Awesome LEGO Creations with Bricks You Already Have: 50 New Robots, Dragons, Race Cars, Planes, Wild Animals and Other Exciting Projects to Build Imaginative Worlds

If you are looking for a good lego building book for beginners this is a great book to start with. My Grandson who's 3 will sit and build for hours with his Grandpa. The challenge for us is finding more things to build, other than the directions booklets that come with the lego kits. We bought a couple of boxes of the lego pieces for him to create, but did not have any building ideas or directions. This book has nice color photos of the finished product as well as the directions. You sometimes will not get a step by step, piece by piece photo instruction, but you can clearly see and determine what piece you need. One the first day of making things from this book, my Grandson was figuring out how to build a rocketship and dinosaur all by himself. Pretty impressive. Glad I read the reviews of some of the other books as well as this book and decided to buy this one. 192 pages with great ideas and color photos. I purchased this item full price and my opinions are my own. I was not compensated in anyway for my thoughts. I rely on product reviews just like others to help make my purchase decisions so I try each product very carefully before reviewing and always do my best to leave honest opinions and provide as much facts as possible based solely on my experience.

This book is AMAZING! It's packed with bright color photographs and easy to follow instructions. My 6 year old grabbed it and began building right away. He made the candy dispenser first using the step by step illustrations and descriptions. Without any adult assistance, he substituted the pieces we have for the ones pictured in the book. His candy dispenser turned out looking totally different than the one pictured, but matched the design and concept - which is awesome. We keep a big bin of LEGO Bricks for the kids to build with. This book is packed with new ideas and inspirations for building and is now sitting in the bucket with all the bricks. Next up on their list to build from the book are: - a robot - a fire breathing dragon - a race car - a skate park Some of the projects are more open ended. These no instructions creative challenges are great for getting kids to think, create, and problem solve. I want to try the spinning tops! I love that we don't have to buy any "sets" to make these creations work.

I bought this as a Christmas present for my 2 sons, 4 and 7. So far they have really enjoyed the book and have built several things. We have other Lego books and so far I prefer this one over the others. This one has clear directions, great illustrations and uses more pieces that we already have. I'm happy with my purchase. Edit..... after using it more I would say this one still doesn't have the best directions. Some are easier than others to follow but there are some that we find very frustrating because we don't know what to do! But still a lot of fun ideas!

WE LOVE THIS BOOK! It inspires so much creativity. My son (5.5) and neighbor boy (10) both adore this book equally and for the very same reason: it inspired them to think outside the box and make LEGO creations they wouldn’t have thought of on their own. DO THEY HAVE ALL THE SAME PIECES AS IN THE BOOK? No! But that’s what we love. This book is an amazing guide and helps them see the potential in the bricks they do have. My son builds “candy machines & dispensers” all the time now because he was inspired by the one shown in this book. He followed the directions, substituted with what he had, thought creatively, problem solved, and builds amazing dispensers that he is so proud of. THIS BOOK INSPIRES!! If you have a child looking to go beyond the instruction manuals that came with their LEGO kits, this is the book for you. THIS IS A BOOK FOR KIDS WHO CAN PROBLEM SOLVE. This book build problem solving skills, critical thinking skills, spatial awareness skills, not to mention creativity, imagatination and STEM. I cannot recommend this book enough.

This is a builders GUIDE, she doesn’t have piece by piece instructions like Lego manuals but it’s full of great ideas to spark creativity with piece by piece instructions for the more complex parts. Some of the creations are “no instruction challenges” which for any kid who loves Lego bricks, is an exciting way to exercise their critical thinking and problem solving skills. My 8 year old daughter immediately built the catapult and robot car with no problems. If we don’t have the pieces she figures out a way to replicate with what we do have. All in all I bought a book hoping to provide some more challenges since she’s already built everything from our manuals and this was the perfect fit. Already planning to gift one to my nephews.

Great LEGO book for creative ideas. The book is designed to give you great ideas to build cool LEGO creations. The book is ideal for people that have accumulated a pretty good LEGO pieces collection. It relies on you having many parts in order to build the amazon big builds shown. Parents’ help is a must as there are no step by step instructions and young kids will need help figuring out what bricks are needed and what goes where. Overall, I enjoyed this book and recommend for LEGO enthusiasts.

Overall an ok book, although I feel like the part of the title “with bricks you already own” is a little misleading. My son has SO many different sets of legos and I’ve bought him quite a few basic sets to fill in the blanks of what he may not have. So when gathering bricks/plates/tiles, etc. for a small animal or simple looking plane or what not, the list of needed bricks is extensive. I’m also finding that I’m having to google things like, “rocker plate with rocker bearing, telescope bricks, technic lift arms, thin”, etc. While there is some, there isn’t much explanation about what’s what. But I am learning. :) The other thing I don’t love is that many of the projects don’t actually come with instructions. I like that my son has to create it best he can, but he gets frustrated because he wants it to look just like the picture. All in all we’re getting a couple good projects out of it. Also, I am finding that as organized as I thought I was with our legos, I think being more organized as far as specific pieces separated might be better, as digging for a needed piece can be very time-consuming.

This book arrived yesterday and we LOVE it! My son was building last night and before school this morning. What we like about this book: It includes a description of the different brick types at the beginning of the book in a way that an 8 year old can understand. It includes different categories of ideas from simple little cars to houses, castles, robots, and even vehicles that move using rubber bands. It also includes a list of required bricks for each item and some general building directions, but not step-by-step instructions, so my son can use the directions and pictures as a guide, but can customize in his own way. My son has other Lego inspiration books that have lots of cool pictures to spur the imagination, but don't include parts lists. This has been an issue for him because he loves the ideas and tries to build them, but can't always figure out which special pieces really make the idea come together. This book gives him the list of parts and gets him on his way with some basic pictures. Last night he built a TV with a gaming console on the shelf below it and a couch with a man holding a remote. This morning before school he built a little go kart and started finding the bricks to build the veterinarian's building. We have thousands of Legos and will be looking for other books like this one.

Es lo que dice: ideas chulas, con piezas no muy extrañas (ej. nosotros no tenemos sus "articulaciones" pero con alguna reutilizada de las mininaves starwars hemos podido hacer algo similar), lo más difícil bastante explicado, otros sin explicar, pero no de un grado de dificultad (como en otros libros) que imposibilite hacerlo. Yo lo conocí porque vi en internet su "dispensador de lacasitos" y me enamoré. Tiene montones de ideas geniales para hacer un futbolín, un ajedrez, una pista de canicas o unas peonzas que giran que es una pasada, o un juego de tablero de peleas ninja (por enumerar solo las más originales). Luego hay avioncitos, animalitos majos, cochecitos, algunos robots muy chulos, un tractor y un par de dragones preciosos como el de la portada. A mi hijo de 5 años y a mí nos ha gustado mucho y me gustó verle en el sillón sumergido en su "lectura" y a continuación se puso a "inventar algo". Aunque la edad recomendable para que los niños puedan hacerlo solos sería algo mayor. Los textos (en ingles) además tienen bastante sentido del humor.

Well received gift.

Livro interativo. Ótimo para crianças que amam Lego aprenderem a montar novas formas e desenvolver junto a lingua inglesa. As crianças amaram!

I ordered a whole bunch of these, there are many titles in the series. Gave them as gifts according to which kids like to build what. The kids were very excited to read through the books and shouting out "Look, I can make this! Look, I can make that!" Appreciated by parents whose kids play with a Lego set once and then never again.

Really good book for my 6 year old. Detailed instructions and ideas on how to make the best out of the numerous bits of Lego in his collection