My Lego City

oh, lol, and here I am only buying $10 sets,. . I never go higher than $50,, I thought i'd have a week sorting my lego out, , may, I am going to build all 900 sets. I counted 50 000 pieces of lego, last holidays, funny enough I only have 5 houses in 900sets, from, 1970 - 2013 , I have the 1982 blue house, the 1981 white house, as you have . and the paradise pink house from 1990 , a yellow house and another red house, from 1970 lego which was basically because I like the .. introductory sets,. just for the doors and windows, , I always get them . in case I need more windows, so I add 4 sets together to make a big house,. I guess I just like $10 sets though , for that value ..
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and last week, I got some star wars finally,

Lego Star Wars Clone Trooper vs Droidekas 75000
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gold trooppers, , I should go tell it on the ; what I bought today, . and check out yout you tube again

spongo wrote:oh, lol, and here I am only buying $10 sets,. . I never go higher than $50,, I thought i'd have a week sorting my lego out, , may, I am going to build all 900 sets. I counted 50 000 pieces of lego, last holidays, funny enough I only have 5 houses in 900sets, from, 1970 - 2013 , I have the 1982 blue house, the 1981 white house, as you have . and the paradise pink house from 1990 , a yellow house and another red house, from 1970 lego which was basically because I like the .. introductory sets,. just for the doors and windows, , I always get them . in case I need more windows, so I add 4 sets together to make a big house,. I guess I just like $10 sets though , for that value ..
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and last week, I got some star wars finally,

Lego Star Wars Clone Trooper vs Droidekas 75000
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gold trooppers, , I should go tell it on the ; what I bought today, . and check out yout you tube again

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I'm sorry, but I don't understand any of this.

^ ditto, wrong thread maybe?

I should have said, I bought a whole batch of box 6119, roof tiles, because, back in the day , I bought the sets without roofs, and thought my city lego would look funny without roofs, so , I bought up all the boxes of 6119 red roof pieces, as well as some lego star wars,
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the new re-release of model houses, inspired my to do some lego youtubes, like timmyc1983 ..
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I was organising my 1000 lego sets , so i'll be offline for a month while I build the 55 years of blocks, and 35 years of,. lego minifigures.
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is everyone excited .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWVOaz4lxak
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, there I thought i'd add another video today , with all my lego city boxes, so next month in may edition of my lego update, you can see all my houses

Nice vid, looks like they'll be nice houses! However, you may want to start your very own thread to update the peeps...

In other news, i will be posting an update video of Brixton Valley (yeah i added the 'valley' to the name cos of the walls). Hopefully over the weekend i will post some pics and a link to the video here and on EB forum!

Happy building in the meantime

Hello everyone, as promised here is the update to my city!

A couple more buildings and the train line now all the way around Brixton Valley!!

Anyway, a couple of pics:







a few changes there which i hope you enjoy and hopefully over the coming months there will be a few more additions (MOCs and MODs)...

Comments and suggestions more than welcome

Thanks for looking and happy building!!

oh and i almost forgot the youtube video i uploaded!!!!

happy building

how amazing it looks like a lot of work timmy! i really like that town set with the small cinama isnt that a rare one? the trainline near the docks is really sweet i think. but where is the airport!?? how can the citizens go to other lego countries??

Thanks 'PrincessLime'

The cinema is a MOD from the Town Plan set 10184, and i have a further extension planned for it too just trying to save the $$ so i can buy the brick

And re: the airport:

I should have put this shot in rather than the first one...



You don't think i'd leave my poor minifigs with no way to travel!!!!

Nice airport Timmy

Airports must be about the most difficult thing to fit into a city or townscape. Full sized airports take up huge amounts of land area and even one or two rural towns where I've lived that've had an aerodrome of the grass field and a few tin sheds variety would still need a very big space to represent them to scale in Lego. Of course the answer lies in the suspension of disbelief and the joy of letting out our inner child who couldn't care less about aerodynamics and the laws of physics

Thanks Annie,

and yeah you're too right about the airports haha. When i finished this layout i looked at the airport and thought, "hopefully the plane isn't landing or taking off while the train is running on that part of the track!!"

But then i pretended i didn't see that and swiftly moved on hehe

And i think there's a beach in the Caribbean where the planes land almost on the beach, that's the look i was going for here

Love it, looks great and it's had 9 views already (2 are me tho )

Just had a look myself which makes it a perfect ten

Ah, yes I'll say it again....love the city corner and octan gas station combo.....perfect colour matching of sets of two different decades.
Brick On !

Locomotive Annie wrote:Nice airport Timmy

Airports must be about the most difficult thing to fit into a city or townscape. Full sized airports take up huge amounts of land area and even one or two rural towns where I've lived that've had an aerodrome of the grass field and a few tin sheds variety would still need a very big space to represent them to scale in Lego. Of course the answer lies in the suspension of disbelief and the joy of letting out our inner child who couldn't care less about aerodynamics and the laws of physics

haha thats true, My problem will be finding enough runway base plates, I have a full 2.5m x 1m space for my airport I just need to find that really cool big and old airport set (the one with 10 mini figs) plus an extra 5 or 6 matching runway plates.

timmyc1983 wrote:Love it, looks great and it's had 9 views already (2 are me tho )

Cool vid, what it needs is some close up shots of mini figs etc, funny ones are always good like a mini fig slipping over on a banana or the classic my cat is stuck up a tree. I notice you have a wedding going on so maybe a close up of that and some of your original paradisa beach sets are classics so some close ups of those (people feeding the dolphins etc) will add interest and make the whole city feel more alive.

Ajax wrote:
Cool vid, what it needs is some close up shots of mini figs etc, funny ones are always good like a mini fig slipping over on a banana or the classic my cat is stuck up a tree. I notice you have a wedding going on so maybe a close up of that and some of your original paradisa beach sets are classics so some close ups of those (people feeding the dolphins etc) will add interest and make the whole city feel more alive.

Good idea, I'm about to head down and take some shots soon, so i'll try and set some scenes up

Attack of the giant ginger cat!!!

He came.


He sat.


He destroyed.


Thankfully no minifigures were fatally wounded in the attack!

Happy building

It goes to show that cats love LEGO too

I was wondering is that Octan building a MOC or part of the Town Plan set released in 2008 ???

Free Spirit wrote:It goes to show that cats love LEGO too

I was wondering is that Octan building a MOC or part of the Town Plan set released in 2008 ???

It's a WIP MOD of the Town Plan service station. As you can probably see, parts of the roof are missing and the interior is rather bare atm. It will eventually house the Octan Energy Company's HQ... And it's modular ready too :D

I tawt I tawt a puddy tat !
Lucky minifigs don't move under their own power eh ?

Cats seem to like layout boards. I'm sure they think that they've been setup for their benefit and can't understand the fuss when humans get upset with them for sitting in the middle of them.

When I suggested to get a photo of a cat stuck in a tree I didn't think you would take it to such extreme's,

Ajax wrote:When I suggested to get a photo of a cat stuck in a tree I didn't think you would take it to such extreme's,

AHAHAHA All of the trees broke when i put him in them... I think maybe i should have used a bigger tree