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Massive LEGO sets contain many LEGO minifigures and thousands of LEGO bricks, but some are more tedious than others. Even small LEGO sets have frustrating instruction steps. From massive LEGO chain links to hundreds of tiny 1x1 bricks, these LEGO sets have incredibly annoying steps! Watch to see the most tedious LEGO sets and minifigure builds!
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You missed the NES Lego set
Get the bag my man
very poor of you to promote a pay 2 win scam
The Titanic Set is one of the most realistic LEGO sets because it actually sinks.
yes 😂
DARK HUMOR📈📈
I can use it to cope with tragedy @@pandurial
Oh nah💀
Dark humor is how some people cope from tragedy.
Lego is a great way to explain square footage . Never realize how much flooring you need until you play with 1x1 tiles
Oh, I never thought Americans would actually use the word "footage" for "area". But it does make sense
minecraft is also pretty good in survival mode. Can’t tell you how many forests i devasted to do do two story floors.
@@nxctemyou have to mine out an entire mountain range to make stone brick roofs lol. Don’t even get me started on getting enough clay for a brick house 😢
@@nxctem always use slabs
Wtf is a footage? A video? How bout u use real units?
every lego instruction where i PHYSICALLY can't see / am not sure where i'm putting down pieces is the worst one
The ones where I have to figure which shade of grey a piece is are the worst for me.
@@ThePenandtheSword84 Or any time there's an ambiguous shade in the instructions, ESPECIALLY because the printing colors are just slightly off and make you constantly second-guess yourself because it's NOT CONSISTENT
@@pollyanna7201 ahh, starry night
Now mix that with those sets that point out where a piece goes when it's very visible and glaringly obvious
Yes!
One build that has stuck with me was the Captain America Shield. One of the steps requires you to open 6 bags at once, for you to then build 18 of the exact same build. To make matters worse, after you finish that, the set makes you do that again, with another 6 bags, to make another 18 identical assemblies.
You're buying a round shield, it's definately to be expected.
Yeah that set looks boring as hell to build
Got that set for Christmas. Those steps were fun.
*not
At least the current sets have the parts bags numbered by chapter. I have the Ultimate Collector's Edition Millennium Falcon (set 10179) from 2008 which was the first set with over 5,000 pieces, and by chapter 10, I'm pretty sure every single bag had to be opened.
2:01 If I had a dollar for every SpitBrix video that mentions _that_ step from the ship in a bottle set 92177 I would have at least 4 dollars.
Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened four times right?
@@Snow_Empressnah, 4 dollars is pretty significant. That's enough to dare someone to do something that would have serious health repacusions if gone wrong.
@@icebrew I need that 4 dollars for the fortnite itemshop
@@icebrewr/oddlyspecific
@@icebrewfor no particular reason could you tell me exactly what that is? I think I’ve got four dollars lying around somewhere…
I've got the bottle ship sitting on my shelf, and I never actually counted all those blue studs to make sure I've got 284 of them - I just dumped all of them in that came with the set. So in that sense, that was one of the easiest Lego building steps that I've ever come across 🙂 As for the Eiffel tower, you'd need to pay me VERY handsomely to get me to build that monstrosity. Or, as a german Lego KZheadr put it: "the best way to build this set is to get 4 friends together and have each of them build a quarter of the whole (which is possible, because it's symmetrical). When they're done, you build the flag and put it on top."
The bonsai tree is similar to the ship in the bottle, it just has the extra steps of pour 4 colors of tiles into 1 bag, shake, then pour into the pot of the tree.
Yeh u always get spares for tiny pieces, so for sure you have more than 284 studs in there !
I recruited a friend for the Eiffel Tower haha
I felt the amount of "water" the ship came with was actually a bit too little, so I dumped maybe 100-200 more 1x1s I got from the pick-a-brick wall in too!
You didn’t count out all the studs? Illegal build
The Super Mario NES set has a pretty brutal part. The background on the TV has a mechanism to make it scroll so it looks like Mario is moving. Putting that background together is brutal, it's so many 1x1s of all different colors.
Yup…. Done that! I think it was much worse to do that than both the daily bugle and the avengers tower
On top of that you have make the base like a giant chain that connects together so it basically combines two tedious build types in one lol looks great when completed tho
Actually, I had wonderfull time building it, yes it can be a little irritating, but I like the proces. I dont see a point in building with big pieces, so it can be easier. 😅
I agree It was painful
As someone who builds custom LEGO mosaics, I can attest that it requires a certain kind of person and a special kind of patience. After the design work is done and the building has begun, I usually put on a podcast and work an hour at a time, once per day, for several weeks.
Just last night me and my dad shoveled out our neighbor's sidewalk because they have 3 little kids and didn't have time. We didn't expect to get anything in return, but the dad rushed out when we were about 3/4 of the way done and handed me a knock-off Lego M4A1 Sherman tank set that his kids apparently couldn't figure out, and their wife handed my dad a 4-pack of wheat beer. I never would've bought that Sherman with my own money, but I'm enjoying building it, even though it was missing a few pieces that I had to find replacements for from my own collection of loose Lego.
knock off bricks are horrible with their missing pieces and bad instructions! Someone gave my nephew a bucket full of police vehicles, it’s all black and gray pieces! Needless to say most of it is still in the bucket!
@@karens8633 While I won’t disagree with you on the bad instructions, and some of the pieces needed a bit of help from my jaws to properly seat, there were no missing pieces, and everything was nicely bagged 1-4, with smaller pieces in their own bags inside the larger ones, just like a real Lego set. I even finished it in 2 sub 1-hour building sessions, and I'm decently pleased with the result. It's no Brickmania kit, but it's decent enough. The minifigures even have working knees, leg and back printing, and their shoulders actually have 2 separate joints, allowing them to swing out to the side in addition to how a genuine minifig's arms move.
helping others is great and often pays out... ooor not =)
I was thrilled I didn't make an error on The Starry Night. The bulk of the sky is rather challenging because of how similar the different blues appear in the book
I received the Starry Night set for Christmas, and exactly 40 pages of the instructions were each individual layer of tiles for the background. I still had a lot of fun building it though
I have stalled at the bckground of single tiles with Starry Night
Yeah, I have the set too. My fingers hurt every-time no about the building process
I think its just a skill issue
The Lego Architect Empire State Building has got to be the most grueling build that I’ve done, where I had to attach 684 of the tan 1x2 pieces to the outside of the building
For repetitive id say the green hill zone ideas set is repetitve due to all the 1x1 plates being stacked in groups of 2 and checkered, but its worth it in the end
My first 18+ Lego set and my fingers felt a lot of pain
You made me remember the pain
I just got this set for Christmas and I totally agree.
I see you haven't seen the instructions for the microscale big Hogwarts castle (71043). The entire rock part is one giant "spot the difference" game, since the instructions don't highlight new pieces and it uses 3 very similar (especially under artificial light) tones of tiny bricks.
Yeah, that was really frustrating! I've built enough sets to know what extra pieces to expect, so imagine my surprise when I see 3 more cheese slopes than I was expecting...
The Lego Orchid set was one of the most tedious that I dealt with so far. The steps where you have to make the petals with forks and shields really require some dexterity to do.
The Lego Pyramid of Giza was fun to build. You'd think the exterior of the pyramid would be mind numbing, but something about seeing the progress being made was pretty cool to see one level at a time. Definitely felt for the Dagobah set though, having planted many a tree and bush along the Nile in the earlier bags of the set.
I just looked at the Pyramid set and I love that it actually resembles what they think it looked like when it was built.
Imagine you’re carrying your Ship in a bottle set across the house and u slip on a banana, there goes your 284 1 by 1 round studs all over your floor. 🤣🤣
thankfully my brothers and I have come to an agreement. any Lego set that is huge and overly repetitive we will work together to build them.
I'm kind of surprised how many Lego sets have loose bricks in them. I was made aware of the ship in a bottle set only after completing the Lego Bonsai set, which has a bunch of flat round brown studs in different shades to represent the dirt surrounding the roots of the tree. More recently, and after being made aware of the ship in a bottle set, I assembled an iris set, which also has a single withered root sticking out of the pot along with multiple different brown pieces to represent dirt. I will say, both are very nice looking sets. Almost got a rose bouquet, but someone got to it before I could, and I didn't have my own vase to set it up in.
@4:54 "The final result is more than worth the effort" is the entire point.
269 pane glass windows?! I still haven’t built Avengers tower yet but thanks for telling me that doing that might be a nightmare! 😂
As someone who despises repetitive steps, the Avengers Tower never stood out to me as having any. Maybe it's the way they break up window construction and placement with floor and set dressing construction, but I kind of got excited each time I got to build and place more windows.
It's a really cool set, but I think what dissuades me more than 270 windows is the fact it's *five hundred dollars*
That's a perfectly fair consideration, it doesn't come cheap! @@TekuTaurus
At least the sound of putting the glass pane in the window frame is satisfying
Having built the Architecture Taj Mahal, I can confirm *everything* that you said. It is indeed magnificent, but those 33 "checkerboards" are indeed repetitive. I still highly recommend the set though.
My Imperial Star Destroyer set, the 10030 one, without the minifigures, has a nasty part, requiring you to prefabricate the same piece over and over again to line the ship's sides.
It probably doesn't compare to the steps mentioned in this video, but assembling and attaching the mechanism for folding the wheels into the car on the delorean was very finicky and took a bit of messing around with where the gears meshed for it to work right. The end result is seriously cool and makes it worth it.
In Lego set 10323 step 158, it asks you to put together a set of technic pieces a total of 64 times. When I was building this set, that step alone took me a bout half an hour
And it's so late in the set so it sucks so much more doing it in one sitting
> Buy detailed Lego set. > Don’t want to do detailed work. 🤷 lol
5:14 "There's one section of it that made every builder groan". Speak for yourself. I enjoyed this part just as much as the rest of the build. It looks amazing and was fun using the "straight edge" trick to get them all lined up.
The bonsei tree while relatively simply has some of the hardest to make out instructions ive ever seen on a lego set. Everything is brown on brown and unless you have a bright light shining directly on it Everything blends together
I agree with you on the Eiffel Tower. I was about to throw it out the window 😂
Bro my set broke because I was playing with my cat too close to it. Happened months ago and I still haven’t gotten around to rebuilding it…
The Lego ideas Pac man has a step where you have to put together 64 little poles with 124 black technic pins and 64 beige poles
9:00 That meme is actually hilarious. x)
Lol
One painful part of a build was the lego stratocaster guitar. I don't remember which step number it was but you have to wind the strings up but they're only attached to a 1x1 stud so the studs easily full off so you have to redo them, not to mention the strings don't sit perfectly on the fretboard
For tedious builds, the Lego Bonsai cherry blossom variant was quite tedious. There were about a hundred pale pink frogs to place, and the leaves you had to assemble were all practically identical.
The green leaves were worse, they made you put the leaf pieces on them after the branches were connected to the tree and you had to analyze the book to figure out how to place them
I enjoyed building Rivendell's roof, straightening the pieces was really satisfying. It's not as tedious as it looks.
The bonsai tree has a step where you pour 450 total 1 x 1 round pcs into the plant holder that the actual tree is in
assembling the cherry blossoms with all those pink frogs and flowers is also a pain
The NASA Discovery Space Shuttle where you have to place all the shiny chrome stickers! Edit: The Colosseum set’s approximately100 bags of beige (including the mini bags inside the main bag) was the pain to build.
Oh I hated placing those chrome stickers💀
If Lego sets have stickers, they should come with tweezers.
I didnt really care about the tediousness of those stickers...but I dont have the steady surgical firm hand to place stickers in general. As I love space stuff I wanted it to be perfect in the shuttle set and the persevearance mars rover, thats was when the hard part began.😢
8:29 bro I literally was going to assemble this set tomorrow thanks for the heads up😂
If you think its annoying building these sets of buildings, well imagine building a real building. Really makes you appreciate architecture 👌🏻🗿
Don't be a dummy, get friends to help you build!
i remember the white house ideas set being pretty brutal with the windows, lots of 1x1 stacked on top of eachother
im 100% colorblind to green so building the second set was the worst experience of my life
10253 - Big Ben (Expert Creator) Featuring: Literally half the steps just being stacking 1x1 bricks.
These steps make me want to cry
I did the Eiffel Tower with my dad and the X structures were quite a chore! But the set was perfect for 2 people and the result is amazing! :)
I put together that Taj Mahal set yesterday. For that step I just put all the blue plates on the build, then put on all the tan tiles in a checkerboard pattern, then filled in the other studs with all the white ones. It was a little repetitive, but easier than tiling each blue plate individually with tiles from two bags 34 times. Also to make it go faster, when I had to build the same thing multiple times (end of a block of instructions “x4”), I built them all at the same time.
These videos is a breath of fresh (or nostalgia) air I didnt know I needed. Thanks bro!
The 2002 UCS Imperial Star Destroyer has one step that is super tedious. Step 19 on pages 24 and 25, you are tasked with building 18 plates with lots of small greebling elements that take a long time to put together. And at the very end of the step, you are tasked with going back to the very start of the instructions and rebuilding the entire structure again. So in total you have to build 34 plates full of about 270 different greebling elements, along with building two large structures that hold the model together. It takes such a long time.
I loved the avengers tower windows! Its so satisfying to snap the windowglass in
I found that ship in a bottle set brand new at a yard sale for a dollar The batch size makes that count a bit less frustrating
Putting together repetitive tiles reminds me of building model tanks: Put 2 wheels together with a hub, along with a torsion bar- now do it 12 times. These kind of steps you do and then build the rest the next day lol
The Rivendell roof was actually fun, it was so satisfying using a bigger piece to line everything up. Honestly the gazebo was the worst part of the set, the roof was fun
I have the Ship in a Bottle and the water studs is the least tedious LEGO instruction in history. They come in their own bag and you just dump the whole thing in. The most tedious set I've built has been the Globe. Specifically the arm and the outer plates. So much repetition for those parts. The inner workings and final build are really cool, though.
I loved building the Rivendell roof. It’s so pretty and there’s enough of a pattern that it didn’t feel monotonous.
1:30 same thing can be said about Lego set 10315, the water pieces have to be placed in a certain orientation
The older White House set has you stack white and black 1x1s totaling like 121 pieces just for windows
Building the McLaren F1 car was tedious and annoying most of the time. My poor fingers. But the end result is amazing
The colosseum set is a repetitive nightmare lmao, it's all in segments and each segment is slightly different from the surrounding ones. Great set thought lmao
That pain from the captain America shield where you need to build lots of plates
I have a tedious intsruction: the Lego Ideas Fender Stratocaster has an amp that calls for 86 grill plates on the front.
The Sonic set I got was pretty tedius with that checkerboard pattern along with the Home Alone house with all those windows, plus the stickers on the van that really needed to line up perfect to look right.
Lego UCS Sandcrawler 75059 has similar tedious instructions with the tracks. There are 4 sets of two tank tracks that need to be assembled at 38x for each side (76 per track), for a total of 302 tank tread pieces that need to be connected.
I will never forget the finger crushing pain of the Sonic Ideas set. So so so many 1x1 pairs to make 2 plate stacks to get the proper look but it is so painful and tedious.
The carousel/merry-go-round set suffers from a similar problem to the Eiffel Tower. Mostly very repetitive steps when it came to building it. The orchid’s flowers were tricky too.
As much as I loved building it, the Mos Eisley Cantina set has a step that is done probably 20 times throughout the build using a 2x1 plate, 2 studs, and 2 1x1 plates to make custom bricks that are textured. The tedium comes from those steps and the astounding amount of beige in that set. Again.... I loved it. Just making that one brick so many times for texture got really old 😂
"This lego degobah set is tedious" The lego degobah set: "Do it or do not, there is no try"
Lego Empire State Building requires a lot of these yellow 2x1 striped piece
When I was building the ship in a bottle set I wheezed incredibly loud when I saw that step lmao
8:41 when I was little my favourite part was adding the ✨STICKERS✨ Problem is I never got them perfect 💀
If you want tedious steps the water for any of the Lego Ninjago City sets
I don’t see any of these as problems. The tedium you describe is exactly what I love about LEGOs.
90's and early 2000's was peak Lego. System/City and Technic were amazing.
The pyramid of Giza definitely deserves a mention
The red rollercoaster killed my thumbs building the stilts
8:30 - I bought that set and assembled it last week. I wasn't a fan of all the stickers in that set, but it was still fun overall.
The Great Wave has you place SO MANY 1x1 round title pieces, I hated it but it's worth it
The bonsai tree is pretty when it's done but making the cherry blossom one and putting all the frogs on the leaves killed me
Ironically bonsai trees are all about patience
The Globe is super tedious. Built it once and now I'm building it again lmao. My fingers won't like me. So many repeating steps as well as tiny pieces. Definitely worth mentioning it
Lego NES has a scrolling screen with 100s of individual tiles taking a long time
Making the side panels with all the portholes for the Titanic definitely drove me a bit insane
And I’m actually excited about all those steps. I would love to build one of those bigger sets. Sounds fun to me!!!
"Bags 19-32. . ." THIRTY TWO? AND THAT'S JUST THE BASE!?
While Speed Champions might be my favorite line, the stickers absolutely make me wish it wasn't
Of all the sets I own, I found applying the solar panel decals on the inside of the cargo bay doors on the Space Shuttle Discovery to be the most tedious step.
On that Taj Mahal set, a pro strat might be to flip all the small 1x1 tiles over, assemble them in the checkerboard pattern, and then press the 2x3 blue plate on to them upside down. This way you're pressing 33 plates down rather than pressing 198 tiles on plates.
When doing a set where I expect it's going to get me to do the same thing, or the same thing mirrored, I look ahead a confirm and then build both bits together. That feels way more productive and less repetitive. .
I did the Rivendell set in one sitting. Took approx. 12 hours. My hand was cramped for 3 days afterwards. And the roof took the longest out of any single stage.
This reminds me of a cartoon that appeared in a church magazine when I was a kid. A Christmas day scene, two friends are opening their presents. One of them has a construction kit, and his mate is reading the instructions; F: _I think this is going to be a tough kit to assemble._ P: _What makes you say that?_ F: _The first instruction is to _*_say a prayer!_* 🙏🤣 Mind you; I'm not really into Lego anymore...But the way you describe the _Eiffel Tower_ set, I think I'd probably have more fun trying to re-build the real thing! 🗼🇫🇷😁
Not the most recent one, but I got one of the ATAT sets some years back, and putting together 4 of the same exact legs was pretty brutal. nowhere near as bad as the things in this video, but for me I could barely stand it. I hate doing repetitive building. I love the set though. I plan on getting the newer UCS ATAT soon, thats gonna be fun to build... (the legs).
The old steps were mind blowing and made me feel smart when I succeeded
I think that Dagobah set might look better with some round 2x2s on that green layer, in addition to being a bit less tedious.
The Lego Ideas Sonic set is also a good contender since you have to build the checkerboard pattern of the ground using several 1x1 tiles to get the proper square look
The daily bugle set has the most flimsiest design of any lego set created. The individual struts of the walls do not line up perfectly so trying to put the piece on top of them to hold them together is a nightmare. The window pieces will also just fall apart if someone even breathes on them
Putting together the leaves on the treehouse set was super tedious for me. Sliding the little sprout pieces in really hurt the thumbs
The LEGO chess set definitely would fit right into these. You have to assemble the whole board, which is repetitive black and white tiles, the sides are painful single studs and then you have to build all 32 of the pieces, 16 of which are the exact same pattern.
The Lego Saturn V was a little unpleasant because of how many steps were 4x. Might have been the only tedious set I’ve built, though building a full set of all 4 of the Beatles art sets was also a bit time consuming
the white house windows and columns drove me absolutely nuts!
Oh my. The Lego Maersk ship, has TONS of tiny maersk stickers for the containers on the ship, that’s terrible!
I've had worse. First UCS Imperial Star Destroyer had one step that was a pain. And keep in mind this was BEFORE Lego started organizing all the bags. Back then it was a bunch of random bags thrown together, no organization whatsoever.
Love watching these videos. Always find new sets that I want.