Lego sets

[Ladybug]

So my kids love Lego sets. We've easily spent several hundred dollars on Disney and friends sets. I realize they are good for spacial reasoning and following directions, but they are not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. You can't really play with them either. Do you display them? I tell my kids to take them apart and put them back together for fun. Pieces always get lost in that process. DD10 wants the Hogwarts set for Christmas which is a couple of hundred dollars! What will do we do with it when it's together? Then I started looking at all these other sets and they 1000s of pieces big. They look so fun.

What's the biggest set you've ever done? Do you leave them together? What do you do with them afterwards?

[Pollyanna]

Our kiddos would build them and play with them for a few weeks and then take them apart and put the pieces in a large bin. Then they create their own stuff with the pieces.

[diggitydot]

Our youngest has done HUGE sets before. His favorite was a 3' Flying Dutchman from Pirates of the Caribbean.

When he's done playing with whatever he made, he tears it apart and makes something else.

He's currently using them to make various Tardises (Tardi?) or armor for his stuffed Enderman from Minecraft.

[diggitydot]

Oh, and he's also used them when making dioramas for school projects. Makes those stupid things a lot more fun for him.

[Sheherezade]

We used to do one very Christmas morning. Something huge, of course. I liked the park rides like the Ferris Wheels. We did the entire Harry Potter collection and the pirate ships. Later, we moved on to the Architect series for my DH.

Legos are fuuuuun.


Angie

[ides]

We have smaller sets. We also bought a bunch of bricks so that we can build other stuff with it all and not just the kit.

[ladymoreta]

DH has actually been on a Lego Movie kick... He builds them "with DS". Both kids both love to help him, though, and he lets them play with the finished sets. We have quite the Lego world going on throughout our house... The biggest set of these he's done is Benny's Spaceship, 940 pieces.

[v-girl]

We discovered the Lego store in Austin this summer. DH and DS enjoy it. They build them together. K plays with them and flips out if something breaks so that's super fun.


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[ladymoreta]

Has anyone here tried Pley? DH isn't really into rebuilding things, so I'm considering it if he wants to keep getting sets.

[Ladybug]

LM, that's perfect! What a great idea. Thx!

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

No what is it?

[Thirteen]

Lego sets

It's a membership that allows you to "rent or check out" Lego sets, then return them when finished, I believe.


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[spotty_dog]

LM, my DS would be so jealous! He wants Benny's Spaceship the most.

We probably spend a few hundred a year on Lego, because we get a good-size kit for one of the kids and a medium-size kit for the other every time we go up to the mountains, which is every 3-4 months. It's DH's little splurge. If we get it up there, we build it up there, and try to bring it back intact, but it's seldom ever the same again. If we get it here (for other special occasions or birthdays) it stays together for a few weeks or months before getting disassembled for parts. DS has started requesting kits that he thinks will have the parts he wants for his other creations; I really need to figure out Bricklink and just start buying the parts instead of the kits!

[bobk]

Our kiddos would build them and play with them for a few weeks and then take them apart and put the pieces in a large bin. Then they create their own stuff with the pieces.

My girls do this too. We keep the assembly manuals and they occasionally rebuild them. Lego Friends is marketing genius.

[Ladybug]

Just got out Lego holiday catalog in the mail. Wow. So many cool sets. I'm definitely going to try the Pley. Each girl could take turn putting it together and then exchanging. I'm going to sign up for the large set membership.