I used to really enjoy playing with Lego as a kid. Although come to think of it, I think I spent most of my childhood playing with Duplo which is the bigger Lego pieces for kids rather than the proper small Lego ones. If I remember it right, I played with Duplo all the way till I was like 10 years old.
Anyway last week we went to Legoland in Johor. I really enjoyed the experience with the kids and I would totally go again.
Especially considering that I didn’t even manage to cover the Water Park on my day there.
At Legoland my wife decided to buy Fighter this.
When we got back to the hotel room, Fighter wanted to open it and was trying to get Shorty to do it when Shorty delegated that task to me instead. She was tired and wanted to rest for a bit.
So there I was… about to relive my childhood experience and build this when I opened the box and out came all these parts.
I was like … “Wtf? That’s a lot of parts”.
I tried to just look at the picture and put things together but I couldn’t figure out what goes where. I finally succumbed to doing something that I haven’t done in a very long time. Reading the instruction manual.
I gotta say I struggled a little.
All the pieces were so small and my eyes were found constantly squinting to try to find out which piece goes where.
Halfway through I called out to Shorty
“This isn’t easy! Are you sure it’s for ages 1-7???”.
She said yes. I mean Fighter is 3 years old now and I don’t think he’s going to be able to put that together. I wanted to just give up, then kick back and play my game but Fighter was persistent. He kept asking me to build the helicopter for him so fine fine I carried on.
After some 20 minutes… yes a proper 20 minutes… I managed to do it. Tadaa.
I was expecting a hug or a high five or something from Fighter but by the time I was done, he seemed to have lost interest in the Lego.
Unimpressed Fighter is unimpressed.
I’m only glad my wife didn’t buy him this.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space