Automated LEGO Gondola and MASSIVE City Expansion! - LEGO City Update

Adding a functional Gondola to my LEGO City!

[Brick_Crafts]

Thank you to everyone that supports the project :)

[OraDubStronzate]

Never saw a fully grey skatepark: why not use some stickers as graffiti? That would really give a colorful look to that grey area!

[RodneyBunkus]

For making the skatepark less grey, check out some California skateparks. They often paint edges or flat areas a single color to help people discern where the coping or flat is and offer something to visually break up the grey area. Some also have sections made of bricks. Also, layouts of skateparks typically have ramps around the edges with obstacle in between so that people can just skate back and forth without pushing, which gets tiring quick. People also like to bring in DIY boxes made of all sorts materials that could pop against the grey. Skaters also like to grab things like road signs and sheet metal to cover cracks or make small bumps easier to ride over. We also like to skate everything close to the park too and the barrier surrounding the park looks like a great place to put some grind marks. Stuff scrapes off while grinding which leaves dark skids on edges after a while. There's all sorts of interesting obstacles that can be built so that it's not all just A-frames. Jersey barriers and pole jams are super cool things that I think could translate into Lego pretty easily. I'm happy to even see a park at all honestly, great job with the city!

[ep]

In my opinion, you should rethink on the size of the cable car station on the mountain. When you look at it from a distance, it gives you the illusion that the station is gigantic in proportion with the mountains, since before, your idea for creating the mountains was to give an illusion of distance

[Damien.D]

Light in the gondola. That would look epic at night.
(the rest of this update is just perfect)

[ForzaMonkey]

Something that I think would be cool for this build, the mountain specifically, would be a hiking trail/climbing route that goes from the gondola all the way to the top of the mountain when it is complete, whenever that may be. There could also a be a secondary route that goes all the way from the base of the mountain and connects to the top gondola. Could have some hikers on it being attacked by bigfoot or something like that.

Can't wait to see more!

[juliang]

imagine some teenagers getting off at the end station of the tram. they will not walk all the way around to get to the skate park. what will they do? they will jump over the wall walk through the vegetation to get to the skate park. therefore you should add a small path of yellowed grass to make it more realistic
edit: what i mean is to make it look like trampled grass instead of an actually path. it will be very realistic

[PIZEK]

The skate park is actually a good addition

[michielvandermeij]

I have a tip from engineering perspective. If you put the sensor horizontally, there can accumulate dust and interfere with the signal, in engineering we place sensors vertically if possible to simply surpass the problem of dust accumulation on sensors.

Love all your content ! I hope I can visit the museum some time soon!

[Shack]

Please make the cable car slow down along its entire journey up. You use forced perspective to make the mountain seem bigger. You can't shrink the cable car as it ascends, but you can enhance the forced perspective by slowing it down as it goes up. This is just like how distand things seem to move slower.

[lightrailmachines]

I feel like the cable car kind of ruins the forced perspective of the mountains. Maybe if you made the car smaller, it wouldn’t ruin the effect as much? You could always consider adding it to a different future hill where forced perspective isn’t used as much

[stratplus]

The cable cart is nice but:
1. It passes the street at street level, so there should be traffic lights or something like that to stop traffic (or the ground station could be moved to the other side of the road).
2. There are no parking spaces near the station
3. The top station should have a restaurant and/or lookout point
4. The original idea of using smaller trees to make the mountains look larger does not really work when your top station is as big as the ground station. I'd ditch that earlier idea and swap the little trees with normal sized trees. Then the cable cart won't go to the top of the mountain, but that's often the case, so I don't think that's a problem.

[nawalelabbassi]

Here are my little boys comments who is the actual fan of your work: Thank you for the skate park, you should add snow on the mountain as well as a ski area, you should also add a metro in your city, the old station has been hiding underneath the wild west moc 😉😉, Finally it would be nice to have a sketch like you did once (for the great city expansion) for the part where the city ends at the sawmill to know whats coming up next, Thank you!!

[BeamMine]

Lets go this is exactly the type of vid i wanted him to upload

[bernadettavarley]

Even with the people the skate park looks a bit drab in color.
Adding more people wouldn't work because it already has too many.
My personal opinion is that the skate part would benefit a lot from some graffiti for color and aesthetics.

[peyton-rproductions]

The injured skateboarder needs an ambulance, also would love to see your design for a European ambulance in Lego

[AndersJohnston-xi]

You know what would be the coolest thing? You should make a tiny little car with a camera on it(doesn't have to be lego), and then drive it through the city for a while like you are a person living there. That would be so cool!

[Starfighter]

Add stadium lights to the skate park, lit up skate parks are so nice and skaters know that

[kobeloton]

Hey Bricks Craft just a few design ideas:
Maybe add a skatepark bench under a gazebo since most skateboarders don’t sit on the actual park as well as lights and graffiti and maybe an ambulance there because how is the doctor going to put his leg on if he’s not going to the hospital
For the cable car maybe and like boom gates with flashing lights to stop cars travelling through and hitting the cable car and the cable car stop is way to big for the mountain in kind of sticks out like a sore thumb
Thanks, love the build hopefully your sawmill gets to be an actual Lego product

[Stunters]

As a skater, u got the vibe of the skatepark exactly right🔥 the only thing that u could try to add is graffiti