Another helpful tip: if you struggle creatively to develope your own mocs, rebrickable is a great source to purchase mocs of other designers. A lot of them are generally affordable (if they charge at all?!), and best thing is you don't even necessarily need to use a moc from there... sometimes just browsing what other designers have done is a great way to inspire you to come up with your own ideas, taking certain techniques and part usages and applying them to similar concepts. I've rarely built a moc on rebrickable that I haven't found a way to improve upon the original design.

@Heavenly_Fury

8 ай бұрын

Thats why I did went on youtube for FDNY engine MOC instruction took the basic concepts of that made a rescue truck not the Greatest but pretty good for my first and last MOC

@Spooglecraft

8 ай бұрын

yeah, there's some great stuff and sometimes the creators are on youtube as well. it's how i found instructions to turn the executor into an imperial venator and later i swapped some colors to make it a republic venator, which is now sitting between two clone helmets

@AbsolutelyJason

8 ай бұрын

Great point!

Dude, those writing transitions on the paper r insane. Great vid holly

0:54 cat in the hat😱😱😱 banging movie Also this video should have more views it’s really good

Love the Theed MOC

"How to Lego for Dummies" is your funniest recurring series. It's always great to see a new entry!

I LOVED this video!! Your moc is definitely giving me howarts vibes 😭💚

Another excellent video Holly. I saw something in a video from Brick Clicker yesterday. Lego is planning a Star Wars micro fighter (Clone Wars era) that will come with the Captain Rex mini figure that comes with the UCS Venator. That will give people a less expensive way to get Captain Rex.

1:00 WAIT WHAT THE?!?!

Padme's Padmech!!!

1:00💀 bruh

I needed this! super good

Thank you Holly, always great content

Love the video, as with all videos from this channel, thanks Holly

I am so happy to see that this is a seires! This was so inspiring too!

Thanks Holly, this helps. Always wondered how to plan and where to get bricks from when wanting to create MOCs

OMG, you have so many amazing masonry bricks! At my Lego store those are sold out in like 5 mins or less. I am jelly as hell! Love your channel

@HollyOnFilm

8 ай бұрын

I got so lucky, I’d been hunting walls on restock day for weeks and it finally paid off

Love the channel

I appreciate your honesty in admitting you're basically the blind leading the blind. I think its good to keep reminding folks that they are leveling up along with you rather than accidentally acting pretentious and suggesting you are providing advice as some GURU. Keep up the intro disclaimer as you go along. Someday you may well earn your own certified Lego Professional label along with those you are helping out. Kind of makes me wonder if typically "For Dummies" books were written by some random editor or actually authored by folks considered pros in that topic. Just be careful and keep up your transparency about where you are in your journey as you help us along with ours. To be fair, I'm basically at your level too. In awe of those who have time to create their own designs and their approach to lego piece purchasing is VASTLY different than those of us who just buy our pieces that come pre-packaged with instructions.

Great video❤

Excellent beginner's guide to MOC building. I've won a MOC contest once before and have built some vehicle and small creature builds (and one large dragon) but still consider myself a rookie when it comes to MOCs. I want to get more into building structures and large scale MOCs but it's admittedly very daunting in terms of time, effort, planning, and money. That's why I feel that the Star Wars style dioramas present a very good mid-way point in terms of balancing all of those things without breaking the bank or becoming an enormous time and energy sink (where you're facing divorce proceedings from your significant other, lol).

Some other helpfull tips: Buy used lego boxes off ebay, craigslist etc. you are gonna save so much money if the parts are really dirty just throw them in your washing machine at a low temp for like 30mins and they should be clean. This is also very environmentally helpfull. Another tip on how to get parts for cheap is to buy "off brand" bricks. Companies like bluebrixx mould king and some others. Youve gotta be really narrow if you think that only lego does lego sets. Lego is often extremly overpriced and also just greedy so get the competition some grounds to stand on to keep lego in line (yes this point essentially boils down to monopoly bad), but be careful not to buy from companies that essentially steal lego sets or mocs, only lego has certain licenses like starwars or essentially everything disney and bluebrixx for example has the Startrek license. Also their sets are often compatible with lego sets and they also offer the same colors, but you should look it up online to not run into any issues.

0:59 wait hold up

Awesome advice u afe great

Like the glasses! 👍 😁😁😁

The Flat earth moc looks fire🔥

Awesome video! I am inspired! Any thoughts to a building technique video/series? Also, the Cat in the Hat clip got me. Did you say anything!? I died. lol

That was a great pab wall.... I love finding masonry brick of any color. But yeah, parts(and their organization) r very important when it comes to building Lego 😂

Love this, great moc advice and references! Also as soon as you said you wanted to build Theed, it made me think of SkyGuy365’s moc!

My problem with trying to make MOCs is that I never want to disassemble my sets but that’s the only way to get parts.

A good way to ease yourself into MOCing is to modify or ‘mod’ official LEGO sets. You can start with small, superficial alterations and, as your confidence grows, make more substantial changes. If as you go you study how LEGO’s designers achieve what they do, you’ll be well placed to start building from scratch.

love the nod to cheesey studios

Yay holly :) my Lego boxes are on the floor there stacking up not sure we're to put them

You need to learn how to fill your cups more efficiently ;) It takes time but allows you to get much more Lego. Sometimes you build in the cup to fit better.

Some pretty great advice here, but what do you do if you have a crush on the teacher? Asking for a friend…

The one thing that I like to do while building is to watch the movie that inspired me to make what I am making 😊 Like now.. I am binge watching Harry Potter 😂

@AbsolutelyJason

8 ай бұрын

Great idea!

Can you please make a video on how to pay for LEGO. I had to sell my sister for some 2x2 tiles. Please Im getting desprate

Great video, but will you consider putting the instructions for your naboo moc online cause I really like it and would love to build it for myself?

QT! Great tips

I don't find Bricklink difficult at all. Watched a youtube video on how to part out sets and from there on, it was a breeze.

@AbsolutelyJason

8 ай бұрын

I spend a lot of time browsing Bricklink, but I need more practice and need to dive deeper into the other features that are offered.

umm gingerbread mech?? you have to make that!!

Step 1. Sometimes the hardest part😂

1:16 I can’t take anyone seriously when they don’t spell LEGO with all capital letters. 😉 Great video and I think the Naboo build was really nice.

I feel less dumb already

Please make a Video on bricklink

Hey Holly! Yet another excellent vid! I have to be honest, the thumbnail of you with the glasses and hammer is seriously kinda doing it for me!😂😜 By the way, right there with you on Naboo. May the Force be with you!

1:02 where is the conspiracy? 🤔

Another good tip. For geting parts. Buy cheep set s. And keep all the parts. For moc. Builds. And. Keep all the extra parts. From all the sets you buy ..I'm lucky. On geting parts cas a guy from Lego group I in do. Pop up Lego shop and has pic a brick .table s to get lots of great parts. Lego store pab wall not got. 😊.an it's only $15 for big tub. Ful to the top ..😊.

I prefer the inappropriate lego

First

What about the minifigures step?🫣