Bending LEGO plates to my will
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2021
- This build is the third in a series.
The first is a dodecahedron: • An unbelievable LEGO b...
The second is a rhombicuboctahedron: • LEGO plates must bend
This build is a curved approximation of an icosahedron: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahe...
You may also recognize it as the the shape of the classic d20 in dungeons & dragons. : )
This video has a number of issues that I’m not particularly happy with-but I decided to release it anyway. Those issues partially stem from the filming process, but mostly it's the fact that the design isn't optimal, i.e. it needs to be improved and reincarnated. But I’m trying hard to not let perfection get in the way of showing you really interesting builds.
A couple of notes:
1. This build is 'studs in' because its curvature is fairly high, and this building technique bends more in that direction. It makes for an interesting look, although I'd love to see how big I have to make it in order to have the build be 'studs out'.
2. There was no hiding the fact that these plates have been part of a high stress build for many years. This meant that they have warped slightly in the direction of that stress (although you can't really tell by looking at them individually) and the plates have also lost some ‘clutch power’ (i.e. how snugly the studs fit inside other pieces). However neither of these facts are an issue once the build is fully assembled.
For builders who reuse their bricks over and over again, this degradation of the bricks is a non-starter, and I can appreciate that-it would make their normal building life difficult/unpleasant. For me, I am creating an icosahedron, and it will always be an icosahedron-so the warping of the bricks ultimately doesn’t matter. And as this build has survived many years, and yet still handled being torn apart, reassembled, spun, and rolled around--it just shows how tough and resilient these little bricks truly are. 😁
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Piece breakdown - 1x2 plates (2940), hinge plate 1x4 swivel (120), 2x2 corner plates (180) in 12 vertices & 30 edges
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This video took me from "Ah, yes. Legal bending" to "Oh, no. He's made a structure that bends by itself" real fast
same
Hardest whiplash I've had in a while
oh no the structure it’s bending
Yeah title had me dubious to believe there was a legal bending move.
This is called cursed lego
I don't know what is the most impressive:
- The creativity and quality of these builds;
- The amount of work and patience to put those togheter;
-Or just the fucktons of bricks he has in his possession in the very first place.
Last one
@@vinnykitty1983 Defo the last one lmao
Yes 😂😂😂
no it's the lego figure that appears in every build
Just thinking exactly that!
When he put the last star piece on top, i was half expecting the entire assembly to pulse with power and start humming as it slowly began to levitate and spin
5:04 is when this goes from 'funny bendy lego pieces' to 'oh I'm witnessing a sin'
"Bending LEGO plates to my will"
he is a lego god and the title implies that he knows it
A legod if you will
Can you also bend plate modified to your will?
he has far surpassed god
Legomnipotent
You know that something is horribly wrong with your child when they need gloves to play with their toys. Or for that matter, if they play with their toys so much that their hands have begun to bleed. The man is a psychopath.
That guy's everyday shopping trip be like:
Potatoes
Apples,
Orange juice,
2.000.000.000x black 1 by 1 by 2 LEGO bricks,
tea
The LEGO store employee: “The usual sir?”
So just 2 black 1 by 1 by 2 LEGO bricks then? Since no matter how many decimal points you add at the end the number will not increase
@@sprinkleman8103 Ever heard of different cultures? The comma is used as a decimalmark in germany, and the dot to make it easier readable. -_-
@@hiken_mmb1035
Well from my culture and others we use decimal marks to signify decimals. I didn’t know you were from a culture that uses decimal marks differently, if I knew i wouldn’t have said that -_-
inaccurate
what about the other legoes
Above all else, what has impressed me is the fact those gloves stay on the whole time.
It doesn't take much thickness to dampen the fingertip's sense of touch. And I would get annoyed trying to manipulate such small parts.
You would be a fool to commit such heinous sins without some protection from the fires of hell
I would have never guessed one could build an icosahedron from LEGO. You are bringing my dreams to life.
This man can built a tesseract by himself and no one can stop him.
Tesseracts are 4 dimensional. That is 3 dimensional.
@@garrett3698no way Sherlock
Using only 1x2 plates
@@garrett3698 omg I never knew lmao I did also r/wooosh if you did hear it it’s the joke going past hence the woosh
It won't be long before we have four dimensional Legos
Making a sphere out of legos that’s enough to get you on a watch list.
If I'm not mistaken it is also one o0f the tests they require to be an official master builder at Lego itself. Though most examples are still blocky in some way. I'm just saying this guy may want to be on the look out for a job offer at Lego
@@TerminianLinkVT this particular example is ineligible because it uses "illegal" building techniques that put undue stresses on the components of the build that will cause accelerated wear of the pieces.
@@5bars3g36 Ahh, the more you know
That final piece being snapped on was probably the most satisfying thing I'll see all week.
In the end, I knew what was happening, I knew it shouldn’t be happening, yet I let it happen. It’s beautiful.
This Lego icosahedron might be the coolest Lego build I've ever seen
Ball.
Agreed!!!
More like an icosahedron based sphere, like how a soccer ball is based on a truncated icosohedron but Is still a sphere
Fun fact: you'll say it again
Wait until I upgrade it in size. It's going to be epic. : )
These videos don't normally give me anxiety, but hearing all the stress in the pieces shifting is giving me a lot too
these videos are the ones that tell you that lego has gave us almost infinite potential with these small snapping bricks
Can I just say it’s so satisfying to her the clicks of the Legos clicking together
I saw the strait parts curving on their own and screamed, "NO!" I love your work, even if the creaking hurts inside.
That's a very interesting built, it got much larger than I anticipated from the beginning.
Having the studs on the inside was a unique twist, also something I wasn't expecting.
I also like how you kept in the small things when the bricks wouldn't cooperate properly and you had to fix things instead of editing it out and doing another take. Nobody is perfect, that's good to see.
Thank you. I definitely have a perfectionist streak, but I think it's important to leave in flaws and wrinkles--particularly if they don't ruin the flow of the build. It keeps it real.
@@BrickBending that's what I like about this UA-cam channel. Even lego gods make mistakes.
@@BrickBending Although no one is perfect, You are Really good at this. I Never knew how to do this with LEGO. And it is still Really cool. You should deserve more Subscribers at this point.
i like the fact that he does it slowly, like a tutorial, even though no one has the amounte of bricks of the same type required.
All those Lego bricks squeaking in pain will give me nightmares
If you were using hinges in a build, I knew it was going to be WILD. Was not disappointed. Haha. Great "fake out" with the more "standard" build at the beginning
I just imagine his house being full of those lego bending buildings and one day one just cannot handle the stress anymore that is being put on the lego bricks and explodes which starts a huge domino effect
Dude that's literally what I was thinking
That creaking and groaning as the plastic flexes sends shivers through me
This man be like:
"You build with Bricks"
"I bend Bricks too my will"
"We are not the same"
now imagine a dyson sphere like this and every pieces is a detachable megastructure
This is the inbetween a dyson sphere and dyson swarm
@@vbgvbg1133Where do Dyson Vacuums fit in though?
@@bigmike- Well obviously they suck.
@@JohnUnsub lol
@@bigmike- Pretty much anywhere you could fit a normal vacuum. They have a small form factor and fit in most closets
I never thought I'd see you use something as legal as hinge plates.
Cleanest way to get 72 degree angles 👍🏻
@@BrickBending you can't just bend a brick to whatever you want?
@@fiarubold soon…
@@fiarubold he can he just devotes his transcendent energies to other things
@@BrickBending the real magic of geometry is that you turned a 72° angle into a 90° angle.
This needs to be a lego set, i would pay so much money for something like this
3:27 I just don't get how he was able to make this bending structure with straight pieces.
The structure simply just obeyed his will and bended
As the pieces connect together more on the top it means more of the force is on the top of the structure so it naturally wants to bend that way
the top bits are pulling it inward
Yeah, but the top pieces aren't shorter. They're all the same length, how are the pulling it inward? Instead of just fitting all snuggly together
For all the amazing artistry, clever engineering and sheer audacity at work in these projects, the videos would be a lesser experience without the eventual appearance of the lil Lego caveman. I hope he gets the star treatment he so deserves. We love you, lil hairy spear-wielding dude.
He constantly reminds me never to take anything too seriously. My partner in crime. : )
I would love to see a timelapse of a brainstorming/testing session of you tinkering with ideas and your initial reaction stumbling across things like this
Same here!
Yes, also the trail and error situation. I'm sure we could see some nice shots of "exploding" structures :-) Inspired by BBs video I made some own experiments. There is often this "too much stress" drama. What I've learnd: Do this only in a room with a clean surface.
I will ponder that. It would be fun to try to make that work.
It would be really cool to see this fully plated, and to have your own, Lego-torturing, knockoff globe, thats 100% more spherical than the official one.
At 5:00 I was just waiting for a stick in the middle and dancing in the rain to start playing 🎶 🤣
LEGO d20 is sick, can't wait for the d100! (building the other common dice like d8, d10, d12 and d4 might be kinda interesting tho)
Imagine stepping on a Lego d4
@@thatisjustgreat 1-4 HP dmg 😖
@@mandelbot5318 bro if you're stepping on a *_LEGO_* d4, you're going to be rolling a couple of d4s for necrotic damage. No armor is resistant to that.
"Roll me a performance check"
*crashing of legos was heard"
its not a dice, its a spherical icosahedron.
What evil magic is there for making the 2x1 bend on their own???
I need to know this too!
it's the joints between the 2x1s, by using lots and lots and lots of 2x1s, each connection only bends a small amount, yet the structure as a whole bends very noticably
I read through comments just to find this out lol.
No magic. The same when you have a baseplate or a plate of eg. 32x32 and you put may small tiles or plates on one side. The baseplate comes up. If your base is weak, like his beams, it's a normal effect.
@@hesspet and to a magician magic is just slight of hand or misdirection but to the rest of us it's magical lol. Thanks for the info this was cool. Never thought I'd learn so much by watching Lego's being built.
Just beautifully made!!!! Good job😁👏👌👌
This entire video fills me with potential energy
Lets be honest here: our minds were thinking, *oh no, what is he gonna do next* while watching this video lol
Usually i only watch then do nothing, this time I'll give a like. Nice one!
anyone who thinks it's a normal build only sees the thumbnail and it's their first video
Literally me lol. This is my first exposure to the channel so I was unprepared
I recreated the DNA strand based the video you made awhile back. The use of the two different types of handles and how they can interlock is a very clever idea. I also added yellow, green, blue, and red for the AT CG pairs (respectively) as well by replacing two of the black 1x4 plates in each section. It was a very fun build and a nice introduction to brick bending!
Also, very impressive build even though it may be fidgety
That is a very difficult build! You have my respect. 😊
I could watch these all day! You're amazing!
YO BRICK MACHINES
I really hope this guy has a gallery/museum somewhere just collecting all of his crazy brick bending creations!
This man is like the universe showing us how to make fractals with math, but in lego format. You cannot tell me this guy isn’t a lego fractal genius!!
That…isn’t a fractal?
Not quite a fractal but I appreciate the energy!!!!!!!
I'm not too sure you know what a fractal is
He's a math guy, and a geometric lego artist.
This guy isn't a lego fractal genius.
It's so beautiful yet so illegal. I could stare at this for hours.
The spinning is my favorite thing 🥰
I'm pretty sure this one only uses legal bending
I've noticed that current lego pieces tend to bend inward... something I didn't remember was happening back in the day of my childhood.
@@h-Films so a curved line of rigid Lego pieces is legal?
@@missingtexturez I mean they were all attached legally right
"Duke do you want the ball?" *Hurls massive Lego boulder*
This one in particular really reminds me of a toy i had as a kid, called an "X ball". Basically a bunch of little bent X's with magnets on the end, and when you put them all together end-to-end, you get a cool wireframe dodecahedron. There's also a Y-ball, Star ball and maybe more, too, but i only ever got the X one. I probably have most of a set in my closet somewhere, but i lost a few parts in a few moves. :(
Lego Every time Brick Bending makes a video: HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
They actually promoted his channel on their Twitter feed. They love his style. ;-)
*HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!*
You put these bricks under a lot of stress. I have to ask, what is the most spectacular failure you’ve had occur during a build?
In the very earlier iterations of spheres I used far less stable building techniques. I had one sphere that literally exploded 40 or 50 times (plates flying everywhere) until I finally found a way to successfully construct it. But since then I have become very adept at managing that stress (and using more stable building techniques) so explosions are pretty rare fortunately/unfortunately 😄
@@BrickBending This makes me wonder if there could technically be a lego fragmentation grenade using those less stable building techniques (and maybe a removable stabilizer?)
@@Attrixine that is a very interesting question I'd like to see some one come up with a concept and prototype Lego garnade with a stabilizing pin that once removed the only thing stopping it from fragmenting is their hand so once you toss it legos fly everywhere ....
@@ericrichardson3332 the only thing about a pin, is if the legos are under enough stress, as soon as you pull it, they would most likely explode instantly. Maybe there is a way to delay it from happening though.
@@mathjesticgaming1188 pin releases a gear on a shaft with a rubberband wrapped around it, once the tension of the band is relieved it ca slip out further, releasing the ACUTAL stabilizing piece.
Absolutely sick build.
This is an amazing build, really is!
This reminds me of a Dyson sphere
Cool as always. I really like the part with green hinges. It made me realize you can make almost tiling with lego, i.e. hexagon, semi-regular tessellations and maybe even period tilings like Penrose tilings. Although not sure about Penrose tiling as the side have an irrational ratio between them. Glad to see you used green hinges, if you had used black I would have been worried you had gone to the Darkside and were using your power to bend LEGO plates to build a Deathstar.
The stability of that is utterly insane! What an awesome lego ball!
This would make a great light fixture
Oh wow, this one of the best things that popped up in feed today!!
Ah yes, this is actually the ASMR of me getting out of bed in the morning.
The bricks have gained sentience. THEY'RE BENDING THEMSELVES. I REPEAT, THEY'RE BENDING THEMSELVES. LOCK YOUR DOORS, FORTIFY YOUR BASEMENTS. PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN.
🤫they also tell me things...
@@BrickBending what things💀???
My eyes genuinely went wide when I first saw the abomination you made that bends on its own, and it just kept getting worse, you could've left it and it would be so cool, but you took it a step further than any man, woman, or ape like creature ever had, i salute you
you never cease to amaze me
I feel like we’re all on some Lego based hit list after this one.
the moment the stars are put next to the bow shaped thingis oo he's making a ball !!! why am Iso hyped about this, its crazy satisfying
Brilliant! Very creative, I love it!
Aside from being cool to watch, this video was pleasant to listen to. Lego makes such a nice sound.
These videos are great to sleep to. I love the sound of the legos clicking together. So soothing.
Awesome Lego art. I hope you will do more like this in the future.
I most definitely will 🙏🏻
That is the most terrifying LEGO object I’ve ever seen
the pinnacle of man's leap from the first step set on the moon to this atrocity
gotta love it
This is an absolute triumph! If you did a geodesic sphere or dome i think I'd collapse from nerd euphoria.
if Lego ever continues with the Disney sets we need spaceship earth just so we can have a geodesic sphere
Круто палучилось
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That might be possible with the same technique, problem is you need 3 different edge lengths for a geodesic dome and I'm pretty sure they're not related by rational factors so I think however big you made it it'd be a little bit out of round in places. Still would be cool.
The thing that satisfies me the most is the fact that the room is completely white with no dirt.
So satisfying, I want to build this.
I always find myself filled with an increasing amount of mildly horrified awe when watching these. I love them!
You should try to make that painting where the stairs are going everywhere and nowhere and they're all oriented differently and some are upside down or on the walls but you don't know which way is up or down
random guy:
'how many black 2 by 1 do u want?'
him: "yes"
Plot twist, he's manufacturing them himself
@@vinnykitty1983 *Lego wants to know your location*
Imagine reversing this with all those small parts. My fingers are bleeding from thinking about it.
You just made me cry
Im impressed by the fact that he has so much lego pieces
We all hope a dodecahedron next , please!
Check the description; it's the first one in this series.
@@SupersuMC thanks!
Every time he spins it, i'm anticipating it to just spontaneously fall apart.
it's crazy to see the piece at 3:26 sustain its own curvature despite, as far as i can tell, being composed of completely normal building, like you would've been able to just put that together without any qualms in something like digital designer and not expect any curvature out of it
oh god you can hear the tension in the build
I'd be really curious what the total build time is for these
9 minutes.
@@UltimatePerfection you're not allowed to open your mouth ever again
@@zippyllama177 You don't need to open your mouth to type in text.
It's tough to say because I typically just 'get into the zone' with music or a podcast so I lose track. But a safe bet is 4-5 seconds per piece which equates to roughly 4-5 hours. But if I was really trying I think I could do it in 2-3.
@@UltimatePerfection im going to shake up all of your sodas and half open your milk
Why is this so satisfying!?!
Thanks for rolling it. I was afraid it wasn't going to happen.
3:27 when he lets go does it take that shape because of some building technique I don’t understand, or because he already built it before and those 2x1 plates have warped under tension?
I believe I have seen some reference to him having bricks that are used to bend a certain way, so my bet is on the latter. It could be a combination of both though!
I had to say "OMG, this is so cool!" many time when you craft it
This is cool. I never that you could bend bricks to a whole new level.
No way I just watched someone build a ball out of plates.... This is amazing
Lego build rules: exist
This man: and I took that personally
There was this one kid in my school who brought Legos every day and made structures like this and I feel like he is your son from a different world
This shouldn't be as satisfying as it is 😘🤌
I still can't comprehend how it bends that well
Imagine if they released a new deathstar kit that was built like this
Oh, this would be hard i guess
is this behaviour due to draft angles, tolerances or just pure, unabated magic?
Why is this relaxing
This looks like it'll be used in a Lego museum
Dad: Okay son what have we learned today?
Son: Brick Bender is the creator
Dad: Such an imagination
Son: Look I can bend my neck like he can bend bricks!
The moral of the story is that Brick Bending guy is playing god
8:15 cave man on the down right.
Great ball contraption
initially gave me major Doc Octopus vibes! love it!
this man just created a new mind blowing lego set just for fun
Somehow this is so satisfying
Your videos are indescribably cursed. I love them.
It's like a round dodecahedron! Very interesting