At first I wanted to make a big town, but then I thought, what's the point of doing that? Why not do something more with it? So my target plan was to build a big town or city and make movies within it. After that I decided to build a mini-world.
I've never made stop-motion movies (stop-motion animation) before, so I've put my experiences online at the section Some Movies, the LEGO movies in that section are not related with The World.
Here are example layouts of LEGO cities I once started to build :
