big fan of the water all along the front. It can go from the natural waterfront, then you have the beach/boardwalk area, then an industrial boatyard/port that feeds the city and the final area a swanky sea front city section with restaurants and yachts.

[@thattshawkeyeguy3343]

Its great seeing the city starting to take shape! I cant wait for the first trip to the pab wall. I think you should rethink devoting that much area for a mountain, you will use the space eventually.

[@geralddegraaf6148]

If you did a central mountain, you could have sections, like a volcano vent with a research station (sort of a moon base, but earth bound), and a geothermal plant which could allow for hydro pylons to another section.

[@Gustaf131]

I am loving the whole process! Have you ever thought about using fewer roads? Less roads is more place for other (in my opinion) more appealing stuff and buildings can easily be connected through some pedestrianstreets with flowerpots, trees, benches etc etc.

[@M..J..Pinkyy]

Great vid, in my opinion, the trainyard location should be swapped with the amusement park. My reason for this is because the amusements tend to be closer to seafronts and marine areas and train yards tend to be in remote countryside areas

[@warrennewman5325]

River and waterfall is plan there’s buddy nice knee rester thanks for awesome update

[@kleis66]

It's so cool to see the lego city up and running again. I've been waiting a long time for that. I'm super excited to see what you come up with.

[@1St8ment]

As the beachfront is (currently) sitting directed the large unused space putting a table there could be a great space to build fantasy worlds. Fantasy worlds at 'undiscovered islands' in the ocean. A way to let the full creativity go at work no matter if it's fitting into a city or not. A bit the same way you had the mansion and ski hill at a different diorama as it didn't fully fit the city then.

[@janettownson3221]

I'm having so much fun❤ I've imagined so many different versions and I've created so many different worlds! I can't wait to see your magic unfold. I'm so excited!

[@christ7058]

Love the water idea !!! Also , the dad in me knew where the kids were going with Lego on the floor lol I thoroughly enjoy Ben just walking over the “ bridge” .

[@redredly]

First play day in two months. Enjoy the day! Proud of you two and your family. I have a twin brother myself, and watching y’all’s kids is fun. I remember Mom telling my girlfriend at the time that she was super bored with twins when the got to three years old. She said that me and my twin would entertain ourselves and she felt like a third wheel. She picked up painting, cross-stitching and pottery. Wish you guys the best

[@CastorTroy666]

What about a big red bridge, like in San Fran, leading over to a big island, with mountains, maybe with lodges, ski slopes and the mansion? Your dock could be here as well.

[@vincenthayward7599]

I think a bridge connecting to a separate table in that space holding the mansion or winter village layout would be a perfect use for that space. Maybe even multiple islands for different scenes

[@adamb2619]

Amazing how your City seems small, only because the table is Massive! Love all of this!

[@Brickford69]

Not sure if it's been suggested in the previous comments, but the river/ canal running through the city is great idea. Could use the oldy style modulars and have a little Venice. With bridges crossing. But whatever you decide , itll look amazing.

[@scottlong9135]

That knee crawler is awesome. I wondered how easy it would roll on the carpet. I didn't think it would move as easy for you as it does. Thank you for sharing

[@hannahavila8572]

Wow! This new space of yours is amazing. Cannot wait to see all of your upcoming adventures in creating it

[@gowboy]

Greetings from the UK, have you thought about room to add new sets - how about moving the zoo behind the boardwalk and making the train go through the zoo (what a great view !) and would give you the chance to add more animals and enclosures - also the botanical and park area would look great as a central town square surrounded by the town hall and principle buildings as there seems too many roads downtown at the moment ... just my thoughts - good luck !

[@angelinnz6796]

Wow love the new plan. I did think it would be cool to have one of the islands in the open space with castle ruins .... the ideas are endless. Great job!

[@jbaviationpix]

I have been watching progress on your new Lego studio and how it transformed from a warehouse to a Lego City Keep up the Amazing work ! I have a name suggestion for your Lego City here are my favourites Bricksie city

[@cailin.1815]

I love watching all the planning happening instead of just an end result which I why I love your channel. One bit of feedback is that I don’t think it’s necessary to have all that road in the city along the railroad tracks. It takes up a ton of baseplates and instead of roadway it could be industrial builds. Anyway, great work!

[@kokoenjo]

Very nice to see the city again! Mighty impressive work over the last couple of months!! Always an inspiration man! Keep bricking

[@escape150]

Are you planning on lighting any of your Lego buildings. Also your backdrops are nice but I think 1 wall with mountains might of been more realistic. I have a 10x20’ Lionel trains layout and at first I did the same for backdrops of clouds and blue skies however I felt it didn’t look good like that so I got a backdrop of the mountains of glacier National park. Just a suggestion. I love your lego city

[@CloneH38]

It's looking great, but you'll want space for future expansion modulars and other sets. I'm sure you know what you're doing. Love the Star Wars room area..very nice. Maybe on top of the mountains, add a Ranger station type facility..maybe a hiking trail for hikers. You'll have no space for an airport..but you will might need a large gas station with lots of pumps..maybe a car wash.

[@CptJellyfish99]

The deep sea area would look amazing below the current beach and boat yard position as means you can see it easily from up top or when you walk in from the display rooms

[@mattpashby5627]

The time lapse where you're shifting baseplates around the whole table is hilarious. Bricksie pops up randomly in the middle holes like whackamole.

[@barbarawalls9040]

I thought the same thing 🤣

[@connordingle4112]

The boat yard next to the downtown/city in my mind does make sense. Like in a way you can say the boat yard has been there for years and the down town as expanded closer to the boatyard in the recent years

[@brickeezy]

I remember when you first got the studio and spoke about one day seeing the Lego city from the second floor and now that day is finally here 🥹 can’t wait to see it fully developed! 👏🏼

[@Tig.]

I think the open spot can be for and island table like the space between is ocean that the mansion is located on and make the outside ring of it a lower section that can be the bottom of the sea as an underwater scape.

[@MrBois]

I am loving it! Your city is improving more and more. I am really enjoying the process, I have built anticipation since you took your old city down. Have fun creating and thank you for sharing.

[@charliegrimm1692]

Yo Jordan, just wanted to say I doubted the cloud backdrop and I have to say it looks fire, definitely better then what I was saying before. You do you man, you know what’s best. Love how this is turning out I live watching ur channel man. Have a great day

[@josephbuell5192]

Just an idea, the Venetian houses & havanna hotel are a great way to get the river to connect to a built up ocean front

[@kleis66]

You have to fix the windows in the brick bank. I can recommend an extra flesh colored floor in the Boutique Hotel. I have done it with my own and it has just transformed the building.

[@bt29hazzard]

Just a suggestion for future-proofing a bit - you might want to consider a jungle/rainforest biome and a desert area as well. So many cool ideas for those areas.

[@JaYBLaZe45]

Dude love everything so far, really happy for you. I hate giving my opinion but i will this one time. Wouldn’t it be most efficient to build the mountains in the center then build out from there? I know it would suck but it seems like that would ultimately save time. You would have the perspective of the mountains and then be able to build the transitions between the different areas of the city once. Imo