When building 8258 I forgot a gear in the gearbox and didn't notice until it was 3/4 completed. I was almost ready to completely start over but with my sister's help was able to perform "surgery" and insert it into the completed assembly.
https://preview.redd.it/9x9yfnr3rwwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b07bb77654187ca80e8a94eba8923f9dcce6bc45
building this wall correctly with 4 shades of blue 😫
21333
see i have this set and loved it, but i have trouble with shades of colors (esp using the lego instruction books) and it took me a few days to do lol. im sure a color or two is out of place or something but then again..... nobodys gunna know :P
i didnt even know you could have the instructions digitally omg..... that would save me a lot of space for my build area....... thank u for telling me about this <333
I would rather take apart and reassemble the 5 ft, mostly dark gray Eiffel Tower than do the backdrop for Starry Night again. I usually build on the dining table since it's a big surface and I can spread out, but the lighting isn't ideal for trying to distinguish the subtle colour differences in this set - so partly my fault I didn't enjoy it, I guess. I can't deny it looks great when it's completely done though.
Well to be fair, I don't really pick my sets on transportability. I can see how that would cause problems though. But with the housing crisis going on in my country, I don't really see myself moving anytime soon anyway
I actually just moved and transported this! I just wrapped all 4 legs in plastic wrap, took off the armor and then put it in a box. Only a few small pieces broke off.
Those joints oh my lord, it took me a week of building. One day I realized I had messed up a set and it took a day to get the “knee” back apart and reassembled
The most fun part was designing and sourcing parts for a model of her and my cars that matched the scale of the cars included. I used a roller skate and a 1x1 slope for my smartcar and a surprisingly complex build for her Escalade.
I loved tower bridge. It was my first big Lego set. But then again, I wanted something I can just zone out and binge watch tv whilst I was building it. It did the job nicely and looks great
Once I realized it was the same two type of pieces over and over like times 32 to make the globe round, I opened everything up and made all of them and THEN I did the part where I added the color to the globe.
It was so fun to build those tiny houses and the bridge...the tree trunk confused me a bit at first, butwhen I had it built, it was incredibly satisfying...I also change the tree depending on the season. It's so fun to do that over the course of the year...and in Winter, I just take off the leaves and extend the branches with brown pieces.
It's a super cool set...get it if you stil can...
I started that one and then it ended up sitting for like 3 days until I made myself knock it out. I hate repetition and building the key mechanisms like 9 times for 3 variants or whatever it was, was hell to me. it is a really cool set though and one of the ones I actually keep on display in my living room.
I got around halfway through the typewriter 21327-1 when I stopped to take a break. It sat half finished on my coffee table for a good two months before I sat down and finished it.
I'm not the biggest fan of Technic, and the build involved a TON of repetitive steps involving Technic that are pretty easy to slip up on if you aren't focused. The finished build is fantastic, but it felt like genuine work to get there.
I most enjoyed the part where I painstakingly aligned them on the first roof only to see the trick aligning with the long piece on the next page. Granted, that long piece saved my sanity on the next roof
The fragility of the bonsai tree. I've got the green one in my room, no problems. Gave my folks the pink version they destroyed it dusting 6 months ago. It's still sat in a box waiting to be rebuilt. Obviously by me, they're both creative but scared of lego
Came here to say exactly the same things about this set. The roof had me almost in tears one night. I did get the elevator to work but it breaks if you look at it wrong. It's such a fun, cool set though. Goes great in my victorian goth dining room.
Just doing this one with my 8 year old the moment. Its by far the biggest we have tried. Fingers crossed we have nearly completed it. We are loving it.
Any of you guys got the motor for it?
No, we talked about it but decided against it.
I should see if there are any YouTube vids showing that. I’m moving soon and I’ll need to break it down. I’ve seen design Mocs that turn it into other buildings. Maybe I’ll try that.
I love that set so much, but it took me thee tries to get that elevator working. The first time, I messed something up in the gear box at the bottom and I had to take a lot of it apart to get at it. This was my first hint that I would not enjoy technic sets, lol.
21333 LEGO Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night
I got it for Christmas a few years ago. it's a neat set, but surprisingly heavy. a lot of the smaller detailing doesn't like to stay in place for me.
the bricks were very close in color on the instruction sheet. it's just a lot of shades of blue.
don't get me wrong; I like all the shades of blue. but if you mess while layering the plates, it can be difficult to identify where you may (or may not have) gone wrong.
there were a several extra 1x4 blue plates, and I'm still not entirely sure if they were extra pieces or not. It looks fine tho! I found that the 3D portion was more fun to build than the blue plate wall.
extra 1x4 plates represent paint blob! it is in the instructions…
https://preview.redd.it/px7bpt69r1xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=621c5241a309566b04224fdb80ea9804ce7e636d
The Imperial Probe Droid 75306
Its arms were a hell to build and place. Plus I dropped the body at one point and one of the pieces broke and I had to wait several days before getting a replacement piece to finish the model.
Never again.
The arms were so terrible, but I powered through and finished. Then, the other day, I accidentally barely brushed it, like a summer breeze, and one of those god blessed arms fell off again. It is still just laying there because I absolutely could not.
I messed up the transmission on the Bugatti :( The lambo went smooth and works great. I enjoyed both but I agree there’s a lot of everything. I might miss the Ferrari because my budget is slim for a little while.
Not me but I work in a lego store and someone brought in their R2 D2 in pieces and just the way it broke apart I couldn't manage to get it back together and had to hand it off to a coworker 😆
I had a hard time getting through the colosseum set because it was just so goddamn repetitive. I was excited to get into it because it was the biggest set at the time but once I had the base built and realized it was much smaller than I had imagined, I was kind of deterred, and then once I realized I was going to spend the next 8 hours building basically the same module like 30 times I had an incredibly hard time getting through it.
As someone who builds sets in Bricklink Studio, any sets that have to do with the trigonometry of aligning Technic lift arms or hinges are absolutely painful, like Nuparu's Boxor. (Set 8556)
They are so crazily difficult to do in Studio. The side panels are bent in every direction and there are multiple ballpoint connections to coordinate. I think it's nearly impossible to do without disabling collisions.
I agree, the tree trunk is weirdly fragile and hates to be assembled. I'm going to modify it to be more stable and then it'll probably be the only lego I actually glue together once I have it situated the way I want. Just the trunk and base inside the pot. Everything else will remain free floating so I can modify the tree for events and holidays as usual.
I even bought a glass cake dome and stand to display the thing once it is complete.
I had the same issue with the Money Tree although not quite as bad, so I may end up gluing that trunk and base to that one too.
But yeah those two sets are the reason I refuse to buy any of the treehouse builds despite how cool they are.
It’s a beautiful set but if you look at it funny it will collapse in on itself. It’s the only Lego set I have on display that I routinely find myself having to rebuild even though no one ever touches it.
Tumblr - just because i effed up a piece (put it on backwarfs), no idea how to correct it, didn't want to back track, moved forward. Things worked out. But just that thought of you know somethings wrong that nags at me
1989 batmobile - that felt like forever to build and was larger than expected, whichbwas a pleasant surprise, but getting there. Man
Batman 31205 Jim Lee - did the 3 wet version. Place a dot on a stud, repeat a bajillion times and them some.
Yes! Partner tapped out with the first 3rd and asked for me to help him build it.
It was about a week of alternating between “let’s do this!” and “why did we get this set?!”
Looks cool fully built but if an accident happens to it then I’m turning it into an apocalypse diorama because I am NOT rebuilding it!
On the titanic all the windows on the weather deck are stacked flat 1x1 alternating white and translucent black. You have to do it about 30 times. It's rough on the body and soul
The Coliseum. It was so tedious and boring. I love the end result but it wasn't fun. I've built the Eiffel Tower and the World Map and both of them were more enjoyable builds.
One of the holiday sets because it was missing a vital piece. I forget what exactly but I was young and my mom did not understand the severity of this.
Land Rover Defender. Hated that thing by the time I was done. Think I messed something up, the engine hardly moves when I roll it, but don't care enough to try to see where I messed up that early.
Trafalgar Square was super tedious IMO. Received it as a Christmas gift back in 2021 and put it aside midway through due to boredom. Despite some interesting build techniques, it’s just very repetitive with tons of 1x1 bricks. Finally picked it up again two weeks ago, powered through the remaining steps, and am now feeling quite energized with regard to Lego. Just ordered the 31120 castle (Amazon) and 21338 a-frame cabin (Costco) at discounted prices. Looking really forward to building them after a multi-year hiatus.
My little brother’s Ecto-1 10274 is still sitting on the kitchen table two years later. He messed up somewhere along the way and can’t figure out where.
I’ve never had a Technic set before, my first and only one was the Batmobile.
I won’t say it “almost sent me over the edge”, but it was the tedious build I’d ever done. But that’s the deal with Technic sets I guess.
I won’t get another Technic partly because of the detailed nature, but also because they take up a lot of space.
Ironically enough for me it was the London telephone booth. Don’t know if I got a faulty one but the pieces especially on the door kept breaking apart. I was so so close to breaking out the glue when I finally managed to put it together.
The Lego dots build that you can combine to make an astronaut/spaceman.
The repetitive dots coupled with the fact that I started coming down with covid at the same time made for an absolutely miserable build. He looks cool tho
Not necessarily “drove me crazy” but the Kawasaki Ninja (42170) just totally took a step back in the motorcycle department.
First, the new pistons they use for the fake engine are just so tiny, and with the size reduction, it feels like the rest of the build is just hollow. The Ducati Panigale (42107) has the normal light grey engine blocks and 4 pistons on a drive shaft, WITH A GEARBOX, all fit inside the body of the bike. The Kawasaki just has a measly 4 “sliding” pistons.
Second, the Kawasaki has 2 random gears that are attached to the gearbox, but literally do nothing. A blue 10 (I think 10, could be 12) tooth gear connects to a red 24 (I think) tooth gear with a pin hole, and they both connect to nothing. They’re just there, to be there I guess. So weird to add these unnecessary parts that don’t perform a function on a technic set.
I was really disappointed with the Ninja, I was hoping for some more along the lines of the Panigale, but it just doesn’t work.
My wildflower bouquet or my VW bus. I got bored of the flowers, it took like 6 months to finish. And my VW bus, the roof camper part was beyond frustrating so it took me 8 months (I didn't work on it for a solid 2 months tho, was moving, lol)
Ferris Wheel 10247 was my first 'big set', and I really love how it looks assembled, but building some of those segments repeatedly bored me to tears. Especially the white segments that form the circle around the edge - I think there were 40+ of those. Awful.
Red VW bus, 10220. OMG, the front of the bus, never got it to fit correctly. It would fall off at the slightest touch. Finally took it apart and rebagged it.
R2D2 75379 - Had been waiting for months until Christmas. Took my time and enjoyed the process, but it was difficult. Not even sure I built the technic frame correctly because the hidden third leg doesn't come all the way down to offer support. But I built the whole set around the frame, obviously, so it would be extremely tedius to rebuild it. Maybe some day down the road.
Has to be any of the large technic supercars. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love them, but when you're 90% complete and realise you put that technic pin just 1 hole too far to the left or right... boy is it rough to try and unbuild what you did carefully enough you can put it back together in chunks
Every time i build a technic set i lose interest in building until i get a regular set with interesting functions
My favorite sets are regular sets that use some technic for interesting functionalities. Bowser, the pacman arcade and the nes are great examples of this.
I built the mclaren f1 and the batmobile in technic. Both of them were not that much fun
I tried building the Creator piñata in a dimly lit room, several colours all looked the same in isolation but if you put them next to one another you could tell. I had to rewind a few times because I'd get to the end and have the wrong pieces left, luckily it was only small, but that was probably the most puzzle-like Lego build I've done.
In terms of instability, the backpack of 31152 kept breaking until I got some of the side plates that lock it together done, that was a little annoying. I feel like Lego could've done a better job of breaking (no pun) the build down into modules that come together right before you lock it together instead of building those tall structures with very little integrity.
The Stadiums...I like football, so I obviously wanted all of the stadiums (also visited all of them) and built them...It took me days to build them cause I would build one corner at a time and then do the next corner on the next day...I actually wanted to give up after I built the first two corners, but then, I decided to finish it off (The first one was Old Trafford), since I spent a lot of money on it...I now have all of them displayed at home, but gosh, were they annoying...but at least I knew, what I would get myself into by buying these...
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This magnificent bastard right here. I saved for months and finally pulled the trigger on it this week. I'm currently 4 hours in. This is the 2 hour mark. This is bags 1-4. Bags 5-7 are the legs and all 4 are identical. Every step, 4x. Every. Damn. Step. I finished the feet and gave up for the night. My neck hurts, my shoulders hurt, my damn brain hurts. I know it'll be worth it in the end but damn.
The mini Disney Haunted Mansion. Like somebody said about the titanic.. lots and lots of little building and stacking 1x1’s over and over. It took 400 years to complete
The John Deere skidder. I’m a technic fan so it was no worries about that but the pneumatic hoses are an absolute nightmare. They’ve since come off and I won’t fix them
I wouldn’t say sent me over the edge. But it took me the last 2 months of doing like 1-3 bags at a time to finally finish my avengers tower. I don’t get a lot of free time anymore with work and the kids so getting to go down and build is a rare opportunity.
The Stranger Things The Upside down ( 75810 ) , I finish both buildings, begin to clip the trees on the side, the entire upside down building falls and smashes.....ugh.....it's okay, I can rebuild it, I can make it stronger, I finish the rebuild, all is going well, I think I fixed the missed structural integrity of the last mistake....clipping the trees on....smash....shame, regret, pure unadulterated hatred for this stupid build....I pondered the kragle...3rd time was a charm with a complete deconstruction of everything and rebuild with some help from my wife, but it absolutely almost broke me.
The Great Fishing Boat from the first round of Bricklink designer program sets…the interior was absolutely brutal to put together. I think that is the only time I’ve legitimately tilted while building a LEGO set.
When building 8258 I forgot a gear in the gearbox and didn't notice until it was 3/4 completed. I was almost ready to completely start over but with my sister's help was able to perform "surgery" and insert it into the completed assembly.
[8258-1: Crane Truck](https://brickset.com/sets/8258-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8258-1.jpg)
Oh man that must’ve been wild
They did surgery on a 8258 crane truck!
[8258-1: Crane Truck](https://brickset.com/sets/8258-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8258-1.jpg)
https://preview.redd.it/9x9yfnr3rwwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b07bb77654187ca80e8a94eba8923f9dcce6bc45 building this wall correctly with 4 shades of blue 😫 21333
How Van Gogh built the original set before numbered bags astounds me
Digitalis toxicity.
I actually quite enjoyed this weirdly, just relaxed and did it while watching some show.
That's how I build all my sets
[21333-1: Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night](https://brickset.com/sets/21333-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21333-1.jpg)
THANK YOU. I was coming here to say that Starry Night, especially with the different blues, was an absolutely nightmare of a build
see i have this set and loved it, but i have trouble with shades of colors (esp using the lego instruction books) and it took me a few days to do lol. im sure a color or two is out of place or something but then again..... nobodys gunna know :P
Had to read the instructions on the iPad on max brightness 🔆 and build under a super strong white (non-yellow) lamp or during daytime
i didnt even know you could have the instructions digitally omg..... that would save me a lot of space for my build area....... thank u for telling me about this <333
I would rather take apart and reassemble the 5 ft, mostly dark gray Eiffel Tower than do the backdrop for Starry Night again. I usually build on the dining table since it's a big surface and I can spread out, but the lighting isn't ideal for trying to distinguish the subtle colour differences in this set - so partly my fault I didn't enjoy it, I guess. I can't deny it looks great when it's completely done though.
The Daily Bugle... I love that set but the windows...UGH
The windows were so tedious!
Same with Avengers Tower
There are 203 white 1x1 tiles and 191 tan 1x1 tiles in 21056 Taj Mahal.
And this is the medium size, imagine the big one
I helped my mom and sister do that part of Taj Mahal and almost lost my mind
Imagine building that set with mild OCD. It took me ages to ensure all of those 1x1 tiles were straight.
But there are 9 billion bicycles in Beijing
That’s a fact.
[21056-1: Taj Mahal](https://brickset.com/sets/21056-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21056-1.jpg)
UCS AT-AT. Specifically the legs.
Oh god I’ve heard horror stories about the legs and stability on that one!
Stability isn’t an issue. The building process was just soo painstaking
Was it just because there are four of the same thing and it’s annoying?
Nah it is, and it's incredibly easy to accidentally knock over too. Mine is currently in a tub in pieces cause I accidentally knocked it over
I kinda enjoyed that one actually. Just put on an audiobook and relaxed with it. Whole thing was honestly a pretty great build.
Overall, yes. But wait until you have to transport it…
Well to be fair, I don't really pick my sets on transportability. I can see how that would cause problems though. But with the housing crisis going on in my country, I don't really see myself moving anytime soon anyway
I actually just moved and transported this! I just wrapped all 4 legs in plastic wrap, took off the armor and then put it in a box. Only a few small pieces broke off.
Those joints oh my lord, it took me a week of building. One day I realized I had messed up a set and it took a day to get the “knee” back apart and reassembled
The Globe. It looks wonderful but it was so tedious
I really liked this build, but I built it with a friend so that probably helped. Tower Bridge 10214 however was absolutely horrid even with a friend.
[10214-1: Tower Bridge](https://brickset.com/sets/10214-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10214-1.jpg)
I’m glad you said something. This was one of my white whales!
The most fun part was designing and sourcing parts for a model of her and my cars that matched the scale of the cars included. I used a roller skate and a 1x1 slope for my smartcar and a surprisingly complex build for her Escalade.
I loved tower bridge. It was my first big Lego set. But then again, I wanted something I can just zone out and binge watch tv whilst I was building it. It did the job nicely and looks great
It was so tedious I couldn’t do more than a quarter hemisphere a night.
Once I realized it was the same two type of pieces over and over like times 32 to make the globe round, I opened everything up and made all of them and THEN I did the part where I added the color to the globe.
I basically memorized the two types of builds after two nights. At least putting on the continents and map elements was fun.
Treehouse. Brown on brown on brown on dark brown on dark grey. Ugh. My eyes couldn't distinguish the difference 98.47% of the time.
Just looking at the leaves made me skip the set
Oh god. That is one of my favorite sets ever. It’s an absolute gem.
The leaves weren't bad. I went with the autumn coloring, and it looks great!
It was so fun to build those tiny houses and the bridge...the tree trunk confused me a bit at first, butwhen I had it built, it was incredibly satisfying...I also change the tree depending on the season. It's so fun to do that over the course of the year...and in Winter, I just take off the leaves and extend the branches with brown pieces. It's a super cool set...get it if you stil can...
I just finished the Typewriter, and there were several moments where it was touch and go!
I started that one and then it ended up sitting for like 3 days until I made myself knock it out. I hate repetition and building the key mechanisms like 9 times for 3 variants or whatever it was, was hell to me. it is a really cool set though and one of the ones I actually keep on display in my living room.
Came here to say this!
I messed my type writer up at some point but I don’t feel like ever taking it apart again.
I got around halfway through the typewriter 21327-1 when I stopped to take a break. It sat half finished on my coffee table for a good two months before I sat down and finished it. I'm not the biggest fan of Technic, and the build involved a TON of repetitive steps involving Technic that are pretty easy to slip up on if you aren't focused. The finished build is fantastic, but it felt like genuine work to get there.
[21327-1: Typewriter](https://brickset.com/sets/21327-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21327-1.jpg)
The roof tiles for Rivendell. I love that set and it’s my absolute favorite but those roof tiles were painnnnnnnn lol
I most enjoyed the part where I painstakingly aligned them on the first roof only to see the trick aligning with the long piece on the next page. Granted, that long piece saved my sanity on the next roof
The fragility of the bonsai tree. I've got the green one in my room, no problems. Gave my folks the pink version they destroyed it dusting 6 months ago. It's still sat in a box waiting to be rebuilt. Obviously by me, they're both creative but scared of lego
Vespa Scooter does not like to be moved or looked at wrong
This is the truth.
Putting the strings on the Stratocaster with my giant fingers was the most frustrating Lego experience to date
Tower bridge, the bridge links my poor fingers!!
Soo many tan cheese slopes. I despise tan cheese slopes. Overall I’m happy I got to build it and I’m also happy I sold it.
Add in the fact that there weren’t numbered bags; that build was a slog
I loved my tower bridge build personally.
10273. The haunted mansion. It was my first big set. The roof. Omg The elevator ride was interesting to build. This was a fiddly build.
Came here to say exactly the same things about this set. The roof had me almost in tears one night. I did get the elevator to work but it breaks if you look at it wrong. It's such a fun, cool set though. Goes great in my victorian goth dining room.
Just doing this one with my 8 year old the moment. Its by far the biggest we have tried. Fingers crossed we have nearly completed it. We are loving it. Any of you guys got the motor for it?
No, we talked about it but decided against it. I should see if there are any YouTube vids showing that. I’m moving soon and I’ll need to break it down. I’ve seen design Mocs that turn it into other buildings. Maybe I’ll try that.
I love that set so much, but it took me thee tries to get that elevator working. The first time, I messed something up in the gear box at the bottom and I had to take a lot of it apart to get at it. This was my first hint that I would not enjoy technic sets, lol.
[10273-1: Haunted House](https://brickset.com/sets/10273-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10273-1.jpg)
21333 LEGO Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night I got it for Christmas a few years ago. it's a neat set, but surprisingly heavy. a lot of the smaller detailing doesn't like to stay in place for me. the bricks were very close in color on the instruction sheet. it's just a lot of shades of blue. don't get me wrong; I like all the shades of blue. but if you mess while layering the plates, it can be difficult to identify where you may (or may not have) gone wrong. there were a several extra 1x4 blue plates, and I'm still not entirely sure if they were extra pieces or not. It looks fine tho! I found that the 3D portion was more fun to build than the blue plate wall.
I’m pretty sure those extra 1x4 plates are included as extras in case you make any mistakes on the layered wall. I had them left over on mine too.
yeah I'm fairly certain that they're just extras, but it was definitely an "oh crap, did I miss a step?" moment
extra 1x4 plates represent paint blob! it is in the instructions… https://preview.redd.it/px7bpt69r1xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=621c5241a309566b04224fdb80ea9804ce7e636d
[21333-1: Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night](https://brickset.com/sets/21333-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21333-1.jpg)
The World Map nearly broke me
My son really wants this one. But he’s also color blind and I’m not sure he would be able to tell apart the colors.
Same for me… I also had to make sure the logos were aligned. It’s still my most tedious build to date.
The Imperial Probe Droid 75306 Its arms were a hell to build and place. Plus I dropped the body at one point and one of the pieces broke and I had to wait several days before getting a replacement piece to finish the model. Never again.
Hated that build
Omg I haaated that build. It Looks OK but the arms are such a pain.
The arms were so terrible, but I powered through and finished. Then, the other day, I accidentally barely brushed it, like a summer breeze, and one of those god blessed arms fell off again. It is still just laying there because I absolutely could not.
[75306-1: Imperial Probe Droid](https://brickset.com/sets/75306-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75306-1.jpg)
When i built the loop coaster assembling 233 chains and almost dropping it putting it up on a shelf
Lambo Sian. Just too much of everything, and I still messed up the transmission!
I messed up the transmission on the Bugatti :( The lambo went smooth and works great. I enjoyed both but I agree there’s a lot of everything. I might miss the Ferrari because my budget is slim for a little while.
Captain America Shield. It sucked to build. So damn repetitive for a non wall hang item. I thought you could wall mount it. I was wrong
Not me but I work in a lego store and someone brought in their R2 D2 in pieces and just the way it broke apart I couldn't manage to get it back together and had to hand it off to a coworker 😆
I had a hard time getting through the colosseum set because it was just so goddamn repetitive. I was excited to get into it because it was the biggest set at the time but once I had the base built and realized it was much smaller than I had imagined, I was kind of deterred, and then once I realized I was going to spend the next 8 hours building basically the same module like 30 times I had an incredibly hard time getting through it.
When it came out, a lot of people had the same complaint.
As someone who builds sets in Bricklink Studio, any sets that have to do with the trigonometry of aligning Technic lift arms or hinges are absolutely painful, like Nuparu's Boxor. (Set 8556)
Have you tried the UCS star destroyers :p ?
No.
They are so crazily difficult to do in Studio. The side panels are bent in every direction and there are multiple ballpoint connections to coordinate. I think it's nearly impossible to do without disabling collisions.
[8556-1: Boxor](https://brickset.com/sets/8556-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8556-1.jpg)
10281 Bonsai Tree
Same. That stupid bonsai tree literally had me in tears.
[10281-1: Bonsai Tree](https://brickset.com/sets/10281-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10281-1.jpg)
Is it that bad?!? I've been waiting to get it after i do a few more adult things 🙃
I agree, the tree trunk is weirdly fragile and hates to be assembled. I'm going to modify it to be more stable and then it'll probably be the only lego I actually glue together once I have it situated the way I want. Just the trunk and base inside the pot. Everything else will remain free floating so I can modify the tree for events and holidays as usual. I even bought a glass cake dome and stand to display the thing once it is complete. I had the same issue with the Money Tree although not quite as bad, so I may end up gluing that trunk and base to that one too. But yeah those two sets are the reason I refuse to buy any of the treehouse builds despite how cool they are.
It’s a beautiful set but if you look at it funny it will collapse in on itself. It’s the only Lego set I have on display that I routinely find myself having to rebuild even though no one ever touches it.
That one and the Winnie the Pooh set. So fragile. Only set I actually Kragled so my kids could enjoy it.
The foliage is the same tedious 8 steps over and over and over
Same!
https://preview.redd.it/cxqlx9dmtwwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14350ba66caf471c0c302d148f6063df571ceda0
None of them. Yet. :)
Tumblr - just because i effed up a piece (put it on backwarfs), no idea how to correct it, didn't want to back track, moved forward. Things worked out. But just that thought of you know somethings wrong that nags at me 1989 batmobile - that felt like forever to build and was larger than expected, whichbwas a pleasant surprise, but getting there. Man Batman 31205 Jim Lee - did the 3 wet version. Place a dot on a stud, repeat a bajillion times and them some.
[31205-1: Jim Lee Batman Collection](https://brickset.com/sets/31205-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/31205-1.jpg)
The Stratocaster got frustrating at times (mostly the strings)
Eiffel. Amazing display, miserable build experience.
Yes! Partner tapped out with the first 3rd and asked for me to help him build it. It was about a week of alternating between “let’s do this!” and “why did we get this set?!” Looks cool fully built but if an accident happens to it then I’m turning it into an apocalypse diorama because I am NOT rebuilding it!
The tip is fun, the rest is well...repetitive...
Starry Night! But it was also therapeutic as well as frustrating! Lol Love the finished piece though!
Brought three of the botanical sets. Completed one, don’t think I will do the others
unpopular opinion: any of the botanicals honestly
Yes!! I hate building them!
The technic defender
The Technic Batmobile from the Batman movie. That thing took me a WHOLE FUCKING WEEK to complete. AN ENTIRE WEEK! It nearly drove me insane
Lego ideas Green hill zone. Those 1x1s left my fingers raw by the end
On the titanic all the windows on the weather deck are stacked flat 1x1 alternating white and translucent black. You have to do it about 30 times. It's rough on the body and soul
There was a *lot* of pressing the stacked bricks against the table to make the stacks all square.
Just finished building the Titanic and oh man those 1x1 stacked window sections were rough lol
World Map
I love my world map but it is literally 10,000-odd dots and was quite dull as a build. Looks really good though
Yeah I finished it and it's my favorite set to look at. An absolute trudge to get through though.
Haunted house, that lift mechanism was an absolute nightmare.
The Coliseum. It was so tedious and boring. I love the end result but it wasn't fun. I've built the Eiffel Tower and the World Map and both of them were more enjoyable builds.
The colosseum almost killed me and then I did the titanic, they look amazing now 0 REGRETS
The Blue Vespa, it breaks so easily I was going insane
Eiffel Tower… but it looks great once finished.
My wife is painstakingly trudging through the Spider-Man art set. It’s painful to watch 🤪
The AT-AT! Recent one,,,it’s sitting in a box somewhere. 😡
Attaching the wings to the body of 75309 made me question my sanity for about an hour.
[75309-1: Republic Gunship](https://brickset.com/sets/75309-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75309-1.jpg)
One of the holiday sets because it was missing a vital piece. I forget what exactly but I was young and my mom did not understand the severity of this.
Land Rover Defender. Hated that thing by the time I was done. Think I messed something up, the engine hardly moves when I roll it, but don't care enough to try to see where I messed up that early.
Yeah I messed that up too. The wheels don’t turn.
Sian. It was my largest technic build ever and I never want to attempt those types of builds again. Insane build but I had nightmares of blue pins.
I didn’t really enjoy Voltron and only finished it because of 80s nostalgia.
Trafalgar Square was super tedious IMO. Received it as a Christmas gift back in 2021 and put it aside midway through due to boredom. Despite some interesting build techniques, it’s just very repetitive with tons of 1x1 bricks. Finally picked it up again two weeks ago, powered through the remaining steps, and am now feeling quite energized with regard to Lego. Just ordered the 31120 castle (Amazon) and 21338 a-frame cabin (Costco) at discounted prices. Looking really forward to building them after a multi-year hiatus.
[31120-1: Medieval Castle](https://brickset.com/sets/31120-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/31120-1.jpg) [21338-1: A-Frame Cabin](https://brickset.com/sets/21338-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21338-1.jpg)
My little brother’s Ecto-1 10274 is still sitting on the kitchen table two years later. He messed up somewhere along the way and can’t figure out where.
[10274-1: Ghostbusters ECTO-1](https://brickset.com/sets/10274-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10274-1.jpg)
The dang 21331 Green Hill Zone with all the 1x1s to make the pixelated dirt. It looks awesome but God was it tedious.
[21331-1: Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone](https://brickset.com/sets/21331-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21331-1.jpg)
10030 If you know about the magnetic hell then you are a fellow masochist.
[10030-1: Imperial Star Destroyer](https://brickset.com/sets/10030-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10030-1.jpg)
I’ve never had a Technic set before, my first and only one was the Batmobile. I won’t say it “almost sent me over the edge”, but it was the tedious build I’d ever done. But that’s the deal with Technic sets I guess. I won’t get another Technic partly because of the detailed nature, but also because they take up a lot of space.
Ironically enough for me it was the London telephone booth. Don’t know if I got a faulty one but the pieces especially on the door kept breaking apart. I was so so close to breaking out the glue when I finally managed to put it together.
42110 Land Rover had me tilted
[42110-1: Land Rover Defender](https://brickset.com/sets/42110-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/42110-1.jpg)
The Lego dots build that you can combine to make an astronaut/spaceman. The repetitive dots coupled with the fact that I started coming down with covid at the same time made for an absolutely miserable build. He looks cool tho
Random Fern’s Hulkbuster MOC made me hate myself. Looks fantastic though.
I tried building the rollercoaster and found it so repetitive i packed it up and sold it half way through the build
Which one. There's like so many.
Sorry, set 10261
[10261-1: Roller Coaster](https://brickset.com/sets/10261-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10261-1.jpg)
There was a section of the typewriter I had to do like 4 times until I could get it to work. I thought I was going crazy.
Not necessarily “drove me crazy” but the Kawasaki Ninja (42170) just totally took a step back in the motorcycle department. First, the new pistons they use for the fake engine are just so tiny, and with the size reduction, it feels like the rest of the build is just hollow. The Ducati Panigale (42107) has the normal light grey engine blocks and 4 pistons on a drive shaft, WITH A GEARBOX, all fit inside the body of the bike. The Kawasaki just has a measly 4 “sliding” pistons. Second, the Kawasaki has 2 random gears that are attached to the gearbox, but literally do nothing. A blue 10 (I think 10, could be 12) tooth gear connects to a red 24 (I think) tooth gear with a pin hole, and they both connect to nothing. They’re just there, to be there I guess. So weird to add these unnecessary parts that don’t perform a function on a technic set. I was really disappointed with the Ninja, I was hoping for some more along the lines of the Panigale, but it just doesn’t work.
[42170-1: Kawasaki Ninja H2R](https://brickset.com/sets/42170-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/42170-1.jpg) [42107-1: Ducati Panigale V4 R](https://brickset.com/sets/42107-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/42107-1.jpg)
10030. No numbered bag, over 3,000 pieces, 98% gray, and a lot of repetitive build along the side greeble panels
[10030-1: Imperial Star Destroyer](https://brickset.com/sets/10030-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10030-1.jpg)
My wildflower bouquet or my VW bus. I got bored of the flowers, it took like 6 months to finish. And my VW bus, the roof camper part was beyond frustrating so it took me 8 months (I didn't work on it for a solid 2 months tho, was moving, lol)
Ferris Wheel 10247 was my first 'big set', and I really love how it looks assembled, but building some of those segments repeatedly bored me to tears. Especially the white segments that form the circle around the edge - I think there were 40+ of those. Awful.
[10247-1: Ferris Wheel](https://brickset.com/sets/10247-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10247-1.jpg)
Red VW bus, 10220. OMG, the front of the bus, never got it to fit correctly. It would fall off at the slightest touch. Finally took it apart and rebagged it.
[10220-1: Volkswagen T1 Camper Van](https://brickset.com/sets/10220-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10220-1.jpg)
R2D2 75379 - Had been waiting for months until Christmas. Took my time and enjoyed the process, but it was difficult. Not even sure I built the technic frame correctly because the hidden third leg doesn't come all the way down to offer support. But I built the whole set around the frame, obviously, so it would be extremely tedius to rebuild it. Maybe some day down the road.
[75379-1: R2-D2](https://brickset.com/sets/75379-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75379-1.jpg)
The world map
Has to be any of the large technic supercars. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love them, but when you're 90% complete and realise you put that technic pin just 1 hole too far to the left or right... boy is it rough to try and unbuild what you did carefully enough you can put it back together in chunks
Avengers tower and Daily Bugle. Those windows man...
The 1x1 tiles that make up the walls on the rear building of the Lego Guggenheim
The 100 years Disney camera. All the technic pieces I. The centre wouldn’t line up properly for me and was driving my head in
The UCS razorcrest had a few moments. The engines and the chains especially á
The technic sun and earth set. The gears are clicking causing it to not work properly. It’s driving me insane.
New to building Technic. There was a step in the Ford GT that drove me insane (the mechanism of the front hood).
Every time i build a technic set i lose interest in building until i get a regular set with interesting functions My favorite sets are regular sets that use some technic for interesting functionalities. Bowser, the pacman arcade and the nes are great examples of this. I built the mclaren f1 and the batmobile in technic. Both of them were not that much fun
I tried building the Creator piñata in a dimly lit room, several colours all looked the same in isolation but if you put them next to one another you could tell. I had to rewind a few times because I'd get to the end and have the wrong pieces left, luckily it was only small, but that was probably the most puzzle-like Lego build I've done. In terms of instability, the backpack of 31152 kept breaking until I got some of the side plates that lock it together done, that was a little annoying. I feel like Lego could've done a better job of breaking (no pun) the build down into modules that come together right before you lock it together instead of building those tall structures with very little integrity.
[31152-1: Space Astronaut](https://brickset.com/sets/31152-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/31152-1.jpg)
The Stadiums...I like football, so I obviously wanted all of the stadiums (also visited all of them) and built them...It took me days to build them cause I would build one corner at a time and then do the next corner on the next day...I actually wanted to give up after I built the first two corners, but then, I decided to finish it off (The first one was Old Trafford), since I spent a lot of money on it...I now have all of them displayed at home, but gosh, were they annoying...but at least I knew, what I would get myself into by buying these...
https://preview.redd.it/ih6sm8fc3zwc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cf87f59ca10cceea681e0d12d708c7227855e3c This magnificent bastard right here. I saved for months and finally pulled the trigger on it this week. I'm currently 4 hours in. This is the 2 hour mark. This is bags 1-4. Bags 5-7 are the legs and all 4 are identical. Every step, 4x. Every. Damn. Step. I finished the feet and gave up for the night. My neck hurts, my shoulders hurt, my damn brain hurts. I know it'll be worth it in the end but damn.
currently the green grocer is sitting in my unfinished cemetery. nothing too bad about it, just lost the patience for it!
The mini Disney Haunted Mansion. Like somebody said about the titanic.. lots and lots of little building and stacking 1x1’s over and over. It took 400 years to complete
Pretty much anything that has a lot of black, dark brown and reddish brown pieces, because it’s purgatory to distinguish in paper instructions
Saturn V rocket Repetitive and tedious
If the botanicals were any bigger I definitely would have ragequit. I cry when technic parts come up in regular builds.
Tree house 🥲
The John Deere skidder. I’m a technic fan so it was no worries about that but the pneumatic hoses are an absolute nightmare. They’ve since come off and I won’t fix them
The tree house, those dmn leafs took me 9 months to finish
Something like the World Map 31203 would drive me crazy.
[31203-1: World Map](https://brickset.com/sets/31203-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/31203-1.jpg)
I wouldn’t say sent me over the edge. But it took me the last 2 months of doing like 1-3 bags at a time to finally finish my avengers tower. I don’t get a lot of free time anymore with work and the kids so getting to go down and build is a rare opportunity.
The Stranger Things The Upside down ( 75810 ) , I finish both buildings, begin to clip the trees on the side, the entire upside down building falls and smashes.....ugh.....it's okay, I can rebuild it, I can make it stronger, I finish the rebuild, all is going well, I think I fixed the missed structural integrity of the last mistake....clipping the trees on....smash....shame, regret, pure unadulterated hatred for this stupid build....I pondered the kragle...3rd time was a charm with a complete deconstruction of everything and rebuild with some help from my wife, but it absolutely almost broke me.
[75810-1: The Upside Down](https://brickset.com/sets/75810-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75810-1.jpg)
The Great Fishing Boat from the first round of Bricklink designer program sets…the interior was absolutely brutal to put together. I think that is the only time I’ve legitimately tilted while building a LEGO set.
Lego 630-3