Round of applause for the OP! We've nearly come to blows over Lego Star Wars and my poor boy dissolves in hysterics if a ship gets broken...at the thought of having to rebuild it. Lego used to be fun. Not stress. And clone heads keep blocking the hoover.
Ahh, remember the good old Lego of Yesteryear, a base, some bricks, a door some windows and roof tiles, maybe some people if you were lucky.
When my 5 year old son started getting into it I though fab, something we'll both enjoy. But today's Lego is something else - you are making a spaceship, or a Pirate raft or a fire station...every kit comes with a billion pieces that are specific to that model, so god help you if you lose any of them. My son finds them too hard to construct so I end up doing it while he watches very impatiently, then after at least an hour of me sweating and cursing (quietly) he takes my masterpiece...and trashes it with the help of his 3 year old brother. There are bits of Lego all over my house, a full box of it in the playroom - and nothing is complete. Argh!!
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bloody kids ...... WHAT DO THEY KNOW EH
don't know about that new lego stuff, far too old and computer savve me ..... but loved it when it was all simple bricks and plates!
so buy Airfix then....
^^^^ before I got in sh°t it was back in 1993, 8 years before 9/11
^^This, imagination will turn a rough collection of blocks into a streamlined rocket or whatever.
I'm surprised anyone builds the specific kits, bits get added to the existing Lego collection and I'd be off building whatever came to mind.