I have this set that from one piece, but doesn't have any of the characters it was so painful to fill the ropes into things on the back of the top half the golden railings because they kept on popping off because of things holding them up broke it wouldn't fit and then the side where the lights turn on or you can because it comes with lights you have to open up a panel on the side can you take things off that thing that comes off how long is a bunch of tiny pieces if you mess up one little thing you might pop it all off and you got to rebuild everything put but those ropes we're a nightmare I said cut the ropes I think they were too short I had to use tape on one of them because I gave up and trying to tie it I'll send you the code of the set this is hard Code is 653001 try building that say that should be on the list
same. amd with sets like the small star wars mechs, if the arms/legs are the same but mirrored, ill also build both at the same time instead of one limb at a time.
Of course it would help if the instructions tell you right away that you're going to have to build two of the same thing, like how the Tower Bridge tells you right in the beginning. Most of the sets I have don't tell you that you that it's a 2x instruction until the very last step of building the first half of the 2x.
@Ability-King-KKI have found it to be more and more common nowadays that they tell you up front. For sure it used to be that it only said 2x at the end, but I haven't seen that in years.
Got 3 of the rc models myself... the audi style rally car, the audi e-quatro, and I forget the 3rd one currently. But I have like 60 of the speed champions. My kiddos started that collection, and now every birthday, Christmas, or other event, I get em from family and spouse. Other than that, have roughly 18 of the 1:16 scale (maybe 1:12?)
@TB-xl9eg ❤ I was given a millennium falcon for my birthday, you know, the big one. Never would have bought it myself. Got two Batman cars second hand thanks to my wife and bought the third one new. Saved is a lot of money. She even took the cars apart as they were shipped completed and put everything in their respective bags 😅
But it's literally just a piece of string, not a brick of any sort, so IMHO, it doesn't really count. If you stepped on it barefooted in the dark, it wouldn't hurt, thus it's not a real LEGO piece! :D
@GustavSvard Can we stop being intellectually disingenuous? By that notion the instruction manual itself is part of the set because they also have lego piece product IDs associated with them, which would make the largest lego piece 139 meters long if you were to unfold all the pages next to each other.
@34125867 well you could get a much longer piece if u just stacked bricks side by side 😂😂😂 Wanna talk abt intellectual disingenuity.. pfft why don't you talk about projection? You could get a longer peice melting all of them together and creating a very thin string out of the plastic too! If u wanna get down to it. But without modification and as a singular piece, it is the longest piece of string LEGO has put out by a long shot, i think. Ta-da! Longest LEGO piece! piece* whoops i always forget it's e after i, like a piece of pie
Damn I guess I have just the right kind of autism for this I also know about how pulley systems work, so it's at least somewhat intuitive as to what they're doing.
My most hated steps are the complex technic gearboxes where you have to make sure every gear is lined up perfectly. And then held in place as you connect two assemblies together. It’s like you need 3 hands.
Yeah I built my bonsai as the classic green version for this very reason, I still have the frogs sealed in the bag with the other cherry blossom elements years later lol.
It reminds me of back in college when I first opened my biochemistry textbook, and right inside the cover was a huuuge metabolic map, detailing what must have been a couple hundred interconnected reactions rendered in miniscule font, chemical formulae and arrows everywhere, with a note that said that this is only a fraction of all the chemistry that goes on inside the body. Apparently, I was to learn all of it over the coming two semesters. I dropped the class.
3:26 it ought to give you a large appreciation for the men and women that build, repair and maintain this and the many other cranes that build our world. If a long string gives you a headache, imagine a steel cable and now imagine an inspector taking a look at said cable and noticing a kink, red tagging the crane until the the cable can be replaced. That’s a very normal occurrence for at least a few hundred possibly a few thousands if we included the smaller cranes around the world.
60 Stickers on the containers.. with every one of the alternative brick manufacturers, these would have been printed blocks and cost half the price. If only to preserve the sanity of the building customer.
I'd never seen that model before and was instantly excited - I love cargo ships. As soon as he said it was stickers, I lost all interest. I'm not competent enough to line up stickers.
@casey8164Then you're in luck! There's a brand new version of this build dropping from Lego on March 1st (set 40955) only this time the cargo containers are all printed pieces!
@mikoajz2334 Except you probably have 1 or 2 extra links in the bag (maybe 4 if they're split between two bags for some reason). An odd number isn't too bad since it outs itself as not being equal in length, 2 extra could easily turn into a case of "Ugh, this set kinda sucks. The chain is way too loose."
@dasapples @ryans413 Yeah with how expensive lego are these days you'd think they could at least splurge a little in printing bricks instead of taking the cheaper sticker option -_-
There's a new version of this set dropping March 1st (set 40955) with all printed pieces for the cargo containers! As for stickers in general, there's a pair of tricks that makes it much, much easier: First, slide the chisel back of a brick separator under the edge of the sticker and peel it off attached, then use the separator as a tool to align it. Much better than using your fingers alone. Second, spray the piece with Windex (yes, it's totally safe for the plastic!) prior to applying the sticker, which will temporarily prevent the glue from setting for a few minutes, allowing you to push the sticker around with a bit of force until it's perfect. Thanks to this combined technique, I have almost come to love applying stickers! Within reason, of course.
Clean the piece with a microfiber cloth to remove any dust, particles, and oil from your hands. Then spritz it with water with a drop of dish soap mixed in. Apply sticker with tweezers. The (lightly) soapy water will allow it to float over the piece until you're happy with the alignment. Then just blot dry with a paper towel to make it stick all the way. Happy building!
10:55 it’s because there’s 2 sets of chain links, versus just one. You could possibly miscount and be short one or two chain links on the other tread whereas on the roller coaster you just need to attach them all at once
@Kumpelblase397 They found out that assembling them in pairs of 5 gets you in a hypnotic state that makes it more likely that you buy more lego sets. Just look at the numbers on that page: 83 90 1 2 3 4 9 2. If prime means dot and non-prime means dash, its morse code for "buy".
The red Lego double decker bus comes to mind. Building the benches is quite tedious and once you’ve completed the bottom deck, you get to build even more identical seats for the upper deck. Except for the one that has gum on it. That one was different.
my most hated lego step is in the Dagobah diorama where you have to place around 600-700 individual 1x1 plates to complete the swamp part of the set, legitimately took about half the length of the build and the only Lego set I've genuinely regretted building
Sets with large 2x instructions are the best for building with child / partner / friend, you both can build them set side by side, great to spend some time together.
I built that crawler crane. It's amazing. Fully articulated and maneuverable, sound effects, very strong. It can lift several kg. The strings were definitely a faff and I had to pay careful attention, but I found the instructions clear and unambiguous and was able to install them correctly on the first try.
The London Bridge was my first ever “big build” Lego set, and I remember building the first tower and THEN seeing the X2 at the end. I was shocked, but I honestly loved the build and it’s still displayed in my dining room to this day
For those 2x steps, these long one's got 3 options: repeat, give up, call Luigi. Seriously, I love building with my brother so I'm good asking him to build the other tower. Less error possibility.
Sometimes they don’t put the 2x until the end of that build. It’s annoying because I’ll go three pages deep just to see the 2x at the end of the three pages. Put it at the beginning.
What the instructions say is the correct way. This idea that fans have created about a right and wrong way is just silly and based on nothing but a fan created circle-jerk.
7:15 this is why I skim the whole thing first lol so many times I’ve cause a few steps that I could do before they were placed in the book so it’s actually easier to snap sections together 😂
I love the complicated and intricate builds. Those are my favourite as it brings some challenge and time building so its not done in a few minutes or hours. I love when it lasts..
How? i had Problems with the First one, the second was ok, but the 3rd broke me... I needed like 3 tries and a lot of back and fourth until i got it "right". Still has a small Mistake but im to afraid i make it worse when i try fixing it. But it works.
Some people are mechanically inclined and it just meshes well in their heads, and some people all the motion at once overwhelms them and it looks like magic 🤷🏼
yep no issues here.. I'd been expecting it from adding all the pully wheels.. Though I'm sure my set had three strings, not just the two mentioned in the video...
I don't play with Lego so it's kind of funny to see enthusiasts be annoyed that they have to.... build Lego. Like you don't have to do it man no one is making you. Why would you buy a bridge with two identical towers and be annoyed that the two towers are identical.
As someone that does enjoy building Lego and has done since I was a kid, it's not necessarily that you have to do it this many times but more the way that the information is presented in the instruction booklets. Sometimes they're just tedious and that's fine it's just repetitive. Other times it's more a case of you turn the page and 'oh I'm meant to do this alllll twice' so if it said you had to do that step twice at the beginning you were already mentally prepared for that fact but sometimes it isn't necessarily clear how many times you'll repeat the steps you just did until you get to a point where it just suddenly tells you to repeat all those steps again. Or in some sets you have multiple bits of repetition that sort of stack exponentially. And then it all kind or spirals out of control. Like the example in the container ship. But yes, for the example of Tower Bridge... It is, at the very least in that example, pretty damn obvious that you need to do everything twice or you won't have a bridge at the end of it hahaha.
@niallblack2794 What bothers me about this video is that he is really exaggerating and playing up how terrible it is to have to deal with this. I don't think he even believes what he says, and that's a shame. I would rather just learn about sets without all the pandering "uuuhhhgg so annoying" interjections. This dude clearly knows a lot, why can't he just tell us? Why does he feel he has to adjust his opinions/experience to reach an audience?
Gotta be honest, though. That crane set just makes me appreciate the engineering behind it, and development to get to the real thing we have today. Yeah, a 6.1m string.. at what? 1:50, 1:100 scale? That's a lot of heaving metal cable.
Try rebuilding something like the original LEGO supercar (I think 8880?) from a big bin or two with all of your other currently unused LEGO pieces in it, sometimes realizing something you've built is holding a unique piece to your collection hostage. I've done it at least twice, and only now in writing this am realizing I might enjoy big grinds as long as there's an end result....
I always look at the instruction book first before building. This way I can have an idea of which items has to be repeated twice or more and when I get to it, I just build them all together at the same time by using multiplication on the pieces needed.
you cant forget the literal hundreds of repetitive steps in the Big Ben or palace of westminster set. You are required to put on like 200 of the little fused minifigs in one step.
Stuff like that first one actually aren't that hard. Get them all connected and pointing in the same general direction, then set it on a flat surface and apply pressure. They'll all even out just so. I do that whenever I have instructions that call for 1x1 flat side pieces to be placed next to other flat sides. Makes them line up perfectly.
10:55 I have a theory for why you're supposed to spit up the chains into smaller pieces. From what it looks like, it's most likely so you can keep track of the amounts of links more easily, so you dont have to recount once you loose track of the number. This doesnt really matter in the roller coaster set since it seems to only have one chain, and its easier to judge the length by eye even if you have one link too little or too many, but with two chains it makes it less likely you're going to build one too long or too short and then have to recount and adjust them individually.
When I built the Notre Dame Lego Set, I encountered the worst single instruction I have built: step 288, where you place 40 star wands in a precise pattern to get the balustrades correct. In addition to the hundreds of identical windows strewn throughout the building process, it was by far the most tedious build, though the end result was worth it.
But oddly, the Lego builder app always puts Jan 1 items in the previous year. The flowering cactus shows up at the top of Botanicals 2025 section, but the flowering cactus' page in-app shows Jan 1, 2026 properly. Weird and annoying for tracking release dates at-a-glance.
I remember building Van Gogh's The Starry Night set and having to do the background of the painting was actually hellish. Trying to sort through like five shades of blue to find the right shade, then find the right sized piece... I built up for a while then stopped because i couldn't find the piece I needed then realised I had used the wrong shade and had to debuild quite a number of steps, it was hell. Finished product looks great, building was hell
9:50 you should mention the 2021 typewriter next. That one is so tedious, especially once you get to the keys. (each one has its own letter and goes in a specific place.😂)
7:20 I build them simultaneously so it's less tedious and repetitive considering it's not so fun to build 1 thing all the way through only to realize I missed the x2 and have to build it again. Now I just pay close attention for the x2 to appear so I can build them both at the same time.
My granddad is a huge Lego enthusiast and collector. His house is decorated with built Lego sets, one of which is that roller coaster on his coffee table. He gifts us sets we might like. One of which was a map. Lots of studs on squares. It was fun to put together. Almost like a "stud by number." Took us a couple of days and quality time but it looks great in person!
This. 2 thick books (not booklets) with several 2x & 4x steps,and thousands of little plates and random adornment pieces. That was a monster. And fragile as a house of cards that needed additional pieces from my regular collection added to the inside to keep it stable. I remember giving up for a few days after completing one whole quadrant (comprising 80+ pages of instruction and hitting the 2x.
I own the lehberr 13000 crane set and have totally disassembled it 3 times and reassembled it. The rigging is my favorite part of this set. I also dont understand the hatred of repetition. Its needed sometimes and doesnt deserve the hate imo
Don't think I have any sets with 2x in the instructions, but I *do* have two of the very first X-wing set that Lego put out, and recently built both. Side by side was the way to go for that - and I'm perfectly used to rooting around for bricks because I have all my Lego sets in the one box (well, my childhood Lego in one box, the original Star Wars sets in another and more recent Star Wars sets in a third).
I felt done dirty when I was pseudo collecting the first Gen Star wars sets which in most cases I thought were good enough... Then they released much better versions
I have the black millennium falcon and part of me is even scared to open the box because I fear how terrifying really hard the instructions are gonna be
Easily the Eiffel Tower. It was expected but my God, it was even more boring and tedious than I thought it would be and it really tested your patience. Although the end result is of course amazing.
i've been using that chain division techniqe for a while. it helps keep count of how many links you have assembled if you have to make more than one assembly like treads.
X or x... (eks or times{multiply})... two different things RUclipsrs always get wrong. Say 2 x (eks) yet you dont tell us what x is? (simple algebra). But if you were meaning x (as in multiply by) then please say times /or multiply by. Saying x (eks) is fundamentally wrong.
@pitcrew7877 Nope.... he constantly refers to '2 x' as two X (pronounced eks) while refering to doing something twice. That is what I am commenting about. X (eks) and x (times/or multiplied by) are two very different things in mathematics. X is a variable, x is typographical symbol. You cannot swap them around.
You should expand your scope to other brick brands like those from China. For example the Panlos T-28 tank has you putting 98 track pieces together, x4. Nearly 400 pieces. It's an awesome kit and definitely worth it.
I recently built the Giza pyramid and have to say, this was the worst set to put together in my life. Not only is it basically just putting plates on plates to gain minimal mass while keeping piece count up, but especially the Nile and then the greenery had such weird placements all in one step where you spent minutes just looking if you actually placed all bricks. Don't get me wrong, I hate modern instructions with one piece per step, but this is even worse. I ended up having some surplus pieces that I missed placing during the steps. One of them a 1x10 grey brick.... What were they thinking with "place 29 1x1 studs"???
Your comment with a bigger example of having a 1st world problem. The video's title is pretty clear about what it's criticising, but apparently you're still suffering.
In the giant Titanic set there are several sections where you have to place 1x1 tiles together to form walls and windows. About 5 or so on each side ranging to a long time spent trying to straighten out tiles because, I speak from experience, if they aren't exact then it is hard to place them onto the Titanic.
Dunno bout y'all but assembling the tractor treads was fairly therapeutic for me. Once they're all counted out the snapping together was incredibly satisfying.
From a different community, Gunpla, we call this repetition problem "funnel fatigue." They're little remote weapons, usually flying pods with a gun, and while some kits come with only one or two, it's much more common for these to be used in basically weapon cloud formations, with the highest number on a mobile suit being 24 I believe. All individual little pieces of between two to at most I think is ten pieces each. They are EXHAUSTING. I empathize completely.
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I have this set that from one piece, but doesn't have any of the characters it was so painful to fill the ropes into things on the back of the top half the golden railings because they kept on popping off because of things holding them up broke it wouldn't fit and then the side where the lights turn on or you can because it comes with lights you have to open up a panel on the side can you take things off that thing that comes off how long is a bunch of tiny pieces if you mess up one little thing you might pop it all off and you got to rebuild everything put but those ropes we're a nightmare I said cut the ropes I think they were too short I had to use tape on one of them because I gave up and trying to tie it I'll send you the code of the set this is hard Code is 653001 try building that say that should be on the list
I would say track on EC500 sets of 5 because there are two of them, so you will make whole bunch of 5 and then put together 9 of them twice?
With 2x instructions, I build them side by side. Do everything on one page for one, then the other, then turn the page.
same. amd with sets like the small star wars mechs, if the arms/legs are the same but mirrored, ill also build both at the same time instead of one limb at a time.
same
Of course it would help if the instructions tell you right away that you're going to have to build two of the same thing, like how the Tower Bridge tells you right in the beginning. Most of the sets I have don't tell you that you that it's a 2x instruction until the very last step of building the first half of the 2x.
@Ability-King-KKI have found it to be more and more common nowadays that they tell you up front. For sure it used to be that it only said 2x at the end, but I haven't seen that in years.
Same. But it’s still annoying
The crane MOVES?
REMOTELY CONTROLLED?
oh that raises the star ratings for sure
Yep... Only reason I don't have that set is the insane price jump because of the app control. Drop the RC and it would've been 100€ cheaper.
Got 3 of the rc models myself... the audi style rally car, the audi e-quatro, and I forget the 3rd one currently. But I have like 60 of the speed champions. My kiddos started that collection, and now every birthday, Christmas, or other event, I get em from family and spouse. Other than that, have roughly 18 of the 1:16 scale (maybe 1:12?)
@TB-xl9eg Tell me your rich without telling me you are rich... nice collection :-)
@daantimmerlol... nah, I'm blessed enough that those I love have contributed a lot. The one "rich" set I bought was the 1:8 Bugatti.
@TB-xl9eg ❤ I was given a millennium falcon for my birthday, you know, the big one. Never would have bought it myself. Got two Batman cars second hand thanks to my wife and bought the third one new. Saved is a lot of money.
She even took the cars apart as they were shipped completed and put everything in their respective bags 😅
Longest Lego piece being 6.5 meters is a damn fine trivia question, btw.
But it's literally just a piece of string, not a brick of any sort, so IMHO, it doesn't really count. If you stepped on it barefooted in the dark, it wouldn't hurt, thus it's not a real LEGO piece! :D
@benjaminalderson7011 oh it is just barely in on the technicality of being a part in a lego set. But it is part of the set.
@GustavSvard Can we stop being intellectually disingenuous? By that notion the instruction manual itself is part of the set because they also have lego piece product IDs associated with them, which would make the largest lego piece 139 meters long if you were to unfold all the pages next to each other.
You're right, totally stealing this for family trivia night!
@34125867 well you could get a much longer piece if u just stacked bricks side by side 😂😂😂
Wanna talk abt intellectual disingenuity.. pfft why don't you talk about projection?
You could get a longer peice melting all of them together and creating a very thin string out of the plastic too! If u wanna get down to it. But without modification and as a singular piece, it is the longest piece of string LEGO has put out by a long shot, i think. Ta-da! Longest LEGO piece!
piece* whoops i always forget it's e after i, like a piece of pie
2:50 damn, didnt think a lego set would be more difficult to thread than the serger and embroidery machine at my workplace
I build model kits and that made my brain hurt.
Damn I guess I have just the right kind of autism for this
I also know about how pulley systems work, so it's at least somewhat intuitive as to what they're doing.
Pretty sure the machine at your workplace are harder, you are just more experiance with thoses 😁
My most hated steps are the complex technic gearboxes where you have to make sure every gear is lined up perfectly. And then held in place as you connect two assemblies together. It’s like you need 3 hands.
Even worse is when you have to stack something and it wasn’t clear you had to add something before that
Yeah the technic 1:8 cars are not fun for me anymore, just feels like work or a slog.
yes but when the car is finished it so satisfying even though you’ll never move the car
Its really easy actually. BUT WHAT HURTS MORE IS THAT SOME 2X2 STUDDDD PIECES ARE NEEVER ALIGNED WITH OTHER PIECES
Those are my favorites. Only reason I got back into Lego as an adult was learning how complex gearboxes work!
Definitely the over 100 frogs used as individual leaves on the bonsai tree set
Dude that process genuinely sucked. Beyond tedious.
Yeah I built my bonsai as the classic green version for this very reason, I still have the frogs sealed in the bag with the other cherry blossom elements years later lol.
The Tower Bridge and other big 2x builds seem like an excellent opportunity to have a race against your friend or sibling!
it took me a week to do the tower set.
that would make for a very boring race.
Whilst hiding some of their pieces in the process
@amandahugankiss4110it took me 3 days to eat all of the bricks
“SpitBrix, this is the seventh time you’ve shown 10214 Tower Bridge in class”
My favorite Lego sets to display are the botanicals, but it’s the worst building process. All those repetitive petals make me go insane
That's the best part
@elijahcotto4496 The going insane, or the falling-apart-on-a-fart tedium that pushes you over the ledge?
@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 the fricken Lupines hahahaha
I built the red acorn set with my sister and that was fun.
2:24 that's not a step... that's a jump scare !!
I don’t think that had a jumpscare
@X@XavierRosenmunds a joke. saying that the weaving needed is a jump scare because it’s so confusing.
string jumpscare
A man-made horror beyond our comprehension
It reminds me of back in college when I first opened my biochemistry textbook, and right inside the cover was a huuuge metabolic map, detailing what must have been a couple hundred interconnected reactions rendered in miniscule font, chemical formulae and arrows everywhere, with a note that said that this is only a fraction of all the chemistry that goes on inside the body. Apparently, I was to learn all of it over the coming two semesters.
I dropped the class.
6:18 so that’s why Lego pieces felt so much harder to find when I was younger
I personally disliked when they started coming in sequenced bags, but of course, I don't have to listen either **dump**
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3:26 it ought to give you a large appreciation for the men and women that build, repair and maintain this and the many other cranes that build our world. If a long string gives you a headache, imagine a steel cable and now imagine an inspector taking a look at said cable and noticing a kink, red tagging the crane until the the cable can be replaced. That’s a very normal occurrence for at least a few hundred possibly a few thousands if we included the smaller cranes around the world.
Exactly. Why build a crane if one doesn't like rigging...?
60 Stickers on the containers.. with every one of the alternative brick manufacturers, these would have been printed blocks and cost half the price. If only to preserve the sanity of the building customer.
The moment I saw the shipping container, I dreaded it was going to be stickers.
A few is one thing, but 60 is insane.
I'd never seen that model before and was instantly excited - I love cargo ships. As soon as he said it was stickers, I lost all interest. I'm not competent enough to line up stickers.
@casey8164Then you're in luck! There's a brand new version of this build dropping from Lego on March 1st (set 40955) only this time the cargo containers are all printed pieces!
stickers are the single worst lego piece to ever exist
if the stickers are removable i guess i get it. more appealing to reuse and be imaginative. but if they're not, then yeah that's shitty
5:30 that's why in school they always taught to read the instructions before starting lol!
10:34 I wonder how many people accidentally made a single 104 piece chain
That is easier than making two 52 piece chains
Just make one long chain hold it by it's ends and find where the middle is
@mikoajz2334 Except you probably have 1 or 2 extra links in the bag (maybe 4 if they're split between two bags for some reason). An odd number isn't too bad since it outs itself as not being equal in length, 2 extra could easily turn into a case of "Ugh, this set kinda sucks. The chain is way too loose."
3:50 This is how real rigging is done and that is the price of realism.
That cargo ship would’ve driven me crazy, I hate doing stickers because I worry about messing it up
Easily my least favorite thing about Lego. Just give me some printed bricks lol
Yea they could have been printed pieces I hate stickers
@dasapples @ryans413 Yeah with how expensive lego are these days you'd think they could at least splurge a little in printing bricks instead of taking the cheaper sticker option -_-
There's a new version of this set dropping March 1st (set 40955) with all printed pieces for the cargo containers!
As for stickers in general, there's a pair of tricks that makes it much, much easier: First, slide the chisel back of a brick separator under the edge of the sticker and peel it off attached, then use the separator as a tool to align it. Much better than using your fingers alone. Second, spray the piece with Windex (yes, it's totally safe for the plastic!) prior to applying the sticker, which will temporarily prevent the glue from setting for a few minutes, allowing you to push the sticker around with a bit of force until it's perfect. Thanks to this combined technique, I have almost come to love applying stickers! Within reason, of course.
Clean the piece with a microfiber cloth to remove any dust, particles, and oil from your hands. Then spritz it with water with a drop of dish soap mixed in. Apply sticker with tweezers. The (lightly) soapy water will allow it to float over the piece until you're happy with the alignment. Then just blot dry with a paper towel to make it stick all the way.
Happy building!
10:55 it’s because there’s 2 sets of chain links, versus just one. You could possibly miscount and be short one or two chain links on the other tread whereas on the roller coaster you just need to attach them all at once
But if you take the "Liebherr" Crane it tells you to put 150 Chain Pieces into 2x 75 Piece Chains.
@Kumpelblase397 They found out that assembling them in pairs of 5 gets you in a hypnotic state that makes it more likely that you buy more lego sets. Just look at the numbers on that page: 83 90 1 2 3 4 9 2. If prime means dot and non-prime means dash, its morse code for "buy".
The red Lego double decker bus comes to mind. Building the benches is quite tedious and once you’ve completed the bottom deck, you get to build even more identical seats for the upper deck. Except for the one that has gum on it. That one was different.
Hey now, there's also two stickers to apply to exactly two of the benches to show that the leather has been damaged by passengers :)
@Augustinus-354 oh yeah, I forgot about those :D
my most hated lego step is in the Dagobah diorama where you have to place around 600-700 individual 1x1 plates to complete the swamp part of the set, legitimately took about half the length of the build and the only Lego set I've genuinely regretted building
The fact that the Dagobah Set isn't on the list makes the list very incomplete.
I ended up using a spare antenna piece to place each one so that I didn't cock it up. That and lots of breaks.
Sets with large 2x instructions are the best for building with child / partner / friend, you both can build them set side by side, great to spend some time together.
I built that crawler crane. It's amazing. Fully articulated and maneuverable, sound effects, very strong. It can lift several kg. The strings were definitely a faff and I had to pay careful attention, but I found the instructions clear and unambiguous and was able to install them correctly on the first try.
4:00 The Space Launch System set being needlessly expensive and complicated to build is just realism!
Noticing a trend that the sets with the most tedious steps are for the sets exclusively for display rather than play.
The London Bridge was my first ever “big build” Lego set, and I remember building the first tower and THEN seeing the X2 at the end. I was shocked, but I honestly loved the build and it’s still displayed in my dining room to this day
6:55 i just would build them side by side at the same time to save time... you dont have to build one tower at a time.
For those 2x steps, these long one's got 3 options: repeat, give up, call Luigi.
Seriously, I love building with my brother so I'm good asking him to build the other tower. Less error possibility.
I hate going through 3 pages in the book just to see the 2x at the last page. Put it at the beginning.
with X times instructions, i usually build them side by side, so i dont have to turn pages in the instruction booklet, over and over again.
Sometimes they don’t put the 2x until the end of that build. It’s annoying because I’ll go three pages deep just to see the 2x at the end of the three pages. Put it at the beginning.
Worst part is when a star wars lego set instruction makes you place the light saber piece on the wrong side of the handle
What the instructions say is the correct way. This idea that fans have created about a right and wrong way is just silly and based on nothing but a fan created circle-jerk.
@BlakeSegafredobut the supposed right way looks like the wrong way hence why fans have turned the piece around
7:15 this is why I skim the whole thing first lol so many times I’ve cause a few steps that I could do before they were placed in the book so it’s actually easier to snap sections together 😂
I love the complicated and intricate builds. Those are my favourite as it brings some challenge and time building so its not done in a few minutes or hours. I love when it lasts..
You should have put building the seats on the London bus set lol, I have never despised a Lego set more
I honestly didn't find the string on the crane that much of a challenge. The instructions are pretty clear
How? i had Problems with the First one, the second was ok, but the 3rd broke me... I needed like 3 tries and a lot of back and fourth until i got it "right". Still has a small Mistake but im to afraid i make it worse when i try fixing it.
But it works.
I am a Real™ licensed online medical professional, and I diagnose everyone else with "Skill Issue."
I just didn't. Like he said there's 5 pages of instructions for the one step. No big deal. I can only talk for my experience with it.
Some people are mechanically inclined and it just meshes well in their heads, and some people all the motion at once overwhelms them and it looks like magic 🤷🏼
yep no issues here.. I'd been expecting it from adding all the pully wheels.. Though I'm sure my set had three strings, not just the two mentioned in the video...
4:15 my mom needed my help when she bought this set. Specifically for the part with the handrail.
i'm a bit surprised that the swampy tiling from the degobah diorama isn't in here.
this. Hated that part
I can deal with repetition, but strings and stickers? Those scare me...
The lego coliseum has been...challenging
Supper repetitive, the largest 2x section to my knowledge, and yet I still took it all apart and rebuilt the thing.
I don't play with Lego so it's kind of funny to see enthusiasts be annoyed that they have to.... build Lego. Like you don't have to do it man no one is making you. Why would you buy a bridge with two identical towers and be annoyed that the two towers are identical.
Right? This video from this channel is baffling honestly
As someone that does enjoy building Lego and has done since I was a kid, it's not necessarily that you have to do it this many times but more the way that the information is presented in the instruction booklets. Sometimes they're just tedious and that's fine it's just repetitive. Other times it's more a case of you turn the page and 'oh I'm meant to do this alllll twice' so if it said you had to do that step twice at the beginning you were already mentally prepared for that fact but sometimes it isn't necessarily clear how many times you'll repeat the steps you just did until you get to a point where it just suddenly tells you to repeat all those steps again. Or in some sets you have multiple bits of repetition that sort of stack exponentially. And then it all kind or spirals out of control. Like the example in the container ship. But yes, for the example of Tower Bridge... It is, at the very least in that example, pretty damn obvious that you need to do everything twice or you won't have a bridge at the end of it hahaha.
@niallblack2794 What bothers me about this video is that he is really exaggerating and playing up how terrible it is to have to deal with this. I don't think he even believes what he says, and that's a shame. I would rather just learn about sets without all the pandering "uuuhhhgg so annoying" interjections. This dude clearly knows a lot, why can't he just tell us? Why does he feel he has to adjust his opinions/experience to reach an audience?
6:30 was a pain for me. Took me 4 days to complete just the towers
Gotta be honest, though. That crane set just makes me appreciate the engineering behind it, and development to get to the real thing we have today. Yeah, a 6.1m string.. at what? 1:50, 1:100 scale? That's a lot of heaving metal cable.
Numbered bags?. Part of the fun is putting all the pieces in a giant pile and hunting for the part you need.
These young wippersnappers, you havn't built Lego if you havn't had to dig in all the parts for the correct part.
Try rebuilding something like the original LEGO supercar (I think 8880?) from a big bin or two with all of your other currently unused LEGO pieces in it, sometimes realizing something you've built is holding a unique piece to your collection hostage. I've done it at least twice, and only now in writing this am realizing I might enjoy big grinds as long as there's an end result....
Truth nuke
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Nooooooo!
The fact that you know all this about the booklets and components makes me think you've built every single one of these sets...
I always look at the instruction book first before building. This way I can have an idea of which items has to be repeated twice or more and when I get to it, I just build them all together at the same time by using multiplication on the pieces needed.
SAME
This
you cant forget the literal hundreds of repetitive steps in the Big Ben or palace of westminster set. You are required to put on like 200 of the little fused minifigs in one step.
Stuff like that first one actually aren't that hard. Get them all connected and pointing in the same general direction, then set it on a flat surface and apply pressure. They'll all even out just so. I do that whenever I have instructions that call for 1x1 flat side pieces to be placed next to other flat sides. Makes them line up perfectly.
2:01 “ on steps 600”… stop listening there. Never doing a Lego hobby thank you for adding this video to my algorithm
10:55 I have a theory for why you're supposed to spit up the chains into smaller pieces. From what it looks like, it's most likely so you can keep track of the amounts of links more easily, so you dont have to recount once you loose track of the number. This doesnt really matter in the roller coaster set since it seems to only have one chain, and its easier to judge the length by eye even if you have one link too little or too many, but with two chains it makes it less likely you're going to build one too long or too short and then have to recount and adjust them individually.
Was gonna comment this exact same thing. glad I wasn't the only one ^~^
When I built the Notre Dame Lego Set, I encountered the worst single instruction I have built: step 288, where you place 40 star wands in a precise pattern to get the balustrades correct. In addition to the hundreds of identical windows strewn throughout the building process, it was by far the most tedious build, though the end result was worth it.
8:08 this came out on January 1, 2026, actually
But oddly, the Lego builder app always puts Jan 1 items in the previous year. The flowering cactus shows up at the top of Botanicals 2025 section, but the flowering cactus' page in-app shows Jan 1, 2026 properly. Weird and annoying for tracking release dates at-a-glance.
I remember building Van Gogh's The Starry Night set and having to do the background of the painting was actually hellish. Trying to sort through like five shades of blue to find the right shade, then find the right sized piece... I built up for a while then stopped because i couldn't find the piece I needed then realised I had used the wrong shade and had to debuild quite a number of steps, it was hell. Finished product looks great, building was hell
Was going to mention this one if no one else did. And I happen to be colorblind, so I don't know if I made any mistakes or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I personally get lost on lego instructions sometimes
Another boring step is on Lego tanks when you have to attach all the tank track
9:50 you should mention the 2021 typewriter next. That one is so tedious, especially once you get to the keys. (each one has its own letter and goes in a specific place.😂)
11:00 because counting isn't hard, remembering is
Am I the only one who never uses the numbered bags, and just dumps all the parts on a tray?
They didn't exist yet last time i bought/received a set.
There's more than one reason the Artemis set was a pain to build. The service tower was also quite tedious.
I absolutely love the Flowering Cactus set.
5:04 I NEED THOSE MOTHS
7:20 I build them simultaneously so it's less tedious and repetitive considering it's not so fun to build 1 thing all the way through only to realize I missed the x2 and have to build it again. Now I just pay close attention for the x2 to appear so I can build them both at the same time.
Same.
7:25 bros asking me this question while I’m buildings a Lego set with this step but x 4
I hate these alot
My granddad is a huge Lego enthusiast and collector. His house is decorated with built Lego sets, one of which is that roller coaster on his coffee table.
He gifts us sets we might like. One of which was a map. Lots of studs on squares. It was fun to put together. Almost like a "stud by number." Took us a couple of days and quality time but it looks great in person!
it's almost like a "TECHNIC" set is SUPPOSED TO BE COMPLICATED
Complicated is expected, but so is disliked
Exactly. If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. No one is forcing them to buy those sets
"This absolute UNIT of a string" had me 🤣
The original USC Star Destroyer didn’t have numbered bags. It’s just a wave of tiny grey pieces. It was a lot
This. 2 thick books (not booklets) with several 2x & 4x steps,and thousands of little plates and random adornment pieces. That was a monster. And fragile as a house of cards that needed additional pieces from my regular collection added to the inside to keep it stable. I remember giving up for a few days after completing one whole quadrant (comprising 80+ pages of instruction and hitting the 2x.
1:23 can't you see the piano hammers from certain angles? like at 0:21 1:13
7:30 both at the same time not only is it efficient it’s somehow more fun.
i also do that
Same! I don't know how people build them one at a time lol
Can’t forget the 101 frogs, and however many loose pieces on the Bonsai Tree.
I own the lehberr 13000 crane set and have totally disassembled it 3 times and reassembled it. The rigging is my favorite part of this set.
I also dont understand the hatred of repetition. Its needed sometimes and doesnt deserve the hate imo
Repetition rocks!❤
Beauty in the pattern
It doesn't bother me either, it's fun and relaxing to me, mindless by design, you dont have to think, just snap things together
I would love to build one eventually😂
You are an absolute madman
There is a new Maersk ship and all the containers will have a printed plated so no more container stickers.
Don't think I have any sets with 2x in the instructions, but I *do* have two of the very first X-wing set that Lego put out, and recently built both. Side by side was the way to go for that - and I'm perfectly used to rooting around for bricks because I have all my Lego sets in the one box (well, my childhood Lego in one box, the original Star Wars sets in another and more recent Star Wars sets in a third).
I felt done dirty when I was pseudo collecting the first Gen Star wars sets which in most cases I thought were good enough... Then they released much better versions
I wonder how bad these could really be, then I hear "on step 681". That sounds like a months-long ordeal.
I have the black millennium falcon and part of me is even scared to open the box because I fear how terrifying really hard the instructions are gonna be
Bro that's an easy ass set to build😂
@GiraffesnFrenchToast well I haven’t built it yet
Came to say the same. The MF sets are super easy sets.
Just build it.
7:22
Side by side.
ALL MY HOMIES HATE TEDIOUS 2X BUILDS
7:50 Now there's a set that could have used the 3 and 4 long cheese slopes that just came out recently. Cut those 80s down to 20.
The onesies can look more estethically pleasing though.
Easily the Eiffel Tower. It was expected but my God, it was even more boring and tedious than I thought it would be and it really tested your patience. Although the end result is of course amazing.
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Pretty sure you've covered this, but you forgot the tread connection step in the 2014 Sandcrawler.
Hiii
i've been using that chain division techniqe for a while. it helps keep count of how many links you have assembled if you have to make more than one assembly like treads.
5:50 ok yeah, I still have this thing sat on my windowsill. My god it was irritating to build.
2:26 me seeing this “ hell nah im out wt# is that 👁️👄👁️”
X or x... (eks or times{multiply})... two different things RUclipsrs always get wrong. Say 2 x (eks) yet you dont tell us what x is? (simple algebra). But if you were meaning x (as in multiply by) then please say times /or multiply by. Saying x (eks) is fundamentally wrong.
Comment teleported?
@pitcrew7877 ??
@carlmcgregor2707 Was this comment suppose to be on a different post?
@pitcrew7877 Nope.... he constantly refers to '2 x' as two X (pronounced eks) while refering to doing something twice. That is what I am commenting about. X (eks) and x (times/or multiplied by) are two very different things in mathematics. X is a variable, x is typographical symbol. You cannot swap them around.
You should expand your scope to other brick brands like those from China. For example the Panlos T-28 tank has you putting 98 track pieces together, x4. Nearly 400 pieces. It's an awesome kit and definitely worth it.
building a prusa 3d printer was way less tedious lol
I recently built the Giza pyramid and have to say, this was the worst set to put together in my life. Not only is it basically just putting plates on plates to gain minimal mass while keeping piece count up, but especially the Nile and then the greenery had such weird placements all in one step where you spent minutes just looking if you actually placed all bricks. Don't get me wrong, I hate modern instructions with one piece per step, but this is even worse. I ended up having some surplus pieces that I missed placing during the steps. One of them a 1x10 grey brick....
What were they thinking with "place 29 1x1 studs"???
Skill issues
@lukasgamingandtoyreviewsan9609 pff I'm taking it apart anyway to make it into an accurate moc. Just wanted the pieces and the printed tile.
I adore my Axalara T9, but you could not pay me to assemble it again. My fingers were literally bleeding after it was fully assembled.
This is the most "1st world problem" things ive ever seen.
Your comment with a bigger example of having a 1st world problem. The video's title is pretty clear about what it's criticising, but apparently you're still suffering.
3:00 nah, I'd win
1:45 I have this one it’s really not that bad
0:25 please dont tell me im the only one who heard something else than pianist
You are
that ad was the single most swift, straitfoward, and seamless transition of all time
4:45 right lego is expensive, buy alternative bricks...simply^^
Imagine hating the crane because "its too complicated".
Because it moves, that itself is already rare
6:36 911
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Y'all complaining about "difficult instruction steps" in gigantic sets while i bust it all over the house when i get one tiny Lego polybag
In the giant Titanic set there are several sections where you have to place 1x1 tiles together to form walls and windows. About 5 or so on each side ranging to a long time spent trying to straighten out tiles because, I speak from experience, if they aren't exact then it is hard to place them onto the Titanic.
Dunno bout y'all but assembling the tractor treads was fairly therapeutic for me. Once they're all counted out the snapping together was incredibly satisfying.
From a different community, Gunpla, we call this repetition problem "funnel fatigue." They're little remote weapons, usually flying pods with a gun, and while some kits come with only one or two, it's much more common for these to be used in basically weapon cloud formations, with the highest number on a mobile suit being 24 I believe. All individual little pieces of between two to at most I think is ten pieces each. They are EXHAUSTING. I empathize completely.