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?

Dismantling the set to build something else is the whole point.

There are specialised glues available though, designed to be kid-safe and temporary. Might be useful if a set has to be displayed somewhere it's likely to get bumped.

Not super glue.

So baffled by this thread. It never, ever occurred to me as a child that anyone would glue lego together. I mean blimey what on earth. It's not even april fools day.

The whole idea is to build and adapt LEGO, as others have mentioned. The stand alone sets, are made, just to make more money for LEGO.

Homes would get full up with glued up LEGO, and run out of places to display them,

DH is obviously evil.
Not Kraggle.

Lego that is superglued will NOT come apart in hot water. My son did a placement in Lego land and they (obviously) superglue all the displays together. The only superglue type that will work to hold it is methacrylate and that melts the plastic and fuses it together. That's what gives it to the strength other wise with other types of glue it would be too brittle/not hold etc.

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

Ps if it's too difficult for them to build back together, it's not the right age for them.

DS is rising 5 and builds the 4+ or 5+ models himself from the instructions. Don't be tempted to buy an older age range model than they can manage to build themselves.

I think you're right. We probably need the 4+ models for them to do it independently or with very little help. I figured older sets would be okay, they just will need more help to put them together but since they'll get upset it's too complex to put together this might be wrong idea. Probably should start off with simpler ones and build up. Thank you.

Which sets?

Is it a present for the children or your husband?

Most of the joy of lego is taking it all apart and putting it together a different way. If its lego for the sheer joy of it you want, buy a kilo or two on ebay and let them get on with it

lego by kilo on ebay

you get extra of the really tiny tiny pieces in a lego set.

you also get three options of configuration and instructions in some sets.

We have masses of lego in a huge big bag with all different sets mixed together. But it is still very doable to rebuild sets from the original instructions. Just have to do a bit of searching first. If you think it is going to be a massive problem get different boxes to store the bricks in colour groups to make it easier to find what you need.

@JackieWeaversZoomAc

as adults when at the pub chatting with friends about crazy things that happened when they were younger, your grown kids will talk about their Dad glueing their lego sets together and everyone will roll their eyes and sign in commiseration with them.

I think Lego sets get built and then after that they go off and exist as free range lego don't they? So your kids can use their imagination to build new stuff?

Definitely. I still remember my disappointment when I found out my mother had glued my first lego set - an ambulance-helicopter - together because she thought I was too stupid to put bricks together.

I never touched it again after finding out it was a pointless ornament on Christmas morning.

You've missed the point of Lego! Get Playmobil if you don't want them to be able to build and rebuild.

The thing with Lego is if you get the right sets they can go up in value (only if you haven’t glued it together.

If you are going to spend a lot of money on a set and he is worried that it is going to be worthless when mixed with other sets then glueing it together will render it worthless and your children won’t even have the pleasure of playing with it.

Technical Lego is really catering to a very different market - ideal for model makers and older children (all the way up to adults!).

The more traditional Lego (simpler generic blocks) is far better suited to the young, and ideal for general play / creativity.

From my own childhood memories, you can never really have too much Lego! either because you need more and more pieces to build a larger object, or because you want enough pieces in a certain colour if you're trying to be super neat with your model!

A child's mind is so creative - they can stick 4 wheels on anything and turn it into a spacegoing tractor with fire engine capabilities!

@Chickpeaohchickpea if you are looking at lego friends sets would this be better?
www.playmobil.co.uk/onlineshop/products/dollhouse
I have previously bagged up separately all the teeny tony little pieces and left the figures and main bits
These may be good along with some smaller lego sets they can easily build?

WTAF?

Buy the sets and save them until your children are old enough to enjoy them.

Micro-managers.

You and DH really need to watch the Lego Movie.

Buy one for your DS not to glue and one for your DH to glue

That's cheap for lego OP 🙈🙈

*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.*

Yes, this!!

I still have 18 year old plus Lego at my house (not glued) that my niece and nephew play with

There are plenty of playmobil sets that are much more fun than Lego, my kids liked the park and swimming pool (filled with water)
They also liked sylvanian families and polly pocket, all small but study structures

@Menora

I still have 18 year old plus Lego at my house (not glued) that my niece and nephew play with

There are plenty of playmobil sets that are much more fun than Lego, my kids liked the park and swimming pool (filled with water)
They also liked sylvanian families and polly pocket, all small but study structures

Keep the Lego, ditch the 18 year old! ;-)