Aibu to buy lego for myself

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As a child I loved lego and played it with my little sister until teenage years (just a box of random pieces, no sets). I've just started playing Duplo with toddler DD and it's reminded me how great it is. However there just isn't the same satisfaction with such a limited number of pieces and currently no baseplate. Should I get myself a box of lego or should I wait until I can fully share the joy with DD? As she is not yet two, it would be a while before we could have it out in the day, but I feel silly getting it just for myself! Anyone else feel unreasonable for having children's toys as an adult?

WeirdCatLady, I have that very model on display in my bedroom after DH and the DSes promised me that this would be the one Lego-free room in the house

Zen, what is this 'Lego-free' idea of which you speak? Any clear surface is simply begging for a lego model to grace it, surely?

My Death Star lives on top of the freezer in the kitchen, so I can play admire it whilst cooking

you should see how much lego bil has. he has pretty much every one of the modular buildings plus the vw camper and other cars and hard to find sets. he has no children . when we visit he will show the children his display but he WILL NOT LET THEM TOUCH.

Def a lego movie dad in the making that one.

dh loves the chance to sit and play lego, we have tonnes of it. the only one that is officially dh's is the parisian restaurant but even that is now on the dc's lego table rather than on display.

Yanbu. I hanker after the LOTR cottage and a Death Star.

8yo ds is so good at building the stuff he doesn't need my help. I reckon a death star would challenge both of us.

I have long since given up on the idea of seeing a clear surface don't get me started on the 1980s pirate ships in the lounge

Love the Big Bang set.
I've just bought myself some Hama beads. Shall pretend they're for the grandchildren.

We have general lego storage (each of these tubs is full) plus favourite sets on display in two large bookcases. Plus every room (apart from bathrooms) has some lego in, though the best is obv. my Death Star in the kitchen.

We are slightly lego obsessed.

Oh, I tell a lie, we have got lego in the bathrooms hehe (fire boat).

Tell me I'm not the only adult (I hesitate to use the expression 'grown up') that has a lego advent calendar at christmas?

I've just got DS1 to go through the Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary and count the number of Starwars sets our family possesses: it was 95 up to 2009. Plus a load more since then. We are overrun!! DH definitely does not feel unreasonable about having children's toys as an adult...

Lego is definitely for adults!

DH and I are in the middle of the statue of Liberty (retired model DH bought on ebay a few years back now selling for £1k!)

We have architecture ones on our mantelpiece and I think the majority of the star wars collection in the loft!

Plus I have a few creator kits as I am more if a build and rebuild girl. DH is more of a build and display!

We have the Christmas sets as well, post office, market, toyshop, bakery which makes putting the decorations up a long job!

Have had advent calendars but not every year - reuse them in a refillable calender now!

Had lego as decoration (little bits in place of confetti), place settings and each table had a lego game to play at our wedding!

Go buy some it's great fun!

Ooh yes, the Death Star. Been on my wish list for ages. DS & I were in the Lego shop the other day & I was muttering how, one day, it would be mine!

NANOBLOCKS like lego but smaller (so less storage issues) and beautiful.

Aimed at 12+ its more 'grown up' too

MissClemencyTrevanion looks good but not at that price! Will have a look to see if they have similar. My houses were usually only two bricks high with several connected baseplates, as I needed to save bricks for the interior. Maybe now I can buy enough for two stories!

WeirdCatLady what advent calendars do they do?

I hope it doesn't take over my house, but glad to hear there are others with a love for lego. I wonder if it would have been so unanimous if I had said I wanted to get barbies or polly pockets, two other favourites from childhood (though I despise the idea of DD wanting either).

weirdcatlady Star Wars advent calendars here every year! We're all adults. Currently have a few bits of potter lego, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and lots of LOTR and Hobbit lego. DD(17) and I collect it between us. It's displayed mostly in the dining room.
The AT-AT is top of my wish list.

weird cat lady

Can I come to your house to play? Pleeeeease? :)

Lego is absolutely f-ing brilliant. It's fun, it's creative and it teaches patience, imagination etc etc. it's has literally no downsides*
I'm just about to have my first child and I will be thrilled to have a valid excuse to buy Absolutely Tons of Lego.

*except being slightly more painful than a caltrop underfoot.

I love Lego!

DH bought me the modular buildings Cinema last Xmas. Me and DS1 are building it as a summer holidays project (it's huge!) Have told DH we want the Parisian Restaurant this year We also get the Winter Village sets and use them as Xmas decorations.

Lots of Lego here.

We're looking forward to the official Doctor Who Lego later this year :o

Why not just buy normal Lego instead of Lego friends for girls?!

We got ds into LEGO from 3. He was hooked. Although we have bought far too much - so much so he doesn't want anymore for his birthday (he's going to be 6!!!)
DD also likes it - she's 3. Didn't bother with duplo.

My husband has that, WeirdCatLady.

You can just see our lego table here looking very neat and tidy. We have a city scape that pretty much stays made on top with houses including dh's restaurant, the big fire station and things like that and then the drawers (the table is 2 trofast units screwed together) have the bricks by colour, a drawer for mini figs and other drawers for car parts, windows and doors, little easily lost bricks and things like that plus there are separate drawers for specialist themes so while the lego city which is pretty generic is stored in the general boxes the star wars, indiana jones and stuff is separate for ease of playing.

Ds2's growing collection is in a box downstairs. On his 3rd birthday he merrily followed instructions by himself to make his new models. Then dd has some of her sets in her room which she wants to keep separate such as the research institute although a lot of her stuff is just kept in the boy's room with the rest of the lego. That's the problem with lego and multiple children really,it makes far more sense to keep the lego together but then it is unfair to the child whose lego gets swallowed up in someone else's room. I need a bigger house so I can have a playroom.

Before the lego collection grew quite so much a moved into the boy's room it was downstairs and dh could often be found in the evenings with a glass of red wine, sitting on the floor building lego.

I long for the winter village sets, I'd LOVE to have those out every Christmas. we have the little elves in a workshop but that's all. I am hoping to get a good deal on something decent for dh this year for his birthday, we don't tend to do presents really but he has done so much for me this last year or so he deserves it.

Not unreasonable at all, Lego is awesome. OP you may not have as long to wait as you think, my DD got Lego for her 3rd birthday which we built together but now she can follow the instructions herself and doesn't need me any more :(

The VW camper is on my Xmas list but there is so much Lego I want. I know Lego Friends gets a bit of a bad rep but a lot of the sets look great, I love all the rockstar stuff.

I enter competitions to try to win Lego but as yet no luck.

I'm an AFOL! I have this:

shop.lego.com/en-GB/Parisian-Restaurant-10243?fromListing=listing

and this
shop.lego.com/en-GB/Pet-Shop-10218?fromListing=listing

Plus all of the Lego Elves sets (DTDs love playing with them

Cherrypi i built the big bang theory set a couple of days ago. Cant tell you how peeved i was when my DD wanted to help! Small but amazing. Also own campervan. But favourite is my haunted house. DD has tons of friends/disney princess lego.

There is something extremely satisfying about opening a new box of Lego (maybe that's just me )