10 year old and lego

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We sold loads at a good price for the buyer. Stuff that was complete with the manuals.

Might take him a wee bit longer too if all the lego is in one heap rather than the bags which make assembly so easy.

Its a website not an app. I have no idea about iphone apps.

Best to get him building his own designs from the parts he already has, great for imagination and problem solving. Building the model on the box from the instructions is only a small part of the whole Lego experience.

When he's building his own stuff if he needs special parts or lots of one part there are sites like Bricklink.com (owned by Lego and run by thousands of private sellers worldwide) and Brickowl.com. Both sites sell new and used sets and parts.

It's a great toy that lasts forever.

Maybe make sure to buy the 3-in-1 lego sets (or Lego Technic) - that way you are encouraged to break up the model and remake it as as a different model each play.

Buy a box of IKEA zip lock plastic bags to store the different sets in once broken up so they dont get mixed up - We stored all our sets like this and carefully stored the manuals. Break up sets into the bags after a while rather than leave them out and he can remake them a few weeks later.

(The less cool more standard brick sets can be mixed in a bucket for parts and general play)

The old way is to get some good books on making models - its more challenging and downside is you never have all the parts "The Lego Ideas Book" is easily found second hand for a couple euros - but I did like the Klutz books as they were very animated.

Lego Technic is often slower to put together, has more opportunity for failure (and time to fix), and very often two or three things can be made from a single set.

I don't have kids, but as an adult who has thousands of euro worth of Lego, I don't think more Lego is the solution to your the problem. The Lego should ideally be something he can tip away with in the background, as a wind down, when not doing other activities, ideally outdoors.

Try this app too, I haven't used it, but has good reviews.
https://brickit.app/

As an adult Lego fiend, I don't "play" with Lego any more. Due to space and money constraints, I just buy and build iconic sets and display them.

As a kid I loved building castles. The puzzle, aside from the general design was to get more and more advanced and taller castles, with the pieces I had. I had a large number of yellow bricks, so my castles were mostly yellow (sandstone), putting in arrow slits, was a saving of space, so I could go up taller. then I started, doing a foundation with double black pieces, so that got me up another row.

I'd suggest getting a green or blue baseplate, and a box of classic bricks. No instructions, just let him use his creativity to build things.

Last Christmas I bought myself Yodas cabin from Star Wars and my ambitioin is to get an X-Wing fighter, and recreate the scene where Yoda is using the Force to levitate Lukes X-Wing out of the swamp. It will involve building the X-wing, but then partially disassembling it, so that it can look partially submerged.

bricks for kids is great but a ten year old will get bored quickly, my son started at 5 and went to the camps for easter summer and loved it but at 8 he said that it was not interesting enough

I wouldnt mind that book myself.

Not sure which 1 is better, this seems newer version but probably different models from other book.