If the set gets broken apart, I strongly encourage my kid to gather up the legos and store them in the original box. Mixing and matching can be a nightmare when it comes to build again when the sets are 1000+ pieces.

Well, my kid is too young to build complicated Lego sets.

We have some Star Wars Legos that are on display in our basement.

We also have the Beatles Yellow Submarine set, which DD has claimed, so it's only half-built right now, since she's been playing with it.

We have them in gallon ziplock bags with the instructions in a big bin. But he rarely rebuilds them. I'm sure we'll mix them all together at some point though.

I get grandma to destroy them and mix up all the sets so they become worthless and can never be used again.

Then I have her yell at my kid if he cries.

My son takes them apart after a while. What's the point of them to sit and collect dust. They are too expensive.

Whatever the kids wants to do with them. Some kids break them and build with instructions again. Some break and make something new. Some leave them assembled as proof of accomplishment or as art.

They are lined up in the playroom and DS plays with them using the character pieces.

My kid had them displayed all over his desk and the top of his bookshelves and the top of his dresser. He had dozens of things that he built. It was a sad day for me when he decided he needed his desk for homework and his keyboard and put all of his Legos in a bin and put them in storage. Not a little boy, anymore. \

Anonymous wrote:Usually they build the thing...keep it like that for a week or two then they twke it apart and the pieces just go into the Lego bin with all the other pieces. Then they create a different version or some new creation.

Pretty much this. Sometimes I put the completed set in a ziplock bag and add it to the bin like that. Eventually the set is broken up and becomes loose parts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usually they build the thing...keep it like that for a week or two then they twke it apart and the pieces just go into the Lego bin with all the other pieces. Then they create a different version or some new creation.

This.

Plus 1. Especially after I take it down because she usually has a bunch of other projects going on and no room left for display. Sometimes I put individual pieces to a specific set in a ziplock, and out it in the bin with the others!!!

They are displayed until the housekeeper breaks them. Then they sit in a half-assembled pile for a year or so and they they get thrown in with the general LEGO bin. Except the mini figs. Those stay with all the other mini figs of other LEGO sets that met untimely demises.

Sometimes my kid keeps it and uses it as a play set.

Anonymous wrote:Usually they build the thing...keep it like that for a week or two then they twke it apart and the pieces just go into the Lego bin with all the other pieces. Then they create a different version or some new creation.

This.

Usually they build the thing...keep it like that for a week or two then they twke it apart and the pieces just go into the Lego bin with all the other pieces. Then they create a different version or some new creation.

I guess the title says it all.

If your kids get lego sets that are designed to build specific things, do they always build the things? Afterwards, what happens to the legos? Do they stay built? Played with? Looked at? Rebuilt into the same thing? Turned into other things?