I just recieved my sons Lego Death Star in the mail today. I purchased it for his 4th bday thats coming up. I need to put it together for him before his bday gets here, as he is too young to put it together himself and will want it together as soon as he gets it so he can play with it. Has anyone put one of these together and knows how long it takes? Its the play set one that comes with the Lego characters.

Edit: Math way off, leave me alone.

I recently bought the latest B-wing and X-wings and they were roughly 500 pieces and 2 hours each with the TV on. I don't think the 10000 piece(!!!) Death Star would take 40 hours, but maybe set aside 24 if you plan to devote all your attention knocking it out..

I want to put it together just before his bday to reduce the odds he will find it. In the shipping box on a shelf he won't suspect anything. But if I put it together to early, I'm worried he will find it. He is a sneaky little bugger. I have very little free time so I want to make sure I don't start putting it together to late. I have very little experience with Lego.

Edit: Math way off, leave me alone.

I recently bought the latest B-wing and X-wings and they were roughly 500 pieces and 2 hours each with the TV on. I don't think the 10000 piece(!!!) Death Star would take 40 hours, but maybe set aside 24 if you plan to devote all your attention knocking it out..

Wow! That long huh? What did I get myself into? :/

Edit: Math way off, leave me alone.

I recently bought the latest B-wing and X-wings and they were roughly 500 pieces and 2 hours each with the TV on. I don't think the 10000 piece(!!!) Death Star would take 40 hours, but maybe set aside 24 if you plan to devote all your attention knocking it out..

Thanks!

If the bags are labeled and broken down into sub-assemblies, the build won't be bad. I built the UCS B-Wing in an evening. The Death Star will take some time.

Please don't tell me you're going to use glue on it lol

Chris

IDK about the Death Star, but the Executor took me a decent 8—10 hours or so spread over about 1 week.

I spent something like two weeks and a half building it, doing it with my 4 years old most of the time. Each day I was spending at least an hour, sometimes about two or three... I did not rush since i wanted to enjoy building this very special Lego, but even if you do, I would say plan a solid 12 hours. Some parts need a good attention to detail to identify what is involved for the next step.

Of course he wouldn't use glue. He would use Kragle like any sane person would :-)

IIRC, back when I was putting Lego sets together for my son, we were figuring about 200 pieces per hour on average! I originally thought 100, but 200 seems proper as the Star Destroyer took me a day, and it has 1,366 pieces! Seeing the others posts above, 200 pieces an hour would be correct! 10,000 pieces, OUCH! That's 50 hours!

I agree it is usually 100 pieces per half hour for my 8 year old.

Release the Kragle! Hell yeah I'm gluing it, as I don't want to have to put it back together again and again.

No, I jest! No way I would glue it. I plan on keeping all the packaging mint for him too. I wish I could put it together with him, but I know it will take WAY to long and my youngest son, whom just turned 2, will want to help and it would just turn into a screaming match nightmare between my boys every time.

I really had no idea it would take so long to build. I'm going to be lucky if I can sneak several hours each weekend. I think bit off more than I can chew. Thanks for the info, fellow X-Wingers.

Can you get a friend to do it?

Just show him the bricks and tell him the alliance blew it up!

No experience with LEGOS and you go and jump off the deep end.

It's almost like trying to assemble one of those big 3D puzzles when you don't do puzzles but at least there are some instructions for the LEGOS. You definitely got yourself a project to do so best of luck with it.

I have bought my son a few sets that I have helped him put together, but nothing bigger then the Separatist Spider Droid. Speaking of 3D puzzles, I have one of the Millennium Falcon. I've had it for over a decade. It's still in the box.

I have bought my son a few sets that I have helped him put together, but nothing bigger then the Separatist Spider Droid. Speaking of 3D puzzles, I have one of the Millennium Falcon. I've had it for over a decade. It's still in the box.

I had one of R2-D2. That was an epic fail right there.

The DS is an enormous undertaking, but the end result is pretty spectacular, especially since it encompasses scenes from both ANH and RotJ.

Too bad you're probably nowhere near me or I would offer to help you put it together lol. Maybe there's a friend or two to help, or maybe a local LEGO club in the area. I'm part of our group in Michigan, you could check for a local LUG (LEGO User's Group) and maybe see if anyone has any advice.

I've got the same Falcon puzzle and still in the box.

However long it takes I'm sure it'll be worth it just remember we men can not use the instructions you must use the force to guide you.

Dude, that's like never running and then asking how you would do in an ultra marathon. Yikes. Good luck.

I just recieved my sons Lego Death Star in the mail today. I purchased it for his 4th bday thats coming up. I need to put it together for him before his bday gets here, as he is too young to put it together himself and will want it together as soon as he gets it so he can play with it. Has anyone put one of these together and knows how long it takes? Its the play set one that comes with the Lego characters.

If you separate the bags, about 16 hours. If not, way, way more.

I just recieved my sons Lego Death Star in the mail today. I purchased it for his 4th bday thats coming up. I need to put it together for him before his bday gets here, as he is too young to put it together himself and will want it together as soon as he gets it so he can play with it. Has anyone put one of these together and knows how long it takes? Its the play set one that comes with the Lego characters.

If you separate the bags, about 16 hours. If not, way, way more.

First rule of LEGOs: always separate the bags

my son and I are currently building this. I second the notion that you better start now. I have a lot of lego experience, but this a large and relatively complex set. You might consider getting someone with more experience to help you. I bought my son legos early on as well, and If I had it to do again, I think I would wait until now. He is 7 and now he finally "gets it." You might want to consider putting it away until he is older, but that is your call of course. All I can say is pay close attention, seperate the bags, orient the model with the picture, and pull out all your parts for each step before you start on that step. good luck.

I'd say its a pretty advanced kit.

If you've already bought it and he doesnt know about it i'd do th above and save it for a while.

Start off with doing a few smaller sets together.

The wife and i love lego, we had a lego themed wedding but we put an evening aside for something as 'normal' as 'bennys spaceship' and even then took turns in doing sections.

I would not worry about the time or your sons age. Build the model with him. My son was 4 when I started him in Legos and he learned fast. 3 years later he can build the technics and other larger ships on his own.

Last year we built the death star together. We both took bages and built sections. Went smooth and the fun lasted a week. With Lego's it more for the memories that are built then the blocks