To think lego is farking brilliant

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I just love it, DD likes it, but i love it - am watching james may building a full size lego house - hhh, wow, how cool is that - although he is cheating it seems it has some sort of timber frame.

Ours is always a very lego household. I think it's been a Christmas and birthday favourite since my DS got his first duplo set. He's now 11.

marymother we too had the daddy 'helping' problem. My husband had some Indiana Jones lego of his own this year. It kept him quiet for hours!

YANBU and YABU.

We have another Lego household here. DS1 is obsessed with Lego, and we have been actively purchasing it for 3 years now. My favourite things he builds are the things he himself comes up with - not the kits. The kits are useful for wierd pieces. I've been amazed by how much detail goes into his work, and secretly proud that he can concentrate for hours on his projects. I love the fact that it is open - ended (well, after you make the kit then break it apart again).

YABU in terms of the storage logistics of it. We have so much Lego (I'm going to guess between 7,000 to 10,000 pieces) and it is impossible to keep it organized. I purchased 2 large plastic storage bins and about 10 Stanley tool storage things to try and keep it all compartmentalized. It took several days for me to do, and lasts for one week. One of my New Years Day projects is to dump out all the pieces and re-do the organization. I am planning to shut myself up in DS1's room with a bottle of chilled champagne and just start sorting. Wish me luck!

We love it here too. Before Christmas I bought a big plastic container for the general stuff, plus several small boxes for the special kits. These have remained tidy because they have been playing with the new stuff, which is currently strewn across the floor.

We like Power Miners, which have kept them quiet for hours. We paid a ludicrous amount of money on Ebay for the Christmas Toy Shop. It is lovely but it took me several evenings to build (way too difficult for either of mine). I finished it last night.

Yes its great.
But we are also being ripped off. Ds1 wants not just normal Lego, but the Star Wars stuff and the Indiana Jones stuff. At £69.99 a pot, it is too much. But that comes down to marketing and rights and etc etc.
But that is hard to explain to a 5 year old.

Could you link to the vintage instruction website please?

oh, the toy shop - i soooooooo wanted that merle - but DD is only 4 and i had to sit and make up her bellville stable set for her - poor me .

I prefer the general stuff too - have resisted the urge to buy boxes of roof peices - its sooo expensive but i NEED it. Might have a bit of a lego hunting mission on ebay and bootfairs.

I will never forgive my mother for selling my huge box (i mean HUGE) box of lego for a tenner at a boot fair, but that was 20 years ago!

For those interested - old lego instruction website

brickfactory.xs4all.nl/index.htm

also Ds is very excited as Lego are doing a Ben 10 version from January.

We have the equivalent of 2 green wheelie bins full of Lego.

DS is a teenager now but will not give it up.

gets you to some kits you need to know the kit number to get to instructions but instructions

i love lego, it can be used to make all kinds of things - marble mazes - cars (with a bit of elastic, they can be wind-up cars) - even a lego crossbow (powerful enough to break glass)

Y-totally-ANBU

hours and hours of entertainment. even ikklies can enjoy the larger bricks - DS chews one whilst DD builds towers. Magic.

though i think James May could have ued a wider range of brocks to make a stronger house (using 8 or 12 longs could surely have made a stronger beam ?)

we have our own names - mono tip (11)tip (12) knobby (22) big (42) 8 long (81) big long (82) big long long (12 2) flat (the thin ones with knobs on top) tip flat (12 flat) knobby flat flat (2*2 thin with smooth surface) etc.....

moonmother - does it do the old basic block kit instructions as well or just the kits? Mn truely is the font of all knowledge.

Have any of you tried the lego games?

We have most of them now and they are awesome!

The boys and I spend hours playing with them!

ds got the space station one. could figure out the instructions until we watched through them on the internet. stroke of genius that. means that a 5 year can access the instructions without needing the ability to read them. Am just off for a game.

DidEinsteinsMum

brickfactory.xs4all.nl/theme/index.htm

basic instructions on this page- if you click on the pab at the top it goes to all the different themes of instructions they have.

It doesn't have all instructions- Lego only release a certain amount at a time, although they do seem to add more regularly.

oh will have a good look around on that later. have to go and do life now as i promised ds to have crawled out of bed and be up for 10am and only just managed it now Thank you!

I love Lego, and I am so glad that my boys are into it now too.
We were very kindly given a huge crate of it from a friend. DS2 decided that he was going to build some christmas decorations recently & they were fantastic.

One thing I would say though from bitter past experience is do NOT give your kids Lego away when they get older. They will never forgive you for it .

SofaQueen - if I bring the wine can I come & play please!!!!!

We have a house full of Lego. Dp a huge fan. Seems to have rubbed off on kids. As others have said only problem is treading on it. DS3 also had good variarion on We wish you... and a happy new lego.

love lego here too - both boys and girls! And we play with it when the kids are in bed...

AND we love the lego games on the Xbox...

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