How Do You Use This LEGO Piece Anyway? 

I wish that they would make this brick in a version that could rotate.

I would hate that thing much less if they didn't keep insisting on using those as a mech joint.

From what I've figured out, it works for holding angles on things that regular hinges, along with clips and bars, can't, I've used it for wing bends, along with the flat hinge plates so they still pose, it gives them curve, where if I used regular hinges, they'd fall flat. Another thing they can be used for is small flares and details on larger builds. Some examples are heels, spurs, and claws, made by using them on their sides. The issue IS how they connect, for how I build, they're good for angles that regular hinges won't hold, because the hinge is too weak, or the build is too heavy. What I'm saying is how they're presented, is how they're meant to be used, for stability. I can further explain if it's asked of me.

Well well well,if it isn't my least favorite piece getting a Brick Sculpt video. I should've specified in my first rant that my main gripe with it is when it comes to mechs,I'm sure there's probably some other uses for it like in architecture or something (although I really doubt it). I don't blame others if they hate it 100% and beyond lego mechs though.

First thing that came to mind from that piece is to use it as a pallet in a grandfather clock possibly?

See what you can make if you have a horizontal axel through the hole, if that makes sense. First thing that comes to my mind is a catapult 😂.

It might work for building SNOT trusses for a through-truss bridge or to support the roof of a large building.

If a technic pin fits in the hole, shenanigans could ensue

I don't know that much about LEGO, but I just wanted to say that it's really refreshing to see a hobby RU-vidr embracing the "we're learning together" approach rather than the more common "I have a lot of subscribers so I'm going to tell you what's correct."

I have a few, several because of set 71421 Dixie Kong's Jungle Jam, but haven't used them for other uses yet.

as someone who's always been a fan of sets under $15, and now more than half of them heavily relying on this piece, my hatred for this piece is palpable. Most of the sets it's included in cannot be made into anything else without it, and the only things it can be used for are really terrible bulky limbs.

The 2 x 2 with the bionicle connections are so much better

Using the 2x2 round pieces you might be able to create some cool rotating builds, perhaps something like a moving labyrinth that has corridors and bends that change position after a minifigure walks down them?

My first guess was some sort of gazebo, by putting poles in the holes, but I don't see why you would use this specific piece instead of anything else

Never seen this thing before. the fact it isn't a joint honestly makes zero sense to me.

I could see that as the keystone of a decorative arch.... but I don't have and have never used this piece. Edit: you could use them to make a octagonal castle, using these on the interior to connect the walls... doing a tower was really my only other idea right off the bat....

Me: easy, just build a bendy bus (articulated bus) with it Me, realizing the piece isnt moveable: :O

Weird. I've never seen it before. Perhaps the Lego decisionmakers feel VERY strongly about mechs (programming/conditioning us to react positively to the idea of futuristic warfare, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, etc).

I hate this piece not for its geometry but the intention behind its design and use. It solidifies Lego's refusal to give mecha knee joints like in the good old days of Exo-Force.

I wonder if anything would line up if you arranged them side to side with the circles facing inward, almost like a star

I wonder if you could use it with 6328479 or 6313191 to add some swivel turret functionality to a capital ship.

First time I encountered these was in the new Droideka model, it has a few dark grey ones. You could incorporate the circular part into a pillar of 2x2 round bricks with an axle through the center (put a tile with hole on top of the bottom one), and have things branch off your pillar (tree branches? Roof supports? Make a pergola?) - the thing is - it keeps rotating... I just don't get why they made this

Eh, you mostly just use it on small mechs and stuff for the limbs.

I could see it as large pond.

It’s the connector piece from Mario Lego sets!

Reminds me of bionicle parts that should be two parts.

How about like this: __/¯¯ so you can make diagonal walls or stairs if you flip it sideways.

If that was an actual joint, kinda like a giant version of the hinge peice. It might be ok, but they ruined Ninjago with this pointless thing. 15706 is goated tho

Does it come in a specific set?...

This is definitely just a piece lego made to keep the piece count down on those crappy mechs they keep pushing

This piece SUXCKS DONKEY DONGLE. this piece needs to be jointed. This piece has terrible hip and ankle pivot. Every big dog built with this piece has an awkward stance because this piece CANNOT STAND PROPERLY. Bring back Bionicle. Nuff said.

any regular octagon will have either irrational side lengths or an irrational width (or both) since the width is 1+√2 times the side length

This piece would have been so much nicer if it had a ratchet joint like the AT-ST hip joint piece

I have no idea how the youtube algo brought me to videos about random lego bricks from a channel I've never seen before but this is awesome in the most nerdy way lmao

Is it just me or does every video he makes make you wanna spend hundreds of dollars on bricklink lol

That thing looks like bootleg piece and you can't convince me otherwise.

This is the piece that “replaced” Bionicle and Herofactory(CCBS) and is part of a new system dubbed SCCBS(System Character & Creature Building System).The piece itself is ok, but its purpose is what disgusts me and every time I see it reminds me of what was taken from us…

Great series. Crazy how little discussion there is on yt about just fundamentals and specific pieces.

Think staircase. Either lined up straight or a spiral. You have more than me of those and most of mine are in mechs. Staircase man!

Because it's a square root of 2 piece, try experimenting with stud diagonals, rather than normal connections. Like, put 1×1 studs (I'd go with round, so they're easier to pull off, when you're done), diagonal from one another (vary distance), on some plates, with & without jumpers, & experiment with connections. Once you find combinations that work, start refining things, to fit other geometries.

This piece is called a series of unfortunate events

Guardians ship 76255 has 2 complete rings of this piece, the insides of them are really nice circles.

Here’s how to make it into an usable octagon: 1. The weird piece should be attacked to the main plate through the hole. 2. Connect those pieces with horizontal axles, as they can accommodate any irrational lengths. 3. Build walls and floors on those axles You’ll need only two of those octagons, on top and bottom layers.

Perhaps it could be used on either end of a sloped roof (45 degrees at the peak) and the center round area would line up perfectly with 2x2 round bricks for the beam along the top.

mech "joints" that's about it. Worst piece ever.

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Its used for some small mechas to give the illusion of moveability

as Lego now own Bricklink they really need to decide which description best fits the part for both PAB and bricklink.....brickowl needs to follow suit aswell. 3 differemt ways to describe lego elements is annoying when cross referencing. yes i know the part number will be the same across all 3 places. the part number is not my 1st go to.

These pieces are extremely useful for making both mechanical and organic mocs. Obviously you can potentially use it for architecture, but its use in that territory isnt large. I use these angled pieces constantly when making creatures/animals. It makes things feel organic when used correctly. And yes, it’s very useful for mecha designs. And it’s good for introducing that type of building for younger/beginner builders.

One thing I have not tried out yet but been interested in doing is using this piece as the base of an octagonal castle tower. You could use the round spots to build round pillars on and then place seamless walls in between them on the straight bits. The cool thing about this piece is that you can place any length of 2x plate in between to build upon, so you can make walls of anything from just four studs wide to ten, twenty, thirty, whatever you desire.

Ngl I can see myself using this to make some sort of sign or emblem

I used it to give a robot torso an interesting bend to it, makes it able pose looking down or leaning over something

Alright, I can easily give advice and usage cases for many pieces, but this piece is just SO off, specialized, and awkward :[ Coolest usage that doesn't involve joints that i've seen for it is for fountains and monster feet, similar to set 41513's "legs"

4:10 Cheyenne Mountain called… Col. O‘Neal want his Stargate back…

This joint piece is a big part about why I feel so mixed about SCCBS

6:24 could you try bringing the second piece half a stud closer? Just use 1x2 jumpers for one of them instead of 2x2 for both

These almost feel like slope 6044 when it comes to incompatibility, except slope 6044 doesn't even have the right angle to make a proper circle of them....

The octagon repeated upwards might make a cool sci-fi silo. Perhaps the SNOT technique may yield some interesting possibilities, even if only decorative.

I really have nothing with this one, this the 'arm' version of the terrible 70946 and 70943 leg elements (please don't buy those, not even as a joke) and they are a total cop-out of an articulated mech joint. It looks sorta OK in one single pose, but that's not really what Lego is supposed to be for, right? Lloyd's mech 71757 uses these and... it stinks, but they save a ton of parts. Compare that to the space mining mech 31115 for instance! A more fair comparison? Titanium mini mech 30591 perhaps, it uses mixel-joints.

Just looking at it (I’m still in the very beginning), I’m thinking base framework for a keep or a tower. Take advantage of the rounded part to build columns as accents for the walls.

I had the same thought after your “A” plate videos. I’ve gotten a few of these out of mech sets that I won at LEGO Discovery Zone adult nights. I haven’t figured out much to do with them to this point.

I loved getting the small battle mechs.. until they swapped the mixel joints for this BS. I do not like this piece.

There has got to be a way to get the two 45deg piece to fit together. I’ve tried it with them being two concentric circles with this post recent piece being a considerably larger circle. I just don’t know if it’s a legal technique.

I used 8 of them to make a mini Christmas wreath decoration. I can send photos if you provide an email address.

When I first saw this, I thought it was a new type of ratchet joint, but I was disappointed to find it doesn’t move at all, and that it was all one piece

really good use is lego board games where you connect modular "nodes" together. this is actually how they are really commonly used in the lego Mario sets too in the same way

you could anchor the large octagon to a plate by putting the supports that didn’t match in the video on technic sliding axels, and then just move them inwards to align it properly

No knee joints or elbows instead this piece of junk. Hate it honestly. I especially have no use for it in my builds

Take two of these and sandwich a brick with a technic pin between them for a knee joint. Add the parts to round out the sides and hide the pivot on the piece and a part to the top using a technic connector to disguise that side and that's a Gundam knee joint. The backs of the joints of those kits are usually exposed, so just pick the right color. The issue comes from getting the scale right and there are easier ways to do the same thing.

Try combining this piece with hinge plate 1x4 swivel.

I think that the ability for rotation is by far the most interesting thing about this. If you arrange these to form an octagon and then find a way to throw a separate octagonal panel over the center like you did in the second vid about 15706, maybe it could be used as some kind of a weird door that hinges about one of the circular spots, kind of like a bank vault style entrance or a sci-fi thing? Also, you could mount it to the 15706 platform using the building techniques there and make some weird, varied tower geometry, though that assembly would probably only lead to more questions than answers. Another thing is that it might be interesting to make a tower using these and leave one layer in the middle connected only by a 2x2 round (although the rest of the structure would need some kind of additional support) so that you have a cool effect where you can at any time swing a "cross section" away and look at some inside part of a building that'd usually be hidden unless you disassembled it.

i would check the open holes for connections when putting it on the grid if you haven't already - they're at a weird position relative to the studs that may turn out to be rational in some way

I just call this piece "The stupid mech arm/leg part" seeing as that they only use it for said reason.

Tbh if the "bend" was a ratchet then it would be a good limb for mechs or robots but no

I actually have a lot of those pieces from LEGO Mario sets, and they do work really well for those sets

2:53 I really think that having a way to partially move studs to misalign them is a neat feature. No idea what to do with that tho :D

You have a nice voice :) Great video btw

Ehen you made the octagon i thought of a alien ship

An isosceles right triangle has 45 degrees...

Would hinge pieces fix any of the attachment issues between these parts? I only have 4 and all of them are in the legs of my Thanos and War Machine mechs, which I wish still used movable knee pieces even if this piece helps the legs look a uniform color

That piece is only about years old.

Check out the Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Bowie ship for how Lego designers used this uniquely

Does the spacing work if you alternate left bend and right bend(zigzag shape)? If you put 2 side by side mirrored(make a fat Y shape) does that make using them better?

This piece is used in Lego Mechs

I might own one of those pieces that I will find in the large amount I have been obsessively thrifting. From here I can see 2 boxes with 32 liters of unsorted lego each. The problem is that there is a seemingly infinite amount of lego in my nearest thrift store, and every time I see lego, I can't stop myself from buying it...

boy am i glad i never knew of the existence of this piece! im happy to know that this cursed abomination will leave the knowledge of my mind just as quickly!

It could make for an interesting roof top by horizontally stacking it onto a building, but then it still isn’t really “clicking” anywhere except with gravity since I imagine that stud connection via snot would be near impossible on that angle. Plus I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever seen it in gray, which is a tad dull for any building

I think this could make a very good tower. Take your octogon, stack a few ontop. Then put tiles and rotate the assembly. Rinse and repeat. Good luck tapering it in however.

That dark grey octagon looks metal, too bad you cannot attach anything to it besides make a technic scaffolding.

Love ur vids, got into lego because of you, just finished sorting something like half of 2.5kg bulk buy :D

The most interesting place I've seen this piece used is in The Legend of Zelda 77092 Great Deku Tree where it's acts as the main support for one of the large roots at the front of the Breath of the Wild version of the tree. So organic structures like trees or even rock arches could make use of the piece.

you could make a 45 degree log fort wall with this, since you can fill it with 2x2 rounds without any gaps (assuming a technic axle or something to attach one on the corner) it would still be a pain to mount on the base plate, of course, there's got to be a way to be mitigate that somehow

i guess you only need 2 rings of these as top and bottom for a tower, the rest is filled with bricks and round 2x2s with axles top and bottom. maybe1 or 2 more rings for stability in the middle

I think tower walls would look good on these. 8 straight walls connected by rounded pieces. Other connection can be made with pocket connector since it can slide.

Can you put a technic axle through the central hole? If so, you could maybe stack a few atop each other at different angles?

what about attaching via axles theough the corner hole? do those line up with anything technic or system?

Why does this piece even exist it has so few uses it don't even connect in most ways. Very strange

Like with the other piece the solution here seems to be to free yourself from the grid. Not every part was made with conformity to a base plate in mind.

This piece feels like it's designed to let you replace it with one with an actual hinge. But that piece doesn't exist.

can you fit the A piece underneath it, on the underside of the round section? similar to how they connect above but it feels like it makes more sense to me below