Thread: Lego

Originally Posted by clean32

cripes this stuff is not cheep

i got a couple of small boxes, a fire truck and an ambulance. we sat on the floor and put them together. i am very happy to see minime now disassembling and reassembling etc. i think i should get some more. but the price.

any one know where you can get lego a bit cheeper?

I'm kinda hoping right now, you've bought it for the kids?

We have heaps, boxes full, been around for generations!

Yep - 2nd hand on ebay is the place to find it - if you don't mind the fact that it has been used before. Especially if your kid likes to do their own thing rather than stick to the instructions. (My boys are going through a mechwarrior phase and we currently have lego mechs all through the house!)

You can get new stuff too - everything from kits, to particular shapes or items (eg wheels) in bulk.

Postage can be a killer though, so don't forget to add that on when you do your price comparisons.

ETA: Don't fall for the cheaper options like mega blocks. I did this one year for Christmas and they are crap. The blocks will not stick or stay together, making it impossible to build things like castles etc. They are still sitting in their box in the toy cupboard.

leggo never goes out of fashion...I was playing with it when I was young and so did my girls when they were young...I have all their leggo still...well worth the money just but bit by bit


Mrs ho har

Lego is too dear to let kids play with it.

LOL yes i did get it for minime, but i dont mind helping him out. hes already doing his own thing, trucks at the moment. i never had the stuff when i was a kid, but i did make a good collection of straw and clay bricks LOL

reminds me of one tagalong we did Minie me is looking at the landies and saying Truck truck truck as he pointed each one out then a toyota prado car he says.

but thanks for that i didn't think of ebay.

we dont have any family in NZ left so that not an option

Originally Posted by The ho har's

leggo never goes out of fashion...I was playing with it when I was young and so did my girls when they were young...I have all their leggo still...well worth the money just but bit by bit


Mrs ho har

saw the house you'd just built in the back ground yesterday,very good it was too

Actually NM , 20 years ago, it was Norfolk Island where Lego was cheap. Don't know about now though. I just wish we still had all of my brother's Meccano.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

she hasn't got the palm trees tho might have to take some over for the skullers do....and the chef....and the waiter.....anyone else we might need?

NM, H had made a good effort with an old pair of HH's socks to resemble some trees, the branches were abit short I'll admit, bit a good try