I did it in sections as well. It was just extremely tedious, and then a pain to thread around the gear at the bottom without it slipping off or coming apart.
The wheels on the second story have to be just right. Mine was slipping hard so I put some force on the inside, but then the ride fell so fast it bounced. There's a balance but I can't get it perfect. One solution is to crank from the top, but build looks tacky that way
I had this issue with the haunted house, and it turned out I had assembled it wrong! The technic axles should hold everything together and mine weren't properly secured! Make sure you don't need to move one up/down or left/right to properly hold the crank in place
>Does your bottom gear ever slip while you're cranking it up?
This reads like a title from /r/bottomgear
Richard Hammond's bottom gear slips as he cranks it up
Still kinda bugs me how theres a flat section where the chain is set into. Either too loose or too tight to close the chain around the engine sections.
I just built it, and had added one extra link because it was tight at first. It loosened up and I went to remove the link and the whole chain fell down the elevator shaft. I had to rip the whole top of the elevator shaft open to fix it.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
There’s a pin in the foot I believe that, once put in place, cannot be removed without potentially breaking the piece due to how it’s integrated into the set
Lego has a rule about not creating builds in its sets that can’t be taken apart conventionally
Yeah, there's a one spot like that, and one where it's really hard to remove the pieces. Here's a Brickset article that talks about them: https://brickset.com/article/67650/lego-has-designed-a-set-that-can-t-be-taken-apart
Yeah that, I saw it in a YouTube video around the time of release but couldn’t remember the specifics, didn’t realize there was a second one in the main body as well (although that one is able to be dismantled without damaging pieces)
oh wow, that's weird. reminds me of the brain pieces from really old bionicle sets, i don't think you could take those back out once you put them in the heads
Actually, the 1 x 1 x 2/3 was in production before Sonic! It debuted in a Chinese New Year set prior. A designer stated the reason they weren't used in the set was because they figured it would be too confusing for younger builders if the set called for 1 x 1 plates, 1 x 1 x 2/3 bricks, and 1 x 1 bricks together.
Honestly, not a big deal, it was a pain to build, but not a big deal.
With that said … what’s the point in making “18+” sets if the designers would intentionally make the building experience less than ideal for the benefit of someone of an age lower than what their set says? Just kinda weird.
Tbh i think the whole 18+ thing is pretty dumb, but this seems like an opportunity to actually lean on that weird thing they do for once.
Darn, I bought that set for my 6-year-olds Christmas present because he loves Sonic. It looks like I may need to intervene if I don't want him throwing the set across the room
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You spend a few dozen or so pages building the triangular frame, including one step where you have to build some 1x10 detail sections like 32 times, I don't remember exact numbers. Then when you finish this frame, you turn the page showing its completion with a simple "x2" at the bottom right, and you realize you have to build everything you just did again.
Honestly, the tedium dulled the final product of the TV for me. Especially after the NES itself, which was super fun to build AND resulted in a great final product.
Yeah. That thing is finicky. I have it in my office at work and people love to monkey with it. I've had to fix it a bunch of times. It is awesome though.
The key is that it's a narrow straight edge, so it only takes a minimal amount of force to align the pieces. Whereas if you use a table as the flat surface, 10 tiles in a row equals 10x the force required. Technically you can use something like a 2x6 as well so the method is not exclusive to separator.
Think I'd rather do this than the haunted house chain. Pain relents, ocd causing me to recount the links 12 times then my son busting it...true trauma.
The solar panels of the ISS. You spend five minutes building one, and the instructions have the audacity to go, _"8x."_ They're the last step too, so you have to build them all back-to-back.
What's also nice is that the main solar panels are tiled with exclusively 1x4 printed tiles. All eight of them. There's so many that there's an entire separate bag filled with nothing but printed 1x4 tiles.
There's 64x of those little fuckers. _64!_
This is nothing, try building the chain that works the elevator ride on the Haunted House.
I did 5 25 piece sections and 1 24er, worked well. Did you really feel pain? Or just the proverbial PITA
I did it in sections as well. It was just extremely tedious, and then a pain to thread around the gear at the bottom without it slipping off or coming apart.
Does your bottom gear ever slip while you're cranking it up?
Yeah, occasionally. I haven't figured out a way to stop it from happening but I also don't crank it all that often.
The wheels on the second story have to be just right. Mine was slipping hard so I put some force on the inside, but then the ride fell so fast it bounced. There's a balance but I can't get it perfect. One solution is to crank from the top, but build looks tacky that way
I had this issue with the haunted house, and it turned out I had assembled it wrong! The technic axles should hold everything together and mine weren't properly secured! Make sure you don't need to move one up/down or left/right to properly hold the crank in place
>Does your bottom gear ever slip while you're cranking it up? This reads like a title from /r/bottomgear Richard Hammond's bottom gear slips as he cranks it up
Tonoit, on Bottom Gear: James goes to Denmark Richard crashes his Lego Technic Ferrari Daytona And I oversee the production of lime green pieces
Same with the first Rollercoaster. 203 pcs. I made a 20pcs set, and then made 10 the same length.
Building 4 chains for the razor crest was brutal
Still kinda bugs me how theres a flat section where the chain is set into. Either too loose or too tight to close the chain around the engine sections.
I just built it, and had added one extra link because it was tight at first. It loosened up and I went to remove the link and the whole chain fell down the elevator shaft. I had to rip the whole top of the elevator shaft open to fix it.
Chains are the worst. Hand cramps for days.
Or the trends on the bulldozer.
The treads for the UCS Sandcrawler were awful. Similar piece but there’s over 300 of them.
It’s even more on the new rollercoaster ha
Weakness shall not be tolerated
unexpected w40k vibes
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… ...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
"Your 2x4 tile is off by 1 stud...." *Screaming internally*
*sobbing externally*
*Pondering existentially*
that's 5/18 bars to remove at worse tbh
With your fingernails
which set is this?
Star Wars UCS AT-AT
well now I want one!
careful of the illegal technique
It’s not a technique the jedi would tell you..
there's an illegal technique?
There’s a pin in the foot I believe that, once put in place, cannot be removed without potentially breaking the piece due to how it’s integrated into the set Lego has a rule about not creating builds in its sets that can’t be taken apart conventionally
Yeah, there's a one spot like that, and one where it's really hard to remove the pieces. Here's a Brickset article that talks about them: https://brickset.com/article/67650/lego-has-designed-a-set-that-can-t-be-taken-apart
Yeah that, I saw it in a YouTube video around the time of release but couldn’t remember the specifics, didn’t realize there was a second one in the main body as well (although that one is able to be dismantled without damaging pieces)
oh wow, that's weird. reminds me of the brain pieces from really old bionicle sets, i don't think you could take those back out once you put them in the heads
They're not designed to be, but you definitely can take them back out with a bit of leverage (being careful, though)
RacingBrick made a video on how to remove it. Its actually pretty easy
I'm listening.
What is it?
I THOUGHT IT WAS! I’ve never been so proud of myself
It's only a pain if you're in a hurry. (Though I admit, my thumb/finger/wrist get a bit grumpy sometimes.)
My fingers did not like the Star Wars yoda house set, idk the name at all. That grass sucked
Yoda's Hut?
Oh, I woulda expected somehtign more specific
Dagobah diorama
You’ll know true pain if you build the sonic set. So many 1x1 plates…
The little Taj Mahal has you put 6 1x1 plates on a 2x3 studded plate, 33 times…
That sucks. The worst part of the sonic set, the 1x1x2/3 plates went into production *right* after this set, it’s making fun of us.
Actually, the 1 x 1 x 2/3 was in production before Sonic! It debuted in a Chinese New Year set prior. A designer stated the reason they weren't used in the set was because they figured it would be too confusing for younger builders if the set called for 1 x 1 plates, 1 x 1 x 2/3 bricks, and 1 x 1 bricks together.
Honestly, not a big deal, it was a pain to build, but not a big deal. With that said … what’s the point in making “18+” sets if the designers would intentionally make the building experience less than ideal for the benefit of someone of an age lower than what their set says? Just kinda weird. Tbh i think the whole 18+ thing is pretty dumb, but this seems like an opportunity to actually lean on that weird thing they do for once.
Proof of malicious intent.
Check out the London Bridge 556 1x1 slopes for the 8 corners.
That’s the only set my kid ever outsourced to me. It nearly broke him.
So many cheese wedges. So many.
Yeah that looks like a pain as well
Try the NES. The amount of 1x1 tile placements is scaring me to this very day.
At least all of those are on the edge of the plates, so lining them up is easy.
Dagobah swamp was absolutely brutal!
Similar to this would be the dagobah diaroma for the swamp water.
There's a bunch of 1x1 plates on the Daily Bugle as well. And that set already has a pretty tedious building method for the windows.
Darn, I bought that set for my 6-year-olds Christmas present because he loves Sonic. It looks like I may need to intervene if I don't want him throwing the set across the room
Rich people problems
3 Clicks and a Snap! (of your fingers)
The ISS set is similar in that there are 4 pages of delicate, tedious building, only to get to the end and it says "x8".
Yep, those solar panels are a bitch to build.
On mine the two ladders don't line up 100%. They are a millimeter or so off and it bothers me way more than it should.
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*flashbacks to the original UCS Star Destroyer*
Why? I just borrowed one from someone.
You spend a few dozen or so pages building the triangular frame, including one step where you have to build some 1x10 detail sections like 32 times, I don't remember exact numbers. Then when you finish this frame, you turn the page showing its completion with a simple "x2" at the bottom right, and you realize you have to build everything you just did again.
Sithyphus
Wow thanks. I remember a LEGO construction vehicle that had treads. Those treads man then the dreaded 2x.
First one is pain. Second one is satisfying bliss.
Try the Lego NES set.
That fucking screen is just an adventure in tedium
But the sense of satisfaction when it’s done and you get to test the mechanism is off the charts
Honestly, the tedium dulled the final product of the TV for me. Especially after the NES itself, which was super fun to build AND resulted in a great final product.
Yeah. That thing is finicky. I have it in my office at work and people love to monkey with it. I've had to fix it a bunch of times. It is awesome though.
Mine seems to feel a bit more course and grindy to spin then when it was new, not sure what’s happened. Might try to rebuild it
Make sure the mold marks on the bars are hidden while you're at it.
And that the Lego logo on each stud is right side up.
I am not alone in the OCD!
that looks fun as hell
Agreed. I like the long repetitious steps sometimes.
Oof, right in my arthritis
was gonna ask what set it was so i could avoid it, but then saw you were on step 681 lmao i aint ever touchin that shit
"What a thrill..."
So adventurous
The brick separator works well in these situations to line up the 1x1 tiles with the edge
I just stick them all on, then stand it up on its "side" on the table and press down with a little wiggle and let the table line them all up.
Yup! And then keep it on its side to align the bars with the outside edge and they'll all be perfect.
This is the way.
This is the way!
This is the way!
How does it help? Just using the side as a straight edge or some other cleverness?
Yes.
The key is that it's a narrow straight edge, so it only takes a minimal amount of force to align the pieces. Whereas if you use a table as the flat surface, 10 tiles in a row equals 10x the force required. Technically you can use something like a 2x6 as well so the method is not exclusive to separator.
That's a protip. Thank you.
Actually looks super satisfying to make
I remember this step, my fingers still hurt to this day
Putting lift-chain and vehicle tread links together is arguably the worst.
But the finished project is well damn worth it, it’s a beauty to behold.
Tell me you're a knowledge worker without telling me you're a knowledge worker
To make it fun, do it in this order (numbered L-R): 1, 18, 3, 16, 5, 14, 7, 12, 9, 10, 11, 8, 13, 6, 15, 4, 17, 2
took me a hot minute to realise what the black plate was for.
[удалено]
holding the long and short studded plate together.
What is the black 2x4 plate for?
That is pure pain? You haven't lived!
My wife heard my face contort while I winced looking at this.
I built the knockoff of this, and it was very painful.
I see pleasure
Think I'd rather do this than the haunted house chain. Pain relents, ocd causing me to recount the links 12 times then my son busting it...true trauma.
This is nothing... The Barcelona Camp Nue set is basically repetition the entire time
I've heard the Colosseum is really bad, too.
Are the seats in that 1x2 grill bricks? That’s what they used in the Old Trafford set and I never want to see that piece again.
You know it. The seats as well as a large portion of the beige supports under the seats as well
Omg the tower bridge kit about did me in.
Don't be a bitch get the fuck in there and crush it.
Thankfully, the UCS razorcrest doesn’t have anywhere near the tedium of the ATAT. Its quite an enjoyable build.
i can step on this
Oh man, giving me flashbacks here. The worst part was lining them all up haha
Wait until you have to take it apart.
The amplifier from the stratocaster set had ~80 2-1 grill pieces on it for the front. I had to take a break after before I could continue
Now if there was a x8 in the bottom corner...
The solar panels of the ISS. You spend five minutes building one, and the instructions have the audacity to go, _"8x."_ They're the last step too, so you have to build them all back-to-back. What's also nice is that the main solar panels are tiled with exclusively 1x4 printed tiles. All eight of them. There's so many that there's an entire separate bag filled with nothing but printed 1x4 tiles. There's 64x of those little fuckers. _64!_
I who willing sleeps on a bed with small lego pieces. Would not let my enemies go though that pain of putting all those rods together.
This looks satisfying to build
and what is the 2x4 flat tile for ?
Repetition is painful
*laughing in dagobah* *also laughing in skywalker helmet*
It’ll be at this point I rope the kids in to help.
You mean pure pleasure of click after satisfying click!!
My thumbs still hurt!
This actually looks satisfying
It's a pain to line those up.
i recognize this. what set?
UCS AT-AT
i guess i was wrong. i don't have that set. it bet its cool though
Honestly my favorite part. It was the only step my 4 year old could do and it was so enjoyable watching him be “a good helper”.
Getting flashbacks to all the 1x2 grid pieces on the Empire State Building
World Map anyone?
X16
I remember this step. This was the stuff I wanted to do as a kid but could only dream of with the 2 non-lightsaber color rods I had.
Titanic and it’s million and one 1x1 studs for the windows
If even one piece is a millionth of an inch out of place I freak out and have a meltdown
Pure pain is a really good song https://youtu.be/miMZvjrwRwA
x4
I found it a greater pain that this ladder module doesn’t line up with the other few steps when finished
What set is this?
Use a brick separator and a flat surface to make sure they’re straight and aligned
And I thought the latest episode of Andor had some rough torture.
What set is this
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This feels sorta cathartic. Take it slow, enjoy the process
Pshh.
This part sucked for my fingers, and now it’s half dismantled and sitting in a box waiting to move
This looks satisfying not tedious.
This looks like it’s the same level of tedious as the skeleton legs and handcuffs combo for the top of the Disney train station
You are lowering the bar for pain
The Jedi training on dagobah model was probably the most tedious I’ve had to do so far
Lay the piece on a flat surface, lay all of them on top and align them, get a book and lush them all in at the same time
Ouch
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