Same. I've never come across a Lego separator before. I remember when I was little I got super frustrated with pieces stuck together. Nice to know this exists 😭
I was absolutely gobsmacked when I started buying new Lego sets a few years ago that inside was a brick separator. The amount of times as a child I had cut the skin around my fingernails or almost swallowed some Lego trying to separate the bricks was unreal 🤣
Actually, I have never gotten a Lego set that has ever had a brick separator included. Only with recent mega blocks sets have I found that contained brick separators. As a kid, I didn’t take nearly as much care of my bricks, and would use my teeth to separate bricks I couldn’t separate with my hands. So there are some bricks that have been warped due to my biting the bricks causing damage to the bricks, and many star wars droid arms I would accidentally break because I didn’t put them on the droid body correctly.
@@chloeb1642 well you now have someone who can back you up there. I chewed up some bricks so bad that they can’t be used on one side anymore. But I had to learn that lesson the hard way.
@@akolyt that explains it. I never really had big sets growing up. Couldn’t afford them or get them as gifts. I’d see them in the catalogs as buyable items, but never ordered bricks or anything like that from Lego.
Anybody else remember when Lego first started giving you these in their sets? They didn't tell you what it was for, and everyone was confused what it was.
The original version came out in 1990, and was discontinued in 2011. It came only in the largest of sets, and was made in both dark grey and in green. The updated version came out in 2012, and came in orange, dark turquoise, and green. It came with most medium sets and upwards. The wide version was introduced in 2020, and came only in mosaic sets. I believe the wide version was only made in black.
One way to deal with the double 2 x 2 plate problem with the modern separator, is to put the bottom separator on only one stud, and the top separator on the other stud. That way you have enough room to pinch them together and have both plates come apart.
This video is FANTASTICALLY crafted. You managed to give useful, interesting tips that I haven't seen before and very naturally worked in clips of your builds, which are GORGEOUS. Definitely subscribing; I want to see more 8D
Firstly; you can use two regular brick seporators to take apart the extremely difficult 2x2 or 1x2 plates apart. You need to press the serators together where it connects to the plates, and with your other hand, press the end of the handles together. This will open the plates up, and you can now pull them apart with ease. Secondly; the first time I got a brick separator, it came with a Star Wars set of a First Order TIE Fighter (from 2015), and I initially thought it was the ladder for the minifigures to climb inside the cockpit...
I think part of the reason they tell you to use the end right side up is to stop pieces pinging off so much, which makes you more likely to lose pieces. When you did it properly the pieces came off much more controlled and moved maybe 2 or 3 studs away, while upside down they went flying off screen
actually if you checked at the beginning of the time stamp for that, he did it "the right way" and the piece also flew off the screen. So if anything, it would just come down to how much force you're applying to the seperator in the first place.
I really appreciate that you mentioned the old LEGO separator. I have 2 of them and will likely pass one down to my 8 year old niece come this holiday season. Good to know that the old and new work in conjunction.
When I was a kid, this tool would've done wonders. Instead I was in the medicine cabinet looking for bandaids cuz of all the scraps finger tips. Nothing beats ol elbow and finger tip grease lol
As a kid in the 80's my lego had lots of teeth marks in it from separating difficult bricks and large plates often ended up with a bit of warping due to bending them so many times to pop awkward pieces off them.
SO THATS WHAT THAT IS!!! My little brother got a set and it came w this he told me it was a lever 💀 n he used it to build stuff. I was so confused why u would need a lever ( he used it to catapult his lego people) good to know its a proper wedge. Wish i had one of these when i needed one growing up with no fingernails to pry the pieces a part.
I mean... they didn't technically "lie" - they just don't understand how their tool could be used more efficiently. Besides, don't we all use our teeth to separate bricks!?
I showed this to my older brother as he is a HUGE lego fan, I think he took some of the tips but he was more talking about your legos sets and how cool and good looking they are 🎉
The first brick separator was introduced in 1990 (time flies when you’re having fun). The original design was unchanged for over twenty years (1990 - 2011). Old dark gray was the most common color, appearing in 66 sets. Green was the only other released color, appearing in 17 sets. If your an engineer, being so close to LEGO, im sure you would have put in a thesis on the benifits of reducing the rail leanth on the under side of the design peice to accomadate this miss calculation / erganomic flaw & restricted application ...To be now reaping the benifits of your discovery, sitting on a beach somewere sipping cocktails thinking someone actually makes these umbrellas in your drink and makes a fortune. If not,... you will be amazed one day when you learn that LEGO buys the patent from a firm in china who has taken on board what you have discovered & has quickly beaten the world to the marc and sell's 'your' idea back to the world claiming superiority of engineering. the American phrase : 'Too slow" , unpacked in modern terms equuates to : "you snoze you loose"....... There is an awful lot of people on this VID, referencing buying tor recieving the peice in question in the 80's,90's ....this would make the 30,40,50 so they now would be like the old man in the tom hanks movie "big" who would be watching this video & still calling an Mp4 a video lol...long live nostalgic after thought's....long live LEGO!!! An long live "Peace, Love & Music"
I don't believe that LEGO actually LIED to anyone--I just think they had to design the tool a certain way from an engineering standpoint, but it turns out that the tool works better upside down and there was no decent way to insert their logo on the underside of it. The tips are very helpful though.
Brick separator? Back when i was a kit your options were: Breaking your teeth (infact one of my front teeth still has a chip caused by lego) Or you could stap yourself with either a knife or flat blade screw driver. Good portion of my childhood lego has marks on it caused by various methods of trying to get the bricks back apart
I actually have so many brick separators that I don’t really need to repair them. One day I needed to remove like 200+ 1x1 studs from a moon baseplate, I broke 4 separators and my Motivation that day
Thanks mate! I'm "new" to lego hehe, (had a small set in 1972, lol) , started to study it again ordering only a few pieces...and I need a separator! :-)
I wish I knew what these were when I was younger... Those memories of 7 yr old me crying in the corner as my parents are trying to separate a brick I didn't want to place with a fckin knife are really something 💀
These are great tips on how to make better use of brick separators! However, I don't see any justification for saying that Lego *lied* about how to use a brick separator. Perhaps the people who created the official instructions simply never thought about the better methods that are demonstrated in this video.
They should have made more of a big deal about there being a tool to separate Legos. I never saw one before today, and I probably swallowed a hundred Legos as a kid.
The first brick separater i got i thought it was a ramp or conveyer piece and went flipping looking for the piece. Ended up finding it on a page randomly when i was about to give up only to find out it wasnt a piece from the set but merely a tool. Lol 😆
I remember recieving one of those from a lego set, I ahd no idea what it was supposed to be for nor seen the instructions until I've watched this video
I am very confused how this ended up in my recommendations but I'm thankful for this
Yeah I've never watched any Lego vids, so this is out of the blue. Very informative though
Same! It was very enjoying to watch though
same
Same.
I've never come across a Lego separator before. I remember when I was little I got super frustrated with pieces stuck together.
Nice to know this exists 😭
Yeah
I was absolutely gobsmacked when I started buying new Lego sets a few years ago that inside was a brick separator. The amount of times as a child I had cut the skin around my fingernails or almost swallowed some Lego trying to separate the bricks was unreal 🤣
yup, really did a number on the teeth, huh?
I had a brick separator in my box when I last played with Lego 25 years ago
i did the same
I've never seen one in a box. I bought it to take with me as a nanny rather than using the family's butter knives.
Luckily I have a brittle nails and thus I always separate with other pieces of lego so I never use the lego separator lol
Actually, I have never gotten a Lego set that has ever had a brick separator included. Only with recent mega blocks sets have I found that contained brick separators. As a kid, I didn’t take nearly as much care of my bricks, and would use my teeth to separate bricks I couldn’t separate with my hands. So there are some bricks that have been warped due to my biting the bricks causing damage to the bricks, and many star wars droid arms I would accidentally break because I didn’t put them on the droid body correctly.
the brick separators are in bigger sets but i have had some in smaller sets like the $30 ones
We have a brick separator and I still have to constantly remind my son not to take bricks apart with his teeth
@@chloeb1642 well you now have someone who can back you up there. I chewed up some bricks so bad that they can’t be used on one side anymore. But I had to learn that lesson the hard way.
@@akolyt that explains it. I never really had big sets growing up. Couldn’t afford them or get them as gifts. I’d see them in the catalogs as buyable items, but never ordered bricks or anything like that from Lego.
never really cared to use the brick separator
i just bite the pieces off
never do that again
@@Darth_B nah I'mma do my own thing
Why is this the top comment? It only has 7 likes
@@gingerface26 UA-cam algorithm stuff prob
@@rambricks6877 you are replying to comments even a year later, i commend your commitment
Anybody else remember when Lego first started giving you these in their sets? They didn't tell you what it was for, and everyone was confused what it was.
The original version came out in 1990, and was discontinued in 2011. It came only in the largest of sets, and was made in both dark grey and in green. The updated version came out in 2012, and came in orange, dark turquoise, and green. It came with most medium sets and upwards. The wide version was introduced in 2020, and came only in mosaic sets. I believe the wide version was only made in black.
I actually knew what they were years before I got one because I was obsessed with Lego
When I got my first one in a lighthouse set, I thought it to be a ladder
I remember the original, I could never get it to work
Yea I remember
One way to deal with the double 2 x 2 plate problem with the modern separator, is to put the bottom separator on only one stud, and the top separator on the other stud. That way you have enough room to pinch them together and have both plates come apart.
The thing that upsets me most is that literally NONE of the sets I ever bought had this tool.
All of the more expensive sets, like over 80 bucks have them
I think you can buy one seperate.
@@theuglydumpling4772just bought the lego home alone house for $300 and can confirm it does come with a brick separator
Same! 🥺
My local lego store have these at the cashier to take for free
This video is FANTASTICALLY crafted. You managed to give useful, interesting tips that I haven't seen before and very naturally worked in clips of your builds, which are GORGEOUS. Definitely subscribing; I want to see more 8D
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All I got to say is, DAMN.. mind blown after seeing you remove flats no problem whatsoever
1:47 pov: you killed someone in lego starwars
As a child i used lego all the time... but i've never seen or even heard of a brick seperator before! Interesting stuff! And cool techniques!
same, i remember i used to use my mouth and nails to remove the bricks💀💀
They've existed for decades but they only started including them with the sets a few years ago
Brick separator? You mean your teeth?
I saw another comment that said they only came with the biggest sets when they were first introduced.
@@Zakariyasen exactly
Firstly; you can use two regular brick seporators to take apart the extremely difficult 2x2 or 1x2 plates apart. You need to press the serators together where it connects to the plates, and with your other hand, press the end of the handles together. This will open the plates up, and you can now pull them apart with ease.
Secondly; the first time I got a brick separator, it came with a Star Wars set of a First Order TIE Fighter (from 2015), and I initially thought it was the ladder for the minifigures to climb inside the cockpit...
Lol that’s hilarious
I would love to see a set that uses brick separators as elements!
I think part of the reason they tell you to use the end right side up is to stop pieces pinging off so much, which makes you more likely to lose pieces. When you did it properly the pieces came off much more controlled and moved maybe 2 or 3 studs away, while upside down they went flying off screen
actually if you checked at the beginning of the time stamp for that, he did it "the right way" and the piece also flew off the screen. So if anything, it would just come down to how much force you're applying to the seperator in the first place.
I always end up with the ole butter knife due to how this tool almost always lets me down.
People that designed the tool inadvertently made it way better at what it was meant to do than expected. Nice.
They’re specifically designed to be more painful when stepped on
I really appreciate that you mentioned the old LEGO separator. I have 2 of them and will likely pass one down to my 8 year old niece come this holiday season. Good to know that the old and new work in conjunction.
It's amazing how they make a tool to solve a problem, yet it works better in the opposite way.
2:58 MMMMM microplastics 😋😋
Lol
When I was a kid, I used to remove stuck Legos with screw drivers or my teeth.
The only brick separator I've ever had was an Old Dark Gray one without a Technic axle.
When I was a kid, this tool would've done wonders. Instead I was in the medicine cabinet looking for bandaids cuz of all the scraps finger tips. Nothing beats ol elbow and finger tip grease lol
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2:27 Try offsetting the 2 separators. I know it works great for 1x2 plates.
I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS A BEACH CHAIR. MY CHILDHOOD IS ALL A LIE
omg me too
As a kid in the 80's my lego had lots of teeth marks in it from separating difficult bricks and large plates often ended up with a bit of warping due to bending them so many times to pop awkward pieces off them.
the tile removal is sooooo satisfying
You can separate two flat pieces with two regular brick separators! Out one on top on one side and one on the bottoms on the other side! ☑️
Pog
I'm just trying to process that I now just learned there is a green and blue variant.
SO THATS WHAT THAT IS!!! My little brother got a set and it came w this he told me it was a lever 💀 n he used it to build stuff. I was so confused why u would need a lever ( he used it to catapult his lego people) good to know its a proper wedge. Wish i had one of these when i needed one growing up with no fingernails to pry the pieces a part.
I mean... they didn't technically "lie" - they just don't understand how their tool could be used more efficiently. Besides, don't we all use our teeth to separate bricks!?
Only Nails😁
Teeth?!
We only use nails.
Mate, go to the dentist lol
Use your damn nails and get some braces
You have many calcium.
Younger me thought the brick separator was a Treadmill
I showed this to my older brother as he is a HUGE lego fan, I think he took some of the tips but he was more talking about your legos sets and how cool and good looking they are 🎉
My favourite piece of Lego when I was a child. I would stick bricks together just to separate them again.
When I have two plates stuck together I don't separate them, I add a third plate and call it a brick!
I wish lego had this separator back in the early days when I was a kid
I used to call this the “pooper scooper” I don’t know why but I still do because it’s funny
I've seen this so many times at Legoland. Never had a clue what it was for and thought it was a weird mudflap for a vehicle. Lol.
I never even knew this was a thing until a couple years ago, sets never came with a brick seperator when I was getting them lmao
The first brick separator was introduced in 1990 (time flies when you’re having fun). The original design was unchanged for over twenty years (1990 - 2011). Old dark gray was the most common color, appearing in 66 sets. Green was the only other released color, appearing in 17 sets.
If your an engineer, being so close to LEGO, im sure you would have put in a thesis on the benifits of reducing the rail leanth on the under side of the design peice to accomadate this miss calculation / erganomic flaw & restricted application ...To be now reaping the benifits of your discovery, sitting on a beach somewere sipping cocktails thinking someone actually makes these umbrellas in your drink and makes a fortune. If not,... you will be amazed one day when you learn that LEGO buys the patent from a firm in china who has taken on board what you have discovered & has quickly beaten the world to the marc and sell's 'your' idea back to the world claiming superiority of engineering. the American phrase : 'Too slow" , unpacked in modern terms equuates to : "you snoze you loose"....... There is an awful lot of people on this VID, referencing buying tor recieving the peice in question in the 80's,90's ....this would make the 30,40,50 so they now would be like the old man in the tom hanks movie "big" who would be watching this video & still calling an Mp4 a video lol...long live nostalgic after thought's....long live LEGO!!! An long live "Peace, Love & Music"
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And here I thought this piece was there to make funky looking duck tails and stuff.......
THANK YOU for explaining the two matching plates. I've not been able to figure out how best to do that (without wrecking my fingernails).
I don't believe that LEGO actually LIED to anyone--I just think they had to design the tool a certain way from an engineering standpoint, but it turns out that the tool works better upside down and there was no decent way to insert their logo on the underside of it. The tips are very helpful though.
I used to think this was a beach chair 💀
bro i didn’t know they were supposed to separate legos i thought-
Brick separator? Back when i was a kit your options were: Breaking your teeth (infact one of my front teeth still has a chip caused by lego) Or you could stap yourself with either a knife or flat blade screw driver.
Good portion of my childhood lego has marks on it caused by various methods of trying to get the bricks back apart
Also great for applying stickers! :)
The tittle and thumbnail are gold, i wouldnt say they lied, I was looking forward their LIES and I am a bit dissapointed but still good video
I used to think the brick separator were skis but the sets where always missing one 💀
I had to try the inverted tile-separator method straight away. It really works! Thank you. 🙂
“Dont use to much pressure” *camera and table starts shanking*
I actually have so many brick separators that I don’t really need to repair them. One day I needed to remove like 200+ 1x1 studs from a moon baseplate, I broke 4 separators and my Motivation that day
The trick with the old brick separator can be done with 2 new ones if you put them on opposite sides of the brick and pull both down.
Got one of these with my Batwing, and there are still blocks you can't remove with it, just because of how they're placed.
Thanks mate! I'm "new" to lego hehe, (had a small set in 1972, lol) , started to study it again ordering only a few pieces...and I need a separator! :-)
Brick separator?! So you're telling me all my plates have teeth marks for nothing?
Where the hell was this when i was a child? Yknow how many times i had to resort to using my teeth
I do this trick where I use my finger to separate bricks. Not as practical, but I grew up doing that, so old habits never die
I had no clue that was a brick separator, I just put the figures on the end and had them ride it like a sled
They didn't lie, it works both ways, that's disrespectful to claim that!!
When I first saw this I thought it was a skateboard with no wheels
Dam Lego give this man a job, this boy knows all the tricks
This is extremely helpful- it’ll make Lego clean up that more enjoyable!
Some of us are playing creative while most of us are playing survival. Lol
I wish I knew what these were when I was younger... Those memories of 7 yr old me crying in the corner as my parents are trying to separate a brick I didn't want to place with a fckin knife are really something 💀
Never knew about the separator. I use to stack more pieces or piece on top to take it apart.
These are great tips on how to make better use of brick separators! However, I don't see any justification for saying that Lego *lied* about how to use a brick separator. Perhaps the people who created the official instructions simply never thought about the better methods that are demonstrated in this video.
Now, everyone in my life has officially lied to me.
Idk whether to Thankyou or hate you for taking the only trust I had left.
Damn you Lego.
I never knew what this was for thank you so much for showing me what is was used for
1:22 became an ASMR video
It took me 15 years and a billion broken nails to find out what that damn peice was for?
now i want Lego just to use a brick separator
Alright dude, it gets worn off much quicker when you use the orange one the wrong way.
Dang, its been so long since i last bought a LEGO that none of my kits had those
me seeing all the lego pieces coming off from the base plate neuron activate ooohhhh oohhhh
dont need sandpaper, the carpet in your home works fine
When I was a kid, I thought they were skis ☠️
Wait so i've been using my teeth for nothing!?
Odd, as I got that piece as a ship ramp. I had no idea it had another use.
Mostly i used my teeth when i was younger which lead to me shallowing an 1×2 brick
It's 4am and i have to be at work in 2 hours and yet I'm watching this
They should have made more of a big deal about there being a tool to separate Legos. I never saw one before today, and I probably swallowed a hundred Legos as a kid.
*professional Lego builder*
A 5 year old saw their dream and never gave up
There's a brand name in the title known for suing everyone who uses it. So be careful
The first brick separater i got i thought it was a ramp or conveyer piece and went flipping looking for the piece. Ended up finding it on a page randomly when i was about to give up only to find out it wasnt a piece from the set but merely a tool. Lol 😆
Hold on u Tellin That Lego piece is a Lego seperator i have been using my teeth to separate the Legos
I'd like to be able to say "Building Lego as my profession" :')
I remember recieving one of those from a lego set, I ahd no idea what it was supposed to be for nor seen the instructions until I've watched this video
I don't know I've been using it wrong all time, i used it to separate my parents
Ive had to use a razor knife before to get stubborn bricks apart.
Honestly I always thought it was a back board I don’t know why
Brick separator? What the...?!
"I decided to use it a different way; and to get better attention I say someone else lied to you"... _sigh_ people now a days...
"People these days"... Well, let me tell you about smart people: they understand it's a joke.
I use that for my door.
Omg. I was using a knife to separate those 2×2 pieces 😆
what the... we never had that tool, it was fingers and nails and pain.
I always knew that piece was pointless
0:18 Ah yes, yes I do! You use your teeth good sir 🤣😭😭😭😂
bro *ITS A BRICK SEPERATOR? I THOUGHT IT WAS A SLIDE*
better Than Slime ASMR.
So helpful, thank you! This is an awesome job, your work is incredible!
omg. I have like 7 of those and never knew what they did. My fingers thank you.