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jassi007 posted:It was gradual. Duplo for 2-5ish years old, then some basic lego buckets, then some sets. The Duplo motorized train was a big hit, as were barnyard animals. My older son never really cared that much about cars and trucks, he's also loved video games and dino's etc. So minecraft and Jurassic Park sets are great. My younger son loves cars, so speed champions, police sets with bad guys are a big hit with him. We've branched into some super hero stuff also, they both like DC and Marvel. Star Wars has not been a big hit with them. My older son loves to build things, but doesn't play with them a TON. My younger son isn't as interested in building, though he is a little, but he likes playing more. Thanks for your thoughts, it is much appreciated. Great find on the sails. I had no idea there was a market large enough for someone to justify making them like that. I am going to see if there is a UK seller who produces some. I bet the merchant ones from the trading post are a harder find though because of the print.
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Does Lepin make sales? Is there a difference between Lepin products and those ebay auctions?
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May 6, 2019 23:08
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I did this in my daughter's nursery, she had no chance on not liking Lego....  I started her off with Duplo and graduated to normal Lego. I gave her a massive chunk of my loose bricks and I bought a huge Friends collection and combined those together. Now I won't build a new set without her help and barely a week goes by without us playing Lego.
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May 6, 2019 23:36
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mitochondritom posted:I was thinking back to my youth and I can remember getting a "big" set on Christmas or my Birthday and it was a huge deal for me. My collection as a child was built up over a decade and today, my daughter stands to inherit at least 3x that with my impulsive adult spending. It's kind of funny looking back at my Lego collection as a kid and how I always thought I had a lot of Lego, and my mom always said I had too many Legos. When I picked up my childhood collection from my parents house it was a single 5 gallon detergent bucket full. If I disassembled all of the sets I've bought over the last 5 years since I got back into it, I'm pretty sure I could fill 30 of those lol. Not to mention an entire corner of a closet full of spare parts. Now I think I officially probably have too much Lego.
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May 6, 2019 23:39
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My laptop just took a crap on me, and I have some architecture sets I'd like to unload to help finance a replacement. Anyone interested in the below, all complete with box and instructions. If I could sell them as a lot that would be ideal Robie house - bl pricing $250   Villa Savoye - bl pricing $70   Imperial Hotel - bl pricing $83   Sungnyemun - bl pricing $113   Also have a mini modular I could part with. - bl pricing $111   I'll nuke this if not allowed. It's been a while since I've put something up and I can't find much actually sold here or in SA mart. e: pics, xposted in SAMart Figured I'd offer here before ebay, BL, or CL [ts]xenophobe fucked around with this message at 00:11 on May 8, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 01:09
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mitochondritom posted:A question for those amongst us with children. How did you introduce your Lego to your children and how did they respond? I have a 6 year old who likes it. We used to have Duplo, which he liked but wasn't that crazy for. But to be fair, I found the roleplay value of the stuff we had to be a little lacking until a lot later when he was nearing Lego age anyway. When he got his first Lego cars (A little over 4 years) he immediately took a liking to them. He loves cars and loves taking cars apart. So lego cars with their amazing ability to roll really well and being capable of being taken apart and being put back together was exactly his jam. He received some of his own Lego and played a little with some of my old Lego back when it was still with Grandma. Now all Lego has found it's way to us, including the Lego belonging to my brother-in-law. My wife and I bought the same cabinets you have and sorted it by color. We also have 2 crates for complete sets or stuff that he's built that he's proud of. Figures and windows/transparent canopies were put in the same drawer. At first he was a little rough with it, but I didn't mind. Lego is mostly indestructible anyway. Though I did remove smaller/rarer/more fragile stuff. Like Antennas/small lights. I later on discovered old space helmets were also quite fragile so those have been removed from play as well. I have my own (Starwars) collection set up in my office. He's actually allowed to play with that if he wants to, but only when there are no friends over. Thing is, I trust him. I don't trust his friends. (and I've been proven right so far) But everything else he can just access freely. We occasionally build something from instructions. I have all of our instruction bound together in a big folder we can leaf through. We do play a lot together though.  Both building and general playing.The only thing I've noticed now that's starting to worry me is that he plays differently from me. That sounds wrong, but what I mean is that almost all of my figures are pretty much pristine despite my many hours of playing with them. Like I never realized the joke with Bennies helmet/emblem, because all of my classic space men are in perfect condition. I have perfect helmets, perfect prints and heads/legs that stay attached of Mtron, Blacktron, Classic Space, Black Knights, old City you name it. It's because I rarely swapped parts from my mini figs. He however does regularly swap shirts/pants, which is causing some of the older (and even some newer) stuff to become very loose.  I'm contemplating removing some of the classic space/Black knights/Mtron/Blacktron stuff from the box for now, because I know those are well loved and may be worth something later on if they remain in their current condition. But I don't really want to remove them either because they're also meant to be played with. In addition, he has taken a liking to a lot of the stuff I used to love and that just warms my heart. Now regarding the parting out, something I haven't seen mentioned yet. But in retrospect it's not quite perfectly ideal for (all) kids depending on the age. My son had a tendency to only grab 1 color making extremely boring constructs. Especially since I don't have every type of plate/slope in every color. Us big kids now exactly which parts exist in which colors and where to find them. He only knew about bricks and wheels. He didn't know hinges, different slopes, foldy thingies, plates with centralized studs, "binoculars", wings etc. And I didn't have all those in the 1-2 colors that he preferred. It took a bit of aging and me playing with him (woe is me) for him to learn the different pieces available and start grabbing other boxes to make more imaginative constructs. Sorting for us has worked perfectly by the way, he doesn't dump stuff into the wrong color and set his friends straight if they do it. While a nightmare for us, I do think a big box of everything works better for kids creativity. I would suggest making a selection of parts to work with, dump that into a box and have them start with that. mitochondritom posted:
Since we're talking about kids and Lego's. I have a whole bunch of sets I bought and still want to make, but I haven't yet. As I don't want him to see me constantly getting new toys. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I don't think that I set a good example if he seems me constantly buying stuff that I want whenever it strikes my fancy. I also want to teach him that saving money is also a good idea and that you can't get everything you want. (and that lesson stands as long as he doesn't look in the attic) In general, I will reward myself with something if I do something really good. (like finally hanging that shelf) Do any of you guys ever consider that, or do you just buy it anyway?
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Darth TNT posted:Since we're talking about kids and Lego. I'm thinking a lot about that too right now. My son is only 7 months old so there's still a lot of time, but I would agree. I think it sets a bad example to constantly be buying yourself Lego (or any other luxury item for that matter) as it can encourage bad spending habits with kids who have no concept of budget. Personally I'm stocking up on stuff I want now while I can get away with it, and when my son gets older I'll cut back. It's an advantage being into vintage themes as I don't have to worry about new sets coming out!
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May 7, 2019 11:27
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On the Duplo topic I have a 2641 from my childhood that my kids like and it's really a shame that there's no equivalent "jumbo" plane in Duplo today.
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May 7, 2019 12:06
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I have two kids (3 and 8). They are lightly interested in Lego, but don't dig them out too often. The older one mainly gets as far as putting the minifigs together and then ignores the rest of the set to play with them. On a related note, I just watched The Lego Movie 2 with my sick younger kiddo and really liked it. Probably because we're dealing with the main conflict of the movie on a daily basis.
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May 7, 2019 15:29
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Darth TNT posted:Since we're talking about kids and Lego's. Yes. If I come across crazy sales/clearances for interesting sets or ones I really want, I'll buy them but stash them in the garage until some later point where I think it's borh appropriate and not gratuitous. Probably 8-10 seta of various type in there now, ranging from $10 Nexo Knight cannons (half price, 5c pp avg, lots of angles gold tile pieces) to Destiny's Bounty (33% off), and the UCS Snowspeeder (30% off). And then as far as the kids are concerned, daddy only gets a new set on Father's Day or his birthday or Hanukkah or something.
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May 7, 2019 15:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWhQNQoWo9s
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May 7, 2019 17:36
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I wonder how much distance/power you could get out of using motors and gearing to drive a couple of wheels and launching stuff like a pitching machine.
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May 7, 2019 19:16
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Vonreg's TIE Pimpterceptor is hell of swooshable. I don't know anything about the character, but his ride is fly as hell.
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May 7, 2019 22:56
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That set sort of just makes me mad lol. Don't get me wrong it's cool, but and interceptor has been at the top of my want list for years and they finally do one and it's loving red. Lego has done a lot of color swapped repeats lately though so I am hoping that means a proper interceptor is in the works soon. They did it with the Disney Tie and X wing within like 6 months so I'm hoping that's the case again. Saw it the Lego store and it's a very nice set though. I just cannot bring myself to buy a red Tie. Edit: I guess that's have to do more than a palette swap though. It's more of a Tie Advanced with interceptor wings that an exact copy now that I'm looking at it. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 23:57 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 23:53
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I probably have thousands of dollars worth of out of production lego sets right now and the first thing Im doing when my niece turns like, 8, is breaking everything down and giving the tubs to her. I have my saturn v and two cars at my work desk, thats enough for me
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May 8, 2019 03:41
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You will probably regret it after a while... I am not kidding.
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May 8, 2019 07:02
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Build your coffin and gravestone out of Lego. Fill your coffin with Lego, too.
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I got our two daughters into Lego young by the best hook possible: bricklink'd a ton of Duplo figures and animals. I believe we are around 40 people and 70 animals. I tried to get at least one of every animal, and multiples of the ones they love. Turned out to be a great way for them to learn animal names, seeing and playing with brown bears, black bears, baby bears, panda bears, and polar bears. Almost every day turns up into them making a zoo and building bricks for the animais to have homes or places to eat. Over time, those homes start to resemble a house instead of a few flat bricks and some windows.
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Hopper posted:You will probably regret it after a while... I am not kidding. Yeah don't do this, those sets will disappear forever. Just get some of those tubs that have a mix of pieces in them.
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May 8, 2019 14:05
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It's lego. Missing parts can be replaced if it ends up being important.
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May 8, 2019 14:07
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xzzy posted:It's lego. Missing parts can be replaced if it ends up being important. Not if it was a rare piece that costs ten dollars.
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xzzy posted:It's lego. Missing parts can be replaced if it ends up being important. Replaced, yes. By Lego? No, if it's rare. (cue evil laughter from BrickLink-seller)
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May 8, 2019 14:13
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The pieces don't even need to be missing, the stuff will never get rebuilt and you'll have giant tubs no kid is interested in. As long as I had Lego I had a mix of sets built like the box and also random blocks I could build whatever with.
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May 8, 2019 14:14
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xzzy posted:It's lego. Missing parts can be replaced if it ends up being important.
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Captain Invictus posted:[laughs classic spacily] I've replaced several classic space parts via bricklink.  I even bought a TV antenna. Obviously I paid through the nose but I got the part. At any rate, if it's that big a deal, just filter out the expensive parts during disassembly and stash them away. This isn't rocket surgery.
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Waltzing Along posted:Build your coffin and gravestone out of Lego. Fill your coffin with Lego, too. Obviously I’m going to be interred in a full size replica of the mausoleum of Theoderic made entirely of Lego.
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May 8, 2019 15:03
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Anyone trading Disney CMFs? I’ve got two extra Hades, a Chip (the one with the acorn), and a Jasmine. I’m looking for Hercules, Scrooge McDuck, and Jafar.
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May 9, 2019 07:48
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As always, I preordered the whole set in advance. Which I always recommend other people do, as well. It's not as much fun as pulling them yourself, but you also don't sit there for an hour feeling packs and possibly screw one up. And you end up paying the same or less.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-10/meth-found-lego-box-second-hand-shop/11100158 That is a lot of loving lego
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Smoke it before sorting, you'll be done in no time!
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Man, they could have just sold all of that meth and had almost enough money to buy one of the bigger Star Wars sets.
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I finished up building the 20th anniversary Slave 1 and drat it's a nice piece. Kinda makes me wish I got the USC Slave 1 but I couldn't ever justify the price and I think anything bigger would have been too much. While I like the swiveling feature of the cockpit I'm not too bit on how the cockpit itself looks; kinda empty and not really... cockpit..y. Oh well, overall great piece and I'm surprised that it's taken be this long to get a Boba Fett minifig.
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-10/meth-found-lego-box-second-hand-shop/11100158 What can you build with that.
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Your addiction...
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Cojawfee posted:It didn't seem odd that the box was shrink wrapped? Sure, if your wardrobe is filled with jorts.
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it was brought second hand, i dunno how it is in the states but here some of those stores shrink wrap boxes of things like lego to prevent people from opening them and gutting the contents
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I finally took the plunge and dropped  on a pair of 6571's. My pieced together Mars Rover is finally complete and the rocker-bogie suspension is really loving cool to play with.
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I really enjoy my Mars Rover. It's a cool design. Also, it launched on my birthday, which is really cool.
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Nth Doctor posted:I finally took the plunge and dropped Why $20?
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