Which is the best lego for a 9 year old

sethsgran

My son always loved Technic even from the age of 8-9 he could follow the instructions. This book is great http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEGO-TECHNIC-IDEA-BOOK-8891-LOTS-OF-MODEL-INSTRUCTIONS_W0QQitemZ300366353622QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Construction_Toys_Kits?hash=item45ef3ad4d6 as it gives ways of buiding other designs with the set they already have. We bought this one year for him and he spent hours pouring over the pages to create new models

thespurs2009

*Louise* wrote: »

If anyone is interested - I have heard rumours of a 25% sale on lego at Toys R Us coming up sometime soon

Ooooh, really? Any more details?

victory

Thank you for all the replies, the book is an excellent idea, he does tend to build, put back in box, get it out again, re do make his own imagination ones up, lego is fab and he absolutely loves it, he has the cars, trucks, dinosaurs, small box sets of them loves them it is just the larger box sets seemed to be overwhelm him even though they state his age, when he got the lego mission out of the box he practially cried:rolleyes: his dad helps him enourmously they sit there for hours doing it ,I just did not want him to be put off..

victory

zippybungle wrote: »

My oldest Boy is 7 and likes Lego, but I think a lot of the Lego City kits are quite hard, and he soon gives up with them.

I have just bought him this from ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300366206004&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

it is a box of just plain Lego Bricks (375 bricks to be precise), I also bought him a large plastic Tub of Lego pieces from Smyths Toy Shop, which had a mixture of bricks, windows, doors, trees, wheels etc and a Base, so he can use his immagination and make houses etc.


Zippy x

Thanks, he has all the individual trees, people, houses, doors, windows, cars, furniture etc and he loves making them up but usually over and over the same thing that is why I suppose we bought him the box sets but they just sit there from last xmas, I don't think he ever made up the lego mission truck...

Tired_Mom

Hi

My son is 7 and loves lego. Last year he got a lot of the city lego police but it never really gets played with as he finds it too hard and when I have spent hours building it as soon as he starts playing with it it seems to fall apart. My mom got all our vintage lego out the loft earlier this year and he adores that and will play for hours. For his birthday he got a lot of the 3 in 1 Creator sets and they are brilliant. They have really easy to follow instructions and they are sturdy so cope with being played with. Hope this helps

qwiksave

My two boys, 9 and 7 L - O - V - E Lego Star Wars!! They first became interested through an x-box game and now live, breathe, everything Star Wars! :rolleyes: The older one at 9 can build all the Lego SW models (even the models for aged 14+) himself using the step-by-step instructions but the younger one can't - maybe the couple of years make all the difference?

My two clubbed together all their savings and got themselves the Lego Star Wars Death Star @£270! :eek::eek::eek: Its stored on a Lazy Susan so they can twirl it round

Sorry, I'm not being a great deal of help am I?

rainmac

My eldest son is nearly 6 and loves all things Lego but the bigger sets are too difficult for him to put together on his own so for Xmas we are sticking to smaller sets (no more than £20 a set otherwise it's too many pieces) and a basic set of bricks so he can create his own things and not feel disappointed that he can't follow the instructions.

victory

qwiksave wrote: »

My two boys, 9 and 7 L - O - V - E Lego Star Wars!! They first became interested through an x-box game and now live, breathe, everything Star Wars! :rolleyes: The older one at 9 can build all the Lego SW models (even the models for aged 14+) himself using the step-by-step instructions but the younger one can't - maybe the couple of years make all the difference?

My two clubbed together all their savings and got themselves the Lego Star Wars Death Star @£270! :eek::eek::eek: Its stored on a Lazy Susan so they can twirl it round

Sorry, I'm not being a great deal of help am I?

no:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

victory

rainmac wrote: »

My eldest son is nearly 6 and loves all things Lego but the bigger sets are too difficult for him to put together on his own so for Xmas we are sticking to smaller sets (no more than £20 a set otherwise it's too many pieces) and a basic set of bricks so he can create his own things and not feel disappointed that he can't follow the instructions.

that is just it my son got so frustrated and fed up he could not do it and his dad helped it but then it practically collapsed in their hands whilst being made that he shoved it back in the box and that was the end of that, the lego was expensive so I see it as wasted money (asked him to put it on ebay but he says no) and sad for him that part of his love for lego has gone:rolleyes::D

rainmac

victory wrote: »

that is just it my son got so frustrated and fed up he could not do it and his dad helped it but then it practically collapsed in their hands whilst being made that he shoved it back in the box and that was the end of that, the lego was expensive so I see it as wasted money (asked him to put it on ebay but he says no) and sad for him that part of his love for lego has gone:rolleyes::D

It's all a lot more complicated than I remember it being when I was little