The notion that someone would have enough lego to worry about wearing out their brick separator, and somehow miraculously would not have five hundred more lying around somewhere, is astonishing to me.
I was absolutely gobsmacked when I started buying new Lego sets a few years ago that inside was a brick separator. The amount of times as a child I had cut the skin around my fingernails or almost swallowed some Lego trying to separate the bricks was unreal 🤣
Brick separators weren’t in sets when I was a kid. Plus I didn’t have any of the super large sets. Now as adult and back into the hobby, I have so many of these laying around the house. I use them to open those pop top cans or anything else I need to get under with my nails. I had collected 57 at one point. Ended up donation 20 of them to my daughter’s elementary school Lego club. They only had 2 for the kids to share.
Actually, there is a way to do so, but the plates have to be at least 2 studs wide. Use a separator and attach a single stud/hole to only one of the the plate's stud/hole. Get another separator, repeat the same process, but make sure they are right next to each other and don't overlap each other and have them face in the same direction. Once you do that, "crush" them together with your hand, and it should separate the plates.
One way to deal with the double 2 x 2 plate problem with the modern separator, is to put the bottom separator on only one stud, and the top separator on the other stud. That way you have enough room to pinch them together and have both plates come apart.
I wouldnt say that Lego lied about how to use the separator, they probably engineered it so it was easier for kids, but you have without a doubt found some better ways to use the same tool
But it's clearly easier to use it when you flip it around the "wrong" way. The title is still clickbait though because I don't think Lego is "lying," I think it's simply a design oversight.
Same. I've never come across a Lego separator before. I remember when I was little I got super frustrated with pieces stuck together. Nice to know this exists 😭
I think part of the reason they tell you to use the end right side up is to stop pieces pinging off so much, which makes you more likely to lose pieces. When you did it properly the pieces came off much more controlled and moved maybe 2 or 3 studs away, while upside down they went flying off screen
actually if you checked at the beginning of the time stamp for that, he did it "the right way" and the piece also flew off the screen. So if anything, it would just come down to how much force you're applying to the seperator in the first place.
I don't remember the inclusion of a brick separator when I had LEGO"s, even when my parents purchased them at a store in Malmo in 1985. The two brick separation was a painful experience, my fingernails were all torn up as a child.
I haven't played with legos in like 20 years, but I had some old gray separators. I think my parents bought them for me because of issues I had. It's neat that they come in the kits now.
I think they started including them in the "starter" kits during the 90s (that's when I was big into Legos, and I had a few of the old grey thick ones). Didn't realize that they had different colored ones, or that they slimmed them down at some point.
I really appreciate that you mentioned the old LEGO separator. I have 2 of them and will likely pass one down to my 8 year old niece come this holiday season. Good to know that the old and new work in conjunction.
Actually, I have never gotten a Lego set that has ever had a brick separator included. Only with recent mega blocks sets have I found that contained brick separators. As a kid, I didn’t take nearly as much care of my bricks, and would use my teeth to separate bricks I couldn’t separate with my hands. So there are some bricks that have been warped due to my biting the bricks causing damage to the bricks, and many star wars droid arms I would accidentally break because I didn’t put them on the droid body correctly.
@@chloeb1642 well you now have someone who can back you up there. I chewed up some bricks so bad that they can’t be used on one side anymore. But I had to learn that lesson the hard way.
@@akolyt that explains it. I never really had big sets growing up. Couldn’t afford them or get them as gifts. I’d see them in the catalogs as buyable items, but never ordered bricks or anything like that from Lego.
I didn’t even know a brick separator was a thing until just now. I remember literally breaking my fingernails trying to separate pieces when I was a kid. How long have these things existed? This just blew my mind.
Anybody else remember when Lego first started giving you these in their sets? They didn't tell you what it was for, and everyone was confused what it was.
The original version came out in 1990, and was discontinued in 2011. It came only in the largest of sets, and was made in both dark grey and in green. The updated version came out in 2012, and came in orange, dark turquoise, and green. It came with most medium sets and upwards. The wide version was introduced in 2020, and came only in mosaic sets. I believe the wide version was only made in black.
Wow! This is the first video Ive seen on this channel and Im already impressed your lego setup is insane and I could watch a whole video of you seperating those plate pieces
Ok, this blew my mind. I always had lego separators in my sets when I was a kid but never knew what they were called or what they were used for. The amount of bite marks my flat pieces had because I couldn’t get them off each other… one of my greatest childhood mysteries solved.
I would guess that they recommend using the separator right side up because the rails act as the fulcrum against the base plate. Using it upside down will make the studs on the base plate the fulcrum instead, which could damage the studs.
I was going to leave a comment about how the leverage is different based off the orientation, and I saw this comment expressing exactly what I wanted to say. It's definitely about making sure that the studs aren't put under stress, as they aren't designed to (as exemplified by their justifications for making "illegal" building illegal).
Well either way the studs will be put under near equivalent amounts of stress because no matter what the all of the resistance the will be going into the board either way. But if you use it upside down, you can use it like a wedge instead of a first-class lever to reduce stress on the studs
@@DarktideVtuber It's important to note that the reason for not applying pressure to the studs is not because of net force but because of structure. Applying downward force on the plate itself is safe because the plate is built to withstand it and the studs' connection to the plate is never being tested, whereas the upside down tool applies force at an angle to the stud, stressing the connection between stud and plate. In addition, that angled applied force increases the risk of shearing, especially for sharp 90° angles as seen on studs. Do I think anyone will run into the problem of their studs breaking off due to the upside-down spudger method? Probably never. LEGO likes to play it safe, or at least by the books.
@@jo54763 If they put out a design that specifically did this, there would inevitably be damage and that damage would be Lego's fault. If you use illegal techniques, you know that any damage is your own fault.
When my younger brother and I were growing up and playing with Lego, they didn't have brick separators. When I got a little old for Legos, I stacked all my Legos neatly together, and then gave them to my younger brother, to add to his sets. Before I handed them over I showed our parents how organized they were. I amused myself a few days later by showing our parents that the neatly stacked Legos I had just given my younger brother a few days before, were now in a state of total chaos.😄 Several years ago my older brother was cleaning our very elderly father's garage out, and found a bucket full of Legos from the sets my younger brother and I used to have when we were growing up. My older brother gave the bucket of antique Legos to me. What makes them antique? I'm in my mid sixties. Funny thing is, since then I've used some of them to make useful things for my apartment. I also neatly stacked most of them. Wish I was as good at keeping my apartment organized.😄 Lego, and other toys like them are great for kids whether girls or boys, and yes, you can continue playing with them for your entire life. They are educational without being too teachy. They let you use your imagination, and they give people a chance to try out designing stuff. Legos weren't around when my older brother was at the age to start playing with building games. He had Lincoln Logs and an Erector set. Kids will have fun with whatever brand of building set they have, unless they are addicted to electronic games. One more thing. Building toys aren't gender specific. While more boys are into them than girls, there are plenty of girls who like to design and build stuff with these types of toys, myself included. Yes, I'm female. Growing up, my younger brother and I didn't get along well. Lego was about the only thing we could stand to do together. That's another fun thing about building toys. You can play by yourself or with others. I think Legos were among my favorite toys when I was growing up.🤗
I remember getting a set once and didn’t notice the separator until weeks after opening the set. Didn’t bother looking it up and assumed it was a fancy lookin’ surfboard even though the set had nothing to do with the ocean, now the separator is lost 😔
another really good use for them is if repairing a laptop screen you can use them to remove the edge bezel around the screen to change a damaged or faulty LCD panel, it clips them off without damaging the clips that hold them together. it will not scratch the screen if removing the bezel to repair or replace screen hinges also. i keep one with my tools for doing repairs on laptops. sometimes you need one for laptop cases also when separating them after undoing all the screws.
I got my first lego set in years back in November which was the Mandalorian N1 fighter and I was shocked when I saw the brick separator. I wish the sets I got when I was a kid came with that. It would have saved my teeth some grief.
This video is FANTASTICALLY crafted. You managed to give useful, interesting tips that I haven't seen before and very naturally worked in clips of your builds, which are GORGEOUS. Definitely subscribing; I want to see more 8D
I showed this to my older brother as he is a HUGE lego fan, I think he took some of the tips but he was more talking about your legos sets and how cool and good looking they are 🎉
Thanks mate! I'm "new" to lego hehe, (had a small set in 1972, lol) , started to study it again ordering only a few pieces...and I need a separator! :-)
Only saw one of these a couple years ago. Never new there was an old version. Didn’t have all the cool pieces when I was a kid. All we had was wooden, steam powered legos. And we were grateful 😊 Cool video. I’m envious that you make your living with Lego. 👍😎
After sanding it, it might also be a good idea to swab it with a cotton ball soaked in acetone. I would worry about the sanding marks making it easier to scratch your bricks, and acetone could work to polish it more. But try this on a Lego brick or brick separator that you don't care about as a test dummy first.
@@emilyemily9831 it would definitely melt the lego plastic. I watch a master builder who works for lego on tiktok and he uses acetone to slightly melt the pieces together like a glue.
@@emilyemily9831 that effect is what’s desirable in OP’s comment. By using a small amount of acetone to gently melt the plastic it will polish it without needing to buy finer sandpaper. This same process is used on new 3d printed parts to help smooth out surface finishes for a better looking product. 👍
@@emilyemily9831 Yes, the whole point is to slightly dissolve the plastic! But it can become excessive easily, which is why I suggest only dabbing it on with a cotton ball. Honestly, a light misting would be better. People do this to ABS 3D prints all the time in the 3D printing world. Usually, you put an ABS part in a container with paper towels soaked I'm acetone. The volatility causes it to get everywhere and very gently dissolve the plastic superficially. Maybe a cotton ball is too aggressive compared to vapor.
i dont know how many times ive damaged pieces as a kid by biting on them when trying to separate them. I'm glad to know that that had an actual use, I always thought it looked like a scuba flipper
I’m not sure if this is a recent invention or not, but regardless, this would’ve made my childhood ten times easier. The amount of times I placed a Lego in the wrong spot and could pick it up is unreal. And my nails and hands were struggling as I tried to dig under the block 😆. Glad they are including in sets now though!
@@kami3000 Nah, you could also buy them separately in some stores, or get them from sets like the 1879 bucket, which got released in 1992. Pretty sure I somehow ended up with 2 in the 90s, despite never having ordered anything from Lego directly.
For removing plates, you can use the end of the separator to push in-between the two plates, pops them apart quickly and easily. I've not seen it damage anything to date.
2:16 Why did they change the design of the separator? The old one with an angle between the top and bottom surfaces seems much better design! I guess the newer version is easier to extract from the mold, that is cheaper, but is there any other good reason?
I’ve used both but the old one isn’t as good at separating pieces and can’t do as much since it doesn’t have have that little bit on the top for taking apart technic stuff.
You should make a puzzle video of a random design of tiles on a mat that needs to be speed removed to reveal.. or something like this that is interesting, using that speed tile removing technique. People will love watching that technique in a way that reveals an interesting design etc
Wow. I’m old. There was no brick separator when I was a kid. Maybe they had them in Denmark but I remember seeing one in print somewhere and I got really excited about it. It’s hard to believe they’ve gone through several iterations.
Same here. I remember a few years back my little brother got some legos and it came with one and I thought it was just a useless lego piece meant for decoration 🤣💀✋🏼
Just started using the separator upside down relatively recently (maybe after seeing it in one of your videos, idk). BUT sometimes the axle prevents it from being used this way and the upside up way is necessary. Also, if you only have new separators and need to separate two 2x2 plates, just press at the bottom, near the fulcrum (right behind the axle) and it should work. Thanks for the video!
1:18 looks like the most satisfying way to play with Lego I have ever seen...I might go and stick every flat tile I have to one of my large grey plates just to watch them pop off.
2:25 This trick totally does work with 2. I use this trick all the time! You need to hold the one on the bottom in the opposite direction (The other 2 studs) and then push down on the top brick like a lever. Hopefully this helps!' Edit: This video explains it I bit better than I do: th-cam.com/video/LBWgFCi7NLk/w-d-xo.html
Firstly; you can use two regular brick seporators to take apart the extremely difficult 2x2 or 1x2 plates apart. You need to press the serators together where it connects to the plates, and with your other hand, press the end of the handles together. This will open the plates up, and you can now pull them apart with ease. Secondly; the first time I got a brick separator, it came with a Star Wars set of a First Order TIE Fighter (from 2015), and I initially thought it was the ladder for the minifigures to climb inside the cockpit...
Thanks for sharing, although I knew most of the tricks already. I have not had any issues getting two small plates apart with two orange separators in the past - you also need to squeeze the ends holding the bricks a bit so they don’t pop off the bricks, but not too much to prevent them from prizing the bricks apart. Works for me! 👍🏻 (and besides I don’t have any old separators so that is not an option for me)
I clicked this video bc I honestly had no idea what that piece even was and I was curious; I got one when I purchased an off-brand Lego dice tower (shout out to my TTRPG nerds out there) and it didn’t explain what it was for. I have another dice tower I’m planning on building and knowing this may be super helpful! So long story short, thanks for this 😂
Woah, I've been buying Lego's for the past decade and I never ever once seen a Brick separator? I have been buying the wrong boxes all these years... man this thing would make my life a whole lot easier!
I remember first getting the separator from either the Lego Ninja Turtle Sewer Lair set, or the Lego Creator 3 in one treehouse. I never knew there were different colors and types of the separator though.
its currently almost 1am, this video came up on my feed and i haven't played with lego's in probably a year. i can confirm that this video is incredibly useful and entertaining
Thank you. We never had these when we were kids, so when I first saw one last year (introducing Grandie to Lego) I had no clue how to use it. And I have yet to see any instructions.
To separate bricks like the two squares I put one separator on the left peg and one on the right peg so they are offset and aren’t directly on top of each other.
I just started buying lego sets again after like 20 years and got a boba fett ship, and found one of these in the box. I assumed it was some kinda stand or base for the ship and tried it every possible way before I finally just googled what it was. 🤣 It's certainly a useful and neat little tool in my recent experience. I've built a number of ships and sets since then and I use it often when I forget to add a piece along the way ot want to modify it later on.
I’ve got a few separators lying around, and I came across a truckload of legos, which I have embarked on sorting. Many of them are connected, and I was using a separator to wedge between them. After an hour or so, the edge is full of notches and I feel like I might end up going through all of them before the sorting is complete.😅
The notion that someone would have enough lego to worry about wearing out their brick separator, and somehow miraculously would not have five hundred more lying around somewhere, is astonishing to me.
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The fact they come standard in sets now is insane to me
Gren?
I was absolutely gobsmacked when I started buying new Lego sets a few years ago that inside was a brick separator. The amount of times as a child I had cut the skin around my fingernails or almost swallowed some Lego trying to separate the bricks was unreal 🤣
yup, really did a number on the teeth, huh?
I had a brick separator in my box when I last played with Lego 25 years ago
i did the same
I've never seen one in a box. I bought it to take with me as a nanny rather than using the family's butter knives.
Luckily I have a brittle nails and thus I always separate with other pieces of lego so I never use the lego separator lol
the amount of fingers and fingernails ive broken for those 2 pieces stuck together 2:19
Me too. 1x2 pieces were the worst.
I always used my therth for those lol
Because they're pout lips aka duck lips aka salm lips
Thanks commenter is this where the car seat goes? What about the h chair? 😭
did not expect to see you there car_pal, I'm a big fan of you and you are a huge inspiration for me.
Brick separators weren’t in sets when I was a kid. Plus I didn’t have any of the super large sets. Now as adult and back into the hobby, I have so many of these laying around the house. I use them to open those pop top cans or anything else I need to get under with my nails. I had collected 57 at one point. Ended up donation 20 of them to my daughter’s elementary school Lego club. They only had 2 for the kids to share.
removing two plates is always such a hassle, always need to find another piece to latch onto and achieve enough leverage.
Actually, there is a way to do so, but the plates have to be at least 2 studs wide. Use a separator and attach a single stud/hole to only one of the the plate's stud/hole. Get another separator, repeat the same process, but make sure they are right next to each other and don't overlap each other and have them face in the same direction. Once you do that, "crush" them together with your hand, and it should separate the plates.
Two orange separators work fine for me. Just press them together closer to the end that attaches to the studs.
I just use a sharp knife lul
I just use two old brick separators out of habit. World as well as what he showed here.
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At first I thought it was just another brick separator video, but you managed to share some tricks that I haven't seen before. Very informative!
That's great to hear!
Indeed 🫡
Cool
I thought it was a surf board
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The thing that upsets me most is that literally NONE of the sets I ever bought had this tool.
All of the more expensive sets, like over 80 bucks have them
I think you can buy one seperate.
@@theuglydumpling4772just bought the lego home alone house for $300 and can confirm it does come with a brick separator
Same! 🥺
My local lego store have these at the cashier to take for free
One way to deal with the double 2 x 2 plate problem with the modern separator, is to put the bottom separator on only one stud, and the top separator on the other stud. That way you have enough room to pinch them together and have both plates come apart.
I wouldnt say that Lego lied about how to use the separator, they probably engineered it so it was easier for kids, but you have without a doubt found some better ways to use the same tool
Just trying to get the views with that title.
Click bait bro
facts
But it's clearly easier to use it when you flip it around the "wrong" way. The title is still clickbait though because I don't think Lego is "lying," I think it's simply a design oversight.
Gotta know how to name vids to get views, the Lego community is small and I probably wouldn’t have clicked on it if the title didn’t grab me
I am very confused how this ended up in my recommendations but I'm thankful for this
Yeah I've never watched any Lego vids, so this is out of the blue. Very informative though
Same! It was very enjoying to watch though
same
Same.
I've never come across a Lego separator before. I remember when I was little I got super frustrated with pieces stuck together.
Nice to know this exists 😭
Yeah
1:38 When you get hit in a LEGO 3D game and all your studs fly everywhere.
I think part of the reason they tell you to use the end right side up is to stop pieces pinging off so much, which makes you more likely to lose pieces. When you did it properly the pieces came off much more controlled and moved maybe 2 or 3 studs away, while upside down they went flying off screen
actually if you checked at the beginning of the time stamp for that, he did it "the right way" and the piece also flew off the screen. So if anything, it would just come down to how much force you're applying to the seperator in the first place.
I don't remember the inclusion of a brick separator when I had LEGO"s, even when my parents purchased them at a store in Malmo in 1985. The two brick separation was a painful experience, my fingernails were all torn up as a child.
I had one in one of those 1990s red tubs of bricks, but never in a theme set.
That's because the brick separator was introduced in 2010
I had a grey brick separator in the 90's that didn't have the peg on top. Had to buy it on its own
@@21backwards78 I got a grey separator in the 90s. It was much bigger and had more leverage. But I also had no idea what it was or what it did.
*legos*
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I haven't played with legos in like 20 years, but I had some old gray separators. I think my parents bought them for me because of issues I had. It's neat that they come in the kits now.
I think they started including them in the "starter" kits during the 90s (that's when I was big into Legos, and I had a few of the old grey thick ones). Didn't realize that they had different colored ones, or that they slimmed them down at some point.
I remember having the old grey one too. It was truly the grail key
Any $75+ set will have one.
Interesting. I never knew they existed until today.
@@Corn0nTheCobb same
i just bite the pieces off
never do that again
@@Darth_B nah I'mma do my own thing
Why is this the top comment? It only has 7 likes
@@gingerface26 TH-cam algorithm stuff prob
@@rambricks6877 you are replying to comments even a year later, i commend your commitment
I really appreciate that you mentioned the old LEGO separator. I have 2 of them and will likely pass one down to my 8 year old niece come this holiday season. Good to know that the old and new work in conjunction.
Actually, I have never gotten a Lego set that has ever had a brick separator included. Only with recent mega blocks sets have I found that contained brick separators. As a kid, I didn’t take nearly as much care of my bricks, and would use my teeth to separate bricks I couldn’t separate with my hands. So there are some bricks that have been warped due to my biting the bricks causing damage to the bricks, and many star wars droid arms I would accidentally break because I didn’t put them on the droid body correctly.
the brick separators are in bigger sets but i have had some in smaller sets like the $30 ones
We have a brick separator and I still have to constantly remind my son not to take bricks apart with his teeth
@@chloeb1642 well you now have someone who can back you up there. I chewed up some bricks so bad that they can’t be used on one side anymore. But I had to learn that lesson the hard way.
@@akolyt that explains it. I never really had big sets growing up. Couldn’t afford them or get them as gifts. I’d see them in the catalogs as buyable items, but never ordered bricks or anything like that from Lego.
never really cared to use the brick separator
I didn’t even know a brick separator was a thing until just now. I remember literally breaking my fingernails trying to separate pieces when I was a kid. How long have these things existed? This just blew my mind.
Lol same. I even had a specific length I'd keep my thumb nails at just to make Lego disassembly easier
they've existed long enough that unless you're over 40 or so, they existed when you were a kid.
@@Lawrence330 no one ever told me but my dad also liked to mix all the bags of the set together because it would be too easy otherwise
I'm 30 now and I remember having them when I was a kid. I had no idea what they were for, and still used my fingernails. But I did have separators
@@roryglot427 That's just cruel.
Great tips! Thank you. I especially like using the old and new one to separate two of the same bricks. I like the way you think outside the box.
This is such a good explanation on how to remove Lego pieces.
Easy to understand and concise. Thank you for making this video!!
Lol I didn't know they existed, I always just used my teeth
alot of my old pieces have teeth marks lmfao
@@babuwiscaushakawe25 old?
Same as me and my kid we hate that separator
true, that was until i got a lego technique and started being less reckless lmao
I tried with my fingernails. You need a steady grip to be the latch to work.
Anybody else remember when Lego first started giving you these in their sets? They didn't tell you what it was for, and everyone was confused what it was.
The original version came out in 1990, and was discontinued in 2011. It came only in the largest of sets, and was made in both dark grey and in green. The updated version came out in 2012, and came in orange, dark turquoise, and green. It came with most medium sets and upwards. The wide version was introduced in 2020, and came only in mosaic sets. I believe the wide version was only made in black.
I actually knew what they were years before I got one because I was obsessed with Lego
When I got my first one in a lighthouse set, I thought it to be a ladder
I remember the original, I could never get it to work
Yea I remember
Wow! This is the first video Ive seen on this channel and Im already impressed your lego setup is insane and I could watch a whole video of you seperating those plate pieces
That upside down trick is actually great. I'll be using it like that from now on.
Ok, this blew my mind. I always had lego separators in my sets when I was a kid but never knew what they were called or what they were used for. The amount of bite marks my flat pieces had because I couldn’t get them off each other… one of my greatest childhood mysteries solved.
i thought it was a ski jet
Same 😅💀
Same
@@sagalhussein1088 same
Same
I would guess that they recommend using the separator right side up because the rails act as the fulcrum against the base plate. Using it upside down will make the studs on the base plate the fulcrum instead, which could damage the studs.
I was going to leave a comment about how the leverage is different based off the orientation, and I saw this comment expressing exactly what I wanted to say. It's definitely about making sure that the studs aren't put under stress, as they aren't designed to (as exemplified by their justifications for making "illegal" building illegal).
It’s an illegal separation technique for sure, but a useful one.
Well either way the studs will be put under near equivalent amounts of stress because no matter what the all of the resistance the will be going into the board either way. But if you use it upside down, you can use it like a wedge instead of a first-class lever to reduce stress on the studs
@@DarktideVtuber It's important to note that the reason for not applying pressure to the studs is not because of net force but because of structure. Applying downward force on the plate itself is safe because the plate is built to withstand it and the studs' connection to the plate is never being tested, whereas the upside down tool applies force at an angle to the stud, stressing the connection between stud and plate. In addition, that angled applied force increases the risk of shearing, especially for sharp 90° angles as seen on studs.
Do I think anyone will run into the problem of their studs breaking off due to the upside-down spudger method? Probably never. LEGO likes to play it safe, or at least by the books.
@@jo54763 If they put out a design that specifically did this, there would inevitably be damage and that damage would be Lego's fault. If you use illegal techniques, you know that any damage is your own fault.
I subscribed street watching this. Definitely adds greatly to the little I've found with the separators. So thank you!
Thanks alot man, this helps a lot. I build a lot of lego and I've always struggled with flat pieces.
That’s more easy than my teeth!!! Wait is that why my gums are decaying?
Stop eating Lego gummies before bed without brushing your teeth 💡
@@benm1414 did you watch my Lego gummy vid lol
I didn't see it offhand... But glad to know we found the source @@EzBricks_!
@@benm1414 yes!!
Teeth are the one thing more powerful than the brick seperator.
When my younger brother and I were growing up and playing with Lego, they didn't have brick separators. When I got a little old for Legos, I stacked all my Legos neatly together, and then gave them to my younger brother, to add to his sets. Before I handed them over I showed our parents how organized they were. I amused myself a few days later by showing our parents that the neatly stacked Legos I had just given my younger brother a few days before, were now in a state of total chaos.😄
Several years ago my older brother was cleaning our very elderly father's garage out, and found a bucket full of Legos from the sets my younger brother and I used to have when we were growing up. My older brother gave the bucket of antique Legos to me. What makes them antique? I'm in my mid sixties. Funny thing is, since then I've used some of them to make useful things for my apartment. I also neatly stacked most of them. Wish I was as good at keeping my apartment organized.😄
Lego, and other toys like them are great for kids whether girls or boys, and yes, you can continue playing with them for your entire life. They are educational without being too teachy. They let you use your imagination, and they give people a chance to try out designing stuff.
Legos weren't around when my older brother was at the age to start playing with building games. He had Lincoln Logs and an Erector set. Kids will have fun with whatever brand of building set they have, unless they are addicted to electronic games.
One more thing. Building toys aren't gender specific. While more boys are into them than girls, there are plenty of girls who like to design and build stuff with these types of toys, myself included. Yes, I'm female.
Growing up, my younger brother and I didn't get along well. Lego was about the only thing we could stand to do together. That's another fun thing about building toys. You can play by yourself or with others.
I think Legos were among my favorite toys when I was growing up.🤗
Reading your comment gave me a warm feeling. My younger brother loved Lego too, and now as an adult he still builds with them sometimes!
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Female or woman?
@@user-rn3rn6nl3h theyre one and the same thing.
That's so brilliant! I look forward to trying this out when I get the chance!
Getting a ASMR vibe at 1:41, that looks so fun and relaxing!
I remember getting a set once and didn’t notice the separator until weeks after opening the set. Didn’t bother looking it up and assumed it was a fancy lookin’ surfboard even though the set had nothing to do with the ocean, now the separator is lost 😔
1:27 oddly satisfying. Gives me goosebumps.
thanks for the tips! have to share them one day also!!
Nice work anyway!
I don't use legos nor have I ever heard of this piece but damn that was an interesting video.
another really good use for them is if repairing a laptop screen you can use them to remove the edge bezel around the screen to change a damaged or faulty LCD panel, it clips them off without damaging the clips that hold them together. it will not scratch the screen if removing the bezel to repair or replace screen hinges also. i keep one with my tools for doing repairs on laptops. sometimes you need one for laptop cases also when separating them after undoing all the screws.
I have one in my kit for dashboards and plastic trim on cars
So helpful, thank you! This is an awesome job, your work is incredible!
I got my first lego set in years back in November which was the Mandalorian N1 fighter and I was shocked when I saw the brick separator. I wish the sets I got when I was a kid came with that. It would have saved my teeth some grief.
The part where you take all the tiles off was so satisfying lol
I'd just bend the baseplate a little to remove such flat items.
This video is FANTASTICALLY crafted. You managed to give useful, interesting tips that I haven't seen before and very naturally worked in clips of your builds, which are GORGEOUS. Definitely subscribing; I want to see more 8D
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All I got to say is, DAMN.. mind blown after seeing you remove flats no problem whatsoever
I showed this to my older brother as he is a HUGE lego fan, I think he took some of the tips but he was more talking about your legos sets and how cool and good looking they are 🎉
People that designed the tool inadvertently made it way better at what it was meant to do than expected. Nice.
1:06, it bugs me so much that you didn't push that sign piece down all the way.
Nah... that's how you should do ALL the pieces, so they can be easily separated without use of the tool! 😋
@@DedsecEric no...just no
As a child i used lego all the time... but i've never seen or even heard of a brick seperator before! Interesting stuff! And cool techniques!
same, i remember i used to use my mouth and nails to remove the bricks💀💀
They've existed for decades but they only started including them with the sets a few years ago
Brick separator? You mean your teeth?
I saw another comment that said they only came with the biggest sets when they were first introduced.
@@Zakariyasen exactly
Thanks mate! I'm "new" to lego hehe, (had a small set in 1972, lol) , started to study it again ordering only a few pieces...and I need a separator! :-)
Only saw one of these a couple years ago.
Never new there was an old version.
Didn’t have all the cool pieces when I was a kid.
All we had was wooden, steam powered legos.
And we were grateful 😊
Cool video.
I’m envious that you make your living with Lego.
👍😎
After sanding it, it might also be a good idea to swab it with a cotton ball soaked in acetone. I would worry about the sanding marks making it easier to scratch your bricks, and acetone could work to polish it more. But try this on a Lego brick or brick separator that you don't care about as a test dummy first.
Actually I would be really careful using acetone since it can destroy some plastics. Getting finer grit sandpaper for polishing might work better.
@@emilyemily9831 it would definitely melt the lego plastic. I watch a master builder who works for lego on tiktok and he uses acetone to slightly melt the pieces together like a glue.
@@Girasse oh wow that’s a really cool use of acetone! Thanks for backing me up!
@@emilyemily9831 that effect is what’s desirable in OP’s comment. By using a small amount of acetone to gently melt the plastic it will polish it without needing to buy finer sandpaper. This same process is used on new 3d printed parts to help smooth out surface finishes for a better looking product. 👍
@@emilyemily9831 Yes, the whole point is to slightly dissolve the plastic! But it can become excessive easily, which is why I suggest only dabbing it on with a cotton ball. Honestly, a light misting would be better.
People do this to ABS 3D prints all the time in the 3D printing world. Usually, you put an ABS part in a container with paper towels soaked I'm acetone. The volatility causes it to get everywhere and very gently dissolve the plastic superficially. Maybe a cotton ball is too aggressive compared to vapor.
1:47 pov: you killed someone in lego starwars
THANK YOU for explaining the two matching plates. I've not been able to figure out how best to do that (without wrecking my fingernails).
i dont know how many times ive damaged pieces as a kid by biting on them when trying to separate them. I'm glad to know that that had an actual use, I always thought it looked like a scuba flipper
I’m not sure if this is a recent invention or not, but regardless, this would’ve made my childhood ten times easier. The amount of times I placed a Lego in the wrong spot and could pick it up is unreal. And my nails and hands were struggling as I tried to dig under the block 😆. Glad they are including in sets now though!
Google says they were invented in 1990 but I never had one growing up in the 90s.
@@shereadsmysteries You had to order them directly from LEGO. It took months to arrive.
it was there from the beginning if you are ~30
@@kami3000 Nah, you could also buy them separately in some stores, or get them from sets like the 1879 bucket, which got released in 1992. Pretty sure I somehow ended up with 2 in the 90s, despite never having ordered anything from Lego directly.
@@ultru3525 Nice. I never saw them in sets.
This is wild, I've never seen a brick separator before! Had no clue they existed
Bro ikr
That's cap
Same
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For removing plates, you can use the end of the separator to push in-between the two plates, pops them apart quickly and easily. I've not seen it damage anything to date.
2:27 Try offsetting the 2 separators. I know it works great for 1x2 plates.
2:16 Why did they change the design of the separator? The old one with an angle between the top and bottom surfaces seems much better design! I guess the newer version is easier to extract from the mold, that is cheaper, but is there any other good reason?
It also has the cross bar so you can extract pins and parts from technic sets
I’ve used both but the old one isn’t as good at separating pieces and can’t do as much since it doesn’t have have that little bit on the top for taking apart technic stuff.
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I always end up with the ole butter knife due to how this tool almost always lets me down.
I used to do all of that by hand growing up, even taking apart those really thin pieces when two were stuck together
You should make a puzzle video of a random design of tiles on a mat that needs to be speed removed to reveal.. or something like this that is interesting, using that speed tile removing technique. People will love watching that technique in a way that reveals an interesting design etc
Wow. I’m old. There was no brick separator when I was a kid. Maybe they had them in Denmark but I remember seeing one in print somewhere and I got really excited about it. It’s hard to believe they’ve gone through several iterations.
Same here. I remember a few years back my little brother got some legos and it came with one and I thought it was just a useless lego piece meant for decoration 🤣💀✋🏼
Just started using the separator upside down relatively recently (maybe after seeing it in one of your videos, idk). BUT sometimes the axle prevents it from being used this way and the upside up way is necessary. Also, if you only have new separators and need to separate two 2x2 plates, just press at the bottom, near the fulcrum (right behind the axle) and it should work. Thanks for the video!
if you have an extra brick separator, just grind off the axle with a metal file. Only if it makes your building more efficient of course.
@@llnnie lol, I should do that. I only have a hundred of those things!
@@StonewallBricks yeah i think 100 might do
Or just put the 2 plates on a 2x4 brick and separate the 2 plates that way.
Same
Wow! That was very satisfying. Excellent tips and -Bro- your builds are incredible!
I knew they were lying all along! Thank you for exposing this conspiracy. It's long over due.
1:18 looks like the most satisfying way to play with Lego I have ever seen...I might go and stick every flat tile I have to one of my large grey plates just to watch them pop off.
2:25 This trick totally does work with 2. I use this trick all the time! You need to hold the one on the bottom in the opposite direction (The other 2 studs) and then push down on the top brick like a lever. Hopefully this helps!'
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Thank u!
Firstly; you can use two regular brick seporators to take apart the extremely difficult 2x2 or 1x2 plates apart. You need to press the serators together where it connects to the plates, and with your other hand, press the end of the handles together. This will open the plates up, and you can now pull them apart with ease.
Secondly; the first time I got a brick separator, it came with a Star Wars set of a First Order TIE Fighter (from 2015), and I initially thought it was the ladder for the minifigures to climb inside the cockpit...
Lol that’s hilarious
I would love to see a set that uses brick separators as elements!
Honestly just him gliding off those pieces in the beginning as well as the lego set part was amazing! Looked so satisfying!
Also great for applying stickers! :)
As a person who was completely oblivious to the “lego separator” having even existed… I found this totally fascinating.
Thanks for sharing, although I knew most of the tricks already. I have not had any issues getting two small plates apart with two orange separators in the past - you also need to squeeze the ends holding the bricks a bit so they don’t pop off the bricks, but not too much to prevent them from prizing the bricks apart. Works for me! 👍🏻 (and besides I don’t have any old separators so that is not an option for me)
I can’t even remember where I got my old one, I’ve got sets across so many themes I couldn’t tell 🤣 it might have been rock raiders maybe.
BLEW MY MIND. I didn't even know it was a brick separator until this video. Just used it as a lounge chair when making things.
Such a calming video. That is a sweet set up by the way
I clicked this video bc I honestly had no idea what that piece even was and I was curious; I got one when I purchased an off-brand Lego dice tower (shout out to my TTRPG nerds out there) and it didn’t explain what it was for. I have another dice tower I’m planning on building and knowing this may be super helpful! So long story short, thanks for this 😂
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2:26 actually of you offset the separators you can do that. One stud connected on the bottom, one on the top.
I love all of your Lego creations. They're beautiful.
Thanks, this helped me a lot!
I don't have lego's why did I watch this whole thing haha
Seym like wha?
lmao
A sense of disbelief. LOOK AT THAT CITY HE BUILT.
Woah, I've been buying Lego's for the past decade and I never ever once seen a Brick separator?
I have been buying the wrong boxes all these years... man this thing would make my life a whole lot easier!
The using two together to separate is awesome. I had 5 in the household, but cant find a single one when I need it.
I remember first getting the separator from either the Lego Ninja Turtle Sewer Lair set, or the Lego Creator 3 in one treehouse. I never knew there were different colors and types of the separator though.
When popping tiles from a large area using the sliding technique, wear eye protection.
Just tell everybody you're really into the pirate sets and you should be fine.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade Until you lose your other eye
its currently almost 1am, this video came up on my feed and i haven't played with lego's in probably a year. i can confirm that this video is incredibly useful and entertaining
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Thank you. We never had these when we were kids, so when I first saw one last year (introducing Grandie to Lego) I had no clue how to use it. And I have yet to see any instructions.
Man I remember when you uploaded this video, and had 20k subs. You have gone a long way!
Haven’t bought a Lego set in about ten years, so I had no idea what that thing was. This was a very informative video.
All my brick separators always ended really worn down from usage, this actually really helps me and just makes things so much easier
I had to try the inverted tile-separator method straight away. It really works! Thank you. 🙂
this makes me remenber when i did not have any brick separators and i bit the lego parts and left them ugly amd i still have them
That gliding separation technique is so satisfying
Wow, great tips! Very satisfying to watch the big strip is quickly removed; defintly will try next time!
I never knew what this was for thank you so much for showing me what is was used for
To separate bricks like the two squares I put one separator on the left peg and one on the right peg so they are offset and aren’t directly on top of each other.
I'm mind blown by both your way of using the separator and that I didn't know there were more separators other than just the orange one😭
These are actually very novel and useful tricks! Thank you!
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I just started buying lego sets again after like 20 years and got a boba fett ship, and found one of these in the box. I assumed it was some kinda stand or base for the ship and tried it every possible way before I finally just googled what it was. 🤣
It's certainly a useful and neat little tool in my recent experience. I've built a number of ships and sets since then and I use it often when I forget to add a piece along the way ot want to modify it later on.
2:26 when I tried this it does actually work for me I either do it the way shown in the video or put the brick separators on different sides
1:52 new form of ASMR?
2:38 I’ve been using this trick for years now
This makes sense...I used to think the brick separator was useless...I tried your tips...happily surprised...thank you!!
I’ve got a few separators lying around, and I came across a truckload of legos, which I have embarked on sorting. Many of them are connected, and I was using a separator to wedge between them. After an hour or so, the edge is full of notches and I feel like I might end up going through all of them before the sorting is complete.😅