Category: Creativity

In the last post it seemed that the largest elephant – dad Twight is big. But today’s mammoth is a really mighty animal: Mammoth 39!
Its body length is as much as 39 cm. To give you an idea of its size, one of the photos shows a comparison to a ‘figure’ measure , in this view the built mammoth is 6 ‘figures’ tall.
It was really a lot of work, which is why we recommend such structures to advanced and patient builders. And this is not a hidden subliminal marketing, but a statement of fact. The level of complexity is high, and the construction time is long. But satisfaction after construction – guaranteed!

PS1. Notice that the ‘little’ Mammoth 12 is really cute! Start with it.
PS2. I recommend taking a look at a progenitor of this giant built from many years ago in one of the photos.

What a Giant!

The Giant compared to dad Twight

The Giant measured with a ‘figure’ benchmark

and finally the progenitor of the Giant from many years ago:

Last weekend we built a whole family of elephants with Brikido – take a look at the results in the attached photos!
The family consists of:

• mom Dodosen
• dad Twight
• older son S-Teen
• daughter Dosen, and
• son Teen Junior.

You can play with different Brikido creatures in a similar way!

Or maybe you can even organize a competition – children build brick-children, and adults build brick-parents, whoever finishes the building first – wins! Children have it easier. The most agile children are definitely faster than their parents, so let them build parents from the elephant family. Unless you prefer this competition with mammoths or tigers? You’re free to go!

Please note that in Brikido it is possible to order only one figure in one order. So when ordering, we check whether you declare enough bricks for one given build, and not several at the same time. It is worth keeping this in mind when ordering a group of figures of different sizes, so that you have enough brick to accomplish several constructions at the same time.

Important note: while you start your playing with Brikido, please pay attention to order smaller figures. The complexity and time of building larger buildings increases disproportionately quickly with its size. We also comment on that here.

mom Dodosen

dad Twight

older son S-Teen

daughter Dosen, and

son Teen Junior.

And Parents together:

Children:

I guess all fans of building blocks sometimes have trouble separating some pieces. The problem is most striking especially in case of completely new sets, as intensively used bricks tend to stick to others a little weaker.

By looking at our oldest bricks, we could analyse our dental development, but we do not recommend such solution for separating pieces – and neither does your dentist.

An interesting way to disconnect the blocks is to use a paraphrase of the principle that a bigger problem drives out a smaller problem. Since the problem usually lies in separating couple of plates – attach a brick  to one or both resistant plates and try to separate the stubborn pieces.

Partly that might have been the principle upon the creation of the  so-called by us Mr. Splitter – a special functional piece. 

Everyone has experienced extremely difficult cases to disconnect pieces at some point. Our toughest case is a combination of two blocks:

• PART 11477 Slope Curved 2 x 1 No Studs

with the same, but reversed:

• PART 24201 Slope Curved 2 x 1 Inverted

Just don’t connect these blocks, it’s really difficult to separate them! Mr. Splitter won’t be of any help here.

Ok, but the post was supposed to be about something else – about the creative use of Mr. Splitter and his clones – an example is shown in the photo. In our opinion, brick-worms are Mr. Splitter’s natural environment!

Today we combine two previous posts – ships and organizing bricks.

It turns out that when we have a box of same type bricks on hand, we automatically start building various structures. This time we made fancy ships from bricks of the same color, while the figures we made from elements from another box (“tiny sloped tiles “). We made the ships modular – they can connect with each other, dock next to each other, etc.

And for those who prefer more “organized” ships mada of bricks, we recommend a Brikido construction – a Viking ship, all range of sizes available here!

Aerial view of the battle:

Today we have an inspiring idea for great fun – let’s call it the ‘ships game’.
How about we build a fleet of ships? Container ships, aircraft carriers, destroyers, battleship ships. The rule is simple – ideally the ship is 1, 2 or 3 bricks wide! (However, we also produced some bigger ones.)
The proposed game has many advantages, including: we have a quick effect in the form of an interesting built and an exercise in imagination development.

PS. The recently watched cult movie “Das Boot” was inspiration for this play.

Titanic

Container ship

Aircraft carriers

Battleships