Aibu to buy lego for myself

[ArriettyMatilda]

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?

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I love lego. DH got me the Death Star for xmas two years ago. I still haven't finished it so he is even happier as feels he def got value for money. My favourite winter Sunday activity is building my Death Star with a joint of meat roasting while listening to Johnnie Walker on radio 2.

DS is 14 and not interested these days but I'm hoping he will get back into it.

We lived in Hungary and just as we were leaving our landlord asked me to show the house to someone. Turned out they were people I already knew and the DH worked for lego. Showed the DW the house and she wanted to come back with her family but the only day they could come was the Sunday which was my birthday. I said no problem. They arrived with two huge sets - space shuttle for DS and a town set for me. Both sets that haven't been sold - I think they were demo sets. We were so chuffed! I built the space shuttle but we haven't done the town set yet. It's this winter's project.

DH and I are talking about re-building all of the sets we have. No idea where we would put them though.

Have you all seen the website www.brickset.com?

You can make a database of all the lego you own and browse just about every lego set that's ever been created and keep a list of what you need want.

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I would love to buy all the modular buildings to create my own lego empire with me as dictator of all the little minifigs.

I've just brought myself the simpsons house for £180 and was feeling guilty until I read this thread, now I know I'm cool

I would love the Simpsons house.

Froomeonthebroom - we were so chuffed. It was so kind of them. They were very generous with Lego stuff for PTA xmas fairs etc too.

I love Lego and I'm completely unashamed about it.

My pride and joy is my Monster Hunters haunted house, it's fabulous. I'm in the process of building the Death Star and between us DH and I have also got the 4' long Star Destroyer, Ecto-1 and the BttF DeLorean.

I want to get the whole series of those lovely buildings (pet shop, cinema, department store, etc.) and permanently set up a little street on a unit in the dining room

I'm also ridiculously excited at the prospect of Doctor Who Lego, there's not a chance in hell I'm not buying all of it.

Trionic i pimped out my haunted house. It now has a spooky garden with graves and skeletons, etc and more furniture. Gonna buy all the new spooky series mini figs due out soon too to go with it.

I want the lego tardis and walle too.

So, Lego Experts as you all are, if you could buy one set (under £50) what would it be?

I'm just getting back into this game having bought it a lot in my late teens and then having spent my money on boring things like mortgages instead. I have cash available now but there are so many different kits these days that it's quite overwhelming.

Adult nights at a Lego shop you say??

Depends on your personal taste. Nothing up to £50 will be a complicated build. Get something you like the look of just for fun. If you're near a lego store go have a look. I just choose sets i love rather than complete a whole theme (although new scooby doo ones look fab)

Also, once you choose, check around as usually cheaper in asda/tesco/amazon. Lego store always most expensive.

Tesco clubcard boost on at the mo if you get vouchers and loads of lego already reduced. We save our points and use the boosts to double them on toys. Get so much lego for very little cost.

you can be nifty with that sort of budget though, have a google and try to get a code for very or isme, both have lego and generally have codes for new customers for £30 off a £60 spend. it is applied as credit so you have to do the purchase on the credit account but there is nothing stopping you paying the account off straight away. i got ds1 the big lego city for station for his last birthday for £30 by doing that.

I wished we had a local lego shop! Closest is about 40 miles away.

Some WILKOS (Wilkinson) stores have building bricks a-la lego.
They fit lego exactly, and are MUCH cheaper. same with the bases.

We buy loads of bricks from there.

BTW LOVE that monster hunter house! ^^

Thank god for that, I thought I was weird. DH got me the Mini for my birthday last year, and I have to say it was the most exciting birthday for me since I was about 8.

We're planning a dirty weekend away in Brighton in October. The highlight of the trip is almost certainly going to be a trip to the lego store.

Sorry Becker the none lego bricks might be cheap and compatable but quality is not a patch on real lego.

Trionic I am desperately jealous of your haunted house! I have the Vampyre Castle which is fun, but just not the same (and if I had both, I could combine them with the medieval village and it would be so, so amazing).

I was gutted when they retired the monster stuff. The haunted house will have to join Diagon Alley in the "list of sets I wish I'd bunged on credit card, before they became too expensive".

I've been eyeing up Metalbeard's Sea Cow. I deserve it, as I never did save up enough in time for the two ships from the Pirates of the Caribbean range. And the Black Pearl was so pretty

I don't have kids- The lego stash is all mine

Store your lego like this:

www.evilmadscientist.com/2008/how-to-organize-your-lego-bricks-for-efficient-building/

I love Lego. And Knex.

That Lego organisation webpage makes me feel sooo calm.

I've bookmarked it!

oh my word that is some anal brick sorting. i love it. sadly i can't see the children putting bricks back into stacks when they are done when they can hardly manage to put them back in the drawers we have.

I've got to be honest I only have one box of random bricks for freestyle building, and find the jumbled-upness part of the attraction

Most of my Lego is sets. Zip-lock freezer bags with the set name and number, and bag number corresponding to the instructions, written on with sharpie. Stored in the original boxes in such a way that none of the shiny, shiny boxes can get squished.

Which I realise makes me sound a bit... Off.

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I'm relieved we don't have a local Lego shop. I'd be declared bankrupt before long.

We have got a silly amount of lego here I've got all the starwars sets and the vw campervan, plus some of the architecture set. My ds and dd have lego city sets and dd has some lego friends sets. We have creator sets. And yes all the sets that arent built i have sorted all the pieces in to colour and identical shapes and they all have their own boxes. All the instructions are kept in plastic folders. I think we are a bit obsessed in this house with lego.

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Ziplock freezer bags and sharpies are great for lego storage. And if you absolutely must do away with the boxes then I've seen evidence* that the bags stack as neatly in tiered draws in the lego room kid's bedrooms as they do in the freezer. Thus keeping sets neatly together without the added cardboard bulk.

Though TBH, I find playing Lego Box Tetris almost as soothing as building a set.

*The evidence may or may not have been gathered from browsing AFOL blogs and websites and admiring the neatness of rooms devoted to shelf after shelf of beautifully stacked Lego.

I'm now at the stage where i need to bin the boxes as no space. although some people flat pack them. I also need some sort of display case for my growing collection of moc shops/restaurants for DD lego friends, top of my fireplace looks like a mini highstreet!

I agree, dance but I cant afford 'real' lego a lot, so the Wilkos ones have to suffice.

Theyre not so bad for what we make.