Another unique lipstick use was in the recent buildable Droadeka. It's three sensors are actually backwards lipstick pieces, and because of the dual-molding, the red of them have grey rims. Its crazy what LEGO can do these days.
One that pleasantly surprised me recently with its ingenuity was the botanical bouquet of roses set. The idea to use the coiled whip from Indiana Jones sets as the center of the rose was something I thought was super cool.
5:23 The LEGO Harry Potter Years 1 - 4 Videogame already used this technique in the cutscene where Harry & the Dursley's move to the cottage to escape the owls. Yes. I know I talked about a videogame, but most things from the LEGO Videogames can be remade IRL. Also the videogame came out in 2010.
I bought my mother the ‘Lego Botanicals’ Succulent set for Christmas this year, and I’m actually VERY exited to give it to her. She LOVES Lego, and houseplants, so i figured it was a win win, but the more i hear about the ‘Botanicals’ line, the more exited i get for her to open and build it. 😊 She and i have been bonding over Lego since i was a little girl.
Wait, so I SHOULDN’T have been taking off my minifig’s hands all this time? 😂 But that’s what’s so cool about them, their customizability! I’d change out every piece, hands and hips and accessories and everything to make just the kind of lil guys that I wanted
I just picked up the LEGO Minecraft set "The Cherry Blossom Garden" which is the first set to feature all three stages of the sniffer as well as the default skin Sunny but the most interesting piece has to be the pale teal standard minifigure head used as part of the pitcher plant. I bet you never expected to see a standard head in a Minecraft set, especially in such a unique color. The two-sided decorated pot with a skull on one side and heart on the other is cool too, hopefully they make more. My set actually came with three extra "cherry blossoms" so I was able to add another patch of pink pedals. Although they're more magenta than pink.
9:36 This stair technique is also used in the Hogwarts Icons Collector's Edition set (76391) to make the opened pages of a book (I believe Tom Riddle's diary) as well as about 100 1x2 grill bricks for the two books on top of that
Just to let you know, the Caterham car is one of those wierd british pronunications, Instead of Cat-er-ham it is supposed to be pronounced closer to Kate-rum which is the traditional pronunciation of the town where the company was established.
The windscreen from the Sphinx Secret Surprise set (5978, for those who want to know) has wipers printed onto the clear plastic, which is admittedly not really on-theme for this video, but *is* an example of wipers being part of the design.
6:40 there are actually a fair bit of LEGO sets that feature whippers. I have 5 such sets in my collection: 31138 Beach Camper Van, 31108 Caravan Family Holiday, 76924 Mercedes-AMG G 63 & Mercedes-AMG SL 63 and 71456 Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van. I'm 100% sure I've seen a LEGO city car with such whippers in a LEGO game, so there might very well be more of those out there
Small antenna pieces was first introduced in 1985. A Model Team set, 5510 Off-Road 4 x 4 from 1986, already had that antenna-windshield-viper things, just one year after its introduction. Most other Model teams sets, till 1999 (5563 Racing Truck is the latest) also had them in the same fashion.
Interesting how the birds are used. In a set from Jurassic Park; it is based on the scene where Nedry encounters the Dilophosaurus. There is a single white frog piece in the entire set. At first, I thought is was just a frog as scenery in the jungle. But it is actually meant to mimic the cream coming out of the can that belonged to Nedry.
Another really cool building technique that I found was in the Lego Star Wars 2002 bounty hunter pursuit set. It uses chromed coffee mug pieces for headlights on one of the speaders
@@herowither12354 damage the hands and arms? Are you talking about a different mini figure torso? The only thing I can see being damage in a regular mini figure torso are the arm pieces if you take them off the torso and put them back on it over and over
@@alccoderonscratch7909 There's a small lip around the hand that locks into a ridge on the inside of the arm, to hold it inside. The more you pull them out and put them back in, the more likely the hand and arm are to get loose or break.
Two more for here: in set 10309 Succulents you use 6 automatic pistol pieces to attach the leaves for the Red Encheveria (and there is a lot more similar thing in this set) and in the set 42168 John Deere 9700 Forage Harvester you use 2 whip pieces to represent hydraulic cables.
@5:55 the original Ghost Buster’s car is a 1959 Cadillac, and it’s cool because they got that the wipers start from inside and push outside. The second model from the newer movie is a different Cadillac, and the wipers go side to side.
My personal favourite theme, Lego Adventurers, has printed windscreen pieces complete with windscreen wipers. Johnny Thunder's Scorpian Tracker is just one example.
I have that old tyrannosaurus set, from when I was a child. I remember thinking that the tongue was a weird shape, but never realised it was a crocodile head.
Another really cool building technique that I found was in the 2004 At-At set. It uses minifigure wrench pieces to attach the guns on the head of the walker.
I think the Architecture line has some pretty cool piece usage, my example would be the Las Vegas Skyline set where clear blue rod pieces are being used as water fountains in front of the Bellagio Hotel, giving the illusion of water shooting up like fountain shows at the real hotel. Another example is the use of rear facing headlight bricks for windows on the Capitol Building set.
The lipstick piece has also been used for the “eyes” on the 2023 droideka, they look very nice because they actually use the bit of color that comes out of the bottom
The rearview mirrors on the new speed champions Ferrari F40 are red spoons, I would recommend you dig into more of the speed champion sets because they have a lot of cool weird things they have been doing lately.
I think two of my favorite reused pieces are 1. In the Horizon Zero Dawn Tallneck set, for the fins along the neck, they use Uruk-hai scimitars from the LotR Helm's Deep Lego set. 2. In the Natural History Museum set, they use Indiana Jones' coiled whip as an Ammonite fossil
I have that Fab 5 set and I did think it was strange that the torsos had hands despite what it showed in the pictures, but of course if I wanted to take them off I would (I dont because I know Ill lose them)
I think the reason Lego shows the torso with the hands on is because they have a standard scheme of instructions that they use for every set, only changing colours... Notice the pieces are always shown in the same angle
Regarding the windshield wipers, I know 4993 Cool Convertible from 2008 (one of my favorite sets as a kid) had some made from black katanas. That said, they're kinda stuck in place, so they're not going to move like the ones in the video, if that's your qualifier.
The Himeji castle set (21060) has a couple of roller skate pieces. Above archways and entrances. The Trafalgar Square set (21045) uses a similar technique regarding the stairs like in the pyramid of Giza, but those one turn at right angles! I've seen a couple of sets recently creatively using minifigure heads. Could this be an idea for a later video, maybe? In set 21006 the White House uses a transparent minifigure head as a lantern on the Northern side of the building. And in the Star Wars Death Star Trench Run Diorama (75329) a grey minifigure head is used as a piece of greebles on the surface of the trench. I wonder where else minifigure heads have been used in unconventional ways.
The Lego Creator set 4993 "Cool Convertible" has no physical windscreen but uses black katanas as windscreen wipers and I'm pretty sure I've seen it on other sets as well. 6:12 Worked really well imo but I preferred to use them on my minifigs right after 😅
I seem to remember a basic Lego set from back when I was a kid, where it had a car with opening doors, a sunroof, and a pair of levers for windshield wipers. It's possible I added the levers myself, since I can't find an exact model number, but it was similar to 6634 in its general design.
@spitbrix the lipsticks are also used in the Star Wars droideka. And my som build the 3 in 1 camper van (31138) today and made the same windscreen wimpers. And in your last vid you mentioned the wild cat that jumps out by pushing a rod. This was also done in the City mountain police station 60174
In the 1980s and early 90s Lego used antenna pieces as windscreen wipers in Model Team theme vehicles at larger scale (for instance Highway Rig from 1986).
I love the technique used in the speed champions ferrari. They say to sticker a windshield on the sides, place it upside down on some tiles, and it creates extra detail on the sides. Its lego set 76395 i think.
I actually had the Ice Dragon attack set back then but it was played with so much that I know for a fact that some of the heilcopter blade pieces had broken.
For 6:10 both the Audi S1 Quattro e-tron and the Mercedes AMG G-Class from Speedchampions use the same style of wipers, one center one for the e-tron and 2 for the G-Class
Regarding the windshield wiper question. I have the Custom Rally Van (5550) from 1991 and the Mach II Red Bird Rig (5591) from 1994 and they both have it. They are both part of the Model Team series.
Many of the vehicles in the Model Team theme have "lever" windshield wipers. Also, the "step" technique is used in Trafalgar Sq. and in Hogwarts Icons to represent pages of the book.
6:09 Lego Model Team kit 5590 "Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck" has the same windshield wipers. You just didn't look at old enough kits. I recieved the kit as a 12yo in. ~1990 and just last week built the kit with my 4yo daughter. It's a good'er.
The technic g wagon has windshield wipers (ironic bcs it doesn't even have a windshield), but it doesn't use levers The Audi S1 E-Tron Quattro also has a windshield wiper, and this one does use a lever.
You missed the Mercedes G Wagon Speed Champions car as that also has aerials / levers as windscreen wipers
Yes, I can confirm. I own the set.
@@maxbricks14 same
I also own that set
And Audi S1 e-tron quattro also have windscreen wipers
@@dobrealex5215 one, to be precise
Today i learned: there is a Lego Big Bang Theory set 💀
There's also a Lego "the office" set
So… you didn’t know that?
Bazinga
Our whole universe is in a plastic brick state
@@Cold_Frost41 Then Nearly 3 or 4 years ago the Lego price increase started… Wait!
Another unique lipstick use was in the recent buildable Droadeka. It's three sensors are actually backwards lipstick pieces, and because of the dual-molding, the red of them have grey rims. Its crazy what LEGO can do these days.
Came here to say this.
Those lipstick pieces are not easy to get either. I was stoked to get a couple extra in my set.
11:18 what they should have done was use transparent hands to have effect of hands not being there
or just taken the hands out
the problem there is that you lose the utility of easily swapping the cloths for the minifigs.
One that pleasantly surprised me recently with its ingenuity was the botanical bouquet of roses set. The idea to use the coiled whip from Indiana Jones sets as the center of the rose was something I thought was super cool.
5:23 The LEGO Harry Potter Years 1 - 4 Videogame already used this technique in the cutscene where Harry & the Dursley's move to the cottage to escape the owls.
Yes. I know I talked about a videogame, but most things from the LEGO Videogames can be remade IRL. Also the videogame came out in 2010.
I bought my mother the ‘Lego Botanicals’ Succulent set for Christmas this year, and I’m actually VERY exited to give it to her. She LOVES Lego, and houseplants, so i figured it was a win win, but the more i hear about the ‘Botanicals’ line, the more exited i get for her to open and build it. 😊 She and i have been bonding over Lego since i was a little girl.
How did she react?
Those all black lipstick pieces also are in the Florian Fortescue part of the HP Diagon Alley set as awning angles
Wait, so I SHOULDN’T have been taking off my minifig’s hands all this time? 😂 But that’s what’s so cool about them, their customizability! I’d change out every piece, hands and hips and accessories and everything to make just the kind of lil guys that I wanted
I just picked up the LEGO Minecraft set "The Cherry Blossom Garden" which is the first set to feature all three stages of the sniffer as well as the default skin Sunny but the most interesting piece has to be the pale teal standard minifigure head used as part of the pitcher plant. I bet you never expected to see a standard head in a Minecraft set, especially in such a unique color. The two-sided decorated pot with a skull on one side and heart on the other is cool too, hopefully they make more. My set actually came with three extra "cherry blossoms" so I was able to add another patch of pink pedals. Although they're more magenta than pink.
9:36 This stair technique is also used in the Hogwarts Icons Collector's Edition set (76391) to make the opened pages of a book (I believe Tom Riddle's diary) as well as about 100 1x2 grill bricks for the two books on top of that
The stairs technique is also used in the big Gotham City set.
At 3:05, those same lipstick pieces are used for the Droideka's eyes for the 2024 set 75381.
Just to let you know, the Caterham car is one of those wierd british pronunications, Instead of Cat-er-ham it is supposed to be pronounced closer to Kate-rum which is the traditional pronunciation of the town where the company was established.
The windscreen from the Sphinx Secret Surprise set (5978, for those who want to know) has wipers printed onto the clear plastic, which is admittedly not really on-theme for this video, but *is* an example of wipers being part of the design.
6:40 there are actually a fair bit of LEGO sets that feature whippers. I have 5 such sets in my collection: 31138 Beach Camper Van, 31108 Caravan Family Holiday, 76924 Mercedes-AMG G 63 & Mercedes-AMG SL 63 and 71456 Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van. I'm 100% sure I've seen a LEGO city car with such whippers in a LEGO game, so there might very well be more of those out there
I have an very old Lego set that also has These Kind of Windspiele whippers and in a Read the numberplate Right ist set Number 5541, a Blue Hot Rod
Jokers lowrider had the wipers too!
Who can't forget the jonkler's hogridaahhh
Small antenna pieces was first introduced in 1985. A Model Team set, 5510 Off-Road 4 x 4 from 1986, already had that antenna-windshield-viper things, just one year after its introduction. Most other Model teams sets, till 1999 (5563 Racing Truck is the latest) also had them in the same fashion.
Interesting how the birds are used. In a set from Jurassic Park; it is based on the scene where Nedry encounters the Dilophosaurus. There is a single white frog piece in the entire set. At first, I thought is was just a frog as scenery in the jungle. But it is actually meant to mimic the cream coming out of the can that belonged to Nedry.
Another really cool building technique that I found was in the Lego Star Wars 2002 bounty hunter pursuit set. It uses chromed coffee mug pieces for headlights on one of the speaders
Removing hands from a minifigure has a chance to damage the hands and the arms.
Happened with a Wu of mine.
The hands and arms themselves aren’t part of the mini figure torso
@@alccoderonscratch7909 But it still has a chance to damage the hands and arms, so what's your point?
@@herowither12354 damage the hands and arms? Are you talking about a different mini figure torso? The only thing I can see being damage in a regular mini figure torso are the arm pieces if you take them off the torso and put them back on it over and over
@@alccoderonscratch7909 There's a small lip around the hand that locks into a ridge on the inside of the arm, to hold it inside. The more you pull them out and put them back in, the more likely the hand and arm are to get loose or break.
Babe wake up new spitbrick 800 IQ LEGO sets
Two more for here: in set 10309 Succulents you use 6 automatic pistol pieces to attach the leaves for the Red Encheveria (and there is a lot more similar thing in this set) and in the set 42168 John Deere 9700 Forage Harvester you use 2 whip pieces to represent hydraulic cables.
Did you guys not notice that when he sooms into the great waves there are heads 0:30
I see lightsaber handles 5:32 and pistol 5:39
@5:55 the original Ghost Buster’s car is a 1959 Cadillac, and it’s cool because they got that the wipers start from inside and push outside. The second model from the newer movie is a different Cadillac, and the wipers go side to side.
My personal favourite theme, Lego Adventurers, has printed windscreen pieces complete with windscreen wipers. Johnny Thunder's Scorpian Tracker is just one example.
At 11:08 you can see an all white lipstick on a wall, I’m surprised he missed this since he went over lipstick pieces
The new Mercedes AMGGT speed champions has levers for windshield wipers.
I have that old tyrannosaurus set, from when I was a child. I remember thinking that the tongue was a weird shape, but never realised it was a crocodile head.
Lipsticks are also droideka's "eyes"
Yeah
9:25 that viewer named Max seems like a cool guy :D
"This video was amazing! I loved every second of it!"
haha nooo!!! the hotdog bun isn’t a lantern! it’s the sign for the bakery underneath it :D
Another really cool building technique that I found was in the 2004 At-At set. It uses minifigure wrench pieces to attach the guns on the head of the walker.
I love that the T Rex shared its arms with the older, small dragons.
The modular building police station set uses grey variants of the minecraft wolf head piece for the roof design
The headlight assembly in Ecto 1 was on another level. The wine goblets to hold the parabolas! WUH?!? Mike Psiaki is truly a rockstar of Lego design
I think the Architecture line has some pretty cool piece usage, my example would be the Las Vegas Skyline set where clear blue rod pieces are being used as water fountains in front of the Bellagio Hotel, giving the illusion of water shooting up like fountain shows at the real hotel. Another example is the use of rear facing headlight bricks for windows on the Capitol Building set.
Recently built the Lego Poinsettia and thought the use of Ninja Stars was hilarious and awesome. They fit in perfectly
I think the WindshieldWipers where common in the 90's? I remember using it in all of my car designs when i was a kid.
1:12 does it come with a Lego frog. Very much frog
The lipstick piece has also been used for the “eyes” on the 2023 droideka, they look very nice because they actually use the bit of color that comes out of the bottom
6:10 The Beach Camper Van 3-in-1 Creator set from 2023 uses the "levers-as-windshield-wipers" trick.
Set 5541 Users them to
2:48 I was so confused *why lipstick* was on the thumbnail. It’s more a collection of uncommon Lego pieces
I have the tiny plants sets recomend it!
6:11 the 76240 Tumbler has really nice wipers in my opinion
The rearview mirrors on the new speed champions Ferrari F40 are red spoons, I would recommend you dig into more of the speed champion sets because they have a lot of cool weird things they have been doing lately.
I think two of my favorite reused pieces are
1. In the Horizon Zero Dawn Tallneck set, for the fins along the neck, they use Uruk-hai scimitars from the LotR Helm's Deep Lego set.
2. In the Natural History Museum set, they use Indiana Jones' coiled whip as an Ammonite fossil
I have that Fab 5 set and I did think it was strange that the torsos had hands despite what it showed in the pictures, but of course if I wanted to take them off I would (I dont because I know Ill lose them)
They have carnivorous plants?? 😮 I love them!
I think the reason Lego shows the torso with the hands on is because they have a standard scheme of instructions that they use for every set, only changing colours... Notice the pieces are always shown in the same angle
8:23 how dare you call this questionable! I would die for this precious child 😭
I guess he meant the quality of it. :D
Regarding the windshield wipers, I know 4993 Cool Convertible from 2008 (one of my favorite sets as a kid) had some made from black katanas. That said, they're kinda stuck in place, so they're not going to move like the ones in the video, if that's your qualifier.
Yeah Trafalgar Square used the same technique as the Giza with the stairs
The Himeji castle set (21060) has a couple of roller skate pieces. Above archways and entrances.
The Trafalgar Square set (21045) uses a similar technique regarding the stairs like in the pyramid of Giza, but those one turn at right angles!
I've seen a couple of sets recently creatively using minifigure heads. Could this be an idea for a later video, maybe?
In set 21006 the White House uses a transparent minifigure head as a lantern on the Northern side of the building.
And in the Star Wars Death Star Trench Run Diorama (75329) a grey minifigure head is used as a piece of greebles on the surface of the trench. I wonder where else minifigure heads have been used in unconventional ways.
The transparent head as a lantern is actually so common in LEGO sets, especially in the Modular Buildings, that it's POOP at this point.
The Lego Creator set 4993 "Cool Convertible" has no physical windscreen but uses black katanas as windscreen wipers and I'm pretty sure I've seen it on other sets as well. 6:12
Worked really well imo but I preferred to use them on my minifigs right after 😅
4:57 i have that
Congrats on your very smoothly written script. I like your transitions between topics a lot!
I seem to remember a basic Lego set from back when I was a kid, where it had a car with opening doors, a sunroof, and a pair of levers for windshield wipers. It's possible I added the levers myself, since I can't find an exact model number, but it was similar to 6634 in its general design.
@spitbrix the lipsticks are also used in the Star Wars droideka.
And my som build the 3 in 1 camper van (31138) today and made the same windscreen wimpers.
And in your last vid you mentioned the wild cat that jumps out by pushing a rod. This was also done in the City mountain police station 60174
In the 1980s and early 90s Lego used antenna pieces as windscreen wipers in Model Team theme vehicles at larger scale (for instance Highway Rig from 1986).
I had a blue hotrod model team set that i'm pretty sure that.
I love the technique used in the speed champions ferrari. They say to sticker a windshield on the sides, place it upside down on some tiles, and it creates extra detail on the sides. Its lego set 76395 i think.
Lever wipers were already present in 1994 in set 5591 Mach II Red Bird Rig
And almost all other models from Model Team.
I have the Sets 5541, 5590 and 5591 and all of These Sets from 90s has levers as Windshield whippers
6:56 i dont know witch one but i think its a königsegg that uses to transparent axes as lights
6:13 Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van also has the same windscreen wipers
8:20 wow this took me back. i used to have that T-rex and mosasaurus as a kid
The Lego Yellow Submarine set also uses 4 sausage pieces to make up the hand rail on the top of the sub
Cool 😎 👍👌
The model team "Blue Fury" set had windshield wipers as part of the design also.
The Nano Gauntlet also uses the roller skates and gold purses to hold the Infiniti stones on.
Regarding windshield wipers:
The big truck from the Fairground Mixer (10244, greatest set of all time) also has them!
You can actally find the levers/winshield wipers in the Mrs Castillos turtle van too.
There's actually quite a handful of lego cars with wipers. One that comes to mind is set 10151
In the Model Team days all these vehicles had wiper blades. Even some (older?) creator sets have these.
6:15 you can also find wipers in Lego set 76924 on Mercedes-AMG G 63
I actually had the Ice Dragon attack set back then but it was played with so much that I know for a fact that some of the heilcopter blade pieces had broken.
Another vehicle with windshield wipers was the Lego Agents 8969 4-Wheeling Pursuit. The agents truck has them.
“What are these methods?”
“The methods of the Master builders”
“So they’re forbidden?”
“Nothing in LEGO is forbidden, only the ways one would build.”
6:10 the set "Lego Adventurers Desert #5958 Mummy's Tomb (1998)" had printed windshield wipers
There is a 3-in-1 Creator set, where one of the builds is a camper and the other is a van, the van has little levers for windshield wipers also.
I have been using those levers as wipers for my Lego cars for as long as I can remember 😂.
For 6:10 both the Audi S1 Quattro e-tron and the Mercedes AMG G-Class from Speedchampions use the same style of wipers, one center one for the e-tron and 2 for the G-Class
*chef kiss* I cannot get enough of seeing the creativity!!
I have the 3 in 1 beach camper van and the Camper has the lever style windshield wipers- the levers are manufactured in all grey and look really nice!
Regarding the windshield wiper question.
I have the Custom Rally Van (5550) from 1991 and the Mach II Red Bird Rig (5591) from 1994 and they both have it.
They are both part of the Model Team series.
Years ago there was a Creator car with katanas for windshield wipers. I can't remember which one it was though
Lego: no illegal building techniques
Also lego: uses illegal building techniques
I'm not sure how I got here, but I'm absolutely stuned at how happy I am to be here 😂
i could watch your videos all day man
Taking off the hands of the torsos too many times can damage the pieces, so that's probably why they don't advice you to do that.
The Dark Knight Tumbler (both large iterations) has windshield wipers on it!
Many of the vehicles in the Model Team theme have "lever" windshield wipers. Also, the "step" technique is used in Trafalgar Sq. and in Hogwarts Icons to represent pages of the book.
6:09 Lego Model Team kit 5590 "Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck" has the same windshield wipers. You just didn't look at old enough kits. I recieved the kit as a 12yo in. ~1990 and just last week built the kit with my 4yo daughter. It's a good'er.
I have that Lego Set and also an old Lego Set from my Vather Set 5541 a Blue Hot Rod and this has also Levers as whippers
in the lego 6753 highway transport main build, the truck uses two black antenna as windshield wipers
I have a succulents set and it was really interesting to use guns to angle the petals
In the bag set 30645 X-Wing StarFighter, the mini x-wing uses minifigure skis as the 4 guns that stick out in front of the wings
What about the pink piece in one of the mandolorian sets? The way they keep it in it very innovative
The technic g wagon has windshield wipers (ironic bcs it doesn't even have a windshield), but it doesn't use levers
The Audi S1 E-Tron Quattro also has a windshield wiper, and this one does use a lever.
9:08 my goodness my siblings had the beast parts of that set and I’ve always wondered what the actual build looked like!
I love the use of MC wolf heads in the Creator Expert Police Station :D
Awesome video SpitrBix!
Same windshield wipers on the Lego Model Team 5550 rally van