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Guys, today, we are here at a store called Bricks & Minifigs
with our friend Cory.
This is a Lego store.
It's...
Describe it to us a little bit.
At Bricks & Minifigs, we sell all things Lego.
We buy back Lego,
and we resell pre-owned sets, loose minifigures,
bulk pieces, you can build your own mini figure,
and you can even host your birthday party here.
It's amazing.
We came in here to film,
and we played for an hour.
This place is amazing.
So today, we want to do an experiment of Lego.
We have done some stuff with Lego pieces before,
and today's adventure is gonna be a little bit more destructive
than some other stuff.
Lego is made from what's called ABS plastic,
and ABS plastic is well known for not doing so well
if it comes in contact with acetone.
And so, our thought is we can get a lot of acetone,
and a lot of Lego,
and see what happens when they meet.
Our plan is to destroy something Star Wars themed,
and in fact,
we're going to try and melt the Millennium Falcon.
Nate, we don't have a fish tank big enough for this.
Okay, I believe this is the largest Lego set
that is made.
So we're going to go for not this Millennium Falcon,
but this Millennium Falcon.
We're going to set up a fish tank,
and then we're going to pour a lot of acetone in,
and just submerge the Millennium Falcon in it.
So this should be pretty great.
So I mean,
we can give it back to you, but like in a bucket.
Well, yeah.
Well, okay.
Okay.
So if we're going to destroy one of these,
then I think we need to see
how it's built from the ground up, don't you think?
Oh, definitely.
Because there's, it's not just outward,
like there's the inner pieces you can actually see inside this.
Yeah.
I want to see how this is put together.
We'll build one,
and then we'll see what happens when we dunk it in acetone.
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We've got a Millennium Falcon set up on a tank.
We've also got it sitting over this large plastic tub,
and that's because it's supposed to be water tight,
and acetone shouldn't destroy the silicone
that's holding these panes of glass together,
but just in case it starts
to leak, we don't want it to all fail catastrophically,
and just pour acetone everywhere.
So if it does start to leak,
it should mostly land in this tub.
And so it's just a little bit of a precaution.
So as sad as this is,
we still want as many angles as possible of the destruction
that we're going to be causing here.
So we've got lots of GoPros.
We've got lots of lights.
We're going to make sure that everything's time elapsed.
All right, we've got 10 gallons of acetone.
Might do it.
Let's start pouring.
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Is that looking cloudy?
I don't want to look cloudy.
That's super cloudy actually.
You can't even see through that.
I think it's just dissolving the white bottom piece already.
Yeah, where I'm pouring,
it's already like smoothed it out a lot.
It looks like...
I'm going to pour on the clear, see what happens.
All right.
This is starting to dissolve
the Lego a lot faster than I thought it was going to.
The spots where we've been pouring it,
like it's removing detail already.
Like I'm pretty sure the sides were that's been poured on,
like it no longer has
the word Lego on the bumps and stuff like that.
Acetone is actually very clear.
So what we're seeing, all of this cloudiness,
is when we're pouring it
in the white bottom of it was just dissolving that quickly.
Hopefully, it'll clear up just a little just, just enough for us to see it.
I think it might settle.
Yeah.
So even this top part here that isn't under,
but it's just been splashed on, look at this.
That's my fingernail just scraping right into that.
Well, you can see right here,
where I first started pouring, its actually...
[inaudible] and let it sit now.
Yeah, that's stuck to my fingers.
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Quick update.
This is now been sitting in the tank of acetone for about an hour,
and unfortunately,
right as we pour the acetone in,
and immediately started getting cloudy.
We think that might be
because the white base that it was sitting on,
and the blue background were actually not Lego brand.
They were an off-brand,
and yeah, it was probably a different formula the plastic
that dissolves even faster,
and so, it just went cloudy immediately.
Now, you can see
that the acetone is basically all blue, even
though there's only just those two blue plates in the back.
So we are going to try this again,
including destroying a second Millennium Falcon,
because we want to start with clear acetone,
and make it so you can actually see what's happening.
It may still go cloudy as some of Lego dissolves,
but we wanted to at least start clear,
and then get cloudy.
So now, we're going to try and take some of those out,
and see this is just like mush.
Oh, no.
The stickers are almost been staying.
Let's see what happens if I try and lift the whole thing.
I-- Oh.
Lift, lift slowly
because it-- Lifts really slow because when it breaks,
it's gonna splash down a lot.
I got it.
This piece--
There goes that one.
Okay, it's gone.
I'm sorry Han, Chewie, forgive me.
You guys see this.
It's like, you can kind of see the Lego pattern left
as it just dissolves against my hand.
Oh no.
Bowl full of spaceship.
This will no longer be making the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.
Oh, it has weakened my glove.
We wear nitrile gloves,
which are fairly chemically resistant.
But this has been too much.
Mine's gone.
Prolonged contact with acetone in your skin is not a good idea.
It's not like gonna instantly cause problems,
but it's definitely
not something you want to keep doing.
You use this stuff to take off nail polish and stuff,
but I'm still going to go rinse my hands anyways,
because it went right through on me.
I'm gonna try something else.
We're going to fill the tank with acetone.
No base plate, no backdrop to it.
And then we're just going to lower our Millennium Falcon
down into it.
I have done very small-scale tests of putting Lego
in acetone that way before,
and we didn't get any cloudy when I did that.
So hopefully, we'll get a better result like this.
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If this spills,
we saying goodbye to this kitchen.
Turn on the fan,
and just leave the house for a day.
So there's only one redeeming quality about melting this now.
Nate has included himself in the melting process.
Got to have a pilot.
So we've blended Grant, and now we're melting Nate.
I'll be fine.
Okay.
Let go.
I don't wanna.
Let it go.
There you go.
Carefully lower it down, here, filling the acetone.
Oh no.
Much less cloudy.
All right, Yoda, pull it up out of the swamp.
Come on, you can do it.
Dude, do not.
There is no dry.
It's something, definitely.
Yeah, and you can see,
so it's hard to see on the camera right now,
we'll see zoom in later.
But if you're actually looking at it,
the red color is actually already seeping away.
Oh, it is.
It is.
You see that?
All right, let's let this sit for a while,
and just observe the destruction.
I do like distraction.
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We've left this in for about three hours.
And as you can see,
we have achieved pretty total destruction.
Oh, it's all over.
You did that.
Everything.
I shouldn't touch it.
There's just like there's one centerpiece holding itself up.
There's a couple of arch shaped pieces of Lego in there,
and those seem to be...
They haven't melted at all.
Oddly resistant.
I'm going to touch it.
Oh, oh, no.
It's just barely supported right now.
This is the end of the Millennium Falcon, you guys.
Oh, it's--
No, now, it's a boat.
Look at that.
So I can just like scrape off,
and then these arches are like untouched.
Okay, so not untouched.
It's very fragile.
But like...
So a lot of the bricks,
they seriously like swelled up, absorbed the acetone,
and look at that goo.
But these, they're like the exact same shape,
so I'm guessing there's like different densities of Lego.
Oh no.
I was going to try and see
if I could unsnap any of these Lego,
see if any of--
And they are still in the center.
Okay?
No, I think that's a no right there.
So this piece right here,
it has like these little pegs on the side.
And so I think there's a structural grade of Lego,
and a less structural grade of Lego.
It's not swollen up.
You can still clearly read Lego on the bumps,
and everything else hours ago became swollen
and illegible and really soft.
Oh, hey, I found another survived piece,
because you can see it's still dry.
Nothing touched that.
It was just like enclosed entirely.
Yeah, but pulling it apart kind of feels like a caramel popcorn.
This is a rescue attempt.
I'm going to try and pull my mini figure out.
He escaped the cockpit.
I have become liquid,
and I just got cut in half with a pair of tongs.
Hang on, I can fix you.
Don't worry.
I've got this.
Good luck.
There, you're fine.
See?
I look great.
You're fine.
Oh, I think we should now take the remains
of this Millennium Falcon back to the nice people
who lent it to us.
Yeah, they did ask for it back.
We are back at the Bricks & Minifigs store,
and we're here to present Cory
with the remains of our Millennium Falcon.
>> Oh my goodness. >> There you go.
Just the way you gave it to us.
What did you do to my baby?
I'm so sorry.
Quick reminder.
Before.
After.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
So how many gallons of acetone?
I think we used to 8.
8 gallons of acetone.
Yeah.
And then several days to evaporate, I'm guessing.
Yeah, we poured most of it off,
but we didn't like--
We didn't want to poor everything off,
because there was a lot of like liquid Lego sludge
in it as well.
So we wanted to let it settle quite a bit.
I got to say, my favorite part is
that they're just still a couple of pieces
that didn't go anywhere.
So like, this is the cockpit,
and it's not clear anymore obviously.
Like, it should be clear,
and now it's very opaque plastic.
But it's still intact.
You guys are braver than I,
because man, to do that to such a wonderful sight.
It's true.
Fortunately, we still have one.
We're not going to ruin this one.
Okay, good.
As he drops it, right?
Maybe don't let Nate hold it anymore.
Okay.
Wait, this one you can--
Now, this one.
>> Whoa. Whoa. >> Put that down.
Come on.
Really.
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