The best advice i can give is to look beyond just Lego to other brands like Funwhole and Pantasy. You're going to dramatically expand your options for modulars, get the same quality or better, and save a ton versus Lego prices.
Unless you already have Lego that might be from your childhood you will need to invest money into the hobby. Unfortunately that is the case for a lot of hobbies.
My mom and I would get the modulars every year starting with pet shop (yet we both didn’t get town hall somehow 🤦♀️). When she passed away, I stumbled upon rebrickable because I couldn’t bear to part with them and needed ideas. Now I can look at my shelf city and see all the alternate buildings and know they were hers.
Awe…. I teared up reading this. That is so beautiful. I turned my Corner Garage into my Grandpa’s garage to remember him, so this definitely struck a chord with me. Things like this remind me that Lego is more than plastic bricks ❤️
I only ever collected medieval and pirates… Then my wife got me the bookshop and the obsession took off from there lol. Got the assembly sqr next, followed by boutique hotel, jazz club, police station, and museum. Then a few months later I found the corner garage, detective’s office, brick bank, Parisian restaurant, and downtown diner all at a garage sale for $100 each. Still hunting for a good deal on my white whale sets, town hall and fire brigade.
As somebody whose starting a city myself, my advice is to get at least one modular just as a nice center piece for your town, if this was 10 years ago I would have said snag the town hall, but sadly that things gonna cost you a kidney nowadays. So I would say go for something like the Police Precinct, or pick up the Boutique Hotel while you still can, or if you really want to go off the wall and not go for a modular, go for ninjago city gardens, it's set to retire by the end of this year I'm pretty sure, and it's cheap for 5000 pieces.
Bricksie😂? He just duplicates lego official sets and makes vlog and haul bullshits. No no, look at Brickcraft, AFOL TV, BevinBricks. The true designers who creates their own builds. You will find inspiration with them
I love how thorough your content is! I was on the fence about the mils system since I only want a shelf city. It's been keeping me from actually building my modulars, so thank you for the insight on strength for moving it!
Glad I could help! It is worth it 100% in my opinion! It also gives you more flexibility when it comes to roads if you make those. It also lets you build deeper. So for example, you can tell a story on a sidewalk of a hole in the sidewalk. 😁
My 2 level shelf city just reached its limit with space, so this is perfect timing. I also recently got heavily into the modulars, with my first one being the sanctum from marvel and the police station as the first official modular. I got hooked and now i got almost all of them except the first 4 (cafe corner, green grocer, market street and fire brigade) and i still need to pick up the recent museum. Some of them i got second hand from a germany-exclusive platform called kleinanzeigen (its essentially ebay), and got some great scores. That one time a guy sold his collection and i picked up the parisian restaurant, grand emporium and palace cinema from him for 350€ total. In my eyes thats a great bargain! Now i need to find a bigger space to display them
This is an incredibly good and accessible video. Your tone is really approachable. Really like it. Fyi, I don't have modulars but my wife do and I asked what she would recommend starting with, it was also the Book Store :)
Great video!! I just got started on my lego city, all I have is a train from when I was a kid and I recently got a used lego creative box (10698) for really cheap, there's a bunch of houses (house near bookshop!!!) and shops you can make with it on rebrickable, I definitely recommend this approach if you don't want to spend hundreds of dollars to start (cost me like 50$ used, had a few other sets thrown in) and if you don't mind having very colorful buildings. There's a few limitations in those mocs since they are limited to the pieces from the box but if you have even just a few spare parts you can improve on the mocs and make some pretty great stuff with these creative boxes!
Hi, great video. The shelf is a great way to start. I have a ton of Lego City buildings from 10 years back where my children were young, but I want to combine it with the creator buildings. Is it the same scale and does it match? Greeting from The Netherlands.
Hello, I see that everyone and you too says only about modular buildings or modular size buildings, but it is very expensive. I think if you make a video about how to make a lego city using a regular lego sets it will be interesting. I had most exciting after I built some small modifications from regular city and creator sets. I think some people will be excited too
This sounds like fun. Just for clarification what do you mean by “regular Lego set”? Modular’s are Lego sets. Are you talking about sets that are cheaper and don’t have a back to them? I was thinking about a video of making a microscale Lego city!
@@CamToner they don't have back of them (like most city sets) or they have turned parts (like lego creator noodle shop) Yes main of them is a lower price, but price not all purpose: also i think that lego have very few modulars and every lego city that made of only modular sets are very similar. I think that best city is a combination of creator, friends, modular, creator, etc sets. I think it is esyest way to make a unique city. And very few video how to make it.
The best thing to do is look beyond Lego to the other manufacturers. You'll suddenly have far more modular choices, usually at way better prices. You can get modulars from Funwhole or Pantasy that are as good as Lego for 1/3 to 1/2 the price, at least in the US.
I have those shelves from Amazon, what should I do since I don’t want to make my Avenger tower on a mild plate since it’s already been fully built, also since I don’t want to put a mils plate underneath, what do I do with a road plate because it would be higher than my sidewalk?
As impressive as the large table design cities are, I really think the bookshelf design has a lot of advantages. In the big layout cities, details and stories are farther away from the viewer and lost in the big layouts. With shelf cities viewer can be inches from all the buildings to inspect the details, interiors and stories. Shelves take up little floor space so can be shared in a room that serves other purposes. You can have in it the family room where it can be enjoyed throughout the day. Also if spouse is unwilling to sacrifice a room to LEGO, bookcases are a good compromise. Making changes and adjustments are easy to get to and make. Different themes can be separated by shelves or on a separate bookcase. Lighting can be easier. A wall of modular buildings look quite impressive too. On the downside, bookshelves don’t accommodate trains, large landscapes or large deep structures as well as tabletops and are segmented so broad stories have to be sacrificed. All that said, if room is limited bookcases/ shelves are very attractive option for those starting a city. Personally, I don’t like cities in real life so I’m not inspired to build a LEGO city but prefer vignettes or dioramas which adapter to small to medium size spaces and theme changes. The beauty of LEGO is there is no one way to enjoy it. When I was a kid, we never displayed our creations. We built vehicles and buildings to use with our Hot Wheels and action figures. Then we would tear apart our multicolored, Frankenstein-ed structures and build whatever the next imaginary adventure needed. Ah, childhood…..
Personally, i only have a broken Corner garage barely hanging on and a bookshop set in my pathetic town so far, but since i have no other income and am relying on chirstmas, i certianly hope i get something to boost my city a bit, maybe a train and a small building. I just really dont want to do custom builds, I love using my imagination, but with lego i need instructions.
Started also with the Bookshop. Now got 8 😅. Also have Parisian Restaurant, Police Station, Corner Garage, Assembly Square, Boutique Hotel, Jazz Club & Museum. Parisian Restaurant is the only one I had to buy second hand, because it was already retired. But glad I did, because it’s probably my favorite.
Ooooh yes! The slope is slippery indeed 😂 I will say out of all the Modular’s I bought after it was retired, the Parisian Restaurant is also my favorite! A great build! Also it is referenced in the Boutique Hotel set I think with the painters paintings.
I recently picked up the corner garage for like $200 off eBay like 2 months ago! Great deal and was basically retail price (minus the extra shipping and handling cost)
The best advice i can give is to look beyond just Lego to other brands like Funwhole and Pantasy. You're going to dramatically expand your options for modulars, get the same quality or better, and save a ton versus Lego prices.
First: have money
Unless you already have Lego that might be from your childhood you will need to invest money into the hobby. Unfortunately that is the case for a lot of hobbies.
Great video! I had no idea you had to remake the first floor to adapt your existing modulars to fit the MILS system. I wish I started earlier.
My mom and I would get the modulars every year starting with pet shop (yet we both didn’t get town hall somehow 🤦♀️). When she passed away, I stumbled upon rebrickable because I couldn’t bear to part with them and needed ideas. Now I can look at my shelf city and see all the alternate buildings and know they were hers.
Awe…. I teared up reading this. That is so beautiful. I turned my Corner Garage into my Grandpa’s garage to remember him, so this definitely struck a chord with me. Things like this remind me that Lego is more than plastic bricks ❤️
I only ever collected medieval and pirates… Then my wife got me the bookshop and the obsession took off from there lol. Got the assembly sqr next, followed by boutique hotel, jazz club, police station, and museum. Then a few months later I found the corner garage, detective’s office, brick bank, Parisian restaurant, and downtown diner all at a garage sale for $100 each. Still hunting for a good deal on my white whale sets, town hall and fire brigade.
In times past all you needed to call a place a city was a church and a post office. Seems reasonable to me.
Great video! Great tips.
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
great video, just bought my first modular (the museum). curious about the journey
As somebody whose starting a city myself, my advice is to get at least one modular just as a nice center piece for your town, if this was 10 years ago I would have said snag the town hall, but sadly that things gonna cost you a kidney nowadays. So I would say go for something like the Police Precinct, or pick up the Boutique Hotel while you still can, or if you really want to go off the wall and not go for a modular, go for ninjago city gardens, it's set to retire by the end of this year I'm pretty sure, and it's cheap for 5000 pieces.
What a calm approach to the hobby. Love the suggestions, I’ll be checking out your mocs next! 😁
Thank you! 🎉🎉
Bricksie is the Lego City Brick Father of the afol city building community. I think he inspired a lot of us. He inspired me to build my own city
To each their own
I find him obnoxious
Totally! I think it gave me scope of what a Lego city could be!
I agree. He also inspired me to build a Lego city
JANG is the true AFOL LEGO city father
Bricksie😂? He just duplicates lego official sets and makes vlog and haul bullshits.
No no, look at Brickcraft, AFOL TV, BevinBricks. The true designers who creates their own builds. You will find inspiration with them
I love how thorough your content is! I was on the fence about the mils system since I only want a shelf city. It's been keeping me from actually building my modulars, so thank you for the insight on strength for moving it!
Glad I could help! It is worth it 100% in my opinion! It also gives you more flexibility when it comes to roads if you make those. It also lets you build deeper. So for example, you can tell a story on a sidewalk of a hole in the sidewalk. 😁
Definitely MILS even for the shelf city. It is so easy to move and rearrange. And like Cam said doing it after the fact is a pain!
My 2 level shelf city just reached its limit with space, so this is perfect timing. I also recently got heavily into the modulars, with my first one being the sanctum from marvel and the police station as the first official modular. I got hooked and now i got almost all of them except the first 4 (cafe corner, green grocer, market street and fire brigade) and i still need to pick up the recent museum. Some of them i got second hand from a germany-exclusive platform called kleinanzeigen (its essentially ebay), and got some great scores. That one time a guy sold his collection and i picked up the parisian restaurant, grand emporium and palace cinema from him for 350€ total. In my eyes thats a great bargain!
Now i need to find a bigger space to display them
SHEEEESH! That was a steal for those three! I think I paid just under that for the Parisian Restaurant! 😮
Great video! And great advice. Thank you for NOT gatekeeping!
Always! 😁
Great video. Thank you for keeping it humble.
I appreciate it! Thank you!
This was such helpful info. I greatly appreciate it. Because of my limited space, I’m doing the City on shelves now 😊
Nice! Shelf cities are the way to go to save space. It’s also a little easier to see all your buildings at just a glance compared to a table city
This is an incredibly good and accessible video. Your tone is really approachable. Really like it. Fyi, I don't have modulars but my wife do and I asked what she would recommend starting with, it was also the Book Store :)
Thank you! That is always the goal when it comes to things I do. Make everyone feel like they can come along! And YES! The book shop is goated!
I am a fan Lego since my first set, I think was 1987 or 1988. Now, with 42 years old, I will start a little City. Congrats, from São Paulo, Brazil!
Very cool! Good luck!
Great tips! Maybe one day
Great video!! I just got started on my lego city, all I have is a train from when I was a kid and I recently got a used lego creative box (10698) for really cheap, there's a bunch of houses (house near bookshop!!!) and shops you can make with it on rebrickable, I definitely recommend this approach if you don't want to spend hundreds of dollars to start (cost me like 50$ used, had a few other sets thrown in) and if you don't mind having very colorful buildings. There's a few limitations in those mocs since they are limited to the pieces from the box but if you have even just a few spare parts you can improve on the mocs and make some pretty great stuff with these creative boxes!
That is a good call out! I didn’t even know people had MOCs for those sets!
Oh my God, my first module was also the bookshop that’s so funny
Definitely taking your advice about mils plates. Going to have to learn more about those
Glad it was helpful! Instructions for MILS plates can be found on rebrickable.com
Hi, great video. The shelf is a great way to start. I have a ton of Lego City buildings from 10 years back where my children were young, but I want to combine it with the creator buildings. Is it the same scale and does it match? Greeting from The Netherlands.
My best tip to starting a LEGO city is: Just do it
Facts! That is the hardest part about doing most things is starting! Awesome comment!
Hello, I see that everyone and you too says only about modular buildings or modular size buildings, but it is very expensive. I think if you make a video about how to make a lego city using a regular lego sets it will be interesting. I had most exciting after I built some small modifications from regular city and creator sets. I think some people will be excited too
This sounds like fun. Just for clarification what do you mean by “regular Lego set”? Modular’s are Lego sets. Are you talking about sets that are cheaper and don’t have a back to them?
I was thinking about a video of making a microscale Lego city!
@@CamToner they don't have back of them (like most city sets) or they have turned parts (like lego creator noodle shop)
Yes main of them is a lower price, but price not all purpose: also i think that lego have very few modulars and every lego city that made of only modular sets are very similar. I think that best city is a combination of creator, friends, modular, creator, etc sets. I think it is esyest way to make a unique city. And very few video how to make it.
The best thing to do is look beyond Lego to the other manufacturers. You'll suddenly have far more modular choices, usually at way better prices. You can get modulars from Funwhole or Pantasy that are as good as Lego for 1/3 to 1/2 the price, at least in the US.
Wow love this channel, good advice. I have mayself 5 modulars right know
Thank you so much for the kind words! LETS GO!!! The more you get the harder it will be to choose what goes next to what 😂😂😂
@@CamToner yeah Some of the ones I want right know are litle bit to expensive 😂😂, do you have the brick bank or fire station?
I want to build one
I have one modular building that being the sanctum sanctorum from lego marvel next week I get to start my lego city
Great intro and inspiration video. Kudos! 🍻🐝🐝
Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed!
I want the jazz club
The Jazz Club was a really fun build!
@@CamToner yah it looks fun
I got it yesterday $70 off
@ w
I have those shelves from Amazon, what should I do since I don’t want to make my Avenger tower on a mild plate since it’s already been fully built, also since I don’t want to put a mils plate underneath, what do I do with a road plate because it would be higher than my sidewalk?
5:13 that looks so dangerous 💀💀
how to build roads
I got the book store and the center with the fountain on eBay for $265 on an eBay auction! I have the sanctum Santorum so I’m going put them together
As impressive as the large table design cities are, I really think the bookshelf design has a lot of advantages. In the big layout cities, details and stories are farther away from the viewer and lost in the big layouts. With shelf cities viewer can be inches from all the buildings to inspect the details, interiors and stories. Shelves take up little floor space so can be shared in a room that serves other purposes. You can have in it the family room where it can be enjoyed throughout the day. Also if spouse is unwilling to sacrifice a room to LEGO, bookcases are a good compromise. Making changes and adjustments are easy to get to and make. Different themes can be separated by shelves or on a separate bookcase. Lighting can be easier. A wall of modular buildings look quite impressive too. On the downside, bookshelves don’t accommodate trains, large landscapes or large deep structures as well as tabletops and are segmented so broad stories have to be sacrificed. All that said, if room is limited bookcases/ shelves are very attractive option for those starting a city. Personally, I don’t like cities in real life so I’m not inspired to build a LEGO city but prefer vignettes or dioramas which adapter to small to medium size spaces and theme changes. The beauty of LEGO is there is no one way to enjoy it. When I was a kid, we never displayed our creations. We built vehicles and buildings to use with our Hot Wheels and action figures. Then we would tear apart our multicolored, Frankenstein-ed structures and build whatever the next imaginary adventure needed. Ah, childhood…..
Very well said! Space is definitely the biggest of the factors when making a city 😊
Personally, i only have a broken Corner garage barely hanging on and a bookshop set in my pathetic town so far, but since i have no other income and am relying on chirstmas, i certianly hope i get something to boost my city a bit, maybe a train and a small building. I just really dont want to do custom builds, I love using my imagination, but with lego i need instructions.
Started also with the Bookshop. Now got 8 😅. Also have Parisian Restaurant, Police Station, Corner Garage, Assembly Square, Boutique Hotel, Jazz Club & Museum.
Parisian Restaurant is the only one I had to buy second hand, because it was already retired. But glad I did, because it’s probably my favorite.
Ooooh yes! The slope is slippery indeed 😂
I will say out of all the Modular’s I bought after it was retired, the Parisian Restaurant is also my favorite! A great build! Also it is referenced in the Boutique Hotel set I think with the painters paintings.
I recently picked up the corner garage for like $200 off eBay like 2 months ago! Great deal and was basically retail price (minus the extra shipping and handling cost)
That is awesome! We love finds like that!
Great vid
Thank you for the watch! 😁
W lego UA-camr
Thank you 🙏
i started 1 in March of 2024
Nice! I hope it’s going well! 😁
@@CamToneryep it is!
This is my Lego City. Since this video I've added a large zoo and park
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WOAH!!! That’s neat!!! 😄
Hey! I know this guy! One of these days I will start my city/youtube channel... I gotta figure out tables 🥴🙃