Bricklink vs. LEGO Bricks & Pieces answered, plus a parts haul 📦
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- Opening a decent LEGO Bricks & Pieces part order and answering a related viewer question.
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Perhaps make a dedicated question answering video every so often when you have enough questions to answer.
I think it's a good idea, but Jang could ask for questions on the Community tab and then answer them all, maybe making a screen recording on bricklink or something for the actual video.
Agreed, a bit of dedicated time means people can choose to watch or not watch easier. I'd watch.
I love the idea of a dialogue/question answering. It’s really interesting :)
Edited to add: I love the food items! I wanted that new year scene but too expensive to buy in the UK.
I would enjoy more Q&A. Particularly in haul videos.
Real talk tho', when is Pokemon but with animals instead 4 coming?
It's nice with the QA. But i makes good sense to keep them to the Parts Hauls videos, or a dedicated video segment. If you tag them on to a review it would cut the natural flow of the video. That would be a shame.
Love your videos by the way! Keep up the good work.
I agree with your warning. I definitely wouldn't do it in a review unless all the way at the very end (still unlikely) or specifically related to the set I'm covering (more likely, still after covering all of the main stuff normally).
I really enjoy your quirky side that shows up randomly in videos, it definitely makes for an enjoyable experience, keep being yourself
‘Same setti as the spaghetti’ 😂
I like the idea of integrating questions into the parts haul vids. It feels like these vids are more geared towards the more invested fans, so having the Q&A put into here would be an appropriate fit
Another +1 for keeping Q&A in your haul videos. The combination of the two ensures viewer interest is kept throughout the video, whether you’re answering a question or showing pieces. Seems like a perfect “connection”. 😉
Not really into LEGO but wanted you to know that you are sorely missed in the RC community! You created the most influential and informative channel that ever was or will be Jang! I hope the LEGO community knows what a true GEM they have! Love you a miss you my friend!
I think these haul videos are good for q&a since it's pretty easy for us to see what you ordered, and unless you have something specific about the order to say, it keeps the video engaging all the way through
Holy heck yea! I'd love to hear the questions that you're looking to answer on these, mostly because I watch these videos all the time. It gives a great conversation topic while I listen
I love the idea of Jang Q&A. How do you organize your instruction manuals? Do you even save them?
Absolutely INCORRECT.
Spaghetti is from a friends set.
It's fun to get the Q&A stuff and I'd be keen for more.
My favourite stuff to see of yours is always the mocs and city updates. It's funny that the parts hauls always feel like sneak previews of future updates. Q&A is a good thing to combine with lots of types of vids I expect.
I always look forward to your videos of all kinds
One day, you should build a giant Planetary Defence Force ship and hang it above the Jang City Lackolith :)
My minds been ticking since this video and I have soo many questions:
- how is it best to clean up pre-loved / well loved lego? My kids have very sticky fingers.
- can you demonstrate so good ways of stacking/sorting and organizing lego (like in your haul the other day). I’m drowning in it. I have drawers like yours but only one set for the mixed up bricks and bits. I’m splitting by base plates, small plates, square or rectangular bricks, other brick shapes, tiles, specials (accessories etc), foliage (I got loads from recent pick a brick rummaging on your suggestion), technic type parts, mini figs, instructions and made up spinners for the boys to grab easily.
- more of your mini makes in the white room. Like battle toad and your personal challenges on parts packs. I loved those.
- holiday scenes? Halloween is so close. Are you planning a little layout?
- what’s next in your city? School? Zoo update? Library? I love your quirky shops like Jabba’s pizza place and your crystal shop. Any others coming?
- I’m a big lego friends and elves fan. It’s to offset the Ninjago and potter madness taking over my life (3 young boys). How would you integrate the pastel colours into your city?
I’d love to know your thoughts on any of this. (Over tired mom who needs lego support and inspiration)
I would love to see a Q/A segment on these haul videos. Im curious if you have any advice for someone who is starting their first really big custom lego build (4 grey baseplates)
I love B&P because you are getting new clean pieces direct. I've been burned sometimes from Bricklink when I get some pretty crappy pieces
I also ordered the new train wheel from Lego" I haven't received it yet, but looking at my order on their site, I can see that they have the old one listed in my order. I'll wait until I get the package, but I'm pretty sure this is a mistake on their part, not you and I both.
I’m not sure about anyone else but I know that I would like it if you answered more of are questions ! Thanks for considering it!
I spent hours placing a bricks and pieces order only to be signed out every time I got to the checkout..happened a few nights in a row..don’t know if anyone else had that problem but the service is out of operation again here in Australia now, a few weeks after the last time.
YES! I've encountered that a couple of times. Major palm-screaming trigger. I don't know what the exact session timeout length is, but I wish there was some warning. I also wish it wouldn't zero out your entire order if you accidentally go "Back" in your web browser rather than sticking to the navigation links in the searching/ordering flow itself. Nowadays I'm very, very careful, while also trying to be somewhat expedient.
I wish we would also get parts like they get overseas on Lego bricks n pieces
JANGBRiCKS yes it’s so frustrating, I spent three nights in a row shortening my order and trying to be faster each time, not knowing what the issue was. Thanks for the reply!
I find that if you put through part of the order, then go back into your order it helps with the timing out.
If you ever decided to make a live stream video at some point to answer live questions, that would be very cool! I'm sure a ton of your fans would like to ask you about a lot of stuff, Q&A is certainly a good idea, unless you have little time since you have so many things to do in your Lego city and to review new Lego sets, your time must be precious.
A Q&A would be fantastic. And BrickLink is way cheaper in my experience.
I checked a few items on the Lego website and compared to the same parts on Bricklink, at most the prices on Bricklink were around 60% lower... So yeah, Bricklink is the place to buy separate parts... Unless you want VIP points! :-D
Having an occasional Q&A video would be great. I know you don't always have time to answer questions posed to you in the comments section and a Q&A video could be a great to compile some of those questions and address them later. Keep up the great work. It is always appreciated.
It always makes sense to compare prices between Bricklink and Bricks and Pieces. Sometimes one is cheaper, sometimes the other. Unfortunately, bricks and pieces is frequently unavailable for several days recently, since "improvements" are made. I'm currently again waiting to make an order for three days already...
I still owe you one for tipping me off about the abundance of plant parts in the Pick-a-Brick Wall. I had the same experience as you did - usually not many useful pieces there. But this was perfect.
As for B&P vs BL, I understand that in the US at least B&P is rather reasonably priced? In my country B&P is often quite prohibitively expensive compared to waiting and using BL, though it can depend. Also the shipping for us is also quite unpleasant.
maybe an other question you could answer in a haul: how do you know how many you want of a certain piece, or do you just select randomly.
I would find a monthly Q&A video pretty awesome and it would entice me to think of some questions for the jang!
Wait wait wait, your redone zoo? Am I going crazy?
And, that’s definitely Benders head.
Please do a dedicated Q&A. Enjoyed the last 2 and sure you have a tremendous amount of knowledge / techniques people are interested in.
I like the question answering idea! It gets twice the amount done compared to specific videos for questions and pieces
I think that putting little Q&As in haul videos would make them much more attractive to watch.
If there would be way more questions to answer perhaps this could become a standalone series on the channel, but I don't think I would be very interested in it.
I just wanna say, multiple times the bricks and pieces service has got mixed up with the parts on my order and sent the wrong one in place of the one I ordered. This has never happened with Bricklink sellers so I tend to trust Bricks and Pieces a little less.
Secondly, a benefit of Bricks and Pieces is that you get VIP points from or can use VIP point on the order.
Thirdly, a trick I've used to make sure I'm using the cheapest of the two is to enter the B&P price under Max price on my Bricklink want list and use it to filter out lots over that price.
The brown T pieces came in the dragon dance set, which was a limited release in the asia area. I got a bunch for building trees with.
Love the food pieces! Great haul!
I like the idea of answering a couple questions in some videos!
Same setti as the spaghetti... I love you Jang. Almost lets me forgive you for having access to such a great service- I wish Lego would expand it worldwide :'( Though it's interesting to hear that Lego stores are far from in you in such a big US city. Are they close to wealthy suburbs or in the city centre in other countries? Here in Tokyo they're all near where the wealthy people live/work so it's a pain for a normal pleb like me to go there. I buy 99% of my Lego off Amazon because it's the cheapest by far and has next day/scheduled delivery here. (One thing Japan definitely does right!). Oh, and definitely would LOVE A Q&A video!
In all honesty I am leaning to Bricklink more and more.
May I ask why?
@@tazzzaaah Faster delivery, and they have a wider selection of parts, especially from older sets.
@@Rocket1377 yup. I agree
Answering more questions? Yes please!
Here’s a question: did you use stickers from the DK LEGO City sticker activity book? If so, can you show those pieces?
I’ve bought a few of the Star Wars and DC Superheroes sticker books for that reason but haven’t tried to use the stickers on pieces yet.
Great channel!
I would be all for question answering! Either in a stand alone or during a haul video. It worked surprisingly well here.
I have the maclaren senna and immediately recognized the orange wheels, yes they did come in that set.
Anyone else watching it while he’s sorting them and shout “NO JANG YOU MISSED ONE!!”
Questions being answered would be great! Love your videos and ideas JANG
I would love Q&A videos. This was great how you answered questions during this haul, and I'm betting you would have enough questions to do a pure Q&A video every other week. However, I would prefer review and MOC videos over a Q&A video
Anyone else wish Jang would do a live Q and A, while he just builds things for his city on camera?
I like that you did the Q&A in a haul video because normally I don’t watch these types
I have a question, why did you stop describing the knife you're using to open the packaging like you used to
I like the Q/A videos but I do like the city updates and your reviews more.
I like the questions during hauls. But if you have a ton of similer questions you can make a whole video on. One or two short questions are fine with hauls. Gives you time to talk and sort bricks
I have found both LEGO’s Brick & Pieces and Pick a Brick ordering websites to be very confusing. I’d love a tutorial video from you on how to find parts you are wanting to order from these sites.
The cookie around the ten minute mark was from the jacob kowalski minifigure
Great haul! Question, did you encounter issue with B&P? They had issues for over 2 months.
Looks like a great parts haul Jang!!!
I absolutely hate how fiddly and awkward the pick a brick is to navigate at least on mobile. I refuse to go near it again until it becomes user friendly despite being desperate for some of the parts available, your Vids make me rather jealous
Is there some kind of list that shows all the parts and their corresponding numbers? I'd like to order parts but I don't know how to get the numbers for them.
Brickset and Bricklink generally have most of the numbers. You can also look at a specific set (by using the set number) in the Pick a Brick service on Lego's site to see the IDs for all the parts in the set.
Your awesome jang! Im a loyal viewer always look forward to your videos no matter what the premise is
I love Q&As. I would prefer them to be separate videos, and not as parts of review videos or some such.
Answer questions in these videos, it's pretty chill
Nice video! I like the idea of answering questions
Yes please, qs at the end of the video would be great.
Yes I would love to hear, more questions getting answered!
I never knew those Chinese New Year sets existed, they look so cool, would love to see a review of them!
You should do more Q&A's. You could do one each month and just give us a little tour of New Jang City, while you answer the questions.
Dear Jang,
could you please make a video on different building technics you've used? I'm missing your calm smooth explaining voice in other videos like this.
Regular, Jumper, SNOT, upside down, sideways, angles and Lego math would be great. Just a little "how it works" with a few bricks.
And maybe some illegal but great technics.
Thank you!
Dedicated answering question video would be great. That way it’s not a opener? I don’t know if that makes sense or not. I’m used to the “hey it’s jang here” or any other opener.
yes! I would love more Q&A!!!!
Nice video, love your content keep it up!
Cool selection of parts and really like that you answer questions. My question is how do you know which are new parts ?
A q&a series would be great jang
Bricks and pieces is down at the moment in the uk, bricklink is great but comes with the risk of paying for new pieces and getting used. Also my wife got scammed from a bricklink seller selling counterfeit cmfs.
Monthly Q&A - great idea
Still, the old train wheels were better for rolling. But i Q and A qould be awesome!
I’d love to see some Q&A specific videos from you, Jang.
It's interesting how BrickLink sellers tend to pack everything up neatly in individual bags, while Lego is like: Let's pour everything into one bag including the easily scratchable windcreen pieces and the bamboo leaves.
I prefer bricks and pieces, yes it is more expensive but that way i'm 100% sure that the pieces I buy are new + lego has a very good costumer service
Nice video.
When you do those kind of purchase. Are you randomly browsing bricklink site to see what they have or do you already know what you want to buy before going there?
Thanks many for the great video! But what is the friends set with the cereal box? And the tan squorpian and the brown gold bars? If anyone of you viewers know where any of these are from, that would be greatly appreciated
Always great stuff ordering this way but it adds up too fast
Hey, Jang! I think a livestream would be awesome. Let us ask questions:)
I would like to see a QnA with you. I don’t know what you would show so maybe a face cam? Just an idea
I agree with the idea of a face cam
I think you can share some interesting or unique lego building technique to us:)
Do you just happen to luck onto these on the Bricks and Pieces site, like if some are sold out do you check daily for a restock or do they have a way to notify when the item is back in stock? And do pieces that are out of stock, frequently come back in stock?
Bricks and Pieces hasn't been available in Canada since they implemented the new VIP system 🙁
You could make a video where we can see you and where you talk about the questions
Beautiful
Jbricks art
Jang will you try to get a bunch of the grey base and rod antenna piece once the new star destroyer is available purchase? (via bricks and pieces)
I would like to see how Jang handles a specifically Q&A video. Also, what set is that notebook page from?
A Q&A thing at the beginning of every parts haul video would would make me more likely to watch
I would love to see some Q&A's
Would love to know your strategies for navigating Bricks & Pieces efficiently in putting together an order. I saw another comment that referenced how user un-friendly the interface is and that has been my experience as well.
Same setti as spaghetti. 🤣
Show us you minifig gun MOC's. Please Jang.
I wish i can buy alot of lego peices like this
Real jang fans know that he used to have a FAQ in the description below in older videos!!!
Dang I never knew about bricks and pieces and I just made a big bricklink purchase this week. Hope I didnt rip myself off.
Yeah, Bricks&Pieces has been broken/unavailable for the past few weeks (& possibly forever by the look of it).. but rub it in..
Is it better to buy individual bricks that you need or buy sets to sac for pieces you need for creation ideas?
Same setti as the spaghetti was that on purpose because it was funny
Are Lego pieces and bricks the same as the Lego pick a brick (online)?
Nope. Pick a brick usually has a much more limited selection. With bricks and pieces you look up a set and you pick what you want from its parts inventory. Usually a wider range of parts on B and P but in my experience it takes a very long time to deliver
Q&A video is a good idea
Yees the McLaren Senna does use those
You could also just have viewers comment questions on brick link haul videos, and answer them on the next one
I have found bricks and pieces frustrating as often the piece you look for are sold out. Is there some strategy as to when to look on the site for pieces after a set comes out. It seems to me large sellers buy them out and LEGO doesn't replace the stock after that. Is this assumption correct?