(bright music)
- Hey friends.
Welcome to Brick By Brick.
I'm your host Adam Ward, and today
we've got a super special episode.
We have teamed up with Warner Brothers
to bring you a show inspired by the Lego Batman Movie.
I know, Lego and Batman,
it's like my two favorite-est things coming together.
It's like if you could combine pizza and ice cream,
but have it not be gross.
But this is actually happening.
This is happening right now, and what I've created is...
A Lego Batarang.
No superhero's utility belt is complete without a Batarang.
It's got so many uses.
This thing is crazy useful,
and, there's one super special use
that if you stick around for the very end,
I'm gonna show you.
Ready to get building?
Let's go.
So the best place to start with the Batarang
is the bat's head.
That's where it gets all of its bat wisdom,
its radar,
its battiness, just in general.
So the Batarang, as you saw from before, is all black.
So we're gonna grab some two by sixes
and some more two by sixes, four in total,
and we're gonna put them like this.
We're gonna keep one space in between the two closest ones.
We're gonna go ahead and fill that in.
So hold that right there.
When you're doing a build like this,
it's nice to put the bricks on their side.
Then, we are going to take one,
two, three more one by ones,
and we're gonna put one here,
one here,
and one single file right under this one.
I know that might seem a little bit weird,
but trust me, there's a reason.
You smush them all together,
line them up nice and straight.
Now on top of this contraption,
we are going to put a one by four, just like that.
And it's a little bit more on the left.
So we've got two pieces over here,
but only one piece over there.
And then we've got a one by one brick,
it's gonna go just like that.
And now, to start the slope of the bat's head,
we're going to put a one by two slope there,
and a one by two slope there.
Now, for that special little bonus use that I teased
at the beginning of the episode,
we are going to use these
one by one technic bricks with holes.
These pieces are awesome.
I'm gonna put one right there,
then we're gonna skip one,
drop one right in there.
And then, we're gonna put one more brick
right there.
Then on top of this
goes one plate,
and two plates.
Now, we can flip it up because it's nice and sturdy.
Then we're gonna add another one by two slope right there.
And in front of all these,
we're going to put a brick like that,
and a brick right there.
So the very beginning of the slope of the Batarang
is starting to take shape.
We've got the shoulders, if bats have shoulders,
I don't know, I'm not a bat-ologist,
and we've got, right now, coming up into the neck of the bat
we've got these really cool pieces.
This is a one by two slope,
but it's two tall.
It's not like too tall, like T-O-O tall,
it's T-W-O tall, it's two bricks high.
And that goes in just like that,
creating a one by three space.
It's interesting with Lego, when you build in odd numbers,
sometimes you can end up with some strange remainders,
but what's cool about it is when you build odd,
it means that you have an exact center down your piece.
The next piece we're gonna plop in
is another one by three brick.
That's gonna go right on top.
And now it's time for a bat ears.
Now it might feel more natural
to just continue the same slope.
But that doesn't look like a bat.
So we actually flip these around,
even though it might seem weird at first,
that makes the bat ears perk up.
So they can be on the lookout for the Joker,
the Riddler, Clayface,
the Penguin, so many nemeses!
How does he keep track of them all?
So, now, our Batarang, got the head, it's ready,
and we got these openings down here
that we're gonna fill in.
Now I don't have any two by threes,
so I use two one by threes that work just as well.
Right there, one by three, one by three.
Throw them together.
And lock those down.
Now we're gonna put this aside,
and it's time to build one of the wings of the Batarang.
Now the wings implement a ton of different curved pieces.
And that's one of the really cool things about Lego.
When people think Lego,
they often think of squares and rectangles,
but Lego has introduced these really cool curved pieces
over the years.
And if you use them together, you get these awesome slopes
that really don't even look like Lego,
it looks like a real bat.
One of my favorite slop pieces is this.
It's called a one by four curved slope.
It's just got a really awesome curve to it.
So we're gonna take two of those,
stack them right on top of each other,
and we're gonna attach them, with this two by two,
right on the bottom.
Then on the backside, we're gonna use a one by two
to do the same thing.
Now off the edge of this curve,
we're gonna use another curved piece,
because a Batarang's one of the curviest objects out there.
We're gonna snap these pieces right on the bottom.
And these pieces are so cool.
I don't know what the official name is,
like a one by one with cool curvy
something or other on the side.
Message board, you always know what the pieces are called,
what is this piece called?
But what's so awesome about it is,
it lets you have the little one by one to attach,
but then what sticks out is just this really cool
kind of rounded slope.
After that, we're gonna add a one by two brick.
Just like that.
And then, we're going to add a one by two plate.
And then we've got our fantastic SNOT pieces,
our pieces with the studs on the side.
And we're gonna attach these like so.
You wanna ensure that the stud is sticking to the outside,
because this is gonna let us add
even more curve to the Batarang.
What!
Even more curve?
Even more!
Good job.
And then what we do is we use some of these inverted slopes.
So the inverted slopes have the dots on the top.
But before we do that, we wanna make sure
that we have the exact right pieces in place.
And we need to put one more one by two right in there.
Now we can plug these in.
And so the curve isn't just fluid on the outside,
but also on the inside.
You slide a one by two brick
in right behind that piece.
And now the bat wing starts to go the other direction.
We've got some two by two bricks,
put them on top of each other,
slide them right up in there.
Take our one by two brick, put it right there.
And another one, two by two brick,
snap it in like that.
Does a Batarang have just one wing, or two wings?
Well, if's it's an old Batarang
that you've been using for years,
maybe it's just down to one wing.
But fortunately, this is a brand new Batarang,
so it's got two wings.
The second wing is the exact same as the first one,
you just gotta flip it over.
So now, if we bring back the beginning of the bat
and we apply the wings like so.
Not only do we get great sound effects,
we really start to see the beginning
of our Batarang coming together.
Pretty sweet, right?
Batarang time!
Next up is a very important part of the Batarang
for our super secret extra use.
So what we do, is we take a two by three plate,
and we have six of these one by one SNOT pieces.
And we put these on so they're sticking out
off to the sides.
Off to the side, off to the side,
off to the side, off to the side.
And then we've got a couple tiles
we're just gonna put right on top.
Now what this does is this allows us
to change direction while building,
which is such a cool move.
So these SNOT pieces are gonna come down,
and remember when we did,
one by two, one by two, one by two?
This is exactly why.
These pieces fit right into their center studs.
Just like that.
Then on the bottom of that,
we are going to do the point of our back tail.
So we've got these one by two and two tall slopes.
We're gonna put one on top of each other,
just like that.
We're gonna take a tile,
and lock them in.
We flip them over, we're gonna do a one by two,
and one by two, and a one by two.
You might be saying, hey Adam,
why not use a two by three?
Because that takes up two by three.
Because they have different center studs,
these little circles in the bottom,
those actually click in perfectly.
When this piece is all together, it looks like this.
♫ Batarang, Batarang, coming along
♫ That is the end of my Batarang song
Next step.
What we're working on next is the bottom of the wing.
So, wing basement?
Wing cellar?
Wing downstairs.
These are the piece for your wing downstairs.
So, we're gonna use this cool one by six
kind of like arch-y bridge piece.
We're gonna put that right on top of a two by four,
and then on top of the two by four
we're gonna add some one by threes.
Then we've got this inverted two by two, goes on the bottom.
Sneak in a little one by two brick.
Put our regular one by two slopes.
Two by three inverted,
and another couple one by twos.
Inverted slopes and regular slopes
work really beautifully together
to make awesome diagonal curves.
This slides in,
just like bat.
And, for the other side,
we just do the same thing.
Next up is a little detail piece to the bottom of the wings.
Four pieces.
One by two and a one by one plate,
one by two curve and a SNOT brick.
We take the curve,
and put the one by one right on the bottom,
then we take our one by two
and we stick our SNOT brick right up into it.
Then, we take our curve,
slide it down just like that.
This piece then, goes up
right in the middle of that bridge piece
that we just attached.
Sticks right on.
And then, we do one to the other side.
So our Batarang could be complete,
but for my liking, the sides are a little bit boxy.
So, we're gonna curve them up right now.
To do that, we use these pieces.
More of the same curve we just used,
a two by four, and a two by two tile.
Two by two tile goes right on the top,
and then we just put our curves on the rest.
Line them up just like this.
Really nice.
And if you have some curved pieces,
whenever you can integrate curve and tile together,
you get these awesome, really sleek designs.
And this is gonna connect to the SNOT bricks
that we put on before.
One on that side,
and I've gone ahead and made a duplicate,
and one on this side.
Give everything a nice little squeeze.
There you have it, my friends.
A fully functional, curvy Lego Batarang.
Now, this is just one of Batman's many tools.
He's got cars, boats, planes,
scuttlers, all sorts of amazing things
that he puts to use to make Gotham a better place.
So what do you have to put to use
to make your place a better place?
Huh?
What you got?
You got some Batman going on in you?
I believe you do.
Oh!
I almost forgot.
I told you that this Batarang
was more than just a Batarang.
And my friends, indeed it is.
Because our Batarang
can be used to create
the one, the only,
the Bat-signal.
Multi-tasking over here!
And if you want to learn how to make the Bat-signal,
we made a special video just for you
to tell you all about how to do it.
A huge thank you to the Lego Batman movie
for making this video possible.
It's been so much fun.
And a thank you to you for watching and hanging out,
or building along.
You know, we may not have superpowers,
but we do have the ability to make our city great,
even if it's not Gotham.
You can make your neighborhood great,
or your school great,
or just your house great.
We all have the power to be heroes every single day.
I'm feeling more like a superhero already.
See you next time.
Hey, this is Batman, the Dark Knight himself.
It's not Adam.
I'm telling you right now,
go see my movie, The Lego Batman movie,
in theaters this Friday.
It's going to be Bat-tastic!
This isn't Adam doing an impression,
it's the real Batman.
Go see my movie.