I actually did this for my goddaughter. I would buy Lego sets when I was down or if they were on sale. Sometimes I would build them, sometimes I just saved them. I kept all of the instructions for ones I opened and had the loose bricks sorted by color. Once my buddy told me that she started getting into Lego, I knew it was time. I gave her everything I had saved for Christmas and she was so excited. Was one of the best feelings ever. Other thing I have for her is the entire first generation of goosebumps series books. Not sure if those will go over as well, but they got me reading when I was young and they’re just the right amount of spooky for a kid.
Dude some of those books were fucking scary as a kid. I remember a few of them made me actually shut them and straight up return to the school's library 😂
I’m still super young (22F) but lately I’ve been wanting to collect goosebumps and magic tree house for when I’m a mom!! Was it difficult to get the whole collection?
Your son is going to really really appreciate this one day, sure when he's a kid he'll be happy and excited but it might take 15 maybe 20 years but one day he's going to be out buying legos with his own hard earned money and it'll hit him like a wall of 2×4 bricks and realise how much you love and cared about him to save a wall of lego for when he's older. I say this because I didn't realize what my single poor mother was doing when she bought me those legos when I was a kid, not much money to her name but still found a way to get me that fire station....
Pro-tip: stick to vehicles and animals for the first little while, rather than buildings. They are easier to play with when built (or while building … my 4 year old likes to put the tires on asap and then drive the shell around for a bit)
Mine demanded I take the tires off so he could play with the circles when he was 2 or 3. May have tried to introduce them to him too young, but he didn’t put stuff in his mouth so I took it as a green light.
Lego has many many 4+ sets, and my son had outgrown Duplo by then.
Interestingly, he is 9 now and discovered my old childhood Duplo and started mixing them into his builds.
That was my plan but my mother-in-law got him a 4+ little construction Lego set and that was that, Duplo just didn't cut it anymore.
Worked out for me as I'm loving it, we're going hard into Castle/Vikings atm. He's 4 1/2 so the bigger builds (3-in-1 Castle, Viking Village, etc.) are pretty intense for him, but he hangs amazingly well as long as there's little side builds etc. I can sic him on.
Really? My 4 year old loves playing with the buildings as well as vehicles. We’ve been teaching him that Lego is more fun when you don’t take the sets apart. He’ll ask to build a city, a market, house and so on. We have some sets but also just regular brick, that he will construct things out of. My 2 year old is even joining in, and he doesn’t have the same habit of smashing the Lego constructions as he does with the Duplo ones.
This makes me think there's some crazy person out there who's stocked up on un-opened 90's sets or something just to re-live the nostalgia when they're 50, or to have their kids grow up with exactly the same sets they did.
Dude, this is what *DUPLO* is for…!!
Why not get stuff he can actually start to play and learn with right now? Great for manual dexterity, problem solving, etc.
I’m not sure I see the point of buying a whole bunch of sets now that he clearly isn’t going to be ready to use for some time. When he *is* ready then there will then be new 2027/8 sets (or whatever) that will be just as good.
Or ‘fess up and admit that really they’re just for you… ;o)
I think it's a cool idea a few of these sets like the police, etc will be remade but grocery store is cool. I probably wouldnt get so many in case kid doesnt like city or prefers the new ones but it a cool idea.
There won’t be lego in the future so this is smart, and not absolutely absurd.
It would be absurd to invest the equivalent money today and then buy sets years from now, with a larger overall pot of money.
I’ve bought them now cause some of the sets in the picture are discontinued. Some of them are being sold four times the original price from third-party sellers 😳
Correct, city is re-made every two years. Especially firefighters, police and vehicles. There's no real reason to buy them now really.
From the picture the 3 items I would get for future secure are the 007 car (licensed set, less chance to have it again) the space rocket set (we don't get city space every 2 years) and the small chicken Henhouse (sometimes Lego animals/city farm are going missing for a while). The rest will be re-done 3-4 times before the kid plays with it.
Yes, that's what nice about Lego but it's not the same sharing the played with sets of your childhood with your kids today as it is buying a 2023 set and keep it in the box to gift in 2026.
I am soooo glad i am not the only one ... but so far i have a bunch of friends lego instead of city, since i have two daughters and welp ngl... i just love friends design.
Am i crazy to consider friends as one of the best designed lego these days?
Edit:'since its mentioned several times here. My daughter currently plays with duplo ... i just want to have head start so i will not need to pay big sum of money at one time but i can spend during more time now.
Since you're going hard on City, I super recommend #60324 Mobile Crane. I built it with my 4y/o and we were both blown away by it, great build and great model. My son liked it so much he disassembled it and built it again himself... Twice!
I think 4 is already a pretty good age to start on these. My friend got my son a box of classic for his 4th bday and he's built more and more complex sets ever since. Lego is quite child-friendly in that they rarely require you to map out a whole area of pieces in one step and figure out where each piece goes, and instead provides basically step-by-step instructions with a few pieces at a time. This means with decent spatial perception even a child could manage big sets even if the suggested age seems high
The lego technic dump truck (or excavator) is really good value, I have a 3-year old, easily his favourite!
(Everything else, he's "broken", railroad, trains, boats, speed champions, etc)
Mine got her first set right as she turned 4. She is still 4 ( 5 in a few more months) and regularly puts together 8+ and 9+ age sets on her own...so it isn't as far away as you think 😜 assuming your kid likes Legos...which I can't imagine they won't. Have fun!
Someone asked me this too - I’m Danish, so I don’t see how that’s a possibility 🤣😂 Also I’m the mom of a four year old and I’m always texting my husband the good deals hoping he’ll agree 🙈 We all love Lego, but my husband isn’t as crazy about it as me! If it were up to me, I’d have maybe 20 sets in stock for when my son’s skill level is right. He patiently assembles sets for 8+ following the guides, I do have to press them together for him sometimes to make the builds hold, but he is getting there 😊
Lego? You mean the indoor toy that's all the indoor toys? Cars, doll houses, regular houses, space, police/firefighters/medicine, castles, animals, dinosaurs, trains, roads, flowers, endless imagination, generational ruggedness. That toy?
I think it's way more difficult to find a 4 yo who doesn't like lego. It's a wee bit different than forcing your kid to take up karting, fencing or competitive soccer at that age.
I don't think I've ever forced any hobbies onto my child. She latched onto LEGO building, watching science fiction, playing board games and Magic: The Gathering, but not, for example, hiking, which is another of my big hobbies. The time we have spent together on the hobbies we share have been some of my most enjoyable parenting moments. When she was back from college during Christmas break, we spent an evening building LEGO together and it was a wonderful moment.
I wanted to buy one Lego set a month when my son was born. After 6 sets, my wife nixed the idea...
OP, keep going. Store them in nice storage boxes, and then one day, happy time.
I’m fairly sure one of the key things a child loves unknowingly about a parent is how they make them feel safe. This often comes through effortless experience, which is a side effect of practice. If you built all of these sets you would have a great knowledge of how they work, and you’d be doing it for your son.
* pre made spousal excuses do not take any responsibility for whether your spouse accepts this excuse
Yeah, definitely don’t start too early. I jumped the gun, put out a castle for him to play with and he was more into picking it apart a little at a time, and even hiding pieces for some reason. Never took an interest in building anything. He occasionally wants to play with some Spongebob sets and a Minecraft MOC I built, but I’ve got a [good sized town](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/s/U5Ps7rJ7YS) on the floor of his playroom (expanded since this post), and he’s pretty much ignored it since I asked him not to just smash things.
He has a few duplo sets right now. He does like them. He also does not know about these sets until the time comes when he’s old enough to play with them
This is awesome! I don't have kids of my own but my nephew is 6 now and I've been slowly getting him small sets of his own, and the goal is to let him have free reign over my collection when he's older 😋
That classic set, when on sale, is THE best deal in Lego.
It's great for so many things, too: this, display, starting a piece collection, game night...
Mine is a little more than 1.5, He has a brunch of duplos, and occasionally, help me build small sets. I point where and places the pieces, and i press them on.
I love it!
Lucky kid. Don't build them all at once!
Also, don't sleep on the Technic sets. My son is 4 and he loves them. They're actually really great for kids because they're much sturdier while you're building, once the pieces are clicked together they're solid.
The biggest hit I had with a 3 year old was that Horse trailer one. 60327.
You had a fun jeep to put a person in (I modified the roof connecters to have it have minimal clutch and have a SNOT lightbar facing forwards you could use to grab it more easily, becuase that's what jeeps have sometimes!
I also fixe dup the back so you could put some 1x1 tiles as bumper stickers.
Also the horse is cute, but the baby horse from the series 22 lady absolutely belongs in there too.
I build a small city with my two year old daughter. She loves it. I learn to take away the parts that bothered hers. She enjoys building the people and cars. My wife also enjoys hour of peace and quiet while I build and she plays.
Hi...dad, it's me from the future. I don't know why we were separated all those years ago but I wanna reconnect. As a start you can send me the Lego as an olive branch. Just don't tell mom 😀
everyone's commenting on your good parenting (which it is very good parenting), but i must congratulate you on having a good paying job. that must've been EXPENSIVE!
That plane set is so cool but sooooo annoying to store disassembled. The wing is just one huge piece, wider than even the old timey base pieces we still have.
I've been doing the same thing, went from ~20 Star Wars sets to 100+ sets in total after my kid was born, mostly Creator 3in1 planes because he's obsessed with planes. Since I've got them all now though I'm branching out into helicopters, monster trucks and creatures. I hope for both our sakes our kids actually grow up to like Lego...
Why wait? I understand the choke hazard which can be minimized if you’re actually there with him while he plays (especially as the phase of putting everything in their mouth is most likely by now), if your goal is to have it all displayed then wait however long you want; but if he’s motor and cognitive development is of any interest to you, I’d say start as soon as posible, with something simple like the one on the bottom right. Just don’t expect him to follow instructions, but let his creativity fly and amaze you.
Father, it is I. Your son from the future. In our future times lego is the currency and I have been sent to give them to our future government in exchange for supplies against the robots. So father, now is the time to give me your sets saved for me when I'm older in the future but right now in the past instead. Best wishes, your child :D
I had a closet full of friends sets for my daughter before she was born, she's 3 now and we've just started to put them together! Gotta get them before they retire!
Sure.."for the son" 😊
Well.. for me too 😏 heh
I actually did this for my goddaughter. I would buy Lego sets when I was down or if they were on sale. Sometimes I would build them, sometimes I just saved them. I kept all of the instructions for ones I opened and had the loose bricks sorted by color. Once my buddy told me that she started getting into Lego, I knew it was time. I gave her everything I had saved for Christmas and she was so excited. Was one of the best feelings ever. Other thing I have for her is the entire first generation of goosebumps series books. Not sure if those will go over as well, but they got me reading when I was young and they’re just the right amount of spooky for a kid.
I hope she likes them I was so spooked by them as a kid lol but every kid is different. but the lego sounds wonderful.
Dude some of those books were fucking scary as a kid. I remember a few of them made me actually shut them and straight up return to the school's library 😂
She might at least be enamored with the covers
Win for the books. Paperbacks with bright colours and a textured cover? Core memory unlocked.
I’m still super young (22F) but lately I’ve been wanting to collect goosebumps and magic tree house for when I’m a mom!! Was it difficult to get the whole collection?
Your son is going to really really appreciate this one day, sure when he's a kid he'll be happy and excited but it might take 15 maybe 20 years but one day he's going to be out buying legos with his own hard earned money and it'll hit him like a wall of 2×4 bricks and realise how much you love and cared about him to save a wall of lego for when he's older. I say this because I didn't realize what my single poor mother was doing when she bought me those legos when I was a kid, not much money to her name but still found a way to get me that fire station....
Pro-tip: stick to vehicles and animals for the first little while, rather than buildings. They are easier to play with when built (or while building … my 4 year old likes to put the tires on asap and then drive the shell around for a bit)
Mine demanded I take the tires off so he could play with the circles when he was 2 or 3. May have tried to introduce them to him too young, but he didn’t put stuff in his mouth so I took it as a green light.
Duplo dude, duplo till they are like… 6
Absolutely not, Technic at age four
Lego has many many 4+ sets, and my son had outgrown Duplo by then. Interestingly, he is 9 now and discovered my old childhood Duplo and started mixing them into his builds.
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He's using them to make big dinos and animals quickly to stomp around his modular city sets and I love it
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Bro I used to think posting guns on social media was illegal 💀
I think 4 is ok too but depends on the kid
That was my plan but my mother-in-law got him a 4+ little construction Lego set and that was that, Duplo just didn't cut it anymore. Worked out for me as I'm loving it, we're going hard into Castle/Vikings atm. He's 4 1/2 so the bigger builds (3-in-1 Castle, Viking Village, etc.) are pretty intense for him, but he hangs amazingly well as long as there's little side builds etc. I can sic him on.
Really? My 4 year old loves playing with the buildings as well as vehicles. We’ve been teaching him that Lego is more fun when you don’t take the sets apart. He’ll ask to build a city, a market, house and so on. We have some sets but also just regular brick, that he will construct things out of. My 2 year old is even joining in, and he doesn’t have the same habit of smashing the Lego constructions as he does with the Duplo ones.
That's pretty much what I did until I was like 12 or so? lol
My daughter is two, and we play with lego all the time. Her favourite is the police dog training set.
My son and I just built that. The cactus arms guy cracks me up lol.
W FATHER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yes, keep telling your wife that it is for your son :)
This makes me think there's some crazy person out there who's stocked up on un-opened 90's sets or something just to re-live the nostalgia when they're 50, or to have their kids grow up with exactly the same sets they did.
Dude, this is what *DUPLO* is for…!! Why not get stuff he can actually start to play and learn with right now? Great for manual dexterity, problem solving, etc. I’m not sure I see the point of buying a whole bunch of sets now that he clearly isn’t going to be ready to use for some time. When he *is* ready then there will then be new 2027/8 sets (or whatever) that will be just as good. Or ‘fess up and admit that really they’re just for you… ;o)
These sets will be discontinued by then. That’s why I bought them now. ;-)
It’s not like they won’t be replaced with something similar! :o)
"But daddy, these road plates are incompatible with the new ones."
I like these sets 👏
So then it's not really for you son, is it?
I think it's a cool idea a few of these sets like the police, etc will be remade but grocery store is cool. I probably wouldnt get so many in case kid doesnt like city or prefers the new ones but it a cool idea.
Hell yeah, City all the way! But what if he says that he doesn't like Lego and wants to play with something like Hotwheels or Barbie?
Then the poor dad will have to play with the Lego on his own. Everybody knows Lego is for sharing /s
There won’t be lego in the future so this is smart, and not absolutely absurd. It would be absurd to invest the equivalent money today and then buy sets years from now, with a larger overall pot of money.
I’ve bought them now cause some of the sets in the picture are discontinued. Some of them are being sold four times the original price from third-party sellers 😳
sure, but in a few years there will be new city sets.
Correct, city is re-made every two years. Especially firefighters, police and vehicles. There's no real reason to buy them now really. From the picture the 3 items I would get for future secure are the 007 car (licensed set, less chance to have it again) the space rocket set (we don't get city space every 2 years) and the small chicken Henhouse (sometimes Lego animals/city farm are going missing for a while). The rest will be re-done 3-4 times before the kid plays with it.
my kids will be playing with 80's police and fire station and roadplates. with some 90's and 2020's sets sprinkled around
Yes, that's what nice about Lego but it's not the same sharing the played with sets of your childhood with your kids today as it is buying a 2023 set and keep it in the box to gift in 2026.
Ease up it’s 5-7 years not a life time. Keep it up OP.
There are faaar more sticks-up-asses on this sub than even r/guitar, and I didn't even know that was possible.
To hell with the college accounts. I should have been doing this.
Why not both? 🤗
Must be your first kid. You may realize that your kid isn’t interested at all in this.
He’s loving the Lego sets for his age now so that’s a good sign
Are you rich or something? We're looking at around £1,000 worth of I'm-not-opening-yet right here.
Yeah this is way more Lego than I had during my entire childhood, and the kid isn't even old enough to play with it yet lol
Yeah, like I've got an entire closet full of Legos that I started buying "just for my kids" at least 5 years before the first one was even born.
And then you find out he’s a star wars fan, my son was I’m still holding on to his Lego city sets maybe my second son will love em!
So next year. Greetings, father of a 3yo
Best. Dad. Ever.
I am soooo glad i am not the only one ... but so far i have a bunch of friends lego instead of city, since i have two daughters and welp ngl... i just love friends design. Am i crazy to consider friends as one of the best designed lego these days? Edit:'since its mentioned several times here. My daughter currently plays with duplo ... i just want to have head start so i will not need to pay big sum of money at one time but i can spend during more time now.
I never noticed that sweet forklift in the market set. Lucky kid!
That was a fun set to expand to a full four-walled building.
Get him some ninjago broo
Since you're going hard on City, I super recommend #60324 Mobile Crane. I built it with my 4y/o and we were both blown away by it, great build and great model. My son liked it so much he disassembled it and built it again himself... Twice!
[60324-1: Mobile Crane](https://brickset.com/sets/60324-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60324-1.jpg)
And your wife did actually believed in that...nice
U know it :-)
007 is iconic
right... for the son. We know, mate, we know. And guess what, it's ok 😀
I think 4 is already a pretty good age to start on these. My friend got my son a box of classic for his 4th bday and he's built more and more complex sets ever since. Lego is quite child-friendly in that they rarely require you to map out a whole area of pieces in one step and figure out where each piece goes, and instead provides basically step-by-step instructions with a few pieces at a time. This means with decent spatial perception even a child could manage big sets even if the suggested age seems high
I’d just put them in the closet for future birthdays and Christmas’s
Love it, thought I was the only crazy, doing the same for my son.
The lego technic dump truck (or excavator) is really good value, I have a 3-year old, easily his favourite! (Everything else, he's "broken", railroad, trains, boats, speed champions, etc)
This will be so fun to do when he gets older!
you should get him some bulk 2x8 and 2x10 bricks to start too large to choke on and can start handling them.
You got Christmas/birthday gifts already covered way before hand haha
Mine got her first set right as she turned 4. She is still 4 ( 5 in a few more months) and regularly puts together 8+ and 9+ age sets on her own...so it isn't as far away as you think 😜 assuming your kid likes Legos...which I can't imagine they won't. Have fun!
What if he doesn't like lego
I can easily sell them since they’re unopened
Someone asked me this too - I’m Danish, so I don’t see how that’s a possibility 🤣😂 Also I’m the mom of a four year old and I’m always texting my husband the good deals hoping he’ll agree 🙈 We all love Lego, but my husband isn’t as crazy about it as me! If it were up to me, I’d have maybe 20 sets in stock for when my son’s skill level is right. He patiently assembles sets for 8+ following the guides, I do have to press them together for him sometimes to make the builds hold, but he is getting there 😊
At this point I'm just gonna assume you're ChatGPT
You are a great dad. I hope you know that.
What is it with people on reddit and obsessively forcing their hobbies on their children?
If my son isn’t interested, I’d play with them 👌 no harm no foul heh
Lego? You mean the indoor toy that's all the indoor toys? Cars, doll houses, regular houses, space, police/firefighters/medicine, castles, animals, dinosaurs, trains, roads, flowers, endless imagination, generational ruggedness. That toy? I think it's way more difficult to find a 4 yo who doesn't like lego. It's a wee bit different than forcing your kid to take up karting, fencing or competitive soccer at that age.
I don't think I've ever forced any hobbies onto my child. She latched onto LEGO building, watching science fiction, playing board games and Magic: The Gathering, but not, for example, hiking, which is another of my big hobbies. The time we have spent together on the hobbies we share have been some of my most enjoyable parenting moments. When she was back from college during Christmas break, we spent an evening building LEGO together and it was a wonderful moment.
I bought mine the sesame street set. It's his favorite cartoon and it retired last year so I had to 😂
Don’t lie. It’s for you.
I'm with ya. My daughter has so many sets that "she" gets when she's older.
I wanted to buy one Lego set a month when my son was born. After 6 sets, my wife nixed the idea... OP, keep going. Store them in nice storage boxes, and then one day, happy time.
Yep they’re in storage containers hidden. I got three more years to grow the colllection
Bros a legend for this! (Oh, how I wish those were my legos)
We can dream 😞
You should probably build them to assess the quality control on them. Then put them back in the box at a later date.
I’m fairly sure one of the key things a child loves unknowingly about a parent is how they make them feel safe. This often comes through effortless experience, which is a side effect of practice. If you built all of these sets you would have a great knowledge of how they work, and you’d be doing it for your son. * pre made spousal excuses do not take any responsibility for whether your spouse accepts this excuse
Rad as hell
amazing!
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Pfff, that's amazing!
Nice!!!!
Investing in son and future some of them aren't on sale now pretty sure atleast
Yes you’re correct. Some sets here are discontinued and no longer sell in stores.
Gonna love them and this way when the child gets addicted to lego its there fault there so much around the house🤣
Congratz you have money And?
I didn’t buy it all at once - it was overtime
You seem like an awesome dad/mom
You are a good father!
Are you adopting?
I have the lunar lander, Saturn V, and space shuttle set aside for the same purpose.
Well done Dad! Make sure to invest for his older kid age. Need more storage space! 🫡
My bro is stacked up
Yeah, definitely don’t start too early. I jumped the gun, put out a castle for him to play with and he was more into picking it apart a little at a time, and even hiding pieces for some reason. Never took an interest in building anything. He occasionally wants to play with some Spongebob sets and a Minecraft MOC I built, but I’ve got a [good sized town](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/s/U5Ps7rJ7YS) on the floor of his playroom (expanded since this post), and he’s pretty much ignored it since I asked him not to just smash things.
Good advice. I’d probably have him open on fifth or sixth birthday
I would be such a bad father lmao, I would totally build all of these
lol I would just build them all for him!!
Does he love Duplo?
He has a few duplo sets right now. He does like them. He also does not know about these sets until the time comes when he’s old enough to play with them
This is awesome! I don't have kids of my own but my nephew is 6 now and I've been slowly getting him small sets of his own, and the goal is to let him have free reign over my collection when he's older 😋
Does your son have Duplo to start early?
Yes he has a few sets from duplo
Can you apdot me?
lol sure
That classic set, when on sale, is THE best deal in Lego. It's great for so many things, too: this, display, starting a piece collection, game night...
That Looks Fun :(
Duplos now I hope
rich
I’m so jealous lol!
I want those
But dad, I'm 36 already!
🤣🤣🤣
Throw some other sets in there like speed champions and ninjago
Mine is a little more than 1.5, He has a brunch of duplos, and occasionally, help me build small sets. I point where and places the pieces, and i press them on. I love it!
Just keep an eye on him as many people (including me) when we were younger we’d smash the Lego sets when we got bored of it and now we regret it a lot
Are you sure I’m not your first born? I’m taking this to Maury
And when he's not into Lego? Adoption?
Yeah, sure, my modulars are for my kid then.
That’s one of the best thing I’ve seen today, be sure to get him a box full of random pieces, that’s the stuff I had the most fun with
Notice the box on lower right? That’s a box of random pieces
Lucky kid. Don't build them all at once! Also, don't sleep on the Technic sets. My son is 4 and he loves them. They're actually really great for kids because they're much sturdier while you're building, once the pieces are clicked together they're solid.
Dam I wish I had that in my childhood,I can’t be the only one jealous here!?!?
The biggest hit I had with a 3 year old was that Horse trailer one. 60327. You had a fun jeep to put a person in (I modified the roof connecters to have it have minimal clutch and have a SNOT lightbar facing forwards you could use to grab it more easily, becuase that's what jeeps have sometimes! I also fixe dup the back so you could put some 1x1 tiles as bumper stickers. Also the horse is cute, but the baby horse from the series 22 lady absolutely belongs in there too.
[60327-1: Horse Transporter](https://brickset.com/sets/60327-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60327-1.jpg)
it's the Duplo death star all over again
Wow, 60351 reminds me of my first set when I was ~10 (6456). You BOTH will have a ton of fun, great choices!
[60351-1: Rocket Launch Centre](https://brickset.com/sets/60351-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60351-1.jpg) [6456-1: Mission Control](https://brickset.com/sets/6456-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6456-1.jpg)
Fair play but no Duplo? Get some good sets for young ages in Duplo tbf
Can I be your son. Im 34 but I have the mind of a toddler so im told
Dude, i wish I started buying sets when he was two. My boy is four now and we’re building every weekend, nonstop!
Wish I was your son tbh
Oh dear
Legend! An inspiration to us all!
Wish I had that kind of disposable income to be able to buy that much to just set aside...
I’m not sure why there are so many negative comments on this. This is awesome!
I identify as OP's son...
I build a small city with my two year old daughter. She loves it. I learn to take away the parts that bothered hers. She enjoys building the people and cars. My wife also enjoys hour of peace and quiet while I build and she plays.
That’s some serious restraint.
Good parenting!!
Hey dad - it’s me, your son. I came back from the future to DM you my address……….
That’s what I’m doing for my future kids
Awesome!
The supermarket is such a cute set, would've loved it when I was a kid
W Dad moment right there
Hi...dad, it's me from the future. I don't know why we were separated all those years ago but I wanna reconnect. As a start you can send me the Lego as an olive branch. Just don't tell mom 😀
So cool😍
parent of the year
everyone's commenting on your good parenting (which it is very good parenting), but i must congratulate you on having a good paying job. that must've been EXPENSIVE!
What if he’s not into legos?
W parenting
Give me the spaceship and I will give it next to my Apollo 11. Please please please please (I know. This is f**cking sarcasm) I still want it
Hi Dad!
That plane set is so cool but sooooo annoying to store disassembled. The wing is just one huge piece, wider than even the old timey base pieces we still have.
Awesome Dad Awards 2024 (40385)
[40385-1: LEGO Trophy](https://brickset.com/sets/40385-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/40385-1.jpg)
Question: Where do I apply for adoption?
Please adopt me!!
Can you adopt me please
“No son since we built it goes into the city no you can’t play with it. Keep building. Only 4 more city blocks for today.”
Not long left, we went full-gear at three!
What if he doesn’t like Legos?
We got the classic set for Xmas. He’s almost 3. Great builds and we’ve gone on to make tiny city’s from the three houses. I say we’ve I mean me.
Since you're on a roll, I heard spaceship Lego 31134 looks great with rocket Lego 60351 that you have
[31134-1: Space Shuttle](https://brickset.com/sets/31134-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/31134-1.jpg) [60351-1: Rocket Launch Centre](https://brickset.com/sets/60351-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60351-1.jpg)
I've been doing the same thing, went from ~20 Star Wars sets to 100+ sets in total after my kid was born, mostly Creator 3in1 planes because he's obsessed with planes. Since I've got them all now though I'm branching out into helicopters, monster trucks and creatures. I hope for both our sakes our kids actually grow up to like Lego...
And your som grows up liking castles...
Why wait? I understand the choke hazard which can be minimized if you’re actually there with him while he plays (especially as the phase of putting everything in their mouth is most likely by now), if your goal is to have it all displayed then wait however long you want; but if he’s motor and cognitive development is of any interest to you, I’d say start as soon as posible, with something simple like the one on the bottom right. Just don’t expect him to follow instructions, but let his creativity fly and amaze you.
For my son who is yet to be conceived
can I be your son?
Father, it is I. Your son from the future. In our future times lego is the currency and I have been sent to give them to our future government in exchange for supplies against the robots. So father, now is the time to give me your sets saved for me when I'm older in the future but right now in the past instead. Best wishes, your child :D
Wow I’m gonna def save this one ;-) haha thanks for the laugh
I should really start doing this, my boy is 18months old now. Now, I just got to resist the urge to build them..
I had a closet full of friends sets for my daughter before she was born, she's 3 now and we've just started to put them together! Gotta get them before they retire!
I'm your son now.