Best Lego starter set?

[CharlieBubbles]

DS1 has only recently got into Lego, having owned (and ignored) Duplo for 3 years! So, I wanted to get him a basic, fairly large set with lots of different bricks rather than sets that ony make one thing. But I hadn't realised how many different ones there were.

If your LOs are into Lego, what have you got?

[Bluebabe75]

We have a big blue basic box (with instructions for making vehicles, houses etc), a big red box (similar), various Lego City vehicles and some of the smaller Star Wars sets.

I'd go for one of the big mixed boxes rather than anything themed tbh. M mostly just wants to build his own designs and you can always add to them. We buy additional blocks / figures from the pick and mix at the Lego store. Base plates are good to have too

[fifitrix]

I agree; J was given the small pink box followed by the big pink box, and a separate house/car/trees etc set. This one I think

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO®-5899-L...3764613&sr=8-2

The boxes have various different instructions and she likes to start with something on there, then embellish and extend.

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[fifitrix]

Also we signed up for this recently; it's only a slim magazine but she really likes it

http://club.lego.com/en-gb/behindthebricks/default.aspx

[Chell]

I'd get a set that includes wheels. DS started with the blue box but it has very little in it. You're paying for the box. My DS collection soon outgrew the box and we needed a massive storage box.

It is a good idea to watch out for newspapers offering free Lego. The Sun often does a promotion where you buy the paper and can collect a free set from WH Smiths or Toys R Us.

[CharlieBubbles]

Great thanks ladies, it looks like the big box with maybe some wheels as an add-on might be the way forward. I loved Lego when I was a kid, we had a huge box of it (great uncle worked at the Lego factory). Wish my mum had kept it!