I'm just winding up this very cool build, and just having joined the two towers to the drawbridge, I noticed that the road plates on the drawbridge sit about a tile's depth below the tunnel road plates on either side. At first, I thought I did something wrong, then I Googled some reviews and all of them look that way. It bugs me! That's quite a bump for the poor little LEGO vehicles.

It looks like the bridge wouldn't lift if the plates were even, but it seems like there would be a better way to design this to make it look more realistic. I'm pretty new to the LEGO world, so my curiosity is getting the better of me.

You have to have a gap, one way or another. Either the way they did with a vertical space, or space between the tiles.

Real drawspans occasionally get around this with teeth on both elements so that the gap is less obvious, but that would be tricky at the scale of TB.

I have it too, and although I found it odd at first, it doesn't bother me any more.

I was about to ask the similar question as I've only recently built the tower bridge. However since I've got this model mostly to be the decoration it doesn't bothers me that much. I think if this set was designed to have bridge plates on the same level as the other plates it would have to have much bigger gap between the plates in order so you can open and close it.

rollermonkey and RaYell,

Thanks for confirming what I thought. Only simple solutions in LEGO. I didn't think about the teeth that are normally used. Like you guys, I'll get used to it.