The error from 7:37 is also found in the 10274 Ghostbusters Ecto-1. Every common printed console piece has had their design updated, but the instructions still showed the old designs. Edit: I noticed the product page on Lego's website has images that feature the old designs, but the copy that I own has the new designs, like the gauges in the City boat. If I look at the part list for this set on Bricklink it has the new designs in the "Alternate Items" section.
I don't know if you've covered this, but the Infinity War 76104 Hulkbuster has you build the same arm twice. But they have you add the sticker on 2 slopes BEFORE you build 2, making it so that you have to swap some pieces. I didn't do a very good job explaining it, but you can go check it out. (It's on pages 71-73)
7:55 "If I had a nickle for every time I got the wrong printed tile in a single LEGO set, I'd have two nickles, which doesn't seem like a lot but it's weird that it happened twice."
The lego customer support is really good. I had the fast and furious charger from speed champions, with white stickers instead of transparent ones, so they sent me a sheet with new stickers. Thanks for that suggestion
Another very weird instruction error, is in set 7962 Anakin & Sebulba's Podracers, every time black pieces show up in the instructions, the directions are dark grey. It gets very confusing, because there are tons of black, dark grey and light grey pieces
6:30 something pulled the magenta out of that section, to print pure red you mix Magenta and Yellow. You can see the light blue get a hint lighter above that yellow, too. For sure the same problem there
The only building mistake I remember getting, was a single piece missing from the front of the Chewbacca Millennium Falcon micro fighter set. Luckily I already have a decent collection of other pieces. So I was easily able to put in the missing piece.
6:27 When printing four inks are used: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Red color is made from mixing magenta and yellow. It seems that the magenta was wiped off by some spill before setting there.
The slipping bricks errors are simply an attachment bug. The brick hasn't been locked with others and during posing all bricks move to their corresponding attachments, except the ones who fail to snap to the others. And because unrendered projects often use dull shadowless color, in a huge cluster is a challenge to notice these things.
5:00 The printing for the little parts list was shifted way off into the previous page it was supposed to be on in that helmet instructions, which was meant to be printed for the page that the four 1x2 round plates are placed.
I’ve noticed that the rendering of the film coming out of the new 100 anniversary film camera seems off. In some of the renderings, the film roll is just floating in front of the camera, but in others, it looks like it’s coming out of the back of the camera, like it’s supposed to be.
0:25 I noticed that in my instructions aswell, i had watched one of these the same day i built it. It was part of a multiset pack for $40 on clearance, it was about $90-a bit over $100 worth of sets
on 6:15 if you look closely, it seems like something was spilled on the page. Might legitimately be a manufacturing error, but that sort of problem typically happens in the home EDIT: yeah I should've watched until the end of that clip, but I was right EDIT BUT A SECOND TIME: 10:55 I have that set and didn't realize there had been a sticker error. I thought mine was fine but I'm definitely gonna check that, thanks for the heads up lol
at 6:15 it was just a printing error, before printing the magenta either something dripped onto the paper on its way through the press or something dripped onto the printing blanket
"Luke Skywalker's lightsaber" As a Star Wars fan, that hurts, because that is Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber, not Lukes... At least it doesn't call it Rey's lightsaber, because THAT would make me livid!
8:04 couldn't have been because i bought this set October 2023 and i got the normal pieces, but i dont know since its a second hand set i found somewhere.
Set 363-2 (antique car) also has plates inserting into the bricks. I think that was common in the early days. This set was the first Lego set I ever received.
In the Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts collector set with mini-minifigures, I had noticed one or two minor steps were left out in like book 3. It is a 1x2 grey slop and one of those 1x2 plates with the grip for holding one of the trees.
I recall seeing the 'skipped instruction number' a couple of times while doing sets as a kid. No clue which ones, but that's definitely an old issue that keep reoccurring.
06:50 The colors and shape of the super robot make it look exceedingly similar, but not 100% identical, to GaoGaiGar. They probably used GaoGaiGar as the main inspiration for the design, but altered the colors in some places, and may have drawn inspiration from other robots as well.
I just recently found a mistake in a parts list for the technic monster jam dragon set, the list says there's only 2 shocks but clearly there's 4 used in the build
That Rainbow piece in the thumbnail would actually make starwars sets worth the price they have since Lego already likes to make a Disney princess castle inside of these ships ;)
3:16 this illegal building technique is used in the new Lego Concorde set on step 487. Spotted it while building it. P.S. it’s a great set absolutely loved building it.
That's not an illegal technique, because when it is executed with a tile it is a legal connection. It is only plates that are wrongly used in that way because they are ever so slightly thicker than tiles
@@EchelonNine A tile has the exact same thickness as a plate. The illegal technique comes when you put the stud of the vertical plate aligned with the studs of the horizontal plate, because that causes the extra stress. If you interleave the vertical and horizontal studs, as on this police car, then no extra stress occurs as the vertical stud can fit in between the horizontal ones and the vertical plate touches the horizontal one.
On the Lego Titanic it makes you put a smooth one by one in between a Lego piece which is illegal build make a video on it please I found this out last month
I was building lego friends 41424 with my daughter and we found a mistake there. The error is in the printed instructions but also on the Lego website. It is the 2nd instruction and number 66. It is a sticker that is stuck in the opposite direction in the manual, but it is stuck correctly on the box. I didn't believe it could happen.
there's an error in the Luke Skywalker's lightsaber set shown in the video but not said, its a colour issue where you are instructed to use blue technick pieces when you are supposed to use gray
I've got one I just found in Lego set 4441 "Police Dog Van". In the promotional images, the lights on top of the driver's roof are flush against the tiles that run along the sides behind them, but in the instruction book and the set itself, the lights assembly is offset one stud forward, adding an extra 2x4 plate not seen in the promotional images or the box art.
6:30 I've seen similar stains multiple times, and always thought it's either caused by myself or just a one-off mistake that just happened to be on the exact instruction book I got.
Lego doesn't seem to have realized that putting a plate between two studs stresses the pieces until fairly recently, as there were a lot of sets of around the same vintage as that police car that did that. I know I have a set from the Eighties that did that in one of the back-of-the-box alt builds.
The 420 Police Car's light on the roof is not a mistake: it was not considered an "illegal" technique at the time. It was later learned that this stresses the bricks, so it's not done anymore, but it was completely intentional. I have that set, and the same car as part of set 560 Heliport.
with the hollow 1x2 on starlords helmet there is a little 4x bellow it indicating it wasn't supposed to be an accidental placed brick but instead a brick from the required bricks for this step area
Looking at the photos of the two-tone brick instruction page, I can see the faint outline of a water stain on the light blue background, which lines up with the edges of the yellow discoloration. If that doesn’t confirm that something dripped onto the page during printing, I don’t know what does.
I wonder if in some instances the Lego company reconciles it would rather duplicate a step than to fix all of the rest of the step number. It might not be a problem they encounter at all, but maybe adding a duplicate step is a way of maintaining the step index when a step has been removed
The new Exotic Peacock set 31157 has you build the bottom most tail feathers identically, yet the final image, the box art, and the instruction cover has them being being mirrors of one another.
The blue plate in set 420 is no mistake. Tiles in that era didn't have a groove anyway, do that wouldn't have solved it. I put a 1x2 trans-dark-blue brick 3065 on instead, looks better and almost fits the era.
You know what would be even more amazing? If instead of sending a new sticker sheet they'd print things like the Lotus lines. It's not even a complicated design and it looks AWFUL with the stickers.
A friend sent me a LEGO-type set (another brand) which does nothing _but_ break the rules if it was actually LEGO. Trying to fit the pieces together can be, tricky.
Hey SpitBrix, Is putting a tile in the grasp of a LEGO piece that can hold onto the pole and illegal technique? Because the most recent UCS Imperial Star Destroyer has this happen for each of its engines.
I haven't noticed that you would have mentioned one mistake in set 70831 (Emmet's house). In the first book on page 44 there is a mistake of the count of yellow 1x2 bricks and even the assembly cutout has wrong amount, but then in the build it has different amount.
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I'm going to buy the illegal building techniques poster for my room 😄
I own that police car set
BREAK THE RULES LOL.
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So freakishly many sets that break the rules
YOOOO
5:01 underneath the mini piece, you can see a vague 4x. I think they accidentally misprinted this step twice, onto the next page.
i noticed that too
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The error from 7:37 is also found in the 10274 Ghostbusters Ecto-1. Every common printed console piece has had their design updated, but the instructions still showed the old designs.
Edit: I noticed the product page on Lego's website has images that feature the old designs, but the copy that I own has the new designs, like the gauges in the City boat. If I look at the part list for this set on Bricklink it has the new designs in the "Alternate Items" section.
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I was about to comment that mine has that as well. This also happened for a piece or two on my Ninjago city gardens set
Mine too😅
1:19 I love the lego movie reference
5:03 if you look closely, you can see a "4x" as well, that was meant for the pieces needed window
Thanks to you, I got 20 more insider points from scanning the barcode on the friends cat grooming car part of the video. 😄
Haha that's awesome.
Same!
What if someone makes a website where everyone shares the barcodes so everyone would get tons of free lego
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Doesn not work that way. The bar codes are one use only
@@orange8productions807hmmmm
I don't know if you've covered this, but the Infinity War 76104 Hulkbuster has you build the same arm twice. But they have you add the sticker on 2 slopes BEFORE you build 2, making it so that you have to swap some pieces. I didn't do a very good job explaining it, but you can go check it out. (It's on pages 71-73)
Breaking the rules and printing errors are two different things.
Andrew 😂 0:13
Andrew 0:12
True they are different
Yes I know he probably covers them because to actually make the vid
7:55
"If I had a nickle for every time I got the wrong printed tile in a single LEGO set, I'd have two nickles, which doesn't seem like a lot but it's weird that it happened twice."
The lego customer support is really good. I had the fast and furious charger from speed champions, with white stickers instead of transparent ones, so they sent me a sheet with new stickers. Thanks for that suggestion
lego customer support is just really good in general. i hope they get paid a lot
At 5:12 in the star lord helmet you can see that it says x4 in the corner so I guess it was a printing problem
Another very weird instruction error, is in set 7962 Anakin & Sebulba's Podracers, every time black pieces show up in the instructions, the directions are dark grey. It gets very confusing, because there are tons of black, dark grey and light grey pieces
True
6:30 something pulled the magenta out of that section, to print pure red you mix Magenta and Yellow. You can see the light blue get a hint lighter above that yellow, too. For sure the same problem there
Can the next one be called HOW MUCH MORE lego sets that break the rules?
You may has very bad grammar
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The only building mistake I remember getting, was a single piece missing from the front of the Chewbacca Millennium Falcon micro fighter set. Luckily I already have a decent collection of other pieces. So I was easily able to put in the missing piece.
6:27 When printing four inks are used: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Red color is made from mixing magenta and yellow. It seems that the magenta was wiped off by some spill before setting there.
The slipping bricks errors are simply an attachment bug. The brick hasn't been locked with others and during posing all bricks move to their corresponding attachments, except the ones who fail to snap to the others. And because unrendered projects often use dull shadowless color, in a huge cluster is a challenge to notice these things.
5:00 The printing for the little parts list was shifted way off into the previous page it was supposed to be on in that helmet instructions, which was meant to be printed for the page that the four 1x2 round plates are placed.
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I’ve noticed that the rendering of the film coming out of the new 100 anniversary film camera seems off. In some of the renderings, the film roll is just floating in front of the camera, but in others, it looks like it’s coming out of the back of the camera, like it’s supposed to be.
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lol true
0:25 I noticed that in my instructions aswell, i had watched one of these the same day i built it. It was part of a multiset pack for $40 on clearance, it was about $90-a bit over $100 worth of sets
So,many,rule breakers!
Joshua is sooo excited that you used his mistake in the video!!!!!
on 6:15 if you look closely, it seems like something was spilled on the page. Might legitimately be a manufacturing error, but that sort of problem typically happens in the home
EDIT: yeah I should've watched until the end of that clip, but I was right
EDIT BUT A SECOND TIME: 10:55 I have that set and didn't realize there had been a sticker error. I thought mine was fine but I'm definitely gonna check that, thanks for the heads up lol
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at 6:15 it was just a printing error, before printing the magenta either something dripped onto the paper on its way through the press or something dripped onto the printing blanket
7:29 UAV stands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. I think you're looking for USV, Unmanned Submersible Vehicle.
Speaking of their QC, I've been building for two decades, and have built hundreds of sets. I've never had a missing piece
i don’t know what age range this content is supposed to target, but i do know i’m just proud to be here
It's all shits and giggles until Lego giggles and shits out an error
0:25 thats crazy, thanks for letting me know i was about to buy it
Oh god, it's terrifying😟
"Luke Skywalker's lightsaber"
As a Star Wars fan, that hurts, because that is Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber, not Lukes...
At least it doesn't call it Rey's lightsaber, because THAT would make me livid!
8:04 couldn't have been because i bought this set October 2023 and i got the normal pieces, but i dont know since its a second hand set i found somewhere.
1:42 I see the second 1x1 brick placed a bit lower and highlighted in yellow. Not a mistake then
Yep i see that
1:18 "i only work in black or very very dark grey" -batman in the original lego movie
3:54 Jay And Nya Just Resting 😂
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Set 363-2 (antique car) also has plates inserting into the bricks. I think that was common in the early days. This set was the first Lego set I ever received.
In the Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts collector set with mini-minifigures, I had noticed one or two minor steps were left out in like book 3. It is a 1x2 grey slop and one of those 1x2 plates with the grip for holding one of the trees.
Glad I'm not the only one to notice instruction mistakes
5:06 if you look very closely you can see it say 4x underneath it so they just placed the thing of what pieces you need at the next step 2 times
I recall seeing the 'skipped instruction number' a couple of times while doing sets as a kid. No clue which ones, but that's definitely an old issue that keep reoccurring.
My little brother has that creator mech. And yes! We also have missing step 29. Cool
Great merch idea
06:50
The colors and shape of the super robot make it look exceedingly similar, but not 100% identical, to GaoGaiGar. They probably used GaoGaiGar as the main inspiration for the design, but altered the colors in some places, and may have drawn inspiration from other robots as well.
I just recently found a mistake in a parts list for the technic monster jam dragon set, the list says there's only 2 shocks but clearly there's 4 used in the build
11:03 I have this won I love it
That Rainbow piece in the thumbnail would actually make starwars sets worth the price they have since Lego already likes to make a Disney princess castle inside of these ships ;)
Ironic that a Lego police car would include an illegal building technique
1:36
Wait! I can see where the 2nd brick goes. It goes underneath right next to the first brick.
3:16 this illegal building technique is used in the new Lego Concorde set on step 487. Spotted it while building it. P.S. it’s a great set absolutely loved building it.
That's not an illegal technique, because when it is executed with a tile it is a legal connection. It is only plates that are wrongly used in that way because they are ever so slightly thicker than tiles
The only issue I had with the Concorde is that it’s not very stable. The wings are only one brick thick, which makes them quite weak.
@@EchelonNine A tile has the exact same thickness as a plate. The illegal technique comes when you put the stud of the vertical plate aligned with the studs of the horizontal plate, because that causes the extra stress. If you interleave the vertical and horizontal studs, as on this police car, then no extra stress occurs as the vertical stud can fit in between the horizontal ones and the vertical plate touches the horizontal one.
"no one is perfect" and yet if you make one mistake everyone judges you
3:06 (3, 3) That isn't illagl tf? thats just a cone on the bottom of the 2x1 lego does that all the time
On the Lego Titanic it makes you put a smooth one by one in between a Lego piece which is illegal build make a video on it please I found this out last month
1:21 nice Lego movie reference
This whole video can be summarized in: "Oh, i hope somebody got fired for that blunder!"
For the first one in the batcave set, you can see the outline of the second 1x1 piece in front of it on the piece below.
6:05 randomly hearing my user in a video sounds so weird.
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2:47 That was my first ever Lego Set I put together, I was 5! It's about 14 Years
I was building lego friends 41424 with my daughter and we found a mistake there. The error is in the printed instructions but also on the Lego website. It is the 2nd instruction and number 66. It is a sticker that is stuck in the opposite direction in the manual, but it is stuck correctly on the box. I didn't believe it could happen.
That Lego Movie quote was top tier at the beginning. 😘🤌
1:21
Batman: I only work in black. And sometimes, very very dark grey. (sorry, just had to quote The Lego Movie)
there's an error in the Luke Skywalker's lightsaber set shown in the video but not said, its a colour issue where you are instructed to use blue technick pieces when you are supposed to use gray
Every Speed Champions set has a unique illegal setup.
I've got one I just found in Lego set 4441 "Police Dog Van". In the promotional images, the lights on top of the driver's roof are flush against the tiles that run along the sides behind them, but in the instruction book and the set itself, the lights assembly is offset one stud forward, adding an extra 2x4 plate not seen in the promotional images or the box art.
42149 Alt model.
Step 1. Two pegs are being placed.
But in step 3, they are gone.
Step 5, they are being placed again for the subassembly.
6:30 I've seen similar stains multiple times, and always thought it's either caused by myself or just a one-off mistake that just happened to be on the exact instruction book I got.
Wait, there's a new hulkbuster?
Lego doesn't seem to have realized that putting a plate between two studs stresses the pieces until fairly recently, as there were a lot of sets of around the same vintage as that police car that did that. I know I have a set from the Eighties that did that in one of the back-of-the-box alt builds.
The 420 Police Car's light on the roof is not a mistake: it was not considered an "illegal" technique at the time. It was later learned that this stresses the bricks, so it's not done anymore, but it was completely intentional. I have that set, and the same car as part of set 560 Heliport.
the fact that it's number is 420 is just beautiful
with the hollow 1x2 on starlords helmet there is a little 4x bellow it indicating it wasn't supposed to be an accidental placed brick but instead a brick from the required bricks for this step area
Looking at the photos of the two-tone brick instruction page, I can see the faint outline of a water stain on the light blue background, which lines up with the edges of the yellow discoloration. If that doesn’t confirm that something dripped onto the page during printing, I don’t know what does.
I have the Lotus Evija Lego set, and it has the sticker mistake, which is pretty cool!
I wonder if in some instances the Lego company reconciles it would rather duplicate a step than to fix all of the rest of the step number. It might not be a problem they encounter at all, but maybe adding a duplicate step is a way of maintaining the step index when a step has been removed
0:53
Bazooka?
1:11
Rocket launcher?
The new Exotic Peacock set 31157 has you build the bottom most tail feathers identically, yet the final image, the box art, and the instruction cover has them being being mirrors of one another.
1:18 lego movie quote
Can someone please tell me what background music was used in this video?
The blue plate in set 420 is no mistake. Tiles in that era didn't have a groove anyway, do that wouldn't have solved it.
I put a 1x2 trans-dark-blue brick 3065 on instead, looks better and almost fits the era.
I actually had the hulkbuster set and when I saw it I was like what the hell
5:09 If you look REALLY REALLY closely you can see a x4 there, so probably designers got exited again
You know what would be even more amazing? If instead of sending a new sticker sheet they'd print things like the Lotus lines. It's not even a complicated design and it looks AWFUL with the stickers.
A friend sent me a LEGO-type set (another brand) which does nothing _but_ break the rules if it was actually LEGO. Trying to fit the pieces together can be, tricky.
I can't tell if I build to fast or of I have ligetametly found some in my life
8:30 THATS ANAKINS LIGHTSABER UGGHH lol
Lego themselves called it Luke Skywalker's lightsaber
0:55 looks like they moved the weapon in whatever app they use to make the instructions, but the sticker stayed in place
Hey SpitBrix,
Is putting a tile in the grasp of a LEGO piece that can hold onto the pole and illegal technique? Because the most recent UCS Imperial Star Destroyer has this happen for each of its engines.
The Minecraft abandoned village set has a mistake where the roof appears th e very last step BEFORE you make the roof
1:15 Did no one else notice the missing brink on the left front of Batmobile on the box art?
I haven't noticed that you would have mentioned one mistake in set 70831 (Emmet's house). In the first book on page 44 there is a mistake of the count of yellow 1x2 bricks and even the assembly cutout has wrong amount, but then in the build it has different amount.
Great submissions, Lego still needs to have more time taken for these instruction sheets.
“Black and very very dark grey” hey, I get that reference 😊
1:42 look closely
Update for the starlord helmet. I just got it for christmas (2023) and at least didn't notice it.
7:00 I went to my Lego super robot instructions and I found the exact same error!
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0:45 The cannon can shoot projectiles that break stuff.