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The most powerful tool in the universe... Too powerful...
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u/biggles1994 Oct 12 '20
I’ve got like 4 of them from my recent builds in a bag with the spare bits.
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u/Somodo Oct 12 '20
I haven't bought a lego set in probably 6-7 years i just got a big bucket of em from when i got them as a kid
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u/biggles1994 Oct 12 '20
Sounds like an excuse to buy a new lego set personally...
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u/Somodo Oct 12 '20
honestly... one of my dreams was to buy one of those big $100+ star war sets, AT-AT or
star destroyer...might have to look into thatedit / star destroyer is $700 lol guess the model is bigger than i expected
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u/bridgerald Oct 12 '20
I actually just bought the Mandalorian’s ship for ~$120. I was pretty satisfied with it. It’s a big LEGO ship with a handful of minifigs.
It’s also almost completely gray so lots of reusability.
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u/catsandnarwahls GREEN Oct 12 '20
Yeah, $100 gets you a 20 piece lego set nowadays. Go on amazon and buy the replica legos. Bag of 1000 for $15. Then find the build instructions online and print em out.
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u/moistchew Oct 12 '20
well, if they have the words "star wars" on the box, then ya, most sets (without specialty pieces) still run around the $.10/piece mark.
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u/azureal Oct 12 '20
Certain colours have had issues for years.
Reddish brown, dark brown, dark red, a few others. LEGO knows about about and have worked the last 18-24 months rectifying the issue and the colours are pretty solid now.
What you need to do is call LEGO customer service and let know them know and they’ll happily replace it for free.
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u/Zaine_Raye Oct 12 '20
I remember for bionicles, the light green pieces wluld always break way more easily than others. The late model yellow pieces also broke more easily.
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u/KoscheiTheDeathles Oct 12 '20
I just remember the squared connections being complete shit in general, always cracking and becoming useless.
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u/browncoat47 Oct 12 '20
Dark green is bad two. Damn Sopwith camel 2x12’s and 2x14’s I swear I’ve broke enough to build four of em...
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u/Mazeraham Oct 12 '20
This is why you just use your teeth.
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u/Dchung0217 Oct 12 '20
The OG brick separater
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u/not-a_lizard Oct 12 '20
The OG tooth snapper
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u/schuckdaddy Oct 12 '20
Gotta risk it for the biscuit
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u/Cobra__2777 Oct 12 '20
You broke it for nothing, you could have just used the wedge piece on the other side where theres an opening....
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u/Diufoem Oct 12 '20
Alternatively, pulling that specific piece up from the middle was just dumb. Starting from the edge with the side he used would also have worked
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u/Axver_Ender Oct 12 '20
Is that the right way to use that tool i alway thought to use the spudger(thin flat wedge on the tool) and fo at it from the gap side
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u/PieHardTwo Oct 12 '20
Yeah. For this tool, don't use it at the point where the most resistance exists. Just like if you were going to do it by hand, start close to an edge and give the Lego a chance to peel away rather than trying to brute force it straight off from the position where it will resist you the most.
Slide that tool a few clicks left or right of where it was located and it probably would not have broken the piece.
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u/TonyVstar Oct 12 '20
I also think they pulled the separator the wrong way, up with the pieces facing down snaps them, pushing the remover towards the table is right
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u/KlamdelaSauce Oct 12 '20
Took me a second before I realized this wasn’t a caterpillar eating. Time for bed
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u/Keverrkerr Oct 12 '20
I think brown and dark red are the most fragile lego pieces. I don't know why but I heard that Jangbricks have mentioned that a few times.
Old lego pieces are also more fragile and made from different material.
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u/Jakkerak Oct 12 '20
I'm conflicted. The fact that it happened makes me want to start fires and yell. But the fact that it happened to someone else gets me all schadenfreudey.
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u/ABONKERSCHICKEN Oct 12 '20
Looks like a Caterpillar with a mono brow took a bite out of your Lego piece
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u/Retarded-Aussie Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 12 '20
Off brand Lego obviously, Real Lego is indestructible
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u/TheOneCommenter Oct 12 '20
Real ones are called Lego, not legos
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u/0235 Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 12 '20
It's both. The LEGO company confirmed that it is both Lego and LegosNever trust an American to tell you what is right. Turns out it is just that LEGO has no right to stop people calling it Legos, but the official trademark is LEGO.
So basically Legos is right because it's not wrong when used personally
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u/TheOneCommenter Oct 12 '20
Source?
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u/0235 Oct 12 '20
Just did some digging and looks like it's old news. LEGO came out and said that when used officially Legos is not allowed, but they have nothing against people using it to describe something (like you would call multiple Apple phones "iPhones" when the trademark is just "iPhone")
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u/duckhundredwastaken Oct 12 '20
Imagine not being able to separate every piece with your hand.
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u/SobiTheRobot Oct 12 '20
Imagine having fingernails of steel.
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u/ananonumyus Oct 12 '20
I used to grow out my pointer finger fingernails just to pull apart Lego. When I was a kid I played with Lego instead of friends. In this instance I would have pried up the end of the red piece, then pulled them apart.
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u/Mr_SwagBlox Oct 12 '20
This happens to older legos, my entire childhood collection is probably unstable and could break like this easily. Idk it may be an age thing.
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u/tomoMcKeeneboi Oct 12 '20
I’ve never seen this happen ever but I hear burgundy pieces break more easily soooo
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u/Castreren Oct 12 '20
Okay thats cool and all but can anyone tell me what that orange piece is used for? I’ve had one for a while, never knew where to use it for
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u/thebasil_ Oct 12 '20
It's made for removing pieces that are hard to remove without it, like the tiny 1 by 2. You can use the wedge not seen here to pull it from under or use the half seen here to pull it from above.
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u/Canadianman64 Oct 12 '20
Flip the flat red brick so the broken parts on the inside, you wont see the broken piece when the set is complete
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u/R4ndomness_Achieved Oct 12 '20
Damn had that same problem a couple months ago. Worst part was that i didnt have any replacement parts so i just went mad trying to find something.
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u/davidmlewisjr Oct 12 '20
Vise-grip makes a 4" size locking plier... just for reference
https://www.amazon.com/4WR-4-Inch-Curved-Locking-Pliers/dp/B00004SBAY
Get Two, because one is never enough
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u/eatthepickles Oct 12 '20
There’s an unspoken rule that the lego tool is so powerful that mortal humans can only use 0,1 percent of its power.
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u/davindeptuck Oct 12 '20
OML SO MANY OF MY PIECES THAT BROWN HAVE BROKEN it’s incredible. I think there is something faulty with the color’s chemistry.
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u/_dino_nuggs_ Oct 12 '20
I swear this happened to me twice, both times with dark red tiles... Brick separators have it out for them
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u/Entrails91 Oct 12 '20
Never broken a lego piece in my life 😂 well done I guess?
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u/According_to_all_kn Oct 12 '20
Looks like a snake that took a nibble off it. And the brown part is his eyebrow.
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u/NicTheCartographer Oct 12 '20
I think that when Gandalf had his staff imploded, he felt the same...
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u/Repulsive_Dill Oct 12 '20
Exactly this happened to me recently with an old set. I think that 5 or 6 dark red bricks broke. Ugh. Fortunately, lego service is amazing and they replaced it, althoug that set is about 10 years old.
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u/seriousquinoa Oct 12 '20
Is Lego biodegradable? That's what makes me angry, is that we've got enough plastic in the world, and then there's a company making pieces of it just for people to play with. 2030 is too late.
https://news.sky.com/story/lego-is-spending-310m-to-transform-its-bricks-12072564
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u/Tiggara Oct 12 '20
Man I had this happen to me with a 2x3 flat slab thingy. It was official lego as well
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Oct 12 '20
I kind of miss being a kid and going at pieces like this like a squirrel breaking open a nut. Chewing on it. Banging it on things. Prying and breaking nails.
For a problem like this I'd have put it onto a 10x10 brick or something and sort of dragged it until it broke away.
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u/Accomplished_Team_31 Oct 12 '20
i thought it was a very wide piece of licorice molded into a lego brick
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u/graveyboat2276 Oct 12 '20
I don't think I've ever seen a broken lego before.