LEGO Classic 10697, large creative brick box, 4 Jahre to 99 Jahre,1500 bricks

Some people hit middle age and buy a Porsche. Not me though, I brought Lego. It's changed from how it was when I was a child. Now it's primarily sold in kits and the kids get the parents to build it for them (or perhaps that's just in my extended family). This Classic XXL box is much bigger than it needs to be, in terms of the cardboard box itself. The pieces are separated by colour into little plastic bags and fill up about half of the box. When you tip them out and separate them into like pieces, you find there's a huge colour range now. Much wider than it was back in the day. In practical terms this means that if you want to build a blue wall, you're going to end up with a blue/red/pink wall because there aren't enough blue pieces. That's my main gripe. The box comes over-loaded with small pieces. I didn't like that much. After all, when you're building, you want to build with the big bricks. The small ones are for finishing touches and detail right? There's also quite a few mystery pieces. Shapes that have no purpose you can think of. Again, I didn't like that. Thought it was a waste and a plot by the lego people as a way to bump up the brick count without giving much value. However having spent time playing with the set, I'm beginning to accept the pieces. The trick is to forget how Lego used to be and focus on what it is today with all their weird little pieces. I miss that they haven't included the little lego people - the girl with the black hair and the boy with the blonde hair. I still think they've got the colour thing wrong. If they're going to have so many colours, they need to increase the number of bricks so there's enough bricks of each colour to make it worthwhile. There's a woefully small number of the good sized bricks in the same colour and size. I also think that Lego is seriously over-priced. It's bits of plastic moulded at low cost. Just by the volume sold, economies of scale means that the price is being kept high artificially. But what can you do? It's such a great toy that despite my gripes, I still can't give it less than 5 stars even though I can't quite forgive that the brick count is bumped up by small pieces and you run out of the colour you want in a heartbeat. It's still a box of peace and memories. And it's cheaper than a Porsche.

Well hello big fat massive box of Lego!! A lovely mixture of vibrant and essential colours for creating anything your heart desires. We have hours of fun with this, plenty of bricks for four of us to share and build with. There's a great variety of different types of bricks and we have also tried out numerous designs from inside the booklet included in this set which are simple to follow. A great starter set! We can't wait to expand our collection.

It contains a lot of pieces and some ideas are included in the small booklet that comes with it. Furthermore there is the option to find more ideas on the LEGO website. The box says that there are 1500 pieces, which is te case (maybe there are even some extra) but a lot of these pieces are very tiny, like the one point "bricks". If you want a lot of eight point bricks this might not be the right thing, but if you enjoy the possibilities with the small bricks to make new and diverse structures that are slightly more delicate then this box is ideal.

This is a great box of Lego with lots and lots of different coloured pieces to fire up the imagination of my 5 year old grandson. There are quite a few really small parts which wouldn't suit anyone younger. Also you need a base board to set up your creations. Really quick service well packed and hassle free from supplier.

NOT XXL!! A Con

Loads of pieces but not enough of wheels, had to steal some from other sets to keep my two boys happy, for an xxl box, really there should of been more........

Everything you can sant in a box of lego bar one thing! a proper sized base plate. The lack of this is annoying and lego have clearly cleverly left this out so you have to spend more money getting one of a good size, and, boy are they EXPENSIVE! but otherwise a good buy for the money.

the brick separartor tool is missing