To super glue together lego sets?

[Chickpeaohchickpea]

I've seen two lego sets my children would really love for christmas(sorry! I'm an early shopper!!). They are pretty expensive around, £40-£50. They are only 5 & 6, I'm rather nervous they'll dismantle it, loose the pieces and never be able to put it back together, I know they would have lots of fun playing with the set itself.
Husband has said I can't spend that much if he can't glue it together whilst he's building the sets with them!
Would we be unreasonable to glue together the actual structure, they can move around the other bits and build other things to go with? Anyone else do this?

@GiantToadstool

I would accept that somethinga you enjoy for the experience. If you all went to the cinema that would be £40 and then its gone. Same with a meal out...

Building a £40 lego kit will give hours of fun in the building.
Then hours of fun playing with and turning into hybrid things.

Then hours and hours of fun as extra bits in their collection.

Dont not get something just because it wont be played with how you would like.

Yes to all of this!

If it is the people you like check out ebay, there is both genuine and fake (lego compatible) lego figures.

That’s a very strange suggestion from your husband. The beauty of Lego is that it’s creative and not prescriptive

I would not do this. My 4 year old loves lego, so I keep it all up high so he needs to check with me before he can play with it, That way I know when he has it out.
He is always pulling it apart and putting it back together but that’s the whole point of it. And if

My sons would be distraught at that Op

You’re an absolute maniac.

We built the set, leave it up for a few months, then dismantle it and put it in a box WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS! Yes it takes a little longer without the set bagged bits but they can rebuild it over and over.

Don’t let your own weird anxiety about incomplete Lego sets mean your kids are forced to use super glue with each part together during assembly. Also, if you’re that anal, how are you relaxed about the idea of superglue and kids?! Or would be assembling them on their behalf while they watch?!

God lord, I've never read anything so heinous! Lego should not be glued.

Single use Lego seems very odd and incredibly funny I'm afraid 😂

Good lord I'm so traumatised I can't type properly.

Lego is about building and imagination, not the finished product. No point spending so much money if your kids aren’t interested in the buildijg part.

Noooo. Watch the Lego Movie right now!

Don’t glue it, it will take away the fun and also lose any resale value.

Lego offer a service on their website where you can replace missing/lost bricks to keep the set complete.

@Chickpeaohchickpea

Just to clarify they do have general blocks, last year they got the large creative box set and a small lego set each. They have lots of fun with the little people from the lego sets and making things. Original structures long gone and all mixed together, definately some pieces have ended up hoovered etc. (Plus a kallax basket stuffed with duplo in the living room mostly for younger sibling now but all play with it - we do not have space for any more haha!).

We probably won't re-sell it. Maybe we should stick to the smaller £10-ish sets for now that they can build, eventually re-build and have fun with any people or animals that come with. Although they would really love the other sets for the 5 minutes they are up .

Why are you hoovering up lego and then chucking it? That’s on you not them.

They would be quite upset they can't re-build it when they do dismantle as they would absolutely love playing with the sets and I think get more play value if they can play with the sets. Realistically, if not glued they will loose the pieces and it'll all be be mixed together so definitely not does matter about re-sale value. Husband says if we glue them, in future they want to leave to soak in hot water they will unstick? Anyone know if this is true?

Don’t glue the Lego. For the love of god, don’t glue the effing Lego.

Are you for real? Lego is meant to be played with, to be adapted, to be creative with, not glued together!

Don't buy Lego if you're going to do that. Buy a model instead.

The entire point of Lego is being able to put it together and take it apart.

When I was little I had a Lego set that was a hotel called Paradiso. I was never allowed to play with it. Every so often my parents would redesign the shape of the hotel but when they weren't doing that it sat on a shelf not to be touched. It wasn't fair as it was mine.
I did have other sets I could play with, but it sucked I couldn't play with that one.

Dont glue it.

If they want to rebuild it then either they sort through their lego for the pieces or they replace the gren bit for a red bit they can find.

Or they create new things!!

Dont get hung up on losing a piece and let them play.

See also allowing children to colour outside lines, mix playdough colours, create from their own imaginations....

The whole point of Lego is that it can be dismantled, adapted, rebuilt into something else.

You are being VVVVVVVV unreasonable to want to glue it together.

Not the KRAGGLE!

You can't glue everything together in a child's life so it works perfectly.

Bits get lost, you can either adapt it order new bits.

They would absolutely love playing with the sets and I think get more play value if they can play with the sets.

It sounds like you are trying to make lego fulfill more than one role. It's not really about imaginative play and pretend play. Eg if your children love a toy pirate ship and will enjoy acting out scenarios and lots of pretend play with the toy pirate ship, you do NOT want to buy a lego pirate ship model. You just need to buy a toy pirate ship.

If your kids enjoy the process of building the pirate ship, and then taking the mast off and adding a rocket launcher they've made up from loose bricks, and some wheels, and calling it an amphibious assault vehicle, then changing it again, then dismantling and using half the pieces in something totally different, then lego is what you want.