Savage Oppress Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 Have you ever had a lego set fall apart on you while your trying to build it. Quote
Mr Copperhead Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 Sure, the gazebo with the Winter Village post office kept falling apart while I built it. Worked fine in the end though! Quote
TheStrategist Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 For me, the UCS TIE Advanced kept falling apart. So much that I never actually got it built. i just scrapped it for the parts. Quote
Sir_Basil_Ashton Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 My son (8) had a really hard time building The LotR Orc Forge. The base of the platform where the light up brick is, is pretty unstable until you get those brick on top built. There are a couple of other spots that seem unstable at times and I'm surprised at some of the techniques LEGO used in this set. Quote
Savage Oppress Posted January 17, 2013 Author Posted January 17, 2013 (edited) I had a lego set fall apart on me today and it was the Shield Car from the Lego Marvel Superheroes: Spidercycle set with Nick Fury, Venom, and Spider-Man. I gave up on the Shield Car so it now looks like a Shield Dragster. Edited January 17, 2013 by Savage Oppress Quote
cortman Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 The Portal of Atlantis gave me some trouble initially. It's pretty complicated, but when it was finished it was robust enough. Awesome looking as well! Quote
BrickG Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 I don't remember. Maybe in my childhood. Though recently, no. But I'm a grown man and a lot less stupid... The only times my sets failed is when they were MegaBloks when I was a kid. Broke during and after the build... Quote
AndyC Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 The Death Star II set definitely fell apart a few times while building. There's a particularly fragile stage when you're putting the halves together that is a little too easy to go wrong with, resulting in a big crash and a whole bunch of reassembling. Quote
Mr_Malfoy Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 The Burrow from HP fell apart on me once. Otherwise, no, no problems here. Quote
Captain Nemo Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 The Star Wars Episode II Jango's Slave 1. That's got to be one of the worst designed Star Wars ships ever. You even look at that thing and the whole bottom half falls off! Quote
Carsten Svendsen Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 I sure have. The wright flyer made a big hassle for me, so I ended up glueing the whole thing together (not that I could use the parts though - I'm a technic builder) Quote
Galaxy Explorer Posted January 18, 2013 Posted January 18, 2013 I remember the framework for the 7190 Millennium Falcon was very unstable until you added the large quarter dish pieces, and yes, Jango's Slave 1 was ridiculously fragile! The CITY Farm from 2009 is very tricky with the roof of the barn. It should have been made with walls, not posts. The 4483 AT-AT head always seemed to come apart while building. I see a trend here with Star Wars; come to think of it, Grievous' Wheel Bike was pretty flimsy too! But seriously, four sets out of a thirty-five year collection is not a bad record. I know there are some bad feelings about the 6210 ISD's design, but that fell apart after it was built. Quote
Cwetqo Posted January 18, 2013 Posted January 18, 2013 I had some trouble with UCS millenium Falcon. Those panels are just laid on and keep moving or even falling of. Only stable part on it is main chasis, which could luckily be accesed when you remove top turret, everything else is unstable. Anothe annoying set is SW Battle of Endor set. Building with shield generator is built on hinged plates with bad clip mechanism and to lock it you need to use too much forceand many times the buildng just falls apart. Other thing are side panels. They are just laid on and those on front even have "exploding" mechanism with very light trigger, whic sometimes triggers if you just lift the set. Quote
Bioslayer Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 The UCS Imperial Star Destroyer was rather prone to falling apart while I was building it. Quote
LEGO Guy Bri Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Not with LEGO, but with Megablok... numerous times. Although, I could see that with some of the larger Star Wars sets. Some of those UCS sets seem very heavy, connected by only a few points Quote
slovakiasteph Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Yes, the gazebo from the winter village post office was really hard to put together. Also, I someone always end up holding whatever it is I'm building in my hand, assuming it's small enough. I'm not good at following directions and putting all my pieces on the table. :) So, things have a tendency to crumble in my hand. Quote
Brickington Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 The White House set was such a bother to build. The base would not stay on. Quote
Phoxtane Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 The mixing drum from my new 60018 Cement Mixer won't stay on its axle... but that's because one of the drum pieces has cracked and bent in such a way it can't lock onto the studs Quote
Rick Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 The mixing drum from my new 60018 Cement Mixer won't stay on its axle... but that's because one of the drum pieces has cracked and bent in such a way it can't lock onto the studs Just contact LEGO customer service and they usually send you a replacement part free of charge. Quote
Sir Walter Maugham Posted January 23, 2013 Posted January 23, 2013 Countless times as a child. No so much now that I'm an adult though. Quote
TrumpetKing Posted January 23, 2013 Posted January 23, 2013 The Burrow from HP fell apart on me once. Otherwise, no, no problems here. Yes, definitely The Burrow. Especially when attaching the bedrooms and when you start building the bottom floor. Quote
Orange Leader Posted January 24, 2013 Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) Yes, definitely The Burrow. Especially when attaching the bedrooms and when you start building the bottom floor. Thirded. Aside that, I can't really remember what other set kept falling apart. Edited January 24, 2013 by Orange Leader Quote
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