LEGO with Friends: The Excavator, Episode 1
To kick off the new season of LEGO with Friends, we’re starting an ambitious Technic build! Adam, Simone, and Norm break open the box and start sorting through the 3,900 pieces of this Bucket Wheel Excavator set!
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Yeah! Happy that this is back.
“every month” EVERY MONTH? 😀
Wow, crinkle overload with the bags lol
Oh boy… this might be the little tussock that topples the big wagonload over and over again… I mean I may have to get premium for this.
What a great way to start the week!
There was a really great CNBC episode of a show on the LEGO business and factory. It was absolutely as incredible as you would imagine. Try and find that, it’s great! It’s an impressive feat of low tolerances and automation.
I’m very red-green color blind, aka Color Vision Deficient (it spills over into other parts of the color spectrum too) – I’ve never had a problem with Lego though but it’s been a while since building a set. I guess it depends on the set and colors used in them really and the proximity of the colors to other colors. So – yeah it depends but not usually 😉
Just like with Simone’s creations, Lego with Friends isn’t about efficiency or the actual build – as she quickly realized herself 🙂
YES!!! Thank you for bringing this back!
So happy to see LwF is back!
One day build suggestion: Lego knolling trays?
Hey Tested, here’s a question: With LEGO breaking sub-assemblies into easy-to-find bags of a smaller numbers of pieces, does knolling really save any time at all? I would love to see a comparison build: knolling vs. opening the bags one at a time and building as you go.
Hrm… I can’t edit my comment for some reason. To expand on the Lego knolling tray suggestion, how about modular knolling trays, like Sortimo boxes, i.e., different sized bins. Might be better if they’re shallower than Sortimo bins though because they are a bit fiddly to fish small parts out of!
I looked at this. But then decided for a simpler one. I have plans for it later, if I ever get the time 🙂 But of course I built it already. Yes I knolled all the pieces 🙂
Thank you for bringing Lego with Friends back!
Also, Norm’s middle name. I’m guessing Archibald. Who guesses right wins that excavator kit, right?
Thanks Guys! Keep Building. This is for Simone…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imndXBPoFKw
Thanks for bringing this back! Can you please consider inviting back Bonnie Burton ? and Patrick Norton ? And Trace Dominguez?
you’ll definitely be seeing some familiar faces in the future, but we’re also going to try to get some new people on that we’re fans of for this series. who would you like to see?
I wanna know what Adam drinks so much, looks like special bottles of… stuff. 🙂 Great seeing this one back!
I think it might be Snapple, if we’re talking about age appropriate drinks..
As a small child, I thought that the age range on Lego sets was enforced at the store (much in the same way that Tobacco and Alcohol age limits are enforced).
I’m so drunk.
Tip, in lieu of covering the tables with felt:
Fold over the top edge of some masking tape and wrap it around the table to prevent things from rolling off. Cheap, and easily removeable.
I build my Lego in plates, tubs, and trays so I don’t lose anything.
There are a few of those near my home town, used to mine coal! Not the biggest but nevertheless pretty large!
I’m kinda surprised that they didn’t build the new set to be more lego friendly.
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Man! Always making fun of the “Steves”
Signed.
A Steve
I’m sorry to disappoint you Norm, but LEGO can be wrong. I bought the Mini Cooper, set 10242, and I got the wrong windshield. LEGO customer support is awesome though, and sent me the correct ones for free without asking for any kind of proof.
It’s latin, prosit -> pro sit -> for you benefit.
Although I’ve always heard it explained as “for your health”.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prosit
Adam – on ‘balls out’; it’s more likely to be from the governors on steam engines. Same mechanical principle, but where the operator might *choose* to run the machine harder, until the governor is balls-out or balls-to-the-wall.
Can you please put a piece of tape over the crack between the two tables! something is going to fall between them!
Simone, I loved your vine idea!!!
https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Brickumentary-Jason-Bateman/dp/B0132TGPKE/
Let’s do a little informal “time and motion study” on this. 🙂
It seems to me that having one person assigned to knolling makes no sense, since the knolling needs to be already done, in order for a “feeder” to supply the needed parts to the builder in a timely and efficient manner. Better for the whole team to do the knolling together, so that nobody is idle and everybody becomes familiar with all the different pieces that are part of the build. (This will also tend to highlight pieces that look deceptively similar but aren’t.)
The feeder should be one step ahead on the builder and have the required pieces for the assembly step ready ahead of time, so that the builder doesn’t need to stop and awkwardly describe what they need next. (“One of those short grey things with the thing on its thing.”) This makes having two feeders actually a good idea: one of them can study the next step and collect the needed parts from the knolled field, while the other is busy supplying the builder with the parts that they collected during the last step. That’s what Norm attempts to institute at about 3/4 into the video, but since you are all in a line for purposes of filming, that makes switching off between two feeders awkward – as depicted in the video. 🙂
Alternatively, one person can be a dedicated “collector” who always collects the pieces for the next step, then passes the group on to the feeder who puts them in order and hands them to the builder at the right time.
Having someone as the builder who won’t get impatient and start grabbing his own parts from the knolled field would also help – i.e. not Adam. 😉
thanks for responding. i would love to see any of the folks featured in recent videos on a lego build!
also…this is a long shot but… Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society is a huge lego fan and a maker.
This workflow does not seem too efficient 😛
I love how Simone is low-key trolling the guys.
“Okay, obviously not that interesting…”
Would love to do a lego build with all of them. been building lego since i was very young and i am now 22 and am not giving it up anytime soon. As Adam says that cardboard is the gateway drug to making lego was that for me. It introduced me to think in 3d space and thanks to people like adam and nathan sawaya i am studying to become an artist as a career
2:55 “Adam has a knife.”
And why don’t you? Gibbs rule number nine. Always carry a knife. The only time not to would be on an airplane and I’m personally of the Archie Bunker school of thought on that one.
I’d like to see Hakeem Oluseyi on to discuss astrophysics and how he learned to code without even realizing it.
Adam , The expression “Balls to the wall” refers to a cylinder placed around the flyweights of a governor to prevent the balls from going full out, which would raise the pilot valve (pressure relief) as far as it was designed. This allows the boiler pressure to be higher which allows the engine to run faster….and risk exploding it of course. It relates to steam locomotives as I recall. My professor at Embry-Riddle also taught us to remember when we were on the beach during spring break in “overdrive” that our pilot valves would be “up” as a means to remember prop governor operation. LOL
do-hickey, thingamabob…
are all metasyntactic variables… which I think sounds better than all the instances 🙂
LWF FTW !!
Always enjoy watching these builds 🙂
World like to see Wil weaton and Bill prady do these LEGO builds
Creeeeeeepy fiiiiig….
It was nice when the first episode of each of these series was free / non-premium content.
30:17 careful Adam, your German is showing! lol
Up here in Oregon we have a store that just Lego. I don’t think it’s an official store though it’s called
Bricks and Minifigs
bricksandminifigs.com
Hope you will have Will Smith on too.
Nobody does Lego like Will.
Is there a noise gate on the microphones. It seems like there’s no ambient background noise which makes it a little odd to listen to when you are on headphones. You get dialogue and then nothing which is kind of harsh to listen to.
Do a risk lets play.
I was under the impression that “balls out” was from steam engines?
Allways cool to See Adam Build things 🙂
I love how Simone in this episode is more or less the sister of two geeky boys who love their LEGO and she is just trying to pass the time with silly jokes that neither of them are paying any attention to because LEGO! The dynamics of the three are adorable. Can’t wait to watch more!
Norm, is there any chance Tested could send me an email to remind me that their is cool premium stuff waiting for me to watch? I always forget and then come back to find this kind of great stuff.
I work at a mine and we have 3 of these. We call them Dredgers. And they are massive. Adam isn’t wrong when he mentions how big they are.
same for me, although the first time they just sent me the wrong ones again. Had missing parts several times, but they always sent them after asking.
Don’t take knolling away from Norm you might break him.
He even invented a word for it.
This is awesome!!
I remeber they once had to cut half of there piece database because they had to many pieces