LEGO's Secret Pink Bricks

Let's explore the pink LEGO brick mystery!

Have you ever noticed random pink LEGO bricks in your LEGO set while building? Although these pink LEGO bricks are most commonly included in LEGO Star Wars sets, they are becoming increasingly common in other set themes such as LEGO Marvel and LEGO Ninjago. In this video we'll explain LEGO's secret reasoning why they include pink bricks in their sets - Enjoy!

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[Esponn]

Batman only works in black. And sometimes very, very dark gray. And yet the Batmobile has a pink brick hidden inside.

[birko]

I remember some of my sets has hidden bricks in "weird" (or unlogical) colors.
I always wondered why, and I have two theories:
1: Maybe these colors don't get used that often, and therefore are cheaper than more frequently used colors (like red, blue, yellow).
2: LEGO designers intentionally use colors that are in contrast to make it easier when making instructions later, or when the customer build the set.

[TheStephenBJ]

I think the reason why colorful bricks pop up in various sets is because they don't get used as much as others. So when they have a place for a brick that won't be seen they use a brick that they have a lot of extra of.

[MK--xdmg]

I remember when I got the Tiger Creator set, seeing a lot of pink, blue, and grey pieces inside the torso and I honestly thought they were meant to represent the tiger's organs as an admittedly slightly morbid but fun detail.

[nak_attak]

A lego builder has confirmed, they include bricks of more exotic colors when they are not visible from the outside. This is confirmed to be just so that builders get extra of the parts that aren't as mass produced as others. This can be seen very prominently in the typewriter set and also the ship in a bottle set.
Edits based on good replies:
It's also to incease the number of that particular part in that particular colour being produced and making that part more cost effective.
Its also used to more easily differentiate between pieces in very monochrome sets.

[DisneyDahling]

Love the cake story, it's so cute. It's on-brand with lego's humour and it feels more like someone with a heart made it than it just being a product by a ginormous company.

[Robin]

My favorite hidden design detail is from the BrickHeadz Buzz Lightyear model. In the middle of the build, you make 4 blue cylinders with a small gray topper pieces that get loaded in a strange pattern. It took me like 10 minutes to figure out that it was meant to be Buzz's batteries being loaded into him. I smiled like an idiot for so long after figuring it out, just such a cute superfluous little detail that added so much to the building experience.

[TiredLowBrass]

I'm pretty sure part of the reason they incorporate colorful bricks is that they're cheaper to produce than darker colored bricks. I've heard blue is the cheapest color to make, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

[CurrentlyFlaming]

I love how they use pink bricks for the brick head brain

[repbegger]

I remember building the königsegg speed champ wondering what the random blue and yellow bricks inside were untill they started forming a sweedish flag, very nifty!

[henrychen]

I think the voltron lego ideas set that came out a few years ago has alot of cyan bricks or some other rare brick colour that makes up the inside of the Lego set. I think the designer mentioned that it was a way to get lots of rare colour bricks into circulation easier as cyan had not been used in quite a few years.

[helohel]

I like how BrickHeads put in pink where the "brain" would be of the actual character. A good way to add a little easter egg and add varieties of bricks

[Dass_Jennir]

I thought those kind of bricks were included in order to make builds less monotone and repetitive. For example, a pink brick would be a nice variation in a set like the Scythe shuttle which pretty much black in it's entirety. I figured that's also the reason why Lego keeps including visible blue technic pins when they could be easily replaced by black or grey ones.

[crazybird]

"the isn't a pink brick in this mech, but there is today's sponsor, Mech Arena."

"We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled."

[wojtekpolska]

It could also help against someone accidentally placing a brick with a print on the inside if the same shape and colour piece but with print on it was used somewhere else

[andyyang]

Homer Simpson's brickheadz (41632) famously had a pink 1x1 tile as his "brain" as a joke (as well as donuts in his tummy). Lego was even kind enough to give you a "window" to look at it without disassembling the entire thing. It's honestly one of the best designed Brickheadz out there.

[husky]

I want to see someone save up enough of those pink bricks, to build a life sized pink cake out of lego, just to hide a gray brick in the center

[fontunetheteller]

Here's how I look at it. The more colors you add to a set, the more expensive it is to manufacture. If a counterfeit company like Lepin were to get THAT down to detail in copying a set, it would cost them too much.

Pink bricks are one of the ways Lego distinguishes themselves

[toyocolla]

Plot twist: The pink bricks are just bricks missing their textures.

[alexross]

My guess was always for contrast and orientation.
When so many bricks are black and have pips so densely packed, it's good to have a contrasting body near to reorient and "calibrate" for lack of a better term,