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My son likes anything that is a vehicle, so primarily Lego City.

DD has a friends house that she got for free when we visited the store in Charlotte.
She has a few princess castles (Ariel, rapunzel, jasmine, Elsa and Anna)..
A duplos house set.. And I think that's it. All were gifts except for the rapunzel. She's 5.

DS is 2.5 and he has duplos. He started getting them when he was 15 months. He loves them!! He has mega blocks too, but he doesn't play with those too much.

We currently only have duplos (LO is almost 3). We have some character themed sets (Doc McStuffins house and Mickey Mouse birthday train) and some more generic ones (one was just basic, one had a little store with food). She likes the ones with wheels most (train and little cars).

@looch: My son isn't interested in the buildings either! There are some neat ones with Lego City and a couple of really cool Creator ones. I personally love building the buildings when he and I play Legos together.

@looch: Ha! My son wants me to dig for pieces usually. But we do a lot of collaborative play since he knows I like buildings and am not so interested in his cars. Recently, I built a "tree house" and he made an elevator for it, I thought it was neat!

We have a lot of Legos. We have the big blue tub of loose ones, Creator 3-in-1s, City sets, one of the 14+ level model sets, and an Architecture set that has not been assembled. And Duplos, which still get used pretty regularly.

I did the model with LO over the course of about a month (it was kind of a big project--we did it in the evening after dinner) and he helped find the pieces and put together the easier parts. It's a model of something LO has loved since he was about 3, and he was super excited about it. It was a fun thing to do together, but I would not recommend getting one of the models as a toy, because they're delicate and expensive. I still have sticker shock over that one, but the final result IS amazingly awesome and it was a really good way to hang out together, so it's hard to be too bitter. We've displayed it prominently in his room.

FWIW, I think the age ranges on Legos are a little random after about age 5. Up until then, I'd stick with the recommendations unless you want to help.

ETA: With the exception of the model, he usually builds the set and then it gradually gets destroyed/reconfigured as he plays with it. I hang on to the instructions in case he ever wants them again, but mostly the pieces become part of something else.

@honeybear: I am curious, what is the model?

@looch: the display case sounds nice, especially if he doesn't take his vehicles apart. Funnily enough, when I bought his desk, I intended it for art projects, and later school, but he's not really the artsy type, so it quickly turned into the Lego table.

@honeybear: wow, that's an amazing piece!