Who have you banned from looking at/touching/playing with your LEGO

[legoman19892]

Have you ever had to lay down the law and ban someone from being around your LEGO?

Could be because they dropped a model on the ground, broke a piece, stole something...

Also, how do you prevent them from becoming a repeat offender?

[Andeh]

Yeah, I banned my son after he kept messing with my Lego city, and mixing themes like pirates with spacemen, and all other such nonsense. To think he actually turned my vintage 1987 garbage truck into a disgusting mecha!! I promptly scolded him, and glued all of my creations together in their correct forms to prevent further occurrences.

[Darth Dino]

Yeah, I banned my son after he kept messing with my Lego city, and mixing themes like pirates with spacemen, and all other such nonsense. To think he actually turned my vintage 1987 garbage truck into a disgusting mecha!! I promptly scolded him, and glued all of my creations together in their correct forms to prevent further occurrences.

Hi

i hope thats a joke or meant ironic. I hate parents telling Lego could be "damaged or broken". No! Its just dismanteled. That never a reason to glue Lego. If you do so you dont have understand the Lego idea.

Dino

[legoman19892]

Hi

i hope thats a joke or meant ironic. I hate parents telling Lego could be "damaged or broken". No! Its just dismanteled. That never a reason to glue Lego. If you do so you dont have understand the Lego idea.

Dino

That is basically the end of The LEGO Movie. He made it all up.

Yeah, I banned my son after he kept messing with my Lego city, and mixing themes like pirates with spacemen, and all other such nonsense. To think he actually turned my vintage 1987 garbage truck into a disgusting mecha!! I promptly scolded him, and glued all of my creations together in their correct forms to prevent further occurrences.

Dude, Spoilers.

[LEGO Guy Bri]

When I was younger, I "banned" both of my younger brothers from going anywhere near my city. I was finally able to lock my LEGO room door. It was weird how both of my brothers went through a brief phase where each, one went Godzilla on them, wrecking most of my sets. The ban only lasted a couple years as they promptly "grew up". That also happened to be the fate of my middle brothers 1st gen. STAR WARS collection, as well as his LEGO collecting. Youngest destroyed everything except his 7144 Slave I & 7124 Flash Speeder. Never found out why

[AFOL SF]

...to avoid banning anyone... I don't allow kids and teenagers in the house... friends and relatives alike...

[legoman19892]

...to avoid banning anyone... I don't allow kids and teenagers in the house... friends and relatives alike...

You are banning people though...

[AFOLguy1970]

My sons have plenty of their own sets. They are 5 and 7 years old and have not learned how to take care of things. They often lose pieces and sometimes damage them. My MOC project, Modulars, and Lord of the Rings collection is off limits to them. Someday, it will all be theirs, but not until they can appreciate it.

[stevkir]

My wife was watching this 4 year old a year back for a few hours a day. The damn kid found the 2 modulars that I had and totally wrecked them and mixed all of the parts together and then scattered them all over my room, hall way, bathroom and living room.

I wanted to do more than ban that kid

[TheLazyChicken]

Yep, I have before.

When he came over, he found where the key to our Lego room was, unlocked and destroyed and lost a lot of parts. Now I have more that a lock guarding the room.

[AFOL SF]

You are banning people though...

...you can look at it that way, but until I can trust these individuals not to "touch" my collection, I'd rather ban people than be sorry after they leave...

[Hobbythom]

Everyone is welcome to touch my bricks (that didn't sound right at all).

Could one of the moderators put a Lego Movie Spoiler tag in the title of this thread? Hadn't seen it yet but the ending is being spoiled a few posts above mine.

[samlr]

Kids when they go like this :

[Saint]

We sold our kids !!

They were repeat offenders, and after a short debate, we sold them to a guy wielding the Slave I . We even went as far that we put up a moat around the house , made it earthquake proof, and in case of a flood, we have everything in a saferoom that can resist floods up to 10 meters

[kermit]

No one but myself touches my lego sets. I just dont trust anyone around it.

[PocasNuckie]

I banned pretty much everyone from touching my LEGO. From the house, only I and my dad do it. My fellow AFOL's are allowed to touch when they come by, because I know they are skilled enough not to do damage. My 4 years old goddaughter is allowed to play but only with what I give to her hand (small cars, motorcycles and cheaper minifigures) but mostly because hearing her whining if denied would be far worse (I give her tons of LEGO for her age so she's fine anyways lol)

[lightningtiger]

Does everyone remember.....it's LEGO - you can put it back together if it breaks apart by some kid.....big or small ? LOL

I do put some limits like on my MOC's, but I design my MOC's to be played with......LEGO is a toy !

The limit is changing it, I don't mind if it breaks apart I'll fix it.

Some stuff, I go hey, have some fun.....show me what you can do ?

[PocasNuckie]

You can't compare having a kid playing with your LEGO and a few pieces coming off, with the cleaning lady picking sets from the shelves in a poor way and literally letting them fall of to the ground from like a meter high or more. (happened to me)

Edited April 24, 2014 by PocasNuckie

[Saint]

You can't compare having a kid playing with your LEGO and a few pieces coming off, with the cleaning lady picking sets from the shelves in a poor way and literally letting them fall of to the ground from like a meter high or more. (happened to me)

That's why we took her out back and shot her !!

Okay, enough fun !! My room is my responibility , so I alone clean it and goes into the room. My GF on ocasion. I build and do all sort of stuff in that room , so she says that I should keep it clean, and she is right !! If I break something, I cannot blame anybody but myself.

Sometimes we get visitors and I show them my room, but they know better than to toutch anything in my room !

grtz Saint

[naf]

Of course Lego can be put back together, and that's why I do let my kids play with sets I consider to be mine. However, they do so under my supervision until they are older. For example, my stepson has a tendency to dissect every part of a set, including removing all minifigure arms from torsos, hands from arms, and taking the legs off of the full assembly. I let him play with my vintage lego pirate ships, and he ended up jamming so many pieces into the cannons I had to take them out with pliers. This type of "play" can cause actual damage to the parts, some of which are expensive to replace.

The kids have a tons of their own Lego that we've given them, so they really don't bother me that much about playing with my stuff. Some of their pieces and minifigs are damaged well loved, and we don't replace these parts right away (we will once they get older). We want to teach them that if they're too rough on their toys they will break and aren't easily replaced.

[The Lego Nolan]

My younger brothers friend decided to play with some of my favorite figures. My dog ate them. Banned!

[airsoftg36c]

A friend of mine took my Batmobile (7784, the BIG one) apart and mixed it in with my other Lego after I begged him not to tough it. I was pretty pissed... I just got shelves and put all my special sets where he'd have to work very hard to get to them. :p

[badbob001]

I have cracked and chipped Duplo pieces to prove that LEGO bricks can break, especially when thrown from across the room.

[gunm]

So is this the thread where I admit to being Lord Business from The Lego Movie?

I don't Kragle, but I've had to basically separate "my Lego" from my kids'. Now to be clear, I've given my children many sets for them to do with as they please and every single one of them they've completely disassembled.

I really don't have any issue with this in and of itself, except they do not do any kind of organization or maintenance of the pieces afterwards--they just keep all the Lego bricks completely mixed up in their bins and boxes making building new things more of a chore than I think even they can tolerate.

So what do they do? They look at all of dad's still-assembled, and organized collection and want to play with them because, well, they are too disorganized or lazy to build/re-build the stuff they already have. They were taking sets I bought for myself without asking and then those sets would just disappear into their mixed up bin so I had to ban them lol.

Maybe when they learn to organize their Lego and actually take the time to do it, I can reverse the ban haha.

For now, they are just building new things with what they have. I think they do get a little frustrated now and then because of the difficulty in finding the right parts, but they still enjoy building and playing and ultimately that's what counts. Maybe the ban is for their own good!

Funny topic this is...

Edited April 24, 2014 by gunm

[naf]

So is this the thread where I admit to being Lord Business from The Lego Movie?

I don't Kragle, but I've had to basically separate "my Lego" from my kids'. Now to be clear, I've given my children many sets for them to do with as they please and every single one of them they've completely disassembled.

I really don't have any issue with this in and of itself, except they do not do any kind of organization or maintenance of the pieces afterwards--they just keep all the Lego bricks completely mixed up in their bins and boxes making building new things more of a chore than I think even they can tolerate.

So what do they do? They look at all of dad's still-assembled, and organized collection and want to play with them because, well, they are too disorganized or lazy to build/re-build the stuff they already have. They were taking sets I bought for myself without asking and then those sets would just disappear into their mixed up bin so I had to ban them lol.

Maybe when they learn to organize their Lego and actually take the time to do it, I can reverse the ban haha.

For now, they are just building new things with what they have. I think they do get a little frustrated now and then because of the difficulty in finding the right parts, but they still enjoy building and playing and ultimately that's what counts. Maybe the ban is for their own good!

Funny topic this is...

We were buying the kids a lot of star wars and ninjago sets for them to play with, and they did the same thing. They build the sets but then disassembled them into a big pile. However, they didn't really build anything else, and when I asked them they said that they couldn't because they didn't have enough pieces. It's partly true because the modern sets have a lot of technic pieces for structure, movement, or play features, so sometimes a good portion of the piece count for a set is small technic pins. I ended up buying them those creator 3 in 1 sets because they had a lot of standard bricks and pieces that they could build with, they were much happier with those. I also occasionally take them up to the lego store to fill a PAB cup with standard bricks to supplement their collection.