8 Poorly Designed LEGO Sets... 

Funny how the redesign of the shuttle was 14+ whereas the original was 16+

One I remember was the 2015 Ant Man set. The ant’s legs were too flimsy so they updated them and did a similar thing to the WALL-E set and sent out pieces to stabilize the legs

Here are 2Bionicle facts relating to this topic: 1. The set Lesovikk was recalled apparently because pieces were missing, but it is unknown what pieces they were, and the only real accounts are unverified and only say they remember at least one of the propellers being missing. 2. While Bionicle has had redesigns and rereleased, I have only found 1 that also includes an updated instruction booklet, and that is Oonorahk. I searched online for an alternate Toa Lhikan and Kikinalo instruction booklet, as it actually had 2 technic liftarms replaced for shorter ones, but not only could I not find them or any evidence they existed, but also when contacting Lego, they looked and could only find one version in their database.

I remember a lot of the Bionicle Visorak sets from 2005 included a yellow rubber band for the sets pincer function, however the rubber band tended to lose its integrity after a short time and the function didn’t work as well, later that year LEGO replaced the yellow rubber bands with a more durable white rubber band.

The only set I've ever recieved new pieces for is the original Ant-Man set, where they added some cones to make the legs more stable.

I haven't had it built for probably a decade at this point, but I always remember the front armour pieces on the Exo-Force White Lightning being too loose. They were only held on by single hinges right on the end of a pole piece and; being a child that actively played with toys, they wouldn't stay on.

I don’t know if this counts as a redesign, but take the architecture Las Vegas skyline set, for example. It first started out depicting the Mandalay Bay on the south side of the strip. They chose to remove the Mandalay Bay after the mass shooting tragedy there about a decade ago. They replaced it with the Bellagio

An interesting redesign of a Lego set was the Lego Architecture Las Vegas set. It originally had the Mandalay Bay hotel, but was changed to a different building because of the mass shooting right before release. Around 20 or so of the original set were on shelves somewhere in Africa and are extremely rare now

The Daily Bugle set has a major issue in the window with Green Goblin smashing through. I had to rebuild that part multiple times finishing the set because Gobbie pulls the whole window piece out if bumped slightly.

4:50 I actually have the Saturn 5 set, it’s my tallest set in my collection, as well as the heaviest. I’m amazed by how strong it is compared to my countless other ones. My least strong set is probably the millennium Falcon.

A rework I see that needs done: the Crystal King's belt in the ninjago crystalized wave. A single stud connection has been proving quite flimsy. Maybe the bar inside is making it worse

The Jawa Sandcrawler set really needed some love. A set designed to be driven around, by default, putting any sort of weight on the top, you know, like to push it around. would cause the track bogies to push into the set as they were not supported from the top, but from underneath. To make mine work, I had to place a ton of plates on the bottom to reinforce it. The tracks would also fall apart quite often. I'm not sure how it made it past the review process, if I remember correctly, the entrie bottom of the build was only one plate wide, with only a few bricks to hold the plates together. How all of that was supposed to support the weight of the remainder of the build is beyond me.

I've got the 10281 bonsai tree. Two of them exactly, to better make variations and such. I was surprised to see that the second one had different legs for the pot.

So the Mini killed the legendary Model Team windscreen 😭 Another set I remember is 6531. Basically every helicopter of the late 80s and early 90s from Lego is designed the same, but here they tried something different and it failed greatly, falling apart all the time.

I wonder if Lego will eventually do this with the Back To The Future time machine set 10300 to change how the doors are built so they stay up on their own without needing modifications. This is a very common problem with the set, even though mine isn't nearly as bad as some that I've seen.

Lego is the best toy company ever, this video proves it, it was so nice of them to not just let the costumers have a faulty set and providing them with required parts.

Back in the day LEGO had to re-design set 5767 Cool Cruiser to fix some issues. But they had already shipped a bunch of copies of the sets to Australia and rather than send the sets to landfill or back to Europe, they gave various Australian LEGO clubs copies of the sets (minus the box and instructions, just the parts). So I have a bunch of complete sets of parts for the incorrect version of 5767 Cool Cruise that I got for free (which is nice since it has a few decent bits in it :)

One of the most consistent flaws I've noticed in LEGO was in Bionicle, specifically in the Toa Mahri era of Bionicles. All the light green female joint pieces were for whatever reason extremely frail, starting to come apart with barely any use. This wasn't an issue in any previous generation, nor with any other color joint connector. Something about the green ones just made them break.

the way he said "these weren't barreling through the sky at dangerous speeds" had me dying lol

I love how Lego sticks to quality.

say what you want about Lego but it´s pretty admirable that they usually send replacements, most companies just refuse to do that

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One of the recent redesigns is 42127 MB Zetros set from Technic lineup. They had to add some parts because bonnet and doors kept opening while driving the truck around.

The Lego ISS 21321 could have used a minor upgrade. The center of gravity of the model is slightly too far back for the display stand, making it tilt backwards. Extending the 'saddle' just one or two studs solves the issue.

I bought a second 10281 Bonsai Tree set recently so I could display both variants together, only to find there was a slight redesign with the feet of the tray the tree sits in. This resulted in four less of the same piece in the set, but still included the spare for that piece. The instruction manual and box art were both altered to incorporate the change. Haven’t found an explanation as yet though.

Legos are the cool Troy. Like you

I remember having (well, I still have it somewhere) an Aquanauts set with a huge claw that you could open by pressing a button on its arm. The claw was pretty flimsy, though, and I wonder if they ever redesigned it.

I have the newest version of that Wall-E set but there is still a problem with it, the wires on the back of the head, come off too easily.

Rule 1 of ball joints, unless holding from the top, they should never bear more load than a bionicle style arm or a brick built one of around the same size

Yes. I think the Lego speed champions Lamborghini Hurrican in set 76899 needs a tweak. It is a black car with a bunch of gold stickers and gold bricks. It came with black wheels. I took the gold wheels from the Lego City Moon River set 60348 and put them on it. Unfortunately I don’t have gold spoke sets to match the rim, but the black spikes with the gold lip/backing looks a ton better than it did. I can send a pic if you need it for reference. I have all the 8 stud wide speed champions cars built and on a shelf. Didn’t bother with any of the older 6 stud sets. Don’t think they look right proportionally.

FUN FACT ABOUT ANGUS MACLANE!!! I actually faced off against him in the master build challenge at brickcon 2022 and BEAT HIM! Proud moment for me. He also signed my buzz lightyear polybag

For me the 7244 boat belongs on this list. It was fun to play with but it was very unstable as soon as any force was applied to one of the floats.

You are one of the most good at RU-vidr ever

really cool how lego sent out replacement parts for the wall e

development crunch in the industry is such an issue that even lego sets are getting first week patches now

my personal story is the original lego VW van. the pop up airconditioner thing was so sticky alot of the time when you went to pull it up the entire contraption under the cloth bit would just detach itself from the roof resulting in having to take it apart to put it back together. I personally fixed it after the 5th time it broke by just putting some extra pieces to hold it to the roof and its been fine ever since... also similar thing with the opening front windows where if you tried to close them they would pop off the ceiling of the cabin. easy fix was just adding a 1x2 plate and a 1x4 plate on it to anchor them into the ceiling better.

i remember vividly, that lego movie emmet robot from years ago, it was so fragile that i could not play with it without it breaking from everywhere.

Personally I belive the NES mechanism to lock down the game cartridge should be a bit more looked into because many of them get stuck

This guy is the most chill lego youtuber

To be fair, the Space Shuttle breaking apart too easily is pretty accurate to the real thing.

Guess Lego can’t fix the T2 camper van from disintegrating if you look at it wrong

Regarding the grappling hooks, I mind stepping on Lego less than losing some of the most expensive plastic on the consumer market.

The old Star Wars MTT had a change that came with a separate ser of instructions. The big panels on the sides had issues with the ratcheting hinges.

Didn't know Lego did this- figured they'd released a set and walk away. This is cool :)

I noticed the wall-e set in the thumbnail and miss that set so much. I’ll have to buy it again

The worst design i've encountered is the 4482 AT-TE walker from 2003. It was a nice set, but the legs couldn't hold up to almost any pressure and would break off of the chassis constantly. Other set with a similar problem is the 10144 Sandcrawler from 2005. Cool set, but the inside of it was unplayable since the floor would just fall off if you tried attaching anything to it.

Something on here that some people might agree with is the lego Mercedes F1 car, it uses extremely weak building techniques and rear wing techniques. Lego hasn’t withdrawn it yet but on that car I’ve been missing about 7 pieces, each of them either falling off or randomly popping off. When I go to the lego store to buy new pieces I’ll tell the workers that they might have to withdraw it.

really goes to show that LEGO is the best when it comes to customer service. they know that designing a good product is what leads to better profit.

Same I haven't touched one of these in like probably a decade, but I always remember on Anakin's Y-wing Starfighter set 8037: the white strips that run all the way down the "cylinder wings" snapping off really easily and not being secured very well. Not to mention the entire wings were held to the main body with like two Technic pins, it was a really difficult model to play with

The first masterpiece X-Wing had a design flaw in that the heavy wings were held in the open position by a gear or 2, which put a lot of stress on those gears over time. The newer versions of the X-Wing had counter-balanced wings and a more complex hinges so there was less stress on any single point.

I have that wall e set and had no clue they gave out parts to fix it, my wall e is stilllooking at the wall behind him on my shelf to this day

I love the blue background! Kinda reminds me of the bedrock wall in the Minecraft Legacy Console Edition Nether.

They need to do this to the most recent Republic Fighter Tank. The seating is poorly designed.

The music sounds so much like a cinema waiting for the movie music

I forget the name but I remember the Ninjago snake bike’s head falling off all the time. I eventually had enough and modified it to be more stable.

Well now i know what was The Wall E Error and It was the connection to his head and neck.

10/10

I think the biggest issue i have had with stability are the mirrors on the creator expert mustang

The Space Shuttle could have been fixed super quickly. Just rename it the Challenger set.

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The cargo bay door on the new blacktron cruiser GWP is pretty poorly designed too . The cargo door is made up of 3 seperate sections that each open up, and the 2 side parts need to be clipped on 2 relatively flimsy connection points, and if you have it too off center one way the doors interferes with the traditional bar clip plate that holds the top part of the door when opening them up, causing the side parts to wedge against it and pop out. If it's too off center the other way it leaves massive gaps under the top section of the door, and the side doors start to stick out off the side of the ship when it should be flush with the sides of the ship. Pretty wonky design as you're constantly making slight adjustments on the side door so they stay perfectly center as they're very easy to nudge off center

7:14 i still have the original version of this set, it breaks apart quite easily sometimes

If I'll see a parrot in this video I'll lose it.

I dont usually give suggestions, but you should make a list of the coolest lego pieces. My number 1: the "diamond with stick"

SpitBrix yesterday was my birthday and i got a Horizon lego set. it had a really funny mistake in its instruction manual, maybe you can put it into your series ?

1:56 dose no one noties that clip was from sml jr package?!

I remember getting a Lego ferris wheel set that didn't work very well when I was very young and it made me really mad, I believe it had a motor or something

completely off topic but isn’t it beautiful that wall-e is so iconic i could recognize it was him just from that little cropped image.

Lego 3 in 1 Fast Flyers (4953) has very weak landing gear doors when built as the F-14 (and a very ugly nose) - both easy fixes that I don’t know if Lego ever did

One redesign I haven't seen mentioned a lot, is the First Order Special Forces Tie Fighter back in 2015, which underwent a design change concerning the wing hinges, just switching a few parts. Some reviews claimed that the wings were difficult to secure in place, however I did not see any meaningful change after the updated release of the set.

The Ducati Chiron's stand isn't stable, and it loves to fall over if it's jostled at all.

The entire Caterham (21307) is the worse design I've ever experienced. It's incredibly fragile, one of only a few sets I've boxed back and up and put away.

I Think that The Back to The future delorean from 2022 could maybe use a redesign as The original Black connecting pieces that hold The Doors in place are simply not strong enough so The Doors keep slowly closing by Them selves. Alot of people (including myself) have switched Them out with ones from older Lego technic sets that has The right amount of friction to keep Them from not falling down

I am currently building the Technic Bugatti Chiron. It is a miracle of design but there are many, many places where the build order is very wrong. You find yourself really struggling to put in sub assemblies, especially around the lower back and sides, and in one instance, step 489 I think, having to flex a subassembly.

The lego ninjago dragon. Its some sort of big mecha dragon, and it can't stand up WHATsoever. I spent two hours alone on one bag because it kept falling, i kept losing pieces, it was chaos.

The original MTT had a small folded instruction page with a error fix in it I thought it was pretty neat as a kid to get a error fix.

When I was growing up I liked stepping on Lego bricks

Is shocking that Lego didn't fix bugatti front suspension :(

The garmatron the front will always fall off and the 1x10 plate to shoot the misfile will constantly always fall off

I own the original Wall-E set and my recollection is that LEGO would only send you the pieces for the fix if you asked for them. I never asked for them, therefore my Wall-E still has the freely-spinning head. I just make sure his head is level when displaying it.

I expected the marvel hulk buster to b e here for some reason

I also found a modification is required on the ford gt22 technic set

I really hate that LEGO named Slave One “Boba Fetts Star Ship”

Most poorly designed set that I have is the Lego Star Destroyer from like 2008 that thing Is so flimsy, but still very cool.

The Back to the Future Delorean needs an update for the doors and licence plate. The doors are too heavy and don't stay open and if you want to switch between the two licence plates it involves dissembling the entire back portion.

at the mid of the video i was losing hope that the Mini Cooper will be shown as well

I just recently got a LEGO® Harry Potter™ set: "Hogwarts™ Courtyard - Sirius's Rescue". I think that the spiral staircase is a bit loose... the steps don't have anything holding them in place, except for the first one. Because of this, if you want to have any of the Minifigures climb up, the stairs will just move out of place. Of course, I use it as a display piece so it's not such a big problem for me.

I have the Saturn v and can see how it has been affected from the other set

Poorly designed Lego sets, why not include every Lego Minecraft set

I don't understand how they screwed up the wall-e set, did they just put glue on the piece and forget the problem?

4:35 Additionally the landing gear and payload bay doors were changed

POOR DESIGNED ☠️

I have lego 71042 the Silent Mary ship, the front can be rised as in the movie, but it happend to me many times that after some time it falls down to the straight position

Never got that wall-E fix x-x

I want to see Lego do a Bidet Toilet but Lego will not make perfect set. Plz reply.

The 2023 lego creator set Rabbit has some major stability issues with its head, cheeks and ears.

Another amazing video by the best top 10 lego RU-vidr of all time

The third time really was not the charm. The wall-e set still isn't super stable. I'd imagine altering it with mixel joints would help it out but too bad this set came out before those pieces existed

Rocket Racer was perfect the way he was in Lego Racers. Don't you dare say otherwise!!! The Rocket Racer in Lego city is not the same character from the game.

I find that the LEGO Optimus primes arm joints are too weak to even hold his blaster