it usually comes in sets that have higher brick counts, although that's not a hard rule. for example, i believe there was one in the ideas ecto-1 and the speed champions ferrari race garage, but not in any of the other speed champions sets ive bought, nor the technic grave digger set
When I was a kid we didn't have brick separators in our legos so we had to use our nails and teeth. There were so many bite marks on those old bricks from us kids
I think they chose bright orange as the first separator color because it makes you think of construction(bright orange cones, orange vests) and they wanted kids to feel cool when using them. The other colors are super pretty though, so I'm glad we have such a variety :)
they should make it the opposite colour to the main colour of the set. for example space vehicles set would have grey or blue separators and submarines have purple removers. also just shove a bunch of glitter in it so it's shiny
In my experience, the brand of filament I use in my 3D printer has an orange ABS with phenomenal strength and machinability. Lego orange might have the best mechanical properties as well, though I haven’t tested this.
A subtle but important change appeared on the underside. The new version has three indentations instead of two (sorry, I haven’t adopted the “anti-stud” terminology yet). This allows for easy removal of jumper plates with the half stud offset. Now we just need another version that will work on 2x2 jumper plates! While we’re at it, how about a single stud wide separator for even more confined space?
I have a dark teal colors separator (I think I got it from an Ideas Guitar set or some dinosaur set) and its actually a really nice color. I wish you could choose separator colors.
I have to admit, some of the not-LEGO brick separators are really inventive. (I know, I know. Controversial to some.) One, and I can remember which, has there's green, with leg and claw modling on the sides and eye and teeth modling on the front. It's an alligator! They fully intend for kids to play with it, too! I love that.
Some people say that it's useless probably because they always use their bear hands to unpeg pieces and all of that stuff but it's actually useful because you will never hurt your hands anymore if you had more than one of these Lego separator
The megabloks one in my opinion is better because it includes a straight pin pusher as well as the other one. BUT it sacrifices the upside down part separator
I donated like 6 separators to our school to use when disassembling stuff made out of Lego Technic, mainly for Mindstorms robots. I had just too many of them lol
I have at least 50 orange separators and when I was looking through my BOX FULL OF THEM, I found a single little turquoise one at the bottom of the box I was like: why are you blue? You are supposed to be orange XD
I still have one of the original green brick separators from the 90s. Honestly don’t know how I got it since I wasn’t even alive then nor did any of my parents start collecting legos till I was five. I think I remember a friend of my parents had a bunch of leftover legos from their kids who graduated and so decided to pass it down to our family, which makes since on why I ended with these obscure retro bricks and the original green separator. Idk
i remember my kindergarden had several red seperators. those were considered nesecary for us to be allowed to play with legos. early 2000s i think, maybe '03 or '04
After over 7 years I had with legos, I figured out what a brick separator was. I SUFFERED, MY THEET AND NAILS SUFFERED. All whilst I could have used this when I was younger.
I haven’t gotten a single turquoise separator ever. I haven’t bought that many sets as I used to but I’ve bought enough sets since 2019 to think it’s weird that I haven’t seen one once.
I was just thinking how I got a turquoise-y colour brick separator in a set I’ve been building recently and I’ve just realised it’s because the set is the Guardian’s Ship which is bright orange.
I just realised that if lego started producting rare pieces lime the red old brick separator and sell them individuqly for their normal price they would make a lot of money
Instead of nails and teeth, you can use a knife and a pen. It will damage the bricks a bit, but the important part is that it won't damage your nails and teeth.
In the UK, its allegedly illegal to have them in public, as an English person I wouldn't know, but apparently there considered knives and are illegal 😅
My highest rated Reddit post was to do with brick separators and how we old school Lego users have chips in our teeth and scars from Lego… good times before the separators
What's the most obscure brick separator color you have and where did you get it?
Turquoise
I have a couple of the older and thicker grey brick separators.
Transparent blue
A dark teal from a couple of Avengers sets. Not exactly turquoise.
I have red one. Idk now i got it
And I'm over here trying to figure out where I got a black, yellow, and dark purple separator from.
Probably from the mosaic sets?
amazing
Pikmin moment
I have a teal one
@@AIRWIK44 same i got it from a creator mustang set
I remember getting one of these in a set for the first time and spending a solid hour trying to figure out where it was supposed to go.
Same😅
SO TRUE 😭
LOL
SAME OH MY GOD.
I thought it was a mini slide 🛝 to add into the set
I didn't know that was a brick separator in all my 19 years of life
Hahaha I didn't know it in my whole 17 year life. Sadly
I didn't know it until i randomly discovered one in my lego boxes. Idk how it got there, and how long it was there for.
It saved me basically my life
I'm 29 and didn't know
it usually comes in sets that have higher brick counts, although that's not a hard rule. for example, i believe there was one in the ideas ecto-1 and the speed champions ferrari race garage, but not in any of the other speed champions sets ive bought, nor the technic grave digger set
When I was a kid we didn't have brick separators in our legos so we had to use our nails and teeth. There were so many bite marks on those old bricks from us kids
Oh no.. Are your teeth healthy and strong?
@@TheBrickAdventure I hope so
Did you just say "legos" 💀
@@KurtisHere_91 yes she did
ok boomer
Imagine if they used brown separators knowing how fragile brown pieces are 😳
explodes on impact, very effective one time.
Eh, they USED to be fragile. Now not so much
Those are the expendable one time use versions
@@CrowAkechi_The_Luminary free trials
@@nise6699 yes
"Shut the fuck up timmy just gimme the damn thing"
😆
Lmao
He's swearing
@@meepsonic and?
It's ok,humans do that
I lost my first tooth to a LEGO 😂
based
@@TheBrickAdventure what does based mean
@@morrishuijgen7658 based
@@morrishuijgen7658 based
@@morrishuijgen7658 nobody actually knows.
I didn’t even know that official brick separators existed 💀
Me who still uses my teeth
are you 4-99 years old?
Same
@@adfdfsadfasf8586 no im 2
me ngl it was useful
@@adfdfsadfasf8586 I'm 99 and 1 second.... Don't call the police :(
I lost a bracket to the infamous "two flat plates stuck together"
I remember having a clear brick separator from one of my lego sets...
💀
POV: you used to throw your bricks on the ground so they separate couldn’t be me🤣🤣🤣
genius
I did that too 💀
I have a few orange, but then I have this really nice light blue teal one. Got it from a ninjago set I think, very nice
I got one from the Globe Earth set.
Dude ngl until I saw this short I've never known what the hell these were, so many years of hurting my hands and fingers for nothing
I think they chose bright orange as the first separator color because it makes you think of construction(bright orange cones, orange vests) and they wanted kids to feel cool when using them. The other colors are super pretty though, so I'm glad we have such a variety :)
People trying to separate the two 2x2 flat bricks need this
Nail, teeth, finger and knife be like:
Are you still gonna use us
Me: for aure for sure
hahahahah based
Yep thats me too
Seems like a godsend when you decided putting two thin bricks together was a good idea as a kid lol
Hahahahah so true
I have a few blue ones and a heck of a lot of orange ones.
They generally work alright, it’s better than using your nails.
THATS WHAT THAT IS!! I always didn't know what it was and still just used nails
how did you not know this?
There's pictures of what it is and how to use it on the first pages of the contruction manual.
@@ziongarner4485 my brother never let me build any sets. so i just thought it was a piece of the building
Those are nice and interesting information about this unique piece, it's also a tool.
they should make it the opposite colour to the main colour of the set. for example space vehicles set would have grey or blue separators and submarines have purple removers. also just shove a bunch of glitter in it so it's shiny
Ther is one brick separater that i have in cyan
I only watch it cause I’m bored and sometimes TH-cam doesn’t have anything good at the moment😭
Oh no.. boredom is good for you though, it stimulates your brain.
In my experience, the brand of filament I use in my 3D printer has an orange ABS with phenomenal strength and machinability. Lego orange might have the best mechanical properties as well, though I haven’t tested this.
I learned about brick separators waaaay too late. They’re like the best tool put on this earth
A subtle but important change appeared on the underside. The new version has three indentations instead of two (sorry, I haven’t adopted the “anti-stud” terminology yet). This allows for easy removal of jumper plates with the half stud offset. Now we just need another version that will work on 2x2 jumper plates! While we’re at it, how about a single stud wide separator for even more confined space?
I have a dark teal colors separator (I think I got it from an Ideas Guitar set or some dinosaur set) and its actually a really nice color. I wish you could choose separator colors.
a brick seperator? PERRY THE BRICK SEPERATOR!
I have to admit, some of the not-LEGO brick separators are really inventive. (I know, I know. Controversial to some.)
One, and I can remember which, has there's green, with leg and claw modling on the sides and eye and teeth modling on the front. It's an alligator! They fully intend for kids to play with it, too! I love that.
They also work really well as a beach chair
Don’t forget the massive separators in the LEGO art sets!
I dont know why but that sound at like 0:03 is so funny to me
the old green separator I have always looked like a slug to me
Wait, these are brick separators? Damn, I wish my 10 years old self knew that. Separating bricks with screwdrivers and knives was hard back then!
Wow ur right, such a wide variety
I never had a brick seperator in any of my old sets as a kid. I never even knew they existed until like 2 years ago
Makes sense they chose those 3 colours , as someone who used to kwn lego ( i got rid of them today) my smallest collections were those colours
Some people say that it's useless probably because they always use their bear hands to unpeg pieces and all of that stuff but it's actually useful because you will never hurt your hands anymore if you had more than one of these Lego separator
You're absolutely right! It protects your hands, fingernails, teeth, and your bricks will remain in pristine condition.
I used to think that the brick separators were some type of vehicle exclusive to all Lego sets
Brick seperators 😻🙏 absolutely amazing creation
Of all the Lego sets I had as a younger kid I had never even heard of one of these things until like 2 years ago
I remember thinking the separater "tutorial* thing was part of the set and couldn't find the pieces they used
That's pretty cool I have both the old Grey and red separators and never knew the reds were rare
The megabloks one in my opinion is better because it includes a straight pin pusher as well as the other one. BUT it sacrifices the upside down part separator
they are the best tool I can easily find for any separating job
The thing with the train is, I'm pretty sure I got my first separator, which was orange, with a set of a tow truck that was the same coloured orange
I donated like 6 separators to our school to use when disassembling stuff made out of Lego Technic, mainly for Mindstorms robots. I had just too many of them lol
As someone who owns the horizon express Lego set, I vividly remember getting a green brick Separator.
I laughed seeing one as the tool DJ uses in Skywalker Saga
Love the new teal separator!
The sharp edges of lego bricks have cut under my nails atleast 26 times my whole life
i figured it would be that orange is the strongest color, such as brown tends to be the weakest
I have at least 50 orange separators and when I was looking through my BOX FULL OF THEM, I found a single little turquoise one at the bottom of the box I was like: why are you blue? You are supposed to be orange XD
I still have one of the original green brick separators from the 90s. Honestly don’t know how I got it since I wasn’t even alive then nor did any of my parents start collecting legos till I was five. I think I remember a friend of my parents had a bunch of leftover legos from their kids who graduated and so decided to pass it down to our family, which makes since on why I ended with these obscure retro bricks and the original green separator. Idk
i remember my kindergarden had several red seperators. those were considered nesecary for us to be allowed to play with legos. early 2000s i think, maybe '03 or '04
Shows my age that I remember a time before they were redesigned and made orange.
I love the cyan one from the hidden side sets
Me with a lot of red separators:
I have 2 crocodile ones
I had one of the early gray ones when I was a kid, back when it was a special item that had to be ordered from a catalog
I only remember dark grey separators, I guess in my childhood 30 years ago they didn’t produce them in other colors?
After over 7 years I had with legos, I figured out what a brick separator was. I SUFFERED, MY THEET AND NAILS SUFFERED. All whilst I could have used this when I was younger.
I would have loved one of these when I was younger
If lego ever makes separater blind bags that would come in a variety of colors I would buy a couple
You forgot to mention that with some of the newer separators something about the pigment used for the plastic makes them extremely brittle.
I have the OG grey one before the little thin poker was added. It's a champ 🏆
Back in my day, I had the gray ones
This is definitely something I needed to know
A Brick separator turned upside down become great scooper for your ground flower and pipe
So that’s why I have that random green separator. Makes sense.
Huh, I guess that explains why the orange separators werent discontinued when the teal ones came out
I think that in the world of lego the brick separator would be considered as a feared weapon of mass destruction
I do have one of the old green ones, and one of the turquoise ones, a bit surprised about the red one.
When I learned of what it was, I kept using the wrong side and used it like a crowbar thinking “this this is shite”
Hahahah nice!
I remember separating a lot of 2x1 and 2x2 flat bricks with my teeth as a kid. Can’t believe I never broke a tooth that way.
Btw a weird seperator I got on a lego set was a Minecraft lego set that had a giraffe seperator it was weird but kinda cool tbh
I remember seeing a dark green one of the old version in my primary school
I haven’t gotten a single turquoise separator ever. I haven’t bought that many sets as I used to but I’ve bought enough sets since 2019 to think it’s weird that I haven’t seen one once.
There’s also a black separator found in the mosaic Lego sets
I was just thinking how I got a turquoise-y colour brick separator in a set I’ve been building recently and I’ve just realised it’s because the set is the Guardian’s Ship which is bright orange.
the turquoise one I have came in a set that was predominantly orange, so that makes sense I guess
I never knew this thing existed until I got my Lego dimensions set because one of those things came with it
WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE. I broke so many nails and almost my tooth insted I culd have used this!
I have a turquoise one, and an old school dark gray one.
I just realised that if lego started producting rare pieces lime the red old brick separator and sell them individuqly for their normal price they would make a lot of money
OMG I rember having those old ones! Ours were a dark green colour😭
For some reason, whenever I'm going through the bin and need a brick separator, one of them is ALWAYS there. I never have to search for one.
Instead of nails and teeth, you can use a knife and a pen. It will damage the bricks a bit, but the important part is that it won't damage your nails and teeth.
a wise man indeed
I have the dark turquoise one. It was in the Bus from hidden side if I remember right
I have an OG gray separator, it looks… interesting. Quite THICC
Your voice is so calming
I got a turquoise one in my ISS Lego set last year! I didn't know they came in other colors so that was fun.
The old separators are so much better in shape and easier to use
Interesting fact: The teal seperater only appeared in few sets from 2019-2020 and some of 2021!
In the UK, its allegedly illegal to have them in public, as an English person I wouldn't know, but apparently there considered knives and are illegal 😅
My highest rated Reddit post was to do with brick separators and how we old school Lego users have chips in our teeth and scars from Lego… good times before the separators
I got a wider black seperator from my lego "the sith" art set
Oh man, I had one of the original red ones as a kid.