I noticed that under the Macro Lens at 00:55 you can actually see a gap on the headlight brick thats not supposed to have one, like what?!! Never noticed that!
As far as I know there has always been a tiny gap like that, on some pieces just a bit more noticeable than on others. It was one thing that always intrigued me as a kid back in the '80s. I guess it wasn't really intentional, but just a result of the plastic there being extremely thin just to accommodate the stud from underneath. I guess with the new design they made an intentional gap to make the pieces look more consistent.
@@WizardOfOss I noticed too, and even when there's no gap, its often thin enough that it lets light through at that spot and always seemed weird to me given how Lego never makes pieces that thin. The new version with an actual gap makes sense, although whether it looks better or not is hard to say.
As far as I can tell, that slot was added because previously that part of the model was so thin it would break away. You can actually see it in this video, there's a little gap on the grey headlight brick where the slot would be on newer bricks. I'd guess the reason why that gap is bigger on different pieces is because the different colours are documented to have different levels of brittleness (brown, for example), which causes more brittle pieces to lose that gap easier
I’ve always thought the headlight brick was inferior in every way to the newer 1x1 SNOT brick, but I certainly appreciate it more now!! Very enlightening 😄
yeah when I discovered the 1x1 snot bricks, I also thought it was better and easier to use,but the sets I had in the 90s mostly used headlight bricks to attach lights on car and rarely if ever used more advanced building tricks. Now you build something like a modular building and it's immediately more obvious how useful headlight bricks can be.
3:09 If you combine 8 of those assemblies, you can create cubes that connect to one another in any orientation, making them real life minecraft blocks. One Pick-a-Brick cup holds enough headlight bricks to make about 20 or 21 of those cubes, so you can get them for less than a dollar/Euro each. If you see them at your local LEGO store, I'd recommend buying a few hundred (48 are needed for one cube) and trying it out yourself.
I see I'm not the only one who discovered this. What's wild is that you can flip the same assembly of 6 pieces around a different way and you get the same 48-piece "block" but with a different handedness. One neat thing about this "block" is that the interior is a smooth-walled 2x2x2 stud cavity which you could hide something in if desired. Also, if you connect 8 of the "blocks" together in a larger block (2x2x2) then the center of the larger block would be structured as a block of the opposite handedness. Sometime last year I actually bought 400 of the clear headlight bricks, made 8 blocks, and then put them all together as one large block. Putting it up to a light reveals a slight yellowish tint to the base brick, but it still looks pretty cool.
@@Intrafacial86 I also bought a bunch of clear headlight bricks (3 large Pick-a-Brick cups) recently and I assembled 58 blocks so far. I noticed the clear ones have much higher clutch power than the green ones LEGO® had in stock a decade ago. At one point I thought I'd never be able to separate them again after I made a 3x3x3 cube (without a block in the center). It took me about ten minutes to loosen them up enough to pull them apart.
Honestly it's one of those bricks I had when I was younger with whom I was like : "what the hell is this shape ? What am I supposed to do with it ?"and I simply missed the potential of it. That's a great vid !
I have to say that this video is exceptionally good with all the different things you can do with this brick. I hope to see more videos focused on a single piece like this one :)
I love videos on the parts themselves. I read somewhere that when a new part is created, every design team can weigh in with minor modifications so that they can use it in different ways. New pieces always make me wonder why they designed it that way and what they had in mind for future sets.
NGL this is one of the best episodes you have done! I was hoping you would use the cheese slope technique and was happy to see you do it in a different way than I knew 😅 General element videos are a rarity and this would work great as a series for people who want to get into Mocs without learning these techniques naturally! Im hoping you do the four way bracket technique next vide where you connect have four 1x2 brackets the bottom two are upside down so you can build in four ways round a normal 2x2 brick!
Great content. Everyone is nowadays doing set hauls or revies but such concise and informative single piece tutorials are rare on youtube. Would love to see more of that.
A long-time favorite of mine! A few months ago I got a huge amount of them in dark red from a Pick-a-Brick wall. That little cut-out below the sideways stud always made me wonder how the old design worked if the new design needs that for the stud.
As a child in the early 1980s it always seemed very daring (and possibly "not allowed") to attach a brick or plate stud to the back of a headlight brick. 😆 I doubt I was the only child back then who thought they were annoying little bricks that were easy to lose and didn't have much use, apart from car headlights (obviously) and also (if I recall correctly) mounting shields on walls in Castle sets and maybe other equipment in Space sets. I love how over the years since then a whole new way of building has been unleashed by these pieces.
Yes! I love the head light bricks! They are super helpful in making detailed, impressive, and weird combinations in your builds. It’s amazing how many uses just one little plastic brick has to offer!
@@TiagoCatarino Was indeed a great video, anyone who praises that brick gets massive respect. Also surprised to see you reply since the video isn't that new, a nice surprise though. Keep up the great content dude!
I'm greatly enjoying these element highlight videos!! I've always liked the headlight brick, but I'm amazed at how many things it can be used for that I never thought of. Thank you!!
Tiago, these videos are my new favourites of yours. Please, continue them as they're very, incredibly helpful to me and many others. I love your stuff man, this video is stellar.
I like to call these the "reverse bracket" since the purposes I use them for are similar to brackets, but instead of the piece being a tile with something sticking out, it's a brick with a bit taken out of it
Me trying to find all of my headlight bricks right after the video, this is the best brick study you have done so far Tiago! It provides so many solutions to a build I am working on right now.
I always liked to imagine them as rocket boots you could add onto a minifig. Those were the real gangster bricks back in the day. Before brackets and the modified bricks...think those were about the only way to do any "side" builds.
Headlight brick? This is such a betrayal Tiago. I remember so vividly you on the Lego website videos calling these things "Erlings" and have not been able to shake it since
I once tried making the Headlamp brick configuration used to represent Creator Expert sets. It's 2 studs squared, has a stud and anti-stud on all sides, and can be repeatedly built to attach to each other in a modular fashion. It's a fun technique to experiment with.
0:55 The reason is because older pieces were hard to remove so they decreased the friction by removing surface area against the stud of a element below.
I didn't really like brackets and headlight bricks much until I took the time to fully understand how the LEGO system works. Now they are go to pieces.
When I was a kid, this was the only brick with a stud on the side, and the recessed stud annoyed me, so I didn't like it. Funny how the parts that were created years later gave it amazing new possibilities. By the way, these videos about specific parts are amazing.
This has been my favorite brick since I was a child, sucks that the lover part of it can easily snap but it has solved so many things I try to do in builds since the first time I had it in 1999
While we all describe the dimensions of LEGO elements in the terms of studs or plates, the "foot" of the headlight brick is the true base unit of LEGO. Every element can be divided into a whole number of the thickness of the that foot - or the thickness of the skinny side of a panel brick. It's also the thickness of the bottom edge of the 2/3 height slopes and curved bricks.
The Erling is the GOAT of LEGO Elements! About 1:10: if you use a 1x1 Technic brick instead of a regular one, you can place it legally next to the stud-side of the Erling, as the Technic hole leaves enough space for the protruded stud.
With enough of these, you can make a massive Lego beyblades arena. Which is why I want a lot more transparent one, as well as a good bit of red and blue ones.
I never had much use for these pieces until I started getting back in to Lego recently, I got the Ford gt set to make an old GT40, and it was fun messing around with different orientations of these to try and get a nice smooth body line. But after spending a few weeks working on that car, I needed a break lol.
Really like this. More videos on single bricks or brick families please! Some suggestions: Masonry bricks Fluted bricks Jumper plates Click hinges Ball and socket connections
The purpose for the slot is to prevent the brick from breaking as easily, as the brick does get stressed out when used repeatedly. Outside of Technic elements, the headlight brick is another element that takes up a good portion of my graveyard bin.
When I was a kid, I had a LEGO fuel truck that used this element to anchor a string, which served as a fuel hose. Tie a knot at the end, thread it through the back.
The fact that the modified brick and the technic pin in a technic brick are a different height blows my mind. I've been using them interchangeably my whole life.
I've been planning out how to make a miniature Notre Dame for awhile (because the Paris architecture set doesn't have it for some reason) and these are going to be an important part of it. I'm going to have the building be sunken 1 stud into the ground (and adjusting the rest of the set to fit with that) and the front of the structure will have three of these pieces facing inward to make up the entrance.
what a pleasant and enjoyable video 😊 I certainly hope it doesn’t involve anything from a certain part of mid 20th century German history 2:54 AYOOO⁉️⁉️😳😳😳
I'm playing with the 8 piece cube at 3:00 and I'm surprised to find it's a pretty imprecise construction and impossible to compress tightly due to gaps, one of which is visible in the frame at 3:00. In fact, just the four pieces visible on the right, which can be detached as their own structure, have a noticeable gap. The imprecision is not visibly obvious once the plate or tile facade is added, but I wonder if stresses would show up in a build that relied on this construction .
my guess is the slit was for kids to breathe if it was being choked on but over time it was phased out just like the holes they tried in the top of lego heads. it just wasnt as effective as they thought and stopped doing it.
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I noticed that under the Macro Lens at 00:55 you can actually see a gap on the headlight brick thats not supposed to have one, like what?!! Never noticed that!
Don't diss tenhic lol xd
As far as I know there has always been a tiny gap like that, on some pieces just a bit more noticeable than on others. It was one thing that always intrigued me as a kid back in the '80s. I guess it wasn't really intentional, but just a result of the plastic there being extremely thin just to accommodate the stud from underneath. I guess with the new design they made an intentional gap to make the pieces look more consistent.
@@WizardOfOss I noticed too, and even when there's no gap, its often thin enough that it lets light through at that spot and always seemed weird to me given how Lego never makes pieces that thin. The new version with an actual gap makes sense, although whether it looks better or not is hard to say.
that's the slot, just like the other one, only the new mold makes the slot an actual part of the design, instead of being on the parting line.
I'm Moc?!!!
As far as I can tell, that slot was added because previously that part of the model was so thin it would break away. You can actually see it in this video, there's a little gap on the grey headlight brick where the slot would be on newer bricks. I'd guess the reason why that gap is bigger on different pieces is because the different colours are documented to have different levels of brittleness (brown, for example), which causes more brittle pieces to lose that gap easier
Yes agree
Don't forget lime green, the scourge of bionicle.
I’ve always thought the headlight brick was inferior in every way to the newer 1x1 SNOT brick, but I certainly appreciate it more now!! Very enlightening 😄
Nope. In most cases I would have to say it’s actually better than the newer one
Hey man! Currently enjoying ur 23ville series! Are u going to do 24ville?
Same. I never knew the headlight brick (and yes, that IS the right name) was that versatile. You convinced me. Another well done video!
Yeah same
yeah when I discovered the 1x1 snot bricks, I also thought it was better and easier to use,but the sets I had in the 90s mostly used headlight bricks to attach lights on car and rarely if ever used more advanced building tricks. Now you build something like a modular building and it's immediately more obvious how useful headlight bricks can be.
3:09 If you combine 8 of those assemblies, you can create cubes that connect to one another in any orientation, making them real life minecraft blocks.
One Pick-a-Brick cup holds enough headlight bricks to make about 20 or 21 of those cubes, so you can get them for less than a dollar/Euro each.
If you see them at your local LEGO store, I'd recommend buying a few hundred (48 are needed for one cube) and trying it out yourself.
TEACH ME YOUR WAYS
I see I'm not the only one who discovered this.
What's wild is that you can flip the same assembly of 6 pieces around a different way and you get the same 48-piece "block" but with a different handedness. One neat thing about this "block" is that the interior is a smooth-walled 2x2x2 stud cavity which you could hide something in if desired. Also, if you connect 8 of the "blocks" together in a larger block (2x2x2) then the center of the larger block would be structured as a block of the opposite handedness.
Sometime last year I actually bought 400 of the clear headlight bricks, made 8 blocks, and then put them all together as one large block. Putting it up to a light reveals a slight yellowish tint to the base brick, but it still looks pretty cool.
@@Intrafacial86 I also bought a bunch of clear headlight bricks (3 large Pick-a-Brick cups) recently and I assembled 58 blocks so far. I noticed the clear ones have much higher clutch power than the green ones LEGO® had in stock a decade ago.
At one point I thought I'd never be able to separate them again after I made a 3x3x3 cube (without a block in the center). It took me about ten minutes to loosen them up enough to pull them apart.
Honestly it's one of those bricks I had when I was younger with whom I was like : "what the hell is this shape ? What am I supposed to do with it ?"and I simply missed the potential of it. That's a great vid !
I have to say that this video is exceptionally good with all the different things you can do with this brick. I hope to see more videos focused on a single piece like this one :)
I love videos on the parts themselves. I read somewhere that when a new part is created, every design team can weigh in with minor modifications so that they can use it in different ways. New pieces always make me wonder why they designed it that way and what they had in mind for future sets.
Really thankful that you’re sharing your experience and wisdom about these Lego bricks!
NGL this is one of the best episodes you have done!
I was hoping you would use the cheese slope technique and was happy to see you do it in a different way than I knew 😅
General element videos are a rarity and this would work great as a series for people who want to get into Mocs without learning these techniques naturally!
Im hoping you do the four way bracket technique next vide where you connect have four 1x2 brackets the bottom two are upside down so you can build in four ways round a normal 2x2 brick!
The slot was added for stress relief. I have many older bricks that have cracked in the front.
Especially #$&@* brown!
Great content. Everyone is nowadays doing set hauls or revies but such concise and informative single piece tutorials are rare on youtube. Would love to see more of that.
A long-time favorite of mine! A few months ago I got a huge amount of them in dark red from a Pick-a-Brick wall. That little cut-out below the sideways stud always made me wonder how the old design worked if the new design needs that for the stud.
As a child in the early 1980s it always seemed very daring (and possibly "not allowed") to attach a brick or plate stud to the back of a headlight brick. 😆
I doubt I was the only child back then who thought they were annoying little bricks that were easy to lose and didn't have much use, apart from car headlights (obviously) and also (if I recall correctly) mounting shields on walls in Castle sets and maybe other equipment in Space sets. I love how over the years since then a whole new way of building has been unleashed by these pieces.
So recognizable this! I had lots of them and it was an eye-opener for me after my dark age that they had a whole need life. Same for brackets b.t.w.
@@Erikve same
Yes! I love the head light bricks! They are super helpful in making detailed, impressive, and weird combinations in your builds. It’s amazing how many uses just one little plastic brick has to offer!
This was no question an amazing evolutionary step for LEGO... from such humble beginnings.
Yes!!! More of these "brick showcases". The amount of possibilities that these pieces open when used to it's full potential is huge :0
Me? Gongaga
to hear what throughout my childhood was always my number 1 favourite piece for it's versatility be called "underrated" is crazy lol
Gotta clickbait with the titles! Hopefully the video delivered though
@@TiagoCatarino Was indeed a great video, anyone who praises that brick gets massive respect. Also surprised to see you reply since the video isn't that new, a nice surprise though. Keep up the great content dude!
I'm greatly enjoying these element highlight videos!! I've always liked the headlight brick, but I'm amazed at how many things it can be used for that I never thought of. Thank you!!
More of this please,also would love ranking Lego pieces!
Tiago, these videos are my new favourites of yours. Please, continue them as they're very, incredibly helpful to me and many others. I love your stuff man, this video is stellar.
I like to call these the "reverse bracket" since the purposes I use them for are similar to brackets, but instead of the piece being a tile with something sticking out, it's a brick with a bit taken out of it
It is very underrated!!! I love that brick ❤
Right?!
Lol, I didn’t expect you to respond 😮
@@RedsVWAdventures XD
I love the way they work with slopes, it's one of my favorite techniques
The goat among bricks
I love this brick because not only you can use it as intended but also it's a good minifigure robot head if you used all of the other ones
To me this is probably the most useful LEGO piece ever of the amount of uses it has. I use these pieces in my LEGO
Mocs sometimes
I love this new series of videos, very interesting
This is fantastic
More of these please!!!
3:45 You can also use them to make a 35° Angle with plates using that trick
You have once again made a banger! Can't wait for the next piece spotlight!
one trick I LOVE to use with these is to use 2 of them and use that side stud to make a half plate increase. it's so good
I’m so glad I saw this video! Never thought about just how useful those bricks are, especially with brackets!
Thanks for another great video Tiago. Thanks for the tips 😀😀😀
Me trying to find all of my headlight bricks right after the video, this is the best brick study you have done so far Tiago! It provides so many solutions to a build I am working on right now.
I have literally no headlight bricks in my collection except for in sets on display 😂
I always liked to imagine them as rocket boots you could add onto a minifig. Those were the real gangster bricks back in the day. Before brackets and the modified bricks...think those were about the only way to do any "side" builds.
Headlight brick? This is such a betrayal Tiago. I remember so vividly you on the Lego website videos calling these things "Erlings" and have not been able to shake it since
I saw the thumbnail and i was just like AMONGUS!111!!!!1!11111
I always was confused on how to use these bricks when moc-ing
Thanks for the useful information ☺
More to come!
I once tried making the Headlamp brick configuration used to represent Creator Expert sets. It's 2 studs squared, has a stud and anti-stud on all sides, and can be repeatedly built to attach to each other in a modular fashion.
It's a fun technique to experiment with.
These headlight bricks have been in my sets ever since my first big set, the M-Core Magnetizer.
They’ve been a constant in my life.
Another great and informative video, keep it up Tiago!
For someone like myself who is relatively new to Lego building, this was extremely helpful. Thank you!
0:55 The reason is because older pieces were hard to remove so they decreased the friction by removing surface area against the stud of a element below.
THANKS! I love these type of videos!
Please, continue this series, it's really great!
Don't expected this piece is so multifunctional
I love these brick spotlight videos! Keep it up!
4:46 THE HEADLIGHTS LEGO VS MY OLD USED LEGO TO MAKE A VERY BIG ROBOT WHO WOULD WIN
I dont trust you i dont need anything i have a ps5 and iphone 13 pro max with a egg pop it phone case
Love these videos! More of them would be great :)
Great video!! More videos like this! :)
Brackets next!
@@TiagoCatarino brackets also have a very long history already. Would be great to see how they have evolved since the eighties.
Thanks for the tutorial Tiago. I've used the headlight brick since about 1979 and hadn't considered some of the uses you showed.
I learn something new about lego everyday. Great video as ever!
4:05 looks perfectly fine for me! The difference in height must be very very small!
I love this kind of videos. Tnanks, Tiago!
I didn't really like brackets and headlight bricks much until I took the time to fully understand how the LEGO system works. Now they are go to pieces.
Great to see that Lego car again after all these years.
That vending machine looked great.
Wow, this was more lego education than I expected.
I love this kind of videos
When I was a kid, this was the only brick with a stud on the side, and the recessed stud annoyed me, so I didn't like it.
Funny how the parts that were created years later gave it amazing new possibilities.
By the way, these videos about specific parts are amazing.
This has been my favorite brick since I was a child, sucks that the lover part of it can easily snap but it has solved so many things I try to do in builds since the first time I had it in 1999
Tiago is the real deal.
I just saw how Lego used this in the Van Gogh Starry Night set. Very creative.
0:33 a illegal billding legel is 2x2 jumper plate zoom in the of the car
This brick is utilized very well in the Back to the Future Time Machine set.
This is the beginning of a really nice series n.n
Cool indian style pattern around 3:21
The headlight / headlamp brick always used to be a valuable one in my collection! So many good uses.
More please!
Let's be honest perfectly aligned 1x1 slopes has to be the most beautiful thing a human can see
A non lego part hack: DunDum sticks are the same diameter as the lego rods; and as a bonus, can be colored to taste with permanent markers
Also, the Pilot brand gel ink tubes fit over the Lego studs
While we all describe the dimensions of LEGO elements in the terms of studs or plates, the "foot" of the headlight brick is the true base unit of LEGO. Every element can be divided into a whole number of the thickness of the that foot - or the thickness of the skinny side of a panel brick. It's also the thickness of the bottom edge of the 2/3 height slopes and curved bricks.
Wow, I learnt lots here. Thanks Tiago, love your work.
These brick highlight videos have been fantastic!
I knew about all the other connection possibilities, but the cheese slope thing blew my mind
The Erling is the GOAT of LEGO Elements!
About 1:10: if you use a 1x1 Technic brick instead of a regular one, you can place it legally next to the stud-side of the Erling, as the Technic hole leaves enough space for the protruded stud.
With enough of these, you can make a massive Lego beyblades arena. Which is why I want a lot more transparent one, as well as a good bit of red and blue ones.
I never had much use for these pieces until I started getting back in to Lego recently, I got the Ford gt set to make an old GT40, and it was fun messing around with different orientations of these to try and get a nice smooth body line. But after spending a few weeks working on that car, I needed a break lol.
Amazing. Thanks
Really like this. More videos on single bricks or brick families please! Some suggestions:
Masonry bricks
Fluted bricks
Jumper plates
Click hinges
Ball and socket connections
Jumper plates ✅
Dear Tiago,
Thank you for showing us this amazing versatile piece! We even figured out how to build the creator export lego! Thank you!!
The purpose for the slot is to prevent the brick from breaking as easily, as the brick does get stressed out when used repeatedly. Outside of Technic elements, the headlight brick is another element that takes up a good portion of my graveyard bin.
When I was a kid, I had a LEGO fuel truck that used this element to anchor a string, which served as a fuel hose. Tie a knot at the end, thread it through the back.
I'd love a video on why the pieces in the beginning are considered bad by you because I have some rose tinted nostalgia for some of them.
The fact that the modified brick and the technic pin in a technic brick are a different height blows my mind. I've been using them interchangeably my whole life.
Another useful demonstration of using a LEGO brick, great stuff!
A great piece, I agree, apart from the fact that 90% of them crack at the front lip.
I've been planning out how to make a miniature Notre Dame for awhile (because the Paris architecture set doesn't have it for some reason) and these are going to be an important part of it. I'm going to have the building be sunken 1 stud into the ground (and adjusting the rest of the set to fit with that) and the front of the structure will have three of these pieces facing inward to make up the entrance.
The hole in the middle also means you can place a 1xwhatever plate on it at the same offset a jumper plate gives.
I love that piece sooo much when I was young.
what a pleasant and enjoyable video 😊 I certainly hope it doesn’t involve anything from a certain part of mid 20th century German history 2:54 AYOOO⁉️⁉️😳😳😳
I’m starting my own city and I’m calling is Crisis City and I am going to start using these bricks MUCH more.
Thank you for the brick tip, Tiago!
Another great video Tiago! We're starting the journey of our Lego studio soon. These are more great techniques, looking forward to the next one!
I'm playing with the 8 piece cube at 3:00 and I'm surprised to find it's a pretty imprecise construction and impossible to compress tightly due to gaps, one of which is visible in the frame at 3:00. In fact, just the four pieces visible on the right, which can be detached as their own structure, have a noticeable gap. The imprecision is not visibly obvious once the plate or tile facade is added, but I wonder if stresses would show up in a build that relied on this construction .
my guess is the slit was for kids to breathe if it was being choked on but over time it was phased out just like the holes they tried in the top of lego heads. it just wasnt as effective as they thought and stopped doing it.
I use this a LOT in my builds
this is one of the bricks that I very clearly remember from my childhood
What a wonderful way to start my Sunday Morning! Coffee and a lego video.🤩🤩🤩
Always called it simply “this piece”. Back in my casual days i didnt know the names of pieces.
Holy cow, never knew the headlight bricks were so awesome!