Introduction

I have been hearing many good things about Lumibricks building toys. The way they are put together is like LEGO Modular Buildings, but they come with a built-in lighting system, which makes them one of a kind. I decided to check it out.

I bought the Lumibricks Oasis Apartment set from Amazon.com. The set is part of its Cyberpunk theme, and I’m really impressed by its creativity, quality, and value!

Backstory of the Lumibricks Oasis Apartment Set

The story behind the set unfolds in the not-so-distant future. The restaurant owner, Rex, on the ground floor, leads a double life. By day, he’s a store owner, but after the sun sets, he transforms into an underground surgeon. He performs mechanical limb replacements in his garage, which features a surgical chair at the back but with a motorcycle as the front facade. The upper floors are home to a hacker and a mechanic who crafts prosthetic limbs.

Isn’t that a fascinating story? A compelling story is the key to creating a truly captivating brick set!

Here’s the restaurant, with its back view:

We peek into the back of the apartment building. The garage has a spinning floor that swaps between a surgical chair and a motorcycle.

The hacker Mark’s room is on the second floor, and it has a staircase leading to a balcony with an openable canopy.

The mechanic Keira’s room is on the third floor. You can see the prosthetic limbs she made in the display cases in her apartment and a bio-research tank outside of the apartment.

Lumibricks Lighting Kit

Besides the fascinating story, what really sets the Lumibricks apart is their lighting kits. The Oasis Apartment set includes seven mini-figures and twenty-one LED lights, featuring three neon lights, two light beams, and lots of colorful, shaped flush lights. When the lights are on at night, it looks so cool and beautiful, sparking my imagination about life in a cyberpunk city.

Power Source

The light source has a USB-C port, so you can easily connect it to any phone charger. It’s conveniently located at the base plate, right next to a power hub. The power hub’s outputs are just what you need to brighten up the underground, the building, and the sidewalk vending machine!

Even if you’re using multiple sets, you only need one power source and can connect them with side power connectors. These connectors are essentially wire bricks with “sender” and “receiver” sections. When you press the wire bricks together, they snap into place, creating a perfect connection that lets electricity zip from the source brick to the target one.

Wire bricks are also used to send electricity between adjacent floors. I will show you that in a later section.

Lighting the Room

To wire the lights on the same floor, Lumibricks uses Extension Connectors and Wire Hubs.

The Extension Connectors are like the extension cords we use around the house. They help extend the electrical wire to reach further distances.

Besides the Extension Connectors, each floor also has a Wire Hub that helps light up different areas. Here is the hub for Mark’s room on the second floor. Using the hub, the wire can go in different directions, which helps reduce the overall wire length.

Lighting Across Floors

Lumibricks uses wire bricks to send electricity between floors. When you stack wire bricks, they form a perfect connection, letting electricity travel from the lower brick to the higher one. So, electricity can flow through floors without needing to drill a hole. Isn’t that a clever design?

Here’s a picture of the wire bricks. The first one shows the wall of the second floor. You can see the “sender” brick at the top of the wall, which carries the electricity. The next picture is the bottom of the third floor, where the electricity is received by the “receiver” brick.

You might remember that we talked about this earlier, that wire bricks are also handy for connecting and lighting different Lumibricks sets.

Other Cyberpunk Inspired Set

Besides the Oasis Apartment set, Lumibricks also has other Cyberpunk-inspired sets, such as the Japanese Izakaya and the Floating Train Station. They’re both incredibly beautiful and fascinating! I’ll be sure to review them in a future article.