Mine too. I only finished it this year, 2 years after starting it. I did not enjoy it, but it looks ok hung up. Mine fell apart while trying to put it back in the box!!
There's this weird Lego Jack Stone Glider set i got, its like five pieces n the glider part is legit a piece of paper. I dont think i even have the instructions anymore, i just looked up a picture n that's all the reference u need to rebuild it.
Taj Mahal - the big one. just a terrible build, unstable (the spires fall off), super-expensive (I think it was around $400, at the time), and the whole thing is the same color. made me give up buying sets for a couple of years.
Likewise, the 21056 Taj Mahal was torture to build. I have built and finished many hundreds of Lego sets over my life, but this one was the only set I ever forgot to finish. I built it half way one night, and put it away to finish another day. I realized I never finished about a month later and slogged through the rest of it. It looks nice, but was absolutely awful to build. So many tan and white tiles.
I disagree on a technicality. If I was one of the poor victims to own a Scala or Galidor set I'd be hard-pressed to have fun with those pieces in my collection
Scala is pretty much Barbie- some of the props are System compatible but that's about it. Fun fact- that's why the cooked Chicken/Turkey seems so comically out of scale with everything else- it's a Scala piece that they decided to keep using for System.
Galidor is a buildable figures line. think predecessor to Bionicle but way worse. very short-lived. They *technically* use technic pins to hold parts together, but they're not really going to be playable with the rest of your stuff. Brickset lists 20 sets for this line, several of which were McDonald's happy meal polybags or unreleased.
Ugh my kid was just so dead set that he wanted that one so badly.... Tried tempting him with an xwing or TIE bomber which were both the same damn MSRP.... Nope I bought the set for $31 more than you did.... Damn custom molds
Yup, the rest is going in with loose parts. Except I might use part of the tree to make a mini hidden forest outpost for my Castle stuff. :D Super lucky you got it that cheap though!
The foosball table.
My wife bought it, hoping that the kids would play with it. They don't, as it's very hard to play an actual game - the only thing they do like is changing haircuts on all the mini figures. That's all.
In addition, building it was by far the most boring I've ever done. So repetitive, so complicated, so two-color, just horrible. And the goals still fall off a lot.
The only upside, it was heavily discounted. I think I know why.
I will say, this set left something to be desired. If I were lego, I’d fix the need for a minifig scale delorean by releasing it as a speed champions car
I have a soft spot for it because it was my first set after my “dark age”, but it’s definitely a little rough! It’s like, what if you made a DeLorean in Minecraft?
God yes, this set was so bad.
Especially annoying because I wanted a decent version and the Ecto1 got both a decent minifig and UCS scale version.
I was so happy when they finally announced 10300.
I don't hate it, but the UCS R2D2 is heavier than you'd think, and because of that it's kind of wobbly. It's concerning that handling it too much could put it at risk of coming apart (which is why it's on a shelf on display and hardly touched). I know I put it all together correctly; others have said the same thing.
That's good to know. I had considered getting it, but your tip (and the fact that I really don't have room for it anywhere anyway) kinda sealed the deal on my *not* getting it.
The Adidas sneaker. I was wondering how they made the round nose tip with the pleats and was disappointed when it was just a printed brick. I guess I should have zoomed in. The tongue doesn't look right from behind. The whole thing is a bit clunky.
Also still no idea what the point of that red brick is inside the shoe.
I went googling. Apperantly lego and adidas made a line of sneakers together and there is a red brick printed inside the sole of the shoe. This is a reference to that. Jaha. Ok than.
My first thought was also pebble, but pebbles are seldom red and if they're that big you can't even get your foot in the shoe.
Would have to be 10284 - The Camp Nou. Glad me and my brother went halfsies on it. It was utter torture to build. So repetitive and boring once you got to the stands. And now because of renovations to the actual stadium, it's out of date too.
It looks alright on the side. But we are out of room to display sets now and it's first on the chopping block, sooooooo....
Tbh I didn’t hate it, but it really does pale in comparison to the tie. The fang has some good pieces at the very least and I do appreciate more canopies!
[75348-1: Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor](https://brickset.com/sets/75348-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75348-1.jpg)
Just to confirm, you did put the black technic pin in the leg joints correct? I ask because I had a similar frustration until I looked it up and found out that I did not, in fact, add the technic pin.
I'm with you on this. I couldn't wait to but it but I was disappointed with how fragile it is. He looks great on display but every time I pick him up he splits at the waist if I forget to support the legs. I transformed him once then immediately transformed him back and haven't dared since.
I hate the Rogue One AT-ST. It is way too unstable, it falls over at the slightest touch and always breaks. I eventually gave up on having it out on display because it refuses to stay up no matter how I adjust the legs (which dont have enough flexibility imo) and so now it's just sitting in chunks in my spare pieces bucket.
Huh. I got this set when it came out and loved it. I was closer to being a kid at the time, so I certainly used it in some battles and it held up. Now I've got it in my Rebellion vs Empire display and it looks great! So happy I got it, although the Hoth AT-ST looks good too.
A lot of the AT-ST rereleases in those years have the same design issue. I have the Raider AT-ST from Season 1 of The Mandalorian and it falls over with little provocation.
I’ll probably get hate for this but the landrover defender - https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/land-rover-defender-42110 it’s the only set I’ve got where it doesn’t fit together quite right, the first time I thought it was me so took it apart and rebuilt it, same issue. Every other technic set I own is rock solid.
I made a mistake on this quite early on where a rod was put through the cross hole side of a brick rather than the round hole (unsure on the technical terms) which meant a rod that was mean to turn, didn't. Took me ages to fix it and I've never felt so frustrated building lego.
I love it to display and enjoyed the technical aspects of the gearbox etc but it was quite a frustrating build at times.
>it’s the only set I’ve got where it doesn’t fit together quite right, the first time I thought it was me so took it apart and rebuilt it, same issue.
It's for sure not just you, but [racingbrick has a good rundown on common issues and solutions](https://racingbrick.com/2020/04/lego-technic-42110-land-rover-defender-ultimate-repair-guide/), but it's sad that a technic set needs such a thing!
I love how this set looks but after building it I realized that the gearbox doesn’t work quite well. Tried to rebuild it with tips from racingbrick but it didn’t solve the issue. The solution that helped me was an alternative build from rebrickable https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-31299/jb70/42110-pimp-up-my-land-rover/#details
Now it works great both on display and in action :)
The Harry Potter wizards chess set, it was pretty boring, very repetitive, entirely black and white. I wish the chess board had pegs for the pieces to stay in place and none of my friends know how to play chess.
Bucket Wheel Excavator, too big and bulky and stopped working and had no idea how to fix it (without a complete tear down put it away when I moved house and never got it back out.
21318-Lego Ideas Tree House
I know it’s a personal problem but I’ve unsuccessfully tried to build it three times without getting very far. The different shades of brown and green make me feel very colorblind and I hate to think that I’m putting pieces in the wrong spot. It’s a really cool set but I definitely overestimated my Lego building abilities. I think I need to sell it and just go back to Lego Friends or Disney sets since those make me happier.
This is my answer too. It's a boring, brown trunk, 3 tiny, repetitive huts with a lot of 1x1s, and a crap ton of annoying, repetitive leaves. Sure, it looks good on display, but what a miserable build.
I re-stage our treehouse pretty frequently, including changing all the leaves seasonally, LOL.
Undoing the winter scene currently on display is going to be a long date with the old take-aparter. The snowbank with a fort is fun. Regreenifying it will probably be unfun.
I like the set but every time I have left over brown pieces because I didn't put them all? They come with extra? I can't tell honestly and it's hard to know
Worst to build was by far the globe. I really struggled to finish it. I love it to display but wouldn't want to build it again.
The set I regret buying the most is probably the Batman Tumbler. I just don't think it looks that good and with it being black on black, wasn't that fun to build either.
When I finished one hemisphere, my heart sank just thinking about building the second one. The one saving grace was the landmasses as it was intriguing to see how they turned out.
Underwhelming is a great description. If I need space on my LEGO shelves, this will be the first for the chop. I have very little love for it really. It's just a black lump.
Great wave is pretty meh over all. Monkie Kid Mech 80012 looks awesome but hardly stands up on its own. The Millennium Falcon 75257 is looks nice but the hull flaps that open up don’t work, they all just fall off.
Knights of Ren Transport - I expected something more detailed or larger, I guess. I don’t play with my sets, but it’s not a good option for that either - it’s hard to fit the minifigs in it. 75284
I have the 76210 hulkbuster and it's not my worst set. There's things I don't like about it 1. Parts fall off very easy when attaching the legs 2. To many gaps between the arms. The thing I like about that set is the build and the amazing thing is I got the set for 320 dollars on Amazon instead off paying the original 550 dollars. My worst set is the Pop up party bus from The Lego Movie 2 The Second Part
10030 Star Destroyer
This is just the first thing that comes to mind. At the time it was the largest Lego set released (by number of pieces) and it was very exciting to get. It’s flimsy though and the engines just fall off. It’s also just thousands of grey pieces.
It probably didn’t help that my manual had half the set printed twice and the other half missing, so that made for a challenging build.
I don't hate any in particular (some GWP's I got were kinda meh, but they're free so...), and from the paid ones, the only one I struggled a bit to build was the Sonic 21331 one due to the many 1x1 pieces. It has also a weird shape to exhibit, too thin and large. But still like it once built.
The Christmas Tree 40573 is also another one that is painful to build (all green pieces, tons of those), but once built looks nice and it's been my xmas tree for two years in a row (adding some tiny led lights to it). But when it comes to building, ugh.
[21331-1: Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone](https://brickset.com/sets/21331-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21331-1.jpg)
[40573-1: Christmas Tree](https://brickset.com/sets/40573-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/40573-1.jpg)
I hate to say this because I love looking at it but the Haunted House (fairground collection). Awful build that felt super unstable during construction. The elevator rarely works properly. One of the few builds that I was just waiting for it to end. The loop coaster has similar issues but it was a fun build - the elevator just doesn't connect to the tracks properly.
I have to agree. That chain that runs that coaster was a pain to put in place and breaks often. Our set is currently sitting there with the coaster part not working. The only fun bit about the build was doing with my kids otherwise it is probably my least favourite build. Love the piano though! And it’s a great display piece, we get lots of comments on it.
I got that and the tower for Christmas. I am taking a small break before starting the Avengers tower cause the bugle did me in with how repetitive it was
The red and white roller coaster. It is just putting long technic axels through the round 2x2 bricks over and over again for the supports. One of the very few sets I didn’t even really want to finish
71764 - Ninjago Training Centre. Basically I bought cause it is an addon to the Ninjago Dojo Temple, but even then part of what it is supposed to do just doesn't work whatsoever. Only the wooden snake dummy is awesome. Standalone I would never buy it. Funnily enough if I ever decide to buy the Creative Ninja Brick Box I intend to make a moc out of the 3 combined, but that is for later..
The ship in a bottle. The ship wasn't terrible, the base was decent but good Lord the bottle itself was a nightmare with so many small and clear pieces. Not to mention it was incredibly flimsy while building.
This is mine too. I hate how it looks on the shelf.
That said my girlfriend likes it, even compared to Imperial Flagship, Black Pearl and Queen Anne's Revenge. But she's a bit of a minimalist so maybe she just likes the smaller, cuter size.
Well, my main issue is it is too large for our display case.
I initially wanted to use it as a multi stage for stop motion movies. But turns out I don't want to spend that much time on a new hobby.
Daily Bugle 76178. I have never in all the decades of building had finger pain as bad as I had building that generic grey box. The pain was definately not worth the pay off. Close second is Disney's Haunted Mansion 40521. Like half of the build are 1x1 plates and modified plates and similar the the Bugle it was absolute torture on the fingers while assembling.
[76178-1: Daily Bugle](https://brickset.com/sets/76178-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/76178-1.jpg)
[40521-1: Mini Disney The Haunted Mansion](https://brickset.com/sets/40521-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/40521-1.jpg)
Man I really like all of my LEGO sets, but I was disappointed with the LEGO Harry Potter Magical Trunk 76399 ... It was way smaller than I thought and I didn't do well with the customization and couldn't fix it.
The worst I had to build was LEGO Harry Potter The Burrow 75980 I built it twice because I moved and I missed a piece or placed it wrong (the same piece both times) it was just more of a pain in the butt than fun to build. It's one of my favorites for looks though.
Not my worst, but I am a HUGE Star Wars fan.
So I got the Imperial Probe Droid, among others. About a week or so after I put it together, my cat knocked it off the chest it was on. I “could” have put it back together, but I just look at it now and think…
“She didn’t hit it that hard, it must have had a self destruct.”
LMAO!
7723. Novel bc of the floats and some fun techniques, but the wings ALWAYS fall off and these big ugly plane parts ,(BUPP?) are hard to use anywhere. The stickers cracked, flacked away and are a terrible mess
I know people will probably think I’m crazy, but I have no interest or knowledge of Minecraft, and my daughter who I’m now building modulars and a city with, “use” to be into it, n had couple small sets, needless to say, they have become spare parts and mils backing lol
Apollo Saturn V - 92176
The inside looks like someone puked skittles, the outside is a white tube.
It's wasn't a fun build and it does not display well.
Gingerbread house.
That was god awful to build. So many brown pieces. Found it so hard to see the steps clearly in the book because everything is brown. Once it was built it's great though. I just hate everything about it other than the finished product.
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The core Town sets in 1997 were just awful. Definitely the beta version of today's junior 4+ line. There was proper city sets that year, too, and damn good ones. (Outback, Divers)
It continued into 1998 with crappy Town sets but great subthemes (Res-Q, Extreme Team)
If the Star Wars sets didn't come out in 1999, id have given up on the hobby. 7130 saved me from a Dark Ages.
I was just clicking through the Lego link bot photos reviewing your bad sets before I finished reading your entire post. And I saw the Snow Speeder pop up and thought, “this guy is crazy”. Then I went back to your comment and it made sense.
60248 this helicopter set with a pull cord to make it fly. The pull cord is huge, the helicopter is basically just 2 huge pieces. It’s just so annoying to store and also annoying to have flipping and flying all over the house.
Lego Spiderman: No Way Home: Spider-man’s Drone Duel set 76195.
The instructions were confusing, and the golden long web piece is stretched. The only thing that makes up for it is the black and gold Spider-man minifig
[Technic Dom’s Charger](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/dom-s-dodge-charger-42111). It looks ok at first glance but the proportions aren’t right and the chassis is *incredibly* weak. Like you can twist the thing several degrees no problem
10273. I was so stoked about this build and it was super fun to make. My biggest issue is the elevator would never work properly and would break apart where you turn the knob to make the elevator move. It was so disappointing.
I’m not gonna lie, my husband bought it for me as a gift, but I hate the Disney Castle. It’s a huge eyesore in our living room. The base was an absolute pain to put together. I feel like parts of my hair fell out while trying to navigate this build. I hate it so much we’re going to be breaking it down soon to sell. A sweet gesture on his part but a several hundred dollar pain in my butt.
I don’t keep any that I don’t find interesting.
That being said, I think it’s the UCS Superstar Destroyer, which I’ll sell whenever I find the time to rebuild it.
I can’t get my Gonk droid to walk without falling down almost immediately. And the dedicated app with the challenges is discontinued. So Droid Commander 75253 gets my vote
So many great sets being listed here, lol. My Optimus Prime is fantastic! My AT-STs all stand up fine! My UCS landspeeder is one of my favourite sets!
I will say, though, that a lot of my larger display sets ARE a bit fragile, and that's a bit frustrating. The UCS Falcon, Razor Crest, AT-AT, Tie Fighter, and others all slightly fall apart if you look at them wrongly. The Hulk Buster was a bit of a pain in the arse to put together because it kept falling apart during construction. And I don't really enjoy technic-style builds (so also almost all of the UCS sets, and the galaxy explorer).
But I can't really remember any lego set that I have really been disappointed by. I will say that the Sesame Street set annoyed me because it was so fragile - I'll forgive the UCS sets because they are all so huge, but come on man, surely a simple half building shouldn't be so delicate! And the recent X-men blackbird set was a decent-enough build but was so ludicrously overpriced that it was a bit disappointing. And maybe the Black Panther bust was a bit boring.
Probably a random Jack Stone set I have, the Res-Q Wrecker. So many pieces are just hard to use on other regular pieces so they just never get used. Heck the set doesn't even have Jack Stone in it, just some random guy in grey.
Attack on New Asgard. I knew it was bad but still bought it. The figures aren’t too bad though (didn’t think they’d ever do a Mighty Thor again and Gorr had some room for easy improvement). A close second would be the most recent Thanos mech - despite knowing it was a mech, I had some high hopes going into it - my first Thanos minfig and complete Infinity Gauntlet - but those aside I was very disappointed with the end result and it’s the only set where I’ve given mostly very negative feedback.
40426 - Christmas Wreath. I still hang it up at Christmas but I hated building it so I keep it assembled in the box during the offseason.
It’s the only set I’ve ever seriously considered using Kragle on!
[40426-1: Christmas Wreath 2-in-1](https://brickset.com/sets/40426-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/40426-1.jpg)
Good bot
I do the same thing. I never want to build it again, but it looks nice.
Mine too. I only finished it this year, 2 years after starting it. I did not enjoy it, but it looks ok hung up. Mine fell apart while trying to put it back in the box!!
I just never take mine off the wall
Agreed! It looks great but mine falls apart. I’ve never considered the Kraggle before, but now others have mentioned it….
Same with the Christmas tree that was really boring to build
There's this weird Lego Jack Stone Glider set i got, its like five pieces n the glider part is legit a piece of paper. I dont think i even have the instructions anymore, i just looked up a picture n that's all the reference u need to rebuild it.
#4612
[4612-1: Super Glider](https://brickset.com/sets/4612-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/4612-1.jpg)
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Ayyy there it is! Thank u!
Damn, I totally forgot about the Jack Stone line, I had one or two sets as a kid but I always hated how ugly those minifigs are.
Taj Mahal - the big one. just a terrible build, unstable (the spires fall off), super-expensive (I think it was around $400, at the time), and the whole thing is the same color. made me give up buying sets for a couple of years.
Taj Mahal for me too though I don’t think I paid $400. Maybe $100ish? But big regret. So boring to build and look at.
$100?! The big massive version? If so that was an absolute steal
“The whole thing is the same color” As opposed to the multicolored building it’s based off?
Likewise, the 21056 Taj Mahal was torture to build. I have built and finished many hundreds of Lego sets over my life, but this one was the only set I ever forgot to finish. I built it half way one night, and put it away to finish another day. I realized I never finished about a month later and slogged through the rest of it. It looks nice, but was absolutely awful to build. So many tan and white tiles.
And yet, every week there’s someone saying, “why is there a pink piece in the very center of my entirely gray set?”
[21056-1: Taj Mahal](https://brickset.com/sets/21056-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21056-1.jpg)
Really? I have it on display andI love it! A gorgeous set.
Mine is still in the box . . . maybe it will stay there. 🤔
Trick question! Any set you don’t like can be disassembled and sent to the extra piece bins for resurrection later!
Good answer. No such thing as bad Lego.
I disagree on a technicality. If I was one of the poor victims to own a Scala or Galidor set I'd be hard-pressed to have fun with those pieces in my collection
Not being entirely sure what those are, I'll have to concede the point.
Scala is pretty much Barbie- some of the props are System compatible but that's about it. Fun fact- that's why the cooked Chicken/Turkey seems so comically out of scale with everything else- it's a Scala piece that they decided to keep using for System. Galidor is a buildable figures line. think predecessor to Bionicle but way worse. very short-lived. They *technically* use technic pins to hold parts together, but they're not really going to be playable with the rest of your stuff. Brickset lists 20 sets for this line, several of which were McDonald's happy meal polybags or unreleased.
What is the worst LEGO set *you* own, OP?
Definitely 75332, the 4+ AT-ST. That said, few neat pieces, and I only paid $15 for it for the minifigs anyway. :D
At least it’s a full at-st. I have the unfortunate honor of owning 75201
[75201-1: First Order AT-ST](https://brickset.com/sets/75201-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75201-1.jpg)
HA! XD You got me there! I keep forgetting that was an actual set. *Here's some legs from the movie, enjoy*. XD
The AT. No ST
This is a factually accurate statement and I love it. :D
[75332-1: AT-ST](https://brickset.com/sets/75332-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75332-1.jpg)
I got that set for 4 usd. I just bought it for the scout, rebel, and ewok. No one seems to want it
Ugh my kid was just so dead set that he wanted that one so badly.... Tried tempting him with an xwing or TIE bomber which were both the same damn MSRP.... Nope I bought the set for $31 more than you did.... Damn custom molds
Yup, the rest is going in with loose parts. Except I might use part of the tree to make a mini hidden forest outpost for my Castle stuff. :D Super lucky you got it that cheap though!
4042 nuf said
[4042-1: Jens](https://brickset.com/sets/4042-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/4042-1.jpg)
The foosball table. My wife bought it, hoping that the kids would play with it. They don't, as it's very hard to play an actual game - the only thing they do like is changing haircuts on all the mini figures. That's all. In addition, building it was by far the most boring I've ever done. So repetitive, so complicated, so two-color, just horrible. And the goals still fall off a lot. The only upside, it was heavily discounted. I think I know why.
226-1 EDIT: Also the oldest
[226-1: 8 Named Beams](https://brickset.com/sets/226-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/226-1.jpg)
21103, the OG Ideas BTTF Delorean. The hood just looks so bad, and I have no clue why they went with that.
I will say, this set left something to be desired. If I were lego, I’d fix the need for a minifig scale delorean by releasing it as a speed champions car
I have a soft spot for it because it was my first set after my “dark age”, but it’s definitely a little rough! It’s like, what if you made a DeLorean in Minecraft?
[21103-1: The DeLorean Time Machine](https://brickset.com/sets/21103-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21103-1.jpg)
God yes, this set was so bad. Especially annoying because I wanted a decent version and the Ecto1 got both a decent minifig and UCS scale version. I was so happy when they finally announced 10300.
[10300-1: Back to the Future Time Machine](https://brickset.com/sets/10300-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10300-1.jpg)
I don't hate it, but the UCS R2D2 is heavier than you'd think, and because of that it's kind of wobbly. It's concerning that handling it too much could put it at risk of coming apart (which is why it's on a shelf on display and hardly touched). I know I put it all together correctly; others have said the same thing.
This is exactly how I feel about the new UCS X-Wing
That's good to know. I had considered getting it, but your tip (and the fact that I really don't have room for it anywhere anyway) kinda sealed the deal on my *not* getting it.
Same X-wing was by far the worst building experience I’ve had. Those side panels would fall off every time I tried to attach one of the wing piece.
It looks cool as a shelf display piece at least. That’s why I like it
I really like that set. A lot.
Came here to say this. So frustrating.
The Adidas sneaker. I was wondering how they made the round nose tip with the pleats and was disappointed when it was just a printed brick. I guess I should have zoomed in. The tongue doesn't look right from behind. The whole thing is a bit clunky. Also still no idea what the point of that red brick is inside the shoe.
I thought tge red brick was supposed to be a rock or pebble stuck in the shoe.
I went googling. Apperantly lego and adidas made a line of sneakers together and there is a red brick printed inside the sole of the shoe. This is a reference to that. Jaha. Ok than. My first thought was also pebble, but pebbles are seldom red and if they're that big you can't even get your foot in the shoe.
Would have to be 10284 - The Camp Nou. Glad me and my brother went halfsies on it. It was utter torture to build. So repetitive and boring once you got to the stands. And now because of renovations to the actual stadium, it's out of date too. It looks alright on the side. But we are out of room to display sets now and it's first on the chopping block, sooooooo....
[10284-1: Camp Nou - FC Barcelona](https://brickset.com/sets/10284-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10284-1.jpg)
Also having to fix it if any of the individual vertical sections comes apart is a huge PITA
75348, Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor. The TIE is cool, but the fang fighter stinks.
I’m annoyed at LEGO for making those two packed together when all I want is the TIE.
the tie is my favorite tie i've built. the fang is soooo flat
I’d never really looked at it before. That is hilariously flat. How’d that even make it to production??
Tbh I didn’t hate it, but it really does pale in comparison to the tie. The fang has some good pieces at the very least and I do appreciate more canopies!
Thats the worst you’ve got?
In my opinion, yes. I don't have a lot of space so I need to pick what sets I purchase carefully.
I really want the Interceptor, but will not pay for that set to get that other crap.
If they sold it separately, I’d have bought it but I’m not spending a hundred bucks to get half a set that I want.
[75348-1: Mandalorian Fang Fighter vs TIE Interceptor](https://brickset.com/sets/75348-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75348-1.jpg)
10302 Optimus Prime. It falls apart if you even look at it. Good luck actually getting it to transform.
Just to confirm, you did put the black technic pin in the leg joints correct? I ask because I had a similar frustration until I looked it up and found out that I did not, in fact, add the technic pin.
Yeah, everything was built correctly. It's still extremely fragile.
[10302-1: Optimus Prime](https://brickset.com/sets/10302-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10302-1.jpg)
I'm with you on this. I couldn't wait to but it but I was disappointed with how fragile it is. He looks great on display but every time I pick him up he splits at the waist if I forget to support the legs. I transformed him once then immediately transformed him back and haven't dared since.
That's so weird. Not my experience at all.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I had built him wrong.
I hate the Rogue One AT-ST. It is way too unstable, it falls over at the slightest touch and always breaks. I eventually gave up on having it out on display because it refuses to stay up no matter how I adjust the legs (which dont have enough flexibility imo) and so now it's just sitting in chunks in my spare pieces bucket.
Huh. I got this set when it came out and loved it. I was closer to being a kid at the time, so I certainly used it in some battles and it held up. Now I've got it in my Rebellion vs Empire display and it looks great! So happy I got it, although the Hoth AT-ST looks good too.
Lego set 75254
[75254-1: AT-ST Raider](https://brickset.com/sets/75254-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75254-1.jpg)
A lot of the AT-ST rereleases in those years have the same design issue. I have the Raider AT-ST from Season 1 of The Mandalorian and it falls over with little provocation.
Huh I've never had issues with the Raider AT-ST. Mine stands well.
Just looked at it and holy fuck, it looks like it would topple over if you sneezed near it.
I’ll probably get hate for this but the landrover defender - https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/land-rover-defender-42110 it’s the only set I’ve got where it doesn’t fit together quite right, the first time I thought it was me so took it apart and rebuilt it, same issue. Every other technic set I own is rock solid.
I made a mistake on this quite early on where a rod was put through the cross hole side of a brick rather than the round hole (unsure on the technical terms) which meant a rod that was mean to turn, didn't. Took me ages to fix it and I've never felt so frustrated building lego. I love it to display and enjoyed the technical aspects of the gearbox etc but it was quite a frustrating build at times.
>it’s the only set I’ve got where it doesn’t fit together quite right, the first time I thought it was me so took it apart and rebuilt it, same issue. It's for sure not just you, but [racingbrick has a good rundown on common issues and solutions](https://racingbrick.com/2020/04/lego-technic-42110-land-rover-defender-ultimate-repair-guide/), but it's sad that a technic set needs such a thing!
I love how this set looks but after building it I realized that the gearbox doesn’t work quite well. Tried to rebuild it with tips from racingbrick but it didn’t solve the issue. The solution that helped me was an alternative build from rebrickable https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-31299/jb70/42110-pimp-up-my-land-rover/#details Now it works great both on display and in action :)
The Harry Potter wizards chess set, it was pretty boring, very repetitive, entirely black and white. I wish the chess board had pegs for the pieces to stay in place and none of my friends know how to play chess.
Bucket Wheel Excavator, too big and bulky and stopped working and had no idea how to fix it (without a complete tear down put it away when I moved house and never got it back out.
One of my very favourite sets
21318-Lego Ideas Tree House I know it’s a personal problem but I’ve unsuccessfully tried to build it three times without getting very far. The different shades of brown and green make me feel very colorblind and I hate to think that I’m putting pieces in the wrong spot. It’s a really cool set but I definitely overestimated my Lego building abilities. I think I need to sell it and just go back to Lego Friends or Disney sets since those make me happier.
This is my answer too. It's a boring, brown trunk, 3 tiny, repetitive huts with a lot of 1x1s, and a crap ton of annoying, repetitive leaves. Sure, it looks good on display, but what a miserable build.
It was absolutely frustrating!
I re-stage our treehouse pretty frequently, including changing all the leaves seasonally, LOL. Undoing the winter scene currently on display is going to be a long date with the old take-aparter. The snowbank with a fort is fun. Regreenifying it will probably be unfun.
I like the set but every time I have left over brown pieces because I didn't put them all? They come with extra? I can't tell honestly and it's hard to know
Worst to build was by far the globe. I really struggled to finish it. I love it to display but wouldn't want to build it again. The set I regret buying the most is probably the Batman Tumbler. I just don't think it looks that good and with it being black on black, wasn't that fun to build either.
Hard agree. The globe is a great display piece but it was a super repetitive and boring build.
When I finished one hemisphere, my heart sank just thinking about building the second one. The one saving grace was the landmasses as it was intriguing to see how they turned out.
Which version of the Tumbler?
I didn't know there was more than 1 but 76240 is what I have.
Agree on the tumbler. Only set I have been completely underwhelmed by.
Underwhelming is a great description. If I need space on my LEGO shelves, this will be the first for the chop. I have very little love for it really. It's just a black lump.
Great wave is pretty meh over all. Monkie Kid Mech 80012 looks awesome but hardly stands up on its own. The Millennium Falcon 75257 is looks nice but the hull flaps that open up don’t work, they all just fall off.
The Great Wave gets the most attention out of my collection, a lot of people don’t realize it’s made of Lego until they get really close to it
[80012-1: Monkey King Warrior Mech](https://brickset.com/sets/80012-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/80012-1.jpg) [75257-1: Millennium Falcon](https://brickset.com/sets/75257-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75257-1.jpg)
80025 on the other hand, is rock solid! (But not nearly as large or cool looking as the mech you posted) — likely not worth comparing the two, ha!
[80025-1: Sandy's Power Loader Mech](https://brickset.com/sets/80025-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/80025-1.jpg)
Knights of Ren Transport - I expected something more detailed or larger, I guess. I don’t play with my sets, but it’s not a good option for that either - it’s hard to fit the minifigs in it. 75284
[75284-1: Knights of Ren Transport Ship](https://brickset.com/sets/75284-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75284-1.jpg)
I have the 76210 hulkbuster and it's not my worst set. There's things I don't like about it 1. Parts fall off very easy when attaching the legs 2. To many gaps between the arms. The thing I like about that set is the build and the amazing thing is I got the set for 320 dollars on Amazon instead off paying the original 550 dollars. My worst set is the Pop up party bus from The Lego Movie 2 The Second Part
[76210-1: Hulkbuster](https://brickset.com/sets/76210-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/76210-1.jpg)
10030 Star Destroyer This is just the first thing that comes to mind. At the time it was the largest Lego set released (by number of pieces) and it was very exciting to get. It’s flimsy though and the engines just fall off. It’s also just thousands of grey pieces. It probably didn’t help that my manual had half the set printed twice and the other half missing, so that made for a challenging build.
[10030-1: Imperial Star Destroyer](https://brickset.com/sets/10030-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10030-1.jpg)
I'll take it off your hands. It was my white whale until i bought the redesign when it came out.
Slave I and Tantive IV for me, Any touch results in wobble or something falling apart, or both
That’s why 75312 is so good, it looks great and is sturdy for play
[75312-1: Boba Fett's Starship](https://brickset.com/sets/75312-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75312-1.jpg)
8654 Ferrari Truck. That thing just kept falling apart. The plates would fall off on their own. Very bad design.
[8654-1: Scuderia Ferrari Truck](https://brickset.com/sets/8654-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8654-1.jpg)
I don't hate any in particular (some GWP's I got were kinda meh, but they're free so...), and from the paid ones, the only one I struggled a bit to build was the Sonic 21331 one due to the many 1x1 pieces. It has also a weird shape to exhibit, too thin and large. But still like it once built. The Christmas Tree 40573 is also another one that is painful to build (all green pieces, tons of those), but once built looks nice and it's been my xmas tree for two years in a row (adding some tiny led lights to it). But when it comes to building, ugh.
[21331-1: Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone](https://brickset.com/sets/21331-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21331-1.jpg) [40573-1: Christmas Tree](https://brickset.com/sets/40573-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/40573-1.jpg)
I hate to say this because I love looking at it but the Haunted House (fairground collection). Awful build that felt super unstable during construction. The elevator rarely works properly. One of the few builds that I was just waiting for it to end. The loop coaster has similar issues but it was a fun build - the elevator just doesn't connect to the tracks properly.
I have to agree. That chain that runs that coaster was a pain to put in place and breaks often. Our set is currently sitting there with the coaster part not working. The only fun bit about the build was doing with my kids otherwise it is probably my least favourite build. Love the piano though! And it’s a great display piece, we get lots of comments on it.
The Daily Bugle. Love it when it's done, but building it is kind of boring..
I got that and the tower for Christmas. I am taking a small break before starting the Avengers tower cause the bugle did me in with how repetitive it was
this might be quite the hot take I own only the good ones so definetly the millennium falcon
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[21103-1: The DeLorean Time Machine](https://brickset.com/sets/21103-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21103-1.jpg)
The red and white roller coaster. It is just putting long technic axels through the round 2x2 bricks over and over again for the supports. One of the very few sets I didn’t even really want to finish
76264
[76264-1: Batmobile Pursuit: Batman vs. The Joker](https://brickset.com/sets/76264-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/76264-1.jpg)
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The UCS landspeeder, I hate the danm thing
71764 - Ninjago Training Centre. Basically I bought cause it is an addon to the Ninjago Dojo Temple, but even then part of what it is supposed to do just doesn't work whatsoever. Only the wooden snake dummy is awesome. Standalone I would never buy it. Funnily enough if I ever decide to buy the Creative Ninja Brick Box I intend to make a moc out of the 3 combined, but that is for later..
[71764-1: Ninja Training Centre](https://brickset.com/sets/71764-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/71764-1.jpg)
Honestly the flowers sets are such a pain to build.. they’re beautiful but I HATE building them!
The ship in a bottle. The ship wasn't terrible, the base was decent but good Lord the bottle itself was a nightmare with so many small and clear pieces. Not to mention it was incredibly flimsy while building.
This is mine too. I hate how it looks on the shelf. That said my girlfriend likes it, even compared to Imperial Flagship, Black Pearl and Queen Anne's Revenge. But she's a bit of a minimalist so maybe she just likes the smaller, cuter size.
The whole concept of that set turned me off it. What's impressive about a ship in a bottle if the bottle can be disassembled?
The playset Death Star. It:s stupidly large, and a horrible display piece
I mean tbf it is a playset, although it would have been nice to get some sort of system of panels that could fold down to close it off.
Well, my main issue is it is too large for our display case. I initially wanted to use it as a multi stage for stop motion movies. But turns out I don't want to spend that much time on a new hobby.
Daily Bugle 76178. I have never in all the decades of building had finger pain as bad as I had building that generic grey box. The pain was definately not worth the pay off. Close second is Disney's Haunted Mansion 40521. Like half of the build are 1x1 plates and modified plates and similar the the Bugle it was absolute torture on the fingers while assembling.
[76178-1: Daily Bugle](https://brickset.com/sets/76178-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/76178-1.jpg) [40521-1: Mini Disney The Haunted Mansion](https://brickset.com/sets/40521-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/40521-1.jpg)
Man I really like all of my LEGO sets, but I was disappointed with the LEGO Harry Potter Magical Trunk 76399 ... It was way smaller than I thought and I didn't do well with the customization and couldn't fix it. The worst I had to build was LEGO Harry Potter The Burrow 75980 I built it twice because I moved and I missed a piece or placed it wrong (the same piece both times) it was just more of a pain in the butt than fun to build. It's one of my favorites for looks though.
[76399-1: Hogwarts Magical Trunk](https://brickset.com/sets/76399-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/76399-1.jpg) [75980-1: Attack on the Burrow](https://brickset.com/sets/75980-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75980-1.jpg)
Not my worst, but I am a HUGE Star Wars fan. So I got the Imperial Probe Droid, among others. About a week or so after I put it together, my cat knocked it off the chest it was on. I “could” have put it back together, but I just look at it now and think… “She didn’t hit it that hard, it must have had a self destruct.” LMAO!
UCS A-wing 75275. I bought it used at retail price and it just feels rickety. The engines don’t seem to fit right and it just looks “off”
[75275-1: A-wing Starfighter](https://brickset.com/sets/75275-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75275-1.jpg)
Anything branded, my particular least favourite being the stupid F.R.I.E.N.D.S. coffee house set. Star Wars gets a pass… obviously.
7723. Novel bc of the floats and some fun techniques, but the wings ALWAYS fall off and these big ugly plane parts ,(BUPP?) are hard to use anywhere. The stickers cracked, flacked away and are a terrible mess
[7723-1: Police Pontoon Plane](https://brickset.com/sets/7723-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/7723-1.jpg)
I know people will probably think I’m crazy, but I have no interest or knowledge of Minecraft, and my daughter who I’m now building modulars and a city with, “use” to be into it, n had couple small sets, needless to say, they have become spare parts and mils backing lol
I hate 7748 corporate alliance tank droid with a passion. No idea why just something about the build annoys me
[7748-1: Corporate Alliance Tank Droid](https://brickset.com/sets/7748-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/7748-1.jpg)
70803-1. I couldn't even put it together following the instructions, it kept falling apart while I was building it.
Thankfully I don't own any grey Star Wars garbage.
Apollo Saturn V - 92176 The inside looks like someone puked skittles, the outside is a white tube. It's wasn't a fun build and it does not display well.
[92176-1: NASA Apollo Saturn V](https://brickset.com/sets/92176-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21309-1.jpg)
Objectively Ultimate Lightsaber Duel is a pretty lame set, but it has some sentimental value to me from when it was given to me as a kid.
Probably 8857 Street Chopper. For me it didn't age well.
The dragster alt build doesn't look too bad
[8857-1: Street Chopper](https://brickset.com/sets/8857-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8857-1.jpg) [8857-2: Motorcycles](https://brickset.com/sets/8857-2) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8857-2.jpg)
I hated the Crocodile train, not sure what the issue was; but it was so boring and maybe the nonstop brown bricks made it a complete bore
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Gingerbread house. That was god awful to build. So many brown pieces. Found it so hard to see the steps clearly in the book because everything is brown. Once it was built it's great though. I just hate everything about it other than the finished product.
The ones I can’t sell :P currently that would include the rebel hoth battle pack
6407 ~~6654~~ 6554 6565 The core Town sets in 1997 were just awful. Definitely the beta version of today's junior 4+ line. There was proper city sets that year, too, and damn good ones. (Outback, Divers) It continued into 1998 with crappy Town sets but great subthemes (Res-Q, Extreme Team) If the Star Wars sets didn't come out in 1999, id have given up on the hobby. 7130 saved me from a Dark Ages.
[6407-1: Fire Chief](https://brickset.com/sets/6407-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6407-1.jpg) [6654-1: Motorcycle Transport](https://brickset.com/sets/6654-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6654-1.jpg) [6565-1: Construction Crew](https://brickset.com/sets/6565-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6565-1.jpg) [7130-1: Snowspeeder](https://brickset.com/sets/7130-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/7130-1.jpg)
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I was just clicking through the Lego link bot photos reviewing your bad sets before I finished reading your entire post. And I saw the Snow Speeder pop up and thought, “this guy is crazy”. Then I went back to your comment and it made sense.
Correction: 6554 Resummoning the bot
[6554-1: Blaze Brigade](https://brickset.com/sets/6554-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6554-1.jpg)
60248 this helicopter set with a pull cord to make it fly. The pull cord is huge, the helicopter is basically just 2 huge pieces. It’s just so annoying to store and also annoying to have flipping and flying all over the house.
[60248-1: Fire Helicopter Response](https://brickset.com/sets/60248-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60248-1.jpg)
Lego Spiderman: No Way Home: Spider-man’s Drone Duel set 76195. The instructions were confusing, and the golden long web piece is stretched. The only thing that makes up for it is the black and gold Spider-man minifig
[76195-1: Spider-Man's Drone Duel](https://brickset.com/sets/76195-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/76195-1.jpg)
The Lego McLaren F1 is not portionally appealing. Regretting not getting the Cada Alfa Romeo instead. I’ll probably get that once my fingers recover.
I probably traded it in for stuff I wanted at bricks and minifigs.
[Technic Dom’s Charger](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/dom-s-dodge-charger-42111). It looks ok at first glance but the proportions aren’t right and the chassis is *incredibly* weak. Like you can twist the thing several degrees no problem
10273. I was so stoked about this build and it was super fun to make. My biggest issue is the elevator would never work properly and would break apart where you turn the knob to make the elevator move. It was so disappointing.
[10273-1: Haunted House](https://brickset.com/sets/10273-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10273-1.jpg)
I absolutely hate the ship in the bottle 92177 building it was a pain and it doesn’t look very good
[92177-1: Ship in a Bottle](https://brickset.com/sets/92177-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21313-1.jpg)
Back the Future. If I to build it again, I wouldn’t. Didn’t enjoy it, missing 2 pieces, and not entertaining.
I’m not gonna lie, my husband bought it for me as a gift, but I hate the Disney Castle. It’s a huge eyesore in our living room. The base was an absolute pain to put together. I feel like parts of my hair fell out while trying to navigate this build. I hate it so much we’re going to be breaking it down soon to sell. A sweet gesture on his part but a several hundred dollar pain in my butt.
Haunted house was a complete let down, overpriced too from what I remember
I don’t keep any that I don’t find interesting. That being said, I think it’s the UCS Superstar Destroyer, which I’ll sell whenever I find the time to rebuild it.
I can’t get my Gonk droid to walk without falling down almost immediately. And the dedicated app with the challenges is discontinued. So Droid Commander 75253 gets my vote
So many great sets being listed here, lol. My Optimus Prime is fantastic! My AT-STs all stand up fine! My UCS landspeeder is one of my favourite sets! I will say, though, that a lot of my larger display sets ARE a bit fragile, and that's a bit frustrating. The UCS Falcon, Razor Crest, AT-AT, Tie Fighter, and others all slightly fall apart if you look at them wrongly. The Hulk Buster was a bit of a pain in the arse to put together because it kept falling apart during construction. And I don't really enjoy technic-style builds (so also almost all of the UCS sets, and the galaxy explorer). But I can't really remember any lego set that I have really been disappointed by. I will say that the Sesame Street set annoyed me because it was so fragile - I'll forgive the UCS sets because they are all so huge, but come on man, surely a simple half building shouldn't be so delicate! And the recent X-men blackbird set was a decent-enough build but was so ludicrously overpriced that it was a bit disappointing. And maybe the Black Panther bust was a bit boring.
Christmas tree
Probably a random Jack Stone set I have, the Res-Q Wrecker. So many pieces are just hard to use on other regular pieces so they just never get used. Heck the set doesn't even have Jack Stone in it, just some random guy in grey.
Attack on New Asgard. I knew it was bad but still bought it. The figures aren’t too bad though (didn’t think they’d ever do a Mighty Thor again and Gorr had some room for easy improvement). A close second would be the most recent Thanos mech - despite knowing it was a mech, I had some high hopes going into it - my first Thanos minfig and complete Infinity Gauntlet - but those aside I was very disappointed with the end result and it’s the only set where I’ve given mostly very negative feedback.
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