Our kids have done the same and really as it should be......but it is a bit disheartening looking at the huge box with hundreds of pounds of Lego in it. Also the kits these days have so many tiny parts building something epic is nigh on impossible. And we have an X wing fighter to build, really hoping that doesn't disappear into the big box, I'd be gutted.
Guilty as charged. I'm horrified when I find junior's Marvel sets in bits and mixed up. I download the instructions, put them back together, and leave them on a high shelf out of harm's way. Just a step away from supergluing them together. Must stop doing that. Don't know where it comes from - as kids we had a big mix of Space and City stuff (maybe some of those knights as well, plus my sister's Fabuland) and it all lived together in a big box and way way more fun like that.
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I don't like seeing carefully built kits sitting for months on the kids' shelves. Always prefer it when they break them down to build their own creations.
The first two Technic lego kits my parents bought for me, my Dad helped me build up. Less than an hour later I had dismantled them to build something else. He stopped helping after two of them! So now I feel slightly sad that the lego kits I have bought for myself and built up are just sitting there wasted as nothing creative is happening with them at all. It's going to be several years before my first boy is old enough to play with it.
This is exactly the point made by the new Lego ad:
Not seen anything like that for a long time. Of course, there is a community-made website that takes this idea to it’s logical extreme (rebrickable.com). Enter what sets you’ve got (you can even enter your entire inventory of loose bricks if you want!) and it will query the database of both official and un-official sets and tell you which ones you have the bricks to build!
How did I not know that existed? Awesome.
The only Lego kits that aren’t meant to be plundered for other uses are the ones aimed at the grownups. They are for display cabinets and they are very good for it, too.
Lego should be used for making the imaginary come to life. This week we made a duplo house that was entirely doors. Each one had a different use. I say we, I was only there to be shown what was going on, not to actually touch the Lego
Your kids are doing it right. Not that The other way is wrong, just not as correct.
seem to wind up some Lego fans
Was there booing from the Fanzone as footage of OP's kids playing was shown on the big screen...?
It's like Dylan going electric, you can't please everyone.
Kragle...
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I loved Lego as a kid and can’t wait for mine to get in to it. Sorting is a crime though. Massive bucket of mixed bricks, tip it over and let your imagination run wild. Sorting by colour and type is what an adult would do.
This is my desk at work
I loved Lego as a kid and can’t wait for mine to get in to it. Sorting is a crime though.
You clearly didn't have enough of the stuff. (-:
I play with mine. 🙂
Y'know, Orcs and giant spiders vs Batman and the Rebel Alliance. I does (sic) all the voices, Dickens fans.
Growing up is for other people.