REAL Urban Planner Reviews LEGO City Sets
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Date: 2019-09-12
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Comments and reviews: 10
Hannodb1961
I'm glad I was a child in the late 80's, early 90's. Those Legoland sets were the best. They had a perfect balance between keeping things simple and fun, as well as feeling realistic. Lego had its own identity, it did not need to imitate movies. Legoland allowed you to put your sets together into one coherent townscape. Generic pieces were the rule, so you could mix your sets and build anything you want from them. Lego characters were simple in appearance, allowing for imagination to create the characters. Modern lego. SUCKS The roads are too wide, so you can hardly build on them. The buildings are too big, so you can't really use your sets to build a town unless you have lots of space. Not that you can build a town, because most of the Cities sets have nothing to do with cities: A Rocket set, a polar helicopter, a farm, a mining drill. Not exactly the kind of things you see in your average neighborhood. Good luck putting that all together into one coherent scene. Then the pieces are too specialized. If you buy the plane set, it could never be anything but a plane, because so many pieces are specialized. Not only that, the plane was not very sturdy either. The boy I bought it for hardly ever played with it. The Creator sets are more for exhibition sets than toys. Again, too detailed to play with, to big to actually put together. The rest are just movie themed toys with no imagination. I so wish I could treat my friend's son with all the lego sets that I could never have. But alas, the cool legos don't exist anymore.
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I'm glad I was a child in the late 80's, early 90's. Those Legoland sets were the best. They had a perfect balance between keeping things simple and fun, as well as feeling realistic. Lego had its own identity, it did not need to imitate movies. Legoland allowed you to put your sets together into one coherent townscape. Generic pieces were the rule, so you could mix your sets and build anything you want from them. Lego characters were simple in appearance, allowing for imagination to create the characters. Modern lego. SUCKS The roads are too wide, so you can hardly build on them. The buildings are too big, so you can't really use your sets to build a town unless you have lots of space. Not that you can build a town, because most of the Cities sets have nothing to do with cities: A Rocket set, a polar helicopter, a farm, a mining drill. Not exactly the kind of things you see in your average neighborhood. Good luck putting that all together into one coherent scene. Then the pieces are too specialized. If you buy the plane set, it could never be anything but a plane, because so many pieces are specialized. Not only that, the plane was not very sturdy either. The boy I bought it for hardly ever played with it. The Creator sets are more for exhibition sets than toys. Again, too detailed to play with, to big to actually put together. The rest are just movie themed toys with no imagination. I so wish I could treat my friend's son with all the lego sets that I could never have. But alas, the cool legos don't exist anymore.
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Carum Sarene
One thing you forgot to bring up, and I completely don't blame you since it's a mistake everyone makes, is the Scaling. Originally, Minifigures represented Children, not adults. That's why they're much wider than normal humans, they have neotny. So you have to think about the cars and buildings Lego makes as being toy cars and playhouses that traditionally children would get for outdoor play. The most accurate Human to Minifigure Scale, ignoring the playhouse style and sticking to real world accuracy, gives you a scale of 3. 5 studs to 1 meter. A two lane road at this scale would be about 26 studs wide. (25. 9 studs, actually) Or a traditional highway at 54-56 studs wide. Way over the size of a baseplate. A quick Google search, the width of the Empire State Building at the base is 129. 24 meters. That means you need a width of 452. 34 studs. Rounding that to just 452. You need 14 base plates just for one side, or about 196 base plates in total for it to sit on.
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One thing you forgot to bring up, and I completely don't blame you since it's a mistake everyone makes, is the Scaling. Originally, Minifigures represented Children, not adults. That's why they're much wider than normal humans, they have neotny. So you have to think about the cars and buildings Lego makes as being toy cars and playhouses that traditionally children would get for outdoor play. The most accurate Human to Minifigure Scale, ignoring the playhouse style and sticking to real world accuracy, gives you a scale of 3. 5 studs to 1 meter. A two lane road at this scale would be about 26 studs wide. (25. 9 studs, actually) Or a traditional highway at 54-56 studs wide. Way over the size of a baseplate. A quick Google search, the width of the Empire State Building at the base is 129. 24 meters. That means you need a width of 452. 34 studs. Rounding that to just 452. You need 14 base plates just for one side, or about 196 base plates in total for it to sit on.
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Arctic Fox Gaming
The Lego Creator Expert is by far the best line of any Lego sets. The amount of detail place into each building makes me feel like a master builder like at Lego Miniland USA. Even though it lacks in vehicles, it does provide many sorts of intricate designs for each level. For instance you can have a bakery on the first floor and then a dentist office in the second with an art studio on the third floor (granted not the best combination, but still unique. Though I would like for Lego to create streets to go with these sets as well as make larger buildings like a mall or an airport.
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The Lego Creator Expert is by far the best line of any Lego sets. The amount of detail place into each building makes me feel like a master builder like at Lego Miniland USA. Even though it lacks in vehicles, it does provide many sorts of intricate designs for each level. For instance you can have a bakery on the first floor and then a dentist office in the second with an art studio on the third floor (granted not the best combination, but still unique. Though I would like for Lego to create streets to go with these sets as well as make larger buildings like a mall or an airport.
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Brick Lover 225
Nice video. Having been collecting lego for 8 and a half years I have quite a nice sized city now and I have found ways to integrate all types of sets together no matter if they are a small 4 stud car to a 8 stud size truck or even a remote controled train or 2. Same goes for the building ranging from maybe a small house to a large 3 story police station in the city line or a log cabin from the creator line all the way to a fancy resturant in the creator expert line which I just added to my city last week after wanting the set for 4 years.
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Nice video. Having been collecting lego for 8 and a half years I have quite a nice sized city now and I have found ways to integrate all types of sets together no matter if they are a small 4 stud car to a 8 stud size truck or even a remote controled train or 2. Same goes for the building ranging from maybe a small house to a large 3 story police station in the city line or a log cabin from the creator line all the way to a fancy resturant in the creator expert line which I just added to my city last week after wanting the set for 4 years.
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Kayle Mathew Comendador
Its really obvious that the action elements in the City line is what sells best, like police and fire. But they seem to have gotten overboard with them lately with stuff like sky police. And there are astronaut sets coming soon to the City line, so that's another sign I guess. So you'd basically need some Creator and Friends sets to broaden your city from just being police and fire. Nice video, you really highlighted how Lego is slowly drifting away from basic city stuff in their City line.
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Its really obvious that the action elements in the City line is what sells best, like police and fire. But they seem to have gotten overboard with them lately with stuff like sky police. And there are astronaut sets coming soon to the City line, so that's another sign I guess. So you'd basically need some Creator and Friends sets to broaden your city from just being police and fire. Nice video, you really highlighted how Lego is slowly drifting away from basic city stuff in their City line.
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JeKaBricks
As a LEGO collector I really enjoyed this. You clearly did your research wellThe sad truth is that building LEGO cities was much easier back in the 80's when LEGO sold homes, commercial buildings and transportation related buildings like warehouses and cargo terminals. Also sold back then were just regular vehicles and general accessory packs. Today, the best way to build realistic LEGO cities is just to buy some Creator Expert modulars and build your own custom buildings and cars.
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As a LEGO collector I really enjoyed this. You clearly did your research wellThe sad truth is that building LEGO cities was much easier back in the 80's when LEGO sold homes, commercial buildings and transportation related buildings like warehouses and cargo terminals. Also sold back then were just regular vehicles and general accessory packs. Today, the best way to build realistic LEGO cities is just to buy some Creator Expert modulars and build your own custom buildings and cars.
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Lord Ginger
I think the reason why Lego City is so chaotic is because both Lego City and Lego Star wars are Legos largest brands and so those two brands probably clashed and now Lego City is surrounded by war and destruction destroying the architecture and so that's why everything is on fire and there's so much crime because there's space battles with burning debris falling on them and tanks patrolling the streets and giant walkers destroying everything in their path
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I think the reason why Lego City is so chaotic is because both Lego City and Lego Star wars are Legos largest brands and so those two brands probably clashed and now Lego City is surrounded by war and destruction destroying the architecture and so that's why everything is on fire and there's so much crime because there's space battles with burning debris falling on them and tanks patrolling the streets and giant walkers destroying everything in their path
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Nick Bricks
If you combine all the lego houses that are currently available from lego and the 8 fire trucks that are currently available the ratio would be right on par with a volunteer fire department serving a town of that size. also a city of 33, 000 (which is much bigger than lego city) you would need 53 payed firefighters and with the lego sets you get 18 which is less than what is needed to operate Those trucks properly.
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If you combine all the lego houses that are currently available from lego and the 8 fire trucks that are currently available the ratio would be right on par with a volunteer fire department serving a town of that size. also a city of 33, 000 (which is much bigger than lego city) you would need 53 payed firefighters and with the lego sets you get 18 which is less than what is needed to operate Those trucks properly.
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Mikado
Lego ninjago is mayhem mad max level stuff the show is more mayhem with some storyline we got skeleton, snakes, stone men, evil robot terminators, cultists, ghoats, sky pirates, snakes again, biker gang, dragon hunters, shape shifting demons, ice samurai, fire sneks plus cars, jets, dragons, ships, bikes, bikes, did I mention bikes, guns, saws, treads, flame throwers and oversized snakes and mechs mechs and mechs
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Lego ninjago is mayhem mad max level stuff the show is more mayhem with some storyline we got skeleton, snakes, stone men, evil robot terminators, cultists, ghoats, sky pirates, snakes again, biker gang, dragon hunters, shape shifting demons, ice samurai, fire sneks plus cars, jets, dragons, ships, bikes, bikes, did I mention bikes, guns, saws, treads, flame throwers and oversized snakes and mechs mechs and mechs
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Lego Zebra
Absolutely loved the video - would love to hear your thoughts on the LEGO Ninjago City sets, of which there are two so far (Ninjago City and Ninjago City Docks. The instruction manual of Ninjago City actually goes into heavy detail as to how different layers were built on top of each other and how the architecture evolved over time its really interesting with the thought put into it
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Absolutely loved the video - would love to hear your thoughts on the LEGO Ninjago City sets, of which there are two so far (Ninjago City and Ninjago City Docks. The instruction manual of Ninjago City actually goes into heavy detail as to how different layers were built on top of each other and how the architecture evolved over time its really interesting with the thought put into it
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