To super glue together lego sets?

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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?

@walkoflifewoohoo

For god sake, why start a thread then just refuse to listen? You're not getting it, even the bit about selling it on afterwards. It doesn't need to be together in a set but it needs to be not glued.

And wtf is a "kallax basket"?!

Kallax:

www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/kallax-shelving-unit-white-70301537/

We've got them in two bedrooms with kallax units. One for stationery and craft stuff and another for my yarn and sewing supplies.

I understand your logic but if you are going to put it together and glue it before you give if to the kids it seems a bit pointless.
It would probably be much cheaper to but the equivalent toy (fire engine or whatever it is) than but the lego version and maybe get a couple of lego people they could play with the toys.

@QuestionableMouse that's a Drona box 🤷🏽‍♀️

@Drivingmeupthewall

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

This.

If your husband wants to glue something get him an airfix kit

I've got a kallax unit. I don't know what a "kallax basket" is.

Do not glue Lego sets together. That is sacrilege

Ds invested heavily in Lego when he was younger and it is about to pay off and get him a deposit for a house.

If you lose a brick you can always get replacements

Are you married to President Business? Is tomorrow Taco Tuesday?! What is happening?!

Don’t glue the Lego, let them play with it as nature intended!

Don't glue Lego!

I wouldn't get the expensive sets for a child, but if you do you need to accept that some bits will get lost. It's the price you pay.

Husband has said I can't spend that much if he can't glue it together whilst he's building the sets with them!

OP is getting a lot of flack but it was actually the husband who is insisting on the sets being glued and not allowing the OP to spend that much money if he can't glue it.

Who the fuck is this present for? The DCs or the husband?

Get him one of the lego sets as a Christmas present and get the children something else they can actually play with properly - whether that's playmobil or something else for small world type play or different lego sets which they can build themselves and be creative with.

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? test it with two of the other lego bricks you own?

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

The "play value" of Lego is not role play with the completed sets.

It's the build/rebuild/change/create process.

Don’t buy the sets, just a general box of Lego .

Come on, you know you shouldn’t be glueing the Lego.
What a fun sucker your dh sounds like

@walkoflifewoohoo

I've got a kallax unit. I don't know what a "kallax basket" is.

This:

www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/droena-box-black-30219281/

The first post on this thread made me laugh out loud.

I have a ten year old lego lover. We took all the lego at the beginning of lockdown 1 and rebuilt it. We thought we would sell the sets but the missing pieces were discontinued.

Since then he's rediscovered it all and has so much fun with it. Its all bloody dismanteled again now.

[quote walkoflifewoohoo]@QuestionableMouse that's a Drona box 🤷🏽‍♀️ [/quote]
Are you on a wind up?

I'm sure if you have a Kallax you know that the storage comes in boxes and baskets that fit the spaces.

Whole point of lego is making it and dismantling it and build something else or whatever.
If you think they are too young for expensive boxed sets, maybe buy the box of lots of general sets for them to create with their imagination?

No I'm not on a wind up, genuinely never heard anyone use the term kallax basket or seen a basket that would fit in there as opposed to a box.

This thread has got me unnecessarily annoyed though

Fondly remembers the Xmas my bil spend the day building a pirate ship. Followed by 5 year old nephew dropping it on a stone floor 😂. Its the grown ups that cry.

@VettiyaIruken

Lego has gone bloody weird.

The whole point of it was to be able to use your imagination to build lots of different things, take them apart, build something else.

Now it's build this exact thing from a kit following these specific instructions. I'm actually surprised they don't include glue tbh.

So no, I wouldn't glue it. Id encourage them to build stuff and take it apart and build other stuff using their imagination and building their skills.

Yes, I was just about to say this. The thought of Lego coming with instructions makes me feel quite sad.

My tip with lego - go on Ebay - buy large mixed bundles of lego as the sets of 'blocks' are over priced and you need a lot of bricks to make stuff.

I loathe the expensive sets - for this exact reason! MY 9 year old gets as et, builds it then as soon as he tries to 'play' with it - it breaks and he is sad and frustrated.

What is the point of a 'lego starship' for example that a 9 year old wanats to run around playing roughly with - that will fall apart in his hands. Because it came as a 'set' he feels it is broken when bits start to fall of.

ie. pirate ship - if a 5 year old wants a pirate ship to play with - lego is a total pain. Get them a big pirate ship that doesnt fall into a million pieces.

It's all very well saying just have fun rebuilding - but it feels a bit sad if you see a huge set fall into a thousand pieces.

OP, we have £1000's of Lego in this house, and that is no exaggeration.

Not one of the sets is glued together. Not even the giant Hogwarts. If you're looking for a constructive set, Lego is your friend. If you're looking for a play set, get Playmobil.

Display Lego is fine once they hit 7/8. Before that it's all about the big boxes where they can build what the fuck they like. If you do go down this route, make sure you have loads of wheels. When DS was young enough to play creatively with Lego, he wanted everything to be on wheels.

They are boxes not baskets. Yabu op.

I understand you're angry about the prospect of gluing lego, but are you really nitpicking over whether we have a kallax basket or box? . We have the Knipsa seagrass basket

Do people really not do small world play with lego?! I thought the fun was you get to play with it after building, it was for me! There isn't a playmobil version of the sets I'm looking at. Maybe I should just get a smaller or a secondhand set whilst they're still quite little. Or perhaps as earlier poster suggested, presenting gluing as an option just before we build and see what they would like.

dont glue them together!! there are a million different other toys if all you want to do is 'play' and they are probably cheaper!!

The point of lego is to build and mix and use imagination.
We have a tonne of lego (3 kids age 10-14) so have amassed loads over the years (inlcuding mine and my sisters lego from when we were kids in the 80s!!) DS2 will swop his lego dinosaur parts over to make hybrid ones, will decide he wants to make a cable car (for which we have no set) so will make a cabel car out of bricks, windows and doors from various other sets and use the magnetic buffers from a lego train set to use as the cable car landing station.
he uses the beige lego bricks from DDs lego friends sets to make some planet from star wars for his stormtroopers to have a fight on.

The skills that lego teaches arent one dimensional play and order, its about imagination and problem solving and creativity and engineering and i think in a metaphorical way that things (and people) dont have to stick rigidly to thier own box - lego friends that is typically 'girl' can mix with star wars and jurrasic park, parts of a train can be used to make a space ship, a poodle from a lego friends dog grooming set can make a good police dog, etc etc.
By gluing the pieces together you are giving the message that you must stick rigidly to what society dictates. not a good message to be giving children. They should be thinking outside the box and creating thier own stories, theres plenty of time when they are adults when they will have to conform!

Dont present gluing as an option! Just let them play with tbeir sets and see how they get on.

If their pirate ship suffers in an explosion and is rebuilt differently it will be fine!

Of course they play with them after but adapting and playing is all part of it.

Buy your husband a large set for him to do himself. I bought myself the lego simpsons house to do (and resell) to get that side of me sorted!