Busting The Famous Youtube LEGO Ball Myth | Mythbusters
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- Опубликовано: 23 мар 2016
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"Can we start that again? I didn't hit record"
Hey figureight. Wtf you doing here XD
Hey how are you
Well this was unexpected, first time on this channel and i see someone i know of xD
what are you doing here?
Dude.
I think one of the things that screwed it up was the way they did a bunch of separate big chunks rather than interweaving everything, but interweaving would've been a nightmare to do and keep track of
That and used Duplo at the core to lighten it
and Quattro within that one @@benjaminstorace6699
"After two whole days the last brick is hammered into place"
"all of us worked around the clock for two whole weeks"
The final block took 2 days the whole ball took 2 weeks
Let’s just say the mythbusters have been busted
steven wilson ikr
They probably had to find the actual dimensions and other technical stuff
And it was destroyed in 2 minutes......
As someone who's casually into LEGO I can't imagine how expensive that must be
In the UK. 2x4 bricks are 19p each from Lego. 4.5 million of them (which I seem to remember them saying at the time) = £855,000 or $1,126,000
@@christopherdean1326 we need competition in the Lego space
They’d have used a cheaper brand surely
@@darthinvader I think they put out a call for Lego bricks and got bricks donated from anyone that had ones to send.
Lego is overpriced tbh, NEW sluban sometimes make it better, but they still have some of their old builds to buy
Looks like someone didn't overlap their bricks and glue them down.
gluing is cheating, but I agree about the first part. :)
not actually true, i mean you can also use acetone as a way of bonding them. A lot of people use glue to make sure their models last.
Xien Tau But they do it even at legoland, so it's definitely legit
Xien Tau it aint everybody does it
It still counts as cheating.
"Everyone's doing it" is very rarely a good argument for anything, aside from: "everybody should just try to get along".
Also; haven't you guys seen the Lego Movie? Fraggle fraggle, remember "KraGle". ;)
They should have used the Kragle.
You win this round.
Amy Payne omg, I'm done here.
Here is your like >;V
"RELEASE THE KRAGLE!"
Amy Payne AAAAYYYYYY
Why even waste so much time and labour if you're not caring enough to interlock your bricks properly...
They even neglected supergluing the pieces together.
From what I understand, they didn't even use real legos, just some off brand, which if you didn't know means they are of a lower standard.
The Talented Philosopher using real legos would be so much more expensive haha
@@jackson2531 They wanted to do it the way that the original video supposedly did it which was with no glue.
This is what put me off Mythbusters. They would do these things like not interlocking bricks, using off brand bricks, no glue, etc. and then at the end they'd be like myth busted. No, how about you do it properly instead of half arsing it and saying the experiment didn't work when it was actually your crappy version of it that didn't work
This little bit of footage is actually cooler than what it looks. You don't get to see a structure so perfectly mimic its computerized simulation that often.
Staggered blocks would make it much much more sturdy and could potentially actually work. I would love to see a revisit!
also they could have tried to make it round it won't be perfect but it will roll
Yeah I don't like the superglue suggestion, that's cheating. But staggered blocks and rounded corners should be on the table or the myth can't be disproved.
Not using large blocks, but instead build a near perfect ball from the bottom up 1/3th layer by 1/3th layer. It should be done smart: pieces that are at the surface should stick inside as much as possible, each layer should cross the previous one as much as possible. Perhaps they should design it with construction lego: like a 20sided ball that is empty in the middle, weighs less, and is more flexible. Nothing like the video, but it will work.
Using glue would be cheating.
super glue is KEY
@@TrazynnBut you don't know if bricks were glued in the video they were trying to bust
the problem with building like this in modules is that it lowers it's over all strength , first rules of Lego: ALWAYS OVERLAP YOUR JOINTS! and not just build straight walls with a connector at the top and bottom... this failed for a reason... they got lazy with their build...
+Quantum Uncertainty Workshop always use glue and if you dont have glue use duct tape
:) you're never too old to Lego! we're all still kids at heart!
for ages 9 to 109 :D
+desmon parker oh... i guess im too old then...
guess so you will need to re-roll your life maybe you can become a mage this time
What if they used a different building method? Like interlocking blocks.
Quantum Leap it would have worked. But they didn’t want to bother actually doing it the right way.
@@jamesbizs it MIGHT have worked, or not.
That's now how the original video did it, they were testing that
See there would still be the occasional block falling off and you would see it in the video. Unless they glued it
@@caelestigladiiPhysics dictate it would have worked. Always overlap your joints. And use glue too if you aren’t against it.
Me: "Oh, it's actually rolling! I was expecting to just immediately go..."
*crash*
Me: "... like that."
Haha
Camera Guy:"Um...sorry but we were not recording so you have to build it again."...
and then he got fired xd
Hmm.. It looks like they built a bunch of stacked up chucks, rather than paying any attention to interlocking each individual piece. It fell apart as chunks along flat sections that weren't even connected to each other..
Yeah, bit of a shame really, as they could have made that ball far far stronger structurally if they didn't do that.
exactly
Tallywort
would have taken a LOT more time though.
Yeah but engineers
Tuc As soon as I saw the brick system they were using I said "Well thats not gking to work!" half assed attempt.
Considering Grant said they normally only get 10 days or less for a myth, two weeks of a round the clock build is intense. RIP Grant.
“What if they used glue”
The glue would hold a stonger bond than the legos themselves. Then at that point you’re testing the strength of the glue; not the connections of the LEGOs
Yes, but it could answer why the one in the origin video did not fail. There are other explanations, of course, including that the origin video was fake, but this does not prove it one way or another.
Yes but the question was whether you could make the video, which you easily could if you glued the lego blocks together...
However, the people who made the original video could've used glue as well.
@@andrewvelonis5940 The ball in the original video moves like it is made of plywood with a layer of lego glued on.
the people in the video could have used glue right/
no
Yea prob
bunch of immature kids.. what waste of time. those time could use on something else like volunteer cleaning parks
But its science. True it was a waste of time but it has its own purpose with knowing in the future and so
mythbusters, google it
I don't wanna sound like a monster, but seeing it crumble like that was extremely satisfying
suliman Al dhalaan you sounded like a super villain
Nah, you sounded exactly like Satin. I’m joking, it was oddly satisfying.
It’s especially polite for the ball to wait until it was in front of the camera man
What kind? Pepper jack is usually good.
And that sound, MMMMMMMMMMM
I remember watching this episode live. My parents and older brother were in a horrible, sometimes scary week long fight.. my Aunt had been staying with us for the last couple days of the fight and she watched this episode with me.. I'll never forget this giant ball of Lego
The problem was that they made it from "Superblocks". The unconnected sides of those blocks lead to sheer forces along them to have to be dealt with by only the "Superblocks" above and below them. On 2:07 it is even visible that there where whole columns build from those "Superblocks" without side connections. In other words: more force on fewer blocks and uneven distribution of forces through the whole ball. No wonder it disintegrated already after a few meters.
0:26 "after 2 whole DAYS"
1:44 "2 WEEKS and 1000 man hours"
which was is? Two days or two weeks?
VishousCat 2 weeks and 2 days
2 minutes.. 2 minutes of bullshit
I think it took 2 weeks to make the big blocks and 2 days to assemble them into a ball
2 days to ASSEMBLE it, 2 weeks total for everything?, likely including building the bricks of legos. You can see them assembling decent size bricks of legos, which they then put together. It likely took much longer to assemble the bricks, than it did to assemble the bricks into the ball form.
Or it was a typo for the announcer. I'm pretty sure they've had some builds last longer than 2 days so I'm more inclined to believe it took at least 2 weeks to create.
Cmon myth busters get your facts straight
0:27 : "After two whole days..."
0:52 : "All of us worked around the clock for two weeks"
So two days or weeks??
Those lying ass holes!
Rest in peace, Grant Imahara. We’ll miss you.
The Indiana Jones Lego-ball video was probably fake and the Mythbusters probably already know so they didn't care to use glue or interlock the bricks because it would be cooler if the ball shattered everywhere compared to if the ball just held together and rolled down the hill.
RedDeadEagle T except they could have built the ball the CORRECT way and it would have survived without glue. AND who says the video didn’t use glue for their ball?
True, they tended to go with how the myth was presented, and then afterwards they might go try and do it 'properly' or blow it up.
They probably did the physics mathematics. Probably complicated but with their pay they probably could afford to look up some ball equations on force speed acceleration of spheres and knew it would break so why waste the time.
@@blueicer101 Physics here is not so easy. You can evaluate more or less (I mean rather less), but you can be off more than double with values.
Ball wasn't a perfect sphere. While it was rolling in the way so each hit connects bricks together, all is fine. Then the ball rotated and forces where in the opposite directions, what caused failure. But not immediately.
Depending on glue you can strengthen connections between bricks a couple of times. That could be enough.
But there is no "correct way" to build such a ball, unless you use lego technic. With standard bricks you always have layers. Looking at the way the ball failed, they did a god job building it.
That's my thought. You can tell from the video itself that it's fake. The producers probably figured it would be way cooler if it shattered or if it at least failed in an interesting way. It was never going to crush the car. That said, they may have done a better style if it wasn't going to ALREADY take such a crazy long time to begin with. Either way, whatever lol.
if they don't glue all those pieces together then they are wrong. even if the RUclipsr doesn't mention it, any smart person who glue the wheel thing together, even the displays at LEGOLAND are all glued together
*would glue
would glue
get it
WOULD glue
WOOD
They should have staggered the blocks.
+TheCrustyFry :(
+TheCrustyFry totaly agreed, it would have held together so much better
+TheCrustyFry ummm they made it like the one in the utube vid
Or glued it
+Gustav Brodin i thought it was obvious they should glue it
Yeah it sucks they didn’t connect them as strongly as they could have, but the way it falls apart is extremely satisfying to me.
2:13 my life shattered just like this
lol no need for glue, just use the flat bricks.
*you cant separate them no matter how hard you try*
as a kid I always bit them off ;-)
yeah I remember that. you would try bite them off. Good lego memories
Flitzer | Gaming I used a thin knife and inserted it into the middle of them, or I used my nails and when my mom cut them they would be demolished. I tried biting them off but I cut my gums and started bleeding.. gud times
Flitzer | Gaming same XD
my gawd you kids were DEPRIVED! I had this gray-colored lego lever that was designed to pry off legos; worked like a charm 99% of the time. I forget which set it came with.
Hot glue it. Then try it
Squshy turtle 115 but thats not the myth...
Squshy turtle 115 newbs use hot glue
Legends use acetone
Gods use super glue or a small soldering iron to melt the leggos together.
jack marrtin why in the fuck are you even here then?
Squshy turtle 115 : exactly
camera man: “can we do one more take, i forgot to press record”
R.I.P Grant.
Does it not occur to anyone to use hot glue
Or any glue at all?
even sniff some.
Or super glue?
Why didnt they wrap it with saran wrap then weld steel around it?
because they we're testing a myth about legos and LEGOS ALONE. That means no help form glue or anything they wanted to see if the connection of the bricks ALONE would hold thr ball toghter. This was an experiment and they were successful they tested the theroy of the lego ball.
1:47 That's pretty satisfying to watch.
CrilleMega Thats exactly how I felt lol
CrilleMega same
No. It is not. It is a real pity to see all that amount of Lego bricks and all that time misused building such a big steps in a sphere. Disappointing.
CrilleMega That hurts me when I see that.....
I found it satisfying, not in the way of like "Wow great it broke glad they messed up," but in a way like "Wow that looks really fascinating for some reason."
0:08 How nostalgic, the old youtube player
"to find out if that RUclips video was real" was their first problem
Narrator: "After 2 whole days.. the last big brick is hammered into place."
Girl: "All of us worked around the clock for 2 weeks."
I sense a contradiction..
Yeah i had to take a double take like did she misread the queue cards or something?
They built the megabricks for 12 days, then they hammered them together for 2 days. Simple.
Omelette Demigod Is that a Phoenix Wright reference?
Rainbow Eyes Why would they need to make megabricks?
Martial Ark O B J E C T I O N it's an Apollo Justice reference.
You forgot your glue!
1000 man hours for 10 seconds of satisfaction, now that’s commitment.
“Another Brick in the Ball” hits on so many levels.
The moment I saw that ball, I knew it was going to split.
Dallin ikr
TBNRpurgs 123 You're so smart. Do you want a cookie kiddo?
Gargle razors
You can't make separate cubes and expect them to hold together, ALL the bricks must be interlocked. And use the longest bricks you can to increase sturdiness.
Pardon me but it seems like to make that shape, no matter what "all bricks interlocking" mechanism you come up with, it can be done by putting together separate rectangular prisms. It's mathematically provable.
Max Loh no because to be interlocking, the bricks have to overlap at the edges, kind of like finger joints in woodwork. This is not possible with legos unless you work layer by layer.
I don't think so; assuming all bricks are same height, it is equivalent. Try to come up with a specific example interlocking pattern which would be impossible to do by stacking large rectangular prisms on top of each other; also, you must follow the shape of the ball as shown in the video
Look at it this way. You have four big rectangular bricks made of lego pieces. You put two parallel at the bottom, and two parallel to each other on top, intersectary to the ones in the bottom. There is a big line between the two parallel bricks on top, and between the two parallel bricks on bottom. But if you make a similar shape just out of lego pieces, then those lines in between the bricks are not there, and the whole structure holds up together a lot more.
ah, I think I see what you are saying. I think we are imagining different problems; I thought the constraint is only that you can make it as a stack of rectangular prisms VERTICALLY stacked on each other. In that case, no matter how you build it, you can always draw a *horizontal* plane slashing through the legos into two discrete blocks even if you make it really "interlocky"
Pretty easy to debunk just by looking at it- the way the cg lego ball in the youtube video bounces so smoothly (like it’s made out of rubber) is painfully unrealistic.
With the prices of legos in today’s world that thing had to cost a fortune
177 Lego employees disliked this video.
If i dislike, they will hire me?
+TheExjeetzZ I hope so
MCHFacts Can i use you as a reference in case they argue otherwise?
+TheExjeetzZ If they have no issue about my comment then feel free to do so.
MCHFacts sounds like a plan
Instead of building super blocks, they should have had pieces overlaping each other and build up, brick-by-brick.
+John Waldeyer I dont even know if they glued it from the way the bricks came apart so easily
Or glue the pieces together.
That's exactly what I thought.
But either they wanted it to fail or they are not very bright.
The way that just falls apart is truly beautiful.
Imagine being the guy running in front of this and signing the waver like if you fall down, you’re going to die.
The comment section:
1% "Hey good video"
5% unfunny jokes
15% "I didn't record plz restart"
79% USE GLUE!!1!1
But isn't it then 20% unfunny jokes?
and 0% "constructing it out of many large bricks instead of building it as a huge ball with long lego pieces pieces holding everything together is a terrible way to build such a huge construction"
MineTronic .1% (why is this in my recommendeds?)
MineTronic ii
MineTronic even when they werent allowed to use it.
They should have used superglue
Ved Patel "RELEASE THE CRACKLE"
They werent allowed to
Noah L. Højen
it's actually "cra gl e" as in "crazy glue" without the zy u
Thats cheating
2:00 lol the 1 lego piece that flies out
Not only was the construction flawed, but you could also tell just by looking at it that the original was CGI
im 99% sure in the original video they superglued all the bricks together
RubCuber ayy cuber
salt
Trevor Meme holy shit lmao😂😂😂 you ended his entire existence
Yup
Trevor Meme
What makes you think it is CGI?
1. they didn’t make the bricks stable. They are loose.
2. Did they not think about super glue?
It wouldn't be called a lego ball it would be a Super glue ball and they could of just used flat bricks which makes it 100% stronger
Aser ikr lol or they could have used some bricks that aren’t 1cm big instead they could have used base plates for the outside and small bricks in the mickle
Plus construction is very unstable, in order not to be broken they had to interconnect all the pieces togerther because just tension generated by pieces themselves would not be enough
Acheron I thought about that. Using only flat bricks would have made it much more spherical.
I still say they use glue to make sure when they rolled it in the movie I wanna break
2 things they needed:
1 - super glue
2 - those flat pannel lego pieces we all used to build houses on.
If every layer of bricks made of tiny bricks was topped and sealed with flat pannel pieces and an adhesive it would totally work.
If the viral clip was real, it was definitely glued
The video probably is superglued lego brick
It doesn't even have to since they build big bricks out of the smaller ones first. If they had build the Ball directly out of the small one it would have been stronger...
Im Phanta my thoughts exactly
The video is likely boxes, with Legos glued on to the outside, or painted. Just watch how it moves, it looks nowhere near the weight it should be (especially since you can see an actual one the Mythbusters built and the way it rolls.
To superglue all those Legos together would have taken days, not too mention it would have cost an incredible amount. A tiny bottle is like 2-4$, 5oz gorilla glue is like 6... I just shudder to think how much it would have cost. On the other hand, grabbing a ton of cardboard boxes, painting them or gluing on a MUCH smaller amount of Legos seems more legit.
There's just a ton of inconsistencies in the original video too (the clip shown in this one) at around 1:03 of the original, it just looks wonky like the boulder was green-screened in. Which makes sense, since I doubt the cops were alright with a giant Lego boulder rolling down public streets. Even if it was a real one or not.
If it's real, awesome. But most videos like that also include a "making of" showing the long arduous process of building such a thing. You know when they don't make a video like that? When it didn't take that long to make and/or it's fake. Hey, sometimes the fake ones even show a making of, but that's not the point.
If it's real, then that's great, and I have no doubt that if it was super-glued it would have held up much better and no doubt been able to roll down the hill without breaking (or at least without breaking as easily). But the lack of evidence is too much to just blindly believe the original was real.
yea know the myth-busters built large rectangular modules and fit them together. If you look close at the vid the ball failed at the seam where these modules where connected.
I've worked with Lego for (Hell) 20 years off and on. If i can make a Lego bridge that spanned 8 ft and held 300 lbs using every Lego kit the neighborhood had at the time with NO glue it can be done.
The trick is that all layers have to be laid so that no 2 seams line up. Whats really hard is "linking" the vertical seams. Look at a brick wall they always break and crack where the ends of the bricks on each layer line up and make a vertical seam.
Stop making excuses for it. Could a lego ball be made MORE structurally sound than the Mythbusters did? Of course. Could it be made as structurally sound AS THE ORIGINAL VIDEO. No. Not WITHOUT GLUE, or some other help, which was the point of the Mythbusters video.
If you watch the original video, they didn't have a SINGLE lego fall off.... so... not even one of the outside ones... which wouldn't have the structural support of cross weaving. It's on the outside... held on by nothing more than the Lego underneath....
And that's why it's clear the original video is fake. Not a SINGLE LEGO falls off the Lego ball.
No one is questioning whether they could have done better with Glue. No shit, if you glued all the Lego's together they would have held. You're a genius. Yes, if you didn't build it in modules it would have been stronger. No shit. It still wouldn't have been THAT strong, and rolling down the slope in the ORIGINAL video, sorry, not even a perfectly structured Lego creation would have survived (assuming we're using standard Lego bricks, not flat pieces, or extra-ordinary pieces).
You are the people who piss me off most about Mythbusters. You're the people that they "cater" to and do "follow-up" myths, JUST TO PROVE YOU WRONG.
There's nothing wrong with curiosity. Like saying "Hey... what if you had crossweaved them, and made them more structurally sound?" But you ACT LIKE YOU KNOW, like you have already tested it.
Sorry, your 300LB Lego bridge isn't equal to a Lego boulder. That's like comparing a bridge to a car, They're not the same, at all. They're subject to ENTIRELY different stresses at different areas.
Just... rephrase you're sentence. It's not hard.
Again, if they made a more structurally sound creation would it have fared better? Obviously. The point is, this one failed utterly, and making minor changes isn't going to save it. It made it like 20 meters down the track.... the original video was... just comical compared to this. It was like the original was a NASA rocket and the Mythbusters was a bottlerocket.... point is, one is fake... which one do you think was fake?
That's because the got all the bricks looking in one direction, they had to make it look perpendicular to the ground.
they could have also glued all the lego together...
Or used flats.
Sei Iori or made a ball... using the thin boards where there are literally right angles
But that defeats the purpose. They could have also just made it more round and increased the amount of crossing.
always kinda hated how the cameramen and editors for the show would downplay the involvement of people who came to help the team out. Clearly the mythbusters team went out of their way to include all kinds of professionals in their antics, just for the cameramen and editors to cut them out as much as possible
They could’ve learned something from their phone book experiment. Staggering the legos like you would shingles on a roof would’ve increased it’s strength exponentially.
I dare someone to walk over that with their bare feet
Rowan Smits what will I get when walking over it
That's too far my guy.
Challenge acc-, ummm considered
too for dude, too far
The ball would walk over you
This should be a excellent weapon for world war III
Sin0h that is if it doesn't break in 10 seconds
Mushroom Overload use glue
Sin0h put like a bomb inside and take it to the enemies so that they think its just a regular lego ball
Incredible456 and after it has exploded, it leaves behind a minefield of invisible foot killers.
Sounds awesome, I'm volunteering as a test subject
"How was work, dear?" "Great! I played with Legos all day!"
This is, and will always be, one of the greatest shows in television history
How about glueing them before....
haris rehman after 5 days... hi
Infinite Monkey13 after 2 days... hi
Daniel Robert Miranda after 1min...hi
haris rehman hi.......
thewebmaster of the deep after another 2 days, hi
They probably glued or staggered them, all the power and non of the brains
^^^ :)
If they did that, the myth would have been busted. They are trying to see if its possible without cheating like that. Idiots.
they did super glue them if I recall the episode correctly
I need a behind-the-scenes logical reason why the ball seemed to not be interlocked stacking, rather just simple layered stacking.
1. Interlock your bricks.
2. Glue your bricks.
3. At the very least you could coat it with something to help it stay together.
4. Interlock your bigger bricks.
starving kids in Germany could have eaten those legos
Germany???
+Che8t Why the hell Germany, they arent poor...
+ShadowHunter they are now because of those refugees amirite
+Re There are way more things in germany that cost money, but didnt helped anybody.
6 Billion € on an airport that maybe won't open at all. Costs more than taking a million refugees.
+Re yup. were screwed down here
"this was the last thing i expected to happen. I never thought in a million years it would just bust into a million pieces."
...ok, pal. You keep telling yourself that.
And thus the Lego ball became Mythbuster's most expensive project...because Legos
Some tips: staggering bricks obviously but Technic could have actually been really useful too. Having a big Technic structure inside is an absolute win for structural integrity
Kids in africa could have eaten those legos..
why do you want to kill the kids in africa
Lego bricks not Legos GET IT RIGHT
legos
it fucking lego bricks not legos Ikr
perhaps that may be grammatically correct, but if you knew anything about the brick filming community you would know that legos is of most common use.
these fake emotions are annoying
RPDBY stfu!
RPDBY you're just jealous!
jealous of what?
Reply to yourself, really classy Tory the slayer KingDestroyah, AKA edgy teenager
Troy the slayer KingDestroyah y r u an count?
Yeah, they didn’t build it very well, but it was very satisfying to see it liquify mid-roll.
This wasn't busted, it worked. And you could easily have applied a little glue here and there for the sake of making it look good....
It was busted. They were testing if it would work without glue. Obviously enough glue would make it work
@@menph1096 We can't say the myth is actually busted. Although they didn't use glue, it didn't look like they really spent the time to make the Legos structure, in fact it seemed more like the common method of stacking Legos.
If they had planned the structure of the ball properly, then the ball would've been much more supportive and the Legos tighter in place.
Hell, there's even people building Lego structures that can support a person's weight. Ie. Bridges, beds, buildings, etc.
They will have used very strong glue to hold the bricks together in the original video. All Lego models at Legoland parks are glued together too.
Yea prob
Yeah and then wrapped it with rubber bands and then welded steel and then....
the lego models in Legoland parks also have a plastic layer over them
No they don't, you can see every individual brick. At legoland parks they use superglue and some pretty ingenious methods to make it stronger
conspiracy theorizes
should of staggered the blocks and glued them
Right! I really wish they would do a redo on this one
It took them 2 weeks and 1000 man hours to do it the easy way, imagine how long it would take to glue each one before placing it.
Just say no to cragle
Yeah and then wrapped it with rubber bands and then welded steel and then....
they didn't use glue because it was apart of the test
Was just watching this episode and it seems like the original video is long gone. I still love this myth because I love Lego though
Loved this episode as a kid
I bet the original person who did it used superglue
Harrison T IKR
Harrison T The original people used a thing called CGI
2:04 "This is the LAST thing I expected to happen"
Thanks for making me feel smart, dude.
And there's that one guy that built the smiley face into it.
Well played.
It is the mega bricks that doomed that particular ball to destruction. For the best chance to succeed was to build each layer of interlocking bricks.
As a child my friends and I would build vehicles out of Legos and have Demolition Derbies. I learned quick that if I made blocks and then hook them together, the vehicle would break apart easily upon collision but if the vehicle was one solid inter-locking block, it held together much better during a collision.
Really dude? In a million years you never thought it would break into a bunch of pieces? How did you get hired??
Actually, if these guys knew what they were doing, it might have worked.
They built big chunks. You NEVER do that.
ALWAYS interlock the bricks.
America, fuck yeah. A toddler builds a better lego brick ball
WOW Maxco it was recreating the shitty hoax ball on the original video, not making a stable ball
Arckedian They did thing it would break, thats why they made the episode. If they thought it wouldn't break, there'd be no point in trying to bust it. The show is called "mythbusters" and they busted a myth in this video. Man, commenters really are stupid.
Arckedian the whole point of this video is to bust that youtube video, did you pay any attention to the video?
1-you didnt overlap your joints
2-maybe they(in the "busted" video) used super glue
3- maybe the original ball was hollow on the inside
I love the choice of music as the ball starts rolling
Using Bricks was a Mistake.
They Should have used Plates instead.
This would have made the Ball Heavier and it offers much more Cohesion thus making the Ball far harder to break apart.
By Intersecting the Plates on Multiple Layers it would also prevent breakoffs on the outer hull.
Thats how i feel when i bring my new creation to the kitchen so i can show my mom, but then drop it...
did you tried glue?
They did not tried glue
people who made the original video:
*Sweating profusely*
Judging from the big chunks left at the end, they built individual modules and put them together instead of working on one solid structure from the get-go
Should have used "The Kragl" on your "Ball"
NPT THE KRAGL
Imagine stepping on that...
What if they tripped and fell...
you can't fix yourself after that
AHHHHHH
If I stepped on that... let's just say.. there would be no place called earth..
Absolute foot destruction
Did they even consider the fact that maybe the people in the video glued them together 😆
The referenced video looks potentially stop motion with layering to me.
More like glued on plywood.
They built this incorrectly, they should not have made blocks but a grid of intersecting long structures to give end to end integration
Something that has always bugged me about this is that they built a bunch of large bricks then pit those bricks together into the ball. If they had not done that it would have allowed the bricks to be interwoven together making it much more durable which means it wouldn't fall apart so quickly.
they didnt interlock the bricks though, the ball would have been much stronger if it were built brick by brick instead of in large chunks
I was thinking the same thing. When it fell apart, it looks like it separated along chunks that weren't interlocked with each other.
You are mad that would have taken ten times more easily
That is so gratifying to watch that thing disintegrate like that. 😂😂😂
Great demonstration of entropy