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To warn you never to add up the cost of how much Lego you own!

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westcoastnortherner · 01/04/2013 03:40

I just did and It nearly drove me to eating all their Easter eggs! Luckily Lego is a favorite toy in our house both with Dd and Ds!

Aibu to wonder what toys have you spent a fortune collecting?

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Meglet · 01/04/2013 15:17

I'm sucking up the cost of Lego as it's the only thing the dc's really play with and it'll last until I have grandkids. I have plans to get the Death Star in a couple of years as I never had it as a kid so that'll cost even more.

The wooden railway will be stored too, we've got a lovely set of it.

zukiecat · 01/04/2013 15:19

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gostraighttojail · 01/04/2013 15:21

We need some Lego! Where is a good place to but 2nd hand? Sorry for thread hijack Grin

FakeHotCrossLobsters · 01/04/2013 15:22

Thomas the Tank Engine Take N Play/Take Along.

Which I've got to say, is getting more expensive to buy but is decreasing in value and quality.

I really wish someone had bought me a Blythe doll in my childhood though. I wouldn't have played with it and she would have been worth a fortune now.

HallelujahHeisRisen · 01/04/2013 15:26

I don't mind too much as we have lego that we have saved since childhood, lego from the charity shop and stuff bought in sales.

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westcoastnortherner · 01/04/2013 15:35

I'm kicking myself, we have never saved the boxes to the sets either

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fiverabbits · 01/04/2013 16:00

My son aged 32 has all his childhood Lego and the boxes in a cupboard bought specially for them. He still collects Lego especially free from the Sun newspaper. My great niece is now playing with a load of toys we had stored in the loft including the Brio train set which cost us £60 in the 1980's.

Graceparkhill · 01/04/2013 16:02

Yes to Brio. We have a small fortune of the stuff stored in the attic.

Annunziata · 01/04/2013 16:05

I have 5 DC who are mad about Lego, toy planes, toy trains, anything. I can't complain, it's so well used and I have three engineers now!

pumpkinsweetie · 01/04/2013 16:08

Tell me about it!!!
I bought my 10yo lots of proper Lego sets that cost a bomb, only for her to half put them together, take them down & then build her own creations with.
Lovely and all that, but i needn't have wasted money on proper sets, next time I'll go for normal Lego in a box.
I am easily swayed into buying the kids stuff they want though Grin

OverAndAbove · 01/04/2013 18:38

Sylvanians. Oh sweet lord, so many small woodland animals. There's a fortune, right there!

kennyp · 01/04/2013 18:42

I would sell ds lego in a nano second (reckon about £300 worth given over the years) but those hairy arsed sylvanians are going to be buried with me (dd has gone off them!!! Mortificado!!! (As she off Miranda says))

IneedAsockamnesty · 01/04/2013 18:43

I have several thousands of pounds worth if wooden train stuff

oldraver · 01/04/2013 18:44

Last year I got out all DS1's Lego for DS2. There were 21 instuction booklets, I dread to add up how much it all cost.

DS has lots of his own Lego but his favourite stuff is Imaginext...he has loads of it and I have feined not hearing when he has mentioned the Batman range

KayHunt · 01/04/2013 18:47

Lego- runs into ££
Playmobil is so expensive and we have loads
Wooden railway stuff so much for my train obsessed DS1
Hornby- DS1's latest love. I have sold a kidney and lung to buy this stuff. [bushock]

Startail · 01/04/2013 18:47

Playmobil here too and a lot of wooden train track, Brio, tesco and a huge unbranded set, they all work together OK.

Some lego, but my philistine DDs don't play with it.

Duplo has gone to a DFs DS.

pinklady1107 · 01/04/2013 18:50

I daren't count up the sylvanian families we have Blush but tbh my dd plays with them all the time

And my other dd just started on Lego friends!

MyCarHasBrokenDownAgain · 01/04/2013 19:43

Scalextric. Well over 1000 cars now, and got knows how many sets. It was mine and OHs hobby when we got together (our first ever joint purchase was our first set!). Now we have a DC and no money it's had to tail off a lot.

ParadiseChick · 01/04/2013 19:50

Lego!!

Build once, into big box once it starts breaking up full of general Lego, instructions kept.

jackjacksmummy · 01/04/2013 19:56

Lego - DS has most of Harry potter sets, a couple of ninjago sets and then the odd Star Wars, lord of the rings, pirates of the Caribbean, Lego city bits.
Not to mention several Lego Xbox games. (Both Harry potter, 2 x batman, 2 x Star Wars, pirates of the Caribbean, lord of the rings & Indiana jones). Tbh he plays with them all A LOT and kept most of the boxes/instructions so will probably resell when he grows out of it. (Younger brother is not interested)

Obsessed is not the word. He does save his money and ask for them for Xmas/birthdays.

malovitt · 01/04/2013 20:25

I have spent £3000+ on Lego over the years for my children, not including the eight years worth of annual passes for Legoland. I don't begrudge a penny of it.

We still have it all although they are almost adults now. Most of it is in the process of being sorted into smaller boxes at the moment and will go in the loft for possible future grandkids. The large Star Wars Models are still assembled on shelves in their rooms.

McNewPants2013 · 01/04/2013 20:35

Lego is one of the best toys to have until one night going to get a drink and standing on one if the darling bit of plastic.

I would hate to think of what we have spent on it, but ds loves Lego and its worth every penny.

Skylanders are hard to get and cost a fortune

goingupinfumes · 01/04/2013 21:34

How much was yours?

We think are close to 1.5K-2K on lego adding up all of the sets over the last 5 years for 2 x DS, that's including gifts from parents and others mind..Blimey now thinking it may be more if it's average £40 per set, he has a few £80-£120 technics stuff too!!

I do think to be honest I should of just bought the £250 star wars set that he's always wanted and been done with it years ago!

We are rubbish and none of it would be able to be sold as we haven't kept boxes etc, so I think we will have very lucky grandchildren in years to come.

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westcoastnortherner · 03/04/2013 17:59

Does anyone here happen to have the sylvanian fish and chip van? DD wants it sigh...

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morethanyoubargainfor · 03/04/2013 18:09

My ds is 10 and has ASD, lego is his biggest obsession he currently has 58 full sets, they are made, never played with and out on display shelves purchased just for the lego and never touched again! Nobody is allowed to clean it or touch it and he has a line on his floor that visitors are not allowed to cross In case the lego gets touched! Atleast he now understand that we can't possibly superglue each lego brick together!