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LegoTwins

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  1. Has anyone's kids entered the LEGO Friends design contest? Our son made two entries and he is super proud of them! The roof on the mountain lodge is questionably stable, but he managed to make it work well enough! If you want to head over to his entries and give them a thumbs up or a comment, he's loving reading the comments We'd love to see your kiddo's designs too! Hot Cocoa Cafe https://www.lego.com/en-us/friends/galleries/album/heartlake-hot-cocoa-cafe-29df558fbe38406fae7f4c1f5f8ac263 Mountain Ski Lodge https://www.lego.com/en-us/friends/galleries/album/heartlake-mountain-ski-lodge-25a26ede3cb741ffb85892d23fee2ad7
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  2. Our five year old twins built Trevi Fountain this weekend. They love filmmaking and this is their third stop-motion video, but the first they have done with very little assistance!
  3. Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome and input! I feel more confident about investing in a handful of large sets. We do not want to buy too, too many as we are quite busy (and don't want to spend all of our sons savings!)- but being that we have the space, a few sets seem like a good idea. pstebbing- Ironically our sons' love of architecture pre-dated their love of Lego. We thought they were far too young to graduate from Duplo blocks at 3 and a half years old, but they saw the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Big Ben at the bookstore and those were two buildings they had been obsessed with so we figured we'd let them try. We were quite surprised to find that they could assemble them with very little assistance. They then moved into a huge obsession with Frank Lloyd Wright, so they asked for most of those for Christmas last year. The Robie House and the Architecture Studio topped their Christmas list and they actually cried when they received them! We do not let them do any of the more commercial sets- we don't feel Star Wars and Chima are age appropriate for them. We haven't even let them see the Lego movie! They are collecting quite a few City sets and really like those, but their hearts are still with the architecture sets! No matter how much we try to convince them otherwise, they are saving to purchase a Taj Mahal someday!
  4. Hello, I am totally new to the site and have spent a week or so browsing before deciding to post! My husband and I have five year old twin boys who are Lego fanatics. They started with the Lego Architecture series just before they turned four years old and by 4.5 they had completed the Robie House- "reading" the directions and laying every single brick with their own little fingers! So here is why am here- Our sons have desperately wanted the London Tower Bridge for nearly two years now and the Sydney Opera House since it was released. Given their age we have not jumped at the idea! Our boys are learning about how sets retire and increase in price. Their main goal in life is to save enough to buy the Taj Mahal! They are also aware that by the time they are old enough to get the London Tower Bridge and Opera House, they will be retired and rather expensive. My husband and I have recently decided that we are going to purchase both the bridge and opera house now and put them away until our boys are a bit older in case either set ends up tripling or quadrupling in price like the Taj Mahal did. In deciding to do this, we stumbled upon the idea of investing in Lego sets- thus how we found this site. Our sons are actors and have a decent amount of money sitting in their savings accounts. We do not touch this money. However, my husband and I are now considering purchasing a few large sets that are likely to increase in value after retirement. We understand it will make small gains in our sons money. We are not looking to make huge, life-altering profits. But some small gains would be nicer than the money just sitting there. We are looking at buying four to six large sets, based on information gathered from this site. Our question is this- Is it safe to say we would at least recoup our investment? Even if the sets do not go up drastically in value, is it likely that we could at least off-load them for what we paid? In browsing trends and sets currently on eBay, it seems that almost everything sells for at least what it was worth, if not a bit more. Surely it is a risk- but is it a relatively safe risk as far as not losing a lot??? Any input would be greatly appreciated. We are totally new to this and not sure if it is something we want to do!
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