Light My Bricks products overview and review

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My wife fully supports my SW lego addiction, proving it with Christmas presents in a shipping box of various light sets and accessories from the "Light My Brick" online store.

Light My Bricks has two different generations or versions where the later generation stuff seems to be marked as 2.0's.  The difference appears to be the tiny wiring.  One version has wire that is more like a thread and the other is more of a flat stip.  Both perform well with hiding under bricks and both round corners well.

The company's website includes the instructions for each set so they save on printing and shipping.  The instructions are high quality and similar to lego build instructions.  The company goes so far as to identify a part to be removed in one drawing then show it removed in another.  They have two versions of instructions, one version is for a full build that shows the lego's instructions and then inserts their changes as needed.  The second version shows how to deconstruct a built set to retrofit with lighting. My only complaint is when purchasing a set, it does not have any instructions or short cuts to find the set of instructions you need.

They have kits to light up various sets that have blinking lights like R2D2, engines for ships, lightsabers.

The various light up accessories can be powered by USB connections or battery boxes. They sell various sized multiport connections so you can wire several lights into one bar that leads to a power source or another multi-port bar.  Note, the 2x port version is basically a way extend a shorter wire by connecting an extension wire. They sell 15 and 30 cm lengths of extension wires so you can stretch the distance from your display to a power source.

I have the Jabba UCS Barge set's light kit and really like it.  The set has flashing LEDs that replace cannon barrels for the deck gun and both rail-mounted guns.  There are several accent lighting LEDs that mount to light up the lower deck as well as under the sails.  The torches along the walls are lit as well as the stoves little flame.  There is some lighting in the cockpit that changes colors prehaps as alarms or sensor read outs. The top decks can still be removed, Light My Bricks has sets of wired contacts that connect the removable sections. This kit made me wish I had more henchmen to man the model better.

 

The R2D2 set for the middle sized 2024 released R2 includes some replacement parts where stickers are replaced with lights.  R2 is now constantly blinking with various lights.  The only thing missing was a light for his removable periscope.

 

Lightsabers- I have several of them.  Basically you replace the entire saber in the wielders hand and snake a tiny wire behind the figure to a multi-port switch option, a battery pack or a USB adapter. Some versions of light sabers have the 15 cm cord, others have the 30 cm so you can tailor the length to your display with having a bunch of wire to hide or control. Available colors cover all your needs from Ahoska's white to Mace's purple.  They also have variants for Kylo and Maul.  The sabers are nice accents for the figure displays.  I installed a green saber on my Jedi Luke on the plank of the desert skiff (I kit bashed ship combining the best of both recent sets).

Techniques... My wife found power strips that include 6x USB ports to provide plenty of power.  She also bought two outlet timers that are silent so I can have the displays go dark when I am not normally going to be in my room with the displays (overnight). I do have a battery pack option but have not tried it.  She intended for me to take a lit up Vader to work for my desk where we cannot plug in unauthorized accessories or power strips. For wiring the displays in the IKEA all glass shelfing, I use 30cm extenders, 2-port connectors and ran the cord to the edge and followed the metal shelf supports, minimizing the visibility of the dark wires. For my cherry wood bookcase holding the Jabba's barge and some other sets, I loosened the backing so I could slip the wires between the frame and the wooden back; intent is to use a multiport strip to combine all the shelves into one wire to a USB port.

I have the Christmas tree set too, but the tree itself has not arrived yet.

If you are a lego display person looking to brighten up your displays, Light My Brick is an excellent option.