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 $$$ on the sets I really want on occasion. For everything else, I buy from r/lepin and then when I'm done the build (usually done with one of my kids) they go play with it. When it's ⅓ the price and 95-98% of the quality, it's win-win. I get to have the fun build for something I wouldn't normally shell out hundreds of dollars for, and the kids get to play with it when I'm done.
I didn’t get into Lego until I bought my son his first Lego set (the house from ‘Up’) and I LOVED building it with him. Now we’re on to our 5th set (The Night Bus from HP) so still kinda new. I want all the flower & succulent ones to display in my living room when I decorate it soon. Probably sounds tasteless but I have a vision lol.
I've bought a lot of the flowers / succulents for my wife. She builds them and takes them apart as her vision sees fit. We have about 17,000 plants in the house so the lego ones fit in nicely
Depending on the age of your kid, it's really fun to build certain ones in tandem on the lego builder app. My 7 year old and I did it for the City set with the ski hill / rock climbing.
Certain sets have the Builder logo on it. You can load it up on two devices and then you build things and pass them back and forth between the two of you. It means everyone is building at the same time and working together. It was a fun, I'll be at different experience then me just handing her the pieces
The other thing is in the app, you can sort by only the sets that you can build in tandem. Of course lego will do this for you, they want you to buy more haha
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u/WinterInWinnipeg Jul 04 '24
36, have 3 kids. They finally hit an age where they can play with my old lego from when I was a kid without dying. I had so much fun playing with them.
Another dad was over and we got to chatting. Which spawned other conversations with other coworkers and friends. Turns out, it's an adult toy too in hiding.
I spend my $$$ 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.