lego.. where to start.. what sort?

[robinpud]

ds will be 5 next month. he loves k'nex and meccano and has loads of big lego-duplo, but we wanted to get him started on little lego. I have got a basic tub from Sainsuburys in the sale and a board but wanted other relatives to get him some more. But we don't want it to be only used to make .. e.g Harry Potter.. he doens't know much about Hp. what have your sons got and what has the longest stayng power?

or what do your girls have!?!
dd1 has a big blue box bought from Argos (was £15) and added to that have been specialty things like windows, trees, ummm some flowery things - we also have a book of ideas that it came with. Oh, and a base board to fix things to.
We don't have any proper sets
(well dd2 had princess megablocks, that a bit different!)

If you can get to a LEGO shop they do a pick and mix which is brilliant. They do two sizes I think they are £6 and £11. You can cram loads in and you can choose exactly what you want. I would start with loads and loads of different sized bricks plus a couple of windows, doors etc.

We have loads now - my boys are 7 and 4 and they both love it.

deffo base board and a couple of "vehicles" with cows/horses. and the roof bricks, i remember loving those as a child. sigh.

The generic vehicles, like in the City range, have gone down well, also the little figures and sets some of which used to be called Jack Stone. As recommended by ds !

Argos have this big box for £19.99

Bionicles are good. And we bought dd a lovely house kit for Xmas, which can function as a small dolls house. Not so good for boys, I guess, tho you can use it to make windmills.

fauve, where did yoiu buy the house kit? would be intersted, we are making houses at the moment, but a kit might be nice

I got it from the Lego shop in Kingston (Bentall Centre). But other shops did have it before Xmas - £25 full price. Tis lovely - the windows open, there are paving slabs, flowers, trees

Here! Bet you really want one now!

oh tis gorgeous! I was there just yesterday and was only looking for bargins, so missed it - but did get some of their christmas decorations, v cute!
thank,s will do nicely for birthday I think!

Did you know they had advent calendars before Xmas? They sold out though - bad planning. We ended up with a Playmobil one, which began our Playmobil collection.

dd had a clickets advent caldendar - she told everyone that it was 'lego for girsl' (shudder!) given to her by my mum I should add!

Ordinary lego (not the complicated kits) was all DS could do at 5. he's now 6 & just getting the hang of how to do the kits (he can just about follow the direx). He couldn't follow the kit direx before. So just a big tub of lego & a building base, is all I would get at 5.

zebra - aren't you in Canada? why are you jetlagged,. beenm anywhere nice?!

zebra - aren't you in Canada? why are you jetlagged,. beenm anywhere nice?!

I now want a Lego Yoda keyring ("Keep your keys safe he will!")

(Hi Hana, I'm back in England, was in California for a month until 2 days ago, should be in bed, now! ).
Back on topic... My 6yo still enjoys duplo more than lego; he can build bigger things faster with Duplo.

DS1 (nearly 5) likes the pirates and DS2 9nearly7) the Vikings.

Mailoder Express have some good Lego deals at the moment.

ebay secone dhand imo

Hefty postage though, Cod.

TK Maxx sometimes have some good sets in.