LEGO Scenario: Standard Star Wars, London, Great Wave OFF Kanagawa MOC Part 2 DOTs Mosaic Micropolis
Channel: FAMILY Bricks
Date: 2020-03-04

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In this video we look at the standard around building LEGO Scenarios. Thus all the parts can come together easily and you can spend more time on the themeing, rather than driving yourself crazy with the engineering.

Visit https://www.mattelder.com/scenario for all LEGO Scenario resources

This is the 2nd video in the series. The others can be found here:
Part 1 - Introduction: https://youtu.be/qhQ-CA1BanY
Part 2 - Standard: https://youtu.be/uQu14XxU-zI
Part 3 - Gears, Name and the future: https://youtu.be/ET0f-ma5c-c

NOTE: In the future, plan to release video instructions and plans so you too can build these ... or your own versions. 

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G’day Everyone, Matt Elder of mattelder.com and in this video we are going to look at the developing standard around LEGO Scenario boxes. This is the 2nd video in the series and be sure to check out mattelder dot com forward slash scenario for the LEGO Scenario resource page. Lets get started.

The Standard
Just want to talk briefly about the standard we’ve been developing around this, similar to how Great Ball Contraptions, GBC and Micropolis building have standards. Thus you can develop sections in modules and easy to interconnect. In this case too, when there are standard configurations and components, the drive components can more readily be plugged in. 
Thus one can spend more time on just theming and being creative with the overall scenario, than spending days pulling your hair out developing the drive mechanics and gears (as I’ve done to date). 

The Action box is built on a 16x16 base. In the middle of each side is a 1x4 technic brick with 3 wholes. This allows the modules to be interconnected on all sides. On the 8th brick high, another 1x4 technic brick with 3 holes is placed. This allows for the main axle height for any wheels to be placed. A drive motor is designed to be connected up easily at this height.
By doing so, it gives a 1 brick height at the base to place any other technic gears or axles and will be out of the way of any objects on the wheels turning and bumping into it. The height of the box is 10 bricks high with a finishing layer of tiles if desired. This can help securely connect any way bricks. 

This 10 brick height enables maximum height of objects placed on the bracelet bands, and also hiding any of the visual noise of the action box components. 10 high also means it could be placed infront of any GBC module to theme out the GBC.

On the back side, drive axles will run 2nd brick height up, and in 3rd stud position along from each side. They are generally designed with a Technic knob wheel on the left (sitting a ½ bush out) and a Technic Gear 20 Tooth Bevel on the right (sitting flush). There is some flexibility with swapping these around but you’d have to update the driver on the power unit.
We’ve tried to design this so it is ‘hot swappable’ so you generally connect it up to the drive unit sitting under the billboard, subtle tweak to align gears and away you go. To keep it quick, simple and interchangeable.

Looking at the billboard module, you can see the gear and Technic knob that will connect up to these. For the time being, I’ve made this piece readily detachable. At a later date it could be built in but find it is really hand for maintenance, little tweaks, and adds a little support for all the weight coming from the upper levels.

You have a space for the Power Functions L-Motor to slide into here and drive the main wheels. You can have a couple of gears come off the top here as well but just found that wasn’t providing enough torque. 

The other motor you can connect into here – this probably needs to be refined a bit. Initially these 40 tooth gears are all about slowing the motor speed down. The wheels and billboard don’t need to turn at great speeds to get a nice effect. Actually the opposite is true, I find the power coming directly out of the motors will spin everything way to fast. 
At this point here you have a corkscrew that slows things down again and this leads off to the main lower section to drive anything at the base. If we continue along and up, you’ll eventually get to the main gear that drives