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Omg. How fun is Lego? Good for the soul. Not good for the eyes.
There should be a Lego library where you can borrow a set, build it, then return it. They'd sanitise it between builds. There'd be a fee if you return it without deconstructing it.
I say this because I like putting them together but I don't want to display ugly Lego on my shelves. I'm not leaning that hard into the 40+ year old single male stereotype and I just think they look bad in general.
That's a good idea.
I ain't gonna display them. It's not even the real lego. I just like pulling shit apart and putting it back together so Lego kind of scratches that itch.
Pull it apart. Keep the instructions but use the bits for free play.
Loaning kits of anything involves counting all the pieces when they come back. Very expensive in staff time.
Surely AI can solve this problem for us!
I love Lego. It costs too much, but I love it!
It's addictive
Sooo addictive. You might be interested to know that Jecka (similar principle but built differently) have a Jack Russell model or two. Yes, I've been sucked in but I haven't built it yet!
Woah. I need this!
Omg. Need to make him with sticky uppy ears!
I'm sure once you got the hang of the connector bits you'd be able to make them sticky up.
I'm gonna make this happen.
I need pics! Mine hasn't made it out of the box yet.
Will do! $320 for the medium one. I will just get small for now. I need pics for when you do yours!
I've just pulled the box out of the cupboard. Ours is a small too. The connecting pins are.... quite small. Like 8mm small. Designed for young eyes small. At least they're white though.
Hahaha.
And young flexible backs too.
I wish there were more decent big sets that werenβt themed to whatever franchise is in fad
My kid gets into some of the franchises, and right now it's Star Wars so $$$$. We keep all the instructions and over the years have accumulated a giant bag and a few organisers of bits. Free play is great fun, put the bag on the table and we'll waste a day building all sorts of stuff. We have sone of his favourites on display but change them up often.
When I was a kid I got no new lego, just a giant denim bag with all sorts of pieces inherited from brothers and various cousins 8-12 years older than me. A good chunk of the instructions were gone too. So in those pre-internet days I just happily built whatever I wanted and figured the very basics of random parts from some meccano set to make a basic steerable car and some kind of winding contraption.
We've built some awesome vehicles from the big bag of bits. Mine always lose in the races though.