I want to buy the Lego Death Star for DS

[Anonymous]

For Christmas. I know it’s crazy. It’s $1000. We usually spend about $300 total per kid on Christmas.

I’m just feeling like why do I work if I can’t buy my kid something awesome once in a while.

And no, college is not fully funded. We have about 60K in his account. He’s in 7th grade.

Talk me down!

[Anonymous]

I have the smaller millennium falcon (I think the $300 one) that we gave to DS for Christmas one year.

And by “have it” I mean have bits and pieces of it because it was 5 or 6 hours to build it and then it was too big to sit anywhere but the dining room table. That lasted a week and then I told him to take it to the basement where it got dusty and broken and pieces are now missing because Lego.

Where will it live when built? I’m not anti extravagant gifts, but a huge Lego is so impractical.

[Anonymous]

If your kids into legos, this is time to do it and then break it down and resell it- easy to do online and you’ll get at least 1/2 your $ back. Your kid will remember building the Lego set if you do with them. Just don’t drink your Starbucks for a year or pack a lunch instead of buy it and then won’t be any worse off for $

[Anonymous]

We have it! It was so much fun to put together and my kids have played with it for years. Yes, things break apart, but you can put it back together. It lives in our basement on a small kids' table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kids into legos, this is time to do it and then break it down and resell it- easy to do online and you’ll get at least 1/2 your $ back. Your kid will remember building the Lego set if you do with them. Just don’t drink your Starbucks for a year or pack a lunch instead of buy it and then won’t be any worse off for $

Or you buy used one to save $ that way too and then resell it again after build. The boxes alone resale for over $200 on eBay of keep in good condition

[Anonymous]

Is your kid REALLY into building lego kits? Are they REALLY into Star Wars? Then go for it!

Is it something that you think is awesome but your kid would think is less awesome? But it for yourself and let your kid help you put it together.

[Anonymous]

We have a bunch of very large Legos including a slightly smaller version of the Death Star and we are huge Lego fans, but I would draw the line at the ginormous Death Star unless I was really committed to breaking it down and reselling it. Our house is not big enough to keep it.

[Anonymous]

+1. It’s not so much the cost bc you know if it’s something you can absorb. For us it would be the space. I think we could handle it space-wise but definitely have a plan!

[Anonymous]

Do it. We have one and it was Dad's AND son's gift which made it easier to justify.

They loved building it together. That makes it an experience gift as well!

Also in future birthday or holiday there are lighting kits you can buy? But look into if you need to incorporate while you build.

[Anonymous]

Do it. We got this for oldest son for Christmas when he was smaller. It’s a core memory and the whole family enjoyed seeing progress.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a place to put it when it’s finished?

That was the problem we ran into when we did the Colosseum in December 2020. It was a great pandemic-holiday family project, but now it just keeps getting rotated through various unsuitable spots in the house.

If you do, go for it. That one has so many little fun details, especially if you’re a real Star Wars fan.

[Anonymous]

The thought of having that thing sitting around once assembled gives the clutter-hating part of me pause. Given the time and expense involved, you have to want that to be part of your home decor well into the foreseeable future.

[Anonymous]

It depends in how much your kid is into Legos. I like Legos but $1000 and the huge space needed for it are nos for me. There are a lot of smaller nice sets. I got the Book Nooks specifically because they could be folded up and stored more easily.

Let's also be perfectly honest with yourself: is this also a present for you? My kid is very into Legos but if I'm being honest sometimes my spouse and I buy Legos that we also like. Like the space shuttle set, it was totally also a gift for husband. If that's the case you need to own that a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The thought of having that thing sitting around once assembled gives the clutter-hating part of me pause. Given the time and expense involved, you have to want that to be part of your home decor well into the foreseeable future.

Not if plan to break it down and sell! Enjoy for X period of time and take lots of pics and then off it goes and $ goes to something else.

[Anonymous]

I overspent on fancy kids' toys and now have a hard time rehoming them. Our local donation shop tends to throw them out. I've seen their dumpster. I still have a Lego toy corner to pack away fully even though my kids are older teens.

My advice is that you cannot predict what will be a core memory for children. My younger son and I share fond memories around a Christmas when he went wild making cut paper snowflakes out of printer paper.

Also if it really is that fun, it would be emotionally hard to resell it. And it will be too big and underfoot. I have a small house and a 3x3 cubic foot dollhouse I hand-built with my grandfather while in 8th grade. I have nowhere to put it upstairs in my house that won't interfere with active living space. So it just sits in the basement. Maybe I'll get it out when I'm a true empty nester.