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

[gunm]

We got them a wide variety of sets, from multiple themes. PAB included. They really don't have an excuse lol. My son is 9 and daughter 8. My son in particular has no problems building crazy things with the technic and other specialty pieces, they both just get lazy sometimes. That and they enjoy destroying stuff after they make it, as I suppose kids are wont to do...

Edited April 24, 2014 by gunm

[agentsmith]

my lego room is locked up , nothing happened to me up until now but i don't want to find out i'm missing minifigs from my collection because someone decided to take a souvenir

[Hrw-Amen]

This reminds me that when I was younger my father (Who used to like to build as much as me although he'd never admit it.) used to always be on to me to keep the LEGO organised and stacked in the drawer in an orderly manner. Nothing as organised as what my LEGO is nowadays mind you, but back then we only had the one cupboard. I was forever just chucking it in haphazrdly and he would get a little cross. One day when I had all the bricks and other parts spread out all over the floor he demanded that we stack it neatly in its colours and brick types and so on. This was on the premis that we would get it all to fit into a smaller space. But, becuase he wanted to keep all the stacks visible and not on top of each other it actually took up more space than we had available and so in the end he had to concede that actually just chucking it all haphazardly into the drawers did save space afterall. I would never dream of doing that now though and spen a lot of time soreting stuff out. Almost as much as I do builing I reckon.

[Blondie-Wan]

My fiancée and I live together, but no one lives with us except her dog. We therefore haven't had any issues with other people messing with the bricks, but I do keep the dog out of the "fun room" (where my LEGO is kept).

[BrickBuilder3213]

I have banned my parents from letting them touch ANY of my Lego sets, simply for the fact that they have a tendancy to move and bin things in my room while I'm gone.

One time, my dad saw my Doc Ock Truck Heist set and threw it in the trash, just before he picked me up from college. Ever since then, I've had my door locked when I go out anywhere or have to leave my room to do something.

[iamwhoiam]

So far I haven't had to ban anyone, however, my OCD requires me to draw the line for some of my friends who love to touch every single thing and put them out of place. However it hasn't been so bad that I've had to ban anyone. Although, I am quite nervous about my cat. One day when I woke up, I saw her in between my Millennium Falcon and Quinjet which, at the time were on a shelf about 2 meters off the ground! Luckily she didn't knock anything over but I typically close my door when I'm not in there, just to be safe.

[Colossus]

My kids n I love Lego.

Wifey?

Not so much. Her passive aggressiveness shows when she cleans. Our Lego area is a localized mess. However, it's only when Wifey decides to clean around the designated area that shit ends up mysteriously falling off the table. It leads to very..."spirited" discussion. I bit my tongue when the quinjet took a header. I had to draw the line when The Haunted House teetered on the literal brink of utter annihilation. We have now reached an understanding, and balance has been restored to our house.

[jonwil]

Its just me living in my apartment (no wife, kids, pets or anyone else) so I dont have to worry about anyone else touching my stuff. Family who come over for a visit wouldn't touch my stuff.

And if I was in a situation where I had kids etc near my stuff, I would make sure they didn't touch it.

[trippybrowneyes]

Wow, I'm spoiled! It's just my husband and me - no pets, no kids. If anything, I'm the one who occasionally borrows parts from his minifigs and sets because I want to see what they look like before I buy the piece on bricklink.

...which reminds me, I still have to replace the hair I "borrowed" from one of his collectible minifigs and substituted with a different color. He might have to start banning me from the Lego room! ;)

[Artanis I]

To those who believe that "it doesn't matter, you can put it back together" how about you try putting a bunch of same-coloured (but different design) space ships back together that have been dropped, especially MOCs that don't have instructions. Which part goes with which? How much of it is out of reach under the couch/bed/wardrobe? Did anything break? It's really annoying.

A kid trod on my Monorail Transport System. On the domes. The base exploded everywhere, fortunately no pieces were bent or broken. He was actually already banned (by his mother who often visited the house) from the room unsupervised. Not like when a young woman tripped-up while trying to step over elevated track, that's a bit different to walking on & through a base as though it was a wading pool, to get to the shelf with the cool space ship display on it (that gets promptly dismantled).

And yes, pieces can break or bend from being trodden on or dropped from height. I clumsily trod on a fire truck when I was young, and all of the panels were bent beyond use.

[Paul B Technic]

I don't mind people touching my LEGO, being Technic it is designed to be used...

[TheLegoDr]

I have unoffically banned my one of my daughter's friends. They are 4, so still technically below the target age, but my daughter is capable of putting sets together without help. The friend thinks everything should be thrown and stepped on. Needless to say after witnessing this, I have removed ALL LEGO from my daughter's room and keep it in a safe place until the friend leaves. She also recently had a sleepover and after checking on them I caught the friend dumping about half of a container of fish food into our fish aquarium... it would be my preference if they weren't friends at all. But my daughter had the suggestion maybe she should only go to the friends house. I'm okay with that. The friend can break her own junk all she wants. She doesn't need to break our good quality stuff.

Otherwise, only my daughter and I go into the LEGO room at all. But I have a few small display sets in our guest room that technically anyone would have access to. Thankfully only the VW van has been slightly destroyed in the past.

[JGW3000]

My kids; until they can get their own LEGO put away and not left scattered all over the place, there is no way I'd let them at my completed sets or parts. You should have seen what happened to Shelob, oh the horror

[eileenkeeney]

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

My dream house (that I will never really be able to build) has a moat around it. It is designed to be a castle tower, with a few floors dedicated completely to Lego building. These rooms would be entered by a staircase, that came up in the center, so the train could go all around the room, without blocking entry to the room, and without needing to be up high.

Around the tower there would be a moat, that would also serve as a lazy river style swimming pool. There would be a working drawbridge as well.

I would have annimatronic wildlife in and around the moat, all made out of Lego.

(Or maybe they would just have a Lego layer, like some of the Lego stuff I have seen, including a Lego air operated car).

I have not banned anyone from touching my Lego, except kids that still put things in their mouths (for safety reasons).

I have some Duplo stuff they can touch.

I try to design for playability.

But I don't have any kids living with me, and when I have kids over it is all pretty well supervised.

[AFOLguy1970]

My kids; until they can get their own LEGO put away and not left scattered all over the place, there is no way I'd let them at my completed sets or parts. You should have seen what happened to Shelob, oh the horror

Funny you mention that. I bought Shelob for the the 7 year old (who was 6 at the time). Most of the pieces are gone. He also managed to separate the black hinges that connect the legs to the body. Some of them snapped and broke when he did that. I have Orthanc so high up right now that it almost touches the ceiling.

[Slobey]

I have 3 kids (girls aged 7 & 9, boy aged 3) who love Lego. I keep some of my special sets including classic castle on a high shelf but they are welcome to play with any of my sets whenever they want. My philosophy is it can always be rebuilt if broken and if parts go missing they can always be bricklinked.

My sons favourite is the Sopwith Camel at the moment so I'm doing running repairs to it at the end of each day, but I don't mind

My only set they can't play with is Orthanc which I have in a display case.....

[BrickG]

I've banned everyone who isn't me.

[dvsntt]

I haven't banned anyone yet. So far, I encourage people to lok at them closely, pick them up, play and stuff.

[JGW3000]

I have 3 kids (girls aged 7 & 9, boy aged 3) who love Lego. I keep some of my special sets including classic castle on a high shelf but they are welcome to play with any of my sets whenever they want. My philosophy is it can always be rebuilt if broken and if parts go missing they can always be bricklinked.

My sons favourite is the Sopwith Camel at the moment so I'm doing running repairs to it at the end of each day, but I don't mind

My only set they can't play with is Orthanc which I have in a display case.....

In my case, I can expect nearly 100 % of the parts to go missing... The cat has a small stash in the basement, together with other odd stuff that cats collect, but that doesn't account for the vast majority of the parts that disappear in my house.

[LegoDad]

The only thing off limits in my house is Modular Row. Since the kids mostly just play with the bulk bins and not the actual sets, it's pretty worry free. I'm generally more worried about minifigures walking away from our house more than anything.

[dr_spock]

I display at public events. I try to make my MOCs extra strong since I can't ban people and some can't read do not touch signs.

[Palathadric]

I'm generally more worried about minifigures walking away from our house more than anything.

Don't show them Toy Story. They may get ideas.

[Calanon]

I don't like anybody touching my Lego... however I haven't actually banned anybody, since they know if they move anything they shall incur my wrath, depending on the severity of course.

[jluck]

I keep my CMF on a top shelf since many kids I know enjoy mixing minifigures. Not that it can't be undone, but I just don't want to take the time to retrace their moves. I still lament how badly I mixed some of my old sets, some pieces will never be found.

[Maniac4Legos]

I banned no one. Anyone is allowed to build and play with my LEGO collection even if it's broken by accident. And trust me three have a few times where others would accidentally break a model but I knew I could easily fix it :)