Pushing LEGO to its limits
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มี.ค. 2024
- First-I both love and hate these builds-but I’m obsessed with them. If you’ve ever attempted to use ‘incomplete connections’ you know how fascinating/frustrating they can be. The 1x6 ring came together relatively easily, rolling around in my studio for more than a week before filming. But when I took it apart… it just didn’t want to go back together. Fail after fail after fail. (There’s an engineering/construction video there.) When I finally reconstructed it I was sure it would implode with every roll and spin in the video-and yet it didn’t. It’s still intact to this day. ‘Finicky’ is the world I would use to describe it, but it’s more about the need of having a perfect array of aligned, incomplete connections with very few ‘bad’ plates with low clutch power in the mix. It takes patience and luck to make it work.
However, the 1x12 ring-that’s a whole different monster. I had a delusional hope that the full ring could free stand AND roll-but you can see how it crushes under its own weight when vertical, even when reinforced with shrink wrap (so classy). This is a shame as it would be AMAZING to watch and listen that creature roll. This is one of the first times I’ve ever considered using the kragle...but it’s not that tempting. : )
And as for the final ‘towers’ they are just simple sub-sections of the 1x12 ring stacked up. The first has 24 layers per typical curve, and the second has 12. How different they look, and how strange. But caveman appreciated them--he always does.
It’s very safe to say I am not done in this space, but my frustration levels are high enough that I’m done for a while at least.
A quick shout out to my amazing Patreon supporters Beyond the Brick, TweekLW, and usujason.
And one final note/fair warning: Incomplete connections very much rely on the clutch power of LEGO elements. Some elements, or even some element colors, have poor clutch power. I’ve tried to make circles out of some specific pieces only to fail miserably with zero success-they simply won’t partially connect, which is sad.
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Piece Breakdown:
- 1x6 LEGO Ring plate count: 1552 (97 layers)
- 1x12 LEGO Ring plat count: 4784 (299 layers) - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
It's too bad that the big one wouldn't cooperate, but you could see it coming when the half ring already started to collapse under its own weight. Still looks very impressive, good work.
It leaves me with a quest for the largest ring that won't collapse under its own weight. Mission accepted... a few months from now 😂
I wonder if the orange ring had snuggly fit inside the yellow one, would that have provided at least some support?
@@BrickBendingmaybe you can try using zip ties on the inside as reinforcement. Leave a small hole on the outside so you can pull and tighten the zip ties and cover it afterwards. Or maybe an elastic solution.
Bro tried to build apple hq
@@BrickBendingwould it have helped it it had more support on the inside, as in using 4 or 5 ‘beams’ to hold each side together instead of just 2
Bro keeps copy and pasting
He’s brick bending
Lmao
Shushers
The guy sells kits to make some of these structures. But he hasn't sold any of his copy paste magic. Greedy bastard
Forbidden geometry dash technique😂
I half expected the guy to go full how to basic and start pelting the failed ring with eggs
What?! 😂
@@jameswhiteii9129 how do you not know the legend that is howtobasic?
@@raven_knight_076 I didn't know he pelted eggs.
@@jameswhiteii9129 That's literally what he's known for
/gamemode how_to_basic
Laying on its side it looks like some minifigs are about to have gladiator fights in the middle.
Truth!
I pictured Nero from the Fate series saying "Praise my Golden Theater!"
or apple headquarters
I rlly gotta watch fate
The broken large wheel with the shrink wrap looked low-key metaphorical.
Of what ? What would it means ?
@Absolutely_puck_fakestine This could be a metaphor for a situation where something is held together precariously by a thin layer of support. For example, a project or idea that is structurally unsound but is being propped up by temporary solutions.
@@mishtrong I see. It's an allegory.
@@Absolutely_puck_fakestineone could say an... alLEGOry
@@Belinor6 Badum tss
I love that you share both the successes and the failures. It’s encouraging to see that even the great artists have to keep trying. Thanks for sharing your amazing work!
🙏
I bet Lego have a Wanted list at their headquarters and you're at the top.
Disobeying illegal techniques is definitely not the only thing I’ve ever done with these. 😂
For some reason i thought your pfp was lego batman
Well I eat the pieces so
I dont know hot to explain to my friends what kind of content I watch
Sometimes you just have to send them the link and let fate run its course.
Lego brick ASMR with illegal building techniques
One of the reasons I started making videos was because describing what I do just didn't work 😆
Just say you watch a lot of random stuff... Or say "I can't believe what was in my feed today!" Easy.
Lego asmr
I love that sigh when it starts coming apart again. 😄
I debate whether to keep some of those or not, but sometimes its just truth coming through. Love/hate
@@BrickBendingkeep them in,there are funny and real moments
I go to a lot of modern art museums and I could 100% see that piece at the end sitting in a museum. It's a gorgeous form combined with Kusama-like patterns and colors. I love it. (Also cool wheel.)
A sister build covered in polka dots would be amazing.
I want it to be bendier
He did it.
He finally found something Lego couldn’t handle.
Horrors beyond the scope of a mere minifigure
In the store: how much yellow LEGO do you want?
BB: Yes.
low stability lego superstructures are as entertaining as they are mildly horrifying. love your videos.
I can see the frustration, and it's such a good demonstration of how shape determines how well or not something will stand up.
This is it. We've finally hit a build so illegal that the bricks themselves reject it.
I think those "half" connections here were probably the thing that caused this to fail. This sort of design with bricks connected only partially at an angle is already a lot more unstable compared to ones where they're flush but twist slightly in order to create a structure that bends. Here there's so many bricks that aren't connected with the ones underneath that it just adds a ton of weight without contributing to stability at all
I could only wish that I had the patience to build all of those segments to make the whole product.
The final builds looks like some modern buildings!
all of them really remind of buildings. the circle even looks like it has floors.
It reminds me of two other buildings…
I'm going to tell my kids this was Lego coliseum
Imagine being a lego minifig who has only seen right angled bricked (maybe curved things to hold or some rarer curved parts) and then you stumble upon these yellow monoliths in some far corner of the world. They are not made of curved parts, in fact they are made of perfectly mundane bricks, yet when observed as a whole they break what you thought were fundamental rules of the world.
Good video!
"Well that's not much. Hardly any stress at all."
*wobble*wobble*
"NM, carry on."
4:50 mega macaroni
but we have yet to see the true macaroni build.
Bro built the apple hq
I ride in the back of a recycle truck for a living knowing that every day something could go wrong and it could be fatal. Yet I watch this video and my anxiety is through the roof.
Bro has more LEGO pieces than I have atoms in my home 💀😂😂😂
I’m always so enamored by these videos, they’re all so weirdly calming and captivating. Great stuff 👍
"weirdly calm and captivating" --love that
Same here!
Twin Towers if they were made of jello:
Anything I can easily design on SolidWorks or Inventor this guy crafts with his hands. He has all my respect.
You really have pushed LEGO rings to their limit. I really enjoy your building techniques and your videos. You have great patience to work with incomplete connections. I also appreciate your creativity as well, you improvised and used the pieces of the creature to create artistic sculptures.
For anyone else wondering: 4,608 lego pieces were used in the big wheel.
Good to see you again! Was worried there wouldn't be anymore videos
The wavy line structure looks like a really nice art deco for a desk
The first wheel made me think of Pirates of the Caribbean
i adore the 'light through the spaces' shots you take
Aww, was really rooting for that to work. The anticipation of watching you try to find a way to make it work was really something, though, and I really like those wiggly statues at the end as well.
7:54 Now those would be some unique and breathtaking skyscrapers..
more breathtaking if you add a flying vehicle
I flinched when it snapped.
The way you pause, like "oof" then keep on trucking
2:04 Aight, imma head out.
I like how with the first few pieces of the second build, you have to rock it a bit as if we're a bunch of flat earthers, asking where the curve was.
This is why Lego are so expensive, this guy owns them all.
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They need to make Lego blocks that are strong but flexible, specifically for making twisted structures like this
That gloves make me really comfortable❤
1:35 all my vacation photos always look like this. It's the classic Me-At-The-Thing shot
I like how the cracks in the arch/wheel represent how actual stone masonry behaves.
You could create a bigger arch and put some heavy things on the sides so you counteract the forces trying to separate the base and you could make a bigger, wider and slimmer arch that doesnt crack just by keeping the bases in place through mass (or a tensor)
It was sad what happened to the big ring, but the fact you somehow even made that monster, and EVEN THOUGH IT FELL APART you still made something equally impressive with those illegal towers shocked me, subscribed
you know when a new brick bending video is coming out because the price of a single color of a random lego piece shoots up massively on bricklink 😂
Those 1x6 pieces are impossible to pick apart once you snap them right on top of eachother💀
1:56 Well, fuck!
I hope no one ever stops you. This is illegal and I love it
Imagine if ancient roman architects saw someone just tear apart huge chunks of their colliseum and just had fun with them
this man is the reason why you can’t find “that one lego piece”, he prolly used every single one like it for one of these videos lmao
First of all, your ASMR game is top notch. Secondly, I enjoy the Ctrl C, Ctrl V aspect of your videos. But seriously, how long does it take for a build like this? Do you have a crew who helps out?
Shockingly enough I enjoy the build process. It's a zone that I get into. But on occasion having a crew to help me has been a god send. 🙂
Would have been cool to see the small one and big one next to each other to get an additionnal sense of scale !
Good call. Missed that opportunity this time around.
I love the look of the pillars at the end
It's a small detail but it is so greatly appreciated that you wear fabric gloves in particular
LEGO instruction part inventory be like:
1x6 yellow plates x10000
😂 😂 😂 great video man!
My mind can't comprehend that you made a perfect circle out of those lmao
Ring: collapses
The guy who built it: *suffering*
All of these squares make a circle, all of these squares make a circle...
So cool. I love watching these it’s fascinating ❤
I’m more surprised how one person can could get so much legos, I could barely get one set
This channel just constantly and consistently embodies the statement "Wait, that's illegal. You're not supposed to do that. And yet, here we are."
The first one when on its side looks like it could be used to made a colusseum! I might try this, love your channel.
Seeing you put two identical pieces directly on top of each other gives me severe anxiety
The amount of times I nearly shrieked out loud during this video...!!!! Y'all are REALLY playing with fire here!
Wut???
I love how the light reflects off of the LEGO
7:57 Time traveler mr. Caveman guards the tower from incoming plane
Yeah !
With squared structures, you could make an helicoîd tower ^^
Amazing video
Bro really said "double it and give it to the next person"💀💀
"all these squares make a circle, ALL THESE SQUARES MAKE A CIRCLE"
Mostly I'm here for the satisfying builds - but it's great in a "behind the scenes" kind of way to see the limits!
The break had me screaming
8:05 that is art right there
A lot of people have a grievance with Mega's bricks being hard to put together, but that also means they have a better time holding together. Which would be good for a ring like this.
yayay been waiting for a new upload! :D
The big wheel needed spokes to stay supported! Keeps the pressure off of the wheel itself. That should help keep it from breaking apart, theoretically.
All I can imagine is the sound of pouring a bunch of marbles into that wavy tower at the end
7:38 When your lego tower has scoliosis
The way he sighed when the first build crumbled
i love watching people build modular structures that should not exist.
A lil car with LEDs on it driving around the inside would create a funky lightshow
The 1x12 circle would make an awesome coffee table with a glass top.
The big one on its side, when it was segmented, made me think of the ITER tokamak
The forbidden macoroni noodle 5:02
4:47 the forbidden macaroni
Those bulk Lego ordering companies must love you
Bro really prepared for it 😮
But bro played seesaw with it
My questions are...
1__how essential are the internal struts?
2__I can see that you tried to maximize the curvature to reduce the weight, but if the length between the inner & outer rings was longer, & using a height difference of only 1 plate, would this improve grip strength enough to offset the resulting larger circumference & greater weight?
Colleseum build with this technique would go so hard!
I wonder if there is something you could add to make something like spokes for the second wheel so it could have been possibly reinforced and not collapse under it weight.
Literally reinvented the wheel 😂
Astonishing!
Amazing sculptures. Amazing video. 👏👏😯😯😯Very atavistic. 🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍
I was going to suggest a tourniquet, then you added the shrink wrap. Maybe if you used some heat guns on the shrink-wrap it would make the big one more stable.
how do you keep coming up with this lmao, the brick aint the only u be bending, you are bending my mind too
Building that wheel must have been the most soul crushingly monotonous and boring thin a human hat ever endured.
Hi when did it stop hurting to not fully press down the bridge connector on the first build
Pained me after the fact, but I've learned to live with the imperfections
When you order 10,000 of the same piece instead of a 10,000 piece kit.
That first wheel should be cast in resin then turned on a lathe. Make a cool bowl. Cool stuff.
Now for the real challenge.
Build an amazing build like this, but without using any illegal building techniques
if you added a piece on the inside of the ring on every section that would let u connect a flat 1x2 u could maybe support the big one better? i dont know lego terms very well but it looks possible