LEGO Train Yard Details & Intense Water Tile

[@lindabeede5180]

The ocean tile is super awesome!! It is more realistic for the deep ocean. Love it!!

[@remichambon1593]

Hey Jordan! Confirmed: awesome ! You should add white or yellow lines to guide trucks and car on the boatyard s area.. 😉

[@leighperry8160]

Love the deep water. For storytelling, it would be so cool to see a single tentacle reaching out and wrapped around one of the boats :)

[@rosemorrison7075]

Hi Bricksie. The deep water test plate has worked out beautifully. I love it. It will need a bit more movement of the waves, but it's lovely. The harbour and train yard are looking great with all the detail! Wow! All the best to Jose for her surgery. Hope everything goes well and she has a speedy recovery.

[@michaelrobinson1806]

Dude, that deep blue water plate looks so much better than having it all light blue. The harbor would also have some light chop water from all the ships coming in and out of the harbor. That looks so good!

[@danthblackwinter8635]

The yellow crain with tracks looks amazing, as well as the rest of the harbor so far! One small suggestion, I would make it longer in order to serve both the trains and I would change the position of the red office building below the crain, because as of now the trucks have no where to go to receice the containers. You could use the middle raised part between the trains as a pull-in for trucks to get loaded with containers, and maybe the red building could go on the end near the the train yard. Great work as always!!!

[@Size15s]

I agree - the crane needs to allow for containers to be loaded between a road and train track rather than spanning over the building

[@imaudi4950]

Yep, the building moved out from under the crane so a truck can pull under it next to the train.

[@Elizabeth-foolishmortal]

I love the deep blue sea.

[@marcdonnellan8730]

I'm just in awe of the clear love and dedication to creating a vision. Such imagination realised.

[@justinzietlow1929]

water looks amazing

[@franklin051579]

Dude!!! That deep water plate came out EPIC!!! Absolutely stunning 🤩 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@EzBricks_]

Hi Jordan! The city is looking fabulous so far! Keep up the great work! 👍

[@serrademers6047]

First of all, sorry that your favourite team didn't end up winning the cup last night. I was rooting for them even though I don't much follow Men's hockey. The dark blue for the deep water looks really really great! Please keep doing that. And with regards to inserting boats, I know it's a lot of work but in the end, you will be so proud that you did it. Remember how you felt when you finally detailed the beach or the campground or the old medieval area when you did all the grass and gravel details. You have never done things half-assed or shied away from a build challenge before. Don't start now!!! Loving the way things are turning out and honestly, your content has gotten so much more interesting now that you are in the new studio. I don;t know what it is, but the old Lego room was holding you back and now I feel like you are free to spread your wings!

[@kas5217]

Lego is doing very well, because of you and other same like you. Thank you from Denmark

[@rosetorres8912]

It is looking great and I love the water. Nice detail.

[@Basically.Bricks]

Looking so good dude! Everything is coming along well 😊

[@ryangrace8576]

The Water detail looks brilliant!

[@yarty3736]

That deep ocean looks amazing!

[@AdamWalsh-i1t]

I like the dark blue and it looks good

[@monkeysout4609]

Looking good Jordan, the current system is working mate, just keep building bro

[@BritsBricks]

I love the water tiles!! Incredible!! Great job Jordan! Always enjoy your channel 🎉.

[@JimSpinner]

Love the deep water plate -- need to put a fishing boat on the other side of the rocks in the "harbor" Sorry about the Oilers man, great series. I was expecting the heartbreak of the final seconds from the couch video.

[@introvertwithbricks]

can't lie the new water plate you did looks awesome. It looks more like water to me. Great video.

[@dpin6072]

Temp Mini parts station first lvl. Save your knees (less stairs). Move back to loft when city further along. Also you got some beautiful trains, extend your train yard a bit into the country side, suggest two long sidings.

[@Jobeui]

Sorry about your oilers bricksie, man was it a close game!

[@r_stooge]

It's awesome watching how long it takes you to walk around that table. SO MUCH city space!

[@Philadelphia-Sports-edits]

Sorry about the Oilers, I was rooting for the reverse sweep. Also the city looks great as usual

[@JosephHacker-w6c]

The water looks awesome and should add some bigger waves

[@The1stBrick]

The city’s lookin good!

[@TheBrickTwins2024]

Wow the water tiles looks awesome!! Sorry about the Oilers last night.

[@jmledesma88]

Maybe you could separate the boatyard from the private boat marine and have them placed in two different parts of the whole "island", or maybe you don't see it as an island at all. But it feels like they could be separate, one having a restaurant and those sorts of things and the other one being for proper ships and cargo. Otherwise it feels like you are doing the same city just larger, which isn't bad but you may improve a lot by viewing it as something larger, even separating two separate small centers of modulars for example, like one with MOCs and the other one as it is now. The mountain could be in the middle of the "island" and you could have the harbour way back near some cliffs and another lighthouse. Keep it going, love to follow your channel!

[@24501963]

I love the new water design it looks more like water then the light blueglassy surface

[@guleri]

I would keep the parts upstairs, that is after all your "office" and the place where you will sit and plan and build most of your stuff in the future. You could always have a shelf or two downstairs for temporary placement of parts you work with.

[@into.the.legoverse]

The water looks great!! Also, what a relief it is to see the train yard tiled off 🤩

[@TheDutchStarWarsGuy]

Very nice upgrades on the boatyard, I'm also looking forward to more water detail when the pieces finally come. Keep up the great work! Oh, and all the best to José on her surgery!

[@tomtebby7408]

That dark blue water plate looks fantastic - wish there was more water along the front instead of roads.

[@mcbou33]

Loving the boat yard . I Some ideas for mini builds around the boat yard and beach. Dive team area for like the police, A surf shop that sells surfboards and maybe jet skis or rent for the day. A play ground. An area for shipping containers

[@stever8110]

Yellow and white road plates could be used in the ship docks for roads and markings. Love the dark water, beautiful and realistic.

[@lolalock]

Hey Jordan! I love to see you playing around with the cheese slopes for your water - it really makes all the difference, doesn't it! I hope to chat with you at Bricks in the Six this year, I missed you last year when you passed by my table with the medieval village / coastline.

[@donnalajoie5309]

Love the ocean tile. Very realistic. Great video

[@liamshustle]

Great to see the progression Bricksie in the new unit and city, how about a storage system under the work top tables you currently have downstairs next to the city with any overflowing parts and not regular use parts to be stored upstairs out the way, just a suggestion then you potentially have double to the amount of strorage for various parts, keep up the amazing content !!

[@jensberteloot4303]

The water looks like it should look in a boatyard!! Normal blue is not even nessecairy I think. Keep on going with the city!!

[@Yuristinkens]

The water is really cool!! For the turnouts in the train yard move them around 180 degrees and you have a strait lader going in the yard, later when the trains are moving it wil look more natural

[@williamewen383]

Harbour boat area starting to look fantastic with adding cranes, etc. Great idea to think about alternative ideas for deep sea water rather than spend $1800 on 1x2 tiles. Good job!!!

[@alexdavis-mann8513]

suggestion, you can make some Cargo containers for the ship yard

[@Angrist17]

The dark blue looks amazing. You'll probably need to experiment with the edges near the rocks to blend it in, but that's *perfect* for the deep water. For the water and boat detail, rather than try to dig into the tiles too much, why not build *upwards*? When you've got boats moving around you've always got waves. So you could build some extra water detail around the boats, and then some other 'empty' waves out of transparent bricks/plates/tiles. Then they're all movable.

[@Roekeeelk]

The deap water is a beauty. The ladder of the watchtower I would place it on the back, because the ladder is now above the rails.

[@DuartJansen]

Love the new water plate, I would run that all the way to the lighthouse!

[@FlatDerrick]

The port set you have had a partner set out at the same time way back in the 90s, it had a blue ship and a yellow crane - that crane design would work very well on another jetty (and fits perfectly over the harbour plates) but I suspect the four yellow supports may be fairly pricey these days.

[@simonwallis9164]

On the control tower you could put some solar panels on the roof for extra detail. Love how the city is starting to take shape.

[@dolwolfianphotography]

The water look is great 👍👍And sorry for your Oilers

[@warrennewman5325]

Train yard and water is looking 🍕

[@mjdaniel4738]

I love the deep ocean plate. The waves are different closer to shore. I would add some more sandy area inside the rocky curve.

[@eaglesniko]

Great job on the cranes they look amazing!. i would only suggest that you do something with the docks for small boats. They look so cramped up. Maybe take the second dock (the one closes to the crane dock and make an L shape dock with the next one. This way it will have more space and you can have boaats on both sides. One more thing the green red light you mentioned is probably for the trains to know when to go and when not to go so you should probably turn it around so it is parallel to the train tracks. But all in all the city is coming out great. Keep up the good work!

[@thorn0581]

I was pulling hard for the Oilers last night and they did everything possible to tie the game but came up short. Here's hoping they can make a back to back appearance like Florida did and make the 2nd time a Cup win.

[@BrickHQ]

Maybe you can also buy the new harbor set and use the boat from that next to the crane 16:56 shipping containers in different colors would looks amazing, maybe you can put secret stuff inside The train control tower upgrade is great the signals are facing the wrong way though

[@scylla88shawn14]

Yo. Dark Falcon interior pics are awesome, and the Minifigs, Best set of the year, hands down. 👌 👍

[@llamadrama8917]

Great work! Looks amazing! Maybe the crane over the train could be wider (up to the water) so semis could pull under and use same crane for loading

[@PoleCat1987]

Sounds like your need to do a mini mils plate just for the boat and have all the water done similar so that you can move the boats around and change directions without having to rebuild plates. It would be a pain just to raise and build them but could make life easier when trying to reorganize them

[@PleegWat]

One thing I'm missing on the portal and harbor cranes - they only seem to be serving one type of vehicle each. A crane is expected to move freight from one vehicle to another, so it should be able to have two vehicles (or a vehicle and a storage spot) in range. For the same reason, that low building is taking up way too much of the space under the portal crane.

[@JobJacob-e7w]

Appreciate you and your brilliance and passion for your content! Big fan and keep up the amazing work!! 👍

[@ricardomatias6540]

Keep up the great work! ;-) I still think you should expand your beach a little bit... it seems small compared to the harbor... and I think 6/8 more studs of expansion would definately improve the layout of the beach and the city itself...

[@countrabricksbuildcraze8916]

Agree .

[@chrisblythe4912]

Hi bricksie the train and boatyard are beginning to look awsome have you thought about building a wall at the side of boatyard maybe 2 studs wide where the big ship is with a tiled walkway and some of those rings on it to protect the ships bashing the wall

[@rbleisem]

Bricksie, you might not have the parts for the channel, but you could play with the houses & roads, on the wall side, it's layout. I would suggest removing the 000 setup and going ===== instead, there. It would solve several of your problems, all at ones. As for the wrecked boat, it's reconstruction, can it be made longer? And create a Expedition corner in the harbour, for say four ships or so, then get that Polar Exploration Ship. Then create a yach harbour near the fairy wheel, since yachts don't belong in a cargoship harbour. Separate them, makes it both easier in view & gives you some more action scenes.

[@robheath6632]

I love the control tower but it's supposed to be facing towards the tracks so they know when they can go and stop so just turn it on 180° so the lights are facing towards the tracks

[@AidenMcDonald-vr5de]

You should build some cargo containers to add more color to the shipping docks.

[@DavidWilliams-nx8ji]

I agree with others. A seperate industrial harbour and marina for leisure boats would be better. The beach stretching the whole width too. I'd also set the lighthouse back a baseplate so the water is navigable. I think the ferris wheel needs moving, maybe to a pier.

[@schroederfjeremy]

I really like the old grey platform baseplates in the train yard

[@timkouba4347]

Lookin good Jordan!!

[@rx1-thorn615]

I think the water looks great you should had a gradient of the light blue to dark blue going towards the beach i think it would be deep all around the boat Yard just like irl

[@BodilHansen-y1x]

Hey Jordan, I know it is a pain in the …, but I think it would look great with some greenery in the Harbor area, maybe with some 1x1 circular studs here and there 😊 It’s looking great so far

[@terminafrank]

You should get the sets 7994: City Harbor and 4645: Harbor to add to your docks. They will fit perfectly.

[@GemTodd]

That fade to black at the end had me LOLing 😂

[@lukepaplow8209]

For the train control tower you could make double the play feature so there was one for each track

[@pascaldom83]

The crane building should not be behind the crane but on the other side? How would you unload a train? ❤

[@born_2_build714]

One thing with the train control tower is that usually the red and green lights face the tracks for the train drivers, I’d do another little light panel on the other side if I was you

[@randomusernameCallin]

I think you should think about building on top even the sub parts and moving them down. If that is the plan I say look into a dumbwaiter like system. I say add the water affect to the boats and place them on the tile.

[@bricks_in_space]

Who would have thought that so much dark gray would be interesting. Personally I preferred the docks without all the tiles. I felt it looked more interesting and rough looking. But I understand to need to have smooth roads for the loading trucks. If you are building shipping containers you need to build a forklift to move them around. Sorry the Oilers lost. It was a really good game though. As they say the 4th game is the hardest. Florida needed 4 tries to win that one. Your Oilers were so spent by the final two minutes they had nothing left. The bittersweet MVP for McDavid is a tough one in the loss. He played with such determination the entire playoffs.

[@shellv4094]

Awesome job on the water!

[@fritskroon9285]

Use some white clear on top whit that deep bleu, make it even more realistic i think

[@EndlessLoop42]

Deep water looks excellent :)

[@majide09]

Water looks great, keep doing it that way! Sorry about the oilers 😢

[@topher9507]

My idea is when comes to boats sinking in the water idea. If you decide to go this route I think it should be fairly easy to move the boats around and face different directions, long as each plate is not connected to the other plates. Just pick up the plate and swap with another plate

[@jorgedominguez2915]

Hi Jordan. Every time you walk by the corner of the shipyard I'm afraid you're going to knock that exploration ship off the table. Maybe you can consider adding a reduced dock at the end of the table?

[@orien2v2]

Jordan's the type of guy who would hug his robot vacuum while boozing and hop around in joy when his favorite sports team wins the match.

[@ytzpilot]

Unfortunately they lost 😢

[@jacksonstarky8288]

@@ytzpilot It wasn't unexpected. There won't be another Cup-winning team in Canada until the NHL has someone else in the top job.

[@TheAntManChannel]

The oilers lost the Stanley cup final 😂

[@jacksonstarky8288]

@@TheAntManChannel On the bright side, at least the Stanley Cup is a cat food dish now.

[@osvaldosantiago-dones3967]

Maybe you should try putting the tables parallel and perpendicular to the city with the chair in between. That way you’ll have everything at arm reach. Love your blog!

[@4000shutters]

I hope to have something like this one day

[@TheSwordofDestiny]

Jordan Do you have Security at the Warehouse Especially with the Lego Looting Happening

[@Pintobeans678]

I like the water detail, but I think using primarily the regular blue plate and mixing in a bit of dark blue would look better than the black and dark blue mix underneath

[@magnuskvale7453]

The ocean plate looks really good, nice work😊 Some of those boats look kinda stuck though😅

[@anthonyb8405]

bring the parts wall down on a temp. basis and when the city almost done relocate them back upstairs. Now is the time you need full access to them and you don't want to waster time going up and down constantly.

[@gtsnowracerw]

Could you try a lighter plate under the dark blue cheese slopes to "lighten" it up a touch to match the light blue trans clear a bit, or transition to it

[@jedininja8250]

I kinda dig the new deep water plate and I think once you have multiple of them it will look even better. Bummer about the Oilers man. Hopefully they can keep the team together for another cup run but sounds like the core group will most likely be broken up unfortunately.

[@someboringperson]

"I gotta go watch the Edmonton Oilers take a crack at the Stanley Cup." Sorry buddy :(

[@laurenspouw8807]

the tower needs to turn 90 degrees so the red/green signal is over the track its directing. Would be best to add another signal for the track next to it. looks great tho!

[@memyselftheone]

The shipyard (and trainyard for that matter) are not really my thing. I'm not into big industrial stuff. But each to their own. 😁 The deep water plate looks a bit chaotic to me, but when you posed a ship on top of it, I could imagine it better; with some waves and foam and wake added. That could look great!

[@CastorTroy666]

You need a bunch of big containers and a truck that can move them around

[@AdamWalsh-i1t]

Also best wishes to Mrs. Bricksie

[@hrothgar014]

When the city is shown from above I keep thinking “SimCity 2000”. Cool.

[@ashleyros]

Have you built the mid-scale Harry Potter castle set? They do a really good job locking down the Durmstrang ship in the lake with some kicked up water around it! Just an idea if you are looking for inspo to make some of your boats look like they are speeding over the ocean. 😊

[@cnbb.q]

You could do some 1x1 slopes in the water for and incoming ship tbh..

[@kleis66]

Water looks cool. Maybe mix in transparent green.