in defense of the LEGO SNOT brick
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- The lifechanging magic of LEGO building techniques! This week, we're covering the first three levels of LEGO SNOT, or sideways building techniques. Sign up for more builds at eggybricks.com ➡️
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💻 Errata:
We made a couple animation-os in this video:
- In the last frame of the gingerbread house window stop-motion (2:26), the rightmost vertical line should be further to the left, to the left of the bricks. (The numbers underneath, between the lines, should add up to 10 plates)
- On the stud reversal shot (11:58), "studs" should read "plates" instead
Sorry for not catching these before upload!
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LEGO sets shown in this video in order of appearance:
🥚 Introduction
- LEGO Classic Town: Shell Race Car - 1467, from 1987
- LEGO Speed Champions: Ferrari F8 Tributo - 76895, from 2020
🌱 Level 1: The SNOT brick
- LEGO Brickheadz: Kylo Ren - 41603, from 2018 (designed by Chris Perron and Joel Baker)
- LEGO Brickheadz: Thanos - 41605, from 2018 (designed by Marcos Bessa and Bjarke Lykke Madsen)
- LEGO Creator Expert Winter Village: Gingerbread House - 10267, from 2019 (designed by Tiago Catarino)
- LEGO Creator Expert Winter Village: Alpine Lodge - 10325, from 2023 (designed by Antica Bracanov and Chris McVeigh)
- LEGO City: Ice Cream Truck - 60253, from 2020
- LEGO Creator 3-in-1: Majestic Tiger - 31129, from 2022 (designed by George Gilliatt)
- LEGO Icons: Lion Knights Castle - 10305, from 2022 (designed by Milan Madge and Mike Psiaki)
- LEGO Creator Expert Modular Building: Downtown Diner - 10260, from 2018 (designed by Mike Psiaki)
🎛️ Level 2: The headlight brick
- LEGO Star Wars: 2023 Advent Calendar (includes reindeer GNK droid) - 75366, from 2023 (designed by Hans Burkhard Schlömer)
- LEGO Star Wars: 2022 Advent Calendar (includes santa GNK droid) - 75340, from 2022 (designed by Hans Burkhard Schlömer)
- LEGO Creator 3-in-1: Beach Camper Van - 31138, from 2023 bit.ly/lego-beach-camper-31138
- LEGO Ideas: Viking Village - 21343, from 2023 (designed by Isaac Snyder, fan designer Florian BrickHammer)
- LEGO Speed Champions: Nissan Skyline - 76917, from 2023
- LEGO Speed Champions: Ferrari F8 Tributo - 76895, from 2020 (again)
- LEGO Ideas: Ship in a Bottle - 21313, from 2018 (designed by Tiago Catarino, fan designer Jake Sadovich)
🧰 Level 3: The bracket
- LEGO Creator 3-in-1: Fast Flyers - 4953, from 2007 (designed by Jamie Berard)
- LEGO Ideas: Starry Night - 21333, from 2022 (designed by Søren Dyrhøj, fan designer Truman Cheng, Vincent Van Gogh original artist)
- LEGO Monkie Kid: Monkey King Warrior Mech - 80012, from 2020 (designed by Justin Ramsden and Nick Vás)
- LEGO City: Mobile Crane - 60324, from 2022 (designed by Robert Heim)
🛰️ Level 99:
- LEGO Ideas: Apollo Saturn V 21309/92176, from 2017/2020 (designed by Carl Merriam and Mike Psiaki)
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🪵 Chapters:
00:00 intro
00:36 level 1
05:11 level 2
08:49 level 3
12:18 level 99 - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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We're waiting for parts for our LEGO city series, so we figured we'd get back to our favorite - building techniques - in the meantime. Not sure if anyone will like these so please let us know if you do!
We're thinking about covering triangle techniques, bar/clip/hinge geometry, and Technic mechanics in later episodes... anything in particular you might want to see?
Hinge geometry please! And please keep doing these, they give such good insight into what makes these LEGO sets extraordinary!
sounds amazing ! I love learning about Lego techniques. I'm also most interested in bar/clip/hinge geometry.
Some clever off-grid building techniques, like the tranquil garden 10315 (might not be the best example but it’s the first one I thought of)
slizer engineering
because it's based
are these 2 girls or is one a guy? im confused ...
As someone who advocates for building experience above anything else, this was great! :)
Seeing a couple designs of mine was nice as well! 👀
Amazing designs - thanks so much for giving us all a SNOT masterclass! And thanks so much for watching, it means a lot!!
Do you have anything currently in production? I'm new to Lego and I've done a few sets where they created a beautiful end product, but the build itself was boring and repetitive. I'd love to find sets where the building experience is more of the focus
Continues to illustrate why this is my favorite Lego channel on youtube - not just lapping everyone else on production value, but doing it to teach and deepen the audience’s understanding of what’s possible.
The Mike Psiaki series has been my favorite on the channel, so I’m over the moon about this video.
Thanks so much, really appreciate the kind words!!
The duel of the fates reference was hilarious, great video.
yesssss so glad you caught it!!
Amazing video!
The best compliment I can give you is that I already knew everything you told about the SNOT techniques, but I was glued to the screen the full video anyway!
12:12 Finally... bricky eggs!
12 12...
omg
I think I "invented" SNOT, in the early-to-mid 70es, when I was 7-8. I built a ferry for my toy cars, but as I wanted a pointed bow and smooth decks, I simply built the entire thing sideways, using roof bricks for the ship bow. I also used the old big red hinge plates 4×2 to put studs on the underside of things. You had to be creative back then. 😂
Amazing quality, lots of information and fun, no clickbait or yelling at the audience, no annoying fast cuts. These videos make me stay on youtube, with all the garbage content out there.
Thanks so much, we try hard to make our videos make people feel better after watching (instead of worse) so this is really nice to hear!
They never miss ✨
Love how in-depth this is. Always wondered the nuances of these bricks and it seems Lego is only introducing more and more. I think Lego is hitting the sweet spot with Speed Champions in terms of design, building experience, price, and physical size.
First-time comment (I've subscribed idk couple of years but prefer to watch/not comment): I LOVE your videos. I never had Lego as a kid (60's-70's kid and more Tonka/GI Joe type and simply didn't even notice Lego). I became AFOL in my 40s via my boy/girl twins who as they reach 18 this summer/go to college this fall are full into their "dark period" with Lego). Anyway: sudden/painful arthritis + neurological issues making anything manual difficult for me including building Lego (we have extensive collection of sets going back early 2000s). Again: I LOVE YOU GUYS. Quality production, intriguing observations, keen insights -- freakin' intellectually stimulating. THANK YOU.
Wow, thanks so much for sticking with us! We also found LEGO really recently, and clearly can't shut up about it :D We're so glad we're part of your LEGO journey!
10 out of 10. Thank you! The many set examples for each level were quite helpful. All kinds of math, physics, and Lego history going on here 💯
Of course I will watch the new eggybricks video as soon as I see it!!!
One thing I like about the Minecraft sets is that they are chunkier, and it's really easy to move chunks around to create something new. It looks less nice in photos, but much more fun and looks awesome in person.
I feel like a lot of modern lego is too obsessed with hiding its lego-ness? not only its shape but having as few exposed studs as possible. Or sometimes too obsessed with cool building techniques. The fact that the most basic interview question for a lego designer job is can you make a ball (ie, can you use snot bricks), possibly demonstrates this.
But I do love all these techniques and you folks are so good at creating with lego!
That's a great point - we can hyperfocus on how cool the advanced building techniques are, but really it's the creativity and delight and playability that matters more. We have a really hard time figuring out how to convey that in video form though!
:) I was once told that I would like the next video, the teller was super right. I really really like you to go on these building techniques series.
I have a footnote and a question with a second footnote.
Footnote: While using technic bricks with frictionless or friction pins temptingly works as a snot brick, they are not aligned with system snot bricks, as the technic hole is slightly raised to accomodate the extra plastic needed for the hole. So technic snot is to be used by itself.
Question for all knowledgable builders: We know not to use headlight brick facing to another brick( imagine 1x2 brick and 2 headlight bricks facing to the brick on a 2x2 plate), * as the 'nose' of the headlight brick is slightly bigger than a normal 2.5 p thickness. Can I use a headlight brick, facing a 1x1 technic brick to solve that problem legally? So that the nose is in the technic brick. The holes dont align but It feels like there is enough cavity not to stress or touch, but I am not 100 percent sure. Or maybe I should use two headlight bricks back to back.
This is a very intriguing question! and we just spent some time on the whiteboard with it. It *seems* like the extra width of the nose fits fully in the larger countersunk part of the Technic hole (where the Technic pin collars sit) so it looks totally fine to us, but not sure if this is actually LEGO-legal.
(Thanks so much for liking these building techniques videos - we're super excited about them but afraid people find them boring :D)
If I understand "legality" correctly, it's defined as "anything that doesn't stress LEGO pieces". SO in reality, you'd "just" need to measure the amount of stress that this arrangement creates. If you wanted to do that, you'd need to be aware that there's two kinds of possible sources of stress here (as far as I can tell):
The *vertical* offset between the headlight brick stud and technic hole could mean that you can't fully push one of them onto the 2x2 plate. For the most sensitive way to measure that stress, you could build 10 or so of the following units onto a 2x4 plate, where the snot studs of the headlight bricks and the holes of the technic bricks face left and right out of the "brick" (TT is a 2x1 technic brick, H is a 1x1 headlight brick):
TH
TH
HT
HT
When you push them together like this:
TH >< TH >< TH
TH TH TH
HT HT HT
HT >< HT >< HT
If the vertical offset caused any stress, then that would gradually but noticeably force a twist onto the stack of 2x4 assemblies.
The *horizontal* direction of stress could be caused by the headlight stud not fitting *far enough into* the technic hole. I don't have an idea for how to measure that stress, though. The problem is that you'd need to constrain the vertical position of snot stud and technic hole to each other while allowing frictionless horizontal movement.
But this might actually be easy to rule out visually. I think the rims around technic pins are far ticker than by how much the headlight stud sticks into the neighboring brick, comparatively speaking.
Awesome video! I did not know that bracket/leg technique...it's so great!😃I love your detailed explanations of the precise system measurements and how they fit together!🔥Just when I thought things couldn't get more "headlighty"🤣 08:11
I wish I was as cool as you
Really loving your channel! Keep up the great work!
The UCS AT-AT also uses SNOT building to reinforce the legs which combine with technic elements to support the weight of the set, all 23.5 pounds (10.66kg) of it!
I love these videos because you systematically go through examples of same building technique and really cement the idea in my mind.
Headlight is the greatest piece of all time.
I 'know' all the things you show, but your animations are very satisfying to watch no matter what.
Thanks for the engaging and entertaining tutorials!
I am eagerly awaiting the next installment in your city series, and I really enjoyed this video, too! I appreciate the deeper dive into building techniques - there's a lot to absorb for a relative novice like me so I find myself watching your videos multiple times over. I also like how you use existing sets to highlight the techniques (and it's given me some ideas of sets I should look for to get a better building experience). I have a lot to learn, so I'd be interested in similar videos on any techniques! Really love your videos - thank you for these!
Such a great video. I have seen many video's on SNOT, but this one definitely was one of the better once among them!
......that minimalist phantom menace gag.....
The look on my face when I realized.....well done
Great video! You really capture the magic of lego building with these :)
Wow! It's unbelievable how much effort you put into a single video!
You guys fixed the Pere Marquette! And even more GEVOs!!
Thanks for noticing! Yeah we had to!!
Great video as always! I really appreciate that you credit the designers, I'm surprised it's not common practice. Seeing familiar names on sets I'm interested in makes me realise I have favourite designers and I didn't even know who they are!
Historically, most of the advancements in regards to this very topic were made by lego fans first, at public displays, and then were SLOOOOWLY integrated in Lego builds, but System for example took A LOOOOONG time before implementing tricks and tools that were used in MOCs from 10-15 years prior
Congrats to a very HIGH QUALITY video! Keep it up! ❤
Absolutely brilliant! ✨ I’m saving this for future reference because it contains so many insights - and presented with such style! 😊
My only issue with SNOT is that it's not strong. There are MANY ways to improve the designincluding interlocking slides, that are used in some sets already, but it's nowhere near common enough. I want my set to withstand being thrown without being glued.
Very nice video ! A clear and well done explanation of what is Snot technique and why it is so important nowadays in LEGO Building. Fun fact, the snot technique works bad with Technic bricks (my domain) because the hole is not centered at the same height as regular snot 1x1 bricks. Tiago explained well the problem in this video about "ilegal techniques". In any case, massive thumbs up for your channel ! It is very fresh to see new form of content like that, which not only focus on the result, and explained more the how ! Thanks for making this video and I wish you the best for the future !
@Nico71Fr Thanks so much for the nice comment!! We've been big fans of your work (from Eurobricks) for a long time so it means a lot!
@@eggybricks Thanks ! I do not post often on Eurobricks now but my TH-cam channel and my website is up to date for sure !
Wow this is just an incredible video. I’ve learned so much!
Showing my support for brainy channel and appreciation for two amazing people. What are your (first ) names (I must've missed that -- sorry)? Do you guys have a "buy me a coffee" link? Love, light, peace to you both. ❤
Wow, thank you so much for your support!! We're Vivian and Melinda (shhh we are kind of shy so don't tell anyone!)
The older set is not from 1987, it’s from like 1977. Things were vastly different in 87, including cars with headlight bricks with studs on the side.
Excellent video, Yeah, I knew all this stuff, but I would recommend this to anyone who is new to the concept. Also: I was unaware SNOT bricks were in need of defense. :)
That was fabulous! thank you😊
I learnt something new today! Thanks, Great vid :)
Fantastic video!!!!
Thanks! This will help me finsih my bigboy moc btw you're the best lego youtuber!
SNOT and cheese slopes are my ultimate go to
I love snot techniques!!
Keep on with the fantastic work ❤️
Great video. I would gladly pay for these videos if they were for sale!
I always thought snot was putting Lego in between the studs
That S sound is unique 🙂
Yes! I love these videos! I've been getting more and more into snot techniques and your explanation of the headlight brick or the "Erling" brick (named after it's inventor and LEGO City master builder: Erling Dideriksen) Really made it click for me :D
I got a lego ad while watching this
I watched it for the 10th time... it's best how skillfully you weave such interesting technical films into the city building story... as always, we want more :D
Thanks for the kind comment! This is exactly what we needed to hear to get ready for the next video :D
Check out Cheesy Studio's Lego Minecraft MOC series for some pretty mindbending SNOT techniques. Nearly everything in his builds is studsless and it's kinda crazy the combo of SNOT pieces needed to make something as simple as a half stud indent for paths
Ooh, thanks for the pointer, sounds super cool
For someone who is just getting into building MOCs, I'm finding your videos super educational and learning the "math" of SNOT bricks really has helped me get an idea for how I can use these techniques in conjuction with normal brick building. Where did you learn all this stuff, do you have any resources you could share that would help me on this journey?
We love BrickNerd (bricknerd.com/) and Tips & Bricks (www.tipsandbricks.co.uk/) for deep dives and technique analysis. Another thing that's been helpful is looking at official LEGO building instructions for any sets that look cool/weird, since instructions are all free online - would especially recommend looking at all of Mike Psiaki's builds (brickset.com/sets/designer-Mike-Psiaki) as they all have super-interesting techniques!
@@eggybricks Thank you so much!
Amazing quality video! Shocked that you have such few subs.
Excellent video as always! Also great job on a thorough description to the video, It's something a lot of creators neglect. Looking forward to the next video!
A truly great video! Thank you.
great video. very much enjoyed it!
cool
Just curious, did you guys actually disassemble and reassemble all of the sets used as examples in this video just to showcase the parts where SNOT bricks/techniques were used in the build? Or did you just happen to have existing video recordings of these? If it was the former, that was a monumental effort.
Yeah, we did film these from scratch for this! Thanks for noticing the effort :D
I think the title was good
I hope it isn't controversial to say this feels like a PBS video. I liked it.
Why is it called SNOT (stud not on top)? There is a stud on top! Maybe it should be SOS - (studs on sides)?
What is the model that uses the 'door rails' at 12:30? - it looks really good!
Ooh, that's 31052 Vacation Getaways by Mike Psiaki - it's one of our favorites of all time. It's the second set in this video, if you're interested in a deeper look! th-cam.com/video/YoKvdnTbgwM/w-d-xo.html
I ordered some of your train instructions but I never got them
Oh no! Instructions should have been automatically emailed to you immediately on purchase - can you email us at hello@eggybricks.com with your email address, order date, or order number so we can investigate and get them to you?
soo goood
Was that the set of '87?
What did Lego lie about also. I know it's just a turn of phrase probably, but I didn't follow what you meant by the title/thumbnail. 😅
Did the video title change three times in the last few days?
Yes! We got a lot of feedback (which we took to heart) about our title not fitting, so we changed it until it felt more right.
3:34 😈
I love information, they call me the legoinfoenjoyer
Why do channels that discuss snot bricks not include technics with half pins? Better stability to use a 16 stud technic with half pins than a bunch of 1, 2 and or 4 stud snot bricks.
the HOLE on the tiger you say?
Hold on hang on a minute wait whaaaaaaaaaat!!?
So ive juste realised: if the headlight brick offsets the side stud by half a plate... Then that means there's a way to connect plates and baseplates (which are half a plate high) with these!!
Very good video.
However, I disagree with you on the brackets.
In their usual form I think they are great, with the small exception that their half-plate is rounded at two corners, which, when built into a wall sideways, gives this little nook, which is irritating when building "smooth" surfaces which have to have certain measures.
But my main point is the following, which I learned while creating an octopus and then later when Tiago Catarino mentioned it in his "Illegal LEGO Techniques" Video (th-cam.com/video/jWtZUzkvQ2E/w-d-xo.html at 2:45): You should not turn them around on their half-plate, neither with regular brackets nor with inverted ones, which otherwise makes for really nice and slim stud reversers, to a point that even an official Lego set uses this illegal technique (76989 Tallneck, at steps 234, 248 and 274 in the head)! Because of this subtility, my goto parts are regular 87087s and its variants and also 99206s (or I guess 4304s), which can be reversed without stress and also look better from the side.
Minifigure legs should not move like that🤮
Great video but I have to say that the title feels clickbaitty in a way that isn’t your style at all. Still, great job as always.
100% agree. Title and card makes this video seem like low quality material. Got downvoted on Reddit because of it I think.
Oh man, this is what happens when we stay up two nights straight editing, then put a title and thumbnail on it at the last minute and fall asleep immediately 😰 sorry and very glad you got here anyway!! Thanks for the comment!
@@bricktoadbuild thanks for the insight, really appreciate it!! We will try to suck less at TH-cam next time (we are so bad at titles and thumbnails!)
@@eggybricksDon’t worry about it! Still my favourite LEGO TH-camrs!
After watching the whole video, I can understand the "life-changing" original title! LEGO SNOT really teaches you how to think!
What was the original title of this video?
Instructions unclear, stuck my lego pieces together with my mucus, did not work
I got some stuck up my nose D:
admit it. You only made this video because you wanted to say "snot" over and over
Okay, but what did LEGO lie about, though?
I estimate one hears the word "snot" every 1.5 seconds in this video. that is a lot of snot. one could clog their entire nasal/esophageal system with this much snot! (also, eww)
why do noses run...
love the video but the title and thumbnail are super confusing. would be way more helpful as “lego snot bricks tutorial” or something like that
Appreciate the insight!! We are so bad at titles and thumbnails but will try to suck less at them in future
Are you roomies? Friends? Sisters? Married? Just wondering, because the script is always written as "we"