The Brilliant History of Brown Lego
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2023
- It's been nearly a year since we dug deep into the turbulent history of Teal in Lego, but we're finally taking a look at another colour today!
Brown may seem like one of Lego's more unassuming colours, but it's actually got a pretty surprising history that spans several years and even several other similar colours!
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Music Used:
Morimiya is Okay!! - Tokyo Xanadu eX+
John Marsh ~ Pointed Age - Gyakuten Kenji 2/Ace Attorney Investigations 2
Learning One’s Craft - Skullgirls
Welcome to Le-Locle - Sora no Kiseki SC
Confess the Truth 2009 - Ace Attorney Investigations
Lost Impact - Shadow the Hedgehog
Tank 2 - Insaniquarium Deluxe
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive [MIDI]
It's Gotta Be You - Mother 4
Awesome stuff that appears:
LEGO 6087 Vintage Castle Witch's Magic Manor from 1997: • LEGO 6087 Vintage Cast...
LEGO 4990 Rock Raiders HQ ~ R.R. Slugger's Rock Raiders Retrospective:
• LEGO 4990 Rock Raiders...
Images featuring pieces of a shared colour on a grey studded background by Rylie Howerter
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"A trans person making a 30 min video about something I'm completely neutral on" is unironically one of my fave genres.
You might love disaster breakdown then
Same. Now I want to hear about every Lego color and obscure piece/sets.
It's almost like a calming meditation, to focus on something trivial.
Wait he's trans i didn't even realize and don't care about it
@@user-ey2om4qb9e You haven't looked at them like at all?
@@user-ey2om4qb9eif you don't even care why did you comment lol?
i love when big yellow says that a color of lego or whatever is "doing well for itself right now" as if it were a formerly struggling beloved actor
It obviously had some drug problems in the 2000s since it was so brittle. It obviously went through rehab now.
I'm now picturing a Pokemon esque tiering system for Lego pieces and colours lol
digital artist here: orange and brown are actually more closely related than most people realize, with brown basically just being dark orange. i think because of how many things in everyday life are brown (animals, trees etc.) our eyes are trained to see it as its own color separate from orange, but it's immediately obvious when you take orange, slide its value down to make it darker, and end up with a color that looks distinctly brown. so, including the lego color "dark orange" in this video is 100% valid.
I think it has to do more with the fact that we've given them different names, which makes us think of them as different colors. There's a video on vsauce 2, I think it's called "Why is blue rare" that talks about it. it makes sense when you think about how for us, blue is a large section of the rainbow but others like purple are pretty small. Or how light green is just a kind of green to us, but light red is a different color called pink.
I just googled dark orange and had my mind blown
elon musk went gay stop supporting him asap
@@Jeff_Biden So now he's harassing male employees and promising them horses? That's different but not any worse than the usual honestly.
Side tangent, the reason a lot of animals are orange and brown is for camouflage. Many animals are red green colorblind, so reds and oranges look like green foliage
8:10 these were definitely the "I don't have enough regular bricks to finish this wall, so this house is getting an animal face on the inside" pieces for me
I've been there I remember a lot of my walls having eyes on them for purely brick limitation type reasons
@@BigYellowSilly we end up making lego horror
The walls have eyes...
Remember son, don't stare at the lion face on the wall.
Could represent a painting on the inside🤔 If only they weren't curved, this way they leave holes in the wall
A "skeleton crew" can also refer to the fewest possible crew to operate the ship. A crew of two and ones an actual skeleton may just be a joke off of that concept.
If that's what they were going for that's actually very funny tbh
@@BigYellowSillynah, see they forgot the punctuation, it's supposed to read "skeleton, crew" on account of the one skeleton, and the one crewmate.
BLACK KNIGHT SPOTTED
It's a similar idea to that one Life on Mars set that had both a human minifigure and a Martian included and the set was called "Alien Encounter". But since the humans aren't on their own planet, who's the *real* alien here?
For some reason I didn't even think of that and was more disappointed there wasn't two skeletons.
"1985 was also a big year for brown" might be a new favorite out-of-context sentence.
To be fair, LEGO is far more addictive than heroin.
Hearing the words "Brown Bricks" awakened the sleeper agent within me
brown bricks in minecrap!
The large barrel has the greatest mouth feel of maybe any Lego piece
The cursed aura of this comment is something else
Incorrect, 45590 Technic, Axle Connector Double - Flexible Rubber
@@tenletters5889 was about to say, some of y'all are _waaaaay_ behind on the tire-chewing meta.
you've clearly never sloshed a handful of studs in your mouth before
That's some hella latent memories @@a-s-greig and all y'all's unlocking in me.
1:59 absolutely loving the mental image of them keeping a huge vat of brown plastic dye around for years solely to make one (1) hair piece for these silly ass huge brick people
"David warm up the vat again the boss craves more hair"
dipping the piece in the vat like how the super mutants put people in the FEV goo in fallout 1
26:31 or them just holding on to this color they used for a single hair piece for 2 whole fucking years before using it again
i can vividly imagine an employee just randomly stumbling onto buckets upon buckets of the shit in the back of storage one day
dude i have a scar on my knee from a time when i kneeled onto a reddish brown brick and it broke, and stabbed my knee
So you were a adventure before you took a "arrow" to the knee?
I love to build Brown Bricks in Lego!
Oh look a free iPad.
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Hey everyone, I'm here with my good friend Big Yellow.
mineycrafta
(Inspector Gadget theme begins to play)
"If you're more of a casual lego enjoyer"
I haven't even touched lego since I was a kid but I have just been kind of strapped along for whatever flavor of infodumping of the month Big Yellow has made for me.
But yeah sure I'll watch a 30 minute video about brown lego
"If it's trans brown now? That's fine by me." Hell yeah, we should all be so accepting and quick to adapt when a new name is chosen for a trans... lego piece.
"How autisitc are you?"
"I have a favorite LEGO colour and I know its history"
I don't know what's funnier, that there's a half hour video about brown Lego in my sub box or that I'm genuinely excited to watch it ❤
the brown bionocle was really cool as how different it was from the others using the mechanism upside down so it can kick
Pohatuuuu... my boyy...
this channels growth has been incredible. glad we got the Guilty Gear, the Pokemon, and the Lego. all of these things are cool and so is this channel. its like this channel is a celebration of all the stuff we think is cool, and you know what? thats cool.
sorry about the text wall, and congrats on your growth, and heres to your continued growth! (also congrats on looking FINE AF DAMN 🔥🔥🔥)
From the perspective of someone who has trouble not commenting almost literal walls, you have nothing to worry about, if anything this one's shorter than a lot of other perfectly reasonable comments here.
And yes! It's amazing when a channel can do this. So often it's, "This channel does one thing and anything else gets a tenth the views" so it's amazing when it's recognized that we're here for the person who makes it and the cool things they like so they can just make whatever they think'll be fun.
There's no way I'd see something like the Insaniquarium video on it's own, but from Big Yellow?
And now I can learn about cool stuff I didn't even know existed.
@@xenon_413 thank you for making me feel better about my comment, I don't talk a lot in general but when I do I tend to worry I yap too much, especially when talking about stuff I like. also you've very well articulated more of my thoughts and (likely) the feelings of the majority of us here. very cool comment from a cool person about a cool channel owned by a cool person that talks about cool stuff. *cool* .
The Reddish Brown brittleness issue reminds me of Gold Plastic Syndrome in Transformers toys. Basically the gold powder that Hasbro and Takara would introduce into mold to make the gold plastic shiny would interfere with the polymer bonds, and make it so the toys will self destruct over time. The process is chemical, so it will happen to a toy sitting on a shelf, but physical stresses speed it up. Beast Wars Neo Randy is infamous for it. (For the Europeans reading this, Randy is Japanese exclusive toy using a relatively normal name for an American man. I know that's an unfortunate name over where you are.) Randy is a spring loaded auto transformer with a beast mode whose entire outer shell is made from the gold plastic. He will tear himself apart in sealed package. If you type Gold Plastic Syndrome into the google search bar the first result should be a guy absolutely obliterating a Randy by squeezing it with one hand.
Same thing happened with Lime Green for Bionicle, and later just 2008 to 2010 sockets
Okay, but how do brown Lego bricks perform in the RBY metagame
They've actually been the rocks Rhydon uses for Rock Slide since 1999 they thought no one had noticed yet
Held items weren't introduced until GSC, but someone should probably check to see if the Brick Piece manages to "fill any holes" on Rapidash...
@@a-s-greig don't like what those quote marks are implying chief
@@redmage5251 Lol. I didn't invent that particular phrasing; it was merely haphazardly applied for comedic (and sure, perhaps even dubiously sinister) purposes.
@@a-s-greigrapidish isn't even brown tho /lhj
I am impressed with the restraint of keeping the Brown Bricks joke until 25:28. I guess it became inevitable when Minecraft was brought up.
this video reminded me of how as a kid I had a bunch of broken brown pieces and none of any other color, getting an explanation on that all these years later is fun
My favorite thing about Big Yellow videos is taking in tons of extremely niche information that I absolutely do not have the base level knowledge to understand. It feels like sitting in on a graduate student class in a subject you didn’t know existed
You have a sublime enthusiasm about you that makes just about anything you talk about compelling no matter how little I cared about it previously. Love your videos, keep it up.
I thought this was going to be a 30 minute elaborate build-up to a “shitting bricks” joke and I have never been more glad to be wrong.
I allowed myself "brown bricks" but I could never go that far
The way that your bracelet fell at 13:50, like, somehow real life just had amazing animation for a moment there. Genuinely great follow-through, physics
that's very satisfying actually ty for making me aware of that
30 minutes of Big Yellow talking about a specific LEGO colour this is better than any Halloween candy
Super fascinating video!! I learned a lot about a LEGO colour that I quite enjoy!
And I’m happy the alternate build photos were helpful! I loved your recreation in Power Miners colours, by the way, haha. 😉
Thank you! Your appreciation for alt builds and the effort you make to cover them is something I've always appreciated a ton, alt and combo builds do a ton fo me personally.
just wanted to say I love the little minifigure OCs you made. I like to imagine they're a happy couple who go on rock mining adventures together
big yellow is so cute 😍 it is hard to take in lego information lmaoo
I want to listen to them talk about whatever nerdy topic for hours on end
Other channels (cringe): Halloween specials
This channel (based): *Brown*
Excited to hear about the red-brown during this, such an infamous lego colour
The monumental amount of SLAYING you are doing with your look in this video is incredible. I came to learn about bricks, and now I am.
Respectfully
Yeah seriously they are dangerously pretty (respectfully)
I knew you had to make a Minecraft with Gadget reference somewhere considering that you were talking about brown bricks
IM SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU REFERENCE BROWN BRICKS IN MINECRAP!
How could I not pay respects to peak cinema
Something I love about your content, which always goes under-appreciated from what I've seen, are the little memes you sprinkle through the video as visual gags, even small little things as the nicknames in your Pokémon videos really make my day! I still call Meowth "Hello Critty" because of you.
Love your stuff ^^
So, Bionicle was spared of the reddish-brown fragility, but was instead cursed with...
*_Lime green._*
Lego were just testing the waters with their brittle endeavors in 2007
wild, I thought you had made a chocolate mold of reddish brown brick to exaggerate a point, that's wild they're just like that.
Orange is actually brown, and brown is orange. Technology Connections channel did a wonderful video about the color brown, and how it really isnt a color we think it is, its just really dark orange we gave a special name to. Look at those LED you use in this video, notice how they give you an orange lighting. Thats because brown is orange, just turning the brightness down. So Pohatu being orange in 2008 makes complete sense (all of the Phantoka had lighter colors as oppose to the Mistika dark colors), and why dark orange/burnt orange was used on Hewkii Matoran and G2 Pohatu.
It's kinda like how some languages don't differentiate between red and pink, since pink is just light red
Baffles me how no one gets that name right.
The 2001 McToran polybag is either Huki (if we're going by pre-lawsuit names) or Hewkii (if we're going by what the character came to be called and is best known as).
"Hewki" doesn't exist.
@@a-s-greig Silly nitpicks people with too much time give attention towards. The renames were ridiculous to begin with, and the spelling they went with was even worse.
Wow! This was a fascinating history. I lived many parts of this story, but even I learned some interesting facts from this. Well done!
7:23 A "skeleton crew" is a term used for when an industry, usually in an effort to save on labor costs, uses the absolute minimum number of workers necessary to keep an operation running at or near standard capacity. Those following US news may remember several major train accidents that were caused, in part, by railroad corporations using "skeleton crews" to operate trains. These workers often have to work a lot of overtime, are unable to take sick leave, and have no choice but to skimp on inspections in order to keep on schedule.
So yes, two crew members running an entire pirare ship would, in fact, be a skeleton crew, regardless of wheter any or all of those crew members are actual, literal skeletons.
Weeee, a new deep dive into the quirks and weird history of coloured lego pieces to enjoy in the middle of the night. Thanks for making these, they're super fun to watch (like most of your videos tbh)! I can't wait for the inevitable 2-hour-marathon on red pieces when we get there. 😋
As someone who doesn’t know the first thing about Lego (besides these videos), you’re use of iconic in this video made me cackle. “The iconic broom” “the iconic ladder” etc.
Iconic has wormed it's way into my vocabulary so much I can't help it
i wanted this video to last for 4 hours and im very distraught at the video being so short. thank you big yellow for this emotional masterpiece
This is insane.
thank you chief I try
This whole video I couldn’t help but think of mike matei and his brown bricks. Then you pulled out the sound clip and I felt complete
I really enjoyed this video. I have so many good memories after watching it. I LOVED the brown boulder, barrels, and treasure chest growing up. I remember having some of those animal face blocks too.
You look really pretty in this video by the way. I hope that isn't a description you'd be hurt by.
when it comes to making a new set in an old theme I think at this point I&d just entirely build the old sets with the new colours to keep the aesthetic tbh, and then use the older colours as accent pieces where the difference stands out in a good way rather than looking a bit jank
That's dedication tbh I gotta respect that
26:04 Light Brown is one of my favorite versions of Brown, ever. Even more than Reddish Brown sometimes. But sadly it's limited in variety so I can't build much with that as the primary color in a scheme, or as the only brown available.
It's a real shame it's as limited as it was cause it looks great on the characters it's on imo
@BigYellowSilly Yeah, like it was great for Anakin Skywalker in the 2005 Revenge of the Sith sets. If the modern hair piece they use Anakin these days was in that color it would be perfect.
Congratulations to Brown for their transition
I don't play with Lego nor know much about it but I love hearing Yellow talk about fun topics
Completely unrelated to the video, but holy shit i love your hair, it looks so soft
frankly surprised you didnt ever mention mixels tbh, i was sitting there expecting it
Weirdly I think this is the second time it would've made sense to mention Mixels and I didn't which considering I only have 4 lego vids is almost an achievement
I adore your hair 🥺🙏 id love to braid it
I saw the notification and my brain jumped to "shitting bricks"
Truly a moment
YEAAAA LEGO LEGO LEGO even from the thumbnail, I'm excited for this video about dark orange.
Gotta say, Really love the presentation with this vid. Really made something as simple as talking about a lego color piece really ingaging to watch.
The mini figures interacting with said lego pieces and sets is a great touch imo.
Not related to the video, but I've been sick for the last few days and I've been binge-watching your videos, and now I get a brand new one to enjoy! Thanks for making my cold a little more tolerable
it has been almost a decade since I last even touched a lego set, but I come running like a dog to bacon when I see highly specific brick lore.
Big Yellow covering yellow bricks would be hilarious, but probably long. (broom is my favorite brown piece)
This video is SO nostalgic to me, aaaaaa. When I was really little, my older sibling was super into Bionicles, and I have so many memories of playing with them (or my sibling playing and me fucking things up). Fun Fact, somewhere in my house there is still a metal folding chair with a brown Bionicle facemask (?) block padlocked onto one of the bars connecting the legs. I don't remember whose doing this was, but it'll stay there forever, because no one remembers the combination to unlock it!
Really lovely video and you look really nice. I have been feeling very dysphoric and it helps to see people like me ❤
The curious thing this channel is just perfect for me, it covers such a rainbow of themes that I loved, fighting games, non playable character analisys, competitive pokemon and a lot of lego, keep it going I love every step of the way. (Sorry for any instances of broken english)
reddish brown? suffering the same problem as lime green in Bionicle? ah, some things don't change
Big Leggow is my favorite new addition to the Yellowverse. Up there with Smellow and Small Yellow.
I was there on the frontlines when they changed greys. There was a huge uproar and many collectors and builders including myself just dropped out.
I understand why the change was made and I think it was for the best. I'm still interested in Lego and its history but I can count the amount of sets I've bought since 2004 on one hand.
15:15 "Yeah, I didn't think soooo."
Damn fam, you're delivery was cute AF. A peak Big Yellow moment.
Listening to you talk about a single color of LEGO piece has probably been the most worth it and productive 30 minutes of my entire life. You must be using some kind of black LEGO magic, I swear.
Words can't define how much delight it brings me to see this uploaded
No idea why youtube decided to recomand this to me, but i m glad i clicked
Brown bricks in --minecrap-- lego
As infamous as the Galidor sets are, I think it's pretty cool how it gave us the "Exo force joints" over time.
Galidor was a core memory you unlocked for me. I had been trying to remember what it was for so long
Lego may not have officially changed any newer colors, but there is definitely a very significant change in the pearl gold pieces. Or "warm gold" as Lego calls them.
Newer pieces of that color are much more warm and saturated, almost looking orange.
Some of them look so vastly different that you couldn't even use them in the same set without it looking wrong.
I know some lego parts of the same color can differ slightly, but for pearl gold the change is ridiculous. Even more noticable than dark grey and datk bluish gray.
I love your Lego videos for some reason.
That goddamn cleveland show sting was an instant subscribe.
Man I was never super into Lego but that treasure chest unlocked some good memories
[sees a Rock Monster]
My autistic brain which was trained as a child to respond to anything that reminds me of Clutch Powers: Rock monsters! Why's it always rock monsters?
Thank you. I now know the tragedy of brittle brown. Ever since your tweet about the horrid events, I had been waiting eagerly for the video explanation of what occured during those years.
So proud of trans-brown's transition
"I know there are Galidor fans out there ..." Right here! I have my completed Gorm and my completed Jens in a special box om one of my shelves. I had to look for their pieces in 6 different old toy boxes, and I still have 3 incomplete characters in that same box. I never got more than 3 different figures, so I should be on the lookout at flea markets someday.
loving the video variety. there's few things more enjoyable for me on youtube than listening to someone talk about something niche they truly enjoy
additionally, your comedic timing is excellent. the lead up to the monkey was superb
This channel is like the perfect combination of content I'm into and content I love hearing about without even consuming it
I love building brown bricks.
Oh hey, a free i-pad.
Big Yellow talks Big Brown. 10/10
I like that Greg Farshtey, the guy who wrote the books for Bionicle, always had the characters bring up the fact that the brown characters weren’t brown anymore. I always thought it was a funny nod to the fans who were probably also confused why the brown ones weren’t brown anymore. I didn’t actually know the real reason for that change until this video though, that they just weren’t selling well, and that tracks but it also makes me want to value the brown Bionicles a little more, they didn’t get the love they deserved
Big yellow's new look has got me all bricked up
16:58
Holy hell, there's something I not only long forgot but once spent years looking for
While I was watching this video, I ended up getting very comfy to the point where I fell asleep halfway through and part of my dream involved an old teacher of mine giving me information about certain lego bricks you mentioned later in the video. Not only that, but also i got on this weird 4D-style ride in this one dude's tent, and he was a REALLY big fan of lego stuff cause there were wacky little lego seta and lego buckets all over the place (made the ride more interesting when we started doing loops and such)
Dreams are fun :)
all i can think about is brown bricks in mine crap
I always enjoy your videos, but you've given me a gift i could never have imagined. I have had the figures from Galidor (specifically the Happy Meal ones) in the back of my mind for near a decade now but had no idea what to call them or how to find them. Thank you so much, my eyes are open and I can finally breathe easily knowing exactly what the hell that random thing was.
Brown is way underrated. My favorite brown Legos were the tall 2x2 base crates that they included in some of the Indiana Jones sets. Same for the 2x3 base ones shown at 0:20. Surprisingly versatile.
I always really love these Lego history videos, some of my favorite content on your channel!
I'd totally be down to see more videos about more colors in lego. Your lego videos are always fascinating, and I learn a ton about other franchises as a bionicle only fan.
Damn! Your hair looks so nice! Really got the orange out for Halloween.
Really love you lego themed videos and have been watching them for multiple times!
Transformers collectors hearing about Brittle Brown:
good video! I love your deep dives into Lego history
also your hair is really pretty
I've had The Bionicle Dream with just the accessory tubs.
This is easily the most difficult video I've ever watched because I keep doing the Inspector Gadget "Brown Bricks"
I love how light and fun yet information you are. I subbed right away. Thank you for the great lego content
Brown actually is just orange. However, so many things around us have the same combination of colors that we practically see it as a color in and of itself. It really is dim orange light that is scattered of a surface, with grey and black undertones. It also doesn't really look that much like the unique color we know as brown unless it is in context with contrasting colors. If you were to have the light from a brown wall filling your entire field-of-vision, you would likely percieve it as a dim, dingy orange, rather than as brown.
That's why there is no such thing as brown light, as it only exists as a color in our brain, not as a particular span of wavelengths of light.