It's so awesome that you're back into Lego city construction. Don't rush it, because the longer you take, the more episodes we have to watch :D

Now that there is a city started on the tables, the cloud paintings look even better.

Like the idea of a river running through the centre of the city! It would get rid of the greyness and the squareness of downtown.

I absolutely love the trial and error aspect of your city layout. Get everything on the table. Move it around. Let the creativity flow. Keep it up!!!

I'm not going to lie; this seems very fun, intimidating, and overwhelming all at the same time.

It is exciting to see the city come back together. Have you thought about building a hockey rink? With the new space, it would be feasible.

here's an idea! Build a separate table, (Island Table) And the build a Suspension, or Cable Stayed bridge to cross it!

I think you should move the beach back by one baseplate for more space on the water

30 minutes of bricksie? Yes please! 😂

I LOVE what you do! I am a teacher. I watch your updates at lunch. When students need an escape, they come it in my room. Thank you for being my co-teacher!

I like where this is going, but if I were you, I'd put the beach a baseplate back and create a bit more sea around it. It makes a beach pop out more when there's more water around it imo. It also creates more space for water activities.

I always step on my Mils plates to ensure that the bricks are fully down... Benjamin was doing a great job at doing the same.

Love the river through the city with the ocean in front. A park next to the ocean would be great. Bike paths. Etc. like Chicago lake front

The cloud background is even more amazing now that the city is on the tables

If you have some kind of canal or river, it better be properly hand railed and protected in case a man falls into the river, in Lego City

I think you should push back the beach area so you can make the sea a little deeper and add some sailboats etc to that area.

Hope you can find space for a raised trainline again. Loved that in the old city.

Warehouse city is getting better with each video. Here's a suggestion: How about building the mountains towards the back where residential currently sitting? It would help you blend winter village into the mountains. Plus it wouldn't block the view and help the horizon transition into the cloud wall. I think that would look great.

Yes! Extend the water! I think if you treated it as an island more than a city, that would be awesome. Do water the whole way around, it doesn't need to take much space. Maybe just 8-10 studs on the outermost edge. Maybe a bay for the boat yard??? Then the extra tables for the mansion and stuff are their own little islands!

I love your water idea to extend the ocean. I was also thinking. Since you have more room, it would be nice to make the ocean wider. Maybe add some boats etc.

You should do a bigger beach like you had before. All the stories like the sand castle competition were cool.

I'd love a city layout where it's not entirely flat but has hills and more elevated ground

YES! Love the idea of the water and canal. Need some car and pedestrian bridges too.

Amazing how your City seems small, only because the table is Massive! Love all of this!

Coming along great. It would be very cool to have a gradient of foliage from spring to summer to fall to winter through the countryside section to the winter section. Could look really cool and help with the transition to winter.

Hi Bricksie, great work so far. Just a suggestion is to stain the visible 2x6 table legs to the same color as the 4x4 legs if it’s even possible at this point. Would make it look super clean. Also, about the mountain, maybe it’s in your plan, but making it snow capped would look great, and gives reason for water to flow down the mountain. ❤

Take your time, I loveeee seeing and hearing the thought process. Everyone dreams of having a space like this, but seeing it come together and become real is fascinating. I feel like we’re learning alongside you, and that’s super cool. Plus it full of shots of awesome builds and sets displayed. Super entertaining

What about a big red bridge, like in San Fran, leading over to a big island, with mountains, maybe with lodges, ski slopes and the mansion? Your dock could be here as well.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1066">17:46</a> your kids are awesome lol

in every European city and NYC the main train depot dumps you out into the middle of the city and usually into a grand plaza....i would love to see this in the lego city.

For the island tables you were talking about you should have them as peninsulas on each end, one could be open water leading to your mansion island. The other end you could build a cool wrap around harbour or just a cool ocean front part of the downtown with ocean walking paths etc.

I still say the pop up holes in the table could be covered and made into small parks or ponds that could be lifted and set aside if you had to crawl back under to work.

When Lego started making modular buildings I don’t think they had any idea the lengths dedicated fans such as Jordan would go to to maximise their impact. The effort over the past few months financially, physically and mentally is extraordinary. I’ve never heard so many mentions of melamine in my life but the journey makes it SOOOO worthwhile!

If you did a central mountain, you could have sections, like a volcano vent with a research station (sort of a moon base, but earth bound), and a geothermal plant which could allow for hydro pylons to another section.

I would like to see you do one section of city in which the train track is established first and the city is built around the track ... and a second section of city in which the city is established first, and then some buildings are moved or modified to make the train track fit. In the real world, one or the other is usually in place first and has to be worked around. Might be interesting to have the track have some shives and bends in it to show that the city was there first.

Love the city layout! My only suggestion is: I don’t think the train track should go right along the beach in front of the down town. I would turn it sooner and have it go thru down town Also, under your mountain range, you should cut a slot in the table where your under table subway can come up onto the main table via a large ramp, so it’s all connected!

Great vid, in my opinion, the trainyard location should be swapped with the amusement park. My reason for this is because the amusements tend to be closer to seafronts and marine areas and train yards tend to be in remote countryside areas

You should definitely make some roads not square to make the layout more interesting

Oooh oooh! For the pop up holes, I don’t know what you said you would do for them before. But you make a custom extending table on castors and build parks on them for the city that will help keep the weight down when lowering them for access. And city will feel more complete

You should push the beach and water front back a half bp or a full bp itll give you room for the boat yard and make the beach look bigger. Yeah itll be alot of water work but ill give the effect that theres more water goin off the edge of the table plus like i said itll give you more room for boats. Also i wouldnt make your mountain that big and if you were to make it that big dont make it such a rectangle. Make it a more natural shape ie. A square or l shape just something not so square

A lot of improvement already compared to yesterday, I love your dedication to the city. You're doing so much every day to make sure it looks better than before. Also very nice to see your plan for the entire thing that you made on the computer. Keep up the great work!

First play day in two months. Enjoy the day! Proud of you two and your family. I have a twin brother myself, and watching y’all’s kids is fun. I remember Mom telling my girlfriend at the time that she was super bored with twins when the got to three years old. She said that me and my twin would entertain ourselves and she felt like a third wheel. She picked up painting, cross-stitching and pottery. Wish you guys the best

Using Excel to plan your layout was a great idea. I loved all your construction videos but is so good to be back to the Lego. All your hard work is paying off.

It's your city so build it how you want. But I do wonder if the medieval layout would look better if it was on a table all by itself and not integrated within the more contemporary city layout. Just a thought!

You should put a model of your studio into the city

Every day updates are just insane Thanks Bricksie

All I would suggest is you’ve done the city and got the memories, do you really want to just make a larger version? Don’t take this wrong but I would personally have a separate smaller area of these shop bought Lego buildings and for the new tables I would build everything from scratch as custom MOCs. You can have hills and rivers and forests and castles all at different elevations. I think you would feel better having an organically growing “city” than if you were to go back down the route of a grid like system of official sets. After all you seem much happier and prouder of the areas you’ve built from scratch. A small area of buildings is fine but after watching your vids for a couple of years now and seen your building skills get more intricate I would say that your new project should be an evolution rather than just a bigger version of what’s gone before. Plus those road plates take up so much valuable space and we all love a pretty landscape scene 😅

once its done you should get a small remote control car and drive it through the city

I can't tell you how happy I am to see the city again. The studio build was interesting but seeing the city back warmed my heart so much. I just can't stop smiling thinking about what it will look like a year from now!

expanding the beach town back a bit would be cool. no roads just wide walking paths

I love watching your process as you adapt and improve your layout ideas. This is exactly what I come for, playing with lego! Trying different methods and changing your mind is the best part of this hobby. Thank you for sharing.

Are you planning on lighting any of your Lego buildings. Also your backdrops are nice but I think 1 wall with mountains might of been more realistic. I have a 10x20’ Lionel trains layout and at first I did the same for backdrops of clouds and blue skies however I felt it didn’t look good like that so I got a backdrop of the mountains of glacier National park. Just a suggestion. I love your lego city

Something that would be absolutely amazing would be building a giant AFL stadium or something, or whatever the sport you care about the most. Like a soccer stadium with huge grandstands on all sides

Okay... hear me out.... This is a BIG BUILD suggestion (for a ways down the road).... but.... you've talked about having the mountains being in the middle of the display.... what if one of those mountains SURROUNDED* one of the Access Holes?! (possibly Top-Left in that digital layout?) You pop up and are met with 360° of UNDERGROUND/INSIDE THE MOUNTAIN scenes! (maybe a Volcano, so there's an excuse to leave the top open? xD) A few examples: Barad Dur: from the outside you'd only see the tower, but from inside the mountain, you'd get to see all the interior details (likely customized/expanded for extra detail). Snow White's Cottage: Cottage is in the main layout... go inside the mount to reveal THE SEVEN DWARF'S MINING OPERATION! A hidden train station (an excuse to have the train run through the mountain; it would also work out perfect with the train layout you have digitally) *You could customize a trap/access door, or maybe removable modules to allow access to the surrounding area. This way you're not completely taking away the access holes use.

You should do the 7x7 island and connect them with a road rail combo suspension bridge that can be lifted out as and when needed

Bricksie I have an idea for the mountain in the middle you should make a tunnel that goes through it for both cars and trains and could do something in the tunnel like maybe have a cave!

I love the river idea!

The video clip of the knee creeper under the table kinda reminded me of the scene from Diehard, of Bruce Willis crawling in the ducts… yippee ky yay.

you add a waterfall at the end of the table on a lower mini table where you add kayak,bears,forest....

Hi! If I were in your place I would use those separate two island tables, which you want to establish in front of the big city layout for a medieval layout, and the other could be an " always changing" layout like winter village, mansion, maybe a western, or a Star wars scene layout dependig on your mood what to create.

Just an idea, the Venetian houses & havanna hotel are a great way to get the river to connect to a built up ocean front

Epic Lego table time! Look at that river baseplate! Auction that on Whatnot. Love those knee wheels! I have a set, so useful. For a second table, you have enough space for a 120+ square foot (10'x12') table along with 2 smaller "island" tables. With the medieval stuff on a secondary table, you have space on the main table for an expanded theme park & zoo (which looks so small now!), and still have the mansion on its own island table. You will want that extra space for farmland, countryside mountain, and more residential. Cheers!

Thank you for this update looking forward for more !!!

The time lapse where you're shifting baseplates around the whole table is hilarious. Bricksie pops up randomly in the middle holes like whackamole.

I love the river idea and having a harbor against the downtown. Most cities are built along rivers and bays. That opens up a lot of possibilities with riverwalks and bridge designs, too. I say go for it!

So happy for you. All the hard work/sacrifice leading up to this point. I’m so looking forward to the journey. Thanks for taking us along.

The downtown is epic. I love your ideas. Your Excel plan was awesome. Great use of Excel. It makes great sense to have the train yard close to the shipyard.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="425">7:05</a> I was also thinking that maybe there should be a river going through the center of the city. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="791">13:11</a> awesome idea Maybe the river should go down the mountain to the waterfall It would be great, I hope you do it <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1125">18:45</a> I was thinking the same, its basically a small industrial area Train line plan is great, the other line going through the mountain makes sense to be a freight line. Also something to keep in mind is room for train stations

🎉looking great :) clear skies :)

AMAAAAAAZING! So happy to see lego again. So many options and fun to come!

I'm having so much fun❤ I've imagined so many different versions and I've created so many different worlds! I can't wait to see your magic unfold. I'm so excited!

Even you couldn’t believe it when you said “Really, Dads at work”. Enjoy this time with your kids!! You are lucky to be able to do what you love.

i feel like the trainyard/boatyard should be closer to the city and the beach be closer to the country side, it makes more sense like that

Winter village!!!

I love it! Everything makes sense. Almost every capital city in the world has some kind of water running through it so it adds a bit of colour. Looking forward to seeing future projects. I can see Millie and Benji helping out much more as they get older.

You should make the hotel be on the edge of downtown where the water is so some of the rooms can be ocean view

Take your time, it’s looking awesome and we are enjoying the process. ❤

Oh my god the amount of ideas you have for your city is awesome . I'm really enjoying watching how things are coming along. I love the idea of the water going through the city. It's so cool x

I'm thrilled about your LEGO city journey! The idea of a river/canal is brilliant-it'll add fantastic colour and activity. Can't wait to see the train line and yard develop. Have you thought the line running through the city with a central station? Could meet the planned subway service too! Your videos are the highlight of my day. I don't have the space/time/money for my own LEGO adventure, so following yours brings me so much joy!

Personally i feel like the rail line doesnt fit in to the urban district especialy around it like its currenly is gooing but around the downtown would make more sense in my mind.

It's so cool to see the lego city up and running again. I've been waiting a long time for that. I'm super excited to see what you come up with.

Nice layout idea!

The best part of the day is when I watch the daily Bricksie video 😊 The progress you've made over the past couple of months is incredible. The city is going to be amazing

Looking good! Take your time with it and have fun. Don’t try to rush through it.

For the water in the city, are you imagining it to be similar to West Edmonton Mall with the water with pirate ship?

Stopped video at kids coming in and playing to write this comment. Just loved this part so much. Love seeing kids enjoy Lego!!!

Make the mountain city of Shangrila! I loved the movie Lost Horizons - both color and old black and white. I would love to see you make it.

Someone else said it but I think a smaller mountain range near the garage door would look better than giant blob down the middle. Keep up the good work though.

As the beachfront is (currently) sitting directed the large unused space putting a table there could be a great space to build fantasy worlds. Fantasy worlds at 'undiscovered islands' in the ocean. A way to let the full creativity go at work no matter if it's fitting into a city or not. A bit the same way you had the mansion and ski hill at a different diorama as it didn't fully fit the city then.

I am loving it! Your city is improving more and more. I am really enjoying the process, I have built anticipation since you took your old city down. Have fun creating and thank you for sharing.

Very excited that all the prep is finished and the city is ready to be designed and built. Probably the most anticipated thing over the last couple months haha Can just tell that it's going to look awesome

Big fan of the water all along the front. It can go from the natural waterfront, then you have the beach/boardwalk area, then an industrial boatyard/port that feeds the city and the final area a swanky sea front city section with restaurants and yachts.

Wow! This new space of yours is amazing. Cannot wait to see all of your upcoming adventures in creating it

Make diorama pirate isle that merges with the beach on that extra space, and maybe a volcanic isle! we want to see some lego sea creatures, ships and islands! Continue the coastline all the way to the downtown.

Take your time bricksie. Enjoy the process, don’t stress . Get back to what you love to do. Tfs

Very nice to see the city again! Mighty impressive work over the last couple of months!! Always an inspiration man! Keep bricking

Water around two corners of the city gives you so many options to tell stories or have other sets incorporated! Need to get some of the HUGE cargo ships with the single mold hull from the east 2000s

I have an idea with your train tracks to save on space on top should put hangers under the table to hold your tracks and make it look like a tube (I’m from uk) that’s what we call it I’m guessing you guys call it a subway using your pop up spots just think it’ll look well cool

I personally love the mountains so add more please

The extra baseplates at the front for water is excellent....there is room for so many activities 🙂 ...step brothers