Just the answer to down time when you are on the road!

[Legogal]

Heading out the door for a long trip? Don't forget to pick up a mini-modular set 10230 before you leave town. When you have half an hour or more of down time, open one of the five numbered bags and build a mini-modular of your choice. At a table in the lounge or beside the pool under a shady arbor, you can build away....binge on all five builds or take it easy with one a day.

It is legal and fat free and ENTERTAINING! And should not expose you to:

-typhoid-watch out for the ice in those drinks

-malaria-ditto those pesky mosquitoes

-rabies-keep an eye on Mr. Fox or Ms. Raccoon nearby

-hepatitis A or B or C-food again....

-sunstroke-keep those liquids going down the hatch

-drowning in the rip tide-hold on to your table!

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Returning to your hotel room and seeing the minis will make you smile. You can email your friends and families photos of what you have been doing while away. Pack away your builds in sandwich bags for your return home. And life is so easy!

For a few photos of how this works, try this in your browser:

http://www.flickr.co...s/75868658@N06/

(MOD's PS: This is not a set review...it is about entertaining yourself on the road. Please post it wherever it best fits. Thanks!)

Edited July 10, 2013 by Legogal

[Rick]

(MOD's PS: This is not a set review...it is about entertaining yourself on the road. Please post it wherever it best fits. Thanks!)

I have moved it to General.

[eurotrash]

It's a good idea, but I would suggest leaving the instructions at home and just relying on the Box images to complete the build. This would definitely extend the amount of time you spent - and it would exercise your brain!

[Andy D]

This is a good idea. But may I suggest that building a MOC is also a good downtime exercise. Last year my wife and I went on a 15 day cruise to Hawaii (just lots of water, 5 days over 5 days back no land). I took 2 copies of 7573 Battle of Alumut and built a MOC with just the pieces I had. I first built the set just to enjoy he build, but then disassembled it, sorted the parts from both sets then did a "free build" which took about 16 - 20 hours over the remaining 9 at sea days.

This may be difficult for vacations where air travel is involved. We live close enoigh to the port that I just packed an extra suitcase with mostly the sets and some containers used for sorting. But when flying, it only costs about $50 for an extra suitcase, so you could just consider it part of your vacation entertainment.

Vacation downtime builds are a great exercise to help us avoid vacation dangers LegoGal mentioned (vbg).

Andy D

Edited July 11, 2013 by Andy D

[slovakiasteph]

Last year when flying overseas, I took two little creator sets (the $7 ones) with me on the plane. That way I had six different sets to build and pieces to play around with when I was done. I packed them in a plastic Chinese takeaway container so that the pieces would stay contained when building.

I also take LEGO camping... again, a small set that's easy to build, and usually in the same plastic container.

The mini modulars would be excellent for travel! Maybe I should take mine apart and build them again. :)

[Redhead1982]

I build mine mini modulars a while ago, but I am actually considering bringing few zipbags of unsorted bricks with me on holidays to sort them. Obviously, I still have some to sort, and this might be a nice way to get it done.

[Legogal]

Redhead,

Great idea to take bags of unsorted bricks on your travels and then build something from the sorted bricks. Makes sorting more fun because you get to build afterwards. Let the fun begin!

Eurotrash,

You must be speaking for the geniuses lurking around here!

Building the mini modular set with the directions required every brain cell I possess, so doing it without directions would be a mountainous challenge IMHO. But one that definitely would be worthwhile. Care to share pics of your mini mods? Thanks!

[kermit]

Just dont build and drive at the same time. Chase will be looking at you. :)

Edited July 16, 2013 by kermit

[Vincent Kessels]

Another one for the road is bag building. I build Friend Mailbox in the train from Günzburg to Münich (with thanks to CopMike).

Lets just say the trip was to short.

[Legogal]

Vincent,

Thanks! These Friends' sets are fun builds...I have multiples for extra parts, too. And the prices are low enough for children to buy them.

Polybag builds are a great idea because the sets fit in small pockets and are easy to build in limited space. Must have been cool seeing two guys build a Friends' set on the train! Way to go!