How protective are you of Lego creations?

[Anonymous]

If you want a compromise, let them break, but keep each set in its own smaller bin or box, unlike what PPs do. That way if he builds an airplane, breaks it apart, makes other creative things with the pieces, but wants to rebuild the plane later, all the pieces and instructions are in one box or small bin together. Do this for the nicer sets.

[Anonymous]

If your DS doesn't care if his sets get broken apart, then it seems weird that your DH does.

I had the opposite problem when my son still played with Legos. As soon as DS finished building a set he really liked, my DH would take it apart, throw away the box and instructions and just toss the pieces into a giant bin with other Legos. However, I have a kid who wanted to rebuild the same set again and he never could. He didn't care that much about building other stuff with random pieces.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Legos are for playing with, building, breaking apart and rebuilding...EXCEPT for the really expensive collectable sets you purchase specifically to be collectable. Like the Death Star. Or the Christmas village and Haunted Mansion we take out and put up each year. Or those $200 town sets they release one of esch year.

Only those.

Nope, in our house they are for playing, too. We have specifically been coaching DD (5) for quite some time about "what happens if so and so breaks a lego?" Correct answer is always, "We'll fix it later, it's no big deal." We find that guests, including young kids, are way more uptight

Death star is retired and going for $700 on ebay. It was I think $400.00 new.

It is not a toy. It is a collectable.

I am guessing you are not buying those kinds of sets.

Actually, yeah, we are... Not the Death Star, but we have the ferris wheel, the modular bank, the haunted mansion...and multiple trains. All for playing.

So your kid is breaking the $200 sets and dumping them in the play bin?

[Anonymous]

My son is particular about certain sets or creations, but during play dates we just move those into my bedroom. I don't sit there and monitor to make sure that his guest doesn't break anything.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like DH needs to keep those sets in his room.

[Anonymous]

DS was protective of some and not others. If he didn't want something broken he put it up. He was working with a friend on a city... those pieces stayed together. They had it all set up on a car mat.

Your husband needs to take a hint from your ds. If ds isn't bothered then an adult shouldn't be.

[Anonymous]

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Actually, yeah, we are... Not the Death Star, but we have the ferris wheel, the modular bank, the haunted mansion...and multiple trains. All for playing.
So your kid is breaking the $200 sets and dumping them in the play bin?

I am not this PP but we have several of those huge sets.
I think it really depends on how your kids play. If they do a lot of imaginative play with elaborate scenarios that require the massive sets intact that's great. Keep them around. In our house, these big structures get built and they stick around for a few weeks while we admire them. But DCs don't really use them for imaginative play. So then they are taken apart and go back into the big bin with all the other pieces so they can build something else. I don't really understand people who keep them around forever just to stare at them.

[Anonymous]

I don't think 5 year olds should be playing unsupervised with precious, $200-$400 collectibles that basically are designed to fall apart and be put back together, but "wrong".

And life is too short to supervise 5 year olds playing with such collectibles that are designed to be taken apart, but aren't supposed to be taken apart.

So I say, if the collectible comes apart during active play it isn't a suitable toy for playing with. Put it away, under glass, and play with sturdy toys that are meant to be handles without coming apart.

Or let kids play with Legos that aren't fancy and collectible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hasn't your husband seen the Lego movie?

I was thinking the same thing!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hasn't your husband seen the Lego movie?

I was thinking the same thing!!

Me, too!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hasn't your husband seen the Lego movie?

I was thinking the same thing!!

Me, too!!

We've been punked. This is all guerilla marketing for The Lego Batman movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4116284/