The Empire Strikes Back REDUX

Added: 2026-05-29

[00:00:25]All right.

[00:00:28]Okay. So, are we back? Are we on red?

[00:00:30]And Okay. So, Twitch, YouTube.

[00:00:36]All right. Okay. Thank you. Oh my god.

[00:00:43]What a morning. Oh my god. Okay. So, yeah. Woo.

[00:00:48]Someone from the school stole my daughter's my daughter's cell phone. So, it was a heck of a way to start the um the morning. But check this out. Check this out. Thank you, Maddie, for um for giving them the updates. This is the the shuttle, the Emperor shuttle. I've built this before. This is the easiest way that um I've actually had with building this. So, I'm actually having a bit of a blast with this. and Maddie has been building along with me.

[00:01:20]Let me just put these things back into place because um we had um a little technical fix come in this morning from um Johnny and he was in there putting in all of the thrusters to make sure that we can go fast.

[00:01:40]I got to build build up the back again so we don't see all of those. But when we're actually flying and yes, this can actually fly without the um without the wings. It's a little crooked right now. So, there's a couple of things that we have to sort out.

[00:02:01]Oh no. Oh no. Sorry, Maddie.

[00:02:07]But you get an idea of just how it's going to fly once we have all of the wings on. It's fully functional as it is. Just needs it has a couple of balance issues um that we need need to be sorting out, but we're actually going to have a shuttle that will fly and actually fly fast for the first time. So, I'm looking forward to this.

[00:02:38]So, it'll it'll be a good shuttle.

[00:02:44]Very good shuttle.

[00:02:46]Now, we just got to work with the um swivels to make sure that those um swivels can work properly.

[00:02:58]But check it out. I can land now.

[00:03:01]and land.

[00:03:08]Uhoh.

[00:03:10]Other way. Other way. Dang it.

[00:03:17]Okay, so I do have to work on my landings, but here we are. A little bit of hover brick action and we are good to go.

[00:03:32]So, way to go there, Johnny.

[00:03:35]I took a look in the back and was wondering what the hey now, but um you've done a brilliant job. So, thank you for for all of your hard work there.

[00:03:44]Um we are pulling up a lot in the back.

[00:03:47]Sorry. Um so, we are going to need to add a couple of u additional thrusters.

[00:03:52]I don't know if you have any more from there, but we may need to have to to add it to the top of this, you know, and and work it. But we we have a lot of tweaking to do. The the thrusters are just opening new um new worlds. It's a whole new world of thrusters.

[00:04:18]Heck, man. I was I actually got back into the island island this morning and I was fooling around with some of the controls.

[00:04:28]Okay, that's not going to do a lot.

[00:04:31]And one of the things I found Oh, here.

[00:04:36]One of the things I found was that um it's not just a simple matter of just tossing in new thrusters. there's like so much so much rebalancing that has to be done.

[00:04:49]So, you might think doing something like this would be a lot more significant. I think this needs to be more of an angle, but thank you. I want to thank you guys for um for being so patient this morning.

[00:05:01]You know, real life really did take a chunk out of me this morning and I know you guys were waiting. So, thank you everybody for for bearing with me and coming back.

[00:05:13]Yeah, Johnny ran out of time. That that that will happen.

[00:05:18]So, anyway, good morning, Bram Ritter.

[00:05:22]Yes, I did show off the the honey. I wanted to um to to fly it properly and everything, but you never actually never actually updated it.

[00:05:33]Two minis.

[00:05:35]Minis are of a of a bygone age. the the large. Oh, okay. Here we go. Let's see what happens now.

[00:05:47]Whoa. Did not mean for that to happen.

[00:05:49]That is a rock, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:05:56]Look at that. We have solid flight.

[00:05:59]Now, we are just um drifting over to the left there. But we can fix that.

[00:06:08]See, you get more um more lift from higher up.

[00:06:15]So, that was good.

[00:06:18]That was real good.

[00:06:22]Now that I have to to fight it going up, I would like my uh my turns to be I Okay, so I need a turn assist, that's for sure.

[00:06:38]So cheat.

[00:06:43]I was messing with the P-51 and the P-51 um had uh a bit of a turn assist, a cheater turn that we're going to have to introduce to this and up and down.

[00:07:07]up and you want to pull it back. Let's go backward.

[00:07:32]I love to see that.

[00:07:35]Especially the um the the mist that it actually kicks up.

[00:07:47]That's Oh man, you know, I am so enjoying the hover bricks and just just a little just those I'm sorry, I'm losing my words here. Just those little details there, like all that mist coming out from the ship just makes it so much better.

[00:08:05]And it doesn't kick me out, which is even better.

[00:08:11]Kicks me out into the cockpit where I'm supposed to be.

[00:08:17]All right. Okay. So, we we had a bit of repairs to do here. Now, yesterday we were building the um the tower. I never got back to it. There's my wife. I'm sorry. I have to take this.

[00:08:28]Let's see what's up.

[00:08:46]Okay. And what was I what was I doing?

[00:08:50]Okay. Yes. I'm sorry. Um, I was meaning to go back to the tower, but we had started this build about a week ago, um, before the new thrusters came in, and I really wanted to get back to it cuz we'd kind of abandon it. And this this shuttle has been one of my uh, my favorites.

[00:09:14]You know what? Once we actually figure out um, how am I doing the wings? Oh, I we are going to to do two models because um as much as I want to do the um the turning wings again, um it hurt me last time. I mean, it hurt a lot.

[00:09:43]So, I'm just going to end up um doing a fixed wing model, two of them at least, and then maybe we'll do a moving wing version.

[00:09:53]It would be brilliant to know that um that the the swivels were fixed enough and stable enough. But, you know what?

[00:10:02]There's this world that I keep going back to and every time I go back to it hanging in the sky or in one sector there's one of the the wings and then you go 500 m and then there's another wing hanging in the sky and then down the ground there sits the poor little uh shuttle and it hurts.

[00:10:25]It really hurts.

[00:10:28]So, I was talking about a little bit of turn assist.

[00:10:33]And I think that's probably better suited.

[00:10:37]Oh, he found my my secret little um thruster. I see.

[00:10:44]And I suppose you took out all of my turn thrusters in here as well. Yes, you did.

[00:10:50]Okay, let's see what Johnny has been up to.

[00:10:55]I started laying down some thrusters, but apparently they weren't good enough.

[00:11:00]Nope.

[00:11:05]I'm kidding. Of course, Johnny is is um really really good at um at doing the thrusters.

[00:11:14]He thinks in a much different way and is very precise in his um in everything he does. So I absolutely 100% trust him to do to do the right thing and get us some brilliant thrust.

[00:11:37]Yeah, he does have a tendency to um Yeah, Johnny, this is for you to um to want a little too much thrust though.

[00:11:45]So, that's one thing you you have to look out for. Each ship has to have its own identity.

[00:11:53]Some ships are meant to be slow, some are meant to be fighter jets, and some are just meant to go fast. Johnny likes the ones that go fast. So absolutely brilliant when it when it comes to to fast. I'm gonna have to draw him back and go a little bit slower. Get a jalapy.

[00:12:15]So yeah, we can see we have a lot of go fast here. There's not much. There's no space in here. Zero space to have any turn thrusters that go that you know give us that cheat.

[00:12:32]Um these Oh my god. I did kind of outsmart myself with these.

[00:12:39]In the middle of them, if you have it set up right, you actually have enough space to get in between to put down a thruster. But I put these back and forth.

[00:12:51]So, there's actually no space anymore. I kind of outsmarted myself there.

[00:12:59]Yeah, massively outsmarted myself.

[00:13:04]I thought I was being clever.

[00:13:10]As a matter of fact, I was not.

[00:13:13]Okay, so it's 9:42. I'm I am call calling in late for work. This is Is Wednesday? Oh man, today's Wednesday. So Kaboom is actually streaming after me.

[00:13:26]What is Kaboom streaming today?

[00:13:34]I was going to go back and continue work. Okay. You know what, Maddie?

[00:13:39]What's up? What's going on here? You have your hover bricks, but you don't have anything to hover on.

[00:13:48]Okay, if you can um give a little bit of nose and I can get um the blocks down below.

[00:14:00]Are are your thrusters on?

[00:14:08]I found out yesterday that you can actually connect to a hover brick. So, you got to be really careful.

[00:14:17]Don't get too close to your hover bricks.

[00:14:21]Okay. Turn on your hover brick.

[00:14:28]It didn't used to be that way.

[00:14:40]Whoa.

[00:14:42]What in the sweet name of heck is going on over here?

[00:14:50]Oh, are you kidding me?

[00:14:58]Maddie, what did you do?

[00:15:05]Total hover brick failure.

[00:15:12]Okay, that's the most bizarre. The crashing noise has got to stop, man.

[00:15:18]We can't abide by the hover break. Okay.

[00:15:24]Are you bricks on right?

[00:15:33]Okay, dude. Seriously, hover bricks don't work upside down.

[00:15:43]Okay, so a little reminder to everybody.

[00:15:47]Hover bricks don't works upside upside down. If you're going to put them on an upside down platform, make sure to put a thruster down first before you put your hover brake so you can turn it. The stripes go up.

[00:16:07]Stripes always go up. Then you want to make sure that they're even evenly spaced.

[00:16:16]So there you go. Then make sure to get Okay, you have these up here. That's fine.

[00:16:27]That's fine. But now you need Now you have two hover bricks that you need to turn on while the others are off. So let's add channel one to that and a channel one because the hover brakes don't all turn on at once.

[00:16:48]Maddie, if you have if this is a new one, set this to channel one. This one is already on. You don't This one is set to channel one.

[00:17:14]No wonder because this they're turning on and off.

[00:17:18]So this channel 4 there you have hover and you should never need to touch that again.

[00:17:31]There's too many things going on. What is going on?

[00:17:40]But anyway, hover brick and and hover bricks and construction go well go very good hand in hand because you hear that noise. That noise is no longer there.

[00:17:58]Yeah, you have to do this right. This is this one is wrong.

[00:18:03]You got to put it to the side.

[00:18:07]Remember the techniques. We got to go to got to go from the top and then go down one two so that it actually aligns properly in some cases. Yeah.

[00:18:30]So, as soon as we get through this entire thing, we have yet another tutorial to um to put together. But this one will be worth it. Is always worth it.

[00:18:49]See, there you go. Boom.

[00:18:54]All right. I I will leave you to it. Now I We do have to go. Oh, yes. Yes. Now I remember.

[00:19:03]Hover. Dude, hover bricks work on flat surfaces. It's uh stuff that's below you. It doesn't care if the ground is um is there. It works on the ground on, you know, surfaces. So, I can actually build a platform up here and put the hover bricks on.

[00:19:29]So, whoever is telling you that particular lie needs to be um smacked around a little bit cuz that one is just wrong.

[00:19:45]That's a flat out lie. I'm here to tell you that.

[00:19:53]One, two, and three. Oh, good god. So, this is not exactly So, it's right in the center. Let's shoot. Let's do that again.

[00:20:04]All the way down.

[00:20:09]So, my TIE fighter has um has hover bricks on it.

[00:20:22]So, I should be able to bring it up here and land on this with no problems whatsoever because that's how it works.

[00:20:43]Now, the size of this particular platform, the top part of it is going to be up to you and the size of the ships you're landing here. I'm going to be landing TIE fighters and um and shuttles.

[00:20:57]So, I don't need to make it look huge. The bigger I make it, the closer complexity we're going to reach. And I'm not trying to reach complexity with landing platform.

[00:21:10]I don't know how I managed to do it in the past, but I did.

[00:21:16]And that's just that's just the way it is because, you know, I flirt with complexity.

[00:21:29]So, right now, I would just want to get this built up so I can show you directly that the hover brick doesn't care if it's you're on solid ground or not. It just cares that it's a solid surface below you.

[00:21:48]This is why some people can take the hover bricks and um go and create an infinite loop that propels them straight up through the atmosphere and people have done this.

[00:22:05]All right, so here's my Oh, we we did a little thing yesterday with the new arms. They're they're quite durable and it gives a nice little resting pod for the um for the TIE fighter.

[00:22:23]So, let's um let's test it out. All right, so that is ahead of us and should be a lot easier to land here.

[00:22:39]Oops. There we go. Hover brake is enabled.

[00:22:47]Got a little push back, but see there's your hover break right there.

[00:22:55]Just doing this hover brick thing.

[00:22:59]So, like I said, whoever told you that was just dead wrong.

[00:23:05]Maybe they meant well, but they're just wrong.

[00:23:10]I'm not going to um to give you guys bad information.

[00:23:15]All right. So, I guess this is a good chance for me to just build out the rest of this. I was still fooling around with some of the design cuz I I keep going back to the um to the sketch fab. I I always try to reference um photos um from the production or if I can um 3D models because the 3D models give me a nice um view around the whatever we're building so I can always see it and always have um a stable reference.

[00:23:54]This is not equal.

[00:24:02]But anyway, um once you have that stable reference, it um you always see like all these little details and um little changes that you would like to make. So I know for I know that the landing platform is not the towers are not perfectly straight. I know that we do have limitations um in the game though that I I need to take into consideration.

[00:24:35]I know that it flares out from here and it comes up um to a a cone, but we have very limited capabilities to do cones, especially on the level of what I would love to accomplish. And the last time that I did a cone, I I used um foundation pieces and end up using the single blocks to build out the shape. It was a lot of sculpture going on. And believe me, I hate complexity. The number of bricks you have to use just to get the right shape is is ridiculous. So, I don't It's a landing platform. As much as I would love to give it um all of that detail where it um it's highly accurate without, you know, with the proper pieces and everything, we're just going to end up overbuilding. And for something that, you know, we just want to have to put the ships on and be part of the of the showcase. Well, you know, not showcase, but part of the the world that we're building here.

[00:25:52]Kind of got to try to balance uh need over complex complex pieces. So this is a point where the group will actually win out because it makes flying for everybody in this area extremely difficult if it's a complex um build over here. So I'm just going to try to keep it simple and just build a nice looking platform.

[00:26:32]This this is this is just the bones here. I'm going to come back and now um put the cover cover it with proper proper sheets and make a hover platform in a flat.

[00:26:48]What are you talking about?

[00:26:52]Seriously. Seriously. Um Lego Master I don't understand.

[00:27:00]Like building on flat floor makes my hover bricks not work. Are you connected?

[00:27:12]Build build your platform first and then and then move your ship onto it. The the Okay, maybe you have a a platform that is hovering. it it shouldn't affect it because if you go and you you actually have a platform um that is hovering let's say now oh now here's a here's the thing um this only works if you are a few feet from the ground this um the hover bricks only work about six plates off the around if any bigger than that, any higher than that, and they will start to glitch out. They're not going to hold you up in the sky. They're not levitation bricks.

[00:28:10]So, be absolutely sure what you are building.

[00:28:14]Like, I can go and build out this platform here.

[00:28:20]Let's put some balloons on it for um for you know, so it doesn't smash completely.

[00:28:33]Then I'm going to put some hover bricks on the bottom. And I'm going I'm going to drop this thing. What is your damage?

[00:28:39]Oh my god. Okay. You see all of these imperfections?

[00:28:45]Means I need to leave the area and come back.

[00:28:51]Good morning, Chris Carnage. Good to see you.

[00:28:55]Von Curts, hey, get your coffee.

[00:29:00]Hey, Taz and welcome back. Really hope you're feeling a lot better.

[00:29:11]Welcome in Jack Selair.

[00:29:15]Jackair.

[00:29:24]Oh yeah, we do have ticket riding in the U-wing.

[00:29:29]Okay, you see how that's all glitched out?

[00:29:37]All right, there it is.

[00:29:42]So now everything is nice and even. So should be able to go again. Anytime your world gets like that and you can't build flat even surfaces, just just go about 200 m away and everything will be okay.

[00:30:00]All right. So I'm going to put hover bricks on this because why not?

[00:30:10]Now we c we can stick them to the bottom of things.

[00:30:14]So remember that one.

[00:30:26]You should check out um what um a bad guy kaboom um who who else is doing experiments with other bricks? Uh Dr. Lumi bricks. Um, I think there's a bunch of creators right now who are doing all these experiments on um on hover bricks and just trying to see what works, what doesn't work.

[00:30:59]Okay, see now the hover break right now is red because we are way off the ground.

[00:31:07]Oops.

[00:31:10]This should bring it down to the ground where it should begin to hover. Now, there's nothing in the middle here, which is a problem.

[00:31:23]Is way too too long. And the middle piece is is not hovering off the ground. If we add another hover brick right in here, that should take care of it.

[00:31:39]But first, we need to, you know, Oh, actually, we don't need to deactivate that. We can just reset it.

[00:31:52]There's your one.

[00:31:54]So, that's channel one.

[00:32:07]See, now the middle is being pushed up.

[00:32:11]Now you can actually set your next hover brick in here in the middle.

[00:32:20]Set this to channel two.

[00:32:22]Turn off four.

[00:32:28]Turn off channel one on this and activate. And now this is hovering off the ground.

[00:32:44]I'm going to go grab the TIE fighter which is now hovering off the ground on the platform here.

[00:32:54]And you'll see that a hover plat a hover vehicle can also There we go.

[00:33:26]Let me turn off my hover bricks and back it up a little bit.

[00:33:35]Back it up a lot more.

[00:33:41]Oops.

[00:33:48]And turn this on.

[00:33:51]See? So, okay, it's not perfect, but you can see that the hover works on top of a hover.

[00:33:59]As long as there's something below it that it's going to react accordingly. So, I don't know what is wrong with the world or how you're setting things up, but you really should probably look at how you're getting things set up first that making um the statement that they just that they just don't work that way.

[00:34:22]I had to figure out a couple things myself and then just learn from some other people like a bad guy and um and Kaboom and you know and just just share notes about what is working and what should be working in the way you think it should work.

[00:34:43]You you learn a lot from um from just from from others and you know don't have to bother with any misinformation.

[00:35:01]All right. So, okay.

[00:35:06]And of course, I can't even land.

[00:35:12]What? Worst landing ever. Big platform and I still can't land on it. Dude, where'd you come from?

[00:35:25]And back it up. Back it up. Don't fall in the hole. Don't I'm falling in the hole.

[00:35:33]Yep. There goes the There goes the ship through the hole.

[00:35:38]Seriously, dude.

[00:35:45]At least I can pick myself up. All right. Come on. Hover away.

[00:35:52]Okay. What the heck's going on over here? Why are you Why is my platform out of What the Hey.

[00:36:07]Um, Matt, are you seeing this?

[00:36:17]I thought it was a glitch, but I think the entire platform is out of the ground.

[00:36:31]Um, I don't know what the heck is going on.

[00:36:43]If this starts to make noise.

[00:36:47]Okay, so at least there's no noise.

[00:36:54]I may have to rebuild this thing cuz I don't trust that landing platform is supposed to be nice stable flat area and things are going a little hinky. All right. Um All right. I should probably tell Rick what's up.

[00:37:45]Oh, great. I have a I have a meeting.

[00:37:47]Bye.

[00:37:50]So, um I'm I gotta go. They they call the meeting at 10 o'clock. So, it's now 7 past 10. So, I gotta go. Um, sorry for being so late. I'll try to do um another stream later this afternoon once the work is all done. So, I will talk to you guys later. Thank you for coming and hanging out. It's your first time here.

[00:38:09]Please leave a like, subscribe. I'm sorry you're new and Oh, and you're and you're coming on a bad bad day. Um, well, I a what what did I do? I don't know. I'm going to go and try not to get fired. Um, the meeting's on right now, so I'm already seven minutes late and um, yeah, I gotta go. Okay, thank you for coming out. I don't know. I'll find out the the structure. Bye, guys.

[00:38:39]They build a stand still.

[00:38:45]THEY BUILD A STAND STILL. I BUILD A FLY.

[00:38:48]THEY BUILD STATUES frozen in place. I light engines. I leave no trace. From the store to the digital sky, if it exists, I make it fly.

[00:39:01]Blueprint mind, every angle exact. Stud by stud. Yeah, I master the craft. You see bricks, I SEE SYSTEMS IN PLAY. Flip the switch now is breaking away.

[00:39:12]And the wings unfold. Metal in the sun.

[00:39:15]SHUTTLE LIFTING LIKE IT'S ALREADY WON.

[00:39:17]They saw. Yeah, they had to say this ain't a build, it's a new way.

[00:39:22]I don't build a state, I build a song.

[00:39:25]Engine screaming like a star ride.