Who else has a night of playmobil construction ahead of them?

[Katz]

I have the School to build - eek! Box says takes 90mins! Hmmmmm

I think sittinginthesun wins as she will be standingintherain

Why are you all building your Dc's playmobil? I've always adored the stuff, and I would have been so cross if my parents had put it all together for me before Christmas day. Playmobil is all about building and creating a miniature world, that's part of the fun!

I am so glad that this year i have no playmobil or lego to put together , i think my days of constructing playmobil is over (which is kind of sad). This year its Furby and a nintendo wii so all ready to go.

Montage if I wasn't on my phone, I'd name change!

Why would you make up the playmobil beforehand?!

Surely the whole fun for the kids is helping to make it up?!

Good grief, what are you all thinkng?

You build it with DCs on Christmas Day, surely? The construction is all part of the process.

Have I been doing it all wrong then?

No, deux, you've been doing it the same way we do it.

I agree with the last two posters. The children are meant to make up the sets themselves with a parent helping on Christmas Day, It's all part of the fun at Christmas. DH used to love helping our DDs make up their Lego sets. He was quite disappointed when they got to old for Lego.

I have just built a Little People village for 1 yo DD. I think her helping tommorow would be a bit of a hindrance tbh.

I bought second hand and it's all assembled. Hurrah!

(DS is verging on too little for Playmobil and is definitely too little to assemble it himself)

Hope it goes well op :)

I usually open the box, make as much as I can whilst it still fits into the box. Can usually do a lot of the fiddly stuff without actually making it.

After last Christmas Day building PM with an over adrenalised 4 yo and 15 billion atom sized pieces in bags that have no relationship to each other, I have learned to build and re-pack in advance.

Common sense people.

This thread is reminding me of a horrid Christmas when DH took to his bed with a vile vomiting virus. I was completely frazzled and broken chained to the kitchen cooking for the guests, But when I emerged 7 year old DS1 had assembled both his own playmobile castle and 5 year old DD1s playmobile house.
Aww must try to remember the good times now he is an extremely annoying 19 year old

Only just seen this thread but we built the castle on Xmas eve. Took under 2 hours I think. DCs went to bed really well so we started at about 8.30, with the help of Vicar of Dibley and Baileys :o I was really impressed with the instructions and all the little connector widget things that made snapping it together pretty easy. Took a while to find the right pieces sometimes though as there didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the organisation of the packaging bags. But overall it was simple.

It was great fun! I never had toys like that. I had bought some extra knights (from enemy troops ) so I set them all up around the castle.

I'm sure DCs would have been excited seeing it in a wrapped box, but seeing their faces as they walked down the stairs to see it all set up was totally worth it. :)

Spent almost 2 hours building the pirate ship yesterday with the dcs, very stressful!

Mine are 5 and 3, so not quite ready to do all the fiddly building - though they are learning how to snap the bits together by taking it apart as they move it around the room.

In future years I may well leave it for them to build, but I'm glad we did it in advance this time. It was their Santa present too, which is usually something 'ready to play' (because Santa has had his elves setting it up :o) as opposed to the presents from us which are boxed.

I definitely wouldn't build Lego in advance though.

DH built the Wildlife Centre on Xmas Eve. Took just over an hour.
Really pleased with it, was a bit worried it wasn't going to be very stable after some of the reviews / comments I'd read on here.

DD loves it. She opened the other wildlife boxes and we put them together as we went along. The whole thing looks brilliant. I am so pleased.

Thank You MN Playmobil threads for the inspiration to build the big part the night before.

We've just built the pyramid. Utterly painless, and done in 20 minutes.

There is some kind of knights castle/tower still under the tree though. That might take a bit longer.

Child #1 was given a Lego Millenium Falcon. It's still in the box, there is just too much grey.