[Closed] Lord of the Rings - Lego!

If only life were that simple.

[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-10179-ULTIMATE-COLLECTORS-MILLENNIUM/dp/B0017V21EY/ref=pd_sim_sbs_k_h_b_cs_4 ]Here's[/url] what I'd like ... but one's STW disposable income does not allow for such extravagances 🙁

Blinkin flip, 2 grand?

I'd want a real Millenium Falcon and a night with Carrie Fisher for that.

The LOTR stuff is a bit cheaper - skipping a takeaway should cover the next set. 🙂

Do they do a Balrog, if so you can count me in!

Matt

Yep, tis the same two grand from some of the other sets too 😯 Not sure how you justify that kind of outlay.

Do they do a Balrog, if so you can count me in!

[url= http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Balrog ]Not officially it would appear ...[/url]

will my kids actually be able to play with it as the Star wars stuff [ x wing tie fighter and other ship just break when played with

Any lego fans got any special ways to stick them together- i thought of glue as i am sick of rebuilding them tbh

Shouldn't it be your kids that do the re-building?

Sell the Lego and buy models?

(also, wut??)

will my kids actually be able to play with it as the Star wars stuff [ x wing tie fighter and other ship just break when played with

i was just chatting to my brother about this the other day. New lego doesnt seem to stay together as well as the old lego (from 70's and 80's) that we have.

Maybe its different plastics they use now, but building stuff with the new pieces its loads easier to seperate them than if we build the same thing with our old stuff.

It's also the fact that the new kits have so many "pre-sculpted" pieces that there is no longer the need to use 10 pieces when 1 will do. Therefore the structural integrity often goes out the window ... not to mention the creativity etc.

I bought my daughter the Spongebob Squarepants Bikini Bottom Party lego set for her 6th Birthday last week.

http://spongebob.lego.com/en-us/Products/Default.aspx

We had great fun building it and she has enjoyed playing with it since.

Not sure she would appreciate LOTR or Star Wars though 🙁

Any lego fans got any special ways to stick them together- i thought of glue as i am sick of rebuilding them tbh

JY, according to [url= http://www.bricksetforum.com/ ]the other forum I waste my life (and pocket money) away on[/url] (there are three or four mountainbiking active posters on there), the shop displays use normal liquid polystyrene cement, like you would stick an airfix kit together with. But this is effectively melting it together so even if you do manage get the bricks apart again, they will never be anything like the same when you try and build anything else.

For this reason, ex-shop display sets go for less than you'd imagine on the collectors/secondhand market.

I have heard of people using small amounts of pva glue for wobbly pieces as you can peel it off again, but never tried it myself: not sure if it would withstand 'playing with'.

Shouldn't it be your kids that do the re-building?

I did think of gluing as I cant see much re sale value anyone as their is little chance of them being complete.

I was doing Technic Lego at 7. Time they learned.