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I just can't get over any Lego set aimed specifically at 16+ age...it's like grown-ups reading Harry Potter on the train.

My daughters birthday is May the 4th. I think of Star Wars to remember it. Pretty sad really.

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martinhutch - Member
I just can't get over any Lego set aimed specifically at 16+ age...it's like grown-ups reading Harry Potter on the train.

Or like playing out with your mates on bikes...

When Babybgoode is old enough (i.e his 1st birthday - think that will be fine) he is getting the Lego Unimog, Lego Imperial Star Destroyer and the monster size Millennium Falcon.

I just need to convince Mrs Danny they are actually honestly really for him...

Cheers

Danny B

How much?!?

£170 for a few lumps of plastic?, Ha...Ha...Ha...Ha..., christ, you could buy a Thomson handlebar for that kind of money 😉

and the monster size Millennium Falcon.

Lego is rad... Haters gonna hate.

Used to love Lego when I was a nipper, now it's huge commercialised rip-off with too many themed sets.

Yeah.. much as I like Lego, it's not a challenge to build, then what're you gonna do with it? Fly it around the houes making 'nnneaaaaaarrr' noises?

molgrips - Member

then what're you gonna do with it? Fly it around the houes making 'nnneaaaaaarrr' noises?

Well, yes. Obviously.

My son loves his lego and over the years he has been bought lots of sets as presents, but so many of them end up getting broken, dismantled and then mixed up in one great big box!

ithe kids stuf f is crap as soon as you touch it it falls apart so your kids cannot play with it and look at the prices

My son loves his lego and over the years he has been bought lots of sets as presents, but so many of them end up getting broken, dismantled and then mixed up in one great big box!

Ditto, and to a certain extent what I object to.

He's had loads of nice Star Wars sets over the years and not one of the models exists as a whole model. He would have just had as much fun with a load of 'space' lego like the old standard sets I had as a kid, they just don't do them so you need to pay the Star Wars premium price..

His Unimog is in one piece though.

Surely the whole point is you keep the big box of stuff and all the instructions and make the models more than once. Or encourage them to be creative and make new things /customise existing models.

Keeping a built model in perfect condition is totally against the idea of lego you may as well buy airfix models.

havinalaff - Member

Surely the whole point is you keep the big box of stuff and all the instructions and make the models more than once. Or encourage them to be creative and make new things /customise existing models.

Keeping a built model in perfect condition is totally against the idea of lego you may as well buy airfix models.

My gran bought me a big mixed box of lego when I was a boy in the 70s and I had hours and hours of fun with it. It did not have instructions, but I was able to use my imagination.

I have bought similar boxes for my son from ebay over the years and I reckon he gets more fun out of them than he does from the boxsets as he can use his imagination to create different things, dismantle them and then build something else the following week.

Yeah, but the star wars stuff is generally pretty expensive and has a load of specific parts for the kits too- so if you want star wars, it's great, if you just want lego it's not so good.

The new themed sets really annoy me. Too many specially formed pieces. You may as well just buy an Airfix model.

The challenge used to be making something look half decent despite the fact it was cobbled together from a collection of random coloured bricks. I liked the fact you had to use your imagination and squint a bit to make it look good.

Have they really stopped just doing general 'space' Lego?

I liked the fact you had to use your imagination and squint a bit to make it look good.

LOL at the squint a bit!

I can remember doing that.