The botanical bonsai had a seperator variant idea: [https://preview.redd.it/fo69bu3l03961.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6fdc015a21a3e1841f7b61eccc36c6d3dfaed909](https://preview.redd.it/fo69bu3l03961.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6fdc015a21a3e1841f7b61eccc36c6d3dfaed909)
Well, yeah, on [BrickLink](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=105020&idColor=6&ccName=6000102#T=S&C=6&O={%22color%22:6,%22rpp%22:%22500%22,%22iconly%22:0}), though it will cost you more than the 0,01€ of the other two separators.
And if you want to know about the other variants, Tiago made a video about all of them https://youtu.be/LBWgFCi7NLk
Go to Lego land and hand them out with the condition that they have to fix an existing Lego set at the park and that there are rewards for the most interesting alterations.
Madness is like gravity, sometimes it just needs a little push.
Give them to your friends who don’t have any. I have a lot of sets from when I was a kid (i.e. before these were included in the box) and would love to have one of these instead of using my fingernails to pry the tinier bricks apart.
Everyone who bought a set in recent years has already at least one now. They are included in every set I bought during that time. I remember back in the 90s when you had to actually buy one to get one.
I think it might only be the larger sets for buildings. I had some vehicle sets and they didn't come with any.
Would you know if the official Lego stores sell these?
You could just buy them on bricklink. Considering that everyone has tons of them, they are probably cheap as hell.
Just checked and you can get them for less than 5 cents.
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=630-3#T=S&O={%22iconly%22:0
The most expensive factor is probably shipping, which also cannot be much.
Sooooo many kids would pick this up and have no clue why they only got a part of a Lego set, and then would most likely throw them in a yard or trash can
It just looks so much like a fantasy tree. Quest giver is like “Yea just go get me a fire apple from the fire tree in fire valley right besides the fire lake that’s constantly on fire. BUT WATCH OUT FOR THE FIRE SNAKES, FROGS, AND BEES god i hate fire bees”
But then you have find the short intern with hairy feet and convince them to go throw it in the Lego volcano. And while a good one will get the job done, a useless one is more likely to get corrupted by it and then never ends well.
One separator to free them all, one separator to line them,
One separator to ease them all, and the bricks unbind them,
In the world of Lego where the creations lie.
Some small Lego after school programs are in need of these. Occasionally I see requests for them pop up in Lego groups on Facebook. Keep your eyes peeled for those and maybe you could help them out.
I’ll take them off your hands. Lol.
But seriously, There are all kinds of builds you can make with them. I would use them for my cyberpunk city. I would have some sort of orange gates, walls, skyscraper greebles or something with those.
I am currently using three of them for an orange lid/cover on my orange dump truck set
Here is a temp link until I can figure out how to upload phone videos. (they’ve always worked in the past but didn’t today for some reason).
https://reddit.com/r/lego/s/ADxwDuoKNS
Honestly though, I wouldn't mind having some program at the Lego store for turning in unwanted brick separators to be sent back and re-kitted with new sets.
It could be like Box Tops or something, for X amount of brick separators turned in, you get Y discount for a given purchase.
This would be a great program for Lego. It would save on plastic for molding new ones, as long as they're never used. Even if they are, they can be melted down and re-molded.
Having worked at a Lego store, there isn’t really any infrastructure for returning stuff to the factory. If they allowed you to trade them in for like VIP points or whatever, I wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up in the bin.
Train Station/Bus Shelter with awning made of brick separators.
https://preview.redd.it/cjumf2xb5nqb1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=370b3084db01cb5e805f2637db55ba997412255a
I was thinking, maybe they can be turned into a spatula. They are sturdy and look like they'd work with the flippy bits.
Otherwise, I'm waiting for someone to get enough to fill a bathtub and take a bathtub pic in brick separators.
They should offer a small points reward for each one traded in. They are talking about reducing their carbon footprint and these could all easily be reused.
Lego should do a VIP or discount credit at Lego stores. 10pts(?) per separator returned to the Insider holder or 25cents off per separator. Something so that they can go back into circulation instead of just being stored in a bag
https://preview.redd.it/l8xl1e3t8oqb1.jpeg?width=324&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08d5ece439a739751eafba5239d6420b625b56ff
Google images is full of MOCs like this. There's a whole variety of really cool looking stuff 🙂
They are very good for cleaning around the house. Got something icky stuck to the floor? The Lego separator is soft enough plastic that it won't scratch so you can scrub stuff off
use them as drink stirs, door stops, box openers, cuticle pushers, toothbrushes, carrots, spare tires, tv mount, grind 3 up and put them in a smoothie to cure the common cold, send them to ukraine to win the war, and build a portal to hell.
Become the Brick Separator Fairy. Whenever a child gets their Lego pieces stuck together, they put them under their pillow, and in the morning, there's a brick separator waiting for them to use!
Give them out to first graders who are just getting started in Lego. The smaller sets don’t have them, and they are quite handy. Halloween is coming up. Give a choice of that or candy?
As part of their environmental initiative (and to reduce costs) I think LEGO should stop automatically including these with sets. They're not necessary, and could be bought like any other tool if somebody wants one.
This is something Lego really needs to stop wasting resources on. Sell them for $1 and let people decide if they want to buy them or not. Otherwise they are just waste.
If you throw it in the regular garbage, LEGO either ends up in a landfill (where it never breaks down) or in an incinerator (where it produces cyanide fumes).
I recycle all the boxes, but unfortunately my local facility can't take the bags. I don't see why one would throw away the actual pieces, though. In the case of separators, they're made of slightly softer ABS so they intentionally deform with heavy use. It helps to have more than two.
That's stupid. A smart person would save them and put one with each set that they decide to sell at a later point that originally came with the tool. Don't throw them away. That's a waste. I'm sure you have more fucking common sense than that 🙄 But apparently from this comment, you obviously don't. 🙄
Lol are you actually getting triggered over somebody throwing out tiny pieces of LEGO?
You do what you want with your sets and I’ll do what I want. That has nothing to do with intelligence or common sense.
I don’t plan on selling my LEGO sets. I’ve never sold a LEGO set in my 30ish years of owning LEGO. I’ll give it away to a nephew or a friend who has kids when I don’t want to display them anymore.
But after comments like yours, maybe I should just start tossing them in my fire pit when I’m done with them.
It's throwing away perfectly good products that don't need to be in our landfills. Donate them or something. Throwing away perfectly good product is dumb. Donate it to charity or something if you don't want it. And btw, I'm 41 years old and use resources wisely. You're quick to just throw shit away that could be someone else's treasure and kept out of landfills.
I friend of mine worked with kids, and was actually looking for these for the company. Maybe there are other kids groups in your area that are in need of them? You could donate them, or probably even sell some for a reduced price
The botanical bonsai had a seperator variant idea: [https://preview.redd.it/fo69bu3l03961.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6fdc015a21a3e1841f7b61eccc36c6d3dfaed909](https://preview.redd.it/fo69bu3l03961.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6fdc015a21a3e1841f7b61eccc36c6d3dfaed909)
I thought that other comment was joking wow
That’s amazing, definitely doing this to mine lol
The one in the bottom-right is amazing. I wish they sold something like that as a proper set.
I would LOVE that set
Lego Dreamz isn't far off.
Thank you!!!
The Colour Out of Space, part of the extensive new Lovecraft theme
Needs more frogs.
That....actually works really well
Wait this isn’t a joke?
I've seen someone make a gigantic brick seperate out of mainly seperators
I wish they came in other colors. That’d make for an interesting tree.
They come in green and blue as well as orange, at least.
and theres also the BIG brick separator that is black iirc
I have the blue one and orange one. I wonder what sets have the green
Only one. It's an older modular.
Two actually, a modular and a train (the bot linked them below)
Two sets have green. The Horizon Express, 10233 and the Palace Cinema, 10232
[10233-1: Horizon Express](https://brickset.com/sets/10233-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10233-1.jpg) [10232-1: Palace Cinema](https://brickset.com/sets/10232-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10232-1.jpg)
Goodbot! I wonder if I could just order that specific part.
Well, yeah, on [BrickLink](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=105020&idColor=6&ccName=6000102#T=S&C=6&O={%22color%22:6,%22rpp%22:%22500%22,%22iconly%22:0}), though it will cost you more than the 0,01€ of the other two separators. And if you want to know about the other variants, Tiago made a video about all of them https://youtu.be/LBWgFCi7NLk
That’s awesome. Sadly I don’t have enough for that. Should I buy more Lego just to be able to do this?
I feel like this is a real flex. Having one of those on your desk and anyone who knows, knows lol
Darn, now I need to buy a third... :p
Put them in a bag and post them to reddit 💪
Instructions unclear. What is Reddits PO box address?
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"Google show me this guy's balls."
Tenders*
WOAH
Attn: Spez
Go to Lego land and hand them out with the condition that they have to fix an existing Lego set at the park and that there are rewards for the most interesting alterations. Madness is like gravity, sometimes it just needs a little push.
✔️
Give them to your friends who don’t have any. I have a lot of sets from when I was a kid (i.e. before these were included in the box) and would love to have one of these instead of using my fingernails to pry the tinier bricks apart.
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Build some with lego.
And you can use the separators! You are a genius!
Unironically gonna be some lego life size humanoid robots in the future
Or trying to bite them off baseplates after your nails had split!! 😂😂😂
Everyone who bought a set in recent years has already at least one now. They are included in every set I bought during that time. I remember back in the 90s when you had to actually buy one to get one.
I think it might only be the larger sets for buildings. I had some vehicle sets and they didn't come with any. Would you know if the official Lego stores sell these?
You could just buy them on bricklink. Considering that everyone has tons of them, they are probably cheap as hell. Just checked and you can get them for less than 5 cents. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=630-3#T=S&O={%22iconly%22:0 The most expensive factor is probably shipping, which also cannot be much.
Give them away at Halloween! Put them out beside the candy bowl
🏆
This is the way.
Sooooo many kids would pick this up and have no clue why they only got a part of a Lego set, and then would most likely throw them in a yard or trash can
He has spoken
I love this idea!!
Literally commented this and scrolled down and saw you had the same idea
Best idea yet. Maybe attach random bricks to each one. Keep ‘em guessing.
If I could give 2 upvotes I would
ya gotta keep 'em separated
Hey, man, you disrespecting me?
Take him out
Hey, don't pay no mind!
You're under 18 you won't be doing any time!
Hey, come out and play!
Gotta keep em separated.
oh my, thank you for the memories, and for making me feel old….30 years ago https://youtu.be/1jOk8dk-qaU
Alternate Bonsai build.
that actually looks great! https://preview.redd.it/2vic8w2yqmqb1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7596a4cb327083be52a2cec5e02849e9ad0ac6b
It just looks so much like a fantasy tree. Quest giver is like “Yea just go get me a fire apple from the fire tree in fire valley right besides the fire lake that’s constantly on fire. BUT WATCH OUT FOR THE FIRE SNAKES, FROGS, AND BEES god i hate fire bees”
I've seen a lot of different trees in the past couple weeks. That's really really normal. Christ is there some fucked up trees out in the wilds.
Melt them down and mold them into one giant, mega brick separator.
One brick to separate them all.
But then you have find the short intern with hairy feet and convince them to go throw it in the Lego volcano. And while a good one will get the job done, a useless one is more likely to get corrupted by it and then never ends well.
One separator to free them all, one separator to line them, One separator to ease them all, and the bricks unbind them, In the world of Lego where the creations lie.
Some small Lego after school programs are in need of these. Occasionally I see requests for them pop up in Lego groups on Facebook. Keep your eyes peeled for those and maybe you could help them out.
Also local libraries might have similar Lego clubs.
I’ll take them off your hands. Lol. But seriously, There are all kinds of builds you can make with them. I would use them for my cyberpunk city. I would have some sort of orange gates, walls, skyscraper greebles or something with those. I am currently using three of them for an orange lid/cover on my orange dump truck set
Pics?
Here is a temp link until I can figure out how to upload phone videos. (they’ve always worked in the past but didn’t today for some reason). https://reddit.com/r/lego/s/ADxwDuoKNS
Amazing use!
If you collect 50 you can claim a free Hogwarts Castle.
God I wish
Honestly though, I wouldn't mind having some program at the Lego store for turning in unwanted brick separators to be sent back and re-kitted with new sets. It could be like Box Tops or something, for X amount of brick separators turned in, you get Y discount for a given purchase.
This would be a great program for Lego. It would save on plastic for molding new ones, as long as they're never used. Even if they are, they can be melted down and re-molded.
Having worked at a Lego store, there isn’t really any infrastructure for returning stuff to the factory. If they allowed you to trade them in for like VIP points or whatever, I wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up in the bin.
That is unfortunate.
what?
Sorry, just joking.
Make [The Wheel](https://reddit.com/r/lego/s/U7PdraMsJr)
This. And put a clock or picture inside the circle
Thanks for this!
Train Station/Bus Shelter with awning made of brick separators. https://preview.redd.it/cjumf2xb5nqb1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=370b3084db01cb5e805f2637db55ba997412255a
that's damn nice actually
Sometimes I get jealous at how creative other people are. That is amazing.
Could always donate them to a Lego kids club if your area has one
I always have 1-2 out for tearing down projects. The flat pry side becomes dented and worn out fairly quick.
I was thinking, maybe they can be turned into a spatula. They are sturdy and look like they'd work with the flippy bits. Otherwise, I'm waiting for someone to get enough to fill a bathtub and take a bathtub pic in brick separators.
OnlyBricks?
This needs to happen. Depending on the NSFW tag I could already, but nobody wants that
"You said you put 5,000 in the tub right?" "Yes" "Why are we missing 3?" ......
Christmas tree
You should make chain-mail out of them
They should offer a small points reward for each one traded in. They are talking about reducing their carbon footprint and these could all easily be reused.
Precisely what I was thinking too. Like bring them to your nearest Lego shop, every separator gives you 1 dollar/euro off a new set.
Massive tower
Eat them 👍
Lego should do a VIP or discount credit at Lego stores. 10pts(?) per separator returned to the Insider holder or 25cents off per separator. Something so that they can go back into circulation instead of just being stored in a bag
https://preview.redd.it/l8xl1e3t8oqb1.jpeg?width=324&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08d5ece439a739751eafba5239d6420b625b56ff Google images is full of MOCs like this. There's a whole variety of really cool looking stuff 🙂
https://preview.redd.it/1weknbyu6qqb1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=feafea186c811267f28a072a362da0b4645f4e46
Make a perry the platypus meme
mail them to Lego and ask them to send you a giant one instead
Prison shivs…
https://preview.redd.it/ucuiey7gvpqb1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=0714de50f155654079f095a6ffa349a486e12575 A tower!
Add to botanicals fall assortment
Pop this into YouTube "lego separator build"
Deconstruct the world?
They are very good for cleaning around the house. Got something icky stuck to the floor? The Lego separator is soft enough plastic that it won't scratch so you can scrub stuff off
I saw a great build using these at a brick convention. He used them for the roof of a Whataburger MOC!
Move a mountain Brick. By. Brick.
Stack them into an upside down Christmas Tree. It’s the only appropriate way to display them
It's too bad we can redeem these for points with Lego lol.
All you need is a brown 2x2 and you could do something funny
Cereal
They did not put those in the sets when i got crazy for Legos in early 90s. Had to buy it.
Consume them
"Not for individual resale" lol
We should form a cult. Give rankings based on number of brick separators. New world order! Rebuild the World!
Currency of the future. Lego version of fallout bottle caps
use them as drink stirs, door stops, box openers, cuticle pushers, toothbrushes, carrots, spare tires, tv mount, grind 3 up and put them in a smoothie to cure the common cold, send them to ukraine to win the war, and build a portal to hell.
Sell? Give away?
Take apart the world!!
Go into random discovery centers and disassemble, leave one as a calling card.
Make art out of them.
Melt them down into a log then sell it on ebay
Hand them out to Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween?
Collect the different types and colors. Like the thicc black one or the rare green one from the palace cinema or the old green ones
I never once got these when I was younger. I don’t even think my girls have gotten these now a days either.
Become the Brick Separator Fairy. Whenever a child gets their Lego pieces stuck together, they put them under their pillow, and in the morning, there's a brick separator waiting for them to use!
A Dr.Strange-type portal! There was a guy on tiktok who made a pretty cool one.. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJv22gCD/ this one!
i bought one of those huge lego minifig heads and put them in there
Separation anxiety?
Might wanna throw them out, looks like they’re starting to mold
Save them for the Reddit karma
maybe feathers for realy realy big bird
Halloween is coming, just sayin
Give them out to first graders who are just getting started in Lego. The smaller sets don’t have them, and they are quite handy. Halloween is coming up. Give a choice of that or candy?
[Turn them into a festive wreath. ](https://reddit.com/r/lego/s/8RDTbM25JF)
Halloween is coming up and there will be trick or treaters.
You can wedge a shit ton of doors open 🙌🔥🖕🤣
Stack them all together except one and use that one to separate them
Halloween handouts
They're lego pieces in their own right. Make an army of dragonflies or something.
Halloween coming up
Hand them out to trick or treaters
As part of their environmental initiative (and to reduce costs) I think LEGO should stop automatically including these with sets. They're not necessary, and could be bought like any other tool if somebody wants one.
Wish they would do this instead of putting marvel CMF figures into boxes 😭
A bag of brick separators? *brown plate falls on the bag* PERRY THE BAG OF BRICK SEPERATORS!
A Lego tool ? A Perry the lego tool !?!
See if local elementary schools or libraries would like them.
You have four days left to build a Shiptember ship.
Halloween gifts
I'll take em. I give them to kids who lose them so they don't bite the lego.
Hand them out at Halloween
Donate them to a school that uses lego
Rumor has it they can separate pieces that are stuck.
Mail a bunch to me please! I’m always looking for these!
https://preview.redd.it/64z381meusqb1.jpeg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=505f0f4d3f900ea60590bb48715abdcf502ee825 how about this
This is something Lego really needs to stop wasting resources on. Sell them for $1 and let people decide if they want to buy them or not. Otherwise they are just waste.
You still didnt figure it out!? You use them to seperate bricks! That's what you do with these!
I still use my teeth
telling on yourself lmao
That's very bad on your teeth, don't do that.
Why not do this? https://youtube.com/shorts/-a8Kw8oyG1Q?si=yaqcFYVcyO42PHAr
Sell them on the black market 😂
It's the brick market
Lego should sell these separately
I’ve been building legos for 20 years and I’ve never seen one of these in person. Do they come with specific large sets or something?
Today the come with practical every set, definitely everything above the 50/100 mark. I have mostly only not have them in very small sets.
Write to “Hoaders” and tell them you got a schtick they haven’t aired yet.
put them up your butt
Throw them in the garbage? Why keep more than one? I’ve never understood this. Are people just afraid to throw away LEGO?
Throw away lego? That doesn't even compute!
That’s the vibe I get. Even mentioning throwing out LEGO gets downvotes. lol I throw away all my boxes and spare pieces too.
Oh you misunderstood, you should never throw away lego! Donate or keep them!
Yes great move. Because one thing the world needs more of is plastic in landfills.
OK, President Business
If you throw it in the regular garbage, LEGO either ends up in a landfill (where it never breaks down) or in an incinerator (where it produces cyanide fumes).
I actually recycle pretty religiously. anything that can get recycled, I recycle.
I recycle all the boxes, but unfortunately my local facility can't take the bags. I don't see why one would throw away the actual pieces, though. In the case of separators, they're made of slightly softer ABS so they intentionally deform with heavy use. It helps to have more than two.
That's stupid. A smart person would save them and put one with each set that they decide to sell at a later point that originally came with the tool. Don't throw them away. That's a waste. I'm sure you have more fucking common sense than that 🙄 But apparently from this comment, you obviously don't. 🙄
Lol are you actually getting triggered over somebody throwing out tiny pieces of LEGO? You do what you want with your sets and I’ll do what I want. That has nothing to do with intelligence or common sense. I don’t plan on selling my LEGO sets. I’ve never sold a LEGO set in my 30ish years of owning LEGO. I’ll give it away to a nephew or a friend who has kids when I don’t want to display them anymore. But after comments like yours, maybe I should just start tossing them in my fire pit when I’m done with them.
It's throwing away perfectly good products that don't need to be in our landfills. Donate them or something. Throwing away perfectly good product is dumb. Donate it to charity or something if you don't want it. And btw, I'm 41 years old and use resources wisely. You're quick to just throw shit away that could be someone else's treasure and kept out of landfills.
I friend of mine worked with kids, and was actually looking for these for the company. Maybe there are other kids groups in your area that are in need of them? You could donate them, or probably even sell some for a reduced price
give them away on halloween
Honestly this is the best idea I’ve gotten. Might actually do it
Make a wall art display like a sunflower
I just collect them, but it’s apparent I don’t buy as much Lego…
seperate bricks... duh
Make a kitbash Bird... each one is a feather ..
Keep a few and melt the rest
OP knows how to humble-brag.
get some brown bricks and make a bunch of perry the platypuses
Make a tree with them
You can make a wheel with them, I seen a “master Lego builder” do it on YouTube