LEGO Road Controversy | Shopping | Amusement Park Drop off

[@SundayBuild]

I think what some people mean to say is that the roads don’t really go anywhere, they all loop together like a race track. If you let them “run off” the edge of the table like they would in real life you would open up so much space

[@BradleyJSimmons]

Exactly that

[@szymonkimak]

Exactly. Not every road have to be connected to another.

[@rizar1982]

So he have 2 options. 1) doing what you said 2) renaming the town "brickie's circuit town"

[@ArathixFilms]

I do this with my own city as I have ALOT less space than this, also I feel it also adds to the feeling that we're seeing a chunk of a larger world rather than a contained world, kinda like city building sims where the highways go off the map

[@Angrist17]

There's a good opportunity to run roads into and out of the standing holes too. Gets the modulars in places where you can see them, and makes it feel like the holes aren't actual pits in the middle of the city.

[@Elvewizzy.]

I think they meant that you have a huge road to building ratio and would prefer to see more buildings clustered together with small alleys in between.

[@szymonkimak]

@@Elvewizzy. exactly. Good point.

[@KimSammons]

I like you thought process with laying the roads to plan the city. Then taking your time filling the “lots” with cool buildings. I like the logic behind your decisions and the dimensions you have added. The roads give the eye a visual rest to enjoy the buildings. Trust your instincts and do it how YOU want. It’s your city!

[@bubbayee-yee2799]

You could do a "subterranean" parking garage for the amusement park.

[@rogerjones]

I think most of your roads in the city blocks are designed well. The one around the Kwik Mart is a little much simply because there doesn't seem to be room to have buildings on the other side of the street. That makes it seem road heavy. I would have the road coming from the city T-junction into the road coming from the mountain. Have the road from the mountain come straight toward the railroads and when it gets one baseplate from the railroads, have that street turn toward the amusement park. One street connecting all 3 aspects and you have plenty of room to put buildings on both sides of the street. That's one reason why the rest of your downtown looks so good. Every street (save for the perimeter) has buildings on both sides of the street.

[@gloria-annvieira1491]

I think you are doing a great job! I like your Haunted House It looks good. I think it would look cool in your amusement park as an attraction. Keep up the Awesome Work!

[@Lea-bw9wj]

A thought for the the road outside the amusement park. Next to the where the road turns around continue to a couple of parking spots and a bus stop. You could then show mini figs getting off the bus and going into the park

[@clg763]

I am near Chicago and I swear that your brickwall has more lego on it than two of our stores and more diverse bricks than all of our stores combined, I hope you realize how fortunate you are being so close to such amazing selection.

[@TheAntManChannel]

Stop voting democrat and maybe y'all can have nice things

[@bubbayee-yee2799]

​@TheAntManChannel I agree with this comment in general but this is an unnecessary comment on this video as this is NOT a political video.

[@oldman-zr2ru]

If I understand your comment correctly, you mean to say the PAB wall at your stores is under stocked? The PAB walls in my city look just like his. I think the problem would be Chicago only.

[@clg763]

@oldman-zr2ru basically every other pab wall has about half as many bins, if you count them, his store has way more than most, because of this they also have far more variety because three separate pab walls will have a lot of the same bricks duplicated, his will not because it's all in one store

[@oldman-zr2ru]

@@clg763 His PAB wall looks to be about 6 x 24 bins which is about the same size as both stores near me. You must have small stores near you. I will admit though the store furthest from me a pretty small.

[@timgomolka644]

That bonsai tree would look good in the ninjago area.

[@MasonSharp-n2d]

I agree

[@maryhawley3117]

I think having roads is necessary for a city for display purposes as you said. Personally I think angled roads would look awkward. I think your city is looking great!

[@joemother1098]

Agree

[@MajiSylvamain]

Why not use single lane roads around some areas, one way streets if you can't visualize without roads. 27:46 Still to many roads, why do you need a circular circuit.

[@rogerneptune9145]

Here's my 2 cents: If you really want to do an angled road for the heck of it, do it from the railroad track side and bring back the train station... that'll take up some of the empty space created by the angle, and you'll have less building-backs facing you as you walk up to it. Also for the angled area, it might be interesting to create an alleyway to get access to some buildings. And if you start believing "too many roads", you could make some dead-end roads to get more space back for buildings. Last thought, for the new P-dropoff, I recommend the first sidewalk-corner get rounded off. Thanks for all the great content!!!

[@nbroadarrowz]

Your city grid design with a river is typical Roman design. Been done that way for at least two thousand years and I like it. Barry

[@gabbygirl1292]

I think the angled road is a waste of space and parts that you could use for something else. This idea would be more difficult but if you want change things up maybe try a roundabout and create something in the center that’s eye catching. If you have a drone maybe get a bird’s eye view of the city. It might give you a better sense of what the city’s layout looks like. You might get more ideas and see what the grid of the city looks like. Just a thought!

[@steves9964]

I love your street grid in the original downtown, but something seems a little off with the now expanded section. I'm sure that's because it was slated for residential zoning, but now that you've decided on it being an extension of your downtown what's wrong with continuing the grid? It seems like a large undertaking to add building density to the expanded road layout, so maybe a structure with a larger and more unique footprint would make the most sense. And by that I'm talking about an arena where your Oilers play host. And who knows, maybe my Rangers are in town for a visit. I feel like something substantial with the amusement park as a backdrop could work and be served by the train as well. All in all your city is breathtaking. That canal is exceptional and your recent change to the elevated residential area has really added some variety, while at the same time adhering to your city's zoning requirements. But most of all hold on to that joy and don't let any comments wear you down. It speaks volumes that so many have become so invested in your work, myself included.

[@timfolly7323]

I can see both sides of the roads argument. I do appreciate good viewing angles and more opening to see buildings. Some cities, due to size constraints, are packed in and so much detail and stories are not visible and lost. I think this topic is just up to personal preference. I do want to say not everything in LEGO has to be logical or make sense from a realistic perspective. We get to suspend reality and do what we want and what looks good even though it’s contrary to the real world. It’s ok to break the rules.

[@RobertSonger-c7b]

I am not usally a commenter , but why do a parking lot. Why don;t you build a parking garage and make it unique styling maybe like ningago or medevil in design (especially near a amusement park.. a medevil fortress would be interesting and funny way to hide the parking garage just a fiscade. Something eye catching but function. every downtown core would have somewhere. t, maybe two or three levels. you have all that space as in nine plates

[@oldman-zr2ru]

Just because you can make an angled road doesn't mean you should. IMO the angle will just throw the rest of the city layout off kilter and make it a pain to add other buildings later. Just my opinion.

[@nateywatey2694]

Perhaps, where some roads loop in a circle, you could cut off one of the lengths and replace the roads with walkable city structures, e.g. benches, green space, market stalls, etc.. I would take inspiration from the proposals made in London to close traffic on Oxford Street. This then allows you to achieve see the front of buildings, sufficient space between them, and easily replaces the existing infrastructure in a city-accurate way.

[@dinibo]

It's funny the things people complain about. I love the scale and style of your builds. Bricksie world has small orderly blocks with lots of room for street stories and cool vehicles. It's the details that make you unique and the small blocks aid that. Plus its going to take a while to accumulate more modulars. Roads look nice and neat and can be moved later. Build. Destroy, repeat. No need to crowd everything now when you have so much time and work ahead of you!

[@barbarjinx3802]

Maybe a Bricksieland Hotel and Restaurant in front of the amusement park and a parking lot.

[@davidrendsburg9363]

One issue with the roads is too many turns. I would make the road by the gas station go straight (moving the toad forward) and put the kwiki mart behind it, you then have a cleaner simpler grid.

[@AaronEdwards]

I agree about not having a huge parking lot. It’s a waste of space. Something that might be interesting though, if you can figure out a way to do it, underground parking at the amusement park.

[@JasonBochel]

Or a hint of an underground car park? Like a fake entrance like studios have for subway stations on their backlots

[@peggyp5996]

I agree with you on the roads. City looks fantastic!

[@snopake06]

Keep the roads for stories and vehicles, and keep it a grid for your downtown area and do funky things with the dirt road in the countryside area where it’s easier to do so. Also if you put any modular buildings on an angled road with a different mils plate design you’d have to change to your regular mils design if you wanted to rearrange or get rid of the angled road.

[@shawnhuston8637]

I am very sorry. By putting in angle road, 🎉you would end up losing room. Because you don't have any triangle building or do you. 😊

[@teebird8629]

Simplify the roads with a grid. Use the KISS method = Keep It Simple Stupid. It’s weird the Kwik Mart is wrapped by roads just seems like a miss thought

[@brickademy]

It will look normal once there are modulars on the green spaces

[@AkoTheElite]

The haunted house should be in a more desolate quiet area or on a hill, not on a main street

[@dankelly5057]

Something that could go in the “new” section of the city could be a custom apartment building or grocery store. It could be designed so it looks good from the angle on the outside of the table and through the access hole.

[@Angrist17]

I *really* think you should adopt a direction for "North" in the city. It would make it easier to discuss orientations and designs if we could say the "Quik 'e 'Mart is facing East now, if you turn it and face North instead you can fit X next to it". The progress is nice to see and it's cool to hear your thought process on these design choices. My suggestion is to run the road near the tunnel off the table and "virtually" through the standing hole. Then you can have modular buildings facing the hole where you can still see them well. Two baseplates later it comes out parallel to the amusement park wall. That gets you another nice block.

[@Leila2206]

no offence, its your city, your rules. but i do agree, that there are too many roads. maybe one way roads? maybe walkways? i think that you are overcomplicating it, but if you are happy, who am I (and the others) to tell you.

[@jacoberiksson5903]

The road besides the qick mark could be moved closer to the train station

[@FelipeVinhao]

I dunno other people, but the more I see these new road plates in use, the more I like them. You can build roads of different widths, roundabouts, cul-de-sacs, elevated freeways, ramps - and can place vehicles over ramps without having to glue them.

[@jessicachan706]

I love what you’re doing! The roads definitely bring your city to life. The grid look is very cityesque so keep doing what you’re doing!

[@cloudagent3099]

Loving the progress. I think the roads are looking good.

[@huubjoanfranssen8980]

Maybe go for the urban planning concept of walkable city? Like those old Germany cities

[@chrisyoung6506]

Morning Lego Fans 😊 Dead end roads or Cul-de-sac roads would work, removing the loop system and adding more space for buildings / housing. Just a thought 🤔

[@gambit3641]

Think the haunted house would look cool in the middle of the wooded area and you could expand the graveyard a little bit

[@maryanne.campbell]

Haha Jose trolling you at 0:20 is funny 😂❤

[@dansutherland3658]

Jordan I really like these recent changes to your city - it’s looking great

[@joemother1098]

That 3x3 baseplate area would be perfect for an apartment or motel complex with a pool

[@chrisdabeard8790]

on the 3X3 space in front of the amusment park, you could have building on each side (facing out) with a walkable path through the middle. On that walkable path, put a farmers market/small stalls in between the two rows of houses.

[@rbleisem]

Jumper plate and castle wedge bricks, standaard wedge plates & wedge tiles. Plus a section of brick build roads, for the wedge brick plates for the angled corner section, if not using wedge tiles. 45 degree angle.

[@leemiracle]

So lucky to have a awesome selection of pick a brick at the WEM.

[@AC-xj7qt]

Interesting concept to include an angled road. Personally I would start with a single one way street using half road plates to reduce the amount of space lost for modular buildings etc.

[@brantk81]

Love my Nespresso from Costco as well!

[@jasonangelini3373]

The roads are great. It makes it look more realistic. It's great looking down the street to see the buildings and the roads and your stories.

[@richarddowdjr.6461]

Broooo!!! I'm developing OCD lol. Put a dang 2x2 brick on those loose plates man. Connect them sheetz. Lmbo

[@stickman20233]

9:30 hey bricksie!! You stole my truck!!

[@martindms77]

That Ant-Man figure would look great standing next to avengers tower!

[@MasonSharp-n2d]

Yeah

[@theartofpandora]

If people are saying “too much road” then I agree with them… will go watch the video now 😊

[@reaganclo3944]

Since this is another area of the city, you should have another green place, like a park. Except this time, put it next to the haunted house and make it a cemetery/haunted woods theme. That could unique. It could also provide your minifigures a scary place to meet for Halloween.

[@mcbou33]

You could build a cool parking garage. You got a creative mind to make it look awesome

[@mrmsc919]

Angle road- wedge shape building/ mall 4 floors. Adjacent similar office building. Odd areas yield spaces for news stands, food vendors, bicycle rentals and bus stops. TAKE ON THE CHALLENGE. Or just do grids.

[@imzadi12]

Cities have tons of roads and makes it look like a city. otherwise it is just a ton on buildings together.

[@scottc3270]

What you use that green base plate near the axis hole for a small parking lot for both the Amusement park and the bulding that will have the back face the trains as you were saying. Only because it would make you like easy to reach over a parkingl lo then moving Lego around when work on the park etc.

[@cameraman763]

Looks good! Cities have roads, and you have a lot of vehicles. What’s missing is the amount of parking that is really around each city. But it would take a lot of space, so I understand. Maybe a parking garage? Or the top of an underground garage? Also, maybe place some of the construction vehicles near any areas that you haven’t built yet. Just a couple of ideas. I enjoy your videos. Thanks!

[@joostvandenbogert9616]

Doing an angled road for the sake of having an angled road seems a little over the top, I must say

[@PAL.Studios]

I think it all depends on what you're trying to create. I think there is a charm to an "on grid" Lego city because it looks like a Lego City. Alternatively, you look at what Brickcrafts has created and that, to me, looks more like a model railway layout. There's space for both, you just need to stick to your vision for what you want to create.

[@LetThatStuffGo]

3:30 - Oh, yeah excellent! So love most of the Fox universe X-Men movies, I so wish more people I that know could appreciate those movies. Got to love the 2013 movie The Wolverine, especially that extended ( unrated ) cut to that brilliant movie, in my opinion is so much better. So good! 😇🍻

[@LetThatStuffGo]

Oh, and The Rogue cut version of X-Men Days of Future Past is great also. 😉

[@angryjay9668]

The city design is perfect. It's lego it don't have to make sense to anybody but yourself. Have fun and build the way you want. it's enjoyable no matter how it's going together. I think the whole setup looks amazing. Love it and thanks for the content.

[@justin5373]

The X Mansion in the new residential area would seem to fit nicely.

[@LeoGladmanMusic.]

I get what people are saying about the roads, but I think it looks fine tbh, I can see both sides but I think it’s cool that you have a lot of roads, looks cool visually and gives off a cool vibe, story telling.

[@rpgerber]

The 9 baseplate space is a good spot to the diagonal alley, the building faced to the market street and we can see the internal passway.

[@kevinwelker8486]

I like your roads! The angle is a good challenge. I think you need a parking lot for the amusement park.

[@BGcc1]

I like the thought process and progress! I commented on earlier videos and good to see you're not just doing what others say. A small suggestion: I'd make 2 cul-de-sacs by removing the one baseplate where the market is located. The market located across the street of the gas station makes the most sense in my mind haha.

[@mr.sherrill9137]

I love roads! They make ot realistic and like you said, give you spacing a d street views and places for cars!

[@Sullrosh]

for an angeled road use the angle from the 3x2 or 4x2 wedge. it gives better shaped buildings with one side square like normal and the other at the angle of the wedge

[@ryleyw3684]

Roads are a realistic part of a city or town, sure it might look like it's too much, but I think it makes sense.

[@jamesv.wilkerson30]

What city has buildings that don't have road access? I like the realism you have. But it is your build. And it looks amazing!

[@roysbuilds594]

Use the rotating plates underneath the angle Road to get it to go the direction you needed to go. You can also do long skinny blocks in the city instead of all the roads just an idea. The city is looking good.

[@ThecrackedBrick93]

Personally preferred it at the start with roads next to the track

[@kpp806]

Do an entrance to an "underground" parking stucture next to the amusement part drop off area. It could be build into rock work from the base of the mountain range

[@thewinenut9800]

Cerebro and Books promos already sold out in Australia (3 Nov am)

[@dakota11872]

I like the grid in the city itself!

[@causingbubble]

Loving the progress of the city! It’s seems like the haunted house could look great up in the residential area. Somewhere on the edge of the residential area near the countryside.

[@LEOxuan]

The road critique is because they all loop and don’t run off the city - so it’s like you’re permanently stuck within the city

[@CriticsCupofficial]

Yes finally the haunted house has been repaired that fallen tree was bothering me for so long hahah 😂

[@marywong6877]

can you use part of you hole to make a underground entrance to parking near the amusement park? Just a sign and ramp that goes underneath.

[@thomasgeurts1827]

On the angled road: I' m more than curious enough to see you try the concept in that space. To see how you use the remaining open spots with angled sides and how it would actually look. Even when you would remove it in due time to get some space back. For the time being you can afford to lose a couple of baseplates 😊

[@christinaalvarez332]

Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT for ideas for that space: Festival or Event Space, Historic District or Landmark, Sports Complex or Stadium, Outdoor Cinema or Drive-In Theater. LOL Cool ideas right? But ultimately, whatever you decide will be great!

[@thedanjobb]

Maybe use the edges of the standing hole next to the amusement park to make it look like the parking lot would be there

[@ryanteixeira2695]

What if you imagined the amusement park parking lot was where your access hole was. You wouldn’t need to build a parking lot but you could have a road plate curve to the left and have like a overhead sign that says Parking and a few ticket machines with the gate arms

[@shawncode3250]

Have you seen the Brick Sculpt video on piece number 35480? Might be really useful when placing the angled roads.

[@daisinapali]

Great video kids!! 🎉 I’m so jelly of your provincial tax!! 15% here in NS. Gross! Can’t wait for the next video. Enjoy your day!!

[@Metalizer]

the only angle you can use is 45* because of 2x2 triangle tiles are the only wedge tiles to will be able use to make street and sidewalk connection seamless. unless you want studs on on the rout than you can go for 2x3 wedge plate.

[@tonycrosby9384]

You know, maybe you should place the Mystery Machine and the Scooby Doo figures near the Haunted house.

[@thatguyronaldo4429]

I don't know how this would be done or what it would look like but what would be cool for the walkway infront of the amusement park could be like character murals on the ground. Tile made heads, or like a Tile made decal of the LEGO logo

[@liamsweeen]

Friendly reminder that the raised track has to fit into the city some way or anther. How about having part of the downtown raised and it can transition into a tram/light rail for the raised platform, so the Lego citizens can have public transport system from the bottom to the top and vise versa!!

[@angelinnz6796]

Love the roads. I think it looks more realistic. Great job ❤

[@RobertoRicciardelli33]

You can maybe move the back road 1 plate front so you could put a row of smaller modular building in front of the mountain

[@SimonGould1024]

Maybe a long 3 story hotel in front of hole next to amusement park. Place for people to stay when visiting park from out of town.

[@MykoMethod]

Sometimes i wonder if Mrs Bricksie is just along for the ride, but you can see her putting some serious thought into the future road layout.

[@Mark-vn7et]

You’re completely fixated on the 32x32 mills system! There is your problem that you’re having over the entire city! Just make a 64x64 mills plate, or 128x128 plate. 256x256 plate? A skyscraper is never going to fit in the countryside or amusementpark, and the A-frame house is never going to be in the downtown area! So why make them interchangeable?? Just consider the downtown as one single big mills plate, this way you can even adjust the height or even make the entire downtown sit at an angle. It would open up so much possibilities and you only loose a little bit of useless flexibility from the mills system.

[@gerardleistra5974]

Just to Manny roads for the small area. Perhaps make the roads less wide for residential area. With perhaps 1 sidewalk instead of sidewalks in both sides.

[@jonathanmarquez7717]

To save space you can do a downtown with one way streets.

[@warrennewman5325]

Lego shopping awesome breakfast city looking

[@JediJayAz]

A nice warehouse next the train station with your 18 wheeler trucks might work

[@0915lego]

I’d love to see in the future if you would build a trianglular mall right by that angled road. Every big city needs a mall haha

[@erwincoplo6305]

You can use one way/direction roads like you did with your previous city