Lego

[ailbhe]

We need to get more 4x2 blocks. We have loads of specialist fancypants bits, from special build-a-wossname kits, but very little of the basic building block of lego, the 4x2. I expect we can get a bucket of mixed generic bits somewhere. I think we ought to try Freecycle first, though, really.

In other news, we've asked someone else over for dinner, tomorrow. I hope to keep up the rate of dinner guests - one a week sounds about right - throughout the winter, to stop us falling into dejection and squalor. And with any luck at all, very very soon we'll go to London for a day, but I may need to buy advance super-cheap tickets, I think, because all four of us gets pricy. I think we will want to go to the Zoo. And feed Linnea to the lions.

Also, last night I dreamed we co-existed with dinosaurs - and in our society dinosaurs had the vote and were integrated into society, but we were invaded by some other bunch who had domesticated dinosaurs and trained them as war animals. A Battle T-Rex is a sight to see, I tell you that. The apatosauruses didn't like it at all.

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[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

The lego website will do a custom box of lego, whatever size you want, from 4p a block (11p for 4 x 2s), if you cannot find them anywhere else.

[gloriap.livejournal.com]

You have made the same discovery that my own children did about 25 years ago: special sets of Legos are exciting but most of the pieces are almost useless for generic building, and once you lose the directions for the super-duper special structure, you might as well admit you can never build that again. ;-(

Legos are a wonderful toy whose appeal spans a large age range, but beware the Eiffel Tower or Millennium Falcon set!

[ailbhe]

We had a biscuit tin of bits, growing up, and Rob had sets. LOTS of sets, so he can build all sorts of things, but not many basic non-fiddly bits. Which is what 4-year-olds need.

We weren't allowed many sets because they weren't sufficiently imaginative. And too expensive, of course.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

I have a Lego Star Destroyer maybe 15cm long. It lives on our Interweb router.

[naath.livejournal.com]

lose the directions for the super-duper special structure, you might as well admit you can never build that again

I think you can buy the directions from lego; but I may be wrong because I NEVER TOOK THEM APART... to me Lego sets are there to be built and then admired :) I also had a big box of misc. bricks which were much better for imaginative-ness and probably a good deal cheaper.

(a friend has a Millennium Falcon, it's very nice, but a bit too "don't touch that, it might break" to be a Fun Toy For Children)

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

US society does have dinosaurs.

[kyte.livejournal.com]

Regarding the train travel, it's probably worth getting a Network Railcard (see http://www.railcard.co.uk/network )

They're £20, and one card (assuming I remember right that you're within the area) would give you and Rob a third off your travel, and give Emer and Linnea 60% off theirs.

Makes it a lot cheaper :o)

[ailbhe]

We have a family railcard. Technically neither child has to pay fares yet but it's cheaper if they do.

[kyte.livejournal.com]

Aha - cool :>

[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

Or a family railcard which costs £24 but covers the whole of the UK.

[kyte.livejournal.com]

Ah - I see.

I is ignorant non-childy person :o)

[ailbhe]

And can be used by either of us rather than just the named cardholder, which means I can take them places during the week and then Rob can at weekends, if that's what we want to do.

[rmc28]

Or £65 for three years (guess what we're doing when the current one runs out).

Technically Charles doesn't need his own ticket, but using the railcard to buy him one has already saved us the railcard cost many times over.

[barakta]

ebay for 2nd hand lego bricks. A friend of mine gt piles of it for not much money and the worst some of it needed was putting in a pillowcase and washing to get stickiness off.

[merryhouse.livejournal.com]

If I didn't know better I'd say you'd been eating too much cheese ;-)

Have you been reading the slightly weirder end of homeschoolblogger?

Second barakta on the eBay thing. I even managed to find a "misc bits" lot with the Santa Claus beard that we'd lost (I went through dozens of lots minutely examining the photos. Am I mad?)

[quatlet.livejournal.com]

Come visit if you'd like a crate of Lego - we have about 8 crates of it from Conflux's family (lots of space/technic, but also plenty of basic), and my parents have even more...

But ebay will do it by the kilo!