Check out the post linked here from Joshua and John Hanlon related to supporting Creations for Charity in 2021.
15% of the profits from Bricks for Bricks for August through December 2021 supported this great effort. So thank you all for your support!
We were able to give $928 to Creations for Charity through our giving campaign that started in August and ended in November. Thanks to everyone who made purchases from our store so we could be so generous to a great cause!
According to the Creations for Charity site, this year they raised over $35,000! This is awesome! Thank you to everyone who donated whether it was through buying from the site, supporting the Beyond the Brick 24-Hour live stream, or making a purchase from Bricks for Bricks at our Bricklink.com store.
We will announce our next campaign soon. In the meantime, happy building!
It’s another sad day in the LEGO fan community…
I first saw it on Brickset, but it has been reported in multiple places. The UK-based charity called Fairy Bricks was robbed… again!!!
Back in 2017 people busted into their van and took off with a bunch of sets. Here’s an article about the first terrible occurrence. The picture below is from that event. It’s not like someone left it unlocked or was able to break the lock… they just tore open the door with… I don’t know, a crow bar? Goodness! I enjoy LEGO, but not enough to pry open a van and steal the sets inside.
The most recent robbery occurred this past weekend. Thieves apparently cut a hole on the side of the building, busted in, loaded up the van, and drove off with the van and sets. WHAT!?!?!?! That is ridiculous! Come on!!!
The aftermath of the devastation is pictured below. The police are involved and investigating.
If you’re not familiar with Fairy Bricks, they raise funds to buy sets to give to kids in hospitals across Europe. You can visit their site for more details here. They are very active in giving sets during the pandemic as can be seen in the picture below.
As it has taken me a day to get this post out, the situation has unfolded some. The van has been located. YAY! No sets though. All of the sets stolen did not have the charity’s sticker on them so they weren’t marked. A number of LEGO fan sites have posted the update and a list of the sets stolen. You can see Brickset’s article here. Or you can watch a clip from Beyond the Brick below:
Finally, if you are interested in helping them out through this tough time, consider donating. You can donate directly through their site here. The donations are accepted in British Pound Sterling so be aware that you’ll have to pay the exchange rate when making a donation in US Dollars.
I hope and pray for a swift resolution to this situation so they can get back to giving. Thank you to everyone who had helped already and to the LEGO Group who said they are working to replace the sets. Let’s turn this negative situation into a positive one!
Happy building!
I am an American, but I live in Germany right now. The protests here… well there haven’t been any in the part of the country I live in. So as someone living an ocean away, let me start off by saying "thank you” to everyone who has stepped up for what is right. Thanks to those of you peacefully protesting who are making sure our political leaders understand where we stand as a country. Thank you too to all of those who work to keep our country safe. I am appalled at some of the actions of some of our police over the last week and I hope they are the minority. Thanks to those men and women who have stepped up to do what is right. Thanks for letting people peacefully protest, for working to find common ground with those willing to have a conversation, and for protecting those in need when required.
We have a long way to go as a country, but I hope and pray that we can move it in the right direction.
I am saddened to see people who have resorted to violence and looting. On 5 June 2020, Beyond the Brick posted the video below spotlighting a NYC LEGO Brand Store. It is sad to see all of the giant creations next to a damaged store and busted windows. A hobby that I turn to for enjoyment, creativity, and a way to engage with others around the world being hit like this is tough to see. I hope no one was hurt and I hope LEGO can rebuild and get their workers back in place soon.
Thankfully it is not all bad and the AFOL community has had some great responses to what is happening.
One post is an article on the Brick Model Railroader blog. Cale Leiphart, known for some incredible train MOCs, posted on 5 June 2020 about an experience he had traveling to a LEGO Fan event. You can read the full article here. Cale shares an experience of meeting a retired Norfolk Southern employee volunteering at a train museum in Virginia. While Cale and the volunteer had different skin colors, they both had a love of trains (one a fan of LEGO ones while one is a fan of actual trains). They were able to connect and it didn’t matter that they looked different. Definitely a lesson to follow in the United States now.
The Brother’s Brick has a few posts as well…
-One is a highlight of a build for “Black Lives Matter,” an editorial piece, and a conversation in the comments section.
-The other is a brick build of George Floyd and some additional commentary.
Finally, the LEGO Group had this to say on their Twitter feed on 3 June 2020:
No word as to what organizations they are talking about, but a step in the right direction.
I normally end my posts by saying “happy building.” While I echo the same sentiments, I also say “Let’s build a better world.”
Large gatherings of Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOL) are not happening in the COVID world where we need to remain physically distant from each other to not spread our germs. Some Recognized LEGO Fan Media (RLFM) channels have resorted to holding live streams. Many of them are multiple hours long. I don’t watch all of them, but I have check out a few. Mainly I have watched some of the discussions with LEGO® employees. Here are a few you may want to check out or scan through to find useful details.
Beyond the Brick - Streamed 14 April 2020
Interview with Stuart Harris of the LEGO® House
Stuart leaves after two hours and I didn’t watch the last hour, but the first two hours were a good overview of the LEGO® House and what is there. It also goes through Stuart’s history as an employee and some of the builds he has done.
Beyond the Brick - Streamed 12 May 2020
Interview with Alyssa Harrington of LEGO®’s AFOL Engagement Team
I didn’t know this part of the LEGO® Company existed, but I found this conversation interesting to see how the Company engages with AFOLs. She also explains how she was hired and talks about the LEGO Ambassador Network works. The site is definitely worth checking out. Be warned there are a lot of conversations about video games. I skipped a bunch as I’m not interested there.
Beyond the Brick - Streamed 19 May 2020
Interview with JANGBRiCKS
If you’re interested in LEGO Fan YouTubers, this is a good discussion about running a channel and what the current landscape is like.
Lots of extraneous discussion about random topics so depending on your attention span, you may want to skip forward a bit.
Boone Langston has a channel on YouTube.com called Boone Builds. If you don’t know Boone, he was one of the finalists on LEGO Master’s USA Season 1. He has some interviews of AFOLs as well, but I’m highlighting a few videos he has with LEGO® Company employees.
Boone Builds - Streamed 15 May 2020
Interview with LEGO® Company Designers Carl Merriam and Mike Psiaki
A video of the new (at the time) set highlighting #10273-1: Haunted House and reviewing some of the details of the set. Mike and Carl share their humor so you’ll have to deal with some of the banter as well as the LEGO discussions.
Boone Builds - Streamed 22 May 2020
Interview with Jan Beyer Manager of LEGO® Fan Events
A great look at fan events around the world with a lot of behind the scenes pictures.
So there are a few videos you may want to check out. Any others I should highlight? Let me know in the comments or you can email me at store@bricksforbricks.com.
Thanks and happy building!
Full confession… I have never attended a LEGO fan convention before. I have been to a few shows where people display their MOCs, but that’s about it.
I heard about Brickworld Virtual 2020 that was held back in April after the fact and was excited to see it would be held again in May. I registered online and “attended” my first fan convention on 16 May 2020.
A bit of history… Brickworld was started by Bryan Bonahoom and Adam Reed Tucker with its first show back in 2007. Since then it has grown to Brickworld Chicago convention/expo and then expos in Milwaukee, Ft. Wayne, outside of Detroit, and Indianapolis. It was recently purchased by Mark Larson who had the misfortune of buying it during a global pandemic.
Not willing to give up, Mark has put together a virtual convention. You buy a ticket ahead of time and at the time of the convention, you log into your account and can join various ZOOM rooms to see presentations, MOCs, and interact with other fans.
Before I get into my list, if you missed out you can still attend virtual shows on 27 June 2020, 31 October 2020, and 12 December 2020. So you didn’t miss out if this sounds cool.
If you need more persuasion, keep reading…
I don’t live near an English speaking LUG and I don’t have any friends who are AFOLs. My brick interactions are with my kids, with my Non-LEGO Spouse (NLS) who tolerates my obsession, and one sided interactions with Recognized LEGO Fan Media (RLFM). This show was a great opportunity to interact with fans like me and as far as I know, COVID is not transmitted over the internet.
Not going to lie… I was super pumped to be a fan after the “convention.” It’s great to see I’m not the only fan out there.
My ticket to attend was $9. Granted that didn’t include my internet service provider fee, but I pay that regardless so I don’t think it counts.
If I were to go to Brickworld Chicago, I’d have to fly the ~4,300 miles to Chicago, figure out lodging, transportation, food, and be 7 hours off of my normal time. Instead I hooked my NLS’s laptop up to the TV, entertained my kiddos for a bit, had dinner, got my kiddos to bed, and logged back in for more brick fun without spending any funds I wouldn’t have spent on a normal Saturday evening. No complaints from me there.
As a joke, the Brickworld website says parking is $50 per tire. I thankfully parked offsite and avoided that fee.
There were 10 presentations by various experts. The May show included the following:
-Fractals and Functions and Knots, Oh my! with Brian Hirt from LOLUG
-LEGO Vines with Barbara Hoel from WisLUG
-Homeschooling with LEGO bricks with Maddie Jones from VirtuaLUG
-Building LEGO Domes with Peter Strege from EuroBricks
-LEGO® – Community Q&A with Jan Beyer, Community Manager from the LEGO Company
-Train Community Roundtable led by Nate Flood from LOLUG
-LEGO® – My Life in LEGO Bricks with Sam Johnson from the LEGO Company
-Medieval Roofs by David Gregory from IndyLUG
-LEGO® – Build a Tower with Your Bricks by Bo Stjerne Thomsen from LEGO Chair of Learning
-Flexible Surfaces with Barbara Hoel from WisLUG
I wanted to attend most of these, but wanted to see other things too so I missed out on a bunch. My NLS home schools my oldest kiddo (even before COVID) so she attended the homeschooling presentation and got a few ideas for things to do in the future with school. You can see my LEGO based home school day here. I also caught the end of the Community Q&A and the full LEGO® – My Life in LEGO Bricks presentation, but I’ll mention them later. Some good info was shared by many. Thank you to those who presented!
Modular City - Peter Strege
-If you missed the May 2020 Brickworld Virtual, you should check out his Flickr stream. It is here on Flickr. He makes some amazing MOCs to include some impressive building MOCs with cool domes and eye catching color schemes. Definitely take a look!
Bricks in the Middle - Kevin Hinkle
-I missed this one…
Great Ball Contraption (GBC) - Bob Luzenski
-More on this one later…
Star Wars® Creations - Carey Warren/Kevin Wagner
-I couldn’t find the display online that I saw to post a link to, but it was an impressive Tatooine display with the Cantina and creatures outside. I didn’t get to ask any questions because there was an excited young fan peppering the builder with questions. It’s all good. Great work and thanks for displaying!
Harry Potter® Creations - Eric Krans
-I found a clip of Eric’s display online. Go to the 2:45 mark if you don’t want to watch the whole thing to see the Harry Potter display. It’s pretty impressive and includes a lot of moving parts… some of which aren’t shown on the linked video. Thanks for displaying Eric!
Guilds of Historica - Eurobricks
-I didn’t spend too much time in this room, but the people involved in the Guilds of Historica forums in Eurobricks shared some of their builds. They had a schedule over the convention of who shared over which time block. I spent about 10 minutes watching a builder show his stuff. If you want to see more, you can check them out on Eurobricks here or on Flickr here.
Smurfs / Futurama - Kevin Lauer / Matt DeLanoy
-I did not see the Futurama display, but I did see the Smurfs display being shown by Kevin Lauer. I found an older post talking about it on the Brother’s Brick here. I’m not sure how much has changed since this older post, but it was cool to see. I spent most of the time watching it trying to explain to my 6 year old what Smurfs were…
Dragon Bricks & Activities - Alysa Kirkpatrick & Mark Haase
-I didn’t make it to this room…
Art and Mosaics - Abbie and EJ Bocan - AbbieDabbles
-I briefly checked into this room, but they were talking about some custom minifigures that they were selling. I didn’t spend much time here.
Still Life Creations / Blacklight Creations - Barbara Hoel
-I got to spend a few minutes in Barbara’s room when she was showing a blacklight creation. For those of you not familiar with Barbara’s work, you can see her Flickr page here. The display she showed was actually shown by the Beyond the Brick team back in November 2019. You can see that video here on YouTube. I wanted to ask a few questions, but my kiddos were ready to move on at that point. Barbara, I’ll bug you some other time…
Brick 101 - David Pickett
-I didn’t catch this one…
There was one other room and I’m not sure which one on the list it was. The individual was showing off a center build while explaining how to build various things. My kiddos were around when I went into the room and they didn’t find it interesting so we moved on. I would have liked to have watched for a bit to see if I could learn any good building techniques.
I think the LEGO Company has done a great job getting its employees out and about to interact with the fan community. With the pandemic, they’ve been doing lots of live streams and interviews with the RLFM teams around the globe so we get to hear about the company straight from the source. Brickworld Virtual had multiple LEGO Company employees present, but I only caught part of one session and then a full session of another. The first one I watched was of Jan Beyer.
Jan is listed as the Manager of AFOL Network Events (such as Brickworld). I unfortunately missed his talk, but I caught the end of the Q&A session.
Question one was related to regional releases and why items can’t be purchased everywhere. The response was that sometimes LEGO can’t get the product license everywhere and sometimes retailers in some locations don’t want those products. He did mention that LEGO was working to get rid of regional exclusives as we have seen recently with the Chinese New Year sets.
Question two was related to regional exclusivity and the LEGO® House sets. Why could they only be released in Denmark, the UK and Ireland? The answer was with the packaging. It was not built for worldwide releases as the plan was to only sell them at the LEGO® House in Denmark. I own all three sets and could not tell you what is different on the packaging, but there you have it. Jan mentioned LEGO is looking to correct this in the future.
The next talk I saw was called “My Life in LEGO® Bricks” and was given by Sam Johnson. If you’re not familiar with Sam, he’s currently a designer on the Ideas team and has worked on City, Jurassic Park,
Legends of Chima, Nexo Knights, and Harry Potter. The picture is a few years old as it is from when the Dr. Who set came out in 2015, but it’s the same person.
His talk was about how LEGO goes from concept to actual sets. He used NEXO Knights and described how it was created, showed some concept art, explained the processes used, showed some initial models, and then showed some of the prototypes that eventually became one of the final models. I found the talk pretty interesting as it was cool to see how they go from idea to a final model.
There were a bunch of questions about Q&A. I asked if they were seeing any design delays due to having to work at home. He said he didn’t think so as they are used to connecting through digital means and future sets seem to be on track. He also mentioned that designers who like to build with physical bricks versus the digital design programs they have can go into HQ to get the bricks they need to build at home. Not a bad deal if you ask me.
Two others that stuck out to me:
-He said something to the effect of the LEGO Ideas Playable LEGO Piano is coming soon and it is awesome.
-While he was not involved with the Bricklink AFOL Designer Program he said it was a great program and LEGO did not see it as a competitor to the LEGO Ideas platform. I see that as good news. We can hope it picks up again someday.
I checked into this room to see it quite busy. At the time there were around 45 people. The hosts were from a Bricks and Minifigs store. Contestants that I saw at the time were Boone, Jessie, and Emmanuel. At the time I checked in a number of younger viewers were asking questions to the contestants. There was a decent line in the chat to ask questions and I didn’t have a burning question so I left, but I was glad to see them taking the time to encourage younger fans.
I didn’t sign up to attend with the hopes of buying things so I didn’t visit any of the vendors present, but there were quite a few listed who were selling their items. Had I been looking for something, it definitely would have been a good opportunity to hit up some vendors.
In addition to the vendors, Brickworld was selling its own swag. I bought the convention printed 1x8 brick for $3.50 (including shipping). I’ll add a picture of it to this post once I get it. They also had some shirts for sale which looked pretty cool, but I did not buy.
Joshua & John Hanlon from the YouTube.com channel Beyond Beyond the Brick led a session called “You Show Us!” This was your opportunity to present what you were working on to the hosts. Both times I checked in, it was just Joshua. He was building one of the BrickLink AFOL Designer Program sets while talking with people. The first time I checked in, someone was showing him pictures of some original Star Wars helmets he had built. The second time, a younger builder was doing his best to show a build he was working on.
I put a few questions into the chat window for Joshua (lesson learned… I put “Josh” in the chat… sorry!) and he got to them when he was done chatting with the kid in front of me. I asked if Beyond the Brick had any plans to change at all and if they plan to continue the live stream format they have been using during the COVID-19 period. The answers were they plan to stick with the format they have for now and they plan to continue with live streams.
If you have never seen a LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC) in action, you are missing out. There are some very talented builders out there who have figured out the mechanics to move balls through various features and they are very creative. I found a few videos of parts of what I saw on YouTube here and here. My kiddos and I watched the GBC for a bit and we saw it with the room lights on and then when the lights were off and it was lit by glow in the dark balls and LED lights. It was very cool!
I’m aware that most LEGO Conventions have games you can play and while many of them are hard to do over the internet, the Super Robo Rally by Steve Hassenplug is not a problem. I am definitely not an expert with this game, but basically he has a game board with robots on it and users have to program brick built robots through a series of turns to win the game against competitors. Beyond that I won’t try to explain it because I would probably get it wrong. Definitely a fun opportunity if this is something you are into. Just be sure to sign up for one of the slots ahead of time.
Bravo if you’ve made it this far… I realize the virtual experience doesn’t compare to meeting in person, but given the situation, I applaud the Brickworld team for executing the idea and moving out with it. They had a tech support room you could join with questions and many of the rooms had moderators or the exhibitor spoke up every now and then to explain how they wanted to run things.
Did you attend Brickworld Virtual in April or May 2020? What were your thoughts?
In the meantime, happy building!
Beyond the Brick is running a donation drive starting today (9 May 2020) and ending on 19 May 2020. The goal is to raise $2,000 and it looks like they will get there on day one. For every $5 given, you will get one chance to win a #75252-1: Imperial Star Destroyer. The set is not new. It is the version LEGO sent to Beyond the Brick for a set review. The Beyond the Brick gang has decided to give it away with a goal of raising money for Creations for Charity. If you have never heard of it, it is the following:
“Creations for Charity is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that hosts an annual fundraising event from October to November where builders from all over the world donate custom LEGO creations to sell and raise money to buy LEGO sets for underprivileged children during the holidays.”
Here’s the YouTube.com video announcing the effort:
Here’s the link to the donation page if you want to go directly there.
Thanks for supporting and happy building!
There are some amazing builders out there, but there are not a lot of them that have their own businesses and teams to build various creations to go on display around the world. Sean Kenney is one of them. He’s a former LEGO Certified Professional who now works on his own. You can check out his site here for more details.
Recently, the team of Beyond the Brick and Zusammengebaut had the opportunity to tour Sean’s studio in Brooklyn, NY. The video is posted below. It’s just under an hour long, but I found it to be interesting. You get to see how Sean tackles having enough bricks on hand to build his massive sculptures, how he stores over one million bricks, how he assembles some of his larger sculptures, and how he goes about shipping some of the creations. Stay tuned to the very end if you dare to see how to go about gluing bricks together.
Beyond the Brick did another interview of Sean at a LEGO convention and highlighted some of his work at the Indianapolis zoo a few years back if you want more information.
Have you been to see any of Sean’s work before in person? Let us know in the comments.
Happy building!
I haven’t done this before so we’ll see how it goes… I’ve decided to write an editorial piece capturing an opinion that I’ve formed as of late after scouring the LEGO fan pages. Specifically, I’ve been following the recent release of the new UCS Imperial Star Destroyer Set (#75252-1). I had a blast building #75192-1: Millennium Falcon and news of the Imperial Star Destroyer set release caught my attention. Thankfully, the fan media has their set reviews ready to go soon after release. From the sites I look at, there were Imperial Star Destroyer reviews on Brickset.com, Eurobricks, and on YouTube, Beyond the Brick had a video review.
I’m trying to decide whether I want to save up my VIP points to buy a Star Destroyer set. The reviews have been helpful in pointing out things I wouldn’t even consider. They’ve highlighted the less than stellar minifigures included, the lack of internal designs unlike the Falcon, points where the design lacks detail, and the mere challenge of trying to display a model this large somewhere. They’ve also highlighted the positives like the cool “greebling,” the built in carrying handle, the intricacy of the various angles formed, and some of the many cool details. To be honest, I have not decided one way or another whether I want to take the plunge or not.
Onto the meat of the discussion… I am glad LEGO sends out free copies of the sets to various LEGO fan media influencers. It works out great for them to get reviews published right as a set releases for sale so the rest of the fan community can get an inside look at the set. It’s a smart move on LEGO’s part and they probably see more benefits by giving away a bunch of sets for free than they do by giving up sets. Also to be fair, all of the reviewers acknowledge that they have received a free copy. For example, Brickset says “This set was provided for review by The LEGO Group but the review is an expression of my own opinions.” But are we in the fan community getting true reviews? Many of the reviews have a comment about the set being expensive, but it seems like it’s worth it to buy. However, they didn’t actually buy it. How can they make an assessment like that? I almost feel like I need to wait and find someone who as actually spent their hard earned cash to buy this before I accept any decisions on price. Don’t get me wrong, I would love it if LEGO sent me free sets to review (hint, hint… if someone from LEGO is reading this…), but I don’t think I could make a fair assessment on the price LEGO picked for a set without actually paying for a set. Often times, that’s why my reviews are much later as I tend to wait for sets to go on sale before buying them.
I don’t mean to stir up discontent among the community. I think LEGO is doing a great thing by sending sets to the community to review. I appreciate and thank the fan media for taking the time to create videos, post professional quality photos, and assess sets from the prospective of a fan builder. My recommendation going forward is to continue with this process. I would also suggest that we as a fan look into finding ways to assess the price that are more objective. We have the somewhat meaningful price per brick. I have seen price per pound used as well. The Star Destroyer is also compared in price to the Falcon which I’m not sure is 100% accurate either. What else is there? Any ideas on how to make this process more transparent?
Thanks for hearing me out. Happy building!
Maybe I’m the minority, but I don’t watch a lot of TV anymore. I also don’t have Netflix or any other kind of streaming service so that probably puts me deep into the minority. Usually when I watch things, it is on YouTube. Back in the day, the content was pretty awful, but today there are a lot of folks out there putting a lot of effort into making some great content. That includes all of our brick based friends. A few months back, I highlighted Beyond the Brick and the great work that team is doing to put out some LEGO related content. Well the team there recently celebrated reaching over 500,000 subscribers. They did a number of videos to celebrate the milestone. One in particular that interested me talked a lot about the business aspects of their channel.
I linked it below… What an attention grabbing title though, right? How much money do they make? I won’t spoil it for you, but John Hanlon goes through their YouTube stats to show how many visitors they get and shows you the top videos they have for making money. I appreciate his honest and open opinions about what they are doing and what he still isn’t sure about yet. If you are thinking about setting up a brick based YouTube channel, definitely find 30 minutes to watch this video. Bring a pad of paper and a pen to take notes as he gives some good points. Some key points that I came up with based on watching his video:
-You are at the whims of YouTube and their algorithms. What works one day may change if YouTube changes how they run things.
-Keep putting out consistent good content. Some will bring you money and some won’t.
-Just because you have subscribers doesn’t mean they watch the videos. Most watchers find Beyond the Brick through YouTube’s recommended videos.
-Ads increase right before Christmas. Can you guess why?
-Your revenue will fluctuate. It’s good to have other sources of revenue. Beyond the Brick has regular sponsors. This year it is Brickmania. Last year it was BrickLink. They also sell merchandise and use affiliate marketing.
-Your expenses can get high so be ready.
-They pay a lot in taxes. From experience, my NLS had a business and having a good CPA really helped us as the CPA gave us some good tips for how to lower our taxes. Definitely keep it in mind if you are going to get serious about a brick business (my opinion anyway).
One more useful video if you’re looking to start a Brick YouTube Channel. Boone Langston is a newer member of the Beyond the Brick team and in this video he interviews Jang of Jangbricks for over an hour. If you don’t know Jang, he has been running a YouTube channel for quite some time and has amassed over a million subscribers. Jang goes into the origins of his work and some of the things he has done over the years. I have yet to write a post on Jang, but he is known for providing video reviews of just about every set out there. The video is rather long and I will admit that there were some parts I skipped over, but there is some really good advice as well. Here are a few lessons learned I pulled away from the video:
-Take the time to make sure you are producing quality material. That includes the right lighting, sound equipment, and video equipment. I will fully admit that my pictures on this site need a lot of work.
-Respond to your fans. Answer questions they post.
-Monitor comments and make sure they are in line with your standards. Jang wants to be family friendly and he is quick to remove posts where people are offensive.
-Get feedback from your viewers and try to make changes based on what they want.
-If you are going to review every set, figure out what to do with your sets when you are done. There is no need to collect everything and be a hoarder.
-Your channel is not going to be super successful over night. It’s an evolutionary process to become popular.
-Having a dog in the video is a good distraction for the boring parts
So there you have it. I hope they were helpful. If you can think of any more useful videos on setting up a YouTube channel or more specifically a brick based YouTube channel, post them in the comments.
Happy building!