LEGO New Hashima Cube(s): When Running Out of Space in the LEGO City, Build Up

I just finished building this beauty, A New Hashima Cube. It is a brick-built method to elevate sections of a LEGO city while providing space “underneath” for other builds. It is most often used in dystopian-themed builds with cyberpunk stores and residences. Sometimes the whole city is a series of cube-towers.

I’m thinking of putting less dystopian structures inside the cube. I have plans for a Japanese apartment complex called the Modern, that I’m thinking of adapting to the lower level space inside the cube.

The original plan was to construct three cubes and line them up along the right side of the city, between the tracks and that back wall. This first cube would be topped by the Avengers Tower and the next two cubes would be topped by the Science University (which is 64×32). After this initial build I tested the cube with the Art Factory set to see how steady it is.

It’s pretty steady, but I’m wondering if the cube can support the much heavier Avengers Tower. Also, given how tall the Avengers Tower is, I’m not entirely sure if the cube is necessary. Only thing to do is see how well the cube bears the weight of the Avengers Tower. When I switched out the Art Factory, I noticed that, because it used a different kind of base plate, the cube naturally clipped to the bottom of the Art Factory, whereas with the Avengers Tower which has a MILS plate with no stud-connectors on the bottom, is staying in place solely because of its weight.

Also, some kind of train station/stop will need to be built into one of the two or three cubes, just below the top. I’ll need to have the other two cubes created before the Science University arrives around November. More exploration needed.

I just finished building a third in the series called “Restaurants of the World.” I was originally going to add them to a green space at the end of the Plaza/Courtyard, but I wasn’t happy that that would mean we’d be seeing the backside and not the front of these very well-designed spaces. I’m now thinking that I should add them to the first floor of one of the New Hashima cubes, like pop-up spaces and probably take the elaborate brick-built signs and place them in-front of the spaces as advertisement. Hmmm. Again, more exploration is needed. Enjoy. JBB