LEGO’s Weird Obsessions… 

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Here's an obvious Lego obsession: Lego loves putting their stud shooters in as many sets as possible, especially Star Wars. And they tend to put them in sets that don't really need them

Lego has a strange obsession with bricks. I see them in almost every set 🤔

I bought the Bonsai tree just to have something chill for the holidays, and when I opened it up and saw all the frogs I was baffled and loved it too.

Another obsession I remember, was Lego would place a coffee mug or coffee maker, into every set possible. But maybe that was just the Lego city sets.

Not necessarily an obsession or super versatile, but i love that Mjolnir finds itself into a bunch of sets as stone bricks

The brown carrots in Indiana Jones weren't just clubs. They were also used as torches in the Well of Souls.

Lego frogs is the best Easter egg that no one can hide it from you

Frogs were used as the helmet hooks in 2009’s Modular Building Series Fire Brigade so that table wasn’t the first use of frogs for something other than a frog.

Just saying, I'm starting to think that Lego has this obsession with 2x2 bricks. They're in so many sets.

Lego factory manager: "DAVE!!" Dave: "yeah?" "You left the mold machine on all night!!" "i did?" "what are we going to do with all these frogs, sausages, banana, carrots!?" 😂

"Why is LEGO obsessed with the frog, sausage, carrot, and banana pieces?" Because plastic molds are expensive and the more use they get out of them, the more they earn back on that investment.

one of my worst nightmares as a kid was a brown lego frog sitting menacingly on top of a window

Another reason for the abundance of Batmans (Batmen?) is the fact that before the DC Superheroes line LEGO had a standalone Batman theme from 2006 to 2008.

That Bonsai tree set turned out really nice, but it was SO PAINFUL to put together. The cherry blossom branches alone took me over 30 minutes. Worth it tho :)

I really love the frogs as the table legs in the joust set. Their shape fits the whole look of those weird curvy legs that some tables have so well

In the last Jurassic Park wave, each set had a different color frog integrated somehow. The brown one was part of the poop pile Dr Saddler dug through. The Batman thing I think is two fold. One is that he is a very recognized character. Two is that he had more vehicles and gadgets than anyone else, thus easier to make sets for. And I always loved how in Lego City Adventures the Mayor dressed as corn with no explanation. I always thought a good joke would have been if the two political parties in Lego City were The Veggie Party and the Animal Party. Thus everyone running for office wore a vegetable or animal costume. And rather than actual politics they used something more basic. The veggies, like Mayor Flek focused on hard work, while the Animals just talked about how cool they were for picking their animal costume.

It makes sense that Batman is so popular compared to other superheroes, because both him and his rogues love their vehicles, gadgets, and cool lairs. When you think of the Joker, you think of abandoned theme parks; when you think of Penguin, you think of the Iceberg Lounge. You don’t really get that for many other heroes or villains, so you don’t get as many ideas for sets

Ah, I'm so glad that The Ambush in Cairo set was mentioned! I remember losing that brown carrot piece for the longest time when I was young, but did end up finding it!

Nobody ever mentions the frog pieces being used in the modular fire station set back in 2009 as hat hooks. That was way before the jousting set mentioned in the video!

Wonderful video, I’ve always loved creative use of existing Lego pieces but didn’t know about any of these examples. One quick correction though: the “dragons” are lions, hence the name of the Lego set. Lions are generally operated by two people, whereas dragons are operated by many more.

Obviously, reusing plastic molds is logical, it's a company. They gotta make money, they're gonna cut costs. But its actually kinda genius. In more than half of these sets, I NEVER noticed the frogs being there. They're just frog-shaped enough to be frogs, but vague enough to be anything you want!

I just see it as them using molds more efficiently rather than making a bunch of new ones for small things like clubs and the set designers being creative with them, that or the designers are always hungry and and trying to sneak food into as many sets as possible but I think it's the first part

i can imagine John Lego slamming his desk in anger whenever he's unable to include a completely pointless frog in a lego set

Frogs being used as the pistil of the Orchid set blew my mind.

Lego batman, was one of the major characters in Lego movie and the leader of classic minifigure people on the second movie . Definitely Lego is obsessed about Batman.

Frogs were also used as heads for the gargoyle statues in the Batman Arkham Asylum Breakout set featured later in the video.

My addition to the batman obsession: batman is a character who is designed to have a lot of toys in his dispoal. Various batmobile, batplanes, and other bat-stuff. Other super heroes just dont rely on them often. Even iron man usually has suits.

Eggs are also used in some interesting ways. Off the top of my head, I can remember that a grey one was used in an Angry Birds set to decorate an engine piece, and in the Succulents set there was a literal handful to use on a cactus.

About the frogs, hotdogs, bananas and carrots, I don't think lego is obsessed with them. I think they are just good for details.

Cant forget about the Mug pandemic in lego city sets.

This video is how I realized that the torches in the Indiana Jones sets were carrots. I legit never noticed before, that was just the "wood club" piece

Lego should just make an entire set where all the Minifigures are just frogs.

5:27 I also spy a tan banana as part of the one-eyed minon's weapon

1:29 i have the sudden urge to collect all the frogs and make this 👁️ 👁️

For me is the biggest lego obsession in putting golden katanas to ninjago sets

Lego LOVES putting lego bricks in their sets for some reason

Wow, I thought that Lego using the frogs in the 30th Anniversary Jurassic Park sets, were just nods to the Dinosaurs being cloned using Frog DNA. Using a White Frog for shaving-cream foam is a great idea though.

Lego carrots make me nostalgic. Love the weird little split down the sprout.

There's so many bat-gadgets that really lend themselves to being built in Lego, i think it makes sense that he's in so many sets

Lesson learnt: Lego likes food and frogs.

The lego frog is honestly such a fun shape

I’ve found that the Lego Batman head is actually pretty useful outside of DC stuff, the white band on he forehead makes a pretty useful bandage or headband.

I love the use of frogs in the 2nd Arkham Asylum where the gargoyle heads were frogs

using sausages as eyebrows for statue of liberty has to be my favourite thing ever

Gold bars as fancier 1x2 tiles is one of my favorites of this kind

Frogs are amazing, I love those lil dudes.

They also loved using the exact same head that goes under the stuff like the lego stormtroopers for about 10 years

Here's a Lego obsession: The Trikes. They seem to have in almost EVERY lego cities set and in others

🎶Does it come with a Lego frog🎶

Does anyone remember about 2-3 years ago when Lego designers had a slight obsession with hiding poop in the sets? Like they would put that little brown ice cream swirl EVERYWHERE. Pretty much every set I got that year had one somewhere, the vintage taxi, the book shop, hell even a plane and countless Lego friends sets had them from what I heard. It was weird af

9:20 I think the batman obsession has a lot to do with playability. Superman isn’t really all that exciting as a toy, as all his powers come from within. You could have some fake eye lasers, and breakable objects for him to smash, but the fun doesn’t really go much further. Batman on the other hand, has an immense array of gadgets, vehicles, outfits, weapons, and buildings. I could list off potential sets only Batman could produce, afforded by Bruce’s infinite wealth, but they’re probably already sets.

They love putting random colored bricks on places you cannot see them

This explains why Batman is a main-ish figure in the Lego movie.

8:54 I'm so glad that someone else remembers that that movie exists. It was such a good film that is completely overshadowed by the new (relatively) LEGO Batman Movie (not that it was ever that well-known before in the first place).

In 2009 the Fire Brigade 10197 was released, were the frogs were used as holder for the firemans helmets. So the unique use of frogs started way before 2012

the blob shape of the frogs does help them fit everywhere tbf lol

all the Jurassic park sets in 2023 all have frogs in them

I’m starting to think their only obsession is seeing how much it’s possible to charge for a lump of plastic

Weird obsession = creative piece usage sure

My friend showed me some Lego set i don’t remember but it was a building of some kind, and it used the Minecraft wolf head mold in the architecture

Lego has an obsession with studs, bricks, 1 by 1s, doors and wheels.

I love how polite they look

One might say LEGO has an obsession with anything that they can mass produce cheaply and in bulk. It means more LEGO for anyone who collects it, so I certainly don't mind acquiring more of it! 😁👍👍

I have every single food costume minifigure, and missing only gorilla and rabbit guy from animal costumes collection plus I have every specialised minifigure like rocket boy, firemork guy, crayon flower etc. I love lego

If i remember right, the frogs are a joke among set designers to see who can use the frog piece in the most creative and funny way possible. Like the flower and Banzai Tree frogs.

At one point, it was speeders/tiny vehicles. Everywhere they could add one, they would.

The bonsai tree was already right up my alley, but then I realized how many frogs were on it, and I was sold!

I think Batman is their favorite simply because batman is best suited for lego sets due to all of his vehicles and gadgets. Whenever a superhero like spiderman gets a set with a vehicle, it just doesn't make sense, because spiderman never uses a vehicle. Same goes for a lot of other superhero's.

The Batman thing is also because they made Batman sets before ever making “dc” sets, and the Batman line even got it’s on video game

The frogs in the bonsai tree set are crazy lmao

LEGO GLIZZIES IS CRAZY

another strange lego obsession is putting legacy kai in every set imaginable (its getting out of hand)

Bruh, I chuckled everytime he calling the Dancing Lions in the “Lion Dance” set Dragons 😆

One piece can serve unlimited purposes if you can place it on a single stud

05:27 the minons even got a banana weapon

The fact you talked about the hidden yellow frog in the ninjago set but didn’t show it is crazy

"Does it come with a LEGO froug?"

I can’t see them as anything but frogs so it breaks my immersion when they aren’t used as Frogs.

Half asleep Chris :Does it come with a little frog

Lego really likes Minifig heads they use it in practically every set, sometimes even more!

4:48 "going back to the Lion Dance set... check out... the DrAgOnS"

Lego frogs are my favorite lego piece. They're so charming I love how they're shaped.

I have a theory,Lego loves frogs but Lego also hates Goats

I’ve recently noticed that every Lego set I’ve ever owned has a 1x1 stud in it

Lego frogs are a meme at this point

LEGO Glizzies caught me off guard

Lego sure love mechs as well

Lego's biggest obsession is... Boxes! Every set has one. Previously plastic packed minifigure lines you say? Those were shipped in boxes!

well, lego skeleton is in every single lego game

Parrots were a big obsession for a while with them

Gotta mention that the banana, corn and hotdog outifits have even appeared in some Lego videogames as playable characters.

Lego has this weird obsession with 1×1 round plates. I don't know of a Lego piece more popular and it's probably featured in +50% Lego sets. I'm mostly saying this to make a point.

Everything up until the Batman obsession is really sweet and precious. The Batman portion just shows that the world is ruled by comic book nerds who want to BE just like Batman, and Bruce Wayne XD

Also one obsession of lego is the pink brick in random places

8:43 God dammit Zipf! You've done it again!

Their number one obsession must be using lego bricks. It is very strange. Anybody else see this?

1:57 me: half asleep Chris? “Nick Voss” Oh.

I'd be obsessed with hot dogs too if they were twice the size of my head.

1:43 the frogs are actually on top of little scorpions for the bigger parts of the eyebrows.