New Lego Themed Set

[TheMaxRebo]

I want it...and I want them to make other key park buildings as well...Haunted Mansion, Small World, Space Mountain

I think a coaster, like Big Thunder Mountain, that really worked would be super cool

 

[Shanti]

Did you get the set of Disney character mini figures in the US? They were £2.99 originally - now £6, 7, 8 each on Amazon! They are increasing in value here in the UK so I'm sure this will do the same!

We haven't been able to find them in stores. Our local Lego store told us they were sold out.

 

[bumbershoot]

People pay very different things for vacation and a toy. I am definitely willing to pay $200-300 for a once in a life time experience on vacation, which will leave us with life-time memories. I am not willing to spend $400-500 on a toy that will be played with for a few months and then sit collecting dust and eventually be forgotten about. Building Lego is by no means an exclusive experience.

It's good to know your family.

My family never talks about vacation later. They never look at my scrapbooks.

But Lego doesn't sit and gather dust. It's an activity not a toy or figurine in my household. Ungrateful little weasels. (I just told ds I'm calling him that and he smiled and said "I don't mind being called what I am")

My son and I have more memories of the weeks we spent putting together his Harry Potter and Star Wars sets after Yule times than we have from our multiple exhausting trips to Disney. When I found a discontinued Indiana Jones set not only with no markup but on clearance, that was very bonding with DS and a moment for the ages.

And they have taught him patience, being delicate with things, how to manage frustration, and how to judge value of things. $350 for 4k pieces is decent. Some of the $30 sets have way too few pieces to be worth that amount.

DH is a Lego enthusiast. We have more Lego than I care to admit, but this is the first set I asked him to buy and put together for me.

Don't let him have all the fun! Build it yourself!!!

 

[Realfoodfans]

We haven't been able to find them in stores. Our local Lego store told us they were sold out.

They sold out in shops here but I've so far managed to get 7 of them from Amazon - paid a bit more but can choose different ones!

 

[VillainFavs]

People pay very different things for vacation and a toy. I am definitely willing to pay $200-300 for a once in a life time experience on vacation, which will leave us with life-time memories. I am not willing to spend $400-500 on a toy that will be played with for a few months and then sit collecting dust and eventually be forgotten about. Building Lego is by no means an exclusive experience.

Guess each family is different! Believe me, the Legos in our house have been played with for years--yes, years!

And I think sitting and building something like this one-on-one with my teenage son would be just as exclusive as spending time at an event with thousands of other people in a theme park. Where's the exclusivity in that? He's the Lego fanatic. We're both Disney fanatics. When he showed me this, knowing I would love it, knowing my birthday is just a few weeks after it comes out, it just seemed perfect.

But I guess it's all in how you look at it!

 

[mshanson3121]

It's good to know your family.

My family never talks about vacation later. They never look at my scrapbooks.

But Lego doesn't sit and gather dust. It's an activity not a toy or figurine in my household. Ungrateful little weasels. (I just told ds I'm calling him that and he smiled and said "I don't mind being called what I am")

My son and I have more memories of the weeks we spent putting together his Harry Potter and Star Wars sets after Yule times than we have from our multiple exhausting trips to Disney. When I found a discontinued Indiana Jones set not only with no markup but on clearance, that was very bonding with DS and a moment for the ages.

And they have taught him patience, being delicate with things, how to manage frustration, and how to judge value of things. $350 for 4k pieces is decent. Some of the $30 sets have way too few pieces to be worth that amount.

@VillainFavs (tagging you because I meant to add your comment in the multi-quote reply, but forgot and couldn't figure out how to after, lol)

Yes more the opposite here. Don't get me wrong, my kids love Lego. It's their favorite toy - they play it every day, have more than any kid ever needs, and they'd be over the moon to get this. But they would put it together, and play with it as is for awhile, then put it aside and it would gather dust as they moved onto the next new Lego kit. Or they'd tear it apart and use the pieces for other creations - the more likely culprit. My kids aren't ones that leave kits together. They tear them apart. There'd also be no shared family time putting it together, they like to work independently because they like the challenge. So yes, for us, there's far more value (both in money and family time) in splurging on vacation. My kids love our vacations, talk about them constantly, look through the photo albums all the time. Not just Disney, but literally every one we've gone on, lol, even ones from when they were babies and have no memory of them.

So for us, $400-500, is going to be spent either on vacation, or a larger ticket item for them like the pool we'd like to get for the backyard, a larger trampoline, or a nice used snowmobile or ATV. Something that ultimately in the end would get more use/value for the money, more family time, more memories, stuff they don't already have oodles of etc...

All that said, if we had the budgets that many of on here have, then I'd probably be more willing to drop that much on this set

 

[1 Minnie & 3 Mickeys]

Very excited for this one...DS12 loves to put these more challenging sets together. He got his first "big" set of R2D2 for his 10th birthday. Since then he has completed the Batman Tumbler, Millenium Falcon and the SHIELD Hellicarrier. For us it's worth it's price to watch a child, who loves to work with his hands, choose this over watching TV or playing with electronics (although he does plenty of that too ). These sets are no easy feat. It takes a lot of patience and time. He often takes several weeks or months to get the entire set done. He'll take over the dining room table and work on a bag at a time when he is able to between schoolwork and sports. It's fun to watch it progress and exciting to see the finished product. They are often more impressive than they look on the box. The castle is sure to be awesome!

 

[tarak]

It's good to know your family.

My family never talks about vacation later. They never look at my scrapbooks.

But Lego doesn't sit and gather dust. It's an activity not a toy or figurine in my household. Ungrateful little weasels. (I just told ds I'm calling him that and he smiled and said "I don't mind being called what I am")

My son and I have more memories of the weeks we spent putting together his Harry Potter and Star Wars sets after Yule times than we have from our multiple exhausting trips to Disney. When I found a discontinued Indiana Jones set not only with no markup but on clearance, that was very bonding with DS and a moment for the ages.

And they have taught him patience, being delicate with things, how to manage frustration, and how to judge value of things. $350 for 4k pieces is decent. Some of the $30 sets have way too few pieces to be worth that amount.



Don't let him have all the fun! Build it yourself!!!

DS8 loves Legos. We built the Death Star together over the course of several months. He might not be so excited about this one, but he'll still help put it together. I'm going to display it next to my Tower of Orthanc. Sauramon and company can visit.

 

[jrmasm]

I MUST HAVE THIS!!!!

Just saying.

 

[IrishNYC]

My DD7 would love that. And by DD7, I mean me.

 

[kyomagi]

I will probably be camping out at my local mall w/ a lego store to get a set if i cant get one online.

This was my last build:

 

[dislovefrommn]

It is crazy expensive but the price per Lego is actually a good deal! We are absolutely buying it and probably super glueing it together. It'll sit on a shelf with other Disney memorabilia.

 

[bumbershoot]

Or they'd tear it apart and use the pieces for other creations - the more likely culprit. My kids aren't ones that leave kits together. They tear them apart. There'd also be no shared family time putting it together, they like to work independently because they like the challenge.

Oh see I have ZERO problem with the pieces being used for other things! No issues whatsoever about that.

In fact, the "sets" bothered me for a LONG time because I grew up with just Legos, and you just built from your imagination. Once I saw that DS would use the pieces for other things, and was learning from what he did, then I became more OK with it. Right now because we moved we have some big pieces all put together and on our mantel and it's BUGGING me because they aren't in use.

DS puts things together alone NOW, but in the past he didn't. I had actually written to Lego to ask why they had the age ranges. When he was little I didn't get him anything beyond his age range, but he wanted to play with more intricate Lego sets. I got them to conclude that the age (once beyond choking stage) is for frustration levels. So when he was little and had a very big set, we sat together and learned together. And we both got very good at it.

If I want to build on my own I buy my own sets nowadays. Officially The Burrow (from the last year's Harry Potter set) is mine mainly b/c it has Molly Weasley. And I got Big Ben (and now I found out they made a new Big Ben), too.

My kids ... talk about them constantly, look through the photo albums all the time.

Lucky.

It is crazy expensive but the price per Lego is actually a good deal! We are absolutely buying it and probably super glueing it together. It'll sit on a shelf with other Disney memorabilia.

Not the Kragle! (Lego Movie reference)

Elmer's is good, I hear. It keeps it together but if you ever want the fun of putting it back together, you dissolve it by putting it into hot water.

 

[DisneyFive]

If we can find a good location for it in our house, we will be purchasing this! We have practically zero Disney decorative stuff in our house but this really signifies our WDW trips and would be really fun to have as a reminder.

Dan

 

[mshanson3121]

Oh see I have ZERO problem with the pieces being used for other things! No issues whatsoever about that.

In fact, the "sets" bothered me for a LONG time because I grew up with just Legos, and you just built from your imagination. Once I saw that DS would use the pieces for other things, and was learning from what he did, then I became more OK with it. Right now because we moved we have some big pieces all put together and on our mantel and it's BUGGING me because they aren't in use.

DS puts things together alone NOW, but in the past he didn't. I had actually written to Lego to ask why they had the age ranges. When he was little I didn't get him anything beyond his age range, but he wanted to play with more intricate Lego sets. I got them to conclude that the age (once beyond choking stage) is for frustration levels. So when he was little and had a very big set, we sat together and learned together. And we both got very good at it.

Yes! I largely felt the same about the sets for awhile... "stifling creativity" . But yeah, they have fun turning them into other things. Well, my son is more apt to leave things together (though he does recreate some stuff), my daughter likes to put them together and then almost immediately tear them apart again. That would be a fun battle with this set, lol. I thought the Lego movie portrayed this whole conundrum well at the end

And yeah, I can definitely see the age ranges being for frustration levels, definitely. My son used to get really frustrated with kits (if he was trying to do an older one). And I remember my brother being the same way (he's almost 20 years younger than me).

 

[Micca]

Pretty cool, I just don't have a place for it. Y'all have fun, and please post pics when you get it assembled.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

technically Santa will be bringing it - although Mommy is hoping to pick it up at the DS LEGO store where I'll get a 10% AP discount LEGO at our house is assembled (by DH and DD not sure which has more fun with it) then disassembled - sorted into piece size. They build all kinds of creative stuff with the LEGO pieces including building the Taj Mahal (I downloaded the instructions for the set that was retired - we had to order some pieces but they had a great time with it). We have an obscene number of LEGO pieces in the house - some people have a dining room - we have a LEGO room....

 

[tarak]

Not the Kragle! (Lego Movie reference)

LOL! DD13 needed an exacto knife the other day and when my husband handed it to her, he said, "here is your knife of exact zero."

My son will also reuse the pieces and build new things. The only kits that have stayed together are the Death Star and the Tower of Orthanc. The castle would be added to that list. We have a few others that I broke apart and put back in the boxes in case we wanted to build them again and not have to search the pile for pieces. But most of them get broken apart and made into something new. One of our cats likes to swipe the mini figure heads. He had a stash of about ten of them hidden behind the Guinea pig cage. Weirdo cat.

I have a few sets in my office. Falling Water, the Trevi Fountain, VW van, Mini Cooper, and the Mystery Machine. My co-workers think I'm a big goober, I'm sure.

 

[Zentra]

DH is a Lego enthusiast. We have more Lego than I care to admit, but this is the first set I asked him to buy and put together for me.

I agree I t's going to be a good investment for someone interested. I'm predicting that we won't have to wait to see resale value. I think the resale market will take off on release day as stores start to run out. Once it's discontinued-- oh, my.

This is also my household, we have Legos everywhere mostly all Star Wars sets that my Boyfriend has put together, they are in a 7 foot Curio Cabinet, on more shelves, on top of the piano, on top of the Dining room table , in fact we have a whole room displaying them, plus the London Bridge and Sidney Opera house one. I'm not one to do Lego's I don't have the patience for them. But this one I'm telling him he is allowed to buy and will buy instead of groaning over him buying more Legos!

 

[Pixie Dust ✨]

I'll definitely be getting this set. Do we think it will be available on the Disney Store website, too?