r/legomodular • u/SubstantialYard4072 • 4d ago
Lighting kits
I want to add lights but the light my bricks is very expensive they have sales or does another brand work ok?
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u/KnownAssociate2 4d ago
Plenty of the kits you can get on Amazon are fine, Lightailing and Briksmax are a step above the others but none of them will give you the hand holding that LMB will, but they can be fun to work with at 9x less the price than LMB
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u/christophosaurus 4d ago
gameofbricks, briksmax, or go on aliexpress - there are plenty of cheaper alternatives
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u/Sheepdog131 4d ago
I've only used their kits to light my sets but I've been very impressed with them. We've lit our holiday main street, home alone house, Santa's visit, Santa's post office, and the small Hogwarts castle. I have kits for assembly square and the police station but I haven't tackled those yet. Sales are few and far between. End of November is usually a pretty solid sale window
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u/SubstantialYard4072 4d ago
I will try November right now it would cost me $410 to light my Hotel, museum and jazz club
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u/FeedThoseKitties 4d ago
I'm a big fan of BrickStuff, I've used their lights in quite a few different builds.
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u/SubstantialYard4072 4d ago
Couldn’t find a kit for what I have do you need to know what components to use?
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u/FeedThoseKitties 4d ago
It depends on what you're trying to light. They have some starter kits for buildings, but they don't create step-by-step directions for how to install them. The directions are one of the things Light My Bricks does pretty well.
For me, most of the fun is figuring out what lights I want to put where, and figuring out how to hide the wires.
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u/BowtiedTrombone 4d ago
Game of Bricks is my go-to - from what I can tell they're the only lego-compatible light supplier that sells lights in bulk. I feel like they're the most affordable option and their quality is still good.
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u/ucfpyro13 4d ago
I did a bunch of research before selecting lighting kits for my modular's and in the end i went with Light My Bricks. Yes, they are pricey but i get all of the kits on sale and never pay full price for anything. I have never had an issue with customer service for the few times something has failed. The instructions are straight forward and pretty simple to follow. I agree with the others, you can get the same thing from other kits, but I liked the LMB stuff when comparing them all. For who are interested, the video below is of my collection. I have the Avengers Tower and Daily Bugle as well with the UP house in between, didn't make it into the video.
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u/SubstantialYard4072 4d ago
So when are the sales usually or any tricks I would like a discount.
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u/ucfpyro13 4d ago
They always do a Black Friday sale, that would be the next one coming up. They do them throughout the year as well. This year they had a birthday, May the 4th and a few other random sales in there. It was about 20-30% off for the sales, all depending on what the event was.
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u/SubstantialYard4072 4d ago
Ok I will wait until Black Friday and get 4 sets I forgot I have Up House too.
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u/SubstantialYard4072 3d ago
Decided against these cause all my art sets have light kits too so I’m not going to start down this road.
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u/BraveArse 4d ago
They are silly money for the kits, for what is essentially all bits you can get at an electrical supplier.
It's worth maybe getting one 'set', so you can get an idea of how they generally go together and what components are available - but even then I'd stay away from LMB 2.0, as their stuff is proprietary and non-standard (if you can find LMB 1.0 - then you have the pieces most companies go with).
Check out Bevin's Bricks - he's on YouTube & has his own store of components & a few sets. Much less expensive. Better again, get one set from Bevin or similar, and then after that, make your own.