LEGO Bricks Be Like...

Why are LEGO bricks cracking and breaking?
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This video explores 3 LEGO Conspiracy Theories
1. The curse of brittle brown LEGO bricks
2. A deceptive LEGO set trick by LEGO
3. The secret items buried under LEGO’s factory headquarters
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[@SpitBrix]

Have any of your LEGO pieces broken or cracked?

[@Legogunner286]

Yes,like a thousand

[@CrazyCommotion]

Only when I purposely break them😂

[@catluvr2]

As a matter of fact, I was taking apart a Donkey Kong build that I made up, and one of the plates broke.

[@awesomealbertt1150]

Yup, a bright red one from 4 years ago…

[@Blakewyattdunfee]

More times that I can count/care to admit.

[@DJDroz-gh5nt]

As a member of the Transformers continuity, we have a similar thing to "Brittle Bricks" called "Gold Plastic Syndrome" or GPS. Basically any figure make from sparkly brown, gold, or similar plastic had the potential to disintegrate due to how brittle it was. This plastic wouldn't stress, it would shatter! Especially if it was used for a hinge, tab/slot, or anything that would be prone to stress. One particular, pun intended, figure "Beast Wars Neo Randy" is noteworthy for being made almost entirely out of this type of plastic and having a spring loaded transformation from warthog to robot mode but is packaged in beast mode and held only by a clear rubber band. The amount of stress on the brittle plastic could, and has, lead to him just exploding right out of the packaging. Luckily there have been no new cases of GPS since 2009.

[@gaveintothedarkness]

Immediately thought of GPS when this topic was covered.

[@PlutoniumBoss]

The other most notable instance is Mega Zarak, whose feet are made out of the infamous gold plastic. Unlike Randy, a Mega Zarak goes for thousands of dollars, and he's a massive figure so those feet are under a lot of stress, even in package. He's basically Schrodinger's Collectible. As long as you keep that box sealed, maybe he's mint, maybe he's not.

[@WackoMcGoose]

There's almost a meta joke to be made here about it being a Beast Wars figure doing that, considering what happens in that series to those staying in the wrong mode for too long. Except for, Beast Mode is supposed to be the _safe_ mode to remain in...

[@Kommunisator]

Also happened to Masters of the Universe figures back then. The original Extendar figure was molded in a peal shine white color with gold accents, and hoo boy was it brittle. Especially the arm joints would just snap, and because kids were accustomed to figures being durable enough to play with them outdoors, this one got destroyed fairly easily. All of his joints bein extendable didn't help either :D

[@svartmetallyst7712]

I personally more remember a G2 Electro and Skyquake's gimmick as GPS cases, as well as Killbison - member of Liokaiser team from TF Victory (and since original Liokaiser was Japan exclusive and never had a rerelease - it's now very expensive).

[@Rougesteelproject]

The brown bricks sound like lego's version of Gold Plastic Syndrome in things like Transformers.

[@freddiebennett4754]

was just about to mention that and oddly enough it effects some brown plastics as well

[@weaselwolf]

Came here to say just that lol

[@Nemy_Pred]

Poor Randy….

[@freddiebennett4754]

@@Nemy_Pred we all know about poor randy lol

[@needfoolthings]

The main difference is brittle brown is produced not just by Lego, but also by my cat.

[@Mightym8man]

"I love to build brown bricks in Minecrap" -Inspector Gadget

[@LuigiBroBlox]

“Minecrap”💀

[@Quantum_Magnus]

As a Lego fan, but primarily a Transformers fan, I’ve never had this Brittle Brown issue happen to me. I have however had the Transformers community’s version of this called Gold Plastic Syndrome where it’s basically the same concept. The dyes they put in those older figures’ gold colored plastic made it more brittle and thus prone to cracking and breaking over time and use. I had this happen with ROTF Mindwipe where his foot transformation joints are. Haven’t broken off yet, and still sturdy feeling, but there is major crackage.

[@lindarivera63]

Me neither

[@seanrrr]

I'm surprised that I never heard about "brittle brown" until recently. I had hundreds of lego sets growing up, and they definitely got their use, but never had a single brown piece break.

[@Whimsykit]

Not even crack?

[@hardcore_pizzagaming]

Same

[@hardcore_pizzagaming]

Unless I did it on purpose

[@MegaZeta]

Me neither, and the explanation is simple: they were only used for a short period of time, when I was a small child, and never since. The collector's idea of shelf life for the pieces is beyond fathoming for someone like you or me.

[@MixZTitaniumDubstep]

The first piece to break on me wasn't even Lego, rather it was Mega Bloks in brown. 2×16 plate in which I only had one of. But the first Lego piece I had disintegrated on me was the glow in the dark teeth from a shark set from 2004.

[@DownUnderBricks]

I've had quite a few dark red parts break over the years, good to know they identified the problem. Now they just need to work on colour matching bricks instead of shades of the one colour. Great video, thank you.

[@starzkream]

Probably the worst thing I ever did was tried to use brown LEGO pieces with generic knockoff pieces. The slight irregularities are enough to break each piece, especially when trying to take apart. I eventually gave up and threw them all away.

[@hoarder66]

They should have just melted down the old molds and used the metal for new ones

[@gaveintothedarkness]

If they were so worried about them getting into the wrong hands, Lego could have taken a die grinder and just wreck the surfaces where the ABS would be injected.

[@MegaZeta]

They could have done a lot of things, but Lego has a certain earned rep as a company, so you can believe that what they did was both cost-effective and in line with the regs of the era. There were probably a lot of hunks of metal just getting tossed into the ground or into foundations at the time without much thought put into reuse or recycling.

[@barbugia123]

I blame Mike Matei for the brown bricks curse

[@matthewmurnaghan2583]

Oh I remember the days when some Lime Lego pieces would break. The pain...

[@TheFlashzap]

I don’t know if this counts as a conspiracy but I recently noticed that Lego Store pick a brick wall’s lego pieces are being coated with the same bitter agent that Nintendo Switch cartridges use

[@vulpinitemplar5036]

Lego taking apart their old moulds for spare parts is basically the industry standard but few companies can have it be just as fitting thematic wise :b

[@braydenpage1808]

Brittle Brown is the Lego version of Transformers GPS (Gold Plastic Syndrome) For context, many old Transformers toys had good plastic that was super brittle.

[@i_price]

I've had many reddish brown, dark red and dark blue parts break, shatter or crumble over the years, without any stress being put onto them. I've had other colours break too, but only a few.

[@skeletonpatch]

Never noticed this particular issue. I did have a brown plate break on me recently though, but that was the first time I remember it happening. What I'm more familiar with are the fragile ball socket joints of later G1 BIONICLE figures. The 2008 redesign was particularly brittle no matter what colour was used. I've actually developed a strategy for assembling those to reduce the likelihood of breaking them. Simply apply pressure on the outside of the socket to counteract the expansive force of the ball being inserted/removed. Don't just jam them in or yank them out as you would the older ball sockets. You'll know right away if you were successful as an intact ball socket will make a dull popping sound whereas one that just broke is a sharp snap, one that's already broken hardly makes any sound at all. I have a rather sizeable collection of loose bricks from the 60s & 70s, which I got from my mom, that I rarely use for fear of breaking them. Blue is the most brittle colour in those bricks. White has a tendency to warp but rarely breaks. I recently bought a bag of loose bricks that included a white brick from that era that was so misshapen that attempting to connect it to any other brick in any fashion would have constituted an illegal connection.

[@nickolaswilcox425]

as a bionicle fan my only problem colors were dark red and lime green and the dark red was more a problem with specific pieces from a specific period rather than a systemic issue, lime green however was a pretty widely affecting problem in later years

[@empera3782]

Same here on the lime green. My Toa Lewa lost all limbs because of it.

[@nickolaswilcox425]

@@empera3782 i finally got around to coming up wiht a suitable paint color after hahli got crushed while moving, she needs a close examination to tell the difference and most of that was me sucking at the actual painting part

[@mallow2902]

Nothing like buying green Visorak to replace Hahli Mahri's lime green joints with older, sturdier ones.

[@Kommunisator]

Lego pieces were always prone to breaking. I have several of the old 1 block high baseplates (10x20) that had cracked in half and are held together with 80s glue :D also happened to the plate modified 6x16 with the cutout, which was often used in trains and some sci-fi sets.

[@HEYHEYDUDEROFL]

reddish-brown bionicle parts always has been flawless

[@Brick-Bro]

Great video!🔥

[@ThomasCizek]

This also keeps happening to clips, ratchet joints, and ball joints!

[@goofyahh91020]

Love your videos

[@ChrisMortJr.]

Brown bricks

[@shannocvirek]

I’ve had a lot of older sets with reddish brown that have done this, in fact I just had to replace a few today.

[@Fallen_blackrose]

i recently rebuilt my MTT and it has so many broken pieces, although a eye sore, it does give it a battle damage look.

[@anacondafilms]

Strangely enough, i never had a lego broken and i only learned about this issue recently

[@rdexterdash5262]

The amount of ball socket pieces that have broke in my hands are un-countable

[@cruizlee214]

If you put the Ross and Rachel minis on a brown brick, then they are on a break.

[@needfoolthings]

I filter out a bag of brittle brown from my cat's litterbox every day.

[@lilbro9137]

Love your vids

[@fulcrumagent]

Ive never had a brown lego piece break until a few months ago when i picked uo my infinity war groot and it crumbled in my hand. Also transformers used to have a similar issue with gold plastic

[@ToaDrakua]

Latest one seems to be minifigure parts cracking along seams.

[@jasonm9336]

RIP my Robie House Set - It become completely unbuildable, has some cool gaps during my last attempt years ago. But we need a video on these molds and the mold department etc. Part of Lego you rarely hear about

[@blueyoshi8517]

Only piece that I can remember breaking was a Lego City chair in yellow. I stood on it by mistake.

[@RegiArt7]

You never listened when they told you not to stand on chairs, and you paid the price.

[@miserere_me9168]

holy, those lego friends sets are really good

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Burying the molds is not the best way to keep them out of competitors' hands. It's way more effective to melt them down and reuse the metal to make new molds

[@Alphoric]

I feel like you should probably change the colour of the Lego in the thumbnail to the brittle brown

[@MinisDunyasi5]

LEGO’s molds are like the Krabby Patty formula. Hidden away and professionally cared for.

[@tw0401]

All of my geonosian gun pieces broke and many of my dark red pieces are also broken.

[@Lego_Destroyer]

Nice editing

[@lumpyize]

The sad thing is i have a old winter village set, the old toys store, and it held fine all these year, and last holiday when i took it lot of brown bricks were broken

[@Mach-EandModelY]

The thumbnail is golden.

[@alexanderpolliard4087]

"Brittle Brown" has happened to me on the 1by2 grill piece and mainly clip pieces and they weren't even brown! I also have had studs and telescopes that weren't even brown have the same thing happen to them.

[@kailahmann1823]

I never had any "briddle brown" pieces by now, however that time period is still a bit low in my collection. What I have however are lots of broken pieces from the early 1980s - back them Lego ha a lot of molds, which were just very fragile by design, which is also, why many of them were quickly replaced and we now have the fourth generation clips.

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Brittle.

[@rj6n_]

"broken brown bricks" is a tongue twister if you make it lonnger

[@victorleppas3067]

Dark red parts where broken on a Atlantis's portal set I bought, but something too fragile are skeleton arms like the Ninjago ones and mech arms like the droid from star wars sets

[@geologyjoerocks]

I’ve also had very brittle dark blue pieces too

[@KrissFighta2]

Brown brown brown brown brown! And several new dark red ones. :( Maybe a couple of (pearl?) gold ones too...

[@cheesychesnut6416]

Never in my life have i ever broken a single lego piece.

[@traci4327]

The piece I have break the most are eyes. The one stud tile ones. I don't have many other options that size break but the eyes crack all of the time.

[@theslavguystudios4811]

Bro really pulled Lalo Salamanca/Howard Hamlin on retired piece molds

[@SusanAng943]

When i bought a lego set a white varient colour broke very easily, i thought it was the pressure of the lego but when i tried nodding another white brick it broke , its not all white bricks its only : ledge peices , clip peices and tiles

[@ahmetdag5600]

In the how the toys were made documentary from netflix there is a Lego episode. In the beginning of this episode, they were burying old Lego molds and putting concrete on top of them. I have surprised that this approach was real.

[@GDO9099]

“plagged”

[@maxwiercx5257]

When he said: “Do you know what’s burried underneath LEGO’s headquarters?” an add started yelling Aquabeads!🤣

[@Ilanfrit33_]

Matpat retired so now we got this guy💀

[@Songal18]

No conspiracy, just good people working hard to make a product to last.

[@darth8822]

For real how did my guy’s horse actually shatter lol.

[@BioshadowX]

"Brittle brown" laughs in lime green ball joints

[@Memeedit-pc]

I have a lego ninjago 9446 and the bricks keep breaking, I thought it was because the set was old but now I know that's not the reason

[@autoblader9750]

If some of the pieces were not up to the standard, is it possible to melt the failed pieces then reuse the plastic to make other bricks?

[@CJbloxYT]

Brown and maroon are both very brittle

[@klombogaming8715]

Doctor Who and Adventure Time are my favorite shows

[@josephc8312]

0:35 “Plaged” lol

[@ggspaghetti6354]

The brown bricks brake because of the inc colour makes the plastic weak that’s it lol 🗿🍷🧐🤓🤡💀🥸🦘🏜🐊🐨

[@scorpionwins6378]

Every Lego set I own/have owned all had the same issue with the brown bricks. Doesn't matter how careful you are while assembling, because EVENTUALLY they will break. I became so frustrated that I outright replaced everything brown with a color that was suitable for the build. With the one exception being the palm tree cone shapes you typically find in a lot of the vintage castle/pirates sets I did away with brown Lego parts, as I now consider it a non canon color.

[@bobbyrutgers8952]

Such an amazing experience

[@mapledash]

Got some brown bricks with some of them broken too

[@Novaprime64]

Oh it’s gold plastic syndrome, something with the mixing for the coloration of the plastic just, doesn’t work out

[@takenname8053]

I didn't know about the mold burying technique.

[@bigiron1311]

I mean, the only bricks I’ve ever had break were brown or dark read but I’d never made any connections lol

[@ryanpenrod1859]

I guess it's easier to just bury them, but you'd think there would be some value to the raw materials that they could have recycled from old molds.

[@ryanpenrod1859]

Well I should have watched for another 30 seconds.

[@JavierRodriguez-df6xu]

Broken brown bricks in Minecraft

[@ethribin4188]

No suprise the Lego molds are so good if they come from Switzerland.

[@thndr_5468]

I dont get why they just didn't destroy the molds in the first place

[@L1L-P200]

Its fun hearing you say billund

[@The-creator-of-good-videos-15]

Hey SpitBriX, I might’ve seen little cracked Lego pieces when I was younger… I think…

[@carriemarshall1947]

None of the Lego pieces break anymore! (including the brown)😊

[@Alphoric]

4:12 me when I buy a bulk set of Lego for like 0.5c a piece 😂

[@Alphoric]

I don’t think Lego sell at prices comparable to the brick as there’s some like the ship in a bottle which would be incredibly cheap per piece but that’s only because the majority of the bricks are just flat 1x1s

[@chriscanul4075]

I always wondered why my Chewbacca arm and claw broke

[@ZontarDow]

The PS5 being sold at a loss is just the tip of the iceberg for consoles, between all console manufacturers the Switch is the console since the SNES, NeoGeo or Philips CD that wasn't sold at a loss.

[@ThZuao]

0.001mm tolerance? For Plastic? That is incredible if true. I can tell you, as a mechanical engineer who apprenticed in injection mould making, that that is NASA Space Station levels of precision. The precision for moulds themselves sits at 0.01~0.05 mm, which is already very tight. I have to say I doubt the 1/1000 mm precision you said. But yeah, I have a 1994/5 set that had random pieces added to it over time bc my mom found them in the trash (true story). Save for the studs that are worn, it works flawlessly with yhe newer parts.

[@legendarykingkian]

The brown, the maroon red bricks in star wars set 9497, pearl gold, and drak green in lego star wars set 9498

[@HedgehogAdventurer]

I’ve had this happen with gray and tan with my hogwarts clock tower before, so it seems it isn’t exclusive to brown

[@user-tf7pk1cv4k]

Instead of breaking bad breaking brown

[@Alelostar-jg1fk]

Yup I dropped a big model car on it. It got stained blue and got chipped! People who have broken Lego 👇

[@Lego_plane_disasters]

True!

[@jaydub5515]

Was there an "Anchorman:The Legend of Ron Burgundy" Lego set i dont know about?!?!??😄

[@nicklegios9068]

i used to have exo force sets and all of the white bricks where brittle

[@canicallyoujimZSN]

B R O W N B R I C K S

[@lordtelion]

Yeah so i never new this was a problem, until i was dimantling and cleaning an old model, last year, that i hadn't touch since it was made. I was detiling it when one of the dark-red 1x4 tiles just snaped, and later in another set a reddish-brown plate splintered at the edge. I didn't know it was a whole issue and i was just so parranoid about every following brick I removed, worried they would snap on me.

[@MinisDunyasi5]

What if the brown Lego bricks were inspired by chocolate and that’s why they would chip and break so easily

[@Teddylyons]

I had dark red brake as well

[@logicalwindow1706]

they could’ve just warped the molds with a torch 😂or a weld blob in the brick mold part

[@gieselats]

Thank you for your deep diving. I feat that the quality issue is still aware. Maybe in five to ten years the darkred, reddishbrown, etc. bricks will deter. Hey, your lego titanic has cracks in the waterline. Yes, there are the darkred tiles 2x6. But, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Remember, titanic has sunk. Ok, but can I purchase replacement parts in ten years. And what about the brichklink sellers. Keep up the good work.

[@muninnodinnsraven4193]

This may be a hot take, but they really need to switch to pla instead of abs. That would fix a lot of the material problems in my untested opinion.

[@Booklogical]

1:04 these are just chocolate

[@devroq]

brown bricks???? in minecrap? 😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@sussybaka156]

Ha ha I get it that last word in the sentence was created from CM 18