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Thank you - I'm so out of touch with modern lego. Though am rapidly learning.
I feel like maybe I should just get her the lego equivalent of celiing beams and a load of long planks and encourage her to build them up properly. Got her to watch a youtube video on lego and architecture yesterday and she's now saying she wants to be an architect.
After getting slightly carried away on ebay she's got two harry potter lego sets and the car with motors coming for her birthday, so this will probably keep her busy for a while. Plus I have an extra Harry Potter Great hall I need to resell having accidentally bought two.
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Ha, even more elaborate! Amazing.
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-18922
Most recently, they've come up with the 'road plates':
https://brickset.com/parts/design-69958
https://brickset.com/parts/design-73675
The 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.