Brittle Brick Blues - Brigade Breaking
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2020
- The LEGO Fire Brigade set is another example of the brittle bricks problems from LEGO sets with certain colors about 10 or so years ago
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In case you were wondering what was said in the intro “Hey! It’s BrickTsar. Because breaking blue bricks brings big bonus, BrickTsar begins by breaking blue bricks but backwards. Bodacious!”
You really should watch the last minute or so with subs... Very funny what CZcams thinks you said jabbo :D
Captions turns it in to that anyway
Adam bloomfield I edited it to make sure it was accurate
I hate the fact that LEGO went straight to plant based bricks without testing their long term endurance. The old Nylon bricks are much more valuable now.
Just got an email yesterday from LEGO that they are sending me the replacement pieces I requested that broke when I put mine together! In total I only lost 6 1x1 tiles. All free of charge as well!
Glad to see you bailed. If I end up parting together that set, which I want to, I will make sure to use a safer color in place of the dark red.
The pain is all to real on the dark red of the brigade
I could almost tolerate the ‘brittle bricks’ if the sets were 20+ years old but this isn’t great. Lego used to pride itself on quality products that would last generations. I get things can go wrong from time to time but this isn’t good enough, especially when lego is a premium toy. Effectively the toy is no longer ‘fit for purpose’, through no fault of your own. Wonder what lego would say if you were to email them.
I recently helped a 10 year old sorting her parts - and I haven't found a single broken piece. And believe me, she really has a talent of breaking things (and an even bigger on losing parts…) ;)
I took apart one of the old Tie Fighters. I now have to replace roughly half of the blue pieces. One thing I noticed was that a lot of the old thin pieces act as if they are almost glued to each other when left together.
nortoro1 I was wondering if this affected Star Wars sets-I had a problem with my 2006 Slave 1. It looks like I’m not the only one with brick issues in those sets.
This is a huge quality issue. TLG needs to address this and put out a statement. You can't market your toys as high quality products if they disintigrate after 10 years. With all the testing TLG does on plastics, it's hard to believe they weren't aware of this. I really hope they didn't compromise on quality to save a few cents. I've never had any vintage parts break like that, so something must have changed.
I can’t believe this. LEGO was always pretty much indestructible. I don’t think I’ll ever attempt dismantling my Robie House.
When Jaabo speaks the ancient language of the brickanese people
Thanks for sharing. I didn’t know about this. This was the build that got me out of the dark ages and I’ve had it together since day 2. It’s truly special. After watching this, I will treat it with kit gloves now on for sure! Sorry about your broken pieces. Great intro btw!
I had the same problem with one of pirate ships...the 1by1 cylinder pieces plus all of my dark brown 4by4 plate pieces.
I love your content and was a bit haert broken when you got all teary eyed over the stupid defective bricks!!!
Wow! I'd send Lego an e-mail and ask for replacement!! A NO-GO this is! These are toys for children to play with and not stamps or coins that need to be protected...
The dark red 2x10 plates on the Palace Cinema just snapped for me. I always test the strength of plates by flexing them the tiniest bit to see if I need replacement parts. The maroon pieces snapped instantly.
At about 4:30 I realized how fortunate you and your son are to have such a fantastic relationship. We should all be so lucky!
Reminded me of a scene from an old spoof movie Top Secret! filmed backwards. This was just as funny 😂
I watched this intro like 3 times back to back Haha. I believe 5 of my dark red pieces cracked in half or chipped from my Fire Brigade.
Yeah m2
I think it might still be a problem with current bricks, too. A few months ago I knocked over my UCS Hulkbuster and one of the 1x1 90 degree corner tiles snapped in half.
At first I thought this was a Jaabo meets Twin Peaks video. That white whale looked super creepy. First time a yelled "stop" during a LEGO video.
I had dozens of 1x2 1x4 and some 2x2 dark red tiles break building and adjusting a brick parking lot this February, almost impossible to remove a tile from 8x8 plates without at least 50% breakage
This is my favorite set ( the one that dragged me back in ), I won't dare to "de-construct" it.
Ahhh oh man i am laughing so hard! I couldn't understand it the first time, then after the end of the video i went back to the beginning and now I can hear it. Thanks for a great laugh.
OMG same when I bought the fire brigade half of those red tiles broke when I put them on the set
Creative vidro. Sorry for the broken pieces. I had to relocate for work 5 years ago. Dismantled all my Lego buildings for the move. Most are still in bags stored in storage boxes in the basement. Guess it will be fun trying to rebuild the fire station someday.
I bought bulk dark red 2 x 6 bricks recently from a different Bricklink store but found them extremely brittle. 20 broke while putting them together in a mock. Probably won't be taking it apart.
This is so sad. I don't have this set, but I worry about my Ghostbusters Headquarters that is mostly dark red. I built it once. Had it on display for some months, and took it apart and haven't touched it since.
I think you were smart to quite before it got worse.
Cool intro/outro...it was fun!
Okay that opening 😂. That must have been so hard to talk backwards xD
As my friends They Might Be Giants said - "Took weeks to learn. Not a lot to show for it. Not a big pay off. Unfortunately it is not fun to listen too. But it was really hard to learn it. Dragging everyone down with us." czcams.com/video/H43e_6hhJHc/video.html
Finally, we got the best intro I’ve every seen!
Now that I have the space, I recently built my Slave 1 #6209 that I got for Christmas way back when it was released. 6 of the brown pieces from the base cracked (about 1/3 of the bricks of that brown color). It was never built and still sealed in the box. I’m so disappointed.
I didn't know this problem extended to the blue colors too! This may be enough for me to stop collecting Lego altogether.
The start is amazing! Backwards talking ☺ Great video Bricktsar 😊
Love vids I would watch you everyday after school when I loved legos (I still do) but I love your vids been subbed for about 2 years 👍
Now, I'm kinda afraid pieces will break on my Fire Brigade. In general, I notice that old sets make a lot more cracking noises when you lift them up.
This made me sad. I would probably have just ran it under water and gently wiped it then fan dried it. Works well for built modulars.
It’s sad that your fire brigade has the brittle dark red. As you know 60/70s blue and late 2000s blue are both brittle. Everyone knows about the light on dark colour printing application of modern mid-late 2010s minifigures. Not a lot of people talk about the brittle stickers of the mid-late 2000s. I have stickered pieces from the 2008 cargo truck and all the cargo logos are peeling and cracked
Reminds me of that Red Dwarf episode (many years ago) aptly titled Backwards. Not sure this BBC show ever made it across to the US!? You tube the pub fight scene and you will know what I mean...
Palace cinema is another you have to watch out for re: brittle dark red. Several 1x8 tiles do frequently break at the edges. 😭
I feel like I've been very fortunate with my reds and browns. That being said, I'm now super paranoid of breaking my own copy of that set. I guess there's only one way to check lol
Yikes. The brittle bricks thing make me feel really anxious! So far I think I have only seen it with a reddish brown piece in a Star Wars advent calendar...
It's all over the place. I got a Medieval Market and built it, not knowing about this - and a bunch of reddish brown prices broke on it
@@keiljones2902 Oh no not the medieval market as well :( That's a set I really want to get at some point...
What kind of curse did you just put upon me.. 😂
It makes me really sad when holy LEGO bricks break, it's really cringey. I'm glad you didn't continue with disassembling or I would've clicked away
Ha ha Swedish chef snapping blue plates!
So, I have the same problem. all those bricks are available from pick-a-brick for replacements... which is what I intend to do
All my 1*1 dark red fasade tiles broke when i built my vintage sealed set today. Ordered 20 new ones at lego, tried the broken pieces but it got rejected so I need to pay for it myself. Now I just gonna wait for them to arrive. I will NOT be rebuilding this set ever again. Only display it or sell it as is
Probably thats why they have the "New dark red" colour now. Very sad cause the set is getting more and more expensive.
I know i recently bought a sealed scooby lighthouse and the red and brown bricks kept cracking and breaking contacted lego through the broken bricks and got those pieces replaced
LEGO is making stuff with new plastic. Its not that great to☹ hope the will do better in the future again
Return of the Brittle Blue
JaWa heey JaWa, nice to see you here!
Hey, my fire station came apart without any issue but when I put it back together 3 years later, every third / fourth dark red tile snapped, so it must be an age thing with the bricks.
Well the beginning of the video is making me think I still have sleep meds in my system
I have 2 modular buildings and this is one of them and it hurts seeing this. I will probably handle it now as if it was a piece of crystal art. The only pieces that did break on me in the past was with 2 transparent axe blade pieces with a clip in one of the Heroica LEGO sets. One funny thing is that I got an older Chinese set from the brand Enlighten and they have the exact same issue with the same blue color and 6 1x2 cheese slopes broke on me while assembling the set for the first time. I do hope that LEGO will figure out a way to prevent this from happening with future sets.
I just opened a sealed one of these and built it. Broke all of the 1x1 Dark Red Tiles while building and one 1x2 Dark Red plate. I had some 1x1 dark red tiles in my store and they were fine so I think dark red was inferior back when this set released.
Same happened to me today, wrote a post in the video. Irritating after spending premium money one of these vintage sets.
Try getting replacements from the LEGO customer service. I don't know if those pieces are still being made but if they are, they have to replace them (I just got a few for my Mill Village Raid set, because some brown pieces decided to break)
I have the paresian restaurant and the dark red corner slope broke whet it was only about a year old and I also have some broken brown and blue pieces
Same thing happened to me two months ago when i tried disassembling my brigade :/ Luckly i only broke two of the dark red pieces, though i'm considering contacting Lego
Building Ewok Village at the moment and I'm getting a lot of brittle Reddish Brown and Dark Brown parts. I'm worried the exclusive 1 x 6 curved brick in Dark Brown is going to break on me in which case I am going to be left with nothing to replace it with.
No I want to break down my fire Brigade :D
I bought mine 2013 at the Legostore. Maybe it is not affected but if the parts break I hope TLG will replace them.
What will happen to a new sealed Fire Brigade Set? If I want to build it will the Bricks break like this?
Oh dear, more brittle LEGO bricks. Perhaps you should have kept this fire station assembled. I hope you will be able to source those replacement bricks, for not a lot of money.
Wow out all the bricks to break I never thought that a 1x1 tile would be one😢😭 sorry for your lose Joseph
Uh-oh. Looks like TrainTSAR got the time stone again.
Haha.. yes.. dark red! I just built a Space Battleship Yamato MOC w/ lots of dark red. Wedge plates and tiles were disintegrating in my hands. The color of dark red also varies wildly from lot to lot.
I’ve had to replace some of the roof for The Simpsons house set bc of this problem. No issues with any dark red parts yet - knock on wood.
Once I bought a cheap used Spongebob Krusty Krab because I needed the expensive doors. The bigger reddish brown plates also broke :-(
Was that the Set you Sold me ;)
Oh yeah, reddish brown. I've had at least like 5 different parts in that colour break, all within probably a year of opening the brand new set.
The subtitles for the intro are insane.
Lol! I didn’t think of that. I’m gonna watch it with them on
I have this set, and taken it part and re-built it numerous times - had zero issues. Maybe the brittle bricks think could be to do with your particular room environment and humidity and/or the type of lighting you are storing you sets in.
Maybe should try it with some of your other sets - it would be upsetting to see if that your lights may be giving off bad UV.
It does not. It depends on when you bought it or what factory the bulk of the elements were in. Also consider that this set has been stored in the exact same environment as all the other bricks in my collection. I got 2 million parts - only ones from around 2009 in blue and dark red and a few other colors affected. Also consider I took apart the entire upper floor with no problems - same set and more exposed to light than the other parts. It is 100% a manufacturing issue. When I did the brittle blue video I got 100s of comments with the same problem and that is how I found out about this set. But those factors can contribute. Just not in my case since I have a controlled environment.
@@BrickTsar I guess so, its not an exact science, but its definitely a phenomenon that exists for sure - Mines been fine, so guess I struck lucky :)
That is really shoddy they break so easily. Have LEGO fixed the issues with these colours or are they still on going?
I have no clue what you were saying at the beginning past “Hey it’s Bricktsar!” 😅
lol
that was painful to watch, i’ve had so many reddish brown plates break on me 😞
Yeah! Build a LEGO city!
Not the reaction I was expecting but thank you. lol
it's a bad formulation ,certain year , Can happen to a reddish brown color too but it's more rare
and I thought I´d seen it all...
Very different
Did you open your bricklink store back yet?
Not yet.
I bought a corner cafe used, and the seller said they would disassemble for shipping. I contacted them to find out if they had already disassembled it, and when they said no I told them I would buy it as long as they shipped it assembled.... I was afraid that the Reddish Brown and the dark red could both break.
It is hard to know with that one. If it was manufactured in the early runs it might be okay. Seems like most of the problem pieces are in the 2009 to 2010 range.
@@BrickTsar turned out the bigger problem was fading. It wasn't like it had been exposed to the sun but I could tell a difference from the front to the back. Still glad I had it shipped assembled. LOL
Just being exposed to air can be enough!
Lego is aware---that's why they make so many space sets (no air up there)!
Rip brittle-blue plates
Thank you for your humor. And thank you that you didn’t lose it. The brittle parts. Oh my god. It is ruining the lego-hobby, I fear. The red parts occur in the star wars A-wing, UCS version. But what will happen to these red parts in the future. Another quality issue or problem appear.The red color differs a lot in the range of these parts. Keep up the good work. Keep your humor.
Well I’m not touching mine. It’s going stay built for a long time
lol just turn on captions for the first part of the video c;
I’ve got to add my own captions - it’s terrible the words in the captions ☹️
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1x2 tile on a Star Wars Luke Landspeeder broke and a 1x2 modified on Reys Speeder.😐😬
🤣 The start reminded me of the Red Dwarf Backwards episode - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backwards_(Red_Dwarf)
I thought lego would replace the broken pieces for free?
They might. This set is 11 years old. Also if they no longer make the parts it cannot be replaced. I am going to check. It is a lot of pieces in dark red.
This is concerning, I hope they can get you them. I also am a collector of sets. Mostly town and city sets. I have them all stored in totes in my shed and storage unit, I wonder if them being in the heat will ruin them. 😨😨
#BBI at 5:54...
Am I watching Twin peaks?
These bricks will break out of the box. Don't buy old sets in my opinion. I bought a Kingdom's Joust set and Medieval Market Village and one of them every brown was breaking straight out in 2018. They were retired sets but these were from Amazon prime resellers. One of them I ended up returning the entire set to them through Amazon and getting my money back...
I still have a sealed medieval market. Just never got around to building it because of space. Absolutely sure parts will break if I open mine too. And I wouldn’t sell it because someone would complain
Yes lOl
Wow you can tell you’re a TMBG fan. Or you just really like ozzy. Don’t bite the head off of 🦇 lord.
Not sure I like bricktzarsky the Russian version of your good self
Adding my personal story here, since you said "I don't know if this is something Lego has corrected" ...they haven't. Back in late November, I bought some new reddish brown bricks from Kentuckiana Bricks (a very big Bricklink store). I used the pieces to build a cupboard for a bar in my tower (so the pieces weren't supporting any heavy weight---just each other). A few weeks later, when that floor was finished, I began installing the window columns. I always look inside when I do, and noted a couple of the reddish brown bricks (2x2's) had cracks or splits that went almost from bottom to top. Again, these were only supporting their own weight and were purchased in new condition from a reputable seller.
That said, I do have some dark red bricks with the masonry pattern on them, that were bought from a physical Lego store (PaB FtW!) and have not experienced any issues with them. Moreover, the helicopter MOC I'm still building uses mostly blue pieces. Almost all of them are new, except for the windscreen and those 'fingered' hinge pieces. The latter I bought from Bricklink in 'new' condition and have not failed me, despite multiple tests. The little hinge fingers have not broken (despite my playing with the model some), and none of the new bricks show signs of splitting.
Last, I did discover a white 1x2 in new condition that had a split in it but I've no way of knowing who I bought it from or from when. So... I don't think brittle bricks are a common problem, but it's not a rare thing either, and it still seems to happen with bricks (esp. 1x2's) being produced today.
.em tnes uoy etalp eulb eht evah llits I ...Seems you need to get a humidifier; your Lego and stickers are dry rotting. Contrary to your anxieties, my unasked-for advice would be to take the building apart, just to see how much of it needs replacing; no point replacing just the parts you know are rotten when others (very likely) could be.
My friend recorded my hitting a bong and played in backwards. It looked really cool.
No one is supposed to take the Fire Brigade (or any other modulars) apart ;) I never take my modulars apart after the`re built. Insta: @chilis_no
This happened to me when I opened a 1977 set that was sealed. The blue plates broke and the colour changed.
It was never opened
This makes me question their design on the plant based pieces they hyped several years ago. That bragging seems to have vanished.
Nylon legos have gone up in price now due to their superb quality. I have been sorting out the plant based bricks from my collection due to their lower quality.
@@maticstudios Definitely quality is worse
BrickTsar
I invest in cheap lots of 70s-90s LEGO. Some people have a false sense with LEGO that new is better and old is less, wich is just as good for me since I don’t have to pay up for the better of the two.
(This comment originally started with a suggestion on how to speak in reverse which has been edited out now).
Would it please be possible to destroy some of those evil non-Lego generic imitation sets instead?? Not sure about the USA, but in some of the value stores here in the UK, it seems to have got worse with the number of available cheap non-Lego, but Lego-compatible sets. I bet they snap easier, whatever colour. Could be cheap ABS plastic containing all sorts of toxic chemicals, for all I know. Carcinogens, Mutagens, etc. I am not saying they do contain nasties (would they require FDA approval in the US?), as I clearly have no evidence, but I see myself as rather loyal when it comes to the Lego Company. Any brick without the Logo visible to me, is the work of parasites.
Destroy these fake sets now!!!! (or give to a poor child living below the poverty line).
Rant over.
I think I mentioned it in the video but that’s exactly what I did. Played the recording backwards. Then I have to phonetically spell them out because the sounds uttered are not normal. It’s like trying to speak a foreign language. You hear the sound but uttering it is a hold other thing. It’s hard. Takes a lot of time. And had very little payoff. Lol! I actually practiced it and sometimes it sounded better than others. I only had so many bricks to break though - lol! I spent at least an hour with it for less than 1 minute of speech. As far as the bricks - it’s become a known problem with certain colors from this time period but I as of now am unclear of LEGO Group will acknowledge it publicly.
@@BrickTsar Yes, sorry; I realised that you covered my point afterwards when watching again lol (hence my comment edited).
I have observed another issue with blue bricks. Recently, I rebuilt some old sets from boxed-up bricks stored in an attic. The parts vary from early 1970's with Maxifigures, through to mid-1980's. It seems that unlike red, black and yellow, the blue bricks discolour; with some of the building, I had to select blue parts in such a way as to avoid mismatching. After sorting, building and photographing, I dismantled the sets and put them in bags. Only one breakage occurred and that was a grey 6x2 plate on the yellow castle (set 375).
Thanks for the videos. Love them.