The best part is seeing your smile and excitement seeing the finished product. I’m new to the LEGO collecting community and really enjoyed your video. Cheers!
Hey! 💖 As a crafter, I would suggest to try coloring the cables. Buy alcohol based markers and paint the visible parts of the cables before putting them in. Like a brown color for the candle cables that are running under the tables and grey for the cables surrounding the statues etc. I can imagine that it's a frightning thought at first, but maybe u try it on a small project sometime in the future. 🎉 Love ur content, greetings from Germany 💖
That is both an amazing idea and something I would be so daunted by 😂. But definitely worth doing for people that like to hide the cables as much as possible.
@@HighTeaToysas a hippy that can't stand bright cold lights I've used red/orange markers and glass paint on all kinds of bulbs throughout the years to make them warmer and a bit more dim. I would 100 do this if I were to buy a light kit. Whiteboard marker also works and is very easily wiped off if the desired effect isn't there. Different opacities of sticky tape can also dim a light, I only ever use that on light sources you can't directly see of course.
@@piotr78 I put tape over all kinds of power/standby lights on my consumer electronics (PC, DSL router, external HDDs, etc.) to eliminate "night lights". The LEDs they use are too bright or unnecessary.
You said it yourself, it honest to goodness looks magical! The Rivendell set screams for a lighting kit in my opinion. I’m glad to see it really does add to the aura. Great job on the install and review! I’m sure you inspire many to try out or at least think about light kits with these videos and your city itself.
I really want to see a closer look at the forge section. It looks so cozy and nice especially with the light kit. Is there any chance you would do another video on looking at each section a bit closer?
Hi Joanne as you had experience adding lighting kits do you rather add the lighting as you build or find it easier once built the set. Cas of the high price s on lighting kit s an the wires wich I hate unless can not cee the wire s add I have bean just yousing thos fairy light with battery box at end if the wire and .just threaded the light s thru my set s .an got slack. I should of tryed better to tack them into place but tried my best to to place each light on the wire .my moduler look like. I yousing lighting kit add and only $3.50 each one.😊
The light s I talk about in my other coment are a wire with tinny little light s on the wire so easy to bend an whant snap like wire s and the other style have cee thru plasticky over the wire s 😊 an the bonus is can you's rechargeable battery and save yousing main s power as it not as salf
Its an improvement to an already beautiful set, but the blue and green colours do look unnatural (at least on camera). When all your sets are on display with lights on though, holy cow!!! Perfection
The one problem is that the camera makes things look a tad brighter than they actually are in real life. They could do with being less bright, but when you attach them to a battery box rather than the mains it’s less bright already.
That was a really awesome video going through the motions of installing the light kid. The look is amazing and the end product is great. Thanks for doing that. Quick question... what shelving units do you use? I'm looking to display bigger models like Diagon Alley but not sure what to get
Glad you like it, for me persoanlly the green and blue is too bright, I think that needs be be more subtle lighting and it would be great if the blue slowly dimmed to give that running water effect, as you said the candles flickering would have also been awesome.
Hi there. Another very good video, thank you. The result does look good overall and I think this Lego set in particular is massively enhanced by lighting. To my eyes however it looks a bit over lit by this kit? The ethereal atmosphere of Rivendell is somewhat lost? Or is that just the way the camera makes it look? Disappointed no flickering lights - would be ideal for this set, in my opinion. I’m obsessed with hiding cables (particularly for this set as I don’t think cabling would have been part of the average Elven household 😂). I don’t tend to use Lightailing as to hide cables as part of one string is much harder than individual components. Indeed where necessary (now you may not want me to be a member of your channel after I admit this) I drill holes and create channels to run cables through bricks (is that Lego heresy?) Anyway this technique, in general, won’t work for Lightailing - but it would work well, for example, when using individual components for the candles on the desks. But as I say thanks again for another quality video, it’s given me ideas and things to think about as I plan my own lighting set up for Rivendell.
Hahaha. Honestly I think you can do with your lego what you want. Lightailing uses holes in elements too too, but only individual elements. What do you use to drill holes? Just really small drill bits? Very curious indeed. The camera does make the set look brighter then it looks in real life. I genuinely think it looks amazing. There are things that could be changed but overall is a wonderful effect, but I’m sure you can tell my excitement from the video 😅
@@HighTeaToys Phew that’s a relief! Yes I use very small modelling drill bits. My set is 0.5mm to 3mm in 0.1mm increments. I use a hand drill to keep the speed slow to avoid the brick(s) melting. Take care.
I think if you remove the main rooms light leaving just the candles and Dim the green and blue lights I think you'd be onto something that looks really nice a little more realistic but still fantasyesque
@@HighTeaToys you showed the splitter in that video, did you just get any or are there special ones I should get. im afraid of frying my light kits. and the device you use to turn on the light with your voice, is that just the smart plug?
@@rebelnili The splitters I have are from the actual light companies themselves, but you can use normal usb hubs too. The most that I have found happens is if you split your power over too many sets the lights dim a little as they don't get the power they need. But I have never had any problems apart from that which was easily rectified.
Just looked at it when I saw this comment. It is along the lines of what I expected from them. The candles flickering is amazing, I like the light above the narsil statue. I am unsure about the way they lit up the bottom of the tower. I quite like the individual statue lights in my kit. Light My Bricks is always very good at being in keeping with the set. the choice to have no large lights inside is interesting but works I think, though maybe one in the council of Elrond would have been nice. The price point is also around the amount I would expect from them, it's a lot. It is nearly double the price to the one I have (in £ anyway). My opinion in general is: it looks totally wonderful and very thoughtfully designed, I am just always personally uncomfortable with their price points. But for those with a slightly bigger budget I think it's hard to go wrong with them. :)
@@HighTeaToys I have to agree with you on what you said. 3 things i didnt like about it is: 1. The way the light up the statues, i mean if you are gonna light them up, the at least light them all up, looks kind of rushed to me. 2. This is actually the first thing i saw and i saw it right away. The light above the council seats, its a black can hanging in a tree, it sticks out like a sore thumb, why they didnt make that the same color as the branch its attached to i have no idea. 3. i feel like its abit to dark, i love the flickering lights/tourches, but i still think it needs more lighting than this. and the price is huge compared to the light kit you have!
Overall lighting is great but this lights are so bright that it takes all the magic behind rivendell. And again its more christmass tree rather rivendell magic inside 😢
When I was looking for light kits for Rivendell I found this one and I found Game of Bricks an LeLightGo. When I checked their product videos I saw that Game of Bricks and LeLightGo are using the exact same video, they only changed the logo. Do you know LeLightGo and do you know if they are in any way affiliated to Game of Bricks?
I've just bought my rivendell set and was interested in lighting it, but I don't have any previous experience installing these kits. Should I get a kit for a smaller set first for practice, or should I just go straight into this one?
Is it better to build the set entirely first and then do the light-tailing? Or better to do it while building the set? I’ve just started building it for the first time.
Personally I think better to build it first. For two reasons. 1 you get the enjoyment of actually building the set without faffing with lights. 2 the instructions are based of you already having the set built so it tells you which bits to remove etc. That’s how I approach it anyway.
Not with a button. But it depends how you power them. If you use the battery box it’s a little less bright then when you plug them into a socket. Also bear in mind that the camera makes it a touch brighter than it is in real life. Mine are directly in a socket so the brightest they get.
Its marked as promotion on the UA-cam page. All they did was give me a light kit. So nothing more than before, though I’d happily take a sponsorship from them 😂
I love how lighting kits bring sets to life. And i agree the set of lights for Rivendell makes the it look trully magical.
The best part is seeing your smile and excitement seeing the finished product. I’m new to the LEGO collecting community and really enjoyed your video. Cheers!
Hey! 💖 As a crafter, I would suggest to try coloring the cables. Buy alcohol based markers and paint the visible parts of the cables before putting them in. Like a brown color for the candle cables that are running under the tables and grey for the cables surrounding the statues etc. I can imagine that it's a frightning thought at first, but maybe u try it on a small project sometime in the future. 🎉 Love ur content, greetings from Germany 💖
That is both an amazing idea and something I would be so daunted by 😂. But definitely worth doing for people that like to hide the cables as much as possible.
@@HighTeaToysas a hippy that can't stand bright cold lights I've used red/orange markers and glass paint on all kinds of bulbs throughout the years to make them warmer and a bit more dim. I would 100 do this if I were to buy a light kit. Whiteboard marker also works and is very easily wiped off if the desired effect isn't there. Different opacities of sticky tape can also dim a light, I only ever use that on light sources you can't directly see of course.
Wrapping rope or brass wire around ugly leads is also a good way to hide em in plain sight. (not applicable to the tiny wires in Lego light kits tho!)
@@piotr78 I put tape over all kinds of power/standby lights on my consumer electronics (PC, DSL router, external HDDs, etc.) to eliminate "night lights". The LEDs they use are too bright or unnecessary.
It looks gorgeous and I know that the lights look even more magical off camera. I love grumpy cat in there 😂
You said it yourself, it honest to goodness looks magical! The Rivendell set screams for a lighting kit in my opinion. I’m glad to see it really does add to the aura.
Great job on the install and review! I’m sure you inspire many to try out or at least think about light kits with these videos and your city itself.
Love the genuine enthusiasm 👍👍👍
Love this channel everything is nice and slowly paced and i can relax and watch along
Thanks
The rivendell set looks really good in lights great video have a great week Johanna ❤️
I really want to see a closer look at the forge section. It looks so cozy and nice especially with the light kit. Is there any chance you would do another video on looking at each section a bit closer?
I may add it in another video at some point, possibly in a future video where I do a room tour of the new lego room
looking good, loving the lights
thelights are so pretty.
12:58 Rave night @ Rivendell! 😂 Just need some Underworld banging and add a flashing board to the circuit! 😂
I knew something was missing 🤣
Hmmm, I only added the light kit from the new lighthouse. It works perfectly and less than 5 minutes to install.
Turned out so beautiful ❤
Hi Joanne as you had experience adding lighting kits do you rather add the lighting as you build or find it easier once built the set. Cas of the high price s on lighting kit s an the wires wich I hate unless can not cee the wire s add I have bean just yousing thos fairy light with battery box at end if the wire and .just threaded the light s thru my set s .an got slack. I should of tryed better to tack them into place but tried my best to to place each light on the wire .my moduler look like. I yousing lighting kit add and only $3.50 each one.😊
Very neat!
That looks amazing! Very magical! I might have to get the light kit for mine now 😀
Though light kits are always so fiddly I just love the effect they bring. As you can probably tell from my room 😅
The light s I talk about in my other coment are a wire with tinny little light s on the wire so easy to bend an whant snap like wire s and the other style have cee thru plasticky over the wire s 😊 an the bonus is can you's rechargeable battery and save yousing main s power as it not as salf
Its an improvement to an already beautiful set, but the blue and green colours do look unnatural (at least on camera). When all your sets are on display with lights on though, holy cow!!! Perfection
A solution to make the cables less visible is to sharpie them in the background colour.
Looks good but the interiros and the gazebo look way brighter than they should.
The one problem is that the camera makes things look a tad brighter than they actually are in real life. They could do with being less bright, but when you attach them to a battery box rather than the mains it’s less bright already.
@@HighTeaToys Can you get a dimmer from Lightailing?
So I accidentally snapped one wire and I was mortified, great news were I was able to strip both ends and reconnect them.
That was a really awesome video going through the motions of installing the light kid.
The look is amazing and the end product is great. Thanks for doing that. Quick question... what shelving units do you use?
I'm looking to display bigger models like Diagon Alley but not sure what to get
Glad you like it, for me persoanlly the green and blue is too bright, I think that needs be be more subtle lighting and it would be great if the blue slowly dimmed to give that running water effect, as you said the candles flickering would have also been awesome.
Look at the light my bricks, will be what u are looking for
@@Defender888888Light my bricks for Rivendell is amazing! But also twice as expensive 😢
The next Lego kit I do I'm gonna have to try them out. Lighting kits adds more magic to them even though they can be pains
Hell yeah it's worth it
Hi there. Another very good video, thank you.
The result does look good overall and I think this Lego set in particular is massively enhanced by lighting.
To my eyes however it looks a bit over lit by this kit? The ethereal atmosphere of Rivendell is somewhat lost?
Or is that just the way the camera makes it look?
Disappointed no flickering lights - would be ideal for this set, in my opinion.
I’m obsessed with hiding cables (particularly for this set as I don’t think cabling would have been part of the average Elven household 😂).
I don’t tend to use Lightailing as to hide cables as part of one string is much harder than individual components.
Indeed where necessary (now you may not want me to be a member of your channel after I admit this) I drill holes and create channels to run cables through bricks (is that Lego heresy?)
Anyway this technique, in general, won’t work for Lightailing - but it would work well, for example, when using individual components for the candles on the desks.
But as I say thanks again for another quality video, it’s given me ideas and things to think about as I plan my own lighting set up for Rivendell.
Hahaha. Honestly I think you can do with your lego what you want. Lightailing uses holes in elements too too, but only individual elements.
What do you use to drill holes? Just really small drill bits? Very curious indeed.
The camera does make the set look brighter then it looks in real life. I genuinely think it looks amazing. There are things that could be changed but overall is a wonderful effect, but I’m sure you can tell my excitement from the video 😅
@@HighTeaToys
Phew that’s a relief!
Yes I use very small modelling drill bits. My set is 0.5mm to 3mm in 0.1mm increments.
I use a hand drill to keep the speed slow to avoid the brick(s) melting.
Take care.
Is it easy to replace a piece of this kit if I accidentally break it by drilling?
I think if you remove the main rooms light leaving just the candles and Dim the green and blue lights I think you'd be onto something that looks really nice a little more realistic but still fantasyesque
Oh and i need to bricklink that chonky kitty!
I dislike almost all friends animals...but the cats..i kinda love em almost as much as the system cats
johanna could you do a video about your light kits setup behind the scenes (the usb ports you plug all the light kits in and what you use)
I have a video where I mention it. I think it’s called ‘lighting FAQ’ it’s a little older now, but the set up I have there pretty much still applies.
@@HighTeaToys you know that was the one video I skipped when i discovered your channel/ binged your videos, thank you ♥️
@@rebelnili Hahaha, no worries. I hope it will be helpful. Feel free to ask questions if you need help with your set up :)
@@HighTeaToys you showed the splitter in that video, did you just get any or are there special ones I should get. im afraid of frying my light kits.
and the device you use to turn on the light with your voice, is that just the smart plug?
@@rebelnili The splitters I have are from the actual light companies themselves, but you can use normal usb hubs too. The most that I have found happens is if you split your power over too many sets the lights dim a little as they don't get the power they need. But I have never had any problems apart from that which was easily rectified.
Very BEAUTIFUL ❤
Lightmybricks just released their light kit, what are your thoughts on it, compared to your kit, and what do you think about their price point?
Just looked at it when I saw this comment. It is along the lines of what I expected from them. The candles flickering is amazing, I like the light above the narsil statue. I am unsure about the way they lit up the bottom of the tower. I quite like the individual statue lights in my kit.
Light My Bricks is always very good at being in keeping with the set. the choice to have no large lights inside is interesting but works I think, though maybe one in the council of Elrond would have been nice. The price point is also around the amount I would expect from them, it's a lot. It is nearly double the price to the one I have (in £ anyway). My opinion in general is: it looks totally wonderful and very thoughtfully designed, I am just always personally uncomfortable with their price points. But for those with a slightly bigger budget I think it's hard to go wrong with them. :)
@@HighTeaToys I have to agree with you on what you said.
3 things i didnt like about it is:
1. The way the light up the statues, i mean if you are gonna light them up, the at least light them all up, looks kind of rushed to me.
2. This is actually the first thing i saw and i saw it right away.
The light above the council seats, its a black can hanging in a tree, it sticks out like a sore thumb, why they didnt make that the same color as the branch its attached to i have no idea.
3. i feel like its abit to dark, i love the flickering lights/tourches, but i still think it needs more lighting than this.
and the price is huge compared to the light kit you have!
Question, does it come with the battery thingy to plug in the usb ports?
That’s awesome
Overall lighting is great but this lights are so bright that it takes all the magic behind rivendell. And again its more christmass tree rather rivendell magic inside 😢
When I was looking for light kits for Rivendell I found this one and I found Game of Bricks an LeLightGo. When I checked their product videos I saw that Game of Bricks and LeLightGo are using the exact same video, they only changed the logo. Do you know LeLightGo and do you know if they are in any way affiliated to Game of Bricks?
I've just bought my rivendell set and was interested in lighting it, but I don't have any previous experience installing these kits. Should I get a kit for a smaller set first for practice, or should I just go straight into this one?
Just dive in, instructions are a bit unclear from time to time, but hey, you already managed to build a huge lego set!
Is it better to build the set entirely first and then do the light-tailing? Or better to do it while building the set?
I’ve just started building it for the first time.
Personally I think better to build it first. For two reasons. 1 you get the enjoyment of actually building the set without faffing with lights. 2 the instructions are based of you already having the set built so it tells you which bits to remove etc.
That’s how I approach it anyway.
Hey, is there an option to tone down the brightness at all?
Not with a button. But it depends how you power them. If you use the battery box it’s a little less bright then when you plug them into a socket. Also bear in mind that the camera makes it a touch brighter than it is in real life.
Mine are directly in a socket so the brightest they get.
Perfect！
Looks really cool. But i wouldnt be able to do it. My rivendell would be destroyed through frustration lol
Wow 😮 that is beautiful😊😲💥👌👌 magical..I like
Really beautifull ❤❤❤
What shelves do you use? 😊
Most of the furniture is ikea, the one Rivendell is on is an extra deep Billy bookcase. Hope that helps :)
@@HighTeaToys thank you so much 😊
Tweezers costs 10$ not free.
They were included in the kit at the time that I got it. They may have changed that since, I wouldn’t know, but this is how I got the kit.
"computer, turn on the lights".... you sound like you like Star Trek ;)
No pain no gain...
Bello
The green and blue lights are too overpowering. It unbalances the scene.
Should have sponsored in the video heading top left
Its marked as promotion on the UA-cam page. All they did was give me a light kit. So nothing more than before, though I’d happily take a sponsorship from them 😂
I love her speech impediment 😍
Huh?
Wouw!!!! That looks beautiful!!!😍😍😍 Magical indeed 🧝♂️🧝♀️🧝