Have you guys ever had people go and destroy some of your sets? If so, what sets were they?

ethanjwall

I certainly have had people destroy my sets. Now I have a room for my Legos. :D I don't want my niece and my nephew going and destroying all of my sets :P At one point, when I was younger and I had left out #4181, #4183, and #4193 and my mom had some friends over and they had a 4 year old and a 6 year old. Sufficed to say, those sets got destroyed really quickly.  

MaffyD

None destroyed as such, but when my son is playing with a set, he never leaves it completely intact. But he does tell me what he's lost so I know what I'm hunting for before the lounge gets vacuumed!

CCC

I destroy my own. Break them down and mix them up. That's if I even build the official model in the first place.

piratemania7

My almost two year old daughter LOVES the lego room - when she is in there she is mesmerized by everything and can't help but take little apples and carrots from my Unexpected Gathering and feed to the cargo people loading stuff onto the train - then taking cars from the train and just picking the whole thing up to take a closer look and then tossing to the side like nothing else!  But I am just as mesmerized by her inquisitive nature and clear love for LEGO this early on, so much so, that all I can do is smile while she does all this.

dougts

I have kids.  So yes. 

Briking

I managed to destroy my Tower Bridge a few months ago when I tried to move it.  Finally got round to putting it back together again last night.

alexwil

Never had anything destroyed. Had a few CMF's stolen though. 

Got all my cmfs up on 1 wall of my man cave/Lego room, we had some friends over and my daughter was showing their daughters the Lego room. Later that day when I went in I noticed straight away that there were some gaps. 

Since then people are always escorted by an adult when they see the Lego room!! 

tallblocktoo

Not destroyed just altered by kids.  And as above its was fun seeing how they figured certain things needed to be.  It was also fun trying to put it all together again.  It was a puzzle.  

TheMaker37

Briking said:

I managed to destroy my Tower Bridge a few months ago when I tried to move it.  Finally got round to putting it back together again last night.

That's funny. I foolishly thought that I could pick up the entire Tower Bridge from an elevated shelf, as soon as it was removed from said shelf I basically imploded it, dropped what was left which promptly exploded when it hit the floor.

I turned the entire room into a crime scene which no one could enter and found every single piece. 

Furrysaurus

I had done a commissioned MOC for a Christmas festival at a local high end hotel.  they had a drunken party come through and wipe it out, finding various portions of it scattered throughout the building.   my wife and i got a call to see if we could repair the bits they couldn't get back together, arriving on-site to see they had used superglue to hold things down.    it was... interesting.    

AllBrick

Plenty, smashed by my "beloved" ex.

My nearly 3 year old boy loves to play with all the vehicles and can't always repair them when bits fall off. He does come a nd tell me though and knows to not take it outside or eat it.

ricecake

I went home to visit my parents a couple years ago and found that my nephew had disassembled and then lost some parts to #1682 Space Shuttle.

A couple months ago, we had some friends over for dinner and my friend's husband picked up #21028 New York City Skyline and broke off part of one of the towers, but he was really apologetic and no pieces were lost.

Brew

William Shatner did this to my UCS AT-AT...

piratemania7

If people have photos of their destroyed sets they really should be included with future posts, makes for great viewing!

bookmum

@Brew on purpose? Need to know more... 

plasmodium

Brew said:

William Shatner did this to my UCS AT-AT...

I see your William Shatner and raise you a Harrison Ford:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_FieJToFKc

bookmum

Hey fellow UK based AFOLS, remember that Blue Peter presenter who broke the giant lego statue live on TV. It's probably out there on you tube somewhere but I can't remember which presenter it was. It was on the late 80s I think. 

Oldfan

I was moving my Death Star II model from one room to another when I dropped it.  Luckily it fell on carpeting rather than hard tile, but still the resulting explosion was a good simulation of the proton torpedo up the reactor's gut.  When I moved a year or so later I was still finding pieces of that thing hidden around that storage room...

Nowadays the kids understand very well that they are not to touch Daddy's Lego without his express permission...but they also have plenty of their own to play with too!

AllBrick

bookmum said:

Hey fellow UK based AFOLS, remember that Blue Peter presenter who broke the giant lego statue live on TV. It's probably out there on you tube somewhere but I can't remember which presenter it was. It was on the late 80s I think. 

1:40.... Curry you wally.
http://youtu.be/10jSVrwSNtk

<3 Caron Keating <3

MaffyD

This, every time someone comes through the lounge door wearing a dressing gown:

Brew

bookmum said:

@Brew on purpose? Need to know more... 

He was at Comicon here in Albuquerque and needed 'the' curtain hanging directly behind my AT-AT so he would be hidden until it was time for him to pop out at the right time. Anyone who has built it knows that it is easy to knock over which is what happened when they retrieved the magical curtain for him. 

bookmum

@AllBrick thank you. I knew it would be out there somewhere. I don't remember Blue Peter being that funny. (It's still going and is very good though). 

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

Personally accidentally killed an Imperial Flagship and a UCS Yoda. The kids have killed both of these plus too many more to recall. House record (well my old house) was when the ex wife attempted a tricky and complicated docking manoeuvre with the UCS blockade runner and my head from about 6 metres across the room - surprisingly swooshable...

kez

I've had more sets destroyed by my cat as opposed to people. Try waking up to chewed up pieces from the Jokerland set under my duvet; or even worse, pieces of treebeard from The Tower of Orthanc being found in various rooms around the house... (I still haven't found all of the pieces) :'(

Legoboy

I haven't had a person destroy a set but how about a dog?  Jake the Dog did this....

tallblocktoo

^I imagine it makes a nice chew toy.  On second thought isn't it a bit sharp?  Well it gets the owners attention anyways!

Yodalicious

My oldest son is very particular about keeping sets together. He'all move pieces around, but always puts them back. Fascinating to watch really. So no destroying there. But...

...minifigs are a different story. Poor things don't stand a chance. Whenever I show him a new one he immediately wants to take them apart. Sometimes it's to trade parts with other minifigs, but more often than not it's to dismember them and leave their parts tossed on the floor. It's quite the crime scene. 

Those of you that know me, know I collect Iron Man minifigs. Tony Stark has suffered every brutal death you can imagine at the hands of my son...multiple times. 

bookmum

My daughter is obsessed with taking apart minifigs too. Sort of drives me nuts. I'm not sure why but I do seem to spend a lot of time having to count all the heads/hairs/hats/bodies /legs and there is always some missing. Found a hair piece in the bottom of a shopping bag today. What was it doing there. Grrr. 

Yodalicious

^ I find Batarangs everywhere in my house. EVERYWHERE. 

bookmum

This isn't lego related as such but daughter is right now playing with her sylvanian families - first thing she does - take all the clothes off! I remember my niece aged about 5 proudly showing me her giant box of Barbies "why are they all naked?" I had to ask. Kids eh! 

Scott1

I accidentally destroyed a 7675 AT-TE once by dropping it on the floor. Also my 77-year-old grandmother tripped on my 7662 MTT.

catwrangler

bookmum said:

This isn't lego related as such but daughter is right now playing with her sylvanian families - first thing she does - take all the clothes off! I remember my niece aged about 5 proudly showing me her giant box of Barbies "why are they all naked?" I had to ask. Kids eh! 

This might explain why so many charity shops have a box of naked Barbies!

SumoLego

Yodalicious said:

^ I find Batarangs everywhere in my house. EVERYWHERE. 

I have similar issues with the tops of Friends ice cream cones.  I don't know where they come from, how they propagate, and how they manage to congregate in the same places...

bookmum

@catwrangler the naked bratz dolls are worse....they don't even have feet. 

catwrangler

Wait, so the feet are just detachable shoes/boots that go on individually?!

Toc13

My three year old helps build them, my one year old takes them apart & then just drops the pieces on either side of her before reaching for the next. She has been taught not to take any out of the room though so at least the bits are easier to find.

ImABrickManNow

My little brother knocked over a large castle set from knights kingdom II. It was being "displayed" on a shelf in my room. made me really mad.

ImABrickManNow

I just gotta say if anyone ever ruined my UCS Tumbler no one would be spared.

bookmum

@catwrangler yes! 

MaffyD

catwrangler said:

Wait, so the feet are just detachable shoes/boots that go on individually?!

Yep. They have ankle pins that the boots snap into.

khmellymel

bookmum said:

My daughter is obsessed with taking apart minifigs too. Sort of drives me nuts. I'm not sure why but I do seem to spend a lot of time having to count all the heads/hairs/hats/bodies /legs and there is always some missing. Found a hair piece in the bottom of a shopping bag today. What was it doing there. Grrr. 

My niece has an obsession with removing the tops on anything, including stuffed toys.  So she always takes off a minifig's "hat" (even if the hat is really hair!).  She's done this since she was about 1, she's nearly 2.5 now.

Said niece also thoroughly dismantled Wally from one of my display areas in the flat.  It's at her height though, so it was kinda silly of me to think it would escape notice.  I've since built her the Friend's Emma's house and put all the minifigs that I gave her in there (mostly the Lego movie ones; there are a lot of interesting hats in this series).  She is free to dismantle away.

bookmum

Just another Sunday morning... 

VorpalRyu

Both @xiahna & James have broken #76018 Hulk Lab Smash, then again I've broken it just trying to put it up after James finished playing with it one afternoon. Hulk Lab Smash seems to be a particularly fragile design.

bluedragon

Meant to be smashed!

Fauch

I accidentaly dropped a 2015 quinjet yesterday from a 1m50 high shelf. broke very cleanly in 6 main pieces. the main body, tips of the wings, the portions of wings clipped on the front of each wings and the cockpit. and also a single slope came off.

put it back in 30s, surprisingly sturdy.

preuss

My 4 year old took his brand new spiderman helicopter to a friend's house the other day and the kid started smashing it against the walls.
My son, who usually is the one dismantling my builds, was really annoyed, but I was almost freaking out. Ended up putting it away, but not before some real harm was done.
I had never seen slopes' edges get rounded by "playwear". The little monster did more damage to those bricks in half an hour than you can find in my entire 30+ year old collection!