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Sagrada Família Lego set
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#62Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…
It's not about the result. Most people who build these sets get satisfaction from the build process itself. It's a form of therapy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
With that said, as someone who put together the Big Ben set back in the day and had raw fingers for a week after, I have a somewhat PTSD-like reaction to this set. It looks like there are going to be a lot of steps dealing with making many of a subassembly that is itself made out of a bunch of tiny pieces that you need to make sure line up well.
These days I much prefer the large Technic theme sets because they are not so repetitive and require a deeper immersion to actually complete; harder to just space out while building the set. Certainly more meditative for me.
All that is to say that if you're going to consider this set, be aware that the build experience might not be the level of fun that the part count seems to indicate.
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#63If we scale it by height, a historically accurate building of this set should take you approximately 200 days.
12000 pieces over 200 days, means about 60 pieces per day. I'd say that is a reasonable about actually.
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#64If we scale it by height, a historically accurate building of this set should take you approximately 200 days.
I’m a little disappointed that someone beat me to this.
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#65Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…
What's the point of a colouring book? Once you've coloured your drawing you can't do anything with it. You can display it but you're not showing any real skill.
^ bizarre thought process tbh. Both building it and displaying it is fun. That's all.
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#66If at all, then the white bricks of LEGO Architecture Studio are on my wishlist just because i dont like following instructions
https://a.co/d/0iJANnKK
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#67When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago. All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces…
My kids have a ton of legos, it's their favorite thing. However, and this is the important part: you have to let go of the concept of a set. Keep new assembled kits out, let them play with it as built from the instructions. But then as it falls apart with play, and the kids don't fix it the same way it was originally built, it eventually goes into a big box of former kits that are all jumbled together. We did this, a…
Yes. I got somewhat stuck on the idea of the sets being kept together, partly because I thought it would be good to pass on used ones with the manuals.
But I found that if the builds are out they will be played with and fall apart and eventually become loose legos and that’s all fine and good.
Loose Legos on the floor making random things is fun. But building with sets and instructions is a different skill set and is entertaining in its own right.
The newer Friends series has a short reward video at the end of some builds which sort of puts the cherry on top of the set builds.
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#68Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…
What's the point of a colouring book? Once you've coloured your drawing you can't do anything with it. You can display it but you're not showing any real skill. ^ bizarre thought process tbh. Both building it and displaying it is fun. That's all.
I genuinely think there are people who don’t “get” hobbies or, if they do, don’t get that other people might like hobbies other than the ones they like. As you say, the point is to enjoy it and that’s all.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of the Lego builds we did when my son was little was exactly this: A set would spark an idea and there'd be endless castles that started with piece of a castle set but went in totally different directions and incorporated all kinds of other stuff, for example. I can't but help think that people who assume that the big sets take away that haven't touched Lego in decades. My sons sets got built "to spec" once, go…
I find most of my kids friends don't mix sets, each set stays in its own box/bag
Did the parents grow up with Lego? The "each set stays in its own bag" thing was what my wife wanted to do for the longest time, not having grown up with the beautiful chaos of a giant tub of pieces, and the oddly reassuring sound of swishing your hand through all of it.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of the Lego builds we did when my son was little was exactly this: A set would spark an idea and there'd be endless castles that started with piece of a castle set but went in totally different directions and incorporated all kinds of other stuff, for example. I can't but help think that people who assume that the big sets take away that haven't touched Lego in decades. My sons sets got built "to spec" once, go…
I find most of my kids friends don't mix sets, each set stays in its own box/bag
That's borderline crazy, lego is meant to go into a big box/bag/container and be mixed so you use your own imagination to create your own stuff, like the lego gods intended. Ideally also passed down generations/between relatives, so you can visit your nieces and nephews in the future and recognize pieces you once received from some cousin or something.