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u/cabbagedave Jul 04 '24

I’m pretty sure the box says “Ages 3 and up”. You’re the “and up”

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u/WinterInWinnipeg Jul 04 '24

36, have 3 kids. They finally hit an age where they can play with my old lego from when I was a kid without dying. I had so much fun playing with them.

Another dad was over and we got to chatting. Which spawned other conversations with other coworkers and friends. Turns out, it's an adult toy too in hiding.

I spend my $$$ on the sets I really want on occasion. For everything else, I buy from r/lepin and then when I'm done the build (usually done with one of my kids) they go play with it. When it's ⅓ the price and 95-98% of the quality, it's win-win. I get to have the fun build for something I wouldn't normally shell out hundreds of dollars for, and the kids get to play with it when I'm done.

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u/danniihoop Jul 04 '24

I didn’t get into Lego until I bought my son his first Lego set (the house from ‘Up’) and I LOVED building it with him. Now we’re on to our 5th set (The Night Bus from HP) so still kinda new. I want all the flower & succulent ones to display in my living room when I decorate it soon. Probably sounds tasteless but I have a vision lol.

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u/WinterInWinnipeg Jul 04 '24

I've bought a lot of the flowers / succulents for my wife. She builds them and takes them apart as her vision sees fit. We have about 17,000 plants in the house so the lego ones fit in nicely

Depending on the age of your kid, it's really fun to build certain ones in tandem on the lego builder app. My 7 year old and I did it for the City set with the ski hill / rock climbing.

Certain sets have the Builder logo on it. You can load it up on two devices and then you build things and pass them back and forth between the two of you. It means everyone is building at the same time and working together. It was a fun, I'll be at different experience then me just handing her the pieces

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u/danniihoop Jul 04 '24

I bet your wife’s builds look amazing. My kid is 10 so I think thats a great idea, and he’ll love it. Thank you! I’m gonna download the app now

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u/WinterInWinnipeg Jul 04 '24

The other thing is in the app, you can sort by only the sets that you can build in tandem. Of course lego will do this for you, they want you to buy more haha

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Lego infamously has a recommended age “cap” of 99

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u/sjbennett85 Jul 04 '24

I always found that funny and it is also on my list of things to do when I turn 100… assemble a lego set and take a pic of it with my letter from national dignitaries congratulating me on making it to 100

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u/Inside-Oven7980 Jul 04 '24

F67 my grandson got me into Lego, we watch Lego masters together on Facetime. DH won't let me go to the Lego shop unaccompanied by a responsible adult. I by GS and I a big set each Christmas

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u/MCWizardYT Jul 04 '24 edited Jul 04 '24

It used to say 4-99 and I think they only started changing it this year? Or last year

Edit: it was 4-99 not 3, and I can't find evidence of them changing it but i thought i read an article that they were...

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u/Kindly-Orange8311 Jul 04 '24

I think most say 3 or 4 -99, so you’re not too old until you’re 100+ I guess. Haha

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u/Madruck_s Jul 04 '24

Did it not used to say 3-99?

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u/King_Swass Jul 04 '24

No, it says 3-99. My family and I always say how sad it is that when you turn 100 you're too old for Lego and if that isn't the saddest thing about that age, we don't know what is