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Wilson Mui
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| Posted: 25 December 2024 at 3:52am | IP Logged | 1
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Anybody here collect or play with Legos?
I started building them recently and have
found them to be kind of relaxing. They also
make nice decorations.
So far, I have done the Great Wave, Starry
Night and Tranquil Garden. They are quite
addictive!
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Brian Floyd
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| Posted: 25 December 2024 at 6:39am | IP Logged | 2
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No, but my 23 year old stepson has plenty: Boba Fett's helmet, Mjolnir, The Infinity Gauntlet, and a few cars.
Last year for Christmas he got some knockoffs from Temu that make various sneakers.
Edited by Brian Floyd on 25 December 2024 at 6:40am
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Petter Myhr Ness
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| Posted: 25 December 2024 at 9:07am | IP Logged | 3
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I don't do it often, but I like building lego. The last one I did was the 1966 Batmobile. Took a while, but great fun.
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Brian Floyd
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| Posted: 25 December 2024 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | 4
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For me, the sticking point is the price. There are quite a few sets I want, but they cost too much.
(The 1966 Batmobile and `The Beast' from The Fast & The Furious are two that I want.)
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William Roberge
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| Posted: 25 December 2024 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | 5
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Yup, Star Wars, Harry Potter (a big modified Hogwarts) and other odd things to build. All fun stuff.
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Wilson Mui
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| Posted: 25 December 2024 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | 6
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For me, the sticking point is the price. There
are quite a few sets I want, but they cost too
much.
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I have only bought sets that have gone on
sale. I set up an alert on Slickdeals to
notify me.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 26 December 2024 at 7:34am | IP Logged | 7
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My son was heavily into Lego (still likes it but gets distracted by other
things - coding & gaming with his mates mostly.)
Someone bought him a Lego Mixle when he was two or three & we thought
we would give it him to see whether he would like it. Built it in minutes. We
were shocked. Bought him another, same thing.
He’d build things out of cardboard, but this made us realise that he really
was into engineering (slight digression, a couple of the things he built out of
cardboard by the time he was five. A printer/laminator combination because
why should you need two separate machines? & after watching Tim Peak
blast off to the moon, a cardboard launch pad, rocket & travel to the moon
progress slider).
So anyway, back to Lego. Loads of the stuff. A lot of Star Wars, Angry Birds,
Mario.
He did build the massive Bowser they made, but I think that kind of did him
in as after that he started to build less. We have talked about it & it seemed
to be a combination of it being just a bit too relentless, coupled with
everything just being yellow - too little variety. It became a chore & a ‘I have
to finish this before I move to my next one’, by which time he was needing a
break that seriously depleted his enthusiasm. Hoping to get us to build
something over Christmas, but I look back & wish I could have convinced
him to have abandoned Bowser - but that’s something you can never get
him to do.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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| Posted: 26 December 2024 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | 8
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My son is ten and also a massive Lego fan - like your kid, James, he also has always loved building stuff out of cardboard boxes.
We’ve mostly been Star Wars Lego builders, but we have an increasing number of sets from Harry Potter and Minecraft. Christmas this year was Lego intensive. To be honest, my wife and I have also started gifting Lego to each other - she loves the Harry Potter sets, and her big gift from me this year was the Chamber of Secrets.
There’s just an awful lot of Lego in this house.
Probably a fat chance since this is, by definition, a forum filled with collectors, but if anyone is looking to get rid of unwanted sets, let me know.
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Jim Muir
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| Posted: 26 December 2024 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | 9
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I grew up in the 70s playing with Lego constantly. Parents couldn’t afford
the latest big thing so I ended up building a weird brick version myself every
Xmas. Still fondly remember building a huge AT-AT in hideous
multicoloured bricks!
But I need to raise this (in a light hearted way !) —- the plural of Lego… is
Lego!
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Harry Dounis
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| Posted: 27 December 2024 at 12:22am | IP Logged | 10
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My daughter has SEVERL sets, I hate them although I admit to being an enabler. I did however enjoy building Slave-1. Most recently, I bought her Barad-Dur, should keep her busy for some time.
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