Another unique lipstick use was in the recent buildable Droadeka. It's three sensors are actually backwards lipstick pieces, and because of the dual-molding, the red of them have grey rims. Its crazy what LEGO can do these days.
Small antenna pieces was first introduced in 1985. A Model Team set, 5510 Off-Road 4 x 4 from 1986, already had that antenna-windshield-viper things, just one year after its introduction. Most other Model teams sets, till 1999 (5563 Racing Truck is the latest) also had them in the same fashion.
One that pleasantly surprised me recently with its ingenuity was the botanical bouquet of roses set. The idea to use the coiled whip from Indiana Jones sets as the center of the rose was something I thought was super cool.
I bought my mother the ‘Lego Botanicals’ Succulent set for Christmas this year, and I’m actually VERY exited to give it to her. She LOVES Lego, and houseplants, so i figured it was a win win, but the more i hear about the ‘Botanicals’ line, the more exited i get for her to open and build it. 😊 She and i have been bonding over Lego since i was a little girl.
6:40 there are actually a fair bit of LEGO sets that feature whippers. I have 5 such sets in my collection: 31138 Beach Camper Van, 31108 Caravan Family Holiday, 76924 Mercedes-AMG G 63 & Mercedes-AMG SL 63 and 71456 Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van. I'm 100% sure I've seen a LEGO city car with such whippers in a LEGO game, so there might very well be more of those out there
5:23 The LEGO Harry Potter Years 1 - 4 Videogame already used this technique in the cutscene where Harry & the Dursley's move to the cottage to escape the owls. Yes. I know I talked about a videogame, but most things from the LEGO Videogames can be remade IRL. Also the videogame came out in 2010.
Interesting how the birds are used. In a set from Jurassic Park; it is based on the scene where Nedry encounters the Dilophosaurus. There is a single white frog piece in the entire set. At first, I thought is was just a frog as scenery in the jungle. But it is actually meant to mimic the cream coming out of the can that belonged to Nedry.
Wait, so I SHOULDN’T have been taking off my minifig’s hands all this time? 😂 But that’s what’s so cool about them, their customizability! I’d change out every piece, hands and hips and accessories and everything to make just the kind of lil guys that I wanted
9:36 This stair technique is also used in the Hogwarts Icons Collector's Edition set (76391) to make the opened pages of a book (I believe Tom Riddle's diary) as well as about 100 1x2 grill bricks for the two books on top of that
I just picked up the LEGO Minecraft set "The Cherry Blossom Garden" which is the first set to feature all three stages of the sniffer as well as the default skin Sunny but the most interesting piece has to be the pale teal standard minifigure head used as part of the pitcher plant. I bet you never expected to see a standard head in a Minecraft set, especially in such a unique color. The two-sided decorated pot with a skull on one side and heart on the other is cool too, hopefully they make more. My set actually came with three extra "cherry blossoms" so I was able to add another patch of pink pedals. Although they're more magenta than pink.
@@herowither12354 damage the hands and arms? Are you talking about a different mini figure torso? The only thing I can see being damage in a regular mini figure torso are the arm pieces if you take them off the torso and put them back on it over and over
@@alccoderonscratch7909 There's a small lip around the hand that locks into a ridge on the inside of the arm, to hold it inside. The more you pull them out and put them back in, the more likely the hand and arm are to get loose or break.
Just to let you know, the Caterham car is one of those wierd british pronunications, Instead of Cat-er-ham it is supposed to be pronounced closer to Kate-rum which is the traditional pronunciation of the town where the company was established.
@5:55 the original Ghost Buster’s car is a 1959 Cadillac, and it’s cool because they got that the wipers start from inside and push outside. The second model from the newer movie is a different Cadillac, and the wipers go side to side.
The windscreen from the Sphinx Secret Surprise set (5978, for those who want to know) has wipers printed onto the clear plastic, which is admittedly not really on-theme for this video, but *is* an example of wipers being part of the design.
Another really cool building technique that I found was in the Lego Star Wars 2002 bounty hunter pursuit set. It uses chromed coffee mug pieces for headlights on one of the speaders
I have that old tyrannosaurus set, from when I was a child. I remember thinking that the tongue was a weird shape, but never realised it was a crocodile head.
My personal favourite theme, Lego Adventurers, has printed windscreen pieces complete with windscreen wipers. Johnny Thunder's Scorpian Tracker is just one example.
Another really cool building technique that I found was in the 2004 At-At set. It uses minifigure wrench pieces to attach the guns on the head of the walker.
The Lego Creator set 4993 "Cool Convertible" has no physical windscreen but uses black katanas as windscreen wipers and I'm pretty sure I've seen it on other sets as well. 6:12 Worked really well imo but I preferred to use them on my minifigs right after 😅
In the 1980s and early 90s Lego used antenna pieces as windscreen wipers in Model Team theme vehicles at larger scale (for instance Highway Rig from 1986).
Regarding the windshield wipers, I know 4993 Cool Convertible from 2008 (one of my favorite sets as a kid) had some made from black katanas. That said, they're kinda stuck in place, so they're not going to move like the ones in the video, if that's your qualifier.
The Himeji castle set (21060) has a couple of roller skate pieces. Above archways and entrances. The Trafalgar Square set (21045) uses a similar technique regarding the stairs like in the pyramid of Giza, but those one turn at right angles! I've seen a couple of sets recently creatively using minifigure heads. Could this be an idea for a later video, maybe? In set 21006 the White House uses a transparent minifigure head as a lantern on the Northern side of the building. And in the Star Wars Death Star Trench Run Diorama (75329) a grey minifigure head is used as a piece of greebles on the surface of the trench. I wonder where else minifigure heads have been used in unconventional ways.
I think the Architecture line has some pretty cool piece usage, my example would be the Las Vegas Skyline set where clear blue rod pieces are being used as water fountains in front of the Bellagio Hotel, giving the illusion of water shooting up like fountain shows at the real hotel. Another example is the use of rear facing headlight bricks for windows on the Capitol Building set.
The lipstick piece has also been used for the “eyes” on the 2023 droideka, they look very nice because they actually use the bit of color that comes out of the bottom
I have that Fab 5 set and I did think it was strange that the torsos had hands despite what it showed in the pictures, but of course if I wanted to take them off I would (I dont because I know Ill lose them)
For 6:10 both the Audi S1 Quattro e-tron and the Mercedes AMG G-Class from Speedchampions use the same style of wipers, one center one for the e-tron and 2 for the G-Class
6:09 Lego Model Team kit 5590 "Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck" has the same windshield wipers. You just didn't look at old enough kits. I recieved the kit as a 12yo in. ~1990 and just last week built the kit with my 4yo daughter. It's a good'er.
The rearview mirrors on the new speed champions Ferrari F40 are red spoons, I would recommend you dig into more of the speed champion sets because they have a lot of cool weird things they have been doing lately.
@spitbrix the lipsticks are also used in the Star Wars droideka. And my som build the 3 in 1 camper van (31138) today and made the same windscreen wimpers. And in your last vid you mentioned the wild cat that jumps out by pushing a rod. This was also done in the City mountain police station 60174
I seem to remember a basic Lego set from back when I was a kid, where it had a car with opening doors, a sunroof, and a pair of levers for windshield wipers. It's possible I added the levers myself, since I can't find an exact model number, but it was similar to 6634 in its general design.
I actually had the Ice Dragon attack set back then but it was played with so much that I know for a fact that some of the heilcopter blade pieces had broken.
I think two of my favorite reused pieces are 1. In the Horizon Zero Dawn Tallneck set, for the fins along the neck, they use Uruk-hai scimitars from the LotR Helm's Deep Lego set. 2. In the Natural History Museum set, they use Indiana Jones' coiled whip as an Ammonite fossil
I think the reason Lego shows the torso with the hands on is because they have a standard scheme of instructions that they use for every set, only changing colours... Notice the pieces are always shown in the same angle
The mosasaurus was one of my first lego sets ever and I remember my cousin showing me a lego gator and how excited I got realizing I had a gator head upside down as a tongue lol
I remember several City sets from back in the old days (early nineties) that used antenna as wipers. Usually didn’t move though, you had to pretend they rotated on their stud. Pretty sure the tv van I had used that on its front.
Today i learned: there is a Lego Big Bang Theory set 💀
There's also a Lego "the office" set
So… you didn’t know that?
Bazinga
Our whole universe is in a plastic brick state
@@Cold_Frost41 Then Nearly 3 or 4 years ago the Lego price increase started… Wait!
You missed the Mercedes G Wagon Speed Champions car as that also has aerials / levers as windscreen wipers
Yes, I can confirm. I own the set.
@@maxbricks14 same
I also own that set
And Audi S1 e-tron quattro also have windscreen wipers
@@dobrealex5215 one, to be precise
11:18 what they should have done was use transparent hands to have effect of hands not being there
or just taken the hands out
the problem there is that you lose the utility of easily swapping the cloths for the minifigs.
Another unique lipstick use was in the recent buildable Droadeka. It's three sensors are actually backwards lipstick pieces, and because of the dual-molding, the red of them have grey rims. Its crazy what LEGO can do these days.
Came here to say this.
Those lipstick pieces are not easy to get either. I was stoked to get a couple extra in my set.
Small antenna pieces was first introduced in 1985. A Model Team set, 5510 Off-Road 4 x 4 from 1986, already had that antenna-windshield-viper things, just one year after its introduction. Most other Model teams sets, till 1999 (5563 Racing Truck is the latest) also had them in the same fashion.
One that pleasantly surprised me recently with its ingenuity was the botanical bouquet of roses set. The idea to use the coiled whip from Indiana Jones sets as the center of the rose was something I thought was super cool.
I bought my mother the ‘Lego Botanicals’ Succulent set for Christmas this year, and I’m actually VERY exited to give it to her. She LOVES Lego, and houseplants, so i figured it was a win win, but the more i hear about the ‘Botanicals’ line, the more exited i get for her to open and build it. 😊 She and i have been bonding over Lego since i was a little girl.
6:40 there are actually a fair bit of LEGO sets that feature whippers. I have 5 such sets in my collection: 31138 Beach Camper Van, 31108 Caravan Family Holiday, 76924 Mercedes-AMG G 63 & Mercedes-AMG SL 63 and 71456 Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van. I'm 100% sure I've seen a LEGO city car with such whippers in a LEGO game, so there might very well be more of those out there
5:23 The LEGO Harry Potter Years 1 - 4 Videogame already used this technique in the cutscene where Harry & the Dursley's move to the cottage to escape the owls.
Yes. I know I talked about a videogame, but most things from the LEGO Videogames can be remade IRL. Also the videogame came out in 2010.
Interesting how the birds are used. In a set from Jurassic Park; it is based on the scene where Nedry encounters the Dilophosaurus. There is a single white frog piece in the entire set. At first, I thought is was just a frog as scenery in the jungle. But it is actually meant to mimic the cream coming out of the can that belonged to Nedry.
At 3:05, those same lipstick pieces are used for the Droideka's eyes for the 2024 set 75381.
Wait, so I SHOULDN’T have been taking off my minifig’s hands all this time? 😂 But that’s what’s so cool about them, their customizability! I’d change out every piece, hands and hips and accessories and everything to make just the kind of lil guys that I wanted
8:23 how dare you call this questionable! I would die for this precious child 😭
I guess he meant the quality of it. :D
Did you guys not notice that when he sooms into the great waves there are heads 0:30
9:36 This stair technique is also used in the Hogwarts Icons Collector's Edition set (76391) to make the opened pages of a book (I believe Tom Riddle's diary) as well as about 100 1x2 grill bricks for the two books on top of that
The stairs technique is also used in the big Gotham City set.
I just picked up the LEGO Minecraft set "The Cherry Blossom Garden" which is the first set to feature all three stages of the sniffer as well as the default skin Sunny but the most interesting piece has to be the pale teal standard minifigure head used as part of the pitcher plant. I bet you never expected to see a standard head in a Minecraft set, especially in such a unique color. The two-sided decorated pot with a skull on one side and heart on the other is cool too, hopefully they make more. My set actually came with three extra "cherry blossoms" so I was able to add another patch of pink pedals. Although they're more magenta than pink.
At 11:08 you can see an all white lipstick on a wall, I’m surprised he missed this since he went over lipstick pieces
Removing hands from a minifigure has a chance to damage the hands and the arms.
Happened with a Wu of mine.
The hands and arms themselves aren’t part of the mini figure torso
@@alccoderonscratch7909 But it still has a chance to damage the hands and arms, so what's your point?
@@herowither12354 damage the hands and arms? Are you talking about a different mini figure torso? The only thing I can see being damage in a regular mini figure torso are the arm pieces if you take them off the torso and put them back on it over and over
@@alccoderonscratch7909 There's a small lip around the hand that locks into a ridge on the inside of the arm, to hold it inside. The more you pull them out and put them back in, the more likely the hand and arm are to get loose or break.
Babe wake up new spitbrick 800 IQ LEGO sets
Just to let you know, the Caterham car is one of those wierd british pronunications, Instead of Cat-er-ham it is supposed to be pronounced closer to Kate-rum which is the traditional pronunciation of the town where the company was established.
Jokers lowrider had the wipers too!
Who can't forget the jonkler's hogridaahhh
haha nooo!!! the hotdog bun isn’t a lantern! it’s the sign for the bakery underneath it :D
@5:55 the original Ghost Buster’s car is a 1959 Cadillac, and it’s cool because they got that the wipers start from inside and push outside. The second model from the newer movie is a different Cadillac, and the wipers go side to side.
The windscreen from the Sphinx Secret Surprise set (5978, for those who want to know) has wipers printed onto the clear plastic, which is admittedly not really on-theme for this video, but *is* an example of wipers being part of the design.
Another really cool building technique that I found was in the Lego Star Wars 2002 bounty hunter pursuit set. It uses chromed coffee mug pieces for headlights on one of the speaders
I love that the T Rex shared its arms with the older, small dragons.
"This video was amazing! I loved every second of it!"
I have that old tyrannosaurus set, from when I was a child. I remember thinking that the tongue was a weird shape, but never realised it was a crocodile head.
9:25 that viewer named Max seems like a cool guy :D
My personal favourite theme, Lego Adventurers, has printed windscreen pieces complete with windscreen wipers. Johnny Thunder's Scorpian Tracker is just one example.
2:48 I was so confused *why lipstick* was on the thumbnail. It’s more a collection of uncommon Lego pieces
1:12 does it come with a Lego frog. Very much frog
Lipsticks are also droideka's "eyes"
Yeah
6:10 The Beach Camper Van 3-in-1 Creator set from 2023 uses the "levers-as-windshield-wipers" trick.
Another really cool building technique that I found was in the 2004 At-At set. It uses minifigure wrench pieces to attach the guns on the head of the walker.
6:11 the 76240 Tumbler has really nice wipers in my opinion
The new Mercedes AMGGT speed champions has levers for windshield wipers.
The headlight assembly in Ecto 1 was on another level. The wine goblets to hold the parabolas! WUH?!? Mike Psiaki is truly a rockstar of Lego design
The Lego Creator set 4993 "Cool Convertible" has no physical windscreen but uses black katanas as windscreen wipers and I'm pretty sure I've seen it on other sets as well. 6:12
Worked really well imo but I preferred to use them on my minifigs right after 😅
They have carnivorous plants?? 😮 I love them!
Cool 😎 👍👌
6:13 Mrs. Castillo's Turtle Van also has the same windscreen wipers
6:56 i dont know witch one but i think its a königsegg that uses to transparent axes as lights
In the 1980s and early 90s Lego used antenna pieces as windscreen wipers in Model Team theme vehicles at larger scale (for instance Highway Rig from 1986).
I had a blue hotrod model team set that i'm pretty sure that.
The modular building police station set uses grey variants of the minecraft wolf head piece for the roof design
Regarding the windshield wipers, I know 4993 Cool Convertible from 2008 (one of my favorite sets as a kid) had some made from black katanas. That said, they're kinda stuck in place, so they're not going to move like the ones in the video, if that's your qualifier.
The Himeji castle set (21060) has a couple of roller skate pieces. Above archways and entrances.
The Trafalgar Square set (21045) uses a similar technique regarding the stairs like in the pyramid of Giza, but those one turn at right angles!
I've seen a couple of sets recently creatively using minifigure heads. Could this be an idea for a later video, maybe?
In set 21006 the White House uses a transparent minifigure head as a lantern on the Northern side of the building.
And in the Star Wars Death Star Trench Run Diorama (75329) a grey minifigure head is used as a piece of greebles on the surface of the trench. I wonder where else minifigure heads have been used in unconventional ways.
The transparent head as a lantern is actually so common in LEGO sets, especially in the Modular Buildings, that it's POOP at this point.
6:10 the set "Lego Adventurers Desert #5958 Mummy's Tomb (1998)" had printed windshield wipers
I think the Architecture line has some pretty cool piece usage, my example would be the Las Vegas Skyline set where clear blue rod pieces are being used as water fountains in front of the Bellagio Hotel, giving the illusion of water shooting up like fountain shows at the real hotel. Another example is the use of rear facing headlight bricks for windows on the Capitol Building set.
The lipstick piece has also been used for the “eyes” on the 2023 droideka, they look very nice because they actually use the bit of color that comes out of the bottom
Congrats on your very smoothly written script. I like your transitions between topics a lot!
I have the tiny plants sets recomend it!
6:15 you can also find wipers in Lego set 76924 on Mercedes-AMG G 63
I have that Fab 5 set and I did think it was strange that the torsos had hands despite what it showed in the pictures, but of course if I wanted to take them off I would (I dont because I know Ill lose them)
I think the WindshieldWipers where common in the 90's? I remember using it in all of my car designs when i was a kid.
For 6:10 both the Audi S1 Quattro e-tron and the Mercedes AMG G-Class from Speedchampions use the same style of wipers, one center one for the e-tron and 2 for the G-Class
I'm not sure how I got here, but I'm absolutely stuned at how happy I am to be here 😂
*chef kiss* I cannot get enough of seeing the creativity!!
6:09 Lego Model Team kit 5590 "Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck" has the same windshield wipers. You just didn't look at old enough kits. I recieved the kit as a 12yo in. ~1990 and just last week built the kit with my 4yo daughter. It's a good'er.
The rearview mirrors on the new speed champions Ferrari F40 are red spoons, I would recommend you dig into more of the speed champion sets because they have a lot of cool weird things they have been doing lately.
Lego Jaws set uses gold sausages on the bow
@spitbrix the lipsticks are also used in the Star Wars droideka.
And my som build the 3 in 1 camper van (31138) today and made the same windscreen wimpers.
And in your last vid you mentioned the wild cat that jumps out by pushing a rod. This was also done in the City mountain police station 60174
I love the use of MC wolf heads in the Creator Expert Police Station :D
Awesome video SpitrBix!
i could watch your videos all day man
“What are these methods?”
“The methods of the Master builders”
“So they’re forbidden?”
“Nothing in LEGO is forbidden, only the ways one would build.”
9:08 my goodness my siblings had the beast parts of that set and I’ve always wondered what the actual build looked like!
The model team "Blue Fury" set had windshield wipers as part of the design also.
I have the 3 in 1 beach camper van and the Camper has the lever style windshield wipers- the levers are manufactured in all grey and look really nice!
I seem to remember a basic Lego set from back when I was a kid, where it had a car with opening doors, a sunroof, and a pair of levers for windshield wipers. It's possible I added the levers myself, since I can't find an exact model number, but it was similar to 6634 in its general design.
The intro being “Lego Wii” is 800iq ifykyk
Lever wipers were already present in 1994 in set 5591 Mach II Red Bird Rig
And almost all other models from Model Team.
Can't wait for the 1000 IQ Sets
I actually had the Ice Dragon attack set back then but it was played with so much that I know for a fact that some of the heilcopter blade pieces had broken.
6:15
The recent speed champions Mercedes duo set. The black car has wipers.
Glizzy in set=800 IQ
In the Model Team days all these vehicles had wiper blades. Even some (older?) creator sets have these.
4:57 i have that
I think two of my favorite reused pieces are
1. In the Horizon Zero Dawn Tallneck set, for the fins along the neck, they use Uruk-hai scimitars from the LotR Helm's Deep Lego set.
2. In the Natural History Museum set, they use Indiana Jones' coiled whip as an Ammonite fossil
Regarding windshield wipers:
The big truck from the Fairground Mixer (10244, greatest set of all time) also has them!
The Lego Yellow Submarine set also uses 4 sausage pieces to make up the hand rail on the top of the sub
Years ago there was a Creator car with katanas for windshield wipers. I can't remember which one it was though
6:12 the joker's notorious lowrider from the lego batman movie has those types of windshield wipers
6:04 The same style of windshield wipers are also in the set 76924 on the car Mercedes G63
I think the reason Lego shows the torso with the hands on is because they have a standard scheme of instructions that they use for every set, only changing colours... Notice the pieces are always shown in the same angle
6:03 the dreamzz turtle food truck has those windshield wipers
6:10 The Mercedes G Wagon from the Speed Champions line
The last set is a welcome edition to my hands collection!
9:04 damn I had that Dinosaur in my Lego collection, didnt knew it was so old
good job spitbrix
The Nano Gauntlet also uses the roller skates and gold purses to hold the Infiniti stones on.
The mosasaurus was one of my first lego sets ever and I remember my cousin showing me a lego gator and how excited I got realizing I had a gator head upside down as a tongue lol
There is a 3-in-1 Creator set, where one of the builds is a camper and the other is a van, the van has little levers for windshield wipers also.
I have been using those levers as wipers for my Lego cars for as long as I can remember 😂.
You can actally find the levers/winshield wipers in the Mrs Castillos turtle van too.
Windshield wipers didn’t help the those Jurassic Park cars.
Lego dreamz turtle van used the levers too
Happy bonkle day btw
What about the pink piece in one of the mandolorian sets? The way they keep it in it very innovative
Another vehicle with windshield wipers was the Lego Agents 8969 4-Wheeling Pursuit. The agents truck has them.
I remember several City sets from back in the old days (early nineties) that used antenna as wipers. Usually didn’t move though, you had to pretend they rotated on their stud.
Pretty sure the tv van I had used that on its front.
I used to have (still have but i love remaking my lego sets so they are now not same but) that helicopter set when i was child. 07:32