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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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#1
Hair Hack
Dragon_knight56 6 years ago
Law:*Bans fruit on lego*\ You, breaking the law: F**k you *Puts a rasberry on a minifig* Law:*laughs*
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#2
Creating New Pieces
Outatime 6 years ago
2 sided LEGO!!!! This is genius and I can't wait to show my daughter!
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Tammy Ralph 6 years ago
Maybe I'm too old, but could someone tell me what the hell is it supposed to be?
#3
LEGO Pavement
#4
Creating A Ball With LEGO Pieces
Taryn Wallace 6 years ago
Can I just say I needed to see this comment section arguing about Quiddich today....thanks guys. :-*
This Lil Raccoon 6 years ago
Just gonna leave this here for those saying the quaffle is brown https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1120/30578/12675817_1_x.jpg?version=1&width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=50 And http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Quaffle
Adam Bryce 6 years ago
pity the poor lego mini-figs who have to try to pick up that object... B|
#5
LEGO Building Technique
gellert grindlewald 3 years ago
and this is hands down a cheesy dad joke😂😁😀
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Olivia Matovich 6 years ago
Ive always wanted to make a chainmail basement for toturing legos...
#6
Creating An Old Brick Wall
Iván Galarraga 6 years ago (edited)
This is ideal for a terror dungeon, hands sprawling from the wall!
MoZ 6 years ago
Someone should animate this to look like the brick wall that opens into Diagon Alley!
WaffleFryLife 6 years ago
the Harry Potter comments I've seen so far are incredible and they make me happy :)
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Agfox 6 years ago
Whoops, sorry Last Hurrah, posted without seeing your earlier idea
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#7
LEGO Roof
Kjorn 6 years ago
wow! that could do such great houses! why we can't find it in real lego set?
Alyxandra Holmes 5 years ago
It doesn't need to be in a set. Lego bricks are available in more than just pre-made sets.
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Brenda Pereira 6 years ago
I am confused! Why would there be a rule violation at all? Isn't the point of Legos to use your imagination and build? BTW, I have nearly 200 pounds (yes, you read that right) of Legos if anyone is interested. Price would be very reasonable.
Kai Kauske 6 years ago
This example isn't even an illegal technique, this uses some fairly normal stuff. Illeagal techniques are things like cramming a plate between studs, or using tiles inside of two bricks to link them back to back, stuff that wasn't intended in the design of the bricks themselves. They are not allowed for official lego sets, and some competitions also disallow them. EG you can't submit an idea to lego ideas using these techniques, nor can lego designs put them in sets. The only thing inherently wrong with most is they are not very stable for the most part, and might damage the bricks in some cases.
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#8
LEGO Hacks
Sammiche 6 years ago
This reminds me of Flexi-Blocks. Back in the late 80s, my parents ordered a bucket of these off of a TV infomercial. They came with us when we were stationed overseas in 1989, and we gave them away just before we moved in 1999. They went with me on several babysitting jobs and were a huge hit.
Lee Dodgson 6 years ago
Meh... Lego use a similar technique to do the sides of the Millennium Falcon
Katie and Jared Coates 6 years ago
They did this for Lego dimensions- very similar to the portal build.
Michael Michlitsch 3 years ago
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors built the Lego Stargate bringing two worlds together. For many years, there was piece. Until one day, a boy named Joel made a double sided brick out of other bricks. This was an illegal technique by the laws of the Lego people. A group of Lego cops gunned Joel down later. This started the Lego-Human War. For 29 years they fought. Eventually the humans closed the Lego Stargate and destroyed it, winning the war. But little do they know of what would come next...
#9
Inventive Building Technique
MN Free Spirit 6 years ago
I see the beginning of a Dalek, pretty sure while Im watching TV tonight Im gonna have to be creative
Amazon QT 6 years ago
Now I’ve got to go buy some of those $200 sets of LEGOs!!! Damn you BP!!! Damn you to hellllll!!
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#10
LEGO Hack
Mike Pidlypchak 6 years ago
They only considered if they could, never stopping to think if they shoukd
Robert Thomas 4 years ago
THIS IS ILLEGAL even me a really good lego builder CANT COMPREHEND THIS
#11
Double-Sided LEGO Brick
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago
I could use this because I really don't know where you could actually find a double-sided lego brick.
A Dyke From The Dreamworld 6 years ago
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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MBZ MetalsmithArtist 6 years ago
Want a two sided brick and not afraid to break the rules? Super glue! *runs and hides*
Paul Buxton 6 years ago
2434 brick specialty 2x4x2 with studs on side Blacktron Space 6988 & others 1990’s
#12
LEGO Building Techniques
Tiny Dynamine 6 years ago
Revolutionary! Except that it was discovered by accident when pieces got wedged together back in the 1650s.
Shwan Sebastian 5 years ago
It seems LEGO used this technique back in 1985 (see the highlighted images). Lego-6368_...117559.jpg 
Lee Dodgson 6 years ago
I had a police station model as a kid, back when the mini figures had no faces or arms, and the handles on the motorbikes used this technique.
Terry T. 6 years ago
When was this??? I had Legos as a kid in the early 70s and all of my guys had faces and arms. I think you had some kinda generic junk....
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Useful Elbow
Jetto Scranda 5 years ago
I used to put those rectangular legos on the heads of the lego guys to simulate a robot, usually gave them a lever on the top of their head and a rounded transparent "light" block on their face, that looked so cool back in the 80s :D
Jetto Scranda 5 years ago
oh and there were some very similar blocks to these rectangular ones that also had side connectors, so I put 2 levers, one on the right, and one on the left side of the robot's head. you could pull the levers up or down, or even put sonnect them diagonally, to make them look more stylish. Oh yes I've done that a lot.
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#14
Double-Sided Block Hack
#15
LEGO Tricks
#16
LEGO Building Technique
MN Free Spirit 6 years ago
and now I see the beginnings of a Tardis. oh man, what started out as just tonight might have turned into the weekend
A Rose Among Thorns 6 years ago (edited)
It looks like a climbing rope wall... What would you use this for?
Daxon Carmichael 5 years ago
cop: "do you have a criminal record?" me: "kinda" (shows picture) *2 days later* (me standing in front of a firing squad) officer: "you stand accused of using illegal lego techniques, how do you plead" me: (smiling) guilty *blam blam blam*
#17
Flat Double-Sided Brick
WhiteMoonStar 6 years ago
I'm not understanding this "Mirror" thing. Could u explain?
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Creating A LEGO Cylinder
Danielle Holder 6 years ago
Don't need that many in the center. Just place one every couple spots at a dif angle.
#19
LEGO Building Hacks
StarKitten 6 years ago
That;s because his finger got hit by a high-speed Lego ninja star.
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TheNerdyOne 6 years ago
Ok soooo I’m kinda jealous of my little jealous of my little brother who’s like seven and he loves largish and likes to build actual moving ceiling fans out of legos and I have to break it apart to see how he built it and I just get in trouble for being curioy I WISH I HAD HIS POWER
#20
Illegal LEGO Building Techniques
#21
LEGO Hack
#22
Creating An Elbow Link
#23
Double-Sided LEGO Brick
Amanda Ferraz 6 years ago
Yup, title might've been X ways to make double sided legos and a few other tricks
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Creating New LEGO Pieces
Nelly Larsson 6 years ago
I can already feel the pain in my fingers from trying to take those pieces apart...
#25
Slanted LEGO Wall
#26
Wedging Two LEGO Pieces Together
David Wheater 6 years ago
This method was used in the Saturn V set, to show the flag. NE_SaturnV...MODULE.jpg 
Gavin Hodgkinson 6 years ago
Why are there no tricks with 1x4x1 and 1x4x2 fences? They are super for really, really stable SNOTS.
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Andrew Keane 6 years ago
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.
Jan Fiala 6 years ago
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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Iván Galarraga 6 years ago (edited)
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
diane a 6 years ago
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.
Person2638 6 years ago
u mean 100% because any and all legos are out to murder our feet
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BlackestDawn 6 years ago
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.
Dragon_knight56 6 years ago
Are these even ileggal. You could do it right now, if you wanted to.
Andrew Keane 6 years ago
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.
Jan Fiala 6 years ago
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... Iván Galarraga 6 years ago (edited)
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
diane a 6 years ago
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.
Person2638 6 years ago
u mean 100% because any and all legos are out to murder our feet
Load More Replies... BlackestDawn 6 years ago
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.
Dragon_knight56 6 years ago
Are these even ileggal. You could do it right now, if you wanted to.
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