Time To Scrap The Modulars?? | LEGO City Update

[@Emmasaurus]

What are your thoughts on keeping the modulars vs doing a fully custom LEGO City?

[@l8studios_]

Have them surround the Eiffel Tower

[@motions_king]

You should mix the Modular’s with custom builds!😄

[@manreetkaur2218]

I bet you don’t have a Disneyland or Disney World in your Lego world

[@manreetkaur2218]

Or you don’t have the Disneyland castle

[@l8studios_]

Keep the treehouse in Middle Earth it would work really well as a Hobbit house like how the other one is in a hill

[@MikePrimeBuilds]

I think the modulares should become a shelf city around the main city. This way you can see them on the walls and still appreciate them

[@LeSelmer]

Yeah that is a good idea imo, and then maybe do the amusement park on that side of the table

[@escape150]

I’d never get rid of your modular buildings. You would regret it. They look great where you are putting them now 😊👍🏻

[@nykijawilson6064]

I love the modular building a lot as well, and I think making a shelf city might be a cool idea. It will free up a lot of space giving my more room on the table to make more custom builds. You can also use the table space to rebuild out the amusement park with the custom lego friends builds.

[@jeannine.]

You have done a beautiful job relocating the modular buildings. I love the roads and how you have set everything up. Great job!

[@hamburgor7160]

Idea: put the modular buildings around a custom central park facing it and the central park can have a lot of nature and maybe a big stone statue of something in the middle Another idea: maybe try redesigning the insides or outsides of your modular builds to make them unique than the originals

[@callum-td4bz]

You should have the modular buildings surrounding the Eiffel Tower

[@Emmasaurus]

Oh I like that idea! Kind of like a downtown Paris vibe

[@callum-td4bz]

Yeah

[@dballard66]

No

[@My_Name_Is_Not_Kevin]

Yes

[@jacobthecritic8181]

​@@Emmasaurus your downtown looks good but have you ever thought about adding a train?

[@motions_king]

Congrats on 300K!🎉

[@henrys_bricks]

Love the new Downtown layout, looking forward to seeing the progress!! 👍😃

[@joe3683]

I feel like you could separate the tables to have different scenes. A modular table, a LoTR table, etc. that way you don't need to blend it all together.

[@davedelcambre7760]

I like the shelf City idea. I’m sure you’d come up with creative way of doing it. But the modulars are so much better out on display vs. stored away

[@legoarcher87]

The amusement park rides are something that seems like have been put on the back burner for some time. I would move them and make more room for a city. While sets on a table aren't a bad thing, something that makes it feel less like that is adding trees, recreation areas (like a city park or playground), little eating/sitting spots, etc, that make it come alive and add more color than the grey that are the road plates. I say this as someone who also has a city. Love the custom area and at the end of the day, do what makes you the happiest!

[@deeannhansen1469]

Great progress!!! Love watching you make the changes!!

[@22damaged]

Build a shelf on the wall and put them there. You are awesome with your mocs!!! Or modulars on the end tables look cool too. The ones you aren't using, break them down and store them. You can rebuild later. Focus on middle earth. Your hill looks awesome and I'm excited to see where you and Ross go from here!!!

[@kwong06]

I love how Ninjago and the amusement sets really make ladyburg feel like a real city unlike a lot of other content builders who just plop Modular’s down and call it a day. Another suggestion would possibly adding cubed storage units in lieu of legs for some parts of the table when you need more storage if you’re opposed to wall shelves or more full height bookcases. Love the more custom fantasy aspect of your building but I really miss the friends content oddly enough!

[@e_1665]

Yes I’m so happy your rebuilding the downtown area!❤

[@MasterChief2008-o9g]

Make room for the up set!!!

[@alycynde5237]

Put the modulars in the guest room as little vignettes and use the space to really do up Disney World like you've been wanting to. Half of the room would then be Middle Earth and the other half an amusement park.

[@DunksAreCool]

I just love your videos! Your channel is growing super fast.

[@accuratebrickinnovations]

I was about to say it blew up lol

[@DunksAreCool]

@@accuratebrickinnovations :)

[@markmeredith158]

As you know with Lego, Build, Destroy and Re-Build and that goes with Cities, MOC's and Amusement Parks. Like in real life, cities do change, although you only have a small area, I would still look at putting in an Amusement Park and you can always change them out late. You have all the rides etc and you can quickly put them together and it would make the whole city look complete and you can "Fit" it out later. Keep Brickin.

[@corrinafarley5805]

Hey emily i have an idea for some storage. What you should do is get a generic looking shelf and place it somewhere in the room that isn’t important. Then you should place the gwps that can’t go in the lego city in it like the eiffels apartment on it. But then the gwps like the new moving van can go in the city like someone is moving in somewhere. I hope you like this idea and i love your content.

[@natemr4482]

Congratulations on 300k Emily

[@Emmasaurus]

Thanks!!!

[@BeardedBrickHead]

You have to keep the modulars, they look great. Keeping them on a shelf would be an idea but I think you need to put a park with the rides somewhere. Modulars and mocs would look good together though. It looks great!!

[@Jack-jb4qd]

Buy a bookcase and put all the modulars on them. You'll have way more space that way and modulars are so detailed, this way you'll be able to fully appreciate them. They don't have to be in a city layout

[@branbroken]

Nice to see the modulars arranged again, wasnt really feeling like an actual lego city without them.

[@e443productions9]

Wow I love the downtown area now! It looks the best layout so far. One thing I don’t like too much though is that the green area of your layout is a bit too extensive but looks very empty for now. I personally would push some of the middle earth set up down a level and blend it in with the green areas you already have. Like instead of making it full middle earth, you can just make it more of a fantasy/enchanted forest area. It feels more like your thing, and it would save space to extend the amusement park or friends sets on the top shelf.

[@teresaync]

I agree on the too much green.

[@zeldaveeblefetzer3475]

You could build up the vertical space. You're building hills into middle earth, why not the city, too. You could put smaller modules in the back going up the hills. It would create perspective. My hometown downtown has alleys between structures with tons of shops. It's called Acorn Alley. Cobbled walkways. You could save space by using allies. Are any of the modulars stackable? Shops on the bottom, apartments above? Love all of it, regardless. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

[@BlackHawkBricks]

Great video! Also, congrats on 300k!

[@deeannhansen1469]

Love your energy!!

[@raymondthebricknut]

I like the idea of an all custom Lego city which is going to be my idea when I move and can build a city. Maybe putting the modulars in the guest room as your downtown and bringing back the amusement park/Disney World would work. You could have a road going off the table up against the wall with a tunnel and the storyline could be that is the connection to downtown and have another brick buit tunnel where the modulars are which would be the road to the amusement park.

[@johnvocatura]

I would say box the amusement sets and coasters, everyone has those. Shelf the modulus in your guest room. Give yourself a nice big canvas for your custom builds. Unique builds are where it’s at in my opinion. Plus, you guys really enjoy the process. Oh and use the Eiffel Tower as parts for a castle. Save the boxes and instructions though. :)

[@noobody89]

You could make the Lego Underground and build on top of the modulars like what happened in Seattle over a century ago.

[@40kknight]

Great work on the layout change! The people who say "Those are just sets on a table" are toxic and everything that is wrong with the Lego community. No one should be telling you how to play with or display your hobby/collectibles. There is a huge difference between offering suggestions/constructive criticism vs just being negative because someone isn't doing it the way you would have. Not all of us have the budget, skills or creative mind to execute such grand things; we all have our limits and many are content having sets displayed in their original form.

[@asd24817]

Yeah I have two modular buildings (so not enough to make a downtown area with) but they are both on a shelf and look really nice and present well individually so a shelf city wouldn’t be a bad idea. And for the amusement park, you can’t get rid of it there’s just too many incredible sets that have to stay so I think you should make an amusement park

[@mathra2523]

The half finished Eiffel Tower has become a signature feature in your LEGO room. 🤣 Always keep that on display! I love your channel Emily! LEGO lady power!

[@jimbo2238]

I love these lego city updates!! I'm waiting for the next video.

[@lifesabrick5104]

Sorry for yelling but I shouted "get it out of there!" twice concerning that road to nowhere beside the Boutique Hotel. You have a few options there. I would end the road for sure at the Hotel so it just makes a left turn only and I would either make a nice covered patio for hoteliers to hang out there out to the edge of the table, or move the hotel to the edge of the table and make a cool hang out or alley between the hotel and the Diner, or make that road area a parking zone with marked spots. Nice to see the city though, makes me want to get my modulars arranged better for sure.

[@duplotraci]

Possibly with the amusement park rides make more of a boardwalk type of park. Small walkways and food vendors and carnival type games in a strip. That would be fun and not take up too much room. Also just like middle earth you can have part of your city be pop culture themed. I loved your Disney main Street before. The best part of your city are the parts that make you light up when you talk about them. The only rules on it are the ones you qnd Ross place on it. Go nuts! Good luck

[@tyvan5696]

Build a shelf system above or below the new one It would probably look like multy-level madness’s But with the shelves you could run trains and draw bridges between them all

[@merissagraham3502]

You should get a big ikea Billy bookcase or two and line up all your Modular’s on that They would look real nice like that Then you would have your whole city / table layout for custom builds and work that you can change out and around whenever you want ❤

[@TheDonjon1966]

I’d love to see the Eiffel Tower incorporated into downtown somehow. In the first layout you had, it might have fitted in the middle, where the cinema was? That would be cool…building a city around it.

[@RCmies]

I think you should add more walking streets/park areas to places where it makes no sense to have a road like at 5:00. Adding trees on the sidewalks of the mils plates would really contrast well with the modulars as well.

[@legobricksbe]

You could also make a amusement park in the back en do the entrance between 2 modulars of the back row

[@xanthicdragon6510]

You can make more space by elimination of one road plate row and make it just a pedestrian walkway

[@Patrickbricks45]

Your city is coming along well, your being creative and keep up the layout I enjoy the content

[@Moss_piglet13]

You might be able to save space by removing the extra sidewalks on the road plates. I saw someone else talking about how they eat up a lot of unnecessary space since the modulars already come with sidewalks. It's also kind of weird having a sidewalk next to a sidewalk. But for now I definitely wouldn't get rid of your modulars. I feel like for a city, you need to have a down town area and for right now since you haven't made custom buildings yet, I'd keep them as place holders and even late maybe mix custome and official buildings together

[@greenecrayon]

I super want to see an amusement park, and I think you could totally do it.

[@citybricks123]

Love what you got going on! Maybe one day!

[@yaqbec23]

5:00 How about something completely different? You can stop the road there and make something like a little market/bazaar with little stalls, European style, that would be cool :D

[@ZacPricener]

Could you get some shelves and set the modulars on those over and around the city? Then they can stay as part of the LEGO room while not taking up space on the tables.

[@woolseym]

Since you have gotten into doing more moc building, you could modify the official mocs into something else or make them bigger and better

[@legobricksbe]

I recommend to move corner garage because it makes no sense next to palace cinema

[@Cymindis]

OK, so please don't put yourself down! You have an amazing 'city' and are sharing your journey of learning to express yourself through lego. It's brilliant because it's true. I think you should leave the downtown area as is for now, having a beautiful area that feels complete lets you enjoy building out your first custom space. don't worry about changing is up until you've done the middle earth bit. then you can choose what you feel like doing then as you'll be more confident with your skills and have new ideas or even old ones that you want to revisit. A couple of times you've made comments about leaving complex stuff to Ross etc, but I just want to point out that you're learning skills he developed earlier, you can and will be doing those things in the future. so please don't feel pressured and enjoy the process and use the words like 'yet'! 'sets on a table' is how people learn, my understanding is that lego sets are meant to allow you to make something beautiful and learn skills while inspiring you to then make your own. building multiple sets and putting them on a table to work narratively IS learning, is building, and is a good thing! Enjoy this time of learning and doing what makes you feel good!

[@pilotguy27]

King's Dominion Amusement Park in Virginia has an Eiffel Tower near the entrance of the park. It is 1/3 the size of the real life tower. So, your Eiffel Tower would go most likely go good with the amusement park.

[@annatommasi7011]

Putting together the two rows of modulars at 4:08 isn't actually a bad idea. I think if you separate them by half a baseplate you could come up with a pretty good pedestrian area. You could place all café's, shops, and town hall in the pedestrian area and it would be more challenging and interesting than simply placing another street, because you will be able to build a lot of custom MILS plates with plants, statues, fountains, food stands... Also, think of how cool the city centre will be when populated by all the minifigs! You should also use some bikes and electric scooters.

[@jws3dnyc]

What about a long table or two to huge the wall edge to display the theme park sets as a theme park. It will still be a theme park just more like a wall diorama

[@scottmanies8614]

You should add the top back on the Eiffel Tower. I think the main thing is keeping the Modular’s lined up and organized liked you did. Taller buildings need to be in back probably.

[@jamesbowdenclassics]

Custom builds would make your city unique and stand out for that reason. It’s not a problem to use at least a few official Lego sets as people will appreciate how you built around them. If it’s mostly just official Lego sets, your city won’t look much different from anyone elses

[@patrickh6813]

One way streets in downtown might free up some space and allow more roads (one lane) around buildings. Think of downtown Austin.

[@Dodos622]

I was thinking, remove the two roadplates at the dead end (after the T plate) and replace them with modular buildings.

[@Emmasaurus]

Solid plan!

[@yournerdking218]

You could leave some spaces open in the down town so you will be encouraged to make some sets to fill those spaces in Also there is something kinda fun about doing art with restrictions (in this case I mean keeping the city looking cohesive)

[@SebbyMakesEdits]

I’m so glad u uploaded

[@TheStugbit]

Don't scrap your modulars, they're a work of art. You can still custom your own ones and add to them without problem. However, that grey skyscrapper doesn't look in the same realism like the other regular modulars, I would scrap that one together with the other building from Marvel as well. Use the two scrapped buildings to build a more realist skyscraper and the oficial modular ones you should keep them. In any case though, I think you need a bigger room for your city... And another thing, you have two corner garages with one built mirrored, I think you should custom the gas station on the second one building there a different thing, like a store or something...

[@zachspellman8056]

I live close to an amusement park that has an Eiffel Tower replica in the center of the park (Kings Island) but in this case you should put the Eiffel Tower in the guest room and build out the park with the extra space 🙂

[@jackspikes7042]

A suggestion would be to move the amusement park. As it is with the Eiffel Tower set, the city and then the hills, you have a great french vibe going on. You can build out the city like downtown Paris, leading to the tower, then out to the hills. Heck you can even, since you want to be creative, build out a winery in the hills.... :)

[@michelleainsworth7180]

Hi Emmasaurus, My idea for the area between your (nicely renovated) downtown and the amusement park? Trees. Some sort of city park or wooded area could look good next to an amusement park as well as next to a city. But I do not know if the Lady Burg town planners feel the same way. I'll be curious to see what you come up with. BTW, love the name "Emmasaurus" and I've been enjoying your videos for a while.

[@baltimorelegodad3702]

The road plate in front of the fire station is backwards, the driveways on the opposite side of the street

[@allisoncooper9681]

You could remove the front row of roads and make them into a walk/cycle way. Also why not put the castle at back of city as a tourist attraction

[@jessemoeller4587]

Build a some shelf for your modular buildings

[@leonardobarazza924]

You should try to create a boulevard that brings to the Eiffel tower, Paris style, or the central road that brings to an amusement park.

[@tylerdunning7363]

Who needs a guest room I vote you just convert it into a second lego room hahahahaha

[@Spicypotato25]

THIS.

[@robstarox1049]

i think you should make it a mix between modulars and MOCs

[@dannyl-p1543]

The more mocs the better!! Let the creative flow!! Modular cities all look the same to me

[@smidday15]

Just remember your LEGO display doesn't always need to be just one thing - really cool that you have your LOTR MOC in one space, and your modular city in another - you're going to need an alternative space very soon though for all the stuff that doesn't fit on the tables anymore!

[@big33b0y-kg4id]

Do a fully custom Lego city,you’re really good at building so I want to see what you can build next

[@hml5776]

keep the downtown area and just display the amusement park rides. use that space for whatever your heart desires! i absolutely love the rides but they do take a lot of space and that's the priority. you can't really expand with what you got going now if you keep both areas. that's why i vote keep downtown and shelf the park. good luck and can't wait to see what you do!!

[@ZION-THELASTRONIN]

A Hobbit village would be cool in your Middle Earth land. Love the city by the way😁

[@jbaker3031]

You could have a modular/custom city on shelves.

[@michaelrinaldi9168]

Do you have another room you could display them in? I have a room with billy shelves that I rotate displays on, then a small city room, nothing as large as yours. But yeah. I break mine down sometimes, but yeah it's hard to keep everything built or on display, my life got lots easier when I gave that up. It depends on how much I like the set. There is nothing wrong with sets on a table as well, I have a small area like that. Usually its a favorite set, that I've converted to 48x48 mils, and customized

[@Emmasaurus]

I wish I did but all of our rooms are pretty much full of Lego sets on shelves 😆

[@justiceforjohnnydepp4026]

Ty for spending so much money to show us this

[@evilsandwich2525]

Cool!

[@RisingUnderdog]

What about some kind of hill or mountain separating Middle Earth from the city? That way you're crossing over from one world to the next.

[@XxCactusGalxX]

Love your vids❤

[@LittleBinsandBricks]

I’m actually in the process of selling all of mine and will do a small custom layout.

[@minerpenguin_xD]

Nice city

[@vortxgamer8906]

My favorite content creator

[@Emmasaurus]

❤️

[@vortxgamer8906]

@@Emmasaurus you replied 😍

[@darrenmcdonald9891]

why not put up long shelves on the main wall for your modular's so you can at least see them face on as a display option only

[@dew66666]

Do you have an adult bookstore in your Lego city?

[@BuckyBricks]

You have soooooo much wallllllll space! Try putting up some shelves in one section to see if you guys like it. It’ll be better to place Modulars on and space for all the creativity 😮🤓👍🏻 @Buckybricks

[@legit4506]

Put them on a shelf around the room

[@ThomasKnip]

Scrap the modulars?! Heresy! Call the Lego enforcement! 😱

[@brickben7840]

I think putting the modulars on a shelf would be a really good choice. You wouldn't take the city's space + you could see all of them really well

[@ajmayowskijr]

Amazing video Emily. Keep the modulars.

[@_e_m_g_]

LEGO landscaping let's you city plan a lot, rearrange as much as you have to and you will figure out what works If you arrange the roller coaster, merry go round, Eiffel Tower and Disney Castle near the entrance of a walk through park the amusement park can work

[@Paul9528]

I think that you should have it where the modulars are transitioning to the amusement park

[@robtxx336]

U should build a airport

[@KHAYSELchanel]

I don't like that green for the grass, I think it's very fluorescent, but lego insists on adding it to their sets

[@Frikkiessss-8748]

Do you have an hulk or ironman

[@sarahwall1621]

Can not believe you not having them in your city 😮

[@cols_bricks]

I would use modulars and custom builds, you have theme park rides but there the biggest waste of space along with airports unless you have a missive Lego room. I got rid of my theme park to have a bigger city but want some green area with the A frame cabin like you’ve done as it looks really cool.

[@Emmasaurus]

I know 😞 we don't won't to take out the theme park rides but we like them so much!

[@cols_bricks]

It was a hard decision but I haven’t got room for it all 😢 and those sets are so big.