Building with Jumbo Bricks

You’ll find that the 1x2 plate and the 2x2 slope shown in the preceding pages can connect to each other in almost the same way at their regularly sized versions. The only real difference is the way in which they grip in order to stick together. Normal-sized bricks use the friction between the studs on top and the tubes inside other pieces to lock together, but jumbo elements lock together differently.

Remember when I mentioned earlier that you were leaving the small-sized studs exposed on the top of each of your jumbo elements? That was because the studs you built (the scaled-up versions) don’t work to hold jumbo bricks together. Instead, you must rely on the normal-sized exposed studs to connect to the pieces of another jumbo brick. This means it’s possible to build an entire LEGO set out of jumbo bricks.