Brick Canyon Bridge and Falls

Exciting news today as Brick Canyon Bridge and Falls was selected as the Staff Pick for July 29, 2018! This is my fourth staff pick, following my (now expired) Lego Baltimore, Lego Niagara Falls, and Lego Yosemite Falls sets. Below is a screen capture from my phone. Thanks -- once again -- to the Lego Ideas staff for yet another honor!

Feeling excited tonight because for the first time ever, I have made it to the "Popular This Week" list on the Lego Ideas home page. Woo-hoo!

Exciting day today ... "Brick Canyon Bridge and Falls" was selected as an "Editor's Top 5 Projects Under 100 Supporters" in the Lego Weekly Digest email this week. Which is no longer true, since I am now safely above 100 supporters. But hey, awesome news, and welcome to all my new supporters on this project!

I had a few comments today on the cars I made for this set, so I wanted to share my alternate vehicle design. I call this the "Buckingham Palace" build, since the vehicles are designed in the style of the Buckingham Palace set from the Lego Architecture series. In this build, the bridge is now a highway bridge with numerous cars, SUVs, busses, and trucks passing overhead. By using micro-sized vehicles, the scale of the waterfall changes rather dramatically and comes closer to my original vision for the project.

In hindsight, maybe I should have sbumitted this design instead. But I wanted to save these vehicles for a future project of mine. So maybe you will see them again one day.

What do you think of my decision? Let me know in the comments!

Hello everyone! I wanted to add an extra image to show that the bridge supports are, in fact, firmly anchored to the "bedrock" inside the mountain. Not only is the arch is connected to the base, it is also connected to the bridge deck at the center as well as at the four support beams.

The arch does not physically support the bridge; I used numerous 1x16 technic bricks and other parts inside the bridge to give it enough strength to span the canyon. But for cosmetic reasons, the arch is obviously critical to the design. I used 27 pairs of hinge plates (54 parts total) to create the arch. You can see a lot of these parts in the image below. I also used 8 pairs of ball end/ball cup plates (16 parts total) to create the support beams between the arch and the bridge deck.

It took quite some time to line up everything in Lego Digital Designer, but as amateur Lego builders, I think it is critical that we create designs that will be fully functional with real-life bricks. Unfortunately, so much of this detail is hidden in the final images of the set. That's why I wanted to provide a sneak peak here of what is going on "behind the bricks".

Thanks for taking the time to read my update. If you have any questions, leave them for me in the comments section. Brick on!