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(Legos clicking)
(Adam murmuring)
- Okay, internet, you're right.
This is pretty cool.
This is the movable piece of triangular art
that so many people wanted to know about,
and this is Brick by Brick, and I'm your host Adam Ward.
Today, I'm gonna show you how to make this thing
and some other pieces like it.
And, I bet I know what you're thinking.
You're like, that doesn't even look like Lego,
that's so weird, I've never seen something move like that,
it must be this super-complicated impossible build.
Well, if you're thinking that, it's okay, I still love you,
but you're wrong (laughing).
This is one of the most simple builds in the entire world.
It only takes three different types of pieces.
It's just a basic hinge.
But when one hinge jumps off of a door
and stops rolling solo and joins up
with a bunch of its hinge-y buddies,
you get a really cool interesting piece
of art, jewelry, clothes, I don't even know what it is,
but it's really fun to play with.
And you get to make your own.
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You may be thinking to yourself,
three pieces?
No way!
I don't buy it for a nickel and a half.
Well, lucky for you they don't sell half nickels,
because it is just three pieces.
Check it out. (Legos squeaking)
This entire movable piece of art is just a combination
of two by two hinges, one by four plates,
and to make it look smooth and cool on top,
one by four tiles.
Here's how they come together.
We take two hinges,
with our little bubbles facing the same way,
half on that, half on that piece.
You can pick it up with your hands
and feel that little movement in there.
One more plate, hinge goes on, take another hinge,
put it on the same plate, bring in a new plate.
And you just repeat this pattern
over and over and over again.
Now, you can make it really really big,
but if it's just one level high,
it's not gonna be that strong.
So you're gonna wanna for sure go two or three levels high
to make it really nice and strong.
That way it doesn't just fall apart the second
that you start playing with it.
You want to show it to somebody.
This piece is one, two, three, four, five.
Five hinges high.
So, if you have, say, 100 hinges,
at five high,
you'll have 20 hinges all the way around.
This is a bit more than that, but 20's plenty.
And you can do all of this
with some plates, some hinges, and some tiles.
Pretty sweet, right?
There's more.
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You're saying hey, Adam!
What if I don't have any hinges?
Guess what?
No hinges?
No problem.
With a similar technique,
you can get awesome movement
out of just plain old bricks and plain old plates.
Check it out.
This wacky, wild, bizarre piece of awesome
is just a one by four plate
and a bunch of its friends.
And each one by four plate is connected to the sides
of the one by four plate above it.
That's all we're doing to create this movement.
And with this thing,
we can make such
bizarre shapes (Legos squeaking)
and weird creaking sounds as it moves.
Don't have plates?
Guess what?
No problem!
You can also do it with bricks.
One by four bricks.
You can do it with one by three, one by six, one by eight.
I like one by four because they're pretty common pieces
and they're fairly sturdy.
Take a brick, put its ends on the ends of two other bricks,
snap that in. (Legos squeaking)
And with this little fun thing,
let's see, what do I see?
That's like a profile of a cartoon,
a little flame emoji, all sorts of stuff.
This is like 35 pieces.
Again, possibilities, endless.
No hinges necessary.
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Okay.
No more mister nice build.
Ready for something complex?
I give you,
the epic snake monster.
And yet,
if we look a little bit closer into what it takes
to make an epic snake monster,
you'll see that this ferocious beast
is nothing more than a bunch of links.
And even the links are easy to build.
Yeah.
You can make an epic snake monster too.
I'm gonna show you how.
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First up, two by four rounded slopes.
These act as the snake's scales.
We've got four by four plates,
and these hold the ball and socket joints together
and make the snake super strong.
Our two by two socket joints connect
with our two by two ball joints,
and together they make an amazing connection
with a ton of movement.
The four by four inverted slopes round out
the bottom of the snake,
and the two by two foot tiles give the snake's belly
that smooth, shiny look.
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Here we go.
We start with two ball joints and two socket joints.
On the links, they live like this.
And we've got two of our four by four base plates.
(whistle)
Ball will go on one side, sockets go on the other side,
and then our base plate goes right on top.
Now, to give our snake the awesome scaly effect,
we have our two by four rounded slopes,
those go on top.
And, to have our awesome belly of the snake,
four by four inverted slope and our two foot tiles.
(pieces click in) Right on the bottom.
There's a link.
This link connects with their other friends.
(Lego pieces click into place)
Three are cooler than one.
The sum of all the parts,
way cooler than the piece on its own.
Snap more pieces together, and more pieces together,
and I use all the same.
All the same lime two by four rounded slopes,
but you don't have to.
You can totally mix it up.
We've got different types of patterns and colors
and textures,
and all these different cool things we can do.
The possibilities, they're limitless.
Snap it together, and as it grows,
it gets cooler and cooler.
And I built a little head and a tail
to make it look more like a snake monster,
but the most interesting part is in the center,
it's in the movement.
These are pieces that, you know,
ball and socket joint is pretty cool,
and maybe it's on a robot's arm or part of a spaceship,
but on its own, you might not even look at it twice.
And now, it's coming together like,
I can't stop playing with it.
So how many things out there are you just looking past,
and writing those off as not that interesting,
when really, there's some magic inside.
We've been making all of these cool moving pieces.
Hinges without hinges,
we've got the one that started it all,
the triangular moving piece of art.
All of these different ideas.
Well, one piece, you're like, oh yeah, one by four plate,
no big deal.
But you put it with all of its friends,
and all of a sudden you've got something awesome.
How many of you even noticed that I'm wearing
a Lego bracelet right now?
These aren't even really hinges,
just a different piece used with a new spin.
I think I'm gonna take all of these pieces
and go have a fashion show.
Yeah, the first Lego fashion show is happening
right now.
Snake monster's my body guard.
My bracelet's my first piece,
and these are the beginnings of my summer,
maybe fall, collection.
See you next time.
Au revoir!
Is that, that's a fashion-y thing, right?
Yeah.
Au revoir.
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These builds were so much fun.
If you want to try your hand
at another Brick by Brick build,
you can click the video on the right,
or if you want to see me take the movable art
to the streets for maybe the first-ever Lego fashion show,
click the video on the left,
or on the info card in the top right corner.
Adam out!
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