Rent the LEGO Typewriter

Plan on 6 to 8 hours for the 2079 pieces. The casing goes quickly. Most of the time goes into the rows of keys and the mechanism underneath, and that part is very repetitive.

The typewriter is 27 cm wide, 26 cm deep and 11 cm high. That makes it take up about as much room as a laptop, so it fits on any desk or a wide shelf.

No. The Ideas set 21327 came out in summer 2021 and was retired at the end of 2024. New, it cost CHF 269.–, and since then it is only available second-hand. Rented, you build it once without having to find a place for it afterwards.

No. When you press a letter key, the same middle typebar always lifts and the carriage moves along, whichever key it was. No letter lands on the paper. You can still feed real paper into the platen, the enclosed letter for example.

It is modelled on the typewriter Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of the LEGO Group, wrote on. It comes with a booklet holding a letter from Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, of the fourth generation of the owning family, in 43 languages. You tear out your language and feed it into the platen.

You pick a set from our collection and we send it to your door for free. You build it, keep it as long as you like, and send it back when you are ready for the next one. After a month at the earliest, with no upper limit. Then you choose your next set.

There are three options: the single rental at a one-off CHF 42.–, the monthly plan at CHF 39.– per month and the yearly plan at CHF 29.– per month. Included are the complete set, delivery to you and the cleaning. You cover the return, and the label is already in the box.

Yes. The monthly plan can be cancelled to the end of any month, with no reason and no notice period. You send the set back and that is that. The yearly plan commits you for twelve months and costs about a quarter less per month in return.

Every set is washed at 30 °C with soap after it comes back, dried, and checked brick by brick for completeness. Only then does it go out again. So you never get a set somebody else has been through unchecked.

After every rental the set is washed and checked brick by brick for completeness. After that the numbered bags from the original packaging are gone, and you get all the pieces loose in one large wash bag. Up to about 2'000 pieces you build straight from the bag; for bigger sets a bit of sorting first is worth it. For the return you sort nothing: take the set fully apart and put every piece back in the wash bag.

Paper instructions and sticker sheets do not last many rentals, so we send the sets without them. The instructions for every set are free at lego.com/en-ch/service/building-instructions and in the LEGO Builder app. Search there by set number or name.

Up to ten lost small pieces are no problem and are included in the price. It happens, vacuum cleaners are merciless. We only get in touch for larger damage or missing large pieces. You do not have to go over the carpet with tweezers.

Orders placed before 14:00 go out the same working day. After that Swiss Post usually takes one to two working days. We deliver anywhere in Switzerland and delivery to you is free.

A LEGO set is usually built once and then sits on a shelf or in a cellar for years. With us the same set passes through eight to ten people. For the same number of sets built, that is up to 90 % less newly produced plastic.