Busting The Famous Youtube LEGO Ball Myth | Mythbusters
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I think one of the things that screwed it up was the way they did a bunch of separate big chunks rather than interweaving everything, but interweaving would've been a nightmare to do and keep track of
That and used Duplo at the core to lighten it
and Quattro within that one @@benjaminstorace6699
"Can we start that again? I didn't hit record"
Hey figureight. Wtf you doing here XD
Hey how are you
Well this was unexpected, first time on this channel and i see someone i know of xD
what are you doing here?
Dude.
Staggered blocks would make it much much more sturdy and could potentially actually work. I would love to see a revisit!
also they could have tried to make it round it won't be perfect but it will roll
Yeah I don't like the superglue suggestion, that's cheating. But staggered blocks and rounded corners should be on the table or the myth can't be disproved.
Not using large blocks, but instead build a near perfect ball from the bottom up 1/3th layer by 1/3th layer. It should be done smart: pieces that are at the surface should stick inside as much as possible, each layer should cross the previous one as much as possible. Perhaps they should design it with construction lego: like a 20sided ball that is empty in the middle, weighs less, and is more flexible. Nothing like the video, but it will work.
Using glue would be cheating.
super glue is KEY
@@TrazynnBut you don't know if bricks were glued in the video they were trying to bust
As someone who's casually into LEGO I can't imagine how expensive that must be
In the UK. 2x4 bricks are 19p each from Lego. 4.5 million of them (which I seem to remember them saying at the time) = £855,000 or $1,126,000
@@christopherdean1326 we need competition in the Lego space
They’d have used a cheaper brand surely
@@darthinvader I think they put out a call for Lego bricks and got bricks donated from anyone that had ones to send.
Lego is overpriced tbh, NEW sluban sometimes make it better, but they still have some of their old builds to buy
the problem with building like this in modules is that it lowers it's over all strength , first rules of Lego: ALWAYS OVERLAP YOUR JOINTS! and not just build straight walls with a connector at the top and bottom... this failed for a reason... they got lazy with their build...
+Quantum Uncertainty Workshop always use glue and if you dont have glue use duct tape
:) you're never too old to Lego! we're all still kids at heart!
for ages 9 to 109 :D
+desmon parker oh... i guess im too old then...
guess so you will need to re-roll your life maybe you can become a mage this time
Looks like someone didn't overlap their bricks and glue them down.
gluing is cheating, but I agree about the first part. :)
not actually true, i mean you can also use acetone as a way of bonding them. A lot of people use glue to make sure their models last.
Xien Tau But they do it even at legoland, so it's definitely legit
Xien Tau it aint everybody does it
It still counts as cheating.
"Everyone's doing it" is very rarely a good argument for anything, aside from: "everybody should just try to get along".
Also; haven't you guys seen the Lego Movie? Fraggle fraggle, remember "KraGle". ;)
They should have used the Kragle.
You win this round.
Amy Payne omg, I'm done here.
Here is your like >;V
"RELEASE THE KRAGLE!"
Amy Payne AAAAYYYYYY
"After two whole days the last brick is hammered into place"
"all of us worked around the clock for two whole weeks"
The final block took 2 days the whole ball took 2 weeks
Let’s just say the mythbusters have been busted
steven wilson ikr
They probably had to find the actual dimensions and other technical stuff
And it was destroyed in 2 minutes......
Hmm.. It looks like they built a bunch of stacked up chucks, rather than paying any attention to interlocking each individual piece. It fell apart as chunks along flat sections that weren't even connected to each other..
Yeah, bit of a shame really, as they could have made that ball far far stronger structurally if they didn't do that.
exactly
Tallywort
would have taken a LOT more time though.
Yeah but engineers
Tuc As soon as I saw the brick system they were using I said "Well thats not gking to work!" half assed attempt.
0:26 "after 2 whole DAYS"
1:44 "2 WEEKS and 1000 man hours"
which was is? Two days or two weeks?
VishousCat 2 weeks and 2 days
2 minutes.. 2 minutes of bullshit
I think it took 2 weeks to make the big blocks and 2 days to assemble them into a ball
2 days to ASSEMBLE it, 2 weeks total for everything?, likely including building the bricks of legos. You can see them assembling decent size bricks of legos, which they then put together. It likely took much longer to assemble the bricks, than it did to assemble the bricks into the ball form.
Or it was a typo for the announcer. I'm pretty sure they've had some builds last longer than 2 days so I'm more inclined to believe it took at least 2 weeks to create.
Cmon myth busters get your facts straight
I don't wanna sound like a monster, but seeing it crumble like that was extremely satisfying
suliman Al dhalaan you sounded like a super villain
Nah, you sounded exactly like Satin. I’m joking, it was oddly satisfying.
It’s especially polite for the ball to wait until it was in front of the camera man
What kind? Pepper jack is usually good.
And that sound, MMMMMMMMMMM
Why even waste so much time and labour if you're not caring enough to interlock your bricks properly...
They even neglected supergluing the pieces together.
From what I understand, they didn't even use real legos, just some off brand, which if you didn't know means they are of a lower standard.
The Talented Philosopher using real legos would be so much more expensive haha
@@jackson2531 They wanted to do it the way that the original video supposedly did it which was with no glue.
This is what put me off Mythbusters. They would do these things like not interlocking bricks, using off brand bricks, no glue, etc. and then at the end they'd be like myth busted. No, how about you do it properly instead of half arsing it and saying the experiment didn't work when it was actually your crappy version of it that didn't work
the people in the video could have used glue right/
no
Yea prob
bunch of immature kids.. what waste of time. those time could use on something else like volunteer cleaning parks
But its science. True it was a waste of time but it has its own purpose with knowing in the future and so
mythbusters, google it
Does it not occur to anyone to use hot glue
Or any glue at all?
even sniff some.
Or super glue?
Why didnt they wrap it with saran wrap then weld steel around it?
because they we're testing a myth about legos and LEGOS ALONE. That means no help form glue or anything they wanted to see if the connection of the bricks ALONE would hold thr ball toghter. This was an experiment and they were successful they tested the theroy of the lego ball.
Hot glue it. Then try it
Squshy turtle 115 newbs use hot glue
Legends use acetone
Gods use super glue or a small soldering iron to melt the leggos together.
jack marrtin why in the fuck are you even here then?
Squshy turtle 115 : exactly
Squshy turtle 115 but that's cheating
This little bit of footage is actually cooler than what it looks. You don't get to see a structure so perfectly mimic its computerized simulation that often.
Camera Guy:"Um...sorry but we were not recording so you have to build it again."...
and then he got fired xd
lol no need for glue, just use the flat bricks.
*you cant separate them no matter how hard you try*
as a kid I always bit them off ;-)
yeah I remember that. you would try bite them off. Good lego memories
Flitzer | Gaming I used a thin knife and inserted it into the middle of them, or I used my nails and when my mom cut them they would be demolished. I tried biting them off but I cut my gums and started bleeding.. gud times
Flitzer | Gaming same XD
my gawd you kids were DEPRIVED! I had this gray-colored lego lever that was designed to pry off legos; worked like a charm 99% of the time. I forget which set it came with.
What if they used a different building method? Like interlocking blocks.
Quantum Leap it would have worked. But they didn’t want to bother actually doing it the right way.
@@jamesbizs it MIGHT have worked, or not.
That's now how the original video did it, they were testing that
See there would still be the occasional block falling off and you would see it in the video. Unless they glued it
@@caelestigladiiPhysics dictate it would have worked. Always overlap your joints. And use glue too if you aren’t against it.
Me: "Oh, it's actually rolling! I was expecting to just immediately go..."
*crash*
Me: "... like that."
Haha
0:27 : "After two whole days..."
0:52 : "All of us worked around the clock for two weeks"
So two days or weeks??
Those lying ass holes!
The video probably is superglued lego brick
It doesn't even have to since they build big bricks out of the smaller ones first. If they had build the Ball directly out of the small one it would have been stronger...
Im Phanta my thoughts exactly
The video is likely boxes, with Legos glued on to the outside, or painted. Just watch how it moves, it looks nowhere near the weight it should be (especially since you can see an actual one the Mythbusters built and the way it rolls.
To superglue all those Legos together would have taken days, not too mention it would have cost an incredible amount. A tiny bottle is like 2-4$, 5oz gorilla glue is like 6... I just shudder to think how much it would have cost. On the other hand, grabbing a ton of cardboard boxes, painting them or gluing on a MUCH smaller amount of Legos seems more legit.
There's just a ton of inconsistencies in the original video too (the clip shown in this one) at around 1:03 of the original, it just looks wonky like the boulder was green-screened in. Which makes sense, since I doubt the cops were alright with a giant Lego boulder rolling down public streets. Even if it was a real one or not.
If it's real, awesome. But most videos like that also include a "making of" showing the long arduous process of building such a thing. You know when they don't make a video like that? When it didn't take that long to make and/or it's fake. Hey, sometimes the fake ones even show a making of, but that's not the point.
If it's real, then that's great, and I have no doubt that if it was super-glued it would have held up much better and no doubt been able to roll down the hill without breaking (or at least without breaking as easily). But the lack of evidence is too much to just blindly believe the original was real.
yea know the myth-busters built large rectangular modules and fit them together. If you look close at the vid the ball failed at the seam where these modules where connected.
I've worked with Lego for (Hell) 20 years off and on. If i can make a Lego bridge that spanned 8 ft and held 300 lbs using every Lego kit the neighborhood had at the time with NO glue it can be done.
The trick is that all layers have to be laid so that no 2 seams line up. Whats really hard is "linking" the vertical seams. Look at a brick wall they always break and crack where the ends of the bricks on each layer line up and make a vertical seam.
Stop making excuses for it. Could a lego ball be made MORE structurally sound than the Mythbusters did? Of course. Could it be made as structurally sound AS THE ORIGINAL VIDEO. No. Not WITHOUT GLUE, or some other help, which was the point of the Mythbusters video.
If you watch the original video, they didn't have a SINGLE lego fall off.... so... not even one of the outside ones... which wouldn't have the structural support of cross weaving. It's on the outside... held on by nothing more than the Lego underneath....
And that's why it's clear the original video is fake. Not a SINGLE LEGO falls off the Lego ball.
No one is questioning whether they could have done better with Glue. No shit, if you glued all the Lego's together they would have held. You're a genius. Yes, if you didn't build it in modules it would have been stronger. No shit. It still wouldn't have been THAT strong, and rolling down the slope in the ORIGINAL video, sorry, not even a perfectly structured Lego creation would have survived (assuming we're using standard Lego bricks, not flat pieces, or extra-ordinary pieces).
You are the people who piss me off most about Mythbusters. You're the people that they "cater" to and do "follow-up" myths, JUST TO PROVE YOU WRONG.
There's nothing wrong with curiosity. Like saying "Hey... what if you had crossweaved them, and made them more structurally sound?" But you ACT LIKE YOU KNOW, like you have already tested it.
Sorry, your 300LB Lego bridge isn't equal to a Lego boulder. That's like comparing a bridge to a car, They're not the same, at all. They're subject to ENTIRELY different stresses at different areas.
Just... rephrase you're sentence. It's not hard.
Again, if they made a more structurally sound creation would it have fared better? Obviously. The point is, this one failed utterly, and making minor changes isn't going to save it. It made it like 20 meters down the track.... the original video was... just comical compared to this. It was like the original was a NASA rocket and the Mythbusters was a bottlerocket.... point is, one is fake... which one do you think was fake?
The comment section:
1% "Hey good video"
5% unfunny jokes
15% "I didn't record plz restart"
79% USE GLUE!!1!1
But isn't it then 20% unfunny jokes?
and 0% "constructing it out of many large bricks instead of building it as a huge ball with long lego pieces pieces holding everything together is a terrible way to build such a huge construction"
MineTronic .1% (why is this in my recommendeds?)
MineTronic ii
MineTronic even when they werent allowed to use it.
“What if they used glue”
The glue would hold a stonger bond than the legos themselves. Then at that point you’re testing the strength of the glue; not the connections of the LEGOs
Yes, but it could answer why the one in the origin video did not fail. There are other explanations, of course, including that the origin video was fake, but this does not prove it one way or another.
Yes but the question was whether you could make the video, which you easily could if you glued the lego blocks together...
However, the people who made the original video could've used glue as well.
@@andrewvelonis5940 The ball in the original video moves like it is made of plywood with a layer of lego glued on.
They should have staggered the blocks.
+TheCrustyFry :(
+TheCrustyFry totaly agreed, it would have held together so much better
+TheCrustyFry ummm they made it like the one in the utube vid
Or glued it
+Gustav Brodin i thought it was obvious they should glue it
1:47 That's pretty satisfying to watch.
CrilleMega Thats exactly how I felt lol
CrilleMega same
No. It is not. It is a real pity to see all that amount of Lego bricks and all that time misused building such a big steps in a sphere. Disappointing.
CrilleMega That hurts me when I see that.....
I found it satisfying, not in the way of like "Wow great it broke glad they messed up," but in a way like "Wow that looks really fascinating for some reason."
How about glueing them before....
haris rehman after 5 days... hi
Infinite Monkey13 after 2 days... hi
Daniel Robert Miranda after 1min...hi
haris rehman hi.......
thewebmaster of the deep after another 2 days, hi
I remember watching this episode live. My parents and older brother were in a horrible, sometimes scary week long fight.. my Aunt had been staying with us for the last couple days of the fight and she watched this episode with me.. I'll never forget this giant ball of Lego
if they don't glue all those pieces together then they are wrong. even if the CZcamsr doesn't mention it, any smart person who glue the wheel thing together, even the displays at LEGOLAND are all glued together
*would glue
would glue
get it
WOULD glue
WOOD
1. they didn’t make the bricks stable. They are loose.
2. Did they not think about super glue?
It wouldn't be called a lego ball it would be a Super glue ball and they could of just used flat bricks which makes it 100% stronger
Aser ikr lol or they could have used some bricks that aren’t 1cm big instead they could have used base plates for the outside and small bricks in the mickle
Plus construction is very unstable, in order not to be broken they had to interconnect all the pieces togerther because just tension generated by pieces themselves would not be enough
Acheron I thought about that. Using only flat bricks would have made it much more spherical.
I still say they use glue to make sure when they rolled it in the movie I wanna break
177 Lego employees disliked this video.
If i dislike, they will hire me?
+TheExjeetzZ I hope so
MCHFacts Can i use you as a reference in case they argue otherwise?
+TheExjeetzZ If they have no issue about my comment then feel free to do so.
MCHFacts sounds like a plan
Considering Grant said they normally only get 10 days or less for a myth, two weeks of a round the clock build is intense. RIP Grant.
Kids in africa could have eaten those legos..
why do you want to kill the kids in africa
Lego bricks not Legos GET IT RIGHT
legos
it fucking lego bricks not legos Ikr
perhaps that may be grammatically correct, but if you knew anything about the brick filming community you would know that legos is of most common use.
these fake emotions are annoying
RPDBY stfu!
RPDBY you're just jealous!
jealous of what?
Reply to yourself, really classy Tory the slayer KingDestroyah, AKA edgy teenager
Troy the slayer KingDestroyah y r u an count?
You forgot your glue!
camera man: “can we do one more take, i forgot to press record”
You can't make separate cubes and expect them to hold together, ALL the bricks must be interlocked. And use the longest bricks you can to increase sturdiness.
Pardon me but it seems like to make that shape, no matter what "all bricks interlocking" mechanism you come up with, it can be done by putting together separate rectangular prisms. It's mathematically provable.
Max Loh no because to be interlocking, the bricks have to overlap at the edges, kind of like finger joints in woodwork. This is not possible with legos unless you work layer by layer.
I don't think so; assuming all bricks are same height, it is equivalent. Try to come up with a specific example interlocking pattern which would be impossible to do by stacking large rectangular prisms on top of each other; also, you must follow the shape of the ball as shown in the video
Look at it this way. You have four big rectangular bricks made of lego pieces. You put two parallel at the bottom, and two parallel to each other on top, intersectary to the ones in the bottom. There is a big line between the two parallel bricks on top, and between the two parallel bricks on bottom. But if you make a similar shape just out of lego pieces, then those lines in between the bricks are not there, and the whole structure holds up together a lot more.
ah, I think I see what you are saying. I think we are imagining different problems; I thought the constraint is only that you can make it as a stack of rectangular prisms VERTICALLY stacked on each other. In that case, no matter how you build it, you can always draw a *horizontal* plane slashing through the legos into two discrete blocks even if you make it really "interlocky"
They should have used superglue
Ved Patel "RELEASE THE CRACKLE"
They werent allowed to
Noah L. Højen
it's actually "cra gl e" as in "crazy glue" without the zy u
Thats cheating
Really dude? In a million years you never thought it would break into a bunch of pieces? How did you get hired??
Actually, if these guys knew what they were doing, it might have worked.
They built big chunks. You NEVER do that.
ALWAYS interlock the bricks.
America, fuck yeah. A toddler builds a better lego brick ball
WOW Maxco it was recreating the shitty hoax ball on the original video, not making a stable ball
Arckedian They did thing it would break, thats why they made the episode. If they thought it wouldn't break, there'd be no point in trying to bust it. The show is called "mythbusters" and they busted a myth in this video. Man, commenters really are stupid.
Arckedian the whole point of this video is to bust that youtube video, did you pay any attention to the video?
The problem was that they made it from "Superblocks". The unconnected sides of those blocks lead to sheer forces along them to have to be dealt with by only the "Superblocks" above and below them. On 2:07 it is even visible that there where whole columns build from those "Superblocks" without side connections. In other words: more force on fewer blocks and uneven distribution of forces through the whole ball. No wonder it disintegrated already after a few meters.
im 99% sure in the original video they superglued all the bricks together
RubCuber ayy cuber
salt
Trevor Meme holy shit lmao😂😂😂 you ended his entire existence
Yup
Trevor Meme
What makes you think it is CGI?
This should be a excellent weapon for world war III
Sin0h that is if it doesn't break in 10 seconds
Mushroom Overload use glue
Sin0h put like a bomb inside and take it to the enemies so that they think its just a regular lego ball
Incredible456 and after it has exploded, it leaves behind a minefield of invisible foot killers.
Sounds awesome, I'm volunteering as a test subject
I dare someone to walk over that with their bare feet
Rowan Smits what will I get when walking over it
That's too far my guy.
Challenge acc-, ummm considered
too for dude, too far
The ball would walk over you
The Indiana Jones Lego-ball video was probably fake and the Mythbusters probably already know so they didn't care to use glue or interlock the bricks because it would be cooler if the ball shattered everywhere compared to if the ball just held together and rolled down the hill.
RedDeadEagle T except they could have built the ball the CORRECT way and it would have survived without glue. AND who says the video didn’t use glue for their ball?
True, they tended to go with how the myth was presented, and then afterwards they might go try and do it 'properly' or blow it up.
They probably did the physics mathematics. Probably complicated but with their pay they probably could afford to look up some ball equations on force speed acceleration of spheres and knew it would break so why waste the time.
@@blueicer101 Physics here is not so easy. You can evaluate more or less (I mean rather less), but you can be off more than double with values.
Ball wasn't a perfect sphere. While it was rolling in the way so each hit connects bricks together, all is fine. Then the ball rotated and forces where in the opposite directions, what caused failure. But not immediately.
Depending on glue you can strengthen connections between bricks a couple of times. That could be enough.
But there is no "correct way" to build such a ball, unless you use lego technic. With standard bricks you always have layers. Looking at the way the ball failed, they did a god job building it.
That's my thought. You can tell from the video itself that it's fake. The producers probably figured it would be way cooler if it shattered or if it at least failed in an interesting way. It was never going to crush the car. That said, they may have done a better style if it wasn't going to ALREADY take such a crazy long time to begin with. Either way, whatever lol.
starving kids in Germany could have eaten those legos
Germany???
+Che8t Why the hell Germany, they arent poor...
+ShadowHunter they are now because of those refugees amirite
+Re There are way more things in germany that cost money, but didnt helped anybody.
6 Billion € on an airport that maybe won't open at all. Costs more than taking a million refugees.
+Re yup. were screwed down here
Instead of building super blocks, they should have had pieces overlaping each other and build up, brick-by-brick.
+John Waldeyer I dont even know if they glued it from the way the bricks came apart so easily
Or glue the pieces together.
That's exactly what I thought.
But either they wanted it to fail or they are not very bright.
The moment I saw that ball, I knew it was going to split.
Dallin ikr
TBNRpurgs 123 You're so smart. Do you want a cookie kiddo?
Gargle razors
2:13 my life shattered just like this
That's because the got all the bricks looking in one direction, they had to make it look perpendicular to the ground.
they could have also glued all the lego together...
Or used flats.
Sei Iori or made a ball... using the thin boards where there are literally right angles
But that defeats the purpose. They could have also just made it more round and increased the amount of crossing.
They probably glued or staggered them, all the power and non of the brains
^^^ :)
If they did that, the myth would have been busted. They are trying to see if its possible without cheating like that. Idiots.
they did super glue them if I recall the episode correctly
I bet the original person who did it used superglue
Harrison T IKR
Harrison T The original people used a thing called CGI
R.I.P Grant.
did you tried glue?
They did not tried glue
Imagine stepping on that...
What if they tripped and fell...
you can't fix yourself after that
AHHHHHH
If I stepped on that... let's just say.. there would be no place called earth..
Absolute foot destruction
should of staggered the blocks and glued them
Right! I really wish they would do a redo on this one
It took them 2 weeks and 1000 man hours to do it the easy way, imagine how long it would take to glue each one before placing it.
Just say no to cragle
Yeah and then wrapped it with rubber bands and then welded steel and then....
they didn't use glue because it was apart of the test
0:08 How nostalgic, the old youtube player
They will have used very strong glue to hold the bricks together in the original video. All Lego models at Legoland parks are glued together too.
Yea prob
Yeah and then wrapped it with rubber bands and then welded steel and then....
the lego models in Legoland parks also have a plastic layer over them
No they don't, you can see every individual brick. At legoland parks they use superglue and some pretty ingenious methods to make it stronger
conspiracy theorizes
1-you didnt overlap your joints
2-maybe they(in the "busted" video) used super glue
3- maybe the original ball was hollow on the inside
"this was the last thing i expected to happen. I never thought in a million years it would just bust into a million pieces."
...ok, pal. You keep telling yourself that.
1000 man hours for 10 seconds of satisfaction, now that’s commitment.
sad to see that they built it wrong..
Should have used "The Kragl" on your "Ball"
NPT THE KRAGL
they didnt interlock the bricks though, the ball would have been much stronger if it were built brick by brick instead of in large chunks
I was thinking the same thing. When it fell apart, it looks like it separated along chunks that weren't interlocked with each other.
You are mad that would have taken ten times more easily
Rest in peace, Grant Imahara. We’ll miss you.
Something that has always bugged me about this is that they built a bunch of large bricks then pit those bricks together into the ball. If they had not done that it would have allowed the bricks to be interwoven together making it much more durable which means it wouldn't fall apart so quickly.
Ever heard of super glue?
Stick flat plates together. those Fuckers won't come apart
2:04 "This is the LAST thing I expected to happen"
Thanks for making me feel smart, dude.
Yeah it sucks they didn’t connect them as strongly as they could have, but the way it falls apart is extremely satisfying to me.
Thats how i feel when i bring my new creation to the kitchen so i can show my mom, but then drop it...
DIdn't really bust anything... unless you were just trying to avoid using glue. Is part of the myth that it wasn't glued?
If you use glue, it is entirely possible. They could have just tested it by creating a smaller version, too. Wouldn't have taken as long, though it would be less entertaining. Also, overlap your bricks! Think of it like building a wall - bricks in a straight line will just break apart easy. Overlapped bricks are a lot stronger to use for construction.
Using glue is forbidden, that is not part of myth. Making smaller one is retarded, mass is smaller, and when it goes down hill also force that ripped it apart is smaller. Also, in myth they didn't overlap. It wasn't fucking challenge to build best LEGO ball, just testing YT myth, and when you test myth you should try to recreate it best way you can. If in video they test they don't look overlaped, they don't overlap them either. Common sense. Please, for fucks sake.
Not to mention it's obvious as fuck in the original video that it's fake. Even with all the proper engineering advice that everyone is giving it would still tear itself apart.
@@HRRRRRDRRRRR Nah, the original video is totally real. Anyone who says otherwise is just hating.
Source: I was the boulder.
Pretty easy to debunk just by looking at it- the way the cg lego ball in the youtube video bounces so smoothly (like it’s made out of rubber) is painfully unrealistic.
They didn't even interlock all the pieces...
Thus is mythbusters.
Wow that ball was horribly structured... it's not suppose to be 20 cubes joined together, that would fall apart easily (obviously shown in the video).. If the layers were intersecting and actually connected.. this would've worked flawlessly.
Possibly, but that in itself would disprove the myth that a handful of guys did it. If I remember correctly, they used 4,500,000 bricks, and it took some serious organisation to round up that many in one place. Using the method they did, it took two weeks for a large team to build it. Using your method would have taken even longer, or a bigger team, or both.
There's rounded/curved Legos too...
*Edit* : sorry everyone! I didn't know there was an original video! I must have missed that being mentioned! Such an oblivious mind!
BLASPHEMY
but then it wouldn't be like the ball in the video so it would be pointless cause there would be no myth to bust...
there's a correct word to use when talking about the plural of Lego too...
Cotton Candy Nation not in the original vid
they tested the ball they saw in the video....
With the prices of legos in today’s world that thing had to cost a fortune
should've tried glue. Every master builder knows you use glue for large builds such as this
Pfft, ok Lord Business.
or just built right and overlap the pieces!
not just glue but the blocks where not all 100% licked like a houses bricks
What is worse than stepping on lego?
Lego stepping on you
Lul.
In the video they super glued them together though.
+BrokenOcktive2 that thing was also just not built well, they made larger blocks and then put those together. So there were spaces with no connecting bricks between these larger blocks.
SeabasR oh well thats mega carp if they didnt even fill in the whole thing solid. Thats even a bigger fuck up than not super gluing them. I bet it wouldda worked if they did it right by building the ball SOLIDLY & glued all the pieces together. Granted it would have taken at least 2ice as long.
In the youtube video those guys didn't really build a whole LEGO ball. The real one they built here the weighed 3,000 lbs.
Did they even consider the fact that maybe the people in the video glued them together 😆
The referenced video looks potentially stop motion with layering to me.
More like glued on plywood.
it should had worked if they had made the ball perfectly circular and super glued
A perfect circle with lego...?
Almost perfect
exactly, a ball with that size compared to the actual blocks could be a lot more "perfect"
It would have been even bigger then
Well, they had to make the ball like in the original CZcams video, and that wasn't any more circular. They have to stick with that, or they wouldn't have valid results obviously.
people complain about stepping on lego's, imagine getting ran over by lego's THE WORLD IS COMING TO A END!
In Soviet Russia, Lego step on YOU.
another brick in the ball!
Not only was the construction flawed, but you could also tell just by looking at it that the original was CGI
I didn't see the original video, but there are a few Lego techniques which the myth-busters failed horribly at;
First, the idea of combining "super blocks" is a huge failure. When you put individual legos together you can vary the direction they attach and make many attachment points for each lego to hold onto the others. This gives you a ridiculous amount of strength. With super-blocks you get the same thing for the super block itself, but those super blocks will have a lot of smooth sides where they come together, and you'll loose some major strength there. You can easily see it's these smooth joints inside the ball that fail.
Second, no glue was used. Everyone knows when you make a lego project that enormous, glue is a requirement. Hell, even the experts at Lego use glue for their statues.
All in all... I think the attempt to bust the myth is in fact busted.
+Gaming With ViperZeroOne Absolutely. This experiment is a massive fail.
+Gaming With ViperZeroOne The "superblocks" are clearly visible in the video they were trying to bust. They're not out to make something that can roll, they're here to prove that the ball in the video can't.
Granted, the lego ball in the video had glue remains on it. It also had a cardboard texture and seemed oddly light. Most people consider it a fake.
To be fair, even if that other thing was genuine and glued together, this was a much more fun result.
Tom de Kler ... Oh, not saying the result wasn't fun. I rather enjoyed watching it fall to bits. That said, this was supposed to be an experiment to prove if it was possible and the experiment itself was flawed.
They would of glue it and use a bigger hill to destroy the car
karlo nathiel *would have
yeah building in modules like that is terrible not to mention how jagged it was and not a smooth sphere at all... probably wouldnt have even needed glue had they done it right
+Bladerunner12120 they were testing if the ball from the video was possible, so it had to be this jagged, but yea, the modules were what made it break
why didn't they use glue?
The whole point was to do it the same way it was done in the CZcams video they were trying to bust. It's the same size and shape as the ball in the video which is why they built it this way.
Ollie Hunt But the video didn't say it was glued or not did it?
Das Carlin Did they glue it in this?
The way that just falls apart is truly beautiful.
0:36 that Pink Floyd reference👌🏻
try using glue to hold the bricks together...
Kasper Fox -
Big Balls -
They didn't interlock the pieces some of them broke apart in big clean blocks because they weren't crisscrossed.
“Another Brick in the Ball” hits on so many levels.
How dare they endanger a classic Audi!
+Bob Marley that's actually a VW scirocco 16V, probably even rarer than a quattro. i was pissed when i saw this episode.
+Bob Marley It's for sure not an Audi
i also thought it was an audi, but the rear looks more like an vw - doesn't matter in my opinion, they want to crash it.
very satisfying to watch it crumble like that
What did you say about my life?
Where's the slow-mo guys when you need them
ikr
And there's that one guy that built the smiley face into it.
Well played.
Imagine walking across that
Should of sent it out to space man, aliens would discover it... then fly it for thousands of lightyears all the way back to their dumb planet and have it in a alien museum for years opon years just to discover it's just a lego ball and literally does nothing and has no purpose at all except for children and weird scientists from earth. fuck i'm high
Gavin Yagul Head modern art
I don't envy the non-shoe'd cleanup crew.
2:00 lol the 1 lego piece that flies out