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Hey welcome back to Brick by Brick, I'm your host Adam Ward
and today it's not a football episode,
today's episode is just about playing.
And I know what you're thinking,
Adam every episode is about play, your show is with Lego
and I hear you, you make a good point.
But I think that play is so important and not just play
like building something to sit on your desk
and look cool or building something to serve
a purpose but just play for the fun
and for the love of play.
So today we're gonna build something
just for the fun of it and that thing my friends
is this, a supersonic jet that.
(transforming noises)
Transforms into a karate doing, ballet doing,
robot that can also play the drums.
It's a robo-jet kind of day,
more than that, it is a day to play.
First up we've got a four by six slope,
this is one of the coolest pieces.
These act as a front of the jet and the robots chest plate.
A modified one by two brick allows us to give
the robots face some personality.
A handful of one by two and two by two slopes
give us the really cool shape of the wing
and the robots muscular build, he works out.
Two by two ball and socket joints,
this is the were the movement and the magic happens.
This build has got a whole lot of pieces,
if you wanna see a list of every last one of them
check out the video description.
Time to build this thing, we're gonna start
two four by six base plates.
One is gonna be on the front, one is gonna be on the back
like the robots chest and the planes fuselage maybe.
We are gonna start bringing out our two by two
ball and socket joints, we're gonna start with five
of each so ten total.
And we're gonna snap 'em together so when we put
the ball and socket joints on it's important how we
put 'em on.
Cause you want the robot arms to move and we want
them to be able to shift into the wings of the plane.
So let's start with the head and we're gonna put
the ball part on the head and then for the arms
go right below it and we also use
the ball sockets for the arms.
Now for the legs we use the socket joint instead.
So see some of the gaps in here,
gonna use some little bricks just to fill those in.
Got a little one by twos, squeeze those in there.
Fill that in, just like that.
Now when we put the other four by six on,
now we're off to a really strong start.
Next up, more ball and socket joints.
To attach 'em we need our two by four plates
and these are gonna go right on top.
And right on top.
And then we bring those right in like that.
Snap these in.
And then if we flip it over we see some other spots
where we can add two by four plates.
Okay so next up we are going to do the chest plate
of the robot.
That is where one of our specials come in,
that is a four by six really, really, cool slope piece.
And that's gonna live right there.
But before we put it down one of the cool things
about this transformation is that the top of the jet,
the front of it goes back and turns into the robots
shield, the robots helmet.
So to make sure that they line up right
you gotta put a couple pieces in here
so it's really nice connection.
So I'm gonna start by putting a one by two, boom,
right there, right on the top.
And now you're going to put a two by three, boom,
right on top of it of it.
We're gonna take a one by two and put it right up in there.
And then push that on so while we're in the neighborhood
let's throw a tile on there to keep our piece from sticking
when it comes back from robot into plane.
Now we're gonna attach the robot helmet that's also
the front of the plane.
Uses another one of these awesome four by six slopes.
So we're gonna flip it over and on the bottom side
we see some interesting contours.
These contours are great, we're gonna even some of them
out using a two by three plate and also some of our
one by twos that we already have.
Snap the one by twos in, you could also do this with
a two by two but I had the one by twos ready to go.
So this piece already has a ridge in there so we added
two one by twos and plus the ridge we have our space
for our two by three.
Now that snaps in, you'll that notice I'm leaving
the very edge open, that's on purpose.
You don't wanna put anything there
and you don't wanna put anything that might get in there
because that is the piece that's gonna lock
down right below the robots neck to make sure
that when you're playing around with your jet
it stays a jet and it doesn't accidentally flip
into a robots head.
Before we put the head on we need one more two by three.
So this two by three is gonna go right on the socket
joint and you'll notice that there's a little
opening on the end.
Gonna leave that open for now, it's gonna give us some
really fun ways to play with our robot face.
Once that's on we can flip it over and use the chest
piece as a guide and snap it into place.
So now we see our awesome jet orientation
and if we.
(transformation sounds)
We have our robot face, those noises,
I guess they're optional, I feel like they're pretty
necessary just do it because you know,
you only live question mark number of times.
Time for some wings.
I like to kind of mix-up the color as I'm going.
So I have just a bin of different one by two slopes.
So I'm just gonna use a combination of these
to make the wings that also turn into
the very muscular arms of our robot.
So gonna start with a couple two by twos
and you'll see that the shorter side is near the jet
because when our arms fold down and become our wings
we want those to come out like this.
And behind our two by twos just gonna drop in
a two by two brick and right on top of these
I'm gonna go dark grey on the back,
lime on the front, dark grey on the back,
lime on the front and then behind those we wanna
put a one by two.
Snap that in, snap that in.
And then on top of this we're gonna do
one more set of slopes.
So let's go back to that burgundy color.
Same direction, boom that locks in, boom that locks in.
So now we have our burly arms when we're in robot mode
and then we turn into plane mode.
(transformation noises)
Told ya, more sound effects, get used to 'em
they're not going anywhere.
We have our wings.
So now we're gonna add some fun pieces to the hands.
For that we are gonna use some two by threes.
So two by three is gonna go under each hand.
And now there's a bunch of different options
that you can use, it's totally up to you.
But I've got some one by two pieces with some little
clips and these clips are cool cause you can put
a ton of different pieces inside so I'm gonna
add these clips, boom, to the end.
And then on top of these we're just gonna put
some tiles.
So I'm gonna put two by two on the outside,
one by two on the inside.
And the two by two on the outside
and one by two on the inside.
So we're gonna leave the arms slash wings
alone for a little bit and we are gonna give the feet
some love.
So the first step is to make the feet a little bit bigger.
To do that we add some two by four plates
to the bottom of the feet.
Now you can have your robot stand like that,
that's totally cool, that's an acceptable way to stand.
But I'm gonna show you a trick to make your robots stance
a little cooler, a little more interesting.
So I'm gonna start this time with a one by two
grey slopes, put that in, boom.
Put that in.
Next let's do some dark blue, sounds good.
So right on top of those, dark blue.
And now we do need a brick, we need a one by brick
to go behind our blue pieces.
One by two bricks go right on, right on.
People say right on anymore?
I think that's a good saying.
And then on top brighten it up,
I'm gonna throw some orange on there.
We don't have any orange yet, gonna invite some orange
to the party.
And if you got 'em to go on top of these
you can use tiles or can also use these one by two
wedges which will actually continue
basically the same slope.
And now instead of standing how we were standing before
we get this really cool stance.
And now the feet are also bigger so we have more options
with how to balance our robot.
Could even balance our robot walking a tightrope there
on one foot.
Also what's cool about this design is now when the arms
fold in and the legs fold up.
These pieces they look like that back vertical wing,
I dunno, I think it's called like a dorsal fin
on a dolphin, I dunno what it's called on a jet,
but the jets dorsal fin shoots up and it continues
that really cool aerodynamic mode,
that great look that we've already got.
But we are not done with the legs yet.
What we're gonna do is we are gonna add another
set of plates on top it's kind of like the knee pads maybe.
So we're gonna throw in, dude this looks cool,
throw on one more layer of plates, boom, shackalaka,
shakalacka, boom.
Back to knee pads, bingo.
Now they fold in and now that gap is gone, boom.
So now our jet is fairly complete but I think our robot
needs a little bit more attention.
So let's change it back into a robot.
So one thing you might notice is our robot, poor robot,
doesn't have a face.
Robots gotta have a face.
So I like to use one by two modified brick,
love these pieces they're awesome,
and had these studs on the side, little notches on the side.
So snap that in there and that alone already kinda
looks like eyes but if you've got the pieces,
and you might, you can actually use Lego eyeballs.
And give our robot just a ton of personality.
You can put the eyes close together,
make them far apart,
you can make your robot have wacky eyes,
doesn't know what's going on.
And to lock it in we're going to add
some plates to the bottom just like that.
And a nice little contour piece which actually helps
the jet fuselage stay a jet fuselage are these
one by two inverted slopes.
And I like to put these right on the side here.
Just like that.
And this one goes just,
so close come on, just like that.
That way we have even more pieces that are gonna
lock our jet fuselage in so that we're in aero-plane mode.
We see all these little bricks that are still open,
let's close those.
Let's cover those up.
We've got some fun tiles, we've got some fun colors we
can play with.
And in addition to the tiles we've also got some
of these, these are grates.
Like a tile there's no notches on top,
it's totally smooth.
But there's a opening so you can actually see behind
so it lets the color that it covers still show off.
I think these are really cool so let's put some
in here, let's not even do tiles on the back,
I changed my mind.
Gonna do one by one little rounded plates
and one by one little rounded tiles,
give it a cool little effect.
And then when you put tiles on here
just make sure you don't put one there
cause then your plane is just a plane
and your robot never gets to come out and play.
So we're gonna put that one the front,
that one on the back.
So what's next?
Oh yeah these hands.
Let's put something in them.
I dunno maybe some drumsticks, boom.
Like a plane with drumsticks?
Yeah a plane with drumsticks maybe not
but a robot that can do karate, ballet
and play the drums, now he's gonna get invited
to all the parties.
The drumsticks are really sweet plus if you just
give 'em like a little flick.
I'm afraid to do it, it's gonna go so far.
They fire off into space which is really fun,
just don't do it into your sisters face.
We have a complete robot.
Not only do we have a complete robot
we also got ourselves a complete jet.
And the only thing cooler than our robo-jet.
(flying noises)
Multiple robo-jets.
And as you can see there's different color combinations,
there's different pieces, there's different details
to all of these.
So I really invite you to play with yours and have fun
building it, if you don't have these exact pieces,
don't worry about it.
You can build 'em so many different ways.
You could add wheels, you could have a robo-jet car.
You can make it a boat, you could have a robo-ro-boat
which would be pretty sweet.
So I'm gonna take these out into the world
and get people to play with 'em.
And maybe just bring out some bricks
and see what people feel like making.
I'm gonna interrupt adults in the middle
of their work day and remind them how important
it is to play.
These robots look like they're about to drop
the hottest mixtape of 2016 or what.
This has been super fun, keep on playing,
keep on being you, we'll see you next time.
Nothing brings me more joy than seeing the Lego
creations you all have built, seriously.
I wanna see what you've made.
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