- Friends, welcome back to Brick by Brick.
I'm your host, Adam Ward,
and we have an awesome show for you.
Fidget Spinners are everywhere,
and I've made a bunch of different Lego versions.
We got small ones, we got medium ones, we got ones
with two prongs, with three prongs, with four prongs.
Are they even called prongs?
I don't know Fidget Spinner vocabulary,
but I know how to build them.
And you are going to learn how to build them right now.
Are you ready?
Put on your Fidget Spinner related seat belts,
and helmets, and safety goggles,
or none of those things, because it's time to build.
The first Fidget Spinner I am going
to teach you how to build is so small
you might not even realize it's in my hand.
This one, my friends, is an awesome little Fidget Spinner.
It spins really well.
It uses a 1 x 5 Technic bar.
Here's how to make one.
First up, you need a 1x5 Technic bar.
These pieces are awesome.
They're not quite bricks, they're rounded
on the sides, and they just have a bunch
of Technic holes that you can put things through.
Then what you're gonna do is get a 1x3 Technic pin.
And that's gonna go right through the center just like that.
Next up you need two 1x2 Technic balls.
These pieces are amazing.
They're really easy to hold onto, and the Technic
opening on the bottom fits right on the pin.
Attach this on the top and on the bottom.
What's really cool about this connection
is it creates almost no friction,
and friction is the natural enemy of the Fidget Spinner.
So, whether you're holding it light or really, really tight,
the center piece spins really nicely.
Now, you could end right there, but we want to add a little
bit more flair, so we grab these half Technic little axles.
Snap one in there.
And one in there.
And what that does is it gives us a little
1x1 stud that we can add different stuff on.
So, I'm just gonna give it a little bit of color, boom.
Like a ballerina hanging onto some pom-poms.
And Fidget Spinner is ready to go.
Now, in this same size, there's other things you can do.
You can grab one of these Technic pieces and just put
some balls on the end, which is really fun to spin.
It also makes a cool little car.
You can make it even bigger,
give you more surface area to play with.
Or you can even go in different directions.
This is like a capital 'H' with a clown nose in the middle.
If you spin that one, you get a really cool effect.
And all these are using the basic same principle,
a 1x3 axle with a ball or similar piece top and bottom,
and then some Technic pieces to connect
other fun, colorful pieces.
These are the smallest Fidget Spinners.
They're the easiest, they take the fewest amount of pieces
and, as I said, they're easy to hide.
But if you're looking for something a little bit bigger,
something closer to the natural Fidget Spinners
that you see in their natural habitat,
you might want to make something that looks like this.
This is like the medium size one.
So, if you've got small hands, tiny high-five,
you can probably spin this one one-handed as well.
I'm a show you how to build it right now.
So, to kick off this Fidget Spinner,
we are gonna use a 4x4 rounded plate.
Now, on the top, bottom, side to side,
we're gonna put 2x2 plates.
These are also rounded.
These have an opening in the center too,
but they have a Technic opening.
So, if you're just using a Technic pin
to create the spin, it's not gonna spin through these.
But the Technic pin will totally spin
through the open circle.
So, north, east, south, west, all the way around.
Then we're gonna grab another 4x4
and place it right on top.
Now that that's all set, we're ready for our Technic pin.
This one is four studs tall, one, two, three, four,
and it's gonna go right in the middle.
And you can see right away it gets really great spin action.
Put it right there, and we're gonna take out some of these.
These are 3x3 Tecnhic washers.
These pieces rule!
I'm gonna slide this down, flip it over,
center it a little bit, slide this one on the bottom.
Now, with this design it is possible
that you could squeeze too tight so that
there's no space for your center piece to spin.
You want them close but not too close.
Just give it a little flick test, the old flick test.
Oh, good sound!
And then we can put a cap on the top and the bottom.
We could use rounded ones like we used on the small one,
but we're gonna use these conical ones
because that's a really fun word to say, conical.
It means cone-like.
Boom, slide those on.
I like to cap each one off
with a little 1x1 rounded tile.
Oh, see, I squeezed a little bit too hard.
But friends, here's the cool thing.
If you do squeeze too hard, your Fidget Spinner
becomes a pretty sweet top.
Friends, we've done small, we've done medium.
If you've ever been in a shirt store before,
you know what comes next, large!
Here is a large Fidget Spinner.
It feels really good, has a little bit
of weight to it because we've added
a lot of different designs and decorations.
And what's really surprised me when I was building these
is that adding a bunch of weight didn't really slow it down,
and in some cases adding more weight even sped it up.
You can even ...
Almost!
Seven hours later.
Ohh, second try!
So, just like with the medium one,
we're gonna kick this build off with the center,
and we also use a 4x4 rounded piece.
But instead of using the 2x2's all the way around,
we're gonna use more 4x4's, and here's how you build them.
Start of with one, and in the center you're going to put,
boom, a 2x2, and then on top of that
you're gonna grab a 2x2 rounded tile
and put that right in there.
And then on one side of our circle,
you're gonna add two 1x1's.
I got green here 'cause it's a fun color.
And this side is going to be the outside.
We're gonna do that exact same thing three more times.
So, boom, sha, kalaka.
Then we're gonna take these and put them all around
our central 4x4, keeping our little 1x1's on the outside.
Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna get another 4x4
and put it right in the middle, just like that.
Now next up is a really cool piece.
It's a 4x4, but there's a 2x2 opening in the center.
So if we take these and put them on top,
we get that really cool effect that kind of mimics
the actual Fidget Spinner's ball bearings.
Boom, and just like that.
Now for the axle.
We are going to use a 1x4 Technic axle,
and it's gonna go, no surprise here, right in the center.
Give it a nice spin.
Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna take
another one of our 3x3 Technic washers
and just slide it on down.
And we're gonna cap it off with another one off our cones.
Flip the whole things over and cap off the bottom.
And another cool thing you can do, you can grab
some boat tiles and throw it on the bottom.
So, whether you're spinning your Fidget Spinner upside down
or right side up, you get some cool color changing effects.
I love the Fidget Spinner sound!
So, friends, today we learned how to make
the big Fidget Spinner, the medium Fidget Spinner,
and of course the teeny tiny Fidget Spinner.
But there are so many other versions.
I made these different ones coming up with these designs.
Here's other small ones.
Some of them are very sleek and futuristic, some very basic,
some have three arms, some four, some two.
And there's tons of people out there making amazing
Fidget Spinners out of wood, plastic, out of Lego.
But my favorite thing about the Fidget Spinner phenomenon
is it is getting toys back into people's hands
and inviting them to play, instead of being on a phone
or doing something that's not quite as creative and playful.
They're spinning things on their hands, they're learning
tricks, they're sharing them with their friends,
they're teaching their friends how to do those tricks,
and bringing more play into our lives.
It's one my favorite things.
I hope you enjoyed building this one
or building whatever your building.
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I'm determined to get this hand pass down.
So close!
Ah!
Get it?
And it's in pieces.