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Lego - should be lovingly assembled and displayed, but never played with...

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StayAwayFromDeliriumDive · 26/12/2013 20:28

Hours I spent yesterday, hours and hours, creating an entire city. One badly timed step during a puppet performance and the fire station is in bits.

Tempted to buy a display case so the children can look from a safe distance.

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BigBirthdayGloom · 26/12/2013 20:58

You can still buy the boxes of bricks. Our Lego is mostly the joyous box of stuff that you can tip out (always on a blanket, always!) amd rummage through for the bits you want. As long as there are wheels, roof tiles and sloped flat bits for wings, ours can make everything they want!

BigBirthdayGloom · 26/12/2013 20:59

Just read the op properly. Is the display case for the Lego or the dc? Wink

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StayAwayFromDeliriumDive · 26/12/2013 21:00

That sound awful Juice - all three boys love playing with it, but are nowhere near as careful as I would like.

I am building the VW camper in secret - there is no way that a stick paw will ever touch it!

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StayAwayFromDeliriumDive · 26/12/2013 21:01

Interesting point BigBirthday- I may have to think it through!

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StayAwayFromDeliriumDive · 26/12/2013 21:02

FortyDoors - I do allow controlled play!

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TheOneWithTheHair · 26/12/2013 21:10

We bought ds2 a big box of generic Lego to go along side the Lego City and Lego Star Wars stuff. You can just get boxes of bricks too.

Beastofburden · 26/12/2013 21:21

W have the Lego Archive. My childhood Lego, DHs childhood
LEgo, and DS1 s childhood Lego. DS1 is old enough that the kit thing hadn't really caught on and it was mainly bricks. There was none of this branded harry potter / lego market malarkey. What he loved most was Lego mindstorms where you build and programme robots, and all the technics stuff.

W have loads of kits but (shocking confession) they are all now muddled up and in bits and the boxes are thrown away years ago. Though I have kept the leaflets.

Back to Lego basics, I say!

Backtobedlam · 26/12/2013 21:31

Totally agree-we had the Millenium Falcon on display still intact for 6 months, 6 full months until I went out and left dc with the babysitter, only to come home and find it in bits! I could have cried. Still love it though and still keep buying more.

BadPoet · 26/12/2013 21:32

Eventually all our kits get thrown in the communal box. We do build them, which is more of a focused activity than actual fun, then when they get broken up they are added to the tub. If someone really really wanted to rebuild a kit again we could get instructions online and order any missing bits - hasn't ever happened though.

My kids and DH have spent all day playing and building random stuff with all their old Lego, DS got some Chima but hasn't built it yet - think the sight of it reminded them! Meanwhile all Christmas gifts lie neglected Xmas Grin

BadPoet · 26/12/2013 21:34

Disclaimer we are saving for the Death Star and that will remain intact!

nickeldonkeyonadustyroad · 26/12/2013 21:35

yup you need to have your lego and their lego.
i've got loads, and can't have any of it.

Taz1212 · 26/12/2013 21:36

We have the Death Star. It has been sitting on our dining room table for the past year. Fortunately we rarely use the dining room table for meals because I have the bad feeling the Death Star will still be sitting there when DS(11) eventually goes off to uni. Grin

BullieMama · 26/12/2013 21:36

I have bought my daughter lots of lego for Christmas, foolishly I bought a second hand Queen Annes Revenge and bits are missing, so I sulked last night and moved onto new in the packet recycling bin on fire with fireman on a bike!

I am very jealous about the poster who has the camper van - I am desperate for that but no way could I justify £80 on plastic blocks Blush

My favorite buy in the world of wannabe lego is K-reo, fab stuff haunted mansion that vibrates and plays tunes, a police station under zombie attack and a fire station under attack from dragons - appeals to my daughters warped sense of fun Grin

ghostinthecanvas · 26/12/2013 21:37

I was in the Lego shop in Glasgow just as it opened. A happy timing thing. None of the lego had been touched. None of it. The staff were still pricing things. I just stood looking. It was.....well, wow. I literally felt like a kid. I was so overawed I never bought anything. I wanted it all. I left very pleased with myself.
I need help. Or more lego.
Seriously though, you can buy it by the piece. Every shape, size and colour. Fantastic for kids who want to create their own sets from scratch.

ghostinthecanvas · 26/12/2013 21:38

Or replacing lost bits. I meant to say that. Sorry.

MiaowTheCat · 26/12/2013 21:40

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Taz1212 · 26/12/2013 21:40

There's a Lego shop in Glasgow!?!?! Oh great, will have to keep that a secret from my family...

Lovecat · 26/12/2013 21:41

So.... what happens to Lego when it goes into a box? How does it damage it? All our lego goes into the huge crate once it's been built once and then it gets remade as other stuff. Today DD has been putting the finishing touches to her grand hotel and the box of lego bis she got for Christmas has been integrated into it.

I may be missing the point of this thread but.... isn't that the whole point of lego? Confused

We are off to the Lego Shop with DD's christmas money tomorrow and intend to buy this or this (she hasn't made her mind up yet) and I fully expect to find the Vampire Queen working in a supermarket or Wormtongue teaching school in her next creation after she's made them once...

Hassled · 26/12/2013 21:42

I feel your pain.

I spent 3 full days building Jabba The Hut's Sail Barge a few years back. And when I say 3 full days, I do mean that I did nothing else. The kids went feral. It survived less than 24 hours - damn those pesky children and their insistence on playing with toys.

willyoulistentome · 26/12/2013 21:48

We have a massive storage box chock full of lego that nobody ever plays with. Lost all the boxes and inductions. How much do you think I could get for it on eBay I'd say it was about a 60litre storage box.

ghostinthecanvas · 26/12/2013 21:48

miaow that is exactly what is in Glasgow. Other lego shops must be the same?
Sorry taz!

Oubliette0292 · 26/12/2013 21:55

We have two types of lego. Firstly a huge box of all my (and DSis1 and DSis2 and DB's lego) plus some of the kids lego. Everyone can build/play with this as much as they like (so long as it gets picked up and put back in the box afterwards). I also have several sets which are put together and played with under strict supervision, and then dismantled, re-sealed in individual bags, put back in the box and put away on the top shelf of the linen cupboard until I deem one of the DC has earned the right to play with it.

ghostinthecanvas · 26/12/2013 22:01

I am not alone. Grin
willyoulistentome selling by weight seems to be the most common way to do it. Ebay or local ads.

Sillysarah49 · 26/12/2013 22:09

Last Christmas DH and DS spent the whole of Christmas Day assembling the VW camper van. Looked great. Lots of oohing and aching. DS then took it very carefully to place on his bedside table (where only precious things are placed). It rolled off and broke into many pieces. DH and DS then spent Boxing Day putting it back together, which was much more difficult.

Sillysarah49 · 26/12/2013 22:11

Oops - lots of oohing and aahing not aching - damn auto correct!