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And it's legal to like the vid 😉

Ye does not stress subscribers

Your videos are so comforting to watch Tiago, keep em coming.

No. ILLEGAL

and started with the thumbnail

Because of stress lol?

He wasn’t a LEGO designer for nothing.

More likely the FE (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste).

Why ain’t there replies?

@@maxmania13 IDK

Wait what are you doing here Are you the real one?

😅Lol

Ur not going to brick jail, but you have to do brick service for a month

@@VortexBricks mans gonna have to step on lego for month

@@jaco8822 That has to be against the geneva convention...

@@kimaboe IT'S THE ONLY WAY THEY'LL LEARN

I had so much trouble with that in my childhood

That rare moment where Mega Bloks has the lead...

Rest in Pieces

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Yeah... I'd love to have that piece made in LEGO. It would be so insanely helpful for builds!

Seeing that they have the inverted tile piece now, I think its almost certain that Lego doesn't plan on making any double-sided plates any time soon or ever. I mean if they had a double-sided plate, they wouldn't need to introduce inverted tiles, or any inverted pieces for that matter. I reckon they must've tested such a piece already and maybe concluded that it creates more problems than it solves. Surely it would make many if not all the inverted pieces redundant and obsolete. But maybe inspite of that, the convenience and versatility might actually bring about more benefits than drawbacks and Lego is just sitting on wasted potential as they so often have.

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This is like the tip of the iceberg when it comes to that!

@@TiagoCatarino Is it legal to mine deep into that iceberg? We would certainly appreciate you doing so.

Well I would consider that illegal and come after you if you did it. so there's that

I never thought about that. Whether or not competitors that advertise that they are "compatible with leading brands" are actually so, given strict Lego standards and measurements.

@@trewerd Well, if Lego wanted to hurt their competitor's reputation, they could probably find incompatibilities (or problematic dimensional variability) if they just searched hard enough. Then again, Lego's strategy seems to be to refuse to acknowledge their competitors entirely.

@@trewerd I’ve built some of the mega contrux Pokémon sets, and something definitely feels different from Lego pieces, though I don’t quite know what. It could be the kind of plastic, the design, or something else. It’s kind of why I’d like to hear a Lego expert’s option on the matter, since they might have a better understanding of what makes it different. I haven’t combined any of the pieces with Lego sets I got, I mostly like to build display pieces for my self or desk, so I also don’t know how compatible they are either.

I think in theory, the competitors are 100% compatible with Lego. However in real life there are differences in production accuracy (= worse tolerances) between them, since in most cases they come from different manufacturing plants (talking on microscopic level, micrometers). You can even see this within the Lego universe, that some parts have for example more clamping force than others as they come from different plants. Sometimes even the same parts in a different color have a different clamping force. As for non-Lego parts, I have made the experience that the parts' range is wider between too loose and so tight, that it leaves stress marks from bending after a few days. So tolerances are higher. But I would not generalize that statement for all competitiors. After all, there is a difference between "illegal by design" and "bad production tolerances/low quality".

Regular LEGO bricks can be stacked onto Duplo bricks!

Hopefully LEGO will do some in the future. Any day now…

Indeed! Harder to explain the measurements on that one though

@@TiagoCatarino yeah I'll be honest I had to watch a breakdown video with a simplified structure build to get what was wrong, but once you see it you can practically hear the bricks screaming XD

You’re welcome!

Ok, if it does, then it’s illegal! LEGO has come a long way in regards to building standards and rules have been set in place for situations such as those

Yeah, PC plastic, specially bars and other elements that go with them are sometimes an issue

For sure! My favourite LEGO set of all time

You’re welcome!

it's like you're telling us about a legal drug u can get without prescription but it makes u high sorry, couldn't find a better metaphor

These are guidelines to not break your lego pieces. They're illegal because using them breaks the very lax rules lego has in their own builds. All of these techniques can be done better in ways that don't damage your bricks.

That is a good question! It feels like the element fits within the family of tile elements so I would say yes, but I would have to ask somebody at LEGO

@@TiagoCatarino Thanks so much for replying! I’m star-struck…

Not aware of what a 4x4 tile element would be. Tiles usually don’t have studs for you to vertically connect an element

Regardless. The minifigure base feels like it belongs on the plate family of elements therefore it would be illegal I feel

You could do the test shown in the video: Get 3 identical 2xN plates, put several plates on the first, tiles on the last and see where the middle one falls when you put several of your piece in question on it.

@@TiagoCatarino Oh sorry. I meant a studded 4X4 plate

You know what? That's actually a good video idea I think!

@@TiagoCatarino Excellent!

They're stressing both sides of the hole. The amount of stress on only one side of the hole isn't enough to cause permanent damage, but having that stress doubled and on both sides can stress the hole too much and cause permanent damage

Exo Force?

As Tiago says, it's the Exo-Force theme from 2006-2007, it sounds like you have 7712 Supernova. The red suited pilot with green hair was named Takeshi. However, I am unclear where the flamethrower came from, as the original set features a pistol and a trident. Flamethrowers are normally the domain of the robots who serve as the villains in Exo Force.

@@TiagoCatarino Yes, exactly, thx

@@mystic-malevolence Yes, totally forgot about the trident. I switched the secondary weapon of its left arm, a flamethrower or laser like weapon, with the trident with the sword of its right arm. But yeah, it's that Set.

They are both using the same hole.

Yeah I ended up changing the final edit of the video. But the material for transparent elements is being changed over the last years so these issues shouldn’t occur anymore