We have the duplo here which ds1 loves. It's bigger pieces, considering he's only 2. But he too loves creating things. We can make the objects or just make towers to knock over. We have heaps in the cupboard ready for Christmas, after target had their big toy sale. He will end up getting dh childhood Lego when he's a bit older, and doesn't put everything in his mouth.
I know Div will be in here too, but I will admit to lego in just about all rooms of my house.....
I have an entire coffee table drawer chockas with Duplo in the family room
A very large lego table in the study with all my old lego from childhood (kilos of the stuff)
DS has all his (numerous) new sets in his room in a large storage crate
and DD1 has all her lego friends (all the current sets) in her room.
It's the one toy that gets played with and played with.
DD2 is even excellent with it at 19 months old. It teaches superb fine motor skills.
Even though my kids love the new sets, they actually play more with the old lego as its just in a big rolling drawer. Their imagination is able to be free.
I have a GF whose son loves lego but he and she insist that they be stored and kept in their correct sets and then only played with as the intended creation. That kind of defeats the purpose of lego as a creative medium IMO.
We hate Lego here. Totally detest it. Would never ever try and encourage anyone else to buy it for their kids....
Yeah right!!
DD discovered Lego when the June/July got sale catalogues came out. She scoped out everything and te thing she kept coming back to was the Lego friends stuff. So we thought we'd layby a few sets for Christmas. Mum went on at midnight and layby'd every Lego friends pack they had. As well as the couple of creator houses we wanted. Awesome. Except there ended up being 18 sets it something! Figured seeing a she was getting some for Christmas we may as well drag out her daddy's big set (1600 piece set from a free Christmases ago) and grab a cheap friends set and see how she went. (Un)Fortunately while we were looking for friends sets I may have found some that I wanted for me. And it may have gone from a couple of cheap sets to a lot of sets. For all of us! Over 50 sets since the toy sales started! Gulp!
I will say, dd has bought some of these herself. They are sets she really wanted so sold her "baby blocks" (bigger mega blocks) and bought them herself. I'll be heading in to the local Lego shop on thurs to layby this years friends advent calendar. And the owner of the shop is already going to hold the latest Christmas village set for me when it comes in...
Dh sold off a large part of his Pixar cars collection to re invest the moolah in Lego too. Which was kinda awesome of him!
Ok so we have
City stuff - garbage truck, couple of emergency bikes, truck and trailer with a digger thing for mining. Couple of police sets. Dd is dying to get the big police station. I told her to sweet talk her uncle lol
Easy build sets - cars, safari animals, princess and I think there is another couple too
Creator houses - three houses, a beach cottage, a lighthouse (ok, the last two were for me). Love that these have three builds ranging from easy to hard.
Winter village (aka Christmas village). Have three of the four sets released so far. Another comes out in the next six weeks. Have to save up to get the toy shop. Rate and exxy. But gorgeous! Lego man is trying hard to get it in for me at a reasonable price. Lol
Friends - lots of sets. Lots and lots of sets! The school, the big boat, horse trailer, plane, dog show... All the little $5 animal sets...
Between now and Christmas we will have all of last year and this years released Friends stuff. Took some hunting but we found it! Local shop has been awesome (the guy is a huge Lego geek but really helpful - and I like supporting local peeps) and I found an online shop (that also happens to be very local) who sells a lot of stuff. Including older sets. Most of the older ones were cheaper than eBay - and flat $5 delivery.
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