TOP 10 Advanced LEGO Building Tips and Techniques For ANYONE! (Quick Tutorials #01)

Building with LEGO is hard, but today I decided to give the best LEGO tips and tricks I could. If you have any questions or want to see more, let me know in the comments below!
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[@jamiroblues6083]

Great video about with illegal Lego building techniques Why is the FBI at my door?

[@Xaphii]

@Jamiro Blues don’t forget to use your VPN!

[@I_Am_Very_Scary]

What are you watching there? -erm, a tutorial on how to assassinate people- No, the _other_ thing. -illegal lego building techniques? I'm afraid you'll have to come with us, sir.

[@sjoerdstougie]

Will these get patched in the new update?

[@randomdudeyoumightlike9912]

Probably...

[@user-dc2sy5zc6v]

Hopefully not

[@chonkbonk4092]

XDDDD

[@sprinkleman8103]

Lol

[@emirbarut6060]

They got patched in 1.7.0

[@mawinstallation6626]

"Advanced" is a decent way to say "illegal". Good job.

[@Scharnvirk]

Most of these are fully set-legal.

[@wowperson1708]

When I was really little and heard someone say “illegal technique” I thought I could actually get arrested for doing it

[@coldfoxlive2636]

@@wowperson1708 me to

[@simpforlightning7612]

Illegal is a set of lego techniques that may be damaging to the lego piece(s) or not very structual and can brake easly

[@TDBRICKS]

I never actually knew about the bracket and headlight brick technique. I think I'll give that a go soon. I've used that flooring technique before, and it's really fun. Great video Jack!

[@TheJackHammer]

Thanks Ty!

[@martymcfly7228]

The last one as used in the 2011 set Fire Temple for the drum.

[@liamsaunders7008]

Wait that illegal

[@cmdrTremyss]

@@liamsaunders7008 Lego: I'll make it legal.

[@rihaan4811]

Actually, that's different. The drum uses round 2 by 2 bricks. Those have axle holes in their tubes. That is a legal technique.

[@bzqp2]

The axle one seems pretty legal to me. The circular slots in the basic bricks are meant as axle mounts a well.

[@mattflorant]

Definitely gonna be using these in the future :D

[@BrickRoar]

Absolutely loved this video! Your Top 10 Advanced LEGO Building Tips are not only innovative but also accessible to builders of all skill levels. The quick tutorial format makes it super easy to understand and apply these techniques. On Brick Roar, we're always seeking ways to enhance our LEGO building skills and share them with our community. Your tips are a fantastic resource and we'll definitely be trying them out in our upcoming builds. It's awesome to connect with fellow LEGO enthusiasts who are passionate about improving and sharing their craft. Eagerly waiting for more tutorials like this!

[@jorgeparra196]

I consider that provided the technique doesn't force the pieces is legal, lego has got a rally well design brick which allows you to use them in insane ways.

[@isaiahcochran1987]

Straight and to the point thanks!

[@hbcreates8355]

I have a ton of the 1x4 bracket pieces. I might use them to make and implement the 2nd technique in my Mocs . Nice video.

[@carellicollectables]

I do find the whole "illegal" thing a little odd at times... like take those cheese-wedge parts for example. Am I supposed to believe that they JUST SO HAPPEN to fit into the underside of a brick or plate perfectly? That seems far too intentional to be anything BUT intentional. Same with the axel connecting two bricks bottom to bottom... all those parts are technically designed to fit together, so what's the issue? I totally understand it in situations where the connection is putting stress on the parts, or wedging parts into places they don't actually fit, but there are a lot of these "Illegal method" that seem to align and fit perfectly... so what's the issue with those? O-o I know it doesn't really make any difference for people who aren't employed by lego designing official retails sets, but I don't get why they would limit their own intentional creative process so much when the connections work just fine and the tolerances aren't an issue.

[@TheJackHammer]

Well, the illegal techniques you are talking about weren't designed for that specific purpose. It's LEGO geometry designed for other, entirely legal techniques. Take your axel example: the tube is going to be the perfect shape for an axel because technic pin holes are the size of a tube--the reason for that is so the pins with studs on the side can attach seamlessly with the standard building system. Every illegal building technique only exists because there's a legal technique that uses the same geometry, mesaurements, and math. Hopefully that made sense.

[@carellicollectables]

@@TheJackHammer no, I definitely do understand that, and that's kind of my entire Point actually. The fact that the geometry required for their intended use also has the side benefit of producing other perfectly valid connections doesn't seem like a bad thing, it seems like that they would be very happy that their Lego math worked out well enough to give them multiple options for those connections. It just seems kind of odd to rule out interaction between Parts simply because it wasn't the specific intended interaction they were designed for even though they work perfectly well.

[@BlockHeadUK]

Carelli Collectables I think a lot of the time it comes down to stability. Lego are legendary in their quality control checks, and I guess that these "illegal" options don't *quite* pass their QA. But most fan builders would find them perfectly acceptable for their MOCs.

[@Evercreeper]

Yeah, something I think lego would find illegal is a clip to ratchet clip yet its in the kessel run millennium falcon which holds the escape pod to the falcon....

[@verityw6721]

Whoa, for starters, that is one looong comment. And yes, I understand where you are going with that. Your example was the axle in the tube of the brick, right? Well the reason they align, is axles have to be the same width as the pins. Sometimes you find studs in bricks with holes. Lego allows this. If studs can fit where a pin or axle can, then how come Lego don't allow for a pin or axle to go where a stud can!? Lego is great, but well confusing!!!

[@chrissie1057]

Great suggestions. Thanks

[@nerdbrick1012]

Nice video, cool Technics to show people!!

[@headrockbeats]

3:33 That is called a Locking Hinge.

[@zockbar9691]

really nice ideas, thanks!

[@szczecinianin666]

I love this video :D

[@CAJfur]

Very useful, thanks.

[@d-m1ster150]

Outro song also nice vid , I love the wall one

[@BuildZillion]

Great tips!!!

[@dr.kushangihemani8637]

You want to say that all of this is good

[@apprenricebrickoflegend]

These are so useful! Thanks for sharing Jack!

[@TheJackHammer]

No probs ;)

[@kassidyburlap..]

Sounds like he's going to paint you like one of his French girls

[@physicalgraffiti8040]

kassidy Burlap wtf

[@zacharymiddleton9530]

Hey you were just in the quick brick games stream I was in!

[@micasio]

It's very useful ;)

[@khmersbelovedman647]

Thanks! I’ve been building LEGO for years but was never good at Mocs but these tips helped me! Thanks again

[@ae112r]

Crazy to think that those 1x2 modified plates with the 1x4 bracket are uncommon pieces now. They used to be all LEGO had in terms of bracket pieces when I was growing up

[@SwingCritic141]

Will try to use these in an upcoming castle MOC, thanks a lot mate. Legal Shmegal

[@StopMotionStories]

nice video 👍

[@renswisse]

Not sure if it has been used to attach two bricks from the bottom, but there are definitely some older sets that use the technic axle in those bottom tubes.

[@lonequester]

This is nice! Love all of these techniques and am excited to use them!

[@bluelegocrane7754]

Oh yeah? FBI will love to hear about that...!

[@comicclub3320]

This is super useful for stop motion animations that I make. Have it a 👍.

[@bobbiwhitlock6054]

Love this tree! Wish I had the part number for the green and black pieces. Cannot find the exact pieces, especially the green ones. I only found the greenery with the studs. Wonderful presentation! Thank you!

[@bobbiwhitlock6054]

This was for the pine tree tutorial

[@kasaihd1773]

2:09 i'm gonna use that for my avus moc (The wall of death)

[@Bozzak]

I wish they would make a plate 1×2 that had the studs on both sides to allow for an inverted connection

[@Fritsies]

nice

[@MaverickMyth]

Shiey: Illegal freedom! The Jackhammer: Illegal Lego!

[@mattzuma77]

I was expecting to see the one where you wedge a plate sideways between two studs. Definitely illegal, but useful for tracks and skids, interior walls and good for marking out areas, as it's quite unstable.

[@maxwithani6179]

StOp, yOuVe vIoLaTeD ThE LaW

[@Alex_Eicher]

Rules are there to be broke.... the time shows us, that LEGO has big problems with „elegal“ things...

[@engtilde]

illegal*

[@brickanimationstudios3990]

I do Not think that these techniques should be illegal, but for the last technique you also can use these red connectors of the old hingeplates, you only have to get them out of the hinges

[@nihili4196]

Some of them are illegal since they're putting bricks under stress and may cause them to break

[@Sadler_bricks]

Sadler_bricks here I really like what you have on this video i been planning on some ideas for my chanel anyways great video Sadler_bricks

[@ravener96]

There are 2x2 bricks with axle center holes iirc

[@epikepig1019]

Just found this in my recommend and BOY am I happy I did. I didn’t know half of these! The floor one is super useful. Thanks for the tips, Jack!

[@thomasthemtman]

Who the heck determines what is legal and what isn't in Lego anyway? The ultimate Lego freak? King of child's play? Master of imagination?

[@DylanSnider]

If a building stragety is used that was not intended to be possible, and lets you build in very different ways.

[@nihili4196]

Illegal techniques are putting bricks under stress and may cause damage to them. Lego is not saying that you can't use them, it means that if you don't want your bricks to be damaged, you shouldn't use those techniques.

[@Napthalicious]

If I were to create a set of building blocks; expand, diversify and market them over 70+ years to the point that there is no way that one person could possibly obtain every single piece imaginable, then of course it would make sense that a few of them would fit together in combinations that they were not designed for. I can do that with plain old masonry bricks as long as I'm willing to cut a few. I hereby propose that the word 'illegal' be replaced with the word 'unconventional'. It just makes more sense that way...

[@Iamwolf134]

Lego, in seeing these illegal techniques, ought to use them for research towards legal alternatives, such as bricks with studs on both sides, and bricks with sockets on both sides, even Stereolithography so as to allow for ever crazier brick designs, while still being legal by technicality.

[@voltagecherry]

I would agree, though some parts fit so well with out any true stress being put on the pieces, making it a unintentional yet fully functional byproduct. Lile using the pieces that have a 90° bend and two plains to build, putting two or more of them shouldn't be "illegal" the concept of "illegal" in lego sounds extremely redundant and stupid for a toy product ment to push ones imagination to its absolute limit.

[@aayanscreativelab1786]

Lol versatile

[@DerCharacter]

HALT, YOU HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW!

[@MuwkaMywka]

take a shot every time he says a tequnique is his favorite

[@STRU_TV]

I wish your videos were longer

[@dr.kushangihemani8637]

You want

[@watermelon5917]

I have a TON of 4x4 bracket pieces

[@douglassteinmetz3856]

3:18 Is so useful!

[@ingridwinn9082]

If it works

[@buffaceway]

This r great LEGO illegal techniques

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Yeah turn the middle Lego in thumbnail right so it's standing up and then become a huge face bolt

[@kiermacdonald9951]

The last one is too loose. Why not use a technic tube instead of an axel?

[@coolaidman2233]

I'm sorry, but what the hell is an illigal technique? You can build however you want. And if this guy invented this, its creative and new, not illegal

[@RebelliousRobot]

I imagine despite the axel fitting very well in the tube part of any brick that is a 2x (like the 2x2) is illegal just simply because the axel was not meant for that.

[@shadowgb]

What does it mean to be legal or illegal?

[@nihili4196]

Illegal techniques are the ones that puts bricks under stress and may cause damage to them. They're called illegal only because they're not safe.

[@RobertEricJenkins]

What do you mean “illegal”?

[@chriswel]

These "illegal" ones are techniques you don't usually see in any LEGO sets, even in advanced expert sets; usually with these techniques you apply more stress on the pieces than they are designed for or you use a greater amount of force to put them together, e.g. the clip in 4:00 is not designed to hold on something for longer times without being fully clipped to it, it may break easier.

[@jx592]

I want LEGO to make better pieces boxes. Even a premium $100+ package. I found 2000 parts for 19.99 in a giant creative box around Christmas last year. But some of each piece is never enough. And I absolutely got my money's worth. I want an ultimate creative kit that comes with as many elements Lego can include from Horses to big Bay Windows, and generally hard to come by parts

[@TehSr0c]

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[@monkeyman8265]

Why is anything illegal with LEGO? Is there competitions or something?

[@kendog84bsc]

I failed to see why the last one would be consisdered an illegal technique, don't these 2x2s have cross shaped cut out inside their tubes?

[@iamgamer7080]

This is illegal, but..... It doesn't really matter. 🤣🤣🤣

[@blobfish_mc493]

1:06 not too common me: has 100 of them ;-;

[@rizdalegend]

How is it illegal if it snaps into place? That's why LEGO is insane

[@fxDELTAx]

Versi "tile"

[@Spidernoe]

guys why is the FBI at my door?

[@emmanuel-kw6jr]

Nice techniques Jack! I'm surprised the FBI Hasent came to my house Lol :)

[@MrShibaMX]

I don't get the legal vs illegal, like who is the lego council, why would it matter how you stick your logos anyway ?

[@yaboikungpowfuckfinger7697]

If I get arrested for this I blame you

[@RP752000]

what do you mean Legal ? there is actual police squad dedicated to BRICK ENFORCEMENT ?!

[@nihili4196]

In Lego if connection is putting bricks under a stress and may cause damage to them then it's illegal.

[@RP752000]

@@nihili4196 thank you

[@woodsiex4607]

how are they illegal? LEGO was created to be that, creative so finding little tricks and techniques cant be illegal, maybe not intended but defiantly not illegal

[@tanveerhasan6531]

FBI we found him

[@SethyWethyKine]

I think that last one is legal

[@nihili4196]

It's not illegal per-se but it's not intended way of doing so, therefore it may not always work. Sometimes axel and/or tube of brick may have too little friction and it may fall apart

[@abhsytphd4192]

What does he mean by “illegal”

[@BrotherKhris]

ABHSYTP HD am I goin* to go get wooshed

[@BrotherKhris]

It’s a joke to say I s not something lego does so it’s illegal

[@BrotherKhris]

It’s not actually ileagal

[@alexlovelady8249]

ABHSYTP HD it just building techniques that are unallowed to be used by Lego workers

[@villainsbridgeclub5268]

Illegal?

[@MaxineInYourWifi]

Extremists who watch the video anyway: "wait, thats illegal!!"

[@JetBricks]

ILL-LEGO?! I expected better from you.

[@TheJackHammer]

Don't you always?

[@emmanuel-kw6jr]

*FBI Comes* FBI: FBI OPEN UP!

[@bradleyjohn43]

I really dont get how it’s illegal...

[@nihili4196]

Illegal means that it puts stress on the bricks and may cause damage to them

[@kassidyburlap..]

*Harvard wants to know your location*

[@kitcen777]

Someone take away his lego license

[@twitchbot7841]

so uhhh... would you get arrested for this?

[@nodishesnobishes8253]

Welcome to the FBI watch list

[@wannabecliffburton4275]

Why am I seeing a bunch of Arthur Morgan accounts after starting a new save on rdr2?

[@vrtx-mk6124]

3:00 very verca- TILE Bad pun sry

[@mxes5938]

how do you sleep at night

[@bluelegocrane7754]

I don't... Sleep is for weak...

[@mattstarkbodybuilding9495]

next day this is the fbi

[@Tasarran]

"Illegal"? To who?

[@bluelegocrane7754]

...Lego company...

[@privatebaby148]

The president would like to know ur location

[@duckmaneuvers]

3:00 "It's very versatile" I see what you did ther

[@sophiacollins3283]

......

[@Caliper_Click]

U re going to jail -FBI

[@willpongase2692]

Plot twist: those are mega blocks

[@joshuanelsonanimations]

I thought you said this was advanced.

[@TheJackHammer]

Congratulations, you found them easy 🎉

[@dermichael1003]

FBI

[@bradleyjohn43]

Unless its a joke.

[@SpacemanChannel]

These hurt my eyes

[@hugoskirfors1442]

*FBI OPEN UP*

[@dakulyss2104]

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