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?

The whole point of Lego is that you can redesign and rebuild as well as having the fun of the initial build.

Does your DH have no soul? What kind of monster is he?

[quote walkoflifewoohoo]@QuestionableMouse that's a Drona box 🤷🏽‍♀️ [/quote]
What is the unit called that it fits into?

@walkoflifewoohoo

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

That's a fair point as I haven't either, but they do come in wicker sones, which I guess someone might call a basket.

I'm annoyed too. The sacrilege of glueing Lego is too much.

don't use superglue

you can buy temporary glue spray that's designed to keep pieces together for play or display, but you can still take them apart.

Wicker ones

Your husband is a knob if he wants to glue things tell him to buy his own set

Keep the instructions, keep the box.
You/your DC can re-build it at any time - that's pretty much the whole point of Lego!

When my DD (now 17) had finished with her Lego, we got the boxes out of the loft, and had a mammoth re-build and break up back into the boxes session.

Great fun to reminisce about her favourite childhood toy, and Lego all boxed up ready to go for the next generation as and when.

If they lose bits you can replace them from brick link.

My kids did loads of role playing with Lego, but they expanded the settings from the original parts.

Most of the fun is changing it around to create their own stuff. Ds1 isn't yet 5 and hasn't ever lost any of his Lego. He knows to put it back in the Lego box at the end.

Don't glue them! I've never got over one of my Lego sets being glued together, I still mention it to my DF after 40 years.

Reminds me of a childhood friend's dad. He painted her white trainers black so they wouldn't get dirty.

I can't put my finger on why, but we all felt so sorry for her. She was devastated. It's only a pair of shoes, but 40 years on I remember and still think it showed something bad about the man. I still don't really know why.

You can get both baskets and boxes that fit kallax units.

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!

Mine orchestrate endlessly complex scenarios with the people, but the actual structures don't withstand much playing unless they are just there as a focal point. There's some kind of physics weirdness whereby if you need to get two pieces apart, it's almost impossible, but if you want pieces to stay together, they lose all structural integrity and just crumple at a crucial point. Or perhaps my little hooligans are too vigorous for Lego models!!

PS I knew exactly what you meant by kallax basket - Ikea newbs need to study their drona/knipsa/brannas/gnabbas history!!

Just leave them to it. In our house sets are built upon opening the box, but then all the lego ultimately ends up in a giant Lego storage bin which then gets tipped out if they’re looking for a particular piece.

Watch the Lego movie. Please.

Do you really want to be the villain?

If they're bought for your dc, then they choose whether they put it together and glue it and keep it like that for ever, or take it apart and make something different.

if your dh wants one then he can also choose if he wants it to be stuck together.

It sounds to me that you are really buying the lego for your dh under the pretence that it's for the dc. done that

I considered gluing the early Minecraft sets as if you just went within 30cm they fell apart. I'm sure I saw somewhere where they used a glue mist thing. But then I realised it would ruin the fun.

"What is the unit called that it fits into?"

Tis not a basket. Also isn't what the OP has so

Yes, I'm nitpicking. And why are you still thinking of gluing them???

Does anybody have the link to the broken Lego thread?

Lego is made to stimulate imaginations, to build make believe worlds or objects. It gives kids a sense of achievement with even the smallest constructions.

The more technical sets are better for older children, even teenagers, but a plain old bucket of assorted Lego is ideal for younger children.

Supergluing them is such an adult way of thinking. Kids love deconstructing as much as constructing.

Get the buckets... and avoid walking barefooted. You have been warned!

@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 .

H? Is that you?

I'd LOVE to glue all the Lego together into tidy, pristine sets. The mess and clutter and randomness of loose Lego doesn't fill me with joy.

BUT. None of the Lego in my house is glued. My sons build, take apart, rebuild, take apart, create something random, take apart, combine three sets into one, take apart on a continuous loop. They love it and have learnt so much.

Good storage is essential. And keeping the instructions. We've never lost any irreplacable bits and my DSs have been Lego fans since age 3.

I have a Lego city & a couple of streets of all the Lego modulars & none of it is glued together.
Neither is Lego Minecraft world, my Winter Village, the random Ideas sets or my Ninjago world.

Sometimes I find that there has been a takeover & a portal to the Nether has grown out of the side of the bank which has been filled with a random assortment of bank robbers or a fight amongst creepers & an army of Steves has broken out in the pool hall.
Other times new 'builds' have sprouted out of Ninjago City, the docks or the Temple while bits of the bookshop have been demolished.
Sometimes I decide to mod buildings which I'm doing with my Brick Bank (got a couple & separated out the laundromat into it's own building)
That's the whole point of Lego.

All the sets also come with instruction books so you can always rebuild to the 'original' models if you want.

If you really couldn't care less about Lego, when your kids grow out of Lego you can bag up all the bits & sell them.
You'll get more if you have the book (& even more with the box) in good condition.
I have quite a few sets including smaller ones that I got for around £50 that have more than doubled in value if I was to sell them.

Once you glue a set together nobody will want it & it will slowly grow into the worlds biggest dust bunny as you can't ever take it apart to clean it & you'll probably struggle to get into the small spaces inside it.
It is also perfectly possible to get to the final part of a build & realise you have made a mistake at the beginning.
If you glued it together it will forever be wrong (& if it's a model like the Chinese dragon it might not work if you've messed up the gears).
Lego is a total dust trap.

What is wrong with just letting your kids play with their toys?
Just buy them a toy that isn't a builders toy if that's what you/your husband wants for them.

@Chickpeaohchickpea

here, use this.

We'll be rebuilding both the Death Star (10188) and the Pirate Ship (70413) using this temporary glue.
not used it yet, but it's been highly recommended to me.

I'm also making a splashback out of Lego in our upstairs laundry room so will use it there too.

Noooo just get storage bags for sets and keep the instructions.