Rectangle is fine with the buildings/modulars. You have all the natural countryside areas that will help with the rectangles

Yeah man most of us are here to enjoy you. You could build mountains for 30 days straight and I wouldn’t care. Been watch for 3 years and I’ll keep watching. I love all the vids keep it up!

Jordan, first off I actually love your Mocs and creations! If you are genuinely happy with your builds who cares what others think. You do you.

People can say whatever they want. It’s YOUR city not theirs. I actually enjoy what you’re doing. If you like it then keep it. Dont let people change what you like

Zoos often have mixed enclosures with animals that would be found together in natural habitats so flamingos & alligators is 100% ok together. Non-realistic environments would cause animal depression since they naturally expect certain interactions.

Keep the zoo minus the aquarium...most cities have their own separate aquarium...you could always build a bigger aquarium for placement in the city!! Great vid as always, keep up the great work!! Also, now that you have angled walkways...it kinda resembles terminals at an airport!!

The grid layout is perfect for downtown. Maybe start brick built curvy road and landscaping with residential? Transition from grid to brick built, still relatively structured suburban home areas, then to rougher, curvier roads for more rural homes and landscaping and such.

Pay those naysayers no mind!!! I watch this channel because or YOUR creations! Keep up the awesome work 😊

Hi Jordan, I'm worried about you mate, you are looking really tired and don't look well. You need to look after yourself and maybe take a small break as I think you've been burning the candle at both ends recently. You're looking like you've lost weight and are a little pale looking. Just worried that yiu could end up burned out. Take care

Dude just do what makes you happy

If you aren't a fan of animals in captivity, you should pivot from a zoo to a safari

Since you mentioned you're against animal captivity; there are zoos out there that aim to be more ethical. Ideally, they try to be rescue sanctuaries that house animals that wouldn't survive in the wild. The one in my city (Winnipeg) has made some great strides. The polar bears were orphaned cubs from Churchill, the wolves were domesticated for use in movies (they starred in The Grey with Liam Neeson), and they even have a blind seal :) Maybe you could incorporate some scenes to make it an ethical zoo? You could build an infirmary and have a vet checking out an animal. Could also set up an educational tour or a researcher studying animal behaviour. Just some ideas!

Look, Jordan. I've been following you for a little while now. I followed you probably about six months or so before you got the new place for your lego city. I tell you what I can tell a difference between your early stuff and now. Your legos have gotten better, but your anxiety and depression seem like it might have gotten worse. Sometimes, you need to just take a break, man. I hope you haven't over extended yourself. You can take a break from making videos. Screw everybody else.Take care of you and your family. But all that depends on if you overextended your finances. I pray for you brother

Never failing to impress! Very satisfying watching all of your lego progression 😊

It's very nice. You are doing awesome! 😊

I remember going to the zoo as a child and there was always a flamingo wandering around freely, outside its enclosure. It would fly back when it was ready. Very cool!

I'm working on a Noah's Ark build, and I found that a lot of the Duplo animals were a better choice for the male and female animals that I need. I've actually collected every single aquatic Lego animal for the ocean underneath the Ark. So I understand the zoo because you're right, Lego has really cool animals. I love your city layout........they sell those baseplates that have land and water designs so that might be a way to break up your grid, but honestly, you're doing an awesome job. Ultimately, it's YOUR art...... do what feels good for you. That's what makes it special! Much love, Brother❣️ 🤘😎

What about attaching the aquarium (adjacent) to the amusement park?! 🤔 That would give you more space in the Zoo for more enclosures, and give the Aquarium it's own space, while adding to the Attractions at the Amusement Park!

Hey Bricksie!! Do whatever you want with your city. I love it!! You are a professional city builder for a reason. You know what you are doing and are not afraid to try something new and change it. That is what I love about your channel!!! The mountain however is a horrible idea….. hehehe just kidding. My son Benjamin and I love watching the city grow. Keep it up.

The creation of a forrest comes from one acorn. You do what is best for you. Keep the great work, and take it easy. Do not be so hard on yourself, you are doing great work and you have those followers that likes what you are doing without putting comments too, they are agreeing to your imagination and creation that you share for us to see. I hope I make sense ❤

The zoo walkway dog looks more like an AT-AT. Maybe it's back leg is sticking out behind it. Ha, part of Star Wars on Ice! Two ideas (take or leave) for rectangular breakup. 1) Take the second block and shift it over towards the railroad and have the road go around on the canal side. Maybe make a cul-de-sac at the railroad of the end block or even have the road cross the tracks and go off the end. I have always just used my imagination of where else it would take me, which makes your city even more interesting. 2) Have some kind of larger rock feature or something closer to the road/railroad between the boardwalk and the railroad that the boardwalk was forced to build around and breakup the straightness of it. Or have a path go down towards the canal for people to go down and fish. As always, you do you and keep up the great work! We watch everyday to see where you go next. Thanks so much!

Please don’t take the negative comments to heart. It’s YOUR LEGO city. If you want it rectangle or to make the zoo bigger, DO IT. I watch the comments and have given some suggestions myself. But only as ideas, be your own creator. The true appreciation and joy of Lego building is why I watch your channel.

You found some great pieces on the PAB wall - lucky you! I love your work and enthusiasm, and I eagerly wait to see what you have created each day. I also like the lolly jar next to the stove!

I grew up in a square city and get lost in places like DC. I am a big fan of rectangular city planning.

Hey bricksie…I would do a Savannah, crocs lions elephants giraffes all live naturally in the same biome. That way you save on bricks, it looks more natural and all the animals aren’t locked up into individual sections.

It breaks my heart to see you so beat down in this video. I thought the last few videos people are getting out of control. Your city is wonderful and this is going to be a marathon not a sprint. You have a huge job ahead of you and the details will come and bring your wonderful designs to life. Let the man cook people! Can't wait to go on this long journey with you and your creative vision.

You could put the seals on the beach, and the orcas and dolphins in the sea to break up some of the blue - perhaps one of the boats could do whale/dolphin watching tours.

I totally love the idea of the zoo you mentioned that you’re not necessarily a fan of captivity what if making a zoo you did something similar to the safari ride at Disney World you can incorporate scenery as the separation between animal types and you can have certain animals share an area For example, hippos giraffes antelope can all share

I like the zoo they way you originally had it better. I think it's awesome that you read the comments and listen to people's ideas. But it's your lego you purchased and spend time on. Build it how you want it!

A good idea for the flamingos is to put a fence around the creek in a lil area and let them live in there. Maybe in front of the aviary??

I love your Lego store vlogs, also the zoo is looking great and I wish you the best of luck in your builds

Zoo looking amazing and the dinner you and josse both chefs 👩‍🍳 👨‍🍳

I'm fine with rectangles, but maybe a way of introducing angles and reducing roads would be to have a pedestrianised area. I think it would work well near the skyscrapers to create a bit of space between them. A pedestrianised area would also be good for adding some elevation, greenery, markets stalls and street vendors.

I really like the efficiency of the way you do things, it's one of the reasons i watch your videos every day. There is nothing wrong with efficient city planning. It is your city anyway. But also people don't seem to be giving grace and patience you have so many cool cars to put on the roads and so many details and to add to your stories i can't wait to see what you do with what you have. And the math... there is alot of math involved in gridding these things out. What you do makes sense grid it out and then the details are making it pop and adding texture. I really enjoy the whole process. If you want more animals you could do a wildlife safari moc off the actual city like the midevil scene

Keep moving forward with the zoo! Follow your own passions and creative ideas. If you’re looking for a way to decrease the square footage that the roads take up, perhaps look at not using road plates so much, especially in the residential area and country areas. Maybe custom roadways that are more country road, closer to a one lane with shoulders or sidewalks. Just an idea that came to me as you were thinking out loud. But I’m a LEGO newbie. Curves are hard.

Loving the work as always! Maybe use some of your trees to go along the roads & sidewalks in the residential area? You can’t get away from using roads but it might create some separation from the downtown area

Bricksie, sometimes it’s difficult for people to see your vision while your still in the process of creating something. Your vision, your time, your MONEY, your way! Some feedback can be helpful too much of it can be discouraging. Keep up the nice designs and keep doing it the way yo see it!

Do what you want with your beautiful project. It's yours. Have fun with it and we will have fun to watch. You work a lot since march take it easy this summer with your family. With all my admiration.

Hi bricksie! I know you are in a bit of a dilemma so here’s a suggestion! You could remove the aquarium in the zoo and make an aquarium modular building in the downtown core! There is a ton of cool mocs on rebrickable! Again just a suggestion because I know you have some room in the downtown core and that way you don’t have to have an aquarium take up a ton of space!

Love the channel, been watching for a few years now. I thinkbthe aquarium should go near the beach. This will give you more room for other land animals and buildings. Keep up the good work.

Well done 👏

I have a custom Gordon Ramsey in my Parisian restaurant 😂

You did an amazing job with the zoos angles wow 👏

Please, build your city the way you want it. Whatever other people say. Maybe now you feel forced to please people. Don't! Its your city, and so far it looks great😁💪

Most zoos here have canals all around the animal enclosures, so there's no need for huge glass panels, that way you can also built more organic path shapes.

Why not go for a safari like experience? The animals are out in the open, the table gets covered more and can be connected either to the part of the amusement park. It enables a very organic layout and It would probably save some money too. Elevation can be done by rocks and and plates in an undefined manner. Heck you can either let a train go by or cars/minibuses.. The color palette will be refreshing. And it allows for content we haven't really seen yet.

The pick a brick wall in the lego store near me sucks lol🎉 Has for a long time 😂

Love the walkways & the giraffe enclosure. It got me to look up the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak Michigan. At pedestrian level on Google Maps you can actually see animals in their enclosures. It's like a day at the zoo! There's a fountain, lots of trees, animal enclosures are off to the sides of the main double concourse, which has buildings like reptile & penguin houses. To make it in Lego would be possibly your whole table. I don't think you'll regret bumping back the zoo fences a bit, and perhaps building some of the behind-the-scenes maintenance sheds and so on. You have the space now to make it epic. Cheers!

Your Zoo inspired me to build mine - so do what you do best :) 🐘🦒🐅🐆🦝🦍🦧🦅🌲🌳

Hi Jordan! I have only started watching a few months before you moved into the new studio, love your creativity and how you make little life updates. But don't worry about what others say, it only matters if you like the layout and having fun while making it. We'll enjoy either way. Since the Lego is at the studio, I do hope you use that night time to rest/relax. That's just as important, if not more.

Jordan, don´t think about those comments too much. Lego is rectangular by nature, and so will be cities built out of it. You can always break it up with vegetation, different heights etc, which you already do. Your city is amazing as it is. Don´t stress out about it. You can only build something great when you have fun!

The raised walkway could extend to be another entrance to the aviary that starts at that height and then ramps down to the bottom. Would be neat for guests to have both perspectives.

I really like the new walkway!!!

The aquarium would look great near the Central Park.. I’d love your downtown to be a bit bigger as well 🤞🏻👍🏻

keep doing what you are doing cause it has gotten you this far.. if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Love the updates! In regards to streets in the residential area, I think Lego’s premade street pieces all suffer a bit from being giant-scaled to fit the cars but they often seem to dwarf the buildings compared to real-world streets. You’ve been talking about brick building streets and the residential area could be a good place to build streets maybe half as wide as the giant pre-made plates and then the residential areas might look more residential and less industrial. (Also strongly agree with your animals in captivity comments! Keep up the great work!)

The zoo looks amazing! Also looks like an AT-AT! Lol

Curves and angle are great but then you lose the flexibility/modular options that MILs plates provides or end up wasting space. As for the aquarium, what about some space near an edge of the city that you could carve in more ocean/water?

Started making Custom Lego Plaques for my some Mircofighters to hang on the wall. Good to have you video in the background.

Your bick and build wall is so nice mine hasn’t been updated since Xmas and they still use the cups there’s no boxes

Your city is amazing jordan!! Im starting to build my first one!!

Hey bricksie. You look worn out. Take time to rest. You have achieved an amazing amount . We will be here . Tfs

I like your ideas and think food area would be good and maybe a gift shop would be fun.

Much better zoo love it 🤟

You have only just started your epic city Jordan who knows what you will come up with your ideas are unique to you and I enjoy watching what you might create next , I had a city back in the 1970s befor all the great mini figures bought it to life back then we had to pretend the people were in the cars and building keep up the great stuff I’m living my dream through you

Hey bricksie love your video as always. Take your time with the lego city and enjoy every minute and day as we will watching you im sure it will soon fill up but you do have loads of space and air space to. My advice with the zoo as you suggested take the aquarium out have like a sea life aquarium separate somewhere else, and also with the animals maybe some can share that would make sense to share enclosures. Much love from the uk

Love your content I like your mocks keep it up 👍.

Jordan, you said the new walkway layout looks like a dog... I think it looks like an AT-AT! I love it! 😊

Imho, the zoo layout is wonderful!!!! I think you already nailed it!n

sharing that its 10pm philipines time here but i still watch your vids becused i love it more love to you and the fam....paaweerrr

That elephant enclosure is way too small, someone call PETA! 😂

Why are people so rude, I love your city and ideas

ART ART ART!! 😂

Could you add a marine study centre on an island. That way you could include the orca and lots more. I am loving your city progress

I do think you should put the aquarium outside of the zoo but close to the zoo so you can get more animals

Cloud mural still looks fantastic every time I see it !!!!!!

The zoom out of the zoo looks like and AT AT walker

I really like the angled walkways! They look great!

For the Aquarium, if you wanted to get rid of it, you could add a shelf/table below the harbour to dedicate to an under the water scene so you can still showcase your aquatic animals then you have more space for potentially bigger enclosures/more enclosures for other animals

I agree that captivity is on the lower side of zoos but making one with all the Lego animals is fine. Add the gorillas. Keep it up

Zoo looks cool- only I'd switch the jaguar and lion pride- just one jaguar but there are lots of lions who need more room 😉

I could see the aquarium separate maybe include the dinosaur exhibit with it. Like the California Academy of science located in San Francisco where they have animals dinosaur aquarium rain forests living roof. It's a neat place you could get some great inspiration from. Love everything your doing bricksie your an amazing builder keep on blowing minds because mine is.

Nah - go big on that standalone aquarium! A Shamu-style orca tank would be epic! My thoughts (and yours) on the ethics of SeaWorld aside…it’d be cool in Lego.

Hi Jordan! I love your mocs, please keep being you. Couple zoo ideas: 1. Remove the aquarium, maybe its across the street by the ocean?! 2. You mentioned moving the black bears out. Maybe the polar bears could also be moved to the snowy part of the mountains?! 3. With the aquarium gone you coukd make two sides, and african animal side and an asian animal side seperated by the bird enclosure. This will allow you to get the new tigers and red pandas. 4. The current panda exhibit could have no exterior glass by the bird enclosure just a shorter fence. And then put yhe flamigos and alligators there. The birds will be by each other, a fence would keep aligtors in and it will break up the grid and feel less rectangular. Just some food for thought. I can't wait to see what you fo next!

Loving the zoo! I’d say separate the aquarium and give them both the space they need

Perhaps you might consider a more Animal Kingdom approach to the zoo. Open areas where animals can roam with natural dividers instead of smaller walled areas. It’s LEGO, so you can don’t have to have all the animals totally separate. Look at the Kilimanjaro Safari attraction at Animal Kingdom for reference. Wide open spaces with hidden or natural barriers (hedges, rock formations)

Dude I think your city is amazing! Keep doing what you do! I love the zoo, it's probably my favorite thing about the city. What you could do is put the aquarium on the ocean front somewhere? Or somewhere along the river or creek. I know most aquariums are near lakes, oceans, or some form of water and they integrate it into the aquarium. Could be a cool thing.

I think it will look less boxy (for those who don’t like that) once you put the mountain behind it with “natural cat habitat.” Maybe add the black Panther with the other big cats on the mountain so you gain an additional enclosure(?) Looks great, I’m loving all the ideas you give us for our own builds.👍 -hey, maybe a field trip to the zoo is in order with the family for ideas!🙃😉

You should put the aquarium behind the university and put a huge jungle exhibit in the zoo. You could put animals from the old city jungle series in there as well as the new one.

The aquarium would work in the amusement park and give more room for animals at the zoo, possibly making the enclosures slightly different sizes even by 4 studs would make it look less boxy too

In Santa Barbara, California, there is a small aquarium/sea center at one of the piers on the beach. You can take inspiration from that, if you want. 😊

Yes! Break the rectangle!

Move the aquarium to its own place in the city like usually aquariums and sea life centres have their own place and that opens up plot for the zoo.

Mr Bricksie, sounds like you should take the family to calgary zoo for reasech purposes 😉

Highway through the mountain landing into the amusement park would be great. Also, can you please take time to hang your art on the walls. Please

Cities fall into a grid pattern because of practicality. Your countryside section should be more ‘curvy’ and open. Maybe put the aquarium in that spot where you have that helicopter now. Then the zoo isn’t quite a perfect rectangle but still square edges.

A thought for the road that's going to pass over the road, maybe a draw bridge like they have in Chicago.

Aquarium - on the waterfront. Yeah!

The aquarium could do well over by the boat yard, in cities they do tend to be by the water if there's any

With the upcoming jaws set you should put the shark and the boat in you deep blue sea 🌊 (Edit) and you should make the Medieval area look like a island with water on all sides like it is off the shore of the city