Just buy them then sell them after building them. You will get the majority of your money back.Does some sort of LEGO rental service exist? I love building sets but have no desire to keep them after and mostly consider them cost prohibitive.
Just buy them then sell them after building them. You will get the majority of your money back.Does some sort of LEGO rental service exist? I love building sets but have no desire to keep them after and mostly consider them cost prohibitive.
I bought the two Simpsons sets. I wish they'd done more. I wanted Moe's and the school. Though I still haven't put the Kwik-E Mart together. I don't have space for it right now.
Can't recommend this enough. Even though you're following instructions, it just keeps surprising you the way things are built. And when it's done, it's not just a surprisingly faithful reproduction of a painting, but a whimsical diorama, and an homage to Van Gogh's special mind. The 3D view built of legos is what Gogh 'sees' as he's making his painting in front of it. Ingenious.Most fun built thus far was Van Gogh's Starry Night, which is absolutely gorgeous because of all the details.
![]()
If you work hard enough, you may one day be able to afford a place to hold an Eiffel Tower model.
![]()
My 8 year old son built this model and has it displayed on his little square Lego table in his normal sized bedroom. He has severe ADHD and the big hard sets are great for his self esteem and helping him learn to manage frustration.
I built that years ago. It was fun. Got no where to display it so it's in a bin in my basement.My son and I did this a couple years ago and got a big thumbs up from the rest of the family:
![]()
I didn't like some of the first few Friends sets when they first came out but there are some really stand out ones. The botanical garden out right now looks pretty cool.Also can we talk about Friends? I have seen *women* trash Friends brand on twitter saying lego was for everyone blah blah. My daughter likes Lego, but she LOVES Friends sets.
Also some of these sets are freaking awesome, shes practically got her own little city going on cause some of the sets can connect to each other like the Lego modulars do.
Oh this is gorgeous. The bonsai tree was not a fun build but looks very nice as a display piece. this one looks like it would be more fun to make.
Who is dropping $500 on a Lego kit then just building whatever with the pieces? Lego seems like it's all about following directions now to me. And yeah, old kits had directions, but who built that then just kept it together?
How does it work ? This look amazingI have a soft spot for castles, so I splurged on individual orders from bricklink to complete the Hogwarts model from the OP 4 years ago (see pictures below). Mould King produced the expansion set a year or two back, so it is possible to buy it for an «affordable» price without giving any royalty money to Rowling.
![]()
![]()
this is a common refrain for some reason; it often leads into, like, people being weirdly mad about the innards of newer large sets looking like clown vomit (to make a more pleasant building experience) and how they can't use the bricks from a UCS star destroyer to make something else because it's not all gray. or... something.This may shock you, but every single set from decades ago still had directions you needed to follow to make it how it's pictured. Dunno where you get this "it's all about following directions now"
Don't sleep on the Speed Champions sets. I have six on display in my office and one at my desk at home. They're relatively cheap and very fun builds.
It's a bit worrying too, but I'm assuming they know their market. And they do market to kids, there is just as many kids oriented sets for all ages. City, Friends, Creator, Ninjago, and so on. The only difference is that they added more sets on the older range for teens and adults.
Particularly this year Friends and City are on fire, with some amazing builds even for that age group.
I enjoyed making gunplas in the past but legos feels like such a better value as you can tear it down and have pieces for the kids to play w/ when you're done with it.
While these sets are cool, there's a part of me that really misses the LEGO pre-licensing, where you could just buy like one of their non-specific robot space guys in a cool octopus style spaceship.
Wish I hadn't donated those pieces, but I lost the manuals decades ago, so it wasn't like I could build the original spaceships anymore.
Ninjago isn't licensed. Monkie Kid isn't licensed. Dreamzzz, a theme releasing in a month, isn't licensed. These quite literally have what you're asking for: crazy and weird robots, spaceships and monsters.
Lego rental clubs do exist, but they tend to be small scale home-run businesses. I had a 6 month run with https://brickclub.uk/ which was good fun. I couldn't justify the three figure price of those huge Technic sets, but for the price of less than one of them I got to build six of them. Had to cancel cos my spare time went to zero while studying, but it's a great service.Does some sort of LEGO rental service exist? I love building sets but have no desire to keep them after and mostly consider them cost prohibitive.
Yeah my daughters have a bunch of them and they're really good sets. Tons of details and neat building techniques. They have a big tub of random bricks, which get used to augment the role play they do with the Friends sets. A while back I ran a dumbed-down session of Dungeons and Dragons for them, with all the characters and locations built on the fly with Lego, and the Friends sets were a great source. Take a horse, remove the saddle, stick a bunch of tree fronds on and you've a got a Leafy Pegasus! The Friends characters all geared up with shields and swords look hilarious :DI didn't like some of the first few Friends sets when they first came out but there are some really stand out ones. The botanical garden out right now looks pretty cool.
Oh, my wallet was noticed, yes.
This is the last official set I built:
![]()
The last thing I built was a MOC for a competition (I began with real parts, but since I didn't have all the colors, I finished on Bricklink Studio):
![]()
One of my favorite themes has been the Winter Village, and that has become the highlight of my Holiday decorations (here pictured with some modulars as well) :)
![]()
So yeah, I really like LEGO, but it can take a toll on finances (and on space!).
While these sets are cool, there's a part of me that really misses the LEGO pre-licensing, where you could just buy like one of their non-specific robot space guys in a cool octopus style spaceship.
Wish I hadn't donated those pieces, but I lost the manuals decades ago, so it wasn't like I could build the original spaceships anymore.
Annie raising her hand with Jeff immediately pulling it back down fucking ended me, I dunno how I missed this episode
Those traditional Lego themes are starting to be absorbed into the other themes, unfortunately. There's just so many licensed themes that it doesn't really make sense for them to be running a space-theme when Star Wars dominates, or a sci-fi theme when Marvel and DC keep outselling them. Meanwhile lines like City, which used to be incredibly traditional with the municipal services, are starting to get experimental additions like space exploration, sport culture, power mining, or underwater sub lines, which are distinctly where other traditional Lego themes used to draw from. Others get released in Creator now, like the most recent castle sets, or the "nostalgia grab" releases.
It's incredibly homogenized, so my inner 12 year old will always feel badly about that loss in creativity, but it's just what sells nowadays. There are lines like Monkey Kid, Ninjago, and experiments like Hidden Side, but it's just not the same as the variety they once offered back in the day.
I saw the big Bowser one in a store and thought it looked amazing, wanted it before I spotted the pricetag and walked out
I really like Lego but I very rarely get any. Several years ago I was gifted a Ninjago boat. I don't know anything about Ninjago but it's a nice boat and it must be cheaper than the other IPs. I don't love the sails tho.
There is a Marslander set?
Goddamnit I thought I could stop after the Lunar Lander.
Annie raising her hand with Jeff immediately pulling it back down fucking ended me, I dunno how I missed this episode
Those traditional Lego themes are starting to be absorbed into the other themes, unfortunately. There's just so many licensed themes that it doesn't really make sense for them to be running a space-theme when Star Wars dominates, or a sci-fi theme when Marvel and DC keep outselling them. Meanwhile lines like City, which used to be incredibly traditional with the municipal services, are starting to get experimental additions like space exploration, sport culture, power mining, or underwater sub lines, which are distinctly where other traditional Lego themes used to draw from. Others get released in Creator now, like the most recent castle sets, or the "nostalgia grab" releases.
It's incredibly homogenized, so my inner 12 year old will always feel badly about that loss in creativity, but it's just what sells nowadays. There are lines like Monkey Kid, Ninjago, and experiments like Hidden Side, but it's just not the same as the variety they once offered back in the day.
It just came out this month! (Unless you're in the US, it will only release in August)
I really recommend it; it's a Technic set, so it was functioning mechanisms (for the wheels and arm).
They've gone back to building everything of pieces because the huge baseplates were a complaint for a lot of people. Those baseplates were complained about 25 years ago as Lego cheaping out and lacking creativity. Plus sets with baseplates meant fewer pieces in a set for friends and me to build our own creations as kids. Lego used the same mould back in the day with different patterns for multiple castles and pirate sets.Dang it, I want this, too. However, on the one hand, it's clearly inflating the cost with all the pieces to make up what used to be a single baseplate part, but on the other, I reallllly want to see them update the Imperial Trading Post some day.