LEGO Ideas 21320 Dinosaur Fossils Building Kit (910 Pieces)

He put the dinosaur together first thing after his birthday party. He kept carrying it around with him for several days!

Fun to do

my humble opinion, Legos are grossly overpriced, but the grandsons LOVE them)))

A week and a half after I got this for my grandson for Christmas who is nine he absolutely loved it and has it half done

Pieces are much larger than I thought they would be. Everything looked great when it was complete.

My boy loved loved these.

Great toy

Legos for my boyfriend. He loved them.

Youd have to be living in a cave to not be aware of the Lego brand complete with animated movies. Small blocks snap together to build things. Cute. Obviously, Id never assembled a set and wondered who on earth would be so into this to take time to go visit a theme park, LegoLand? I saw the announcement before they released this set of dinosaurs a year ago and being fascinated by all things dinosaur, tried to order the set, but months passed and frankly, I lost interest. Fast forward, I ordered the set spent an evening each to assemble the first two Dinos and can now officially say, Im completely won over and blown away! The T Rex and Triceratops are now front and center, occupying valuable desktop space, terrifying the tiny Lego Sapian skeleton man with the Indiana Jones hat, whos sprinting toward my desk blotter for cover! I burst out laughing every day I pass it; a super de-stressor during this time of social distancing at home! I opened the box having no idea what to expect of the 900+ pieces or how to proceed. Legos been doing this for a long time and I have to say I couldnt be more impressed with both their simple, organized instructions and packaging to walk you through it all. I doubt anyone who gets the set doesnt prioritize the T Rex as project number one. Whod keep a Rex waiting? There are 3 separate assembly booklets, one for each Dino. Inside the box are 6 separate plastic bags each clearly numbered, filled with the hundreds of parts. The first instruction designated selecting two of the numbered bags. Each bag was opened and spilled on my large work area into two discreet piles. I opened the Rex booklet, clearly illustrated in color and began. For anyone thats a first timer like me, I quickly realized beginning in that crude pile scenario is a a recipe for wasted time and frustration. Better: Segregate like parts together, separated by a little space so your eye can sweep the small communities for easy identification as you proceed. The T Rex is assembled in 150 different steps. Each step begins with a box on the page showing which pieces youll be working with. No words anywhere, only pictures. Vaguely like Ikea, but with far more detail, color and thought. Grab the 4 or 5 parts youll need for that step in front of you and do the step. I love that there are at times several parts that look very similar. To avoid confusion, they show you a box with all three similar parts with an X under the two you dont want and a check under the one you do. Extremely helpful. You walk through the steps and several hours later you have your completed figure. I was sure, with so many parts, they were certain to omit even just a few which would make a person extremely frustrated. Im thrilled to report, that just didnt happen. Every tiny part was there. Dont panic if you have a few small parts left. They actually supply a few extras that youre most likely to loose. The pieces themselves are made out of a material thats perfect for assembling, and the precision is incredible. Yes, theyre just blocks and pieces, but if they were not crisp and precise it could become a frustrating mess. Nope. Zero difficulty snapping together. Dont imagine you can multitask; watch videos or a TV show and do the build at the same time. You need to focus. This was really a satisfying pleasure both for the slow progression, precision, need for quiet concentration and then the final result, complete with touches of humor. If youve never done a Lego kit before, this might be a great one to start with especially since so many of us are locked away inside at home in these uncertain times. The quality, instructions, detail and final result is really astounding. Extremely impressed and can highly recommend for detail oriented people of any age!

I got this set as a little present for myself after finishing up a particularly onerous consulting gig. It was very satisfying to build, and if you follow the instruction manuals for the bags as numbered (pteranodon, triceratops, then tyrannosaurus), you get a nice progression in difficulty. The finished sets themselves are more for display than for play, much to the chagrin of my three year old. Even re-posing the figures (particularly the tyrannosaurs tail) is enough to make jostle loose some of the smaller pieces, though they were very easy to reattach. I have the finished pieces sitting on my desk at the office; theyre a fun conversation piece, and nice to look at. There were also some clever construction elements. Theyre not strictly accurate, though definitely capture the feel of the dinosaurs in question. But if I am being honest, I dont rank accuracy particularly high on my list of what makes a LEGO set fun. They were more than accurate enough for what I expect from a LEGO set. I did end up choosing to not use the nameplates (which are a flat-topped 2x4 piece with a sticker on top), as I didnt do a very good job with the sticker and the dinosaurs are recognizable enough without.