LEGO Play Book: Ideas to Bring Your Bricks to Life

My son who is an engineer suggested that I get this book for my seven-year-old grandson... so I did! We won't know until after Christmas if he likes it, but my son will probably like it he's had Lego since 1976.

We gave this to our just-turned-5 year old son for his birthday. He took one look at it and said, "Wow, a book to give me ideas about my legos!" He loves looking at the pictures and has memorized parts that my husband has read to him. The minifig dialogue balloons are also simple enough for his beginning reading skills and quite funny (though some of the humor has to be explained to him). Up til now he has been obsessed with superhero Legos, but he has just requested another Lego idea book with more "real life" stuff (yay). He is currently sleeping with this book.Our son is not interested in exactly copying the ideas in the book at this point. This is probably partly his age, partly his personality type. However I do not think that any of the ideas in the book require step-by-step directions. You can pretty much tell by looking at the pictures what sort of bricks to use. I did stalk eBay lego lots until I found one that was 12 lbs of random Legos for $65. This resulted in enough Legos, I think, to do a decent approximation, if not copy of, anything in the book. (After researching lego organization for weeks, I also purchased 4 sets of Sterilite drawers (Sterilite 3-Drawer Organizer 2093). Unlike the official Lego organizer drawers, the Sterilite version have the advantage of not easily pulling completely out, which prevents mass dumping.) There are some minifigs in the book like a Frankenstein and a skeleton that would need to be purchased separately. Not having these has not bothered our son, however, who makes his own characters by drawing faces and outfits on paper, cutting them out, and taping them to his existing minifigs.Very happy with this book.

Great illustrations. Need to be creative and open minded to attempt these builds with your own Legos. The inventory of possible lego pieces is infinite, most people do not have every thing they need to replicate a picture in here. It does get you thinking though, and it is fun to just explore how to modify the design with your own inventory.If you are looking for instructions, or the simplest of sets that you could definitely build with your random Legos, you will be frustrated, but I don't think that is the purpose of the book.For use with children, it is a great opportunity to teach and demonstrate creativity, flexibility and patience. It is easy for a child to get frustrated when they don't have the exact pieces shown, or disappointed that theirs does not match the picture. We use our book to examine building techniques and get ideas, and just fun eye candy. Not to try to replicate the builds shown.

I have mixed feelings about this book. It is a cute book and full of fun creations using legos. However, you need a LOT of legos to be able to make most of these things. For a child who is just getting interested in legos and doesn't have a large collection yet there aren't a lot of things he/she would be able to build. Also, this book does not give instructions on how to build things, more just pictures of what you can build. My 7 year old likes to have directions he can follow and I thought this book would actually should HOW to make things, not just pictures of what you can make. Overall it is a good book, it definitely opens the door of his imagination to come up with lots of things he can make and imagine with his legos, it just isn't quite what I had in mind when I ordered the book.

I got this as an extra birthday gift for my son and his boys, ages 7 and 4.Happily, he has never outgrown his love of LEGOs & the 2 little ones are happily following in their father's footsteps. So between their playroom @ home & the playroom we have set up here @ our house, I guess you could say that we must have AT LEAST one, maybe two million LEGOs?? ...maybe more, I don't know. And this book has some wonderful ideas in it for kids of all ages. I'm thinking of getting a second copy to keep here for whenever the other grandchildren are over ~ so far with a total of six, going on seven of them, I know it will see years of use!!Any time I find anything to do with building, imaginative play, exploring...well, I guess you know where my heart is at.......

I bought this book for my son for Christmas. He loves Legos and loves looking at designs. This book is full of design ideas. There is so much to look at that it would take days to look at all of them. The pictures are excellent in this book and it is very high quality. This book has ideas that will appeal to all ages, from children to adults. I am not as big of a Lego fan as he is but even I enjoy looking with him.The book has a paper book jacket on it, and my son always takes those off, but the cover of the book is sturdy and has all of the color / design detail of the book jacket.A great purchase!!!

My almost 5 and just-turned 6 yr olds love their LEGOs. Reminiscent of The LEGO Movie, my 6 yr old is super reluctant to break down creations after he's followed the instructions exactly...the almost 5 yr old is a Deconstruction Free Spirit. To help them reach a common middle ground - partly for my sanity's sake - I presented them with this book, to great success. They have spent hours, heads together, pouring over the fun ideas and quirky characters that pop up through the pages - and corroborated in breaking down creations and making news ones. I see that their LEGO play is far more creative and organic. They still fight over coveted bricks, but we have added to the fun. Great book.

envio super rapido y el producto es el que estaba buscando. muchas gracias por todo. remondable 100 por ciento. valeria

I did not have very high expectations about this book. I thought I would see a few good ideas, but many builds that are either impossible for me to reproduce at home (like the gorgeous models I see on MOCpages) or that look too childish for adults (like many of the MOCs Rebrickable suggests me to build). But not at all. Those are all models that I could rather easily build with the pieces I have at home, and they all look great! There are also many tips for alternate builds.I have actually read it from start to finish, like a novel. I recommend it to all the LEGO apprentice builders of this world.

Preso per fare un regalo di conpleanno. Sembra piaciuto anche se non ho ricevuto purtroppo rfeedback personali. Ovviamente sono progetti Lego a volte un po' complessi, e' per persone che hanno gia dimestichezza con il Lego e tempo da dedicare.

wie auch die andere Lipkowitz Lego-Bücher von DK ist auch dieses wunderschön gestaltet und voll mit Modelle zum bewundern und auch selbst versuchen zu bauen

英語版が安かったので購入しました。５才の息子は本の作品と同じものを作りたがりますが、パーツが揃ってなくて作れないのが残念です。でも、見てるだけでもワクワクします。