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@@nxctemyou have to mine out an entire mountain range to make stone brick roofs lol. Don’t even get me started on getting enough clay for a brick house 😢
@@ThePenandtheSword84 Or any time there's an ambiguous shade in the instructions, ESPECIALLY because the printing colors are just slightly off and make you constantly second-guess yourself because it's NOT CONSISTENT
I've got the bottle ship sitting on my shelf, and I never actually counted all those blue studs to make sure I've got 284 of them - I just dumped all of them in that came with the set. So in that sense, that was one of the easiest Lego building steps that I've ever come across 🙂 As for the Eiffel tower, you'd need to pay me VERY handsomely to get me to build that monstrosity. Or, as a german Lego UA-camr put it: "the best way to build this set is to get 4 friends together and have each of them build a quarter of the whole (which is possible, because it's symmetrical). When they're done, you build the flag and put it on top."
The bonsai tree is similar to the ship in the bottle, it just has the extra steps of pour 4 colors of tiles into 1 bag, shake, then pour into the pot of the tree.
I felt the amount of "water" the ship came with was actually a bit too little, so I dumped maybe 100-200 more 1x1s I got from the pick-a-brick wall in too!
@@Snow_Empressnah, 4 dollars is pretty significant. That's enough to dare someone to do something that would have serious health repacusions if gone wrong.
The Super Mario NES set has a pretty brutal part. The background on the TV has a mechanism to make it scroll so it looks like Mario is moving. Putting that background together is brutal, it's so many 1x1s of all different colors.
On top of that you have make the base like a giant chain that connects together so it basically combines two tedious build types in one lol looks great when completed tho
Actually, I had wonderfull time building it, yes it can be a little irritating, but I like the proces. I dont see a point in building with big pieces, so it can be easier. 😅
The bonsei tree while relatively simply has some of the hardest to make out instructions ive ever seen on a lego set. Everything is brown on brown and unless you have a bright light shining directly on it Everything blends together
That, and if you decide to do the cherry blossom version of the leaves, the meticulous and repetitive placement of tiny frogs and cupcake swirl studs on all of the branches that are combined with other branches and then combined again with more to create one of the 3 larger branches of the tree is insane.
As someone who builds custom LEGO mosaics, I can attest that it requires a certain kind of person and a special kind of patience. After the design work is done and the building has begun, I usually put on a podcast and work an hour at a time, once per day, for several weeks.
I was thrilled I didn't make an error on The Starry Night. The bulk of the sky is rather challenging because of how similar the different blues appear in the book
Just last night me and my dad shoveled out our neighbor's sidewalk because they have 3 little kids and didn't have time. We didn't expect to get anything in return, but the dad rushed out when we were about 3/4 of the way done and handed me a knock-off Lego M4A1 Sherman tank set that his kids apparently couldn't figure out, and their wife handed my dad a 4-pack of wheat beer. I never would've bought that Sherman with my own money, but I'm enjoying building it, even though it was missing a few pieces that I had to find replacements for from my own collection of loose Lego.
knock off bricks are horrible with their missing pieces and bad instructions! Someone gave my nephew a bucket full of police vehicles, it’s all black and gray pieces! Needless to say most of it is still in the bucket!
@@karens8633 While I won’t disagree with you on the bad instructions, and some of the pieces needed a bit of help from my jaws to properly seat, there were no missing pieces, and everything was nicely bagged 1-4, with smaller pieces in their own bags inside the larger ones, just like a real Lego set. I even finished it in 2 sub 1-hour building sessions, and I'm decently pleased with the result. It's no Brickmania kit, but it's decent enough. The minifigures even have working knees, leg and back printing, and their shoulders actually have 2 separate joints, allowing them to swing out to the side in addition to how a genuine minifig's arms move.
I received the Starry Night set for Christmas, and exactly 40 pages of the instructions were each individual layer of tiles for the background. I still had a lot of fun building it though
The Lego Architect Empire State Building has got to be the most grueling build that I’ve done, where I had to attach 684 of the tan 1x2 pieces to the outside of the building
For repetitive id say the green hill zone ideas set is repetitve due to all the 1x1 plates being stacked in groups of 2 and checkered, but its worth it in the end
Imagine you’re carrying your Ship in a bottle set across the house and u slip on a banana, there goes your 284 1 by 1 round studs all over your floor. 🤣🤣
5:14 "There's one section of it that made every builder groan". Speak for yourself. I enjoyed this part just as much as the rest of the build. It looks amazing and was fun using the "straight edge" trick to get them all lined up.
I'm kind of surprised how many Lego sets have loose bricks in them. I was made aware of the ship in a bottle set only after completing the Lego Bonsai set, which has a bunch of flat round brown studs in different shades to represent the dirt surrounding the roots of the tree. More recently, and after being made aware of the ship in a bottle set, I assembled an iris set, which also has a single withered root sticking out of the pot along with multiple different brown pieces to represent dirt. I will say, both are very nice looking sets. Almost got a rose bouquet, but someone got to it before I could, and I didn't have my own vase to set it up in.
I see you haven't seen the instructions for the microscale big Hogwarts castle (71043). The entire rock part is one giant "spot the difference" game, since the instructions don't highlight new pieces and it uses 3 very similar (especially under artificial light) tones of tiny bricks.
Yeah, that was really frustrating! I've built enough sets to know what extra pieces to expect, so imagine my surprise when I see 3 more cheese slopes than I was expecting...
Things like this are why I'm so glad I was into magic eye books as a kid because now I can easily cross my eyes and merge images together to spot the differences between them by seeing what flickers in my vision.
The Lego Pyramid of Giza was fun to build. You'd think the exterior of the pyramid would be mind numbing, but something about seeing the progress being made was pretty cool to see one level at a time. Definitely felt for the Dagobah set though, having planted many a tree and bush along the Nile in the earlier bags of the set.
The Lego Orchid set was one of the most tedious that I dealt with so far. The steps where you have to make the petals with forks and shields really require some dexterity to do.
As someone who despises repetitive steps, the Avengers Tower never stood out to me as having any. Maybe it's the way they break up window construction and placement with floor and set dressing construction, but I kind of got excited each time I got to build and place more windows.
2:41 That is actually quite nice. The Master Builders working together with the manufactures. While 284 is just 16 pieces away after all and the design won't really suffer anything with such a small amount missing from the complete build.
In Lego set 10323 step 158, it asks you to put together a set of technic pieces a total of 64 times. When I was building this set, that step alone took me a bout half an hour
My Imperial Star Destroyer set, the 10030 one, without the minifigures, has a nasty part, requiring you to prefabricate the same piece over and over again to line the ship's sides.
It probably doesn't compare to the steps mentioned in this video, but assembling and attaching the mechanism for folding the wheels into the car on the delorean was very finicky and took a bit of messing around with where the gears meshed for it to work right. The end result is seriously cool and makes it worth it.
Having built the Architecture Taj Mahal, I can confirm *everything* that you said. It is indeed magnificent, but those 33 "checkerboards" are indeed repetitive. I still highly recommend the set though.
The NASA Discovery Space Shuttle where you have to place all the shiny chrome stickers! Edit: The Colosseum set’s approximately100 bags of beige (including the mini bags inside the main bag) was the pain to build.
I didnt really care about the tediousness of those stickers...but I dont have the steady surgical firm hand to place stickers in general. As I love space stuff I wanted it to be perfect in the shuttle set and the persevearance mars rover, thats was when the hard part began.😢
One painful part of a build was the lego stratocaster guitar. I don't remember which step number it was but you have to wind the strings up but they're only attached to a 1x1 stud so the studs easily full off so you have to redo them, not to mention the strings don't sit perfectly on the fretboard
I have the Ship in a Bottle and the water studs is the least tedious LEGO instruction in history. They come in their own bag and you just dump the whole thing in. The most tedious set I've built has been the Globe. Specifically the arm and the outer plates. So much repetition for those parts. The inner workings and final build are really cool, though.
7:10 Does the Bonsai count? Regardless of whether you go green leafy or cherry blossoms, they are both very repetitive in their own way. The cherry blossoms are probably slightly worse because the white leaves are smaller and combined to cover the same area of the larger green ones, but in either case, the green leaves or pink frogs and other details are hell to put on. Worse still is that try try to make you do this as the very last step when everything is already on the tree. Combined with the supporting branch being repetitive also, there's nothing about this build that isn't an exercise in patience. (Or if you are actually smart, you just assemble all the leaves and leave putting them on the tree until you're done decorating...)
As much as I loved building it, the Mos Eisley Cantina set has a step that is done probably 20 times throughout the build using a 2x1 plate, 2 studs, and 2 1x1 plates to make custom bricks that are textured. The tedium comes from those steps and the astounding amount of beige in that set. Again.... I loved it. Just making that one brick so many times for texture got really old 😂
For tedious builds, the Lego Bonsai cherry blossom variant was quite tedious. There were about a hundred pale pink frogs to place, and the leaves you had to assemble were all practically identical.
The green leaves were worse, they made you put the leaf pieces on them after the branches were connected to the tree and you had to analyze the book to figure out how to place them
8:24 If you think that's bad, just imagine what it must have been like for a team of welders to build the real thing in the summer sun! At least LEGO can be built inside in the AC.
I've had worse. First UCS Imperial Star Destroyer had one step that was a pain. And keep in mind this was BEFORE Lego started organizing all the bags. Back then it was a bunch of random bags thrown together, no organization whatsoever.
The 2002 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer has one step that is super tedious. Step 19 on pages 24 and 25, you are tasked with building 18 plates with lots of small greebling elements that take a long time to put together. And at the very end of the step, you are tasked with going back to the very start of the instructions and rebuilding the entire structure again. So in total you have to build 34 plates full of about 270 different greebling elements, along with building two large structures that hold the model together. It takes such a long time.
The new, small Taj Mahal is fine. Take a look at the 10256 Taj Mahal. Since its almost fully symmetrical, you constantly have to repeat build steps four times. Also it contains over 1100 1x1 pieces, which makes it an absolute chore to finish.
I know they will never stop doing it, but I just hate when there’s repetition in a LEGO set, it is just so boring and just sucks the fun out of LEGO sets for me ESPECIALLY when you build something and then at the end of you building it, it’s like “Great! Now build another one.”
The Wizards Chess lego set has a ton of repetition. Once you get the ground work done, you then have to place 128 white and black 4 by 2 smooth tiles on top. You then have to build 2 kings, 2 queens, 4 bishops, 4 knights, 4 rooks and 16 pawns in both colors. it’s a very tedious process but super worth it in the end. plus all of the characters that come in the set are 100% exclusive. love your videos and keep up the good work
The colosseum set is a repetitive nightmare lmao, it's all in segments and each segment is slightly different from the surrounding ones. Great set thought lmao
I specifically remember building the rotating screen for the super mario bros NES set. it's got everything awful: a long chain, a *lot* of technic pins, many many plates and tiles to build the sky and ground of the stage, and a couple specific placements of certain plates that are difficult to locate if you don't do things systematically. it's definitely one of my favorite sets ever released, and absolutely my favorite in my collection, but wow that was a long night lol
But those are not really "the worst" instructions... "the worst" would imply that there is a better way to give those instructions. There simply isn't. I'd rather call them "the most annoying instruction steps". Also annoying instructions: - the blue backside of Van Gogh Starry Night [21333] (don't do it at night, it has 4 shades of blue, it was difficult, you really need good light) - most stickers ever in a set by size: Speed Champions Mercedes AMG F1 & Project One [76909] - you have 52 stickers of which some are used twice (sticker 1 & 25) - and again, we are talking about Speed Champions size! - literally every Lego Arts set, which were just pixel-art sets made with dots... like the world map - big sets above 350€/$ can get very annoying, because they are repetitive due to their size and architecture, especially stadiums (I own the colosseum and I was very happy finishing it) - all types of symmetrical sets, such as chess boards, architecture...
I put together that Taj Mahal set yesterday. For that step I just put all the blue plates on the build, then put on all the tan tiles in a checkerboard pattern, then filled in the other studs with all the white ones. It was a little repetitive, but easier than tiling each blue plate individually with tiles from two bags 34 times. Also to make it go faster, when I had to build the same thing multiple times (end of a block of instructions “x4”), I built them all at the same time.
The jazz quartet is a really cool set but I take 2 issues, both with the piano: 1: The piano is only attached to the stage by its 2 front legs. I had to remove one of the studs holding the drum seat down to properlu secure it. 2: in the process of building it, you need to stack a bunch of pieces to emulate the piano's hammers. However, they give you a spare "hammer" piece. I stacked all of them assuming they wouldnt do that, and my piano spent a few months exploding before the penny dropped. Not quite hundreds of pieces, but subtle and devious.
LoL. The dagobah Jedi training was my first Lego Set (as a grown-up) i got it as a gift from a friend 2 weeks ago for my birthday. I was really hyped, since i loved Lego Star Wars as a kid. So after almost 20 years after my last built i've spent six hours without a break to finish it. It was an amazing experience, and i had a really good time, but building the "swamp" out of the small green pieces made me almost lose my 💩. When i finally finished the whole project, i just stared at it. I don't know why, but it still had the same magic to me like 20 years ago.
I ordered almost 2500 pieces to make a vase for all the botanical sets I grabbed, half of which was to make rings connected to each other to make up the vase's cyclinder walls. Each ring is 200ish pieces and there are 6 rings. It was pretty monotonous but such building processes can be thereputic if you can turn your brain off while doing them; taking to a friend or listening to music are my gotos for when I'm doing repetitive mundane tasks (excel, formatting things, LaTex, lab results, etc)
Talk about the Cherry Bonsai set! You have to put together a ton of branches coming out from other branches with tiny little "frog" blossoms and flower bud studs in specific locations, and you have to repeat it 27 times I believe. Also, the cherry blossom stem sets are pretty crazy too. It's so hard to tell which direction it's facing and which pieces were added on in which places after bulk creating a bunch of the blossoms with 4 or 5 different pieces over and over again
300 chain links ? That's pretty easy, when you're into detachable chairlifts and gondolas and had to assemble over FOUR THOUSAND of them in total. My hands can still feel it. And even that is pityful compared to the eight thousand that went into a friend's giant tower crane ^^
As a former LEGO store employee I never want to see that BMW M1000 ever again! We had to build THREE for our store and we all went insane because of it.
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CONFUSION 😕😕😕😕
You missed the NES Lego set
Get the bag my man
very poor of you to promote a pay 2 win scam
Lego is a great way to explain square footage . Never realize how much flooring you need until you play with 1x1 tiles
Oh, I never thought Americans would actually use the word "footage" for "area". But it does make sense
minecraft is also pretty good in survival mode. Can’t tell you how many forests i devasted to do do two story floors.
@@nxctemyou have to mine out an entire mountain range to make stone brick roofs lol. Don’t even get me started on getting enough clay for a brick house 😢
@@nxctem always use slabs
Wtf is a footage? A video? How bout u use real units?
The Titanic Set is one of the most realistic LEGO sets because it actually sinks.
yes 😂
DARK HUMOR📈📈
I can use it to cope with tragedy @@pandurial
Oh nah💀
Dark humor is how some people cope from tragedy.
every lego instruction where i PHYSICALLY can't see / am not sure where i'm putting down pieces is the worst one
The ones where I have to figure which shade of grey a piece is are the worst for me.
@@ThePenandtheSword84 Or any time there's an ambiguous shade in the instructions, ESPECIALLY because the printing colors are just slightly off and make you constantly second-guess yourself because it's NOT CONSISTENT
@@pollyanna7201 ahh, starry night
Now mix that with those sets that point out where a piece goes when it's very visible and glaringly obvious
Yes!
I've got the bottle ship sitting on my shelf, and I never actually counted all those blue studs to make sure I've got 284 of them - I just dumped all of them in that came with the set. So in that sense, that was one of the easiest Lego building steps that I've ever come across 🙂
As for the Eiffel tower, you'd need to pay me VERY handsomely to get me to build that monstrosity. Or, as a german Lego UA-camr put it: "the best way to build this set is to get 4 friends together and have each of them build a quarter of the whole (which is possible, because it's symmetrical). When they're done, you build the flag and put it on top."
The bonsai tree is similar to the ship in the bottle, it just has the extra steps of pour 4 colors of tiles into 1 bag, shake, then pour into the pot of the tree.
Yeh u always get spares for tiny pieces, so for sure you have more than 284 studs in there !
I recruited a friend for the Eiffel Tower haha
I felt the amount of "water" the ship came with was actually a bit too little, so I dumped maybe 100-200 more 1x1s I got from the pick-a-brick wall in too!
You didn’t count out all the studs?
Illegal build
2:01 If I had a dollar for every SpitBrix video that mentions _that_ step from the ship in a bottle set 92177 I would have at least 4 dollars.
Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened four times right?
@@Snow_Empressnah, 4 dollars is pretty significant. That's enough to dare someone to do something that would have serious health repacusions if gone wrong.
@@icebrew I need that 4 dollars for the fortnite itemshop
@@icebrewr/oddlyspecific
@@icebrewfor no particular reason could you tell me exactly what that is? I think I’ve got four dollars lying around somewhere…
The Super Mario NES set has a pretty brutal part. The background on the TV has a mechanism to make it scroll so it looks like Mario is moving. Putting that background together is brutal, it's so many 1x1s of all different colors.
Yup…. Done that! I think it was much worse to do that than both the daily bugle and the avengers tower
On top of that you have make the base like a giant chain that connects together so it basically combines two tedious build types in one lol looks great when completed tho
Actually, I had wonderfull time building it, yes it can be a little irritating, but I like the proces. I dont see a point in building with big pieces, so it can be easier. 😅
I agree
It was painful
Agreed
The bonsei tree while relatively simply has some of the hardest to make out instructions ive ever seen on a lego set. Everything is brown on brown and unless you have a bright light shining directly on it Everything blends together
That, and if you decide to do the cherry blossom version of the leaves, the meticulous and repetitive placement of tiny frogs and cupcake swirl studs on all of the branches that are combined with other branches and then combined again with more to create one of the 3 larger branches of the tree is insane.
As someone who builds custom LEGO mosaics, I can attest that it requires a certain kind of person and a special kind of patience. After the design work is done and the building has begun, I usually put on a podcast and work an hour at a time, once per day, for several weeks.
Fellow autist
I was thrilled I didn't make an error on The Starry Night. The bulk of the sky is rather challenging because of how similar the different blues appear in the book
Just last night me and my dad shoveled out our neighbor's sidewalk because they have 3 little kids and didn't have time. We didn't expect to get anything in return, but the dad rushed out when we were about 3/4 of the way done and handed me a knock-off Lego M4A1 Sherman tank set that his kids apparently couldn't figure out, and their wife handed my dad a 4-pack of wheat beer. I never would've bought that Sherman with my own money, but I'm enjoying building it, even though it was missing a few pieces that I had to find replacements for from my own collection of loose Lego.
knock off bricks are horrible with their missing pieces and bad instructions! Someone gave my nephew a bucket full of police vehicles, it’s all black and gray pieces! Needless to say most of it is still in the bucket!
@@karens8633 While I won’t disagree with you on the bad instructions, and some of the pieces needed a bit of help from my jaws to properly seat, there were no missing pieces, and everything was nicely bagged 1-4, with smaller pieces in their own bags inside the larger ones, just like a real Lego set. I even finished it in 2 sub 1-hour building sessions, and I'm decently pleased with the result. It's no Brickmania kit, but it's decent enough. The minifigures even have working knees, leg and back printing, and their shoulders actually have 2 separate joints, allowing them to swing out to the side in addition to how a genuine minifig's arms move.
helping others is great and often pays out... ooor not =)
I received the Starry Night set for Christmas, and exactly 40 pages of the instructions were each individual layer of tiles for the background. I still had a lot of fun building it though
I have stalled at the bckground of single tiles with Starry Night
Yeah, I have the set too. My fingers hurt every-time no about the building process
The Lego Architect Empire State Building has got to be the most grueling build that I’ve done, where I had to attach 684 of the tan 1x2 pieces to the outside of the building
For repetitive id say the green hill zone ideas set is repetitve due to all the 1x1 plates being stacked in groups of 2 and checkered, but its worth it in the end
My first 18+ Lego set and my fingers felt a lot of pain
You made me remember the pain
I just got this set for Christmas and I totally agree.
I agree
Imagine you’re carrying your Ship in a bottle set across the house and u slip on a banana, there goes your 284 1 by 1 round studs all over your floor. 🤣🤣
I’m now imaging someone slipping and comically throwing it in the air looney tunes style.
5:14 "There's one section of it that made every builder groan". Speak for yourself. I enjoyed this part just as much as the rest of the build. It looks amazing and was fun using the "straight edge" trick to get them all lined up.
I'm kind of surprised how many Lego sets have loose bricks in them. I was made aware of the ship in a bottle set only after completing the Lego Bonsai set, which has a bunch of flat round brown studs in different shades to represent the dirt surrounding the roots of the tree. More recently, and after being made aware of the ship in a bottle set, I assembled an iris set, which also has a single withered root sticking out of the pot along with multiple different brown pieces to represent dirt. I will say, both are very nice looking sets. Almost got a rose bouquet, but someone got to it before I could, and I didn't have my own vase to set it up in.
I see you haven't seen the instructions for the microscale big Hogwarts castle (71043). The entire rock part is one giant "spot the difference" game, since the instructions don't highlight new pieces and it uses 3 very similar (especially under artificial light) tones of tiny bricks.
Yeah, that was really frustrating! I've built enough sets to know what extra pieces to expect, so imagine my surprise when I see 3 more cheese slopes than I was expecting...
Things like this are why I'm so glad I was into magic eye books as a kid because now I can easily cross my eyes and merge images together to spot the differences between them by seeing what flickers in my vision.
The Lego Pyramid of Giza was fun to build. You'd think the exterior of the pyramid would be mind numbing, but something about seeing the progress being made was pretty cool to see one level at a time. Definitely felt for the Dagobah set though, having planted many a tree and bush along the Nile in the earlier bags of the set.
I just looked at the Pyramid set and I love that it actually resembles what they think it looked like when it was built.
The Lego Orchid set was one of the most tedious that I dealt with so far. The steps where you have to make the petals with forks and shields really require some dexterity to do.
Yep, that was right up there with the bonsai tree for me.
thankfully my brothers and I have come to an agreement. any Lego set that is huge and overly repetitive we will work together to build them.
0:24 complaining about this is hilarious when you consider the actual work that went into the Taj Mahal
So what i am gathering is that Lego fans would hate doing cross-stitch embroidery.
269 pane glass windows?! I still haven’t built Avengers tower yet but thanks for telling me that doing that might be a nightmare! 😂
As someone who despises repetitive steps, the Avengers Tower never stood out to me as having any. Maybe it's the way they break up window construction and placement with floor and set dressing construction, but I kind of got excited each time I got to build and place more windows.
It's a really cool set, but I think what dissuades me more than 270 windows is the fact it's *five hundred dollars*
That's a perfectly fair consideration, it doesn't come cheap! @@TekuTaurus
At least the sound of putting the glass pane in the window frame is satisfying
2:41
That is actually quite nice. The Master Builders working together with the manufactures.
While 284 is just 16 pieces away after all and the design won't really suffer anything with such a small amount missing from the complete build.
In Lego set 10323 step 158, it asks you to put together a set of technic pieces a total of 64 times. When I was building this set, that step alone took me a bout half an hour
And it's so late in the set so it sucks so much more doing it in one sitting
10253 - Big Ben (Expert Creator)
Featuring:
Literally half the steps just being stacking 1x1 bricks.
> Buy detailed Lego set.
> Don’t want to do detailed work.
🤷 lol
3:50 sponsor skip :)
Thx these comments are underrated 😂
@4:54 "The final result is more than worth the effort" is the entire point.
My Imperial Star Destroyer set, the 10030 one, without the minifigures, has a nasty part, requiring you to prefabricate the same piece over and over again to line the ship's sides.
It probably doesn't compare to the steps mentioned in this video, but assembling and attaching the mechanism for folding the wheels into the car on the delorean was very finicky and took a bit of messing around with where the gears meshed for it to work right. The end result is seriously cool and makes it worth it.
Having built the Architecture Taj Mahal, I can confirm *everything* that you said. It is indeed magnificent, but those 33 "checkerboards" are indeed repetitive. I still highly recommend the set though.
im 100% colorblind to green so building the second set was the worst experience of my life
The NASA Discovery Space Shuttle where you have to place all the shiny chrome stickers!
Edit: The Colosseum set’s approximately100 bags of beige (including the mini bags inside the main bag) was the pain to build.
Oh I hated placing those chrome stickers💀
If Lego sets have stickers, they should come with tweezers.
I didnt really care about the tediousness of those stickers...but I dont have the steady surgical firm hand to place stickers in general. As I love space stuff I wanted it to be perfect in the shuttle set and the persevearance mars rover, thats was when the hard part began.😢
The bonsai tree has a step where you pour 450 total 1 x 1 round pcs into the plant holder that the actual tree is in
assembling the cherry blossoms with all those pink frogs and flowers is also a pain
One painful part of a build was the lego stratocaster guitar. I don't remember which step number it was but you have to wind the strings up but they're only attached to a 1x1 stud so the studs easily full off so you have to redo them, not to mention the strings don't sit perfectly on the fretboard
I agree with you on the Eiffel Tower. I was about to throw it out the window 😂
Bro my set broke because I was playing with my cat too close to it. Happened months ago and I still haven’t gotten around to rebuilding it…
7:13 stickers
I think its just a skill issue
Mabe
You have a skill issue when youre typing, you have to edit that comment to make it right
@imbadpirate ”their” might have been a wooden beam in ”you’re” eye when you pointed out that splinter
1:46 “do or do not, there I no try” truly amazing words :)
You can see it next to the logo!
The Lego ideas Pac man has a step where you have to put together 64 little poles with 124 black technic pins and 64 beige poles
i remember the white house ideas set being pretty brutal with the windows, lots of 1x1 stacked on top of eachother
These steps make me want to cry
The red rollercoaster killed my thumbs building the stilts
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I have the Ship in a Bottle and the water studs is the least tedious LEGO instruction in history. They come in their own bag and you just dump the whole thing in.
The most tedious set I've built has been the Globe. Specifically the arm and the outer plates. So much repetition for those parts. The inner workings and final build are really cool, though.
9:00 That meme is actually hilarious. x)
Lol
Is it bad that I want all of these sets just to put them together? Building lego sets has always been my favorite thing
7:39 i had to rewind to see if I heard that correctly
Same
7:10 Does the Bonsai count? Regardless of whether you go green leafy or cherry blossoms, they are both very repetitive in their own way. The cherry blossoms are probably slightly worse because the white leaves are smaller and combined to cover the same area of the larger green ones, but in either case, the green leaves or pink frogs and other details are hell to put on. Worse still is that try try to make you do this as the very last step when everything is already on the tree. Combined with the supporting branch being repetitive also, there's nothing about this build that isn't an exercise in patience. (Or if you are actually smart, you just assemble all the leaves and leave putting them on the tree until you're done decorating...)
As much as I loved building it, the Mos Eisley Cantina set has a step that is done probably 20 times throughout the build using a 2x1 plate, 2 studs, and 2 1x1 plates to make custom bricks that are textured.
The tedium comes from those steps and the astounding amount of beige in that set.
Again.... I loved it. Just making that one brick so many times for texture got really old 😂
I did do the Taj Mahal set and honestly, if you put on some music and do it in two sessions, doing the 33 plates becomes kinda relaxing
If you think its annoying building these sets of buildings, well imagine building a real building. Really makes you appreciate architecture 👌🏻🗿
Don't be a dummy, get friends to help you build!
For tedious builds, the Lego Bonsai cherry blossom variant was quite tedious. There were about a hundred pale pink frogs to place, and the leaves you had to assemble were all practically identical.
The green leaves were worse, they made you put the leaf pieces on them after the branches were connected to the tree and you had to analyze the book to figure out how to place them
8:29 bro I literally was going to assemble this set tomorrow thanks for the heads up😂
8:24 If you think that's bad, just imagine what it must have been like for a team of welders to build the real thing in the summer sun! At least LEGO can be built inside in the AC.
0:37 I have this set in my room and yes that’s a lot but didn’t take that long plus my mom helped me
I've had worse. First UCS Imperial Star Destroyer had one step that was a pain. And keep in mind this was BEFORE Lego started organizing all the bags. Back then it was a bunch of random bags thrown together, no organization whatsoever.
Cool new vid
The 2002 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer has one step that is super tedious. Step 19 on pages 24 and 25, you are tasked with building 18 plates with lots of small greebling elements that take a long time to put together. And at the very end of the step, you are tasked with going back to the very start of the instructions and rebuilding the entire structure again. So in total you have to build 34 plates full of about 270 different greebling elements, along with building two large structures that hold the model together. It takes such a long time.
The new, small Taj Mahal is fine. Take a look at the 10256 Taj Mahal. Since its almost fully symmetrical, you constantly have to repeat build steps four times. Also it contains over 1100 1x1 pieces, which makes it an absolute chore to finish.
I don't understand this video. Why are you building Lego sets if you don't like repetitive tasks and minuscule details. Give me your set I'll do it
Sooo if you have a hobby and you dislike one annoying aspect of it you cant complain? 😅 what a great comment
I did the Eiffel Tower with my dad and the X structures were quite a chore! But the set was perfect for 2 people and the result is amazing! :)
Every like this comment gets, I’ll step on one LEGO Brick on Stream 😅
Pay up
You have to step on 4 Lego bricks
6 lego bricks now
8 boy
Good luck.
I wonder which Lego set has the greatest number of pieces with the fewest steps, and vice versa?
1:30 same thing can be said about Lego set 10315, the water pieces have to be placed in a certain orientation
That pain from the captain America shield where you need to build lots of plates
I know they will never stop doing it, but I just hate when there’s repetition in a LEGO set, it is just so boring and just sucks the fun out of LEGO sets for me ESPECIALLY when you build something and then at the end of you building it, it’s like “Great! Now build another one.”
I have a tedious intsruction: the Lego Ideas Fender Stratocaster has an amp that calls for 86 grill plates on the front.
I enjoyed building Rivendell's roof, straightening the pieces was really satisfying. It's not as tedious as it looks.
The Wizards Chess lego set has a ton of repetition. Once you get the ground work done, you then have to place 128 white and black 4 by 2 smooth tiles on top. You then have to build 2 kings, 2 queens, 4 bishops, 4 knights, 4 rooks and 16 pawns in both colors. it’s a very tedious process but super worth it in the end. plus all of the characters that come in the set are 100% exclusive. love your videos and keep up the good work
Top tip: to make stuff like this entertaining, speedrun it and time yourself.
The colosseum set is a repetitive nightmare lmao, it's all in segments and each segment is slightly different from the surrounding ones. Great set thought lmao
I specifically remember building the rotating screen for the super mario bros NES set. it's got everything awful: a long chain, a *lot* of technic pins, many many plates and tiles to build the sky and ground of the stage, and a couple specific placements of certain plates that are difficult to locate if you don't do things systematically. it's definitely one of my favorite sets ever released, and absolutely my favorite in my collection, but wow that was a long night lol
I think that Dagobah set might look better with some round 2x2s on that green layer, in addition to being a bit less tedious.
the worst part about putting those chains togethr was that the elevator didn't even work that well.. 😭
The older White House set has you stack white and black 1x1s totaling like 121 pieces just for windows
But those are not really "the worst" instructions... "the worst" would imply that there is a better way to give those instructions. There simply isn't. I'd rather call them "the most annoying instruction steps".
Also annoying instructions:
- the blue backside of Van Gogh Starry Night [21333] (don't do it at night, it has 4 shades of blue, it was difficult, you really need good light)
- most stickers ever in a set by size: Speed Champions Mercedes AMG F1 & Project One [76909] - you have 52 stickers of which some are used twice (sticker 1 & 25) - and again, we are talking about Speed Champions size!
- literally every Lego Arts set, which were just pixel-art sets made with dots... like the world map
- big sets above 350€/$ can get very annoying, because they are repetitive due to their size and architecture, especially stadiums (I own the colosseum and I was very happy finishing it)
- all types of symmetrical sets, such as chess boards, architecture...
I loved the avengers tower windows! Its so satisfying to snap the windowglass in
I put together that Taj Mahal set yesterday. For that step I just put all the blue plates on the build, then put on all the tan tiles in a checkerboard pattern, then filled in the other studs with all the white ones. It was a little repetitive, but easier than tiling each blue plate individually with tiles from two bags 34 times. Also to make it go faster, when I had to build the same thing multiple times (end of a block of instructions “x4”), I built them all at the same time.
8:48 I have that set and it was SO ANNOYING, something like 50 stickers, most pieces had a sticker on them (not really)
8:41 when I was little my favourite part was adding the ✨STICKERS✨
Problem is I never got them perfect 💀
The jazz quartet is a really cool set but I take 2 issues, both with the piano:
1: The piano is only attached to the stage by its 2 front legs. I had to remove one of the studs holding the drum seat down to properlu secure it.
2: in the process of building it, you need to stack a bunch of pieces to emulate the piano's hammers. However, they give you a spare "hammer" piece. I stacked all of them assuming they wouldnt do that, and my piano spent a few months exploding before the penny dropped. Not quite hundreds of pieces, but subtle and devious.
LoL. The dagobah Jedi training was my first Lego Set (as a grown-up) i got it as a gift from a friend 2 weeks ago for my birthday. I was really hyped, since i loved Lego Star Wars as a kid. So after almost 20 years after my last built i've spent six hours without a break to finish it. It was an amazing experience, and i had a really good time, but building the "swamp" out of the small green pieces made me almost lose my 💩. When i finally finished the whole project, i just stared at it. I don't know why, but it still had the same magic to me like 20 years ago.
Lego NES has a scrolling screen with 100s of individual tiles taking a long time
The sheer amount of 1x1 bricks you have to put together by hand in the Lego Ideas Green hill set is enough to get blisters just thinking about it.
Oh my. The Lego Maersk ship, has TONS of tiny maersk stickers for the containers on the ship, that’s terrible!
0:53 He’s joking right? He keeps saying “there’s no confusion about where the pieces should go” like it’s true. He must be joking.
I guess thats why they call it window pain
I don’t see any of these as problems. The tedium you describe is exactly what I love about LEGOs.
I ordered almost 2500 pieces to make a vase for all the botanical sets I grabbed, half of which was to make rings connected to each other to make up the vase's cyclinder walls. Each ring is 200ish pieces and there are 6 rings. It was pretty monotonous but such building processes can be thereputic if you can turn your brain off while doing them; taking to a friend or listening to music are my gotos for when I'm doing repetitive mundane tasks (excel, formatting things, LaTex, lab results, etc)
The Starry Night was an absolute nightmare to build
Talk about the Cherry Bonsai set! You have to put together a ton of branches coming out from other branches with tiny little "frog" blossoms and flower bud studs in specific locations, and you have to repeat it 27 times I believe.
Also, the cherry blossom stem sets are pretty crazy too. It's so hard to tell which direction it's facing and which pieces were added on in which places after bulk creating a bunch of the blossoms with 4 or 5 different pieces over and over again
The pyramid of Giza definitely deserves a mention
While I understand the frustration with Rivendale roof, the end product is more than worth the effort. Definitely the best set I’ve ever owned.
😂the great pyramid of giza. The base is just too repetitive, but overall a great set
300 chain links ? That's pretty easy, when you're into detachable chairlifts and gondolas and had to assemble over FOUR THOUSAND of them in total. My hands can still feel it.
And even that is pityful compared to the eight thousand that went into a friend's giant tower crane ^^
surprised the colosseum didn’t make the list, that was such a tedious build
As a former LEGO store employee I never want to see that BMW M1000 ever again! We had to build THREE for our store and we all went insane because of it.