well heres my deal. i have a girlfriend ive been with for 4 years, she knows and respects my facination and love of legos. she supports it alot more then me going out and partying and getting wasted...the problem is she has a little brother...7.. so weve been living together for 2 years now and her little brother visits us often as he still lives with her parents. now he always wants to play with my legos and the first few times i said sure. to my dissapointment he pretty much destroyed all my MOCs, took apart all my seperated themes and left a huge mess in my room.

the next time i even caught the lil bugger chewing the heads of minifigs to take them off, then i said ok, if you want to play theres 3 simple rules: 1: NO BITING. 2: clean up ALL lego after your done. 3: put them back the way you found it.....it worked for a while but then he started slipping again. then i told him no lego for you, lil monster. my gf was upset as to why i dont let a kid play with kids toys...i told her its not toys, its my collection of very meaningful personal building pieces.:) so im at the point where i dont let kids play with my legos as im too dissapointed after seeing them get their dirty lil greasy fingers on them...

and once a few college buddies of mine came over, and saw my collection on the living room table, taking great interest they wanted to play with them as well. i thought its ok, college kids, what harm can that be.... well one actually built a kool odd pyramid of slopes, one was swooshing and wwwrruumming vehicles around and one just pretty much was taking everything apart he could find, again a big mess after and i deciede no lego nights for anyone other then my self. and after that a nice batch of mary jane slipped out and we decieded to inhale it all. and i told them not in the living room as all my legos were out....to their suprise they didnt understand why...and i told them my personal collection would lose 75% of its value in my eyes and they arent as nice with smoke on them...they didnt believe me and tried to convince me to just forget it and how cool it would be to enjoy both the mary jane and the creative building it would ensure after. well i had none of that and told them NO SMOKING IN ONE ROOM WITH LEGOS!!!! and so it was left at that. yes i am a smoker. but i dont smoke in my bedroom where my lego usually is and i air out other rooms 1-2 hours before i take them to other rooms....im sensitive about smoke getting to my little yellow friends....

so besides my odd experiences, do you let others play with your lego collections? and have you had any noteable experiences with them? share on.

I let people play with my lego collection if they want to, but I usually calmly stop them frm doing something if they perform an action that may defile my collection. Maybe you could make a seperate box for your girlfriend's brother that he could do whatever he wants with. Maybe you could simply hide whatever is most important to you so it does not get damaged. Remember, we were all kids at some point. ;-) I remember throwing my lego tie fighter on the ground so hard that almost every piece broke apart. X-D

Here's a thought:

Pull out a small assortment of bricks/figs that aren't that important to you. Those can easily be designated as playthings for the child who is otherwise destroying your collection. Keep your prize bricks/MOCs in a position where they won't be annihilated. This allows you to be friendly with others (no rift between you and your GF) while feeling safe knowing that your collection won't be kicking the bucket anytime soon. For most people, LEGO is just kid's junk ideal for abuse. It's up to you to balance your interests with those of your friends.

Solved in one word:

bley X-D

That's what it is for... ;-)

God Bless,

Nathan

Solved in one word:

bley X-D

That's what it is for... ;-)

God Bless,

Nathan

:-D :-D You're right as well!

Luckily, my friends also play with Lego and/or realize I am likely to explode should one of them break a model!! However once my friend accidentally backed into this alpine slope model I made..... |-/

I can certainly relate to that, I too am likely to explode when someone breaks or otherwise defiles my precious LEGO models. That's why I usually put them away when I expect visitors. On the other hand, I have no problem with others playing with my old LEGO from before my dark ages, which is far from in mint condition anyway.

and once a few college buddies of mine came over, ...... and after that a nice batch of mary jane slipped out and we decieded to inhale it all.

Dude >:-( *n* !

copmike

1) Lego is a brand and therefore NEVER takes an s !!

2) Don't ever write that again, its a toy site, end of story !! Consider yourself warn...

*yoda*

This is as close as my children get to my LEGO.

Dr. S.

I'm very defensive with my LEGO_. ;-) Nobody would even think about touching them. :-D .... *skull*

Have a designated room in your house or apartment for your legos, and just block it off from visitors when they are over. Thats what I basically do - right now its abit in the middle, as im moving it from the 3rd floor attic to the basement, but It will be out of the way ;-)

I have 2 little nephews (they're both almost 2) and they love looking (and of course TOUCHING!!!!!) my lego but 1 of them is a good little boy he would rather watch me play with lego and just laugh whenever he see's one of my mini-figs..but my other nephew is the opposite i had my Fire Station out and he wanted to see the FireTruck but did he slowly pull out the truck to get it out? NO he had to tear the truck as hard as he could which of course ripped off the roof and sent my Firetruck flying across the room. :'-( .....that was the first and LAST time he saw my firetruck...............but nowdays i remember to close my door when they come.

Oh heavens no!

I cover up my Lego whenever my cousins or any other young 'uns come to my house.

My Lego is my prized possession. *wub*

*sweet*

Only with my Authorization and supervision. My city knows DARN well i protect it...From other humans. crime from other minifigs is THEIR problem.

A few years back (2003, maybe?) when i went to the local gym, and my mom dropped me off at the kid area (have to be 12+ to go lift weights and stuff) i brought my new Lego fire cheif's truck to entertain me, and some braindead 5 year old scattered it all over the area...I don't think i ever got it all back, and it was in a cubby too...They had other toys to steal from other cubbys and scatter irreparibly around other areas >:-( ...And the irony of it was i was at least 2 years older then the Braindead little girl who did it...Plus she said that it was hers, too!

Another story i mentioned in one of my first posts here...(from 2006)

One day some neighbors of mine were getting our Playset from our backyard, and had brought their 3 or 4 year old son over, and i had JUST got my then brand new airport fire truck and ambulance (which was sitting out on that table in our back yard), and i had gone off to the computer for a moment to check something, and i come back to find both of them combined! I also never managed to get those back, either...Mom said she'd get me new ones, but she never did!

Edited January 27, 200817 yr by maiq the liar

I like to show my Lego off to my cousins when they come over. I just don't let them mess with them.

If I did, I'd end up with a lot of dis-assembled minifigs and destroyed mocs.

*Starts making a face somewhat like sweeney todd's "Oh GOD i hate everything" look*

Oh MAN i hate those little snots...

(P.S: i REALLY oughta get to superglueing my sets together...)

Who or what is a legos lol *wacko*

any never never never do I let any touch my lego

But i hate it when my mum suggests it to my cousins when they come over and then i have to let them play with it :-( :-|

anyway goodtopic *y*

Not as if ALL of us can remember lego name rule #3 1/2...

I have no problems when reasonable friends want to examine

my MOCs or sets, but little kids, no way. I have not the time to rebuild them,

and I don

Dude >:-( *n* !

copmike

Exactly Copmike! drug use is NOT COOL! I'm surprised that no one else commented on this >:-(

U_T

well heres my deal. i have a girlfriend ive been with for 4 years, she knows and respects my facination and love of legos. she supports it alot more then me going out and partying and getting wasted...the problem is she has a little brother...7.. so weve been living together for 2 years now and her little brother visits us often as he still lives with her parents. now he always wants to play with my legos and the first few times i said sure. to my dissapointment he pretty much destroyed all my MOCs, took apart all my seperated themes and left a huge mess in my room

DUDE you got a Girl Friend, that will live with you, It's Time to Reassess your priorities! Go out and buy a $20 tub of legos and let him play to his harts content! what's the big deal ? I guess I'm just out of touch since all my legos are in my Studio and NO even my Girl Friend is alowed to touch anything in my studio!

Exactly Copmike! drug use is NOT COOL! I'm surprised that no one else commented on this >:-(

U_T

Well, it was not necessary for the understanding of concreteasflesh

I must respect others views towards certain illegal substances i mentioned in my previous post, as one great Bob Marley once quoted "you must respect those who dont smoke, so i say, excuse me while i light my spliff." ill leave such things out of EB and keep it clean ;-)

but did you know lego is illegal in some muslim countries?? a couple years ago or maybe last year.... there was a Danish political cartoon about terrorism with a muslim prophet looking man with a bomb shape coming out of his turbin and the newspaper did not appologize for it so some muslim countries including saudi arabia banned Danish products including lego....

anyways, yes i let my GFs brother still play with my legos, though mostly supervised. my only problem is that being my girlfriend and her family is Israeli he doesnt speak english or Hungarian, which i speak so i cant really communicate with him throughly. i mostly give him my old old collection of legos but he always wants to play with my new city and castle themes and MOC which i forbid, but its ok my GF supports it and tells him what it means to me. he still has fun and i still am influencing a great toy on him, this past channuka i got him 3 small city sets, the police car and motorbike and the airport firetruck, he really loves them and it is nice to see the love of lego blossom in a young childs life.

This is as close as my children get to my LEGO.

Dr. S.

Sweet pic.

I dont play with my Lego with my friends but i let some of my friends look and touch my Lego.i never have problems with that.

freddy_LC friendly :-)