Foolish LEGO Human Errors You've Made.

[ReZourceman]

Haha, I thought I would post this thread after me being completely idiotic.

I only just realised the difference between two LEGO elements, after...well my entrie life, this last set I built this week.

I always thought there was no difference between the Light Grey Technic pins and the black Technic pins, but I was fiddling about and realised that the grey ones spin and the black ones dont.

*wacko*

Haha, I felt so foolish.

Have you ever made any amusing mistakes?

[Athos]

You mean beyond the obvious holding of bricks in your mouth, then hiccuping? :-X

Steve

[Cabby]

What about tip-toeing in the dark on a soft carpet, unaware of the deadly 1x1 brick waiting there ? :'-(

X-D

[optimus-convoy]

I've acidentally broken almost every one of this bamboo part due to misstoring and foot encounters.

Oh, and I've bought Galidor... at full price! :-P

[CopMike]

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[Clone comander Nodra 999]

i got the first hogwarst express and the chest Launching actiond didnt work :'-( I bought another and it didnt work either :'-(

[Commander Wolf]

I've actually almost had to get stitches after cutting myself trying to open a 1990's Lego box... with scissors. Don't ask how THAT happened...

[Norrington]

egad! that must have hurt! and my foolish mistake.....actully kind of want to buy a kk (more like kkk) set. I also have bought galidor. and a little off topic, wolf i noticed the Deviant art on your sig, so doe's that mean you are the one who created line rider? i love that game!

[hewkii9]

Note to self- You can'thold more Technic pins by putting multiples inside your mouth. Try not to do it again.

[Corvus]

The head on an AT-AT does NOT stay on well. remember that when you're setting it down, and then dropping the rest of the AT-AT in suprise. :-|

Also, do NOT build the nice, new, and beautiful set in your car, going down a windy road, after eating lunch.

[Zaktan of the Shadows]

Build a Lego set in a car... with a bumpy road.

-ZotS

[Corvus]

Here's another one.

Do NOT set your fragile Lego dock (with all the fragile Lego ships) on the floor where you think it is safe. That is an illusion. There is nowhere safe on the floor. I realised that when my cousin's dog chased my sister's cat up a window- directly through the lego dock. The dock, along with Jabba's sail barge, the Black Seas Barracuda, numerous MOC ships, and that-white-imperial-ship-whose-name-I-forgot were either smashed, bashed, squashed, or utterly deatomized. The dock was gone. So, I just started from scratch. Now, luckily, my dock is better than ever. Unfortunatley, it took a good three weeks to completely fix the rest of the ships. The BSB has a huge gash in the galley, along with knocked out masts and other minor problems. I had to completely reassemble the entire stern. :'-( I'm glad to say, though, that my fleet has made an excellent recovery. I'm just glad the cat didn't hide underneath the table.

Moral of the story: keep your lego in a very, very safe place. Preferably in a room with a solid metal door and no windows.

[oo7]

Oooooo! Ships? Dock? You wouldn't happen to have a picture or two, would ya?? :'-)

(I'm glad you're port has made a resilent return *y*, that sounded terrible.)

[Mofo Jones]

I had two Classic Space sets as a kid - the 6929 Starfleet Voyager and 6890 Cosmic Cruiser. My error is as follows: As I got older, the pieces were scattered and were probably trashed. If I'd known I'd be an AFOL, I would have carefully bagged them up and kept them until now. One of these days, I'll get the sets again.

[Shadows]

Flags, much like battle droid arms, should be slid on, not snapped on.

I've replaced them all now.

[Sir Dillon]

Flags, much like battle droid arms, should be slid on, not snapped on.

I've replaced them all now.

*Sigh* I've experienced that one. :'-(

I've actually almost had to get stitches after cutting myself trying to open a 1990's Lego box... with scissors. Don't ask how THAT happened...

That reminds me of a time I tried to open a cereal box using a pocket knife. X-D

[Hinckley]

I always accidentally shove a plate under a fingernail trying to pry two plates apart and then have pain where the nail came up for days. I think there's a form of torture based on the same principle. Something about bamboo shoots...

I've actually somewhat solved this by attaching different size plates together for easier removal. For instance, if I need to construct an area that is 1 x 6 and two plates high, I put a 1 x 6 plate together with 2 1 x 3 plates. Or a 1 x 2 plate with a 1 x 4 plate over a 1 x 4 plate with a 1 x 2 plate. That way I don't have to try so hard to take them apart.

[yellost]

I've actually somewhat solved this by attaching different size plates together for easier removal. For instance, if I need to construct an area that is 1 x 6 and two plates high, I put a 1 x 6 plate together with 2 1 x 3 plates. Or a 1 x 2 plate with a 1 x 4 plate over a 1 x 4 plate with a 1 x 2 plate. That way I don't have to try so hard to take them apart.

Well, for that I've stumbled upon THE best lego accessory I could ever imagine :

I found it only once and never heard of it ever again anywhere... it' some kind of green lever that works wonder for separating two plates. even two 1x2 plates... You can't start to imagine how in heaven I was when I brought that baby back home... I spent two days afterward skimming through all my boxes to separate every pieces I couldn't before...

As for building idiocies, i got one that'll haunt me forever : I can now bend my thumbs almost 90

[Mister Phes]

I see these on eBay all the time... So I bought a couple of the grey variety...

They're not so good on when a couple of 1 x 2 plates are connected together X-D

[TaltosVT]

They're not so good on when a couple of 1 x 2 plates are connected together

That's where having two brick separators comes in handy. Clip one onto the top 1x2, and one onto the bottom 1x2, then squeeze the handles together. Pops the two right apart.

[Shadows]

... and in a pinch, the handy brick seperator makes a convenient minifig stand or motorcycle ramp ;-)

[Hinckley]

That's where having two brick separators comes in handy. Clip one onto the top 1x2, and one onto the bottom 1x2, then squeeze the handles together. Pops the two right apart.

How do you connect it to the bottom one? Is there a way to connect a brick separator to a brick or plate besides by the studs?

*goes and looks*

Oh, well how about that there is!

*tries it out*

Oh my God! That is the greatest thing I've ever learned EVER! Thank you TaltosVT, messenger from GOD! Thank you!!!!! You have saved me from bent-back-fingernail-pain forever!

*wub* *wub* *wub* *wub* *wub* *wub* *wub*

[Trionx]

for me it was having a chain in my mouth for a minute and eating it... :-$ (no harm done though, but it was the only light grey chain I had so I didn't have one for a while...)

[exo attack]

If I say " there are 6 dots permamentaly embedded into my foot " would you believ em? I would take a pic, but...

[captaintau]

As a result of this thread, I've BrickLink'd two brick seperaters. Seen them in the LEGO magazine, but never thought to get one.

I just wonder what other uses they may have. Flippers for a giant diver springs to mind.