Saw my grandson using that. I wanted to throw it away out of jealousy. When I asked he laughed! “How did you take em apart Pop Pop?” “With our damn bare hands and sometimes teeth!” I was a firm believer that the young don’t have it easier, it’s just different. But then I saw this….
I also have always had the proper tool for separating Legos. It's called a KNIFE. before I started carrying a pocket knife everywhere I went, my mom's silverware drawer always had one available for my use. Best of all, it worked equally well on SAE as well as Metric Legos.
They've always had a Lego separation tool. Mine was passed down to me by my father in 1994. It was a proud day It's wood and called a Louisville Slugger.
From my childhood, through my children growing up, I have separated Legos in only one manner: step on them barefoot, curse sulfurously, then hurl said toy against the wall leaving it in hundreds of pieces. Even as I type this, I realize my kids left them out purposefully, and I was their Lego separating tool.
@@NehnBellanaris Had a back door to my house that the knob got stuck and would not turn.. dogs wanted out and I was running almost late to a very important appointment. I got the larger version of a hammer.. the one called 'sledge'.. and removed that stuck doorknob in 1 solid hit. Left a nice hole in the door where that knob used to exist.. but the door opened. Now that hole is covered in duct tape to keep the cold air out and a screwdriver is used to secure the door by jamming said screwdriver into the doorjamb in front of the door on the inside of the house. Been like that now almost 20 years. So yeah.. I feel ya there.
When I was playing with Legos, I was also building model airplanes. The X-Acto blade that wouldn't cut decals cleanly any more was perfect for separating Legos.
I have a whole damn drawer of those things now! They come in most sets these days. When I was a kid, I had one, but not like the one of today, and I had to buy it separately. If you really want to be infuriated, take a look at an instruction manual for Lego from recent years. I swear that there are times when there is one piece being assembled and there's a picture of it, and it's highlighted. Sometimes, it's the entire page! Back in the old days, it was like a puzzle/game. We had to compare our build to the picture! We missed pieces, had leftovers, and then had to go back in and see where we had missed them! Don't get me wrong though, I still love a good Lego set! 😊
The brick breaker is awesome. I can tell you they did not exist in the 1900’s. I myself still have a very specific slim, but strong butter knife that I used to separate legos.
Aye the nephew has a bunch they came with the larger kits and it sure is a game changer. I remember struggling to get those wee little flat ones apart, picking at them with a fingernail, going to plan B which was putting it on another part and trying to separate it, or giving up and looking for a similar sized piece.
It's been around for a while, and they usually came in the bigger sets. Not the model sets. What's even more fun is giving your Legos to a younger relative and providing that tool and watching them try to use it on something that takes up the bulk of the Legos only to realize they were glued together. 30 minutes of laughing ensued. The same younger relative was the cause of gluing the together in the first place, so it was justified.
Dude! I had one of those back in the late 80s. I ordered it straight from lego. Got my hands on this mail order catalog and ordered an allowance worth of random Lego parts. It was a game changer from using sharp knives and my teeth. 😂
As a fellow Gen X who had one of those in the 90s despite growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere I'm going to say you only have yourself to blame
@@amyjeanbelk7561 yes I was born in the 70s and Lego was very much a thing in the 80s and I did still have them in the 90s. Are you suggesting there is something wrong with teenagers and adults enjoying Lego?
The pain was real. I discovered that tool when I was introducing my kids to Legos. Apparently they put one in every kit, especially if it is large. We have a couple dozen of them now.
I did not discover this tool until 34ish, and it ruined me so bad I got back into Legos at 37. They do say 7+ I fit into the + category. Legos are back on the menu men!!
My first experience with that little miracle was with the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. That’s the reason that it’s complete and ready for display, instead of imbedded in the wall. Sometime this year, when the memory of the Porsche starts to fade, we’ll start on the Bugatti Chiron. Only about 900 more pieces than the Porsche. How bad can it be?
They made that thing for these younger generations. You know the ones that need warning labels on everything and got participation trophies. The ones that can't read or write cursive hand writing. It really is sad that they have to be warned not to drink the battery fluid in their car. SMH
They're actually in a lot of the more expensive lego sets. I didn't have one until I could afford to get the higher priced ones. That's also the newer version, there is an older green version as well.
yes. I remember the sense of amazement when I discovered it in the Lego Store Master Builder classes when I took my kids. My mom said Legos were for boys. I played with them anyway. Such a rebel.
The table knife was my go-to tool for that task. I have never known of any official device for that crappy task! Then again, I lived in Australia and was expected to prise apart Legos with sharpened crocodile teeth or just bash them with a boomerang or digeridoo.
Oh, my God. I'm still going to sit here being amazed someone other than me used "piss and vinegar." I just remember that from my Nana. And I thought I might be the last person alive using it.
As a lego collector i have hundreds of these. Sometimes you get two in a set not just one. But like i dunno all my childhood sets in the 90s had them. If not a butter knife worked just as well.
In my mid 40s when COVID hit and I started having my own physical 'gremlins' starting at the same time I was browsing the web one day and saw some Lego, thought to myself, "you know what, I'm gonna buy that" just a random something to do. I now own over 100 sets, 300 minifigures, and about twenty of the greatest invention ever......
YAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!! My son opened a pack of Legos as a gift and I'm holding this orange plastic thing in complete awe. My friends and I are gathering around this thing listing all the Lego pieces we could have removed back in the day. My son and his friends are like, "It's a Lego tool Mom; what, you've never had one before?" No you little tart! These didn't exist when I was your age. All of those bent backwards thumbnails...*shutters*. What year did they start putting these in Lego kits? I demand an answer, dad-gum-it!
Those came around when we were teenagers. I actually threw a fit the first time I got a set with one in it. Should have been the first thing they created after creating two that could lock together. LOL!
Nah, it wasn't available when you were a kid. There was a similar grey tool that was like $10 you had to order from a lego catologue. Now days the orange ones come with most sets over a certain price point. They are so readily available people have been incorperating it into their lego sets like it's another piece.
My dad worked for samsonite in the 60's and 70's and they made legos, he would sweep them off the floor and bring bags home over the years. Stole a table knive from the kitchen to get them apart. They looked for that knife forever. I confesed when I was in college.
A slim butter knife still works better, lol. I saw it for the first time when I bought my kid his first lego set. I was excited on his behave, jealous on my own; until I tried to use it. Those tough ones it still doesn't work, and the others it's just as easy and faster with your hands.
Kind of an odd take. Used a Lego separator last millennium. It was 10 times the size of that little wispy thing, and grey. Kinda resembled a shoe horn.
Never had them when I was a kid. My 5 year old doesn’t grasp the concept of how revolutionary that thing is. She just takes her dinosaurs and smashes whatever I make for her to smitherines.
It's been almost 40 years since Legos first came into my home. And I still have pieces with the original hard earned teeth marks from trying to get them apart. There are 2 pieces at my parents home, now that they are the grandparents, that according to legend have been stuck together since '88.
My poor, mistaken DBV, for once you are actually on the wrong track. The lack of this tool is like the day you found out there is no Santa Clause. It made you strong. It prepared you for the trials, frustrations, and disillusionments that make life what it is. This is one of the many things that made us strong. Saying you wish you had possessed this tool in your youth is like saying you wish you had grown up with bicycle helmets and kneepads for skateboarding.
Dadbod, like most of us Gen X'ers you damn well know even if you had that tool you would be this way. lets look at our games, 1)Operation 2)Perfection 3)Lawn Darts All games or activities that made us the way we are. Legos are like not even close to the list of why we're so full of sarcasm, piss and vinegar
A lot of parents got legos from thrift or 2nd hand stores. Garage sales etc...every piece that was supposed to be there always was (typically) except 1...that damn tool. I had 1000's of them, except 1. The most crucial 1. I eventually made a friends with a rich kid. Went to his house 1 day. Saw that he had about as many legos as me. But there was every single lego tool from each set his parents bought. I was mad for a moment and the boy seeing my frustration, just gave me a handfull of them. 1 for each color of the rainbow plus a clear red and clear green one. Didnt leave my room for about 2 weeks (summer vacation was the best)
Saw my grandson using that. I wanted to throw it away out of jealousy. When I asked he laughed! “How did you take em apart Pop Pop?”
“With our damn bare hands and sometimes teeth!” I was a firm believer that the young don’t have it easier, it’s just different. But then I saw this….
I would rather be able to buy a house on a single job income then have had a Lego separator growing up. 😂
I also have always had the proper tool for separating Legos. It's called a KNIFE. before I started carrying a pocket knife everywhere I went, my mom's silverware drawer always had one available for my use.
Best of all, it worked equally well on SAE as well as Metric Legos.
Used a small pocket knife as well till I got the tool lol
Metric Legos??? shoot me in the foot! Silly me, however, thought this amazing tool was a beer tab opener.
They've always had a Lego separation tool. Mine was passed down to me by my father in 1994. It was a proud day It's wood and called a Louisville Slugger.
😂
Had us in the first half not gonna lie . Lol😂
Was not invented until 1990, so it has not been around forever.
Same here but canadian version, replace Louisville Slugger by Sherwood hockey stick.
@@martinl.7949 LoL 🤣
Stay full of piss and vinegar we enjoy your sarcasm never change sir 😂😂
From my childhood, through my children growing up, I have separated Legos in only one manner: step on them barefoot, curse sulfurously, then hurl said toy against the wall leaving it in hundreds of pieces.
Even as I type this, I realize my kids left them out purposefully, and I was their Lego separating tool.
😂💕😂
My feet feel this comment.
😂😂😂😂😂
As someone who had access to that tool, I assure you it had no effect on my level of sarcasm or piss and vinegar in my blood! 😂
Damn!
I thought the tool for separating Lego was a hammer!!
That's not for separating them, that's for breaking them when you're pissed. lol
@@NehnBellanaris Had a back door to my house that the knob got stuck and would not turn.. dogs wanted out and I was running almost late to a very important appointment. I got the larger version of a hammer.. the one called 'sledge'.. and removed that stuck doorknob in 1 solid hit. Left a nice hole in the door where that knob used to exist.. but the door opened.
Now that hole is covered in duct tape to keep the cold air out and a screwdriver is used to secure the door by jamming said screwdriver into the doorjamb in front of the door on the inside of the house. Been like that now almost 20 years.
So yeah.. I feel ya there.
Kudos to the engineer who designed this. I'm sure he didn't get paid enough.
When I was playing with Legos, I was also building model airplanes. The X-Acto blade that wouldn't cut decals cleanly any more was perfect for separating Legos.
I have a whole damn drawer of those things now! They come in most sets these days. When I was a kid, I had one, but not like the one of today, and I had to buy it separately.
If you really want to be infuriated, take a look at an instruction manual for Lego from recent years. I swear that there are times when there is one piece being assembled and there's a picture of it, and it's highlighted. Sometimes, it's the entire page! Back in the old days, it was like a puzzle/game. We had to compare our build to the picture! We missed pieces, had leftovers, and then had to go back in and see where we had missed them!
Don't get me wrong though, I still love a good Lego set! 😊
The brick breaker is awesome. I can tell you they did not exist in the 1900’s. I myself still have a very specific slim, but strong butter knife that I used to separate legos.
I used my thumbnail for my son, but after treading on a few in the dark, they went into hiding. Don’t think he noticed yet, he found ps1
Aye the nephew has a bunch they came with the larger kits and it sure is a game changer. I remember struggling to get those wee little flat ones apart, picking at them with a fingernail, going to plan B which was putting it on another part and trying to separate it, or giving up and looking for a similar sized piece.
It's been around for a while, and they usually came in the bigger sets. Not the model sets. What's even more fun is giving your Legos to a younger relative and providing that tool and watching them try to use it on something that takes up the bulk of the Legos only to realize they were glued together. 30 minutes of laughing ensued. The same younger relative was the cause of gluing the together in the first place, so it was justified.
Could have just …. Not given them the tool and made it even funnier . The legos would have stuck together the same, with or without glue…😂
They weren't around back in the 90's, which is the point of the video.
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As a Danish Man I am Really sorry!. And then not, what will we have done without You here on YT :).
Beter than the razor blade i kept in my lego box for separating Legos that get really stuck
It came out in 1990 - I had access in my late teen years!
Dude! I had one of those back in the late 80s. I ordered it straight from lego. Got my hands on this mail order catalog and ordered an allowance worth of random Lego parts. It was a game changer from using sharp knives and my teeth. 😂
Yep! As the mom of a Lego enthusiast, I totally get your profound frustration!
Omg I wish I had that when my daughter played with Legos. Fingers cut and torn hands jammed butter knives broken...😮
As a fellow Gen X who had one of those in the 90s despite growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere I'm going to say you only have yourself to blame
They didn't exist in the 70's & 80's. Are you sure your GenX? What are you doing playing with Legos in high school?😂
@@amyjeanbelk7561 yes I was born in the 70s and Lego was very much a thing in the 80s and I did still have them in the 90s. Are you suggesting there is something wrong with teenagers and adults enjoying Lego?
The pain was real. I discovered that tool when I was introducing my kids to Legos. Apparently they put one in every kit, especially if it is large. We have a couple dozen of them now.
I did not discover this tool until 34ish, and it ruined me so bad I got back into Legos at 37. They do say 7+ I fit into the + category. Legos are back on the menu men!!
I never had one until they came in the kit my kid got in 2014. I am right there with you when i found it
My good Sir. That tool has been in Legos since the middle 80's or before.
The caveat is the tool only came in select sets.
Thankfully I did grow up with these.
They were oh so helpful.
I had no idea. They ruined our lives, keeping this from us!
My first experience with that little miracle was with the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. That’s the reason that it’s complete and ready for display, instead of imbedded in the wall. Sometime this year, when the memory of the Porsche starts to fade, we’ll start on the Bugatti Chiron. Only about 900 more pieces than the Porsche. How bad can it be?
They made that thing for these younger generations. You know the ones that need warning labels on everything and got participation trophies. The ones that can't read or write cursive hand writing. It really is sad that they have to be warned not to drink the battery fluid in their car. SMH
They didn't have that when we were kids.... Just embrace your inner pissed off child
They're actually in a lot of the more expensive lego sets. I didn't have one until I could afford to get the higher priced ones. That's also the newer version, there is an older green version as well.
Channel lock pliers work just fine.
Why was I today years old when I learned this?? And I raised 3 boys, and they all had Legos!!
Every single lego piece I still own from my childhood has teeth-marks.
Never seen the tool before. You are not alone!
yes. I remember the sense of amazement when I discovered it in the Lego Store Master Builder classes when I took my kids. My mom said Legos were for boys. I played with them anyway. Such a rebel.
Brute force and dedication were the only tools I ever had
The table knife was my go-to tool for that task. I have never known of any official device for that crappy task! Then again, I lived in Australia and was expected to prise apart Legos with sharpened crocodile teeth or just bash them with a boomerang or digeridoo.
I've absolutely never heard of one.
You gotta use the separator. Sung to "come out and play" by offspring tune
My family couldn’t afford Lego! So my cares about separating them was never a concern!
A lot of the bigger LEGO sets come with this in the box.
Santa only gives those to good little boys and girls. I'm sorry to hear that you never got one. I got mine in 79
Oh, my God. I'm still going to sit here being amazed someone other than me used "piss and vinegar." I just remember that from my Nana. And I thought I might be the last person alive using it.
As a lego collector i have hundreds of these. Sometimes you get two in a set not just one. But like i dunno all my childhood sets in the 90s had them. If not a butter knife worked just as well.
My Lego separating tool was a Swiss Army Knife. The tin/can opener blade was perfect.
In my mid 40s when COVID hit and I started having my own physical 'gremlins' starting at the same time I was browsing the web one day and saw some Lego, thought to myself, "you know what, I'm gonna buy that" just a random something to do. I now own over 100 sets, 300 minifigures, and about twenty of the greatest invention ever......
My niece worked for Lego. They come standard in the larger sets.
YAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!! My son opened a pack of Legos as a gift and I'm holding this orange plastic thing in complete awe. My friends and I are gathering around this thing listing all the Lego pieces we could have removed back in the day. My son and his friends are like, "It's a Lego tool Mom; what, you've never had one before?" No you little tart! These didn't exist when I was your age. All of those bent backwards thumbnails...*shutters*. What year did they start putting these in Lego kits? I demand an answer, dad-gum-it!
In Scandinavia we use knife for everything when I was a child, for playing, dating, marriage, child birth, divorce, funeral 😂
Never had Legos as a kid back in the day. Therefore I love Legos. It must be some kind of ocd thing.
Those came around when we were teenagers. I actually threw a fit the first time I got a set with one in it. Should have been the first thing they created after creating two that could lock together. LOL!
😮😮 I never knew that existed till now! I use to throw the piece at the wall or floor to separate them!
The Lego breaker tool is awesome!!! It’s been at least around since 2001. 😂
Yeah. I discovered that late too. I think of all the teeth marks on the Legos, though.
It's been out since 96 when I first saw it and I fully understand
It's almost like the kids always knew, they'd just hide it so they could laugh at us damaging ourselves instead.
Nah, it wasn't available when you were a kid. There was a similar grey tool that was like $10 you had to order from a lego catologue. Now days the orange ones come with most sets over a certain price point. They are so readily available people have been incorperating it into their lego sets like it's another piece.
My heart bleeds at hearing this. All those years......
Wish I had known about that when my children were small , have to find one for my grandchildren!
My dad worked for samsonite in the 60's and 70's and they made legos, he would sweep them off the floor and bring bags home over the years.
Stole a table knive from the kitchen to get them apart. They looked for that knife forever. I confesed when I was in college.
All I can say is wow. Saw it in my 8 year olds Legos and had no idea what it was. Just thought it was another Lego.
A slim butter knife still works better, lol.
I saw it for the first time when I bought my kid his first lego set. I was excited on his behave, jealous on my own; until I tried to use it. Those tough ones it still doesn't work, and the others it's just as easy and faster with your hands.
I've never seen one. 😮
I used two of my dad's pliers. Worked pretty good.
I worked in a toy shop about 20 years ago, we sold tons of Lego but I’ve never seen that tool, had to be released within the last 20 years or so.
Born in '72. I just found about that thing last year, ROFL.
Born in 66.... I just found out about this NOW... Today I learned!
Lmao, I was the same until I got one of those tools. Mine came in a large set in the early 90s.
Silly me, I just used a flathead screwdriver, pliers, a jigsaw, hammer and a blow torch when I was a kid.
Kind of an odd take. Used a Lego separator last millennium. It was 10 times the size of that little wispy thing, and grey.
Kinda resembled a shoe horn.
I played with Legos in the 1970s and 1980s and never saw anything like that. I did crack a tooth on a Lego once.
As a child your age I just pulled the legos apart.
Some men were born different.
I was more stubborn than the stuck together Lego pieces.
I also wouldn't have the grip strength I do now without pulling apart Legos, lol.
To be fair, our legos were much bigger; we needed butter knives.
So very true and the beltings we got for using mothers butter knives if caught were unbearable 😂 😂
GENX NEVER had this tool. I never had one! If they had it, it was hidden from us by vindictive and evil parents! gahhhhhhh
Don't forget using scissors and knives. LOL
Ikr? We never had one of those when we were growing up.
Never had them when I was a kid. My 5 year old doesn’t grasp the concept of how revolutionary that thing is. She just takes her dinosaurs and smashes whatever I make for her to smitherines.
The Lego wrench that the Lego people can hold is also a Lego separation tool.
We either used a screwdriver or a nail file. I have never seen such a tool!
The greatest tool ever! Have one on my keyring
It's been almost 40 years since Legos first came into my home. And I still have pieces with the original hard earned teeth marks from trying to get them apart. There are 2 pieces at my parents home, now that they are the grandparents, that according to legend have been stuck together since '88.
As kids, we used our teefs.....💯
... and my Dad used to curse us out for stepping on them🤣🤣. Oh well, better late than never on the tool, my friend!
My poor, mistaken DBV, for once you are actually on the wrong track.
The lack of this tool is like the day you found out there is no Santa Clause. It made you strong. It prepared you for the trials, frustrations, and disillusionments that make life what it is. This is one of the many things that made us strong.
Saying you wish you had possessed this tool in your youth is like saying you wish you had grown up with bicycle helmets and kneepads for skateboarding.
Learn something New everyday, Thanks
That my boy, the Gen X would call an "attitude adjustment stick". Please dont ask what happened to my Rubics cube.
Dadbod, like most of us Gen X'ers you damn well know even if you had that tool you would be this way. lets look at our games,
1)Operation
2)Perfection
3)Lawn Darts
All games or activities that made us the way we are. Legos are like not even close to the list of why we're so full of sarcasm, piss and vinegar
It's important to know. 👍
Had one as a kid late 80s early 90s sadly it was sold in a garage sale with collection thanks mom lol
I didn’t have one either. I know the anger.
A lot of parents got legos from thrift or 2nd hand stores. Garage sales etc...every piece that was supposed to be there always was (typically) except 1...that damn tool. I had 1000's of them, except 1. The most crucial 1. I eventually made a friends with a rich kid. Went to his house 1 day. Saw that he had about as many legos as me. But there was every single lego tool from each set his parents bought. I was mad for a moment and the boy seeing my frustration, just gave me a handfull of them. 1 for each color of the rainbow plus a clear red and clear green one. Didnt leave my room for about 2 weeks (summer vacation was the best)
My google says it came out in 1990. My daughter still just asks me to separate them.
My uncles had tools like this back in the 70s. They came with their kits. 😅
Yeah same here but at least we still may have become veterans and still have our rage filled sarcasm
LEGO introduced the first brick separator in 1990. I always used my dad's putty knives to separate them.
I feel your pain
I just learned about these a in the last few years 😂, and yes they are Awesome!
To be honest, I had those as a kid. They are kind of crap.
Mine was grey and I had it in the early 90’s
Y'all had Legos ?😳 All we had was STICKS. And we had to go find them for ourselves.😟