Rent the LEGO Sydney Opera House

Plan on 9 to 12 hours for the 2989 pieces. The base of dark tan bricks goes quickly. Most of the time goes into the roof shells, which you build one after the other and which repeat over many similar steps.

The model is 63 cm wide, 38 cm deep and 28 cm high. It does not fit on a normal shelf; you need a sideboard or a table with about 65 × 40 cm of free space.

No. Set 10234 came out in September 2013, was only sold by LEGO itself and was retired at the end of 2016. New, it cost CHF 369.– in Switzerland, and since then it has only been available second-hand or from collectors. Rented, you build it once without having to find room for it afterwards.

It is rated 16+, and that fits. The walls are angled, and many parts are attached sideways rather than stacked, to create the rounded forms and fine edges. The instructions are clear, but you have to look closely at the angles.

It is blue and 48 × 48 studs. LEGO had never made the large plate in this colour before. It stands for the harbour water on which the base with its lamps sits. On top of that come lots of dark tan bricks, among them the rare low slopes 1 × 1 × 2/3 and 1 × 2 × 2/3.

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.