Everyone who has ever played with LEGOs knows the frustration of missing pieces, blocks not connecting the way you want them to or design being too complicated for you LEGO sets. However, some adults are just too good at breaking the LEGO building games rules. Adult fans of LEGO or AFOL, are people who haven't let their enthusiasm for the building blocks game die. While these enthusiasts respect the activity, some have gone off-map to create - "illegal LEGO building techniques," and they are awesome.
According to The Brothers Brick, a LEGO website for adult builders and fans of LEGO, these techniques are: "LEGO bricks building techniques that break the “rules” for connections between LEGO elements followed by official LEGO set designers — particularly connections that stress the LEGO elements. (e.g., inserting a plate upright between the studs on a brick.)" Scroll down below to check out some of these outlaw moves with bricks and LEGO figurines that people have shared online. And don't forget to upvote your favs!
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Hair Hack
Creating New Pieces
LEGO Pavement
Creating A Ball With LEGO Pieces
LEGO Building Technique
Creating An Old Brick Wall
This is ideal for a terror dungeon, hands sprawling from the wall!
LEGO Roof
LEGO Hacks
Inventive Building Technique
LEGO Hack
Double-Sided LEGO Brick
I could use this because I really don't know where you could actually find a double-sided lego brick.
I have this one brick where the pegs are on every side. I have no idea where I got it though.
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Want a two sided brick and not afraid to break the rules? Super glue! *runs and hides*
2434 brick specialty 2x4x2 with studs on side Blacktron Space 6988 & others 1990’s
You actually use them to put wheels on or connect blocks--they weren't intended to be able to be used this way. ;)
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LEGO Building Techniques
Revolutionary! Except that it was discovered by accident when pieces got wedged together back in the 1650s.
Useful Elbow
LEGO Building Technique
and now I see the beginnings of a Tardis. oh man, what started out as just tonight might have turned into the weekend
Creating A LEGO Cylinder
LEGO Building Hacks
Illegal LEGO Building Techniques
Creating An Elbow Link
Double-Sided LEGO Brick
Wedging Two LEGO Pieces Together
There are rules? What b******t is that? If they're Lego parts and they connected whatever way to make something then surely it's just being inventive. There are no rules. You build and create whatever you want in any way you can with what's in front of you.
But some techniques are not used in the manuals for the original box sets. This is why they are called "illegal" (it's a tongue-in-cheek use of the word, of course).
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When I was a kid back in the 70's I manage to build a lego brick thrower, something like a cross between a rifle and a catapult (it totally worked) and I remember using "illegal" techniques to achieve that. Since then I don't feckin remember how I made it. It's totally a bummer
Lego seems to have advanced quite abit since I was a kid about 1970. We just had bricks. My favorite trick was to make a perfect cube with a few scrunched up bits of silver paper inside. When you shook it - sounded like it was full of water. No-one could work out why it didnt leak.
u mean 100% because any and all legos are out to murder our feet
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Ohh these are really creative. Even with the explanation in the article intro I can't see how some of these are "illegal", especially the one forming a donut and the two cylindrical ones.
Are these even ileggal. You could do it right now, if you wanted to.
"illegal"? Uh.. I'm pretty sure there are no laws. How about "Unorthodox", bored panda writer? EEeesh.
Photo attribution is never the wrong thing to do. Give credit where credit is due.
How is it possible that there are illegal uses of Legos! That in and of itself is criminal.
I loved the train. The rest I was just pondering how I never really "got" lego as a kid...
That train video was spectacular! Everyone, watch it if you didn't already. You won't be sorry. (Also, why was it just floating there and how can I like to it to share it with people? I know many would want to see it.)
How can I suggest one to add? https://twitter.com/msteeman/status/968543042788618241?s=21
I went through this whole article and maybe it's because I'm not into Lego, but this was pretty boring. The only one I thought was interesting was the chain mail style thing.
There is nothing illegal about these. Cut it out with the click-bait titles, please.
Do you actually have OCD? Because based on the wording and context of your reply, you dont (I could be wrong). If you dont have OCD, its incredibly disrespectful to say you are OCD. People without it (myself included) have no idea what those people go through. So please, to everyone without OCD, please, just dont say things like “I’m so OCD” about things like how symmetrical something is. Thank you.
Load More Replies... watch the LEGO movie. it's amazing and grown men/women can play with as many childrean's toys as they would like
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d bradley - I am sorry, this isn't personal AT ALL. Loads of people say this, you are just the next one I happened to read after the OCD comments earlier reminded me of how ill my brother is and now I'm feeling angry at the world and it's spilling over. So I'm going to just say it. It's Lego. The plural of Lego is Lego. I'm looking at you RJ too... I'll go get back in my box now. Sorry again.
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There are rules? What b******t is that? If they're Lego parts and they connected whatever way to make something then surely it's just being inventive. There are no rules. You build and create whatever you want in any way you can with what's in front of you.
But some techniques are not used in the manuals for the original box sets. This is why they are called "illegal" (it's a tongue-in-cheek use of the word, of course).
Load More Replies... When I was a kid back in the 70's I manage to build a lego brick thrower, something like a cross between a rifle and a catapult (it totally worked) and I remember using "illegal" techniques to achieve that. Since then I don't feckin remember how I made it. It's totally a bummer
Lego seems to have advanced quite abit since I was a kid about 1970. We just had bricks. My favorite trick was to make a perfect cube with a few scrunched up bits of silver paper inside. When you shook it - sounded like it was full of water. No-one could work out why it didnt leak.
u mean 100% because any and all legos are out to murder our feet
Load More Replies... Ohh these are really creative. Even with the explanation in the article intro I can't see how some of these are "illegal", especially the one forming a donut and the two cylindrical ones.
Are these even ileggal. You could do it right now, if you wanted to.
"illegal"? Uh.. I'm pretty sure there are no laws. How about "Unorthodox", bored panda writer? EEeesh.
Photo attribution is never the wrong thing to do. Give credit where credit is due.
How is it possible that there are illegal uses of Legos! That in and of itself is criminal.
I loved the train. The rest I was just pondering how I never really "got" lego as a kid...
That train video was spectacular! Everyone, watch it if you didn't already. You won't be sorry. (Also, why was it just floating there and how can I like to it to share it with people? I know many would want to see it.)
How can I suggest one to add? https://twitter.com/msteeman/status/968543042788618241?s=21
I went through this whole article and maybe it's because I'm not into Lego, but this was pretty boring. The only one I thought was interesting was the chain mail style thing.
There is nothing illegal about these. Cut it out with the click-bait titles, please.
Do you actually have OCD? Because based on the wording and context of your reply, you dont (I could be wrong). If you dont have OCD, its incredibly disrespectful to say you are OCD. People without it (myself included) have no idea what those people go through. So please, to everyone without OCD, please, just dont say things like “I’m so OCD” about things like how symmetrical something is. Thank you.
Load More Replies... watch the LEGO movie. it's amazing and grown men/women can play with as many childrean's toys as they would like
Load More Replies... d bradley - I am sorry, this isn't personal AT ALL. Loads of people say this, you are just the next one I happened to read after the OCD comments earlier reminded me of how ill my brother is and now I'm feeling angry at the world and it's spilling over. So I'm going to just say it. It's Lego. The plural of Lego is Lego. I'm looking at you RJ too... I'll go get back in my box now. Sorry again.
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