Lego Brand Store MOD - improving set

[@KorneeMoedt]

The end result looked amazing! I'm definitely going to subscribe!

[@MinifigJez]

I’m glad you liked it Kornee, and thanks for the sub!

[@ElectricianTS]

I like the final open view. As a final option, you can place other buildings beside this one so you don't have to make side walls. Same with the backside. Buildings with no backsides can be used up against the wall in a city, but if the city doesn't have a wall to lay against, you can place another building behind it. Cool videos, very enjoyful.

[@MinifigJez]

Yes, I agree, it definitely looks better open. and you're completely right, if I place other buildings next to it, I won't need to add side walls. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@Sadieapprecaandslaydaday]

Nice revamption

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks... and your comment is a nice usage of the (made up) word "revamption"... I'm definitely going to start using it from now on! ;)

[@stephanwildemann8177]

Will definitely use your suggestions. Thanks mate.

[@MinifigJez]

GREAT! - I’m glad the video helped Thanks for commenting.

[@ggfla6735]

Subscribed.I like that you do tutorials.Thank you

[@MinifigJez]

I do mainly tutorials for my own smaller builds or City set modifications. I also occasionally do a few reviews and I'm planing a Lego City - thanks for the subscribe!

[@kackfohgel5707]

Looks very nice. Thank you for the video :)

[@MinifigJez]

You're welcome - I'm glad you liked it.

[@angelfish862]

This is just brillient!

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks! it was a nice easy one. make sure you subscribe and hit notifications, I’ve got lots more city mods on the way.

[@justthink1616]

This is so satisfiing

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. (And welcome to KZbin! I see that you only joined a few weeks ago!) Thanks for commenting.

[@justthink1616]

I was actualy watching you before but with other user acount. (:

[@justthink1616]

I also commented on your minfig series 23 opening but for some reason that comment is not showing on other user acounts 🤷

[@MinifigJez]

@@justthink1616 that's weird!

[@roccomasutti4783]

Awesome stuff! Earned a sub from your grocery vid but the cool content keeps coming. Definitely gonna use your suggestions

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks for the sub Rocco, I’m glad you’re liking the vids. If you like MOCs as well as MODs, check out some of my older vids… I made a huge London Underground station last year.

[@FFelxi]

it annoys me that the last 2 lego store sets havent had an employee minifigure

[@MinifigJez]

Yes, the tiny little ones we have had in the past have had an employee, but this set definitely deserved one.

[@wile.e.coyote7666]

Hi there ! Loved your ideas for mods to this nice little set. I might order one used Lego delivery truck too as suggested in the comments. Just suscribed. Thanks ! Greetings from Northern France 👋

[@MinifigJez]

GREAT! It's so good when people get inspired to build something from one of my videos. And hello to Northern France from Southern England !

[@bigdaddyj452]

Did you ever add on to it to have the store opened and close the back up? This is great. I bought 3 of these sets to make a modular. I’d love to see how you enclose it all the way with the back side opened up

[@MinifigJez]

No, I put this one on the back burner. I'll probably return to it when I eventually make a Lego City one day.

[@bigdaddyj452]

@@MinifigJez well I’d like to see you get back to it sometime. I really like what you did with it so far. I’m not good at making things myself without instructions or videos unfortunately. So I’ll certainly be back if you start doing it again. I’ll still check out your stuff regardless but I’d love to see what your idea is in finishing it with the sides. Do you think I’d need another set to this? I bought 3 of them with the idea of making one of the rebrickable sets but I do like yours much more.

[@MinifigJez]

@@bigdaddyj452 I haven't put a lot of thought in this but... I've made several set MODs by buying two and building them back-to-back - This could work with this set, and you'd just need to use windows, or bricks from the 3rd set, to replace the front doors on the back-to-back one (if that makes sense) So that it doesn't;t have a big set of doors on both the front AND the back! I'm not sure how much it would help, but I also have a bunch of videos in my "City MODs" playlist and there are several which use two sets to double up and put back-to-back, like the Car Wash, the Family House & the Modern House. They might help you with the principles. That's all I can think of, off the top of my head, I hope it helps. The link to my City MODs playlist is here: kzbin.info/aero/PL0A-CMNXDNYOBUnSw5eiG_Sh_3XM2SJ2a Let me know how you get on.

[@bigdaddyj452]

@@MinifigJez appreciate that info thank you. My guess is you’d likely need 4 total sets to make it with the sides opened up. I just don’t know for sure. If you ever decide to make instructions for a closed up version with the sides opened up I’d be happy to buy instructions on rebrickable. I think folks would be really interested in that honestly. No worries though if you don’t fool with that but I’ll be checking your stuff out and keeping my fingers crossed you come back to this one day. Thanks much for the info and help.

[@MinifigJez]

@@bigdaddyj452 No problem, happy to help. I have so many videos on my "to do" list and I'm just making Rebrickable instructions for my Duracell Train Tanker Wagon at the moment, and unfortunately, Lego is just a fun hobby that has to take a back seat to life, so this will go on the list, but I won't be able to get to it for a while. - But in the mean time I hope you like watching some of my other videos, and that they give you some inspiration. The London Underground train and station playlist is quite fun. and if you like City, the earlier. link should be of interest too. Thanks for commenting, and for the chat.

[@Giuseppina46]

really simple and great! Subscribing!

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks for the comment, I’m glad you liked it. And thanks for the subscribe too!

[@Reggaetonaldo]

Geez look at all that dust.

[@MinifigJez]

WHERE?

[@MoreVanityBG]

this is amazing!!!!!!!

[@MinifigJez]

Thanks, I;m glad you liked it. If yo have teh set yourself, it's really easy to do.

[@newyork1524]

Do you have a part list for the extra pieces? Ty

[@MinifigJez]

Sorry, I don't. but I do show all the parts that I use as the video goes along, so you could always watch it through and jot down what's needed. It's not that many parts.

[@RobbMajor]

I put together the parts list: PLATES 1x 8x16 Dark Bluish Gray Plate 4x 8x6 Dark Bluish Gray Plate 2x 1x1 Yellow Plate BRICKS 2x 1x4 Tan Brick 4x 1x3 Tan Brick 2x 1x2 Tan Brick 12x 1x6 White Brick 2x 1x8 White Brick 6x 1x4 White Brick 8x 1x3 White Brick 4x 1x2 White Brick 2x 1x1 White Brick 6x 1x4 Yellow Brick 2x 1x1 Yellow Brick 10x Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Stud on Side 8x Brick, Modified 1 x 4 with Studs on Side TILES 8x 1x6 Tan Tile 4x 1x2 Tan Tile 26x 1x1 Tan Tile 4x 1x6 Yellow Tile 2x 1x6 Light Bluish Gray Tile 2x 1x1 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 2x2 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 2x4 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 1x2 Light Bluish Gray Tile SLOPES 16x Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3

[@RobbMajor]

@@MinifigJez I put together the parts list: PLATES 1x 8x16 Dark Bluish Gray Plate 4x 8x6 Dark Bluish Gray Plate 2x 1x1 Yellow Plate BRICKS 2x 1x4 Tan Brick 4x 1x3 Tan Brick 2x 1x2 Tan Brick 12x 1x6 White Brick 2x 1x8 White Brick 6x 1x4 White Brick 8x 1x3 White Brick 4x 1x2 White Brick 2x 1x1 White Brick 6x 1x4 Yellow Brick 2x 1x1 Yellow Brick 10x Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Stud on Side 8x Brick, Modified 1 x 4 with Studs on Side TILES 8x 1x6 Tan Tile 4x 1x2 Tan Tile 26x 1x1 Tan Tile 4x 1x6 Yellow Tile 2x 1x6 Light Bluish Gray Tile 2x 1x1 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 2x2 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 2x4 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 1x2 Light Bluish Gray Tile SLOPES 16x Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3

[@Ke_qno]

Please at a lego store truck to deliver lego and a garage for it it will be soo Funny 😂

[@MinifigJez]

In storage I've got a Lego delivery truck! This one: brickset.com/sets/3221-1/LEGO-City-Truck It's a great set that I could add to the store.

[@thepostofficeprince8819]

Just what I was looking for!! Did you just use 2 sets??

[@MinifigJez]

A second set would fix the walls etc, but not give you the right parts for the roof. I just used some parts from my own spares, and ordered about 80 other bits from Bricklink.com. If you don't mind about not having a roof, two sets would enclose the store really nicely.

[@RobbMajor]

I put together the parts list: PLATES 1x 8x16 Dark Bluish Gray Plate 4x 8x6 Dark Bluish Gray Plate 2x 1x1 Yellow Plate BRICKS 2x 1x4 Tan Brick 4x 1x3 Tan Brick 2x 1x2 Tan Brick 12x 1x6 White Brick 2x 1x8 White Brick 6x 1x4 White Brick 8x 1x3 White Brick 4x 1x2 White Brick 2x 1x1 White Brick 6x 1x4 Yellow Brick 2x 1x1 Yellow Brick 10x Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Stud on Side 8x Brick, Modified 1 x 4 with Studs on Side TILES 8x 1x6 Tan Tile 4x 1x2 Tan Tile 26x 1x1 Tan Tile 4x 1x6 Yellow Tile 2x 1x6 Light Bluish Gray Tile 2x 1x1 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 2x2 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 2x4 Light Bluish Gray Tile 4x 1x2 Light Bluish Gray Tile SLOPES 16x Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3

[@MinifigJez]

@@RobbMajor WOW! That must have taken you a while to work out. I don’t even have a parts list! I just the parts together that I needed. Very kind of you to post it here in case anyone else wanted to know.

[@ZombiElWray87]

​@@MinifigJezyou should put this in your description

[@spirarb3754]

Hiiii. From where you get all the extra pieces?😊

[@MinifigJez]

Hi there, I bought all the parts from Bricklink.com.

[@YiminJi]

3:38 how am I going to go to the second floor?

[@MinifigJez]

Its ok, one of the minifigures in Lego City, invented the Teleportation Machine years ago.

[@YiminJi]

@@MinifigJez wow I haven’t heard of that but can I try it?

[@MinifigJez]

@@YiminJi No, you’re too big, it only fits minifigs.

[@YiminJi]

@@MinifigJez well is there at least a shrinking machine?

[@MinifigJez]

@@YiminJi No, the minifigs haven't invented the yet

[@bggaminggreen8352]

How many studs wide is it

[@MinifigJez]

When it’s closed it’s 16 studs wide. Then when you open it out, you get 8 extra studs on each side and it’s 32 studs wide. You can see the original set in more detail here: brickset.com/sets/40574-1/LEGO-Brand-Store

[@TheProjectVHS]

Sorry, but you messed up the tiles and slopes on the roof of your added floor.

[@MinifigJez]

Don't apologise... YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!! If you look at 05:26 you'll see that when it's closed it looks fine (which is how I built it, without remembering that I needed two tiles next to each other, in the middle, so that it looks correct when it's open!!!!!!) Thanks for having a better eye than me, and for letting me know, I'll go and fix it RIGHT NOW!

[@TheProjectVHS]

@@MinifigJez you are right, but there is a symmetry which doesn't add up in the open state. (which is where your updated version looks best.)

[@MinifigJez]

@@TheProjectVHS yes, I totally agree. It’s all fixed now and it looks much better. Thanks again.

[@averycampbell2836]

Are you British

[@MinifigJez]

Yes! From the south coast of England

[@averycampbell2836]

@@MinifigJez cool I'm from America

[@averycampbell2836]

That was quick

[@MinifigJez]

@@averycampbell2836 That's cool, I visited Disney World in August and went to the Lego Store at Disney Springs!

[@averycampbell2836]

@@MinifigJez cool