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In this video, we take a look at 8 LEGO sets that were redesigned due to a manufacturing error or structural issue within the model. It's incredible how fast LEGO can make revisions to their sets - even when the sets are already released on store shelves. Watch the entire video to hear the 8 stories of how LEGO corrected the mistakes within their sets and gave these sets a second life - Enjoy!
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I haven't had it built for probably a decade at this point, but I always remember the front armour pieces on the Exo-Force White Lightning being too loose. They were only held on by single hinges right on the end of a pole piece and; being a child that actively played with toys, they wouldn't stay on.
Speaking of exo force and redesigns, The version of Striking Venom that actually has a whole Mecha one with legs has different pieces for the two swiveling guns above the cockpit, and for the two fixed guns on the sides of the cockpit. It came with a set of different instructions as well. It was pretty remarkable, especially since I later got another Striking venom which had the original design and only half of a mecha one.
Funny how the redesign of the shuttle was 14+ whereas the original was 16+
I noticed that too! 😆
So the pieces in the redesign increased but the set number decreased? Um, okay. 😂
@@benjaminschaar5423 not the set number, the age
@@benjaminschaar5423 Do you know anything about LEGO?
@@thefoxcritic1 or reading lol
One I remember was the 2015 Ant Man set. The ant’s legs were too flimsy so they updated them and did a similar thing to the WALL-E set and sent out pieces to stabilize the legs
I wish I knew this. That ant is still sitting on my shelf with it's wobbly legs
Here are 2Bionicle facts relating to this topic:
1. The set Lesovikk was recalled apparently because pieces were missing, but it is unknown what pieces they were, and the only real accounts are unverified and only say they remember at least one of the propellers being missing.
2. While Bionicle has had redesigns and rereleased, I have only found 1 that also includes an updated instruction booklet, and that is Oonorahk. I searched online for an alternate Toa Lhikan and Kikinalo instruction booklet, as it actually had 2 technic liftarms replaced for shorter ones, but not only could I not find them or any evidence they existed, but also when contacting Lego, they looked and could only find one version in their database.
Makuta is flawed too
The lesovikk kit is also notorious for the green plastic bits snapping and cracking
I feel like most of these problems are caused by designing the sets with computers instead of hands on designing, when you’re creating something by hand you notice a lot more when things are unstable but but when you design virtually you might not realize something is unstable until you’re too late into the design process, and if you’re on a deadline they’re might not be enough time to rework it before the set needs to be released
But If im not mistaken they build their Prototyps... But i think the problem is that they Only build it but dont Test it like a Customer would..
@@that_dude1638 they should just use child labor it would fix all their issues
Do you seriously think Lego sets aren't build by hand before they are made into sets? I bet you also think computer animation is just pressing a button and the whole thing animates itself
@@joevictor53 I know they build them beforehand, they just don’t design them by hand, so sometimes the flaws aren’t found in time, whereas when you design it by putting pieces together you find flaws a lot quicker
I remember a lot of the Bionicle Visorak sets from 2005 included a yellow rubber band for the sets pincer function, however the rubber band tended to lose its integrity after a short time and the function didn’t work as well, later that year LEGO replaced the yellow rubber bands with a more durable white rubber band.
On the topic of visorak, Oonorahk had the Bionicle double socket piece replaced for a longer one, and it is one of if not the only times Lego actually changed instructions.
@@justsomeguy5628 I remember that, I always thought there was a mistake made somewhere
Almost forgot about the yellow bands. They were always a little bigger and looser even brand new right?
The white replacements always seemed thicker, smaller circumference, and tighter. I imagined that was to give it a much longer time frame and a wider tolerance for stretching and still being functional
I bought a used Sukoorak recently (i never owned any of the Visorak before) and it had the og String
Neat
I replaced mine with a doubled up household band. Simple and easy.
Thank you for this video! I had no idea that Lego had fixed the issue with Wall-E! I’ve had his head taped in position for years. Messaged Lego and they are sending the parts tomorrow.
The only set I've ever recieved new pieces for is the original Ant-Man set, where they added some cones to make the legs more stable.
I don’t know if this counts as a redesign, but take the architecture Las Vegas skyline set, for example. It first started out depicting the Mandalay Bay on the south side of the strip. They chose to remove the Mandalay Bay after the mass shooting tragedy there about a decade ago. They replaced it with the Bellagio
A decade? It happened in 2017
Wall-E one blows my mind. 2 weeks ago, I was making a moc and I had the exact same issue with that hinge piece. I noticed immediately that the lack of friction will ruin the build even if the piece worked perfectly otherwise. I replaced it right away. How the entire development team missed it is beyond me.
An interesting redesign of a Lego set was the Lego Architecture Las Vegas set. It originally had the Mandalay Bay hotel, but was changed to a different building because of the mass shooting right before release. Around 20 or so of the original set were on shelves somewhere in Africa and are extremely rare now
The Daily Bugle set has a major issue in the window with Green Goblin smashing through. I had to rebuild that part multiple times finishing the set because Gobbie pulls the whole window piece out if bumped slightly.
4:50 I actually have the Saturn 5 set, it’s my tallest set in my collection, as well as the heaviest. I’m amazed by how strong it is compared to my countless other ones. My least strong set is probably the millennium Falcon.
that entire era where the technic ball joints had square-edged cups that broke extremely easily when used normally qualifies to me. Thank god they eventually realized how useless they were.
A rework I see that needs done: the Crystal King's belt in the ninjago crystalized wave. A single stud connection has been proving quite flimsy. Maybe the bar inside is making it worse
@@AtomicVegetable how's that an r/ihadastroke moment?
I wonder if Lego will eventually do this with the Back To The Future time machine set 10300 to change how the doors are built so they stay up on their own without needing modifications. This is a very common problem with the set, even though mine isn't nearly as bad as some that I've seen.
I remember the mid 2000s and early 2000 legos were notorious for just falling apart in your hands there is no stability whatsoever and the Jango fett slave 1 was 1 of those. But they've come a long way in that 20 plus years I know that.
Oh man, yeah that Jango Fett set was the first thing that came to mind for me thinking about fragile builds. I used to LOVE that thing, it had so many neat little play features, but there was a very specific way you had to hold it to prevent it from immediately breaking in half.
I've got the 10281 bonsai tree. Two of them exactly, to better make variations and such. I was surprised to see that the second one had different legs for the pot.
You are the good that UA-camr ever
???
Did you take English class?
You’re the best youtuber ever?
Just no
So true
The Jawa Sandcrawler set really needed some love. A set designed to be driven around, by default, putting any sort of weight on the top, you know, like to push it around. would cause the track bogies to push into the set as they were not supported from the top, but from underneath. To make mine work, I had to place a ton of plates on the bottom to reinforce it. The tracks would also fall apart quite often. I'm not sure how it made it past the review process, if I remember correctly, the entrie bottom of the build was only one plate wide, with only a few bricks to hold the plates together. How all of that was supposed to support the weight of the remainder of the build is beyond me.
So the Mini killed the legendary Model Team windscreen 😭
Another set I remember is 6531. Basically every helicopter of the late 80s and early 90s from Lego is designed the same, but here they tried something different and it failed greatly, falling apart all the time.
imagine how embarrassing it must've been to have been designing a LEGO set for 10+ years yet still messing up..
In the Hogwarts express UCS set, Lego had to fix some typos on the details stickers
Back in the day LEGO had to re-design set 5767 Cool Cruiser to fix some issues. But they had already shipped a bunch of copies of the sets to Australia and rather than send the sets to landfill or back to Europe, they gave various Australian LEGO clubs copies of the sets (minus the box and instructions, just the parts).
So I have a bunch of complete sets of parts for the incorrect version of 5767 Cool Cruise that I got for free (which is nice since it has a few decent bits in it :)
I bought a second 10281 Bonsai Tree set recently so I could display both variants together, only to find there was a slight redesign with the feet of the tray the tree sits in. This resulted in four less of the same piece in the set, but still included the spare for that piece. The instruction manual and box art were both altered to incorporate the change. Haven’t found an explanation as yet though.
One of the most consistent flaws I've noticed in LEGO was in Bionicle, specifically in the Toa Mahri era of Bionicles. All the light green female joint pieces were for whatever reason extremely frail, starting to come apart with barely any use. This wasn't an issue in any previous generation, nor with any other color joint connector. Something about the green ones just made them break.
Lego is the best toy company ever, this video proves it, it was so nice of them to not just let the costumers have a faulty set and providing them with required parts.
I remember having (well, I still have it somewhere) an Aquanauts set with a huge claw that you could open by pressing a button on its arm. The claw was pretty flimsy, though, and I wonder if they ever redesigned it.
One of the recent redesigns is 42127 MB Zetros set from Technic lineup. They had to add some parts because bonnet and doors kept opening while driving the truck around.
Same I haven't touched one of these in like probably a decade, but I always remember on Anakin's Y-wing Starfighter set 8037: the white strips that run all the way down the "cylinder wings" snapping off really easily and not being secured very well. Not to mention the entire wings were held to the main body with like two Technic pins, it was a really difficult model to play with
The Blacktron Message Intercept Base (6987, 1988) also released with two different versions, redesigning a few pieces of the opening mechanism to replace some turntables with Technic pins for better stability when using the play feature.
I love how Lego sticks to quality.
8 poorly designed Lego designs?
This should be a weekly series.
Yes. I think the Lego speed champions Lamborghini Hurrican in set 76899 needs a tweak.
It is a black car with a bunch of gold stickers and gold bricks. It came with black wheels.
I took the gold wheels from the Lego City Moon River set 60348 and put them on it.
Unfortunately I don’t have gold spoke sets to match the rim, but the black spikes with the gold lip/backing looks a ton better than it did.
I can send a pic if you need it for reference.
I have all the 8 stud wide speed champions cars built and on a shelf. Didn’t bother with any of the older 6 stud sets. Don’t think they look right proportionally.
In the 2012 TMNT cartoon, Donatello specifically designed the Shellraiser vehicle to be compatible with Subway tracks for faster underground travel. This is why the LEGO set was designed for train rails.
A version of the starwars x-wing kept falling apart. I dont know why, but out of the many sets i had it was the only one with this issue.
That is probably the original one. The back of the engines kept falling apart, because each cylinder stack is held together by only four studs on each individual piece. I put technic axles in mine, which I still have mostly intact, because I generally keep Star Wars sets together and virtually never integrated them into my collection of loose pieces.
@@MrDgwphotos i would try that but it has been years since and it is now a pile of bricks, i would have to superglue that thing completely for it to remain together for more than 5 minutes
thats cool how the Lego company gives people free parts for a big mistake of one build
I have the newest version of that Wall-E set but there is still a problem with it, the wires on the back of the head, come off too easily.
The Lego ISS 21321 could have used a minor upgrade. The center of gravity of the model is slightly too far back for the display stand, making it tilt backwards. Extending the 'saddle' just one or two studs solves the issue.
Damn, didn't know a company could respect their customers this much
I want all of your videos
The first masterpiece X-Wing had a design flaw in that the heavy wings were held in the open position by a gear or 2, which put a lot of stress on those gears over time. The newer versions of the X-Wing had counter-balanced wings and a more complex hinges so there was less stress on any single point.
my personal story is the original lego VW van. the pop up airconditioner thing was so sticky alot of the time when you went to pull it up the entire contraption under the cloth bit would just detach itself from the roof resulting in having to take it apart to put it back together. I personally fixed it after the 5th time it broke by just putting some extra pieces to hold it to the roof and its been fine ever since... also similar thing with the opening front windows where if you tried to close them they would pop off the ceiling of the cabin. easy fix was just adding a 1x2 plate and a 1x4 plate on it to anchor them into the ceiling better.
the way he said "these weren't barreling through the sky at dangerous speeds" had me dying lol
This guy is the most chill lego youtuber
LEGO had issued product recalls sometimes. Like that weird Duplo Truck that could fall apart leaving sharp metal axles open and a rattle from Primo that could potentially fall apart.
One redesign I haven't seen mentioned a lot, is the First Order Special Forces Tie Fighter back in 2015, which underwent a design change concerning the wing hinges, just switching a few parts. Some reviews claimed that the wings were difficult to secure in place, however I did not see any meaningful change after the updated release of the set.
The worst design i've encountered is the 4482 AT-TE walker from 2003. It was a nice set, but the legs couldn't hold up to almost any pressure and would break off of the chassis constantly.
Other set with a similar problem is the 10144 Sandcrawler from 2005. Cool set, but the inside of it was unplayable since the floor would just fall off if you tried attaching anything to it.
For me the 7244 boat belongs on this list. It was fun to play with but it was very unstable as soon as any force was applied to one of the floats.
Lego rarely reuse the elements from the recalled sets so they're sold in their bags to master builder workshops. I've got my hands on pallets of the old part bags for the shellraiser
say what you want about Lego but it´s pretty admirable that they usually send replacements, most companies just refuse to do that
really cool how lego sent out replacement parts for the wall e
I love the blue background! Kinda reminds me of the bedrock wall in the Minecraft Legacy Console Edition Nether.
Personally I belive the NES mechanism to lock down the game cartridge should be a bit more looked into because many of them get stuck
Didn't know Lego did this- figured they'd released a set and walk away. This is cool :)
That was very informative. One set that i felt needs redesigning is the Imperial Probe Droid 75306. The head is poorly designed and the arms are very flimsy.
That set is probably my least favorite in my collection to build because of the arms. However, I don't know if a redesign of the arms at that scale would really fix the problem. I don't think I ever had issues with the head, though.
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Rule 1 of ball joints, unless holding from the top, they should never bear more load than a bionicle style arm or a brick built one of around the same size
I noticed the wall-e set in the thumbnail and miss that set so much. I’ll have to buy it again
You are one of the most good at UA-camr ever
So true 🤯
I never got the Wall E neck redesign, never knew it was a thing. I haven’t liked how easy his head moves, but I enjoy the look anyways.
The old Star Wars MTT had a change that came with a separate ser of instructions. The big panels on the sides had issues with the ratcheting hinges.
6:34 I was thinking, maybe keeping the rubber band and adding a string to the grapple hooks to connect them to the car and limit the distance that they can go
I’ve got the Mini Cooper. The instructions show the 2x10 windows, but the box had 3x10s. Very confusing…
SpitBrix yesterday was my birthday and i got a Horizon lego set. it had a really funny mistake in its instruction manual, maybe you can put it into your series ?
1. Literally any set that includes the mini ball joints. Those things break WAY too easily.
Same goes for any set that includes battle droid or Grievous parts…
Nothing you said required…
The pink flower from the succulents bothers me so much it doesn’t look right and I always mess with it to try and make it look better
i remember vividly, that lego movie emmet robot from years ago, it was so fragile that i could not play with it without it breaking from everywhere.
Lots of people have complained that the mechanism for the cartridge slot in the lego NES has a tendency to jam, and I’ve experienced it too
That was intentional for authenticity.
Cool video Lego products fixing
That Wall E set thing happend to me when I got it I’m pretty sure but I can’t remember that well
To be fair, the Space Shuttle breaking apart too easily is pretty accurate to the real thing.
More ninjago videos.
You're are best youtuber for lego
(Sorry my bad english)
Guess Lego can’t fix the T2 camper van from disintegrating if you look at it wrong
i have the porg, and i took it apart to add an extra 1/2 inch of posing in the wings.
The original MTT had a small folded instruction page with a error fix in it I thought it was pretty neat as a kid to get a error fix.
completely off topic but isn’t it beautiful that wall-e is so iconic i could recognize it was him just from that little cropped image.
If I'll see a parrot in this video I'll lose it.
my bonsai tree set never could stay together as the trunk is constructed so incredibly odd. I have no idea how they expected us to keep it together
I have that wall e set and had no clue they gave out parts to fix it, my wall e is stilllooking at the wall behind him on my shelf to this day
development crunch in the industry is such an issue that even lego sets are getting first week patches now
The cargo bay door on the new blacktron cruiser GWP is pretty poorly designed too .
The cargo door is made up of 3 seperate sections that each open up, and the 2 side parts need to be clipped on 2 relatively flimsy connection points, and if you have it too off center one way the doors interferes with the traditional bar clip plate that holds the top part of the door when opening them up, causing the side parts to wedge against it and pop out.
If it's too off center the other way it leaves massive gaps under the top section of the door, and the side doors start to stick out off the side of the ship when it should be flush with the sides of the ship. Pretty wonky design as you're constantly making slight adjustments on the side door so they stay perfectly center as they're very easy to nudge off center
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I actually faced off against him in the master build challenge at brickcon 2022 and BEAT HIM! Proud moment for me. He also signed my buzz lightyear polybag
The Back to the Future Delorean needs an update for the doors and licence plate. The doors are too heavy and don't stay open and if you want to switch between the two licence plates it involves dissembling the entire back portion.
I own the original Wall-E set and my recollection is that LEGO would only send you the pieces for the fix if you asked for them. I never asked for them, therefore my Wall-E still has the freely-spinning head. I just make sure his head is level when displaying it.
They need to do this to the most recent Republic Fighter Tank. The seating is poorly designed.
Legos are the cool Troy. Like you
I am currently building the Technic Bugatti Chiron. It is a miracle of design but there are many, many places where the build order is very wrong. You find yourself really struggling to put in sub assemblies, especially around the lower back and sides, and in one instance, step 489 I think, having to flex a subassembly.
I Think that The Back to The future delorean from 2022 could maybe use a redesign as The original Black connecting pieces that hold The Doors in place are simply not strong enough so The Doors keep slowly closing by Them selves. Alot of people (including myself) have switched Them out with ones from older Lego technic sets that has The right amount of friction to keep Them from not falling down
Its unfortunate when it happens but i think its cool how Lego cares enough for them to try and change things if they dont work as intended.
#6982 the Explorien Starship was really flimsy in the middle and fell apart a lot unless supported there so it probably could've used another design pass.
Wow, world racers, memory unlocked ;)
Something on here that some people might agree with is the lego Mercedes F1 car, it uses extremely weak building techniques and rear wing techniques. Lego hasn’t withdrawn it yet but on that car I’ve been missing about 7 pieces, each of them either falling off or randomly popping off. When I go to the lego store to buy new pieces I’ll tell the workers that they might have to withdraw it.
The music sounds so much like a cinema waiting for the movie music
7:14 i still have the original version of this set, it breaks apart quite easily sometimes
I have found a few lego sets that could use a few tweeks, though I can only remember 1 off the top of my head that I personally modified to fix. and that was the orange x wing. and the tweek for me was just making the astromech port be compatible with an R2 unit rather than the BB unit that came with the set. entirely because I do not general like the design of BB8 from the Sequel Trilogy, regardless of my opinion of the SW:ST
Also the 2 Porsche 911 Speed champion cars (green and white) have different parts whilst still looking the same.
I got a Nexo Knights set a while back and it was missing pieces and had pieces from a DC mini car set.
I think the biggest issue i have had with stability are the mirrors on the creator expert mustang
My Saturn 5 rocket would be very easy to break where the stages met as the connecters where bearly held on to by the bricks underneath
Struggling with that very problem right now. Large pieces held on by one very wobbly stud. 🫤