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That's an older one - they've got bigger and more elaborate now.
She has complained a bit, mostly because she's so keen to get on with the interior decor she neglects the internal structure and then they collapse when she puts weight on them. I suppose rather than baseplates I actually mean a bunch of the bigger rectangle pieces, just so she's not trying to stick together lots of 2x4 pieces into an entire floor.
I wouldn't employ her as a structural engineer any time soon...
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Ha, even more elaborate! Amazing.
she's so keen to get on with the interior decor she neglects the internal structure and then they collapse when she puts weight on them.
Bless. It's called 'learning', of course. :)
Baseplates are one of those issues that LEGO has still not quite got around to solving. In recent years, they've gone for the 2/3rds-thick plates in various versions, e.g. the ones with overlapping strips that your daughter has a few of in the house above:
https://brickset.com/parts/design-15624
https://brickset.com/parts/design-18922Most recently, they've come up with the 'road plates':
https://brickset.com/parts/design-69958
https://brickset.com/parts/design-73675The 2/3rds-thick ones are stable but not made in any sizes as good as base plate sizes. Then there are the 16x16 plates and 8x16 plates that have been in quite a few sets:
https://brickset.com/parts/6004927/plate-16x16
https://brickset.com/parts/4654613/plate-8x16
The 16x16 plates are reinforced beneath compared to normal plates, to make them sturdier, and as bases I think are currently the best option.
I'm not too sure I like the approach of making bases from the 2/3rds-thick plates too much. I'd definitely use them inside a build to make it sturdier, but for the outside, I'm not sure. In the case of city layouts (of which I'm not planning to build one, incidentally), it leads to the situation that the carriageway of a street is higher up than older baseplates or 1/3rd thick plates. OK, with traditional city baseplates, footway/built-up lot and carriageway were the same height apart from the studs on the footway/built-up lot parts, but you could build up the footway to be higher more easily. Now you'd probably need at least a full brick height layer or 4/3rds layers to create a footway.
Oliver Schick
Her houses are great!
I know what you mean with baseplates, but has she actually complained about having to make a patchwork? Trying to streamline this sounds to me like a bit of an adult perspective. Also, the issue with baseplates is, of course, that they're floppy. I'm sure it's difficult to impossible to carry patchwork base houses around, but with base plates, you can easily ruin what's on them because you think they make things easy to carry, and while they probably make it easi-er, you can inadvertently destroy something by being too confident about the baseplate, e.g. walls fracturing.