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LEGO designers use unique and clever building techniques in their sets but sometimes they’re very weird and confusing! Are these LEGO sets 200 IQ or -200 IQ? Let’s discuss the most baffling design choices in LEGO sets and try to figure out precisely what these designers were thinking.
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I always thought the extra pile of bricks for Starry Night was supposed to represent a pile of paint left after working on a canvas
I feel like that would have made more sense
@@TheMeatEateryea I know right
I though it would be to add at you own spots to make the painting personal in a way since impressionist went by feel
Yeah that's the real reason, Van Gogh was notorious for using unnecessary amount of paints on his pallets, so that's an homage from the designer
yea that does make sense
He says -200 IQ but they and smart and he proceeds to explain their purpose and why they are good.
yeah, a number of them are are less -200 IQ and more just galaxy brain solutions to non-obvious problems
I completely forgot the video title until I saw this 😂 You're damn right, those first details were genius. I think the first bad model he mentioned was the Bonsai, which isn't exactly bad, but it is difficult to build and has some issues in the instructions, though nothing too serious. I'm looking forward to rebuilding mine on insane difficulty, with all the pieces piled up in the box 😂
Update to my previous reply: I didn't rebuild the bonsai, my 6 year old did, and he made it look easy 🤷🏻♂️ There were no issues with the instructions and the pages were all light coloured. No brown-on-black action like the video said. Something's off about this vid 😅
@@docolemnsx maybe he got a newer version of the set with the pagesfixed.
Maybe he starts at -200 IQ but improves
1:53 There's a similar moment to this in the Alpine Lodge set. In bag 1, they have you build a pine tree, and place it loosely onto a snowmobile transport. In the very last bag, it pictures a pine tree, one that it doesn't give you the pieces to build. It has the same bag symbol, bag 1. You pick that pine tree back up off the snowmobile, decorate it, and put it in the lobby of the lodge. It adds a story into the building of the set itself.
OK, that's actually kind of adorable.
Awww, that's really sweet :3
I didn't know Lego sets had stories. That's adorable!
as someone who got these old pirate and castle sets as presents for my birthdays as a kid.
I can Tell you that these "spot the difference" instructions combined with the pile of Bricks was half the fun.
3:20 The real reason was that the axle was far to powerful and could break reality if not contained securely. The designers knew this and made up some fake reason as to why it is there.
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@@maskstorm2881 Yes
@@maskstorm2881 Do you remember hearing that with a long enough lever you could move the world? This is a piece of the one true lever.
In one of the Ninjago temple sets, there's a spider that goes on the base and is covered up completely by rocks and a staircase. They love doing stuff like this
There’s a black Bionicle “mask”, like the one for the brick-built Tahu, in a recent set hidden under a walkway assembly for a Monkie Kid set!
Can confirm the bonsai tree was a pain to see the instructions, I got it recently. There's two shades of brown, had to use a flashlight to even be able to distinguish the parts and colors. The build looks nice though, especially with the pink leaves and all the frog pieces.
built the bonsai today and yeah it was kinda painfuk to look at the instructions. i didnt use a flashlight, but considered doing so. after building it looks great tho
@@mimlol69420 I had to use a flashlight when I was building it, it was worth it after finally finishing the tree
same!! i did it directly at the kitchen counter yesterday with both overhead lights and next to massive windows letting in natural light and i STILL had to use the flashlight. idk why they can’t just use a lighter outline like they do with black pieces (even if those look slightly deceptive in the instructions too lmao)
My aunt and uncle used to have this set (sold it recently) and they never told me there were such problems!
I just wonder why didn't they, it would be such a fun story
This is weird, I had zero issues following the instructions (using pdf on ipad though). Wonder if it’s some weird print/color perception issue that affects only some people.
9:24 I never had any problem with the Eldorado Fortress instructions, and I was 12 when I built that. All the Lego Pirate instructions were made like that.
Not just the Pirate themed, but most of all the instructions of Lego System era were like that until the early 2000.
@@NintendoMan100 Exactly. I have build some of my old sets recently and for example the massive 1990 M:Tron Mega Core Magnetizer has 23 building steps at all. But i have to admit, that it was a much more complicated building expierence than in today sets.
People just took more time to carefully build the set back then. Now everything needs to be served readily on a silver platter.
The pow blocks on the super Mario sets might also be there because it is easier, quicker, and overall cheaper for LEGO to put in two of one element ( brick with pow) than it is to put two slightly different versions of the same part.
And as he mentioned with the Ferrari, it avoids accidentally using the wrong brick
9:30 When building a set was still a challenge. The current "1 part for each step" type of instructions are sometimes so "un-challenging" that you lose focus and actually start making mistakes
I do like that they outline the newly attached piece with a distinct color however.
I actually remember the spot the difference seta from my childhood! They has their own charm, seeing you need to put in a piece and you're missing a part, so you gotta go back a few step to add what you missed.
I liked them more than the newer baby-step and hand-holding instructions.
8:02 I think that step is an unintentional “admire the set :3” step 😂
In the Himeji Castle set, there's an entire area built between steps 144 and 172 that is never to be seen again. Yet, it appears to have some components that you would think would be visible. There are also some passageways built into the walls of the main gate area that, without a tiny mirror, you can't really see in the completed set.
A weird thing I saw in the new Ninjago City Markets is when building the jukebox they use 1x1 pearl gold round tiles with coin prints only to hide the prints. The regular unprinted 1x1 pearl gold round tiles appear to have been discontinued in 2018 and maybe they didn't want to bring them back.
2:03 that’s actually quite common. some chima sets use it for chi, which is usually given to minifigs in bag 1 then later attached to the build. It’s also often used for those minifig accessories bags(like blades from ninjago or ghost parts from hidden side) since there are counted as 1 piece but are needed throughout the set
Well, the problem is, that the video maker seems to only build LEGO stuff, nothing else, so he doesn't know. Some good instruction sets even tell you to keep stuff from former bags for later.
@@acmenipponair Chima's part of Lego. Do you mean non-sub-branded stuff?
Yeah the black background instructions were part of the 18+ theming, they matched the background of the box. They were not a good idea, they just used a ton of ink to make the instructions potentially harder to read.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a step is asking for tan or dark tan, same for dark bluish and light bluish grays
9:17 Those are the instructions I grew up on, I think that's why I'm so detail oriented to this day.
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5:21 I CANT ESCAPE WAR THUNDER NOOOOOO
That's why his name is Jack STONE.... because with a glider like that, He's gonna fall like one.
Oh man, I actually remember building some sort of undersea base kit (or maybe space base) that was similar to the El Dorado Fortress. Had to figure out which piece was added in a step which showed the whole platform with everything on it, and pieces added that were mostly obscured due to the direction of the instructions.
4:53 i can never escape the snail
I'm not sure how a loose, rattling piece prevents the turntable from popping (2:15). I might just try to rip the head off my mega-minifig with and without it to find out. There is a similarly baffling step in the Fairground Carousel 31095 set.
The only thing I can think of is maybe the axle prevents the top half from tilting to the side. You would still be able to pull the head straight off but if you like pushed on the head it might prevent it from falling off sideways because the axle would get jammed between the two parts.
I assumed the technic axel in the upscaled minifig was intended to make a more audible clicking sound when turning the head. It adding strength to that connection makes a lot of sense though. I'm so much more confused by the bar that's placed in the center of the torso, inside of a technic brick. I think about that piece far too often...
9:31 Personally I liked the instructions more that way, because it was like a game of spot the difference on itself, which made building Lego more fun and challenging in my opinion.
In the early 2000, when they started making the instructions easier to follow, I stopped looking at them for smaller build, using just the picture on the box as reference, then peek at the instruction only as a last resort, I still do it to this day.
you could do this for small 100 or less piece builds, but for bigger 1000+ piece sets this becomes impossible
In case you were curious, the set on the thumbnail does that for storage, not display
5:14 oh no.. dude sold his soul to the snail.
we lost a good one
I give a special shoutout for lack of instructions to the suggested alternate builds in the Exo-Force sets. At best, you'd get a picture with 4 steps that didn't clearly show where some pieces went or how they attached. Even if you did build it, you'd have some extra pieces left that made you question if you did everything right.
09:18 'Spot the difference ' is kinda how I liked it haha! I had Lego in my youth, and picked it up again a few years ago woth the Christmas village themes. I noticed how easy it was now. During the covid years I rebuild my old Lego, and putting together the 6270 Pirate Island was pretty difficult at times. I still like it because it becomes a bit of a puzzle instead of cookie-cutter.
With new sets I started to cut open all bags and dump them together in a bin. Very satisfying to rummage through that looking for a 1x1 specific piece ;)
9:20 the Yellow Castle set 375-2 were a pain in the butt to build because each steps could have 20 yellow bricks and you really had to look at both before and after picture to try and find every part you needed and added.
6:58 the collumn is supposed to be knocked off to reveal the pow block
i have put some of the lego sets you have shown on my Christmas list this year lol
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The Lego Office set comes with 4 ninja stars, even though the set only requires 1. I made use of all 4 to give dwight a few more weapon stashes.
I found a mistake in set 60097. In the eight booklet, you have to use these big glass pieces, for bag 12 eight, bag 13 two and for bag 14 eight. But bag 12 says that you need seven, instead of 8. The same with bag 14, where the booklet says you only need four. I thought this was good for the next "Lego Sets That Break The Rules" video.
wow... tales of the space age set is so pretty. damn. like just damn.
and I cant believe how many fans have light kits just for that set specifically
Placing two unrelated pieces under a plant like it's completely natural reminds me of Skeletor laughing victoriously after placing a lizard in a glass box
Bad Lego instructions taught me how to effectively build IKEA furniture.
This is more like 200 IQ
He should have called it "Lego Sets that are Secretly GENIUS"
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I rememeber the old school lego sets. Kids today think they have it rough with their 1x1s and their 2x1s. Back in my day, we had two pages. One showed a pile of bricks, the other, the completed Sidney Opera House build, complete with downtown.
Old instruction were way more fun to read and build with, than the new ones. FIGHT ME
7:50 Step #27 is to show you where to place the minifigs!
Speaking of technic axil for use, the piranid of gaza has a technic axil for if u want to get another piramid to complete the full triangle
In the 40498: Christmas Penguin set, there is a Hidden Snowflake in the Base.
In the 76911: 007 Aston Martin DB5 set, on step 70/71 there is a Loose piece just sitting.
A terrible snowflake because it's not hexagonal
I one time got this Lego technic set for a green dragon-themed monster truck. One of the steps required me to use this really long black piece, but the longest black piece in the set was one hole too short. So in a later step, I couldn't follow the instructions exactly. I did end up building it successfully despite this, but it did leave me with one unused (but was supposed to be used) piece.
I remember the spot the difference style instructions as late as rock raiders sets. I remember missing a random 1x1 piece in the chrome crusher set and having to backtrack steps until I discovered where the error was. quite a puzzle back then.
Speed champions DB5 uses the same 1x1 plate trick the ferrari does. And I loved hidden spots like the treehouse has when I was a kid. Pretty sure some of the pirate or wild west sets had similar features.
Pretty sure the parts box at the top only shows new parts. Since the landing craft instruction has no new parts, just tells you to put previously built assemblies together it's not a completely useless step. Kinda sloppy they left the empty box there, though. And the hulkbuster one is just odd.
the 9:32 style of instructions brings back memories. I really liked them, they didn't hold your hand and were like a puzzle on themselves. Helped think spatially, too, which is useful; After all, when the set is finished, it's time to build new things with the bricks.
Another smart move is in the holiday Main Street set number 10308. When building the trolley, they have you place some odd bricks in the roof. These are for tidying up any wiring for if you choose to motorize the trolley.
The axle down the center of the turntable at 2:32 help stop the turntable from popping apart if the model is lifted by its head. The turntable clips into its base with the same mechanism that a frictionless pin does into a Technic beam (split with tabs on the outside to lock into the hole); the axle prevents these tabs from pushing in, making it a lot harder for the pin on the turntable to disengage from the base if pulled (like if someone lifted the model by its head for example)
I have built several Lego sets with those old instructions and I don't remember them badly. Probably because I was glad to even get a Lego set as our family was very poor.
10:14 gee wilikers! this is really a kneeslapper 😂
I remember in the lego star wars clone wars bounty hunter ship there were slanted pieces inside the wing struts that dont seem to serve a purpose, and once finished assembling cannot be seen. Similarly a part inside the engines had a piece that just gets covered up
Here's an instructions mistake (sort of).
Just got the new Iron Golem Fortress for Christmas (Merry Christmas, by the way) and at the beginning of bag 2, on step 7 of building the skeleton horse, the small box has you build the back legs of the skeleton horse but then points to the neck instead of the back legs. Please feature when you can :)
Funnily enough, I put together the Bonsai this past weekend. I also had to finally get reading glasses last December. Trying to see all those black-on-dark brown was not pleasant.
"-200 IQ Lego sets"
"Actually those steps are pretty good and helpfull"
Decide what it is! It cant be both. XD
9:41 Dumping all the bags out and having to hunt for each piece was part of the fun for me...
6:10 - isn't that the reference to LEGO Adventurers? I remember this being used a lot in that sets even with similar graphic in instructions.
Nice video! Oh man, I remember those old instruction books with like 100 steps on one page! It was like where's waldo but with 100 waldos.
The San Francisco one I remember did that but I stuck it in the glare.
Never question Lego’s design choices
Have you encountered LEGO instruction steps which have you remove pieces, rather than adding them? I know this occurs in the 75292 Razor Crest. They're added temporarily to stabilize the build, until being re-positioned in later steps.
Before you even explained I assumed the axle was for structural support, similar to bones (or a rebar as you mentioned)
3:09 its also used to determine fake sets from real
8:16 step 5 is to admire your work 😉 😉
9:00 the lego Ghostbusters set had this problem
The extra bricks for Starry Nights are good to always have for reference or to compare bricks in case you're struggling with the different shades of blue
In the Knuckles' Guardian Mech set from the Sonic the Hedgehog line you are told to put 3 green crystal pieces in the Master Emerald. I was confused about this 'till I realised it was a reference to the Sonic Adventure games and how to beat Knuckles' stages you need to find 3 pieces of the Master Emerald. I love when they have deep cut references for fans in the liscenced sets like this.
Nahh i thought the thumbnail showed 2 sticks of dynamite 💀💀💀
In the Knuckles' Guardian Mech set from the Sonic the Hedgehog line you are told to put 3 green crystal pieces in the Master Emerald. I was confused about this 'till I realised it was a reference to the Sonic Adventure games and how the beat Knuckles' stages you need to find 3 pieces of the Master Emerald. I love when sets have deep cut references for fans in the liscenced sets like this.
The other day I removed the technic axel from my giant minifig because I didn't like the rattling, so good to know that that actually does something
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i dont have a table piece here but at 3:20 could it be that the axle fill out the hole so the top pat of the turn table cannot pop off because the part cannot flex enough to separate from the lower part?
With the POW Block it's also likely they made it that way for game accuracy as every 3D depiction of a POW Block in Mario games has the POW on both the front and back of the block
Goes to show how much thought and attention is poured into every set ❤
0 pieces is extremely common in larger technic sets, as they are modular and are put together usually in sections, steps ask you to push pins you placed halfway in earlier to lock modules in place
What you talk about at the end: no numbering and no piece-wise instructions, that's what I call building. I always dump all the bags in a big pile at the beginning. Much more fun and engagement that way, and I actually hate how basic today's instructions are. I olden days there used to be just pictures of alternative builds on the back of the box and we did it. That was the point.
Bro the snail is literally hunting me at this point
Kids these days have no clue what us early 90s kids went through with LEGO instructions taking 20 re-reads to understand what needs to be done in the instructions lol
7:02 I was just thinking of the ferrary set that has these pieces which have hidden prints (I bought and builded the set a few hours ago) 😂
Building Lego is the epidemy of “don’t ask questions just execute”
Wait I distinctly remember having an official Lego turntable with a cross for a technic strut in the middle from a 90s Lego pirate castle
4:40 "Technic axels are actually very very small"
Me: has deconstructed my living room looking for one
"Yeah, I don't think I trust you on that one"
Starting on from 9:17 - this was GOOD, becouse it gave more work - thus - more fun for the builder!
My childhood is filled with those old Lego sets, and as I now have kids of my own, I find modern Lego builds ... well ... to easy.
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I have the Lego Mario air ship set and I didn’t even notice the printed piece was hidden 😅
1:56 I feel like I've seen that before with maybe some capes on old star wars sets? Dunno, but I'm pretty sure I've seen that instruction in the wild before
My favorite is when you put a frog inside the T-rex for the Jurassic Park Main Gate set
I found some more sets with pieces from different bags like in the LEGO Icons PAC-MAN Arcade machine in the beginning of bag 3 where you can clearly see that there are three pieces from bag 1 which are used later to push the light switch back up in step 16 on page 75 of the online instructions.
LEGO: we put little pieces extra in case one is missing.
Also LEGO: use one of the extra pieces. If it’s missing in your back it’s your problem.
The Dreamzzz Nightmare Shark Ship has a specific brown piece hidden inside the colon of the shark which is funny as hell :D
To this day I still build with "spot the difference" method and don't use the piece boxes, prefer it much more this way.
I actually really like that hidden gemstone in the treehouse set. That aught to give someone a laugh when building it.
@3:50 ah back to 80's with black falcons and black knights of the castle theme
But Spot-the-difference and Find-the-piece-in-the-giant-pile is the real spirit of LEGO. I feel like boomer spirit of LEGO looks at zoomer spirit of LEGO with a sigh
IF I SEE WAR THUNDER ONE MORE TIME IM GOING TO GO INSANE
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