To ask for help regarding LEGO?

[KissMyEmbroideryHoop]

DD is nearly 8 and has never had any lego as I always felt it was bloody overpred and can't see the point in all those pre designed sets...you know...build Hogwarts for 50 quid....

She wants Lego for her birthday and I don't know what to do...I oved my set as a kid but it was basic...just bricks and windows etc...I found a deluxe box for thirty two pounds...looked good and basic...then I red the reviews ad they were all saying "My 4 year old son loved this"

Should I be buying some other form of lego? I really didn't want to buy those sets...I do NOT want to get her a pink box...or one of those bloody

"Happy-Twat Girly Vet Shack" sets that they do.

AIBU to not know what to get and to ask for help.

Probably yes...but there you have it!

We have a mixture of girl lego and boy lego. I would say that on its own the Friends stuff would be limiting, but mixed in with everything else they enjoy it. My girls do prefer the Friends minifigures, it is annoying that the body shapes aren't compatable, but the height difference doesn't bother them at the moment. I don't think I would buy it as a first basic brick collection though I might buy some individual minifigures, we just got the little sets instead. Dd1 is a bit girly, dd2 less so but likes to copy dd1:

There is also a Lego caravan.

Oh yes, missed that one!

Although I am coveting that VW campervan!

We have just got that VW campervan. It is brilliant. I bought it for DH.

Indith I think it was the colour change that REALLY got me annoyed. Lego is so classic in those primary colours that in my mind they spoiled it with the wishy washy pinkness.

I should have said....I ended up getting Apple Tree House and a Deluxe Lego Box....so she can have both choices. My sister is buying her a small Spongebob set with a superhero theme.

She'll have plenty to get to grips with!

Sounds good. Lego is great. My big ones (5 and 3) are very into it, they sit and build with dh for hours. I need to get that ideas book for ds.

SIL got BIL the VW for his 30th, he sat and built it all in one sitting while jetlagged from a trip to the USA.

The colour pink doesn't bother me that much as, all the bricks tend to be mixed together anyway.

it seems the VW campervan is the present to get for men in their thirties!

I would buy basic bricks, and also roof, window and door pieces, plus bases.

Def look on ebay. Don't buy sets, and my DD (who is 8) loves building houses.

I would AVOID technic for 8 year old girl as first lego. Its quite fiddly and need to follow instructions to get it to work well.

I bought DH the Lego VW campervan for Xmas, it's great!

We have a couple of boxes of the normal Lego and some sets of Lego Creator. Creator is good for girls, as my girls didn't want the very boyish ones (police, robots etc.) nor did they want the pink horses/friends crap meant for girls. It is quite addictive, I've been known to sit and build of an evening . They have the Spongebob one too, bit expensive but I only buy on sale. I bought my nephew the £40 Harry Potter one for £25 in the sales and the creator ones can be found at a good price, at least 1/3 off, on Amazon if you have the time to do the "wait and pounce" game.

Another big objection is, that they're advertised as "for girls only" (at least in the latest catalogue), because boys apparently must not like cupcakes and purple and pink.

And please please please don't call the other Lego series "boy lego". It's not "boy lego", it's just "lego", playable by anyone, regardless of chromosomal make-up.

DS2 wanted a "girls lego" set. I said yes, dh said no but he said there was no real play value to it. Looking at it, he was right.

blister....that''s like my DD....she's put off by some gargantuan robot type thing but she loves Architecture....so I will buy the houses for her....maybe somelego city.