Adventures in Christmas Lego-ing Part I
November 7, 2011 at 2:06 am 4 comments
This September, I discovered that the most awesome thing existed … LEGO CHRISTMAS VILLAGE. Yes, you read that correctly. A Christmas village made out of Legos. So after buying the two sets that were out (thankfully it was only two years old so I didn’t have a ton to buy to catch up). Sad thing though was that I had to wait for this year’s set to come out. So after patiently waiting until October, I am now a proud owner of all three sets.
Sets that are out:
Winter Village Bakery
# 10219
687 pieces
Winter Toy Shop
# 10199
815 pieces
Winter Village Post Office
# 10222
822 pieces
OK, don’t get mad. I know that after Halloween comes Thanksgiving. I know this, I do. However, I just can’t get as excited about turkey as I can for Santa and presents and lights and … you get the idea. So realizing that it is only two and a half weeks until Thanksgiving, I really need to get on the ball. There are crafts to be made, a photo to take for Christmas cards, cookie-exchange party to plan, etc. AND the day after Thanksgiving is traditionally the day that we decorate. It’s the first year with the Lego sets and I didn’t know how long it would take to put up. It could cut into precious ornament time or something.
Therefore the only logical decision that I could come to was to build a Lego Christmas set every Sunday.
So this is the breakdown of putting together of our first Lego Christmas Village set. (Note: Times are with two grown adults)
The box.
Opening the box, there are several bags that make you think they are organized by building/item that you have to build. That is NOT the case. These are just randomly bagged.
So we opened all the bags and sorted everything by color and then size. This helped out tremendously. Sorting took 12 minutes.
After sorting, we just followed the extensive step-by-step directions in the book provided. First step, put together all the people. This took almost 3 minutes.
Next, we put together the tree stand. Tree Stand took 4:32.
Wagon took 8:20.
Ice rink was very interesting to put together. It took 15 minutes.
Saving the best for last … the bakery. The bakery, which is comprised of most of the pieces, is really detailed.
This is the bakery from the back.
There is title for the flooring for god’s sake. It was amazing to put together. I couldn’t believe it — these are not the Lego sets from my youth. (Course, I never got the pricey sets anyway, so maybe they are?)
Bakery window with the light on.
There are lots of mechanics that go into the sets, like all the hinges and things (also a light brick!). If not for the step-by-step directions, I feel that I would not have been able to put this together.
Looking inside the door toward the cash register
Total bakery time comes in at a whopping 1 hour and 8 minutes.
Completed set
Total time: Roughly 1 hour and 49 minutes.
I would highly recommend this set. It is ridiculously adorable. It did take a little longer than I thought to put together, but it was fun. I think it is a little more difficult — my hands are a lot bigger now, but still fun. Did I want to strangle my husband at times? Yes. But I’m sure the feeling was mutual. But, we survived and it’s built. I’m calling it a win. So that’s the bakery. Next up … Winter Village Post Office.
Entry filed under: Holidays, Home Life, Me!. Tags: Christmas, Crafts, Decorating, Legos, Toys.
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Elizabeth Hartman | November 7, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Wow, that’s so detailed! What an awesome set! I won’t judge you for getting started now, even though it is against my religion to start early.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a Lego set that I’ve put together – we always just had a giant Rubbermaid bucket of Lego parts!
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kittypaws9 | November 16, 2011 at 5:04 am
Yeah, I just had a big bucket, too! The only thing I had was like 4 pieces of road that went together where you could build stuff on the corners. I would almost always put them all together and build a house in the middle. I only had one Lego car though. No need for stoplights.
Yeah, I normally have a hard rule of the day after Thanksgiving, but man it would take all day just for these sets. Spin wants to take them all apart and put them together every year. I think I might have to squash that. It would turn into, “OK, it’s August, let’s start on the village.”
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Elizabeth Hartman | November 16, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I think it’d be fun to put them together each year! It’d be a neat tradition to start.
I think I had that same exact 4-piece-road set, too. And yep, there was always a house in the middle Legos are so creative now!
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Adventures in Christmas Lego-ing Part II « Fattie Wisdom | November 16, 2011 at 5:35 am
[...] our second adventure of Lego-ing, (see part I here) we decided to put together the Winter Village Post Office. Topping out at a grand 822 pieces, it [...]