Lego are small!

[Chri5kng]

I went to the store to check out Olivia house since I knew they had a display on and I was shock at how small a 2 story building is. As you probably know I'm new to Lego so it hard for me to tell how big these set are from just their picture. I was expecting at least 10 inches (25.3 cm) and it was only 19cm tall. On the same note I saw Jabba Palace on display and boy was I wrong about the size. It was bigger than I thought and around the same size as Olivia house if my memory serve me right.

I got the idea that Lego were huge because folks on here been saying they ran out of space to display all of their Lego, but you guys must have tons and tons of Lego!!! Though seriously Lego set are smaller than I thought, definitely will look at dimension before i buy.

[moschino]

Lego is not that small, it only depends what you aim for.

For example, Lego 6286 Skull's Eye Schooner has 66cm long, 23cm width and 49cm tall.

Lego 6285 Black Seas Barracuda has almost the same size.

So if you simply want to display two ships one in front of the other, you'd need more than 1 meter.

[fred67]

Several modulars fit nicely across a good shelf... but a single Millennium Falcon doesn't fit anywhere. It depends what you're talking about.

A decent N scale train layout can be done on a 2x4 foot board; the same layout in HO doubles each dimension (4x8). The same layout in L (LEGO gauge) doubles each dimension again.

So yeah... if you just got back into LEGO and by Friends Sets, it's all fine and good... until the third and fourth and fifth waves of sets, and some sets - castles and ships and such, take a large amount of space.

[Vindicare]

Give it a year(or less, depending on what kind of spender you are ). They won't seem too small for much longer. Especially if you get into UCS Star Wars.

[Nintendawg]

When I first got back into Lego I thought everything was small also. Even the sets I had as a child that were once big now didn't look that way. So part of it was just that I was far bigger and the scale had changed. Of course now as an adult with more money to spend the only limit on model size is moc skills and the thickness of my wallet!

[PsyKater]

And yes, some / most of the guys here do have tons of LEGO.

[Chri5kng]

Give it a year(or less, depending on what kind of spender you are ). They won't seem too small for much longer. Especially if you get into UCS Star Wars.

Going to be a huge spender to make up for loss time. I hate how everything including Lego are more expensive with less and how all the old set are overprice thanks to re-seller. Hell I'll buy it more than it original price back then but not 3X as much.

[Grimmbeard]

Lego really isn't that small, especially if you build big ! Though I do understand that you thought they were, given that you're new to it. Once you get used to building you wont care so much about size, it will just be Lego to you.

[Fugazi]

I actually had the opposite experience when I started buying LEGO again after my dark age. When I built the Green Grocer, one of my first purchases, I was blown away by its sheer size! Somehow the catalogue images didn't properly convey to my newbie eyes the scale of the build. And to this day I still find that many sets look bigger in real life than what the catalogues/online images convey.

[Hrw-Amen]

Exactly, wait until you have bought several sets, you will soon run out of space. When i got back into it after my Dark Age I just bought a few of the custom Mini-figs and thought 'Oh yes I can just put these on the shelf here.' But very soon that had grown to two shelves, then I bought some actual sets, just the small ones to start with thinking that would satisfy my desire. It did for about a month or so, then a few years later there is no space at all and some LEGO sets are on strings hanging from the ceiling and eveything!

[MannyLego]

I was the same when i first got into lego. My first set looked big on the box but for a newbie seemed really small for the price. But you get used to it. Also gives a nice surprise if a set is bigger than it seems. my collection is pretty big and i am running out of space. So if sets are small thats good to me as i wont need to make too much space for it. When a set is bigger than expected i just think "this is great but where am i gonna put it?