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LEGO Train Water Tower Instructions

LEGO has made all sorts of building block sets over the years that children can build and rebuild for hours of entertainment. Once example is the train water tower LEGO set. The official name of this set is Percy at the Water Tower, and it's LEGO Setȫ6-1. Percy is a character in the line of children's books called The Railway Series, and in the cartoon series that followed, Thomas and Friends. If your child's favorite character is Percy, then the LEGO train water tower set might make a great gift.

Instructions

  1. Percy at the Water Tower Set

    • 1

      Make sure the child you're giving the Percy LEGO set to is old enough to play with it. The LEGO pieces that come with the Percy at the Water Tower set are slightly larger than conventional pieces, but the components are not suitable for children under the age of 2.

    • 2

      Go through the set to make sure you have all the pieces. There should be a total of 15 pieces: a turn-table block, two train track pieces, the train engine, the train's face, the train compartment, the train wheels, the train pipe, a brick cutout block, three 2-by-4 blocks and three 2-by-2 blocks.

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      Put the two train track pieces together to make the track for Percy to ride on.

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      Assemble Percy. The wheels are the base. The face piece goes on the front of the wheels, and the engine pieces goes on the back half with the compartment piece in the middle. Finally, the pipe piece can be connected to the top of the engine.

    • 5

      Build the water tower. Use the two large brown LEGOs as the base and then stack the five piece of the trunks on the base. On top of the trunk, you'll snap on the two blue pieces, putting the wider blue piece that has a faucet attached to it on top.

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    • 6

      Choose a wide ground base for the water tower. LEGO sells bases in many sizes, but the wider, thicker bases will provide more support to keep your water tower from tipping over.

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      Create a plan for how specific you want the water tower to be. If you are using all standard-sized LEGOs, you will need to create multiple legs so that the tower will remain balanced. However, if you purchase LEGO posts or other materials to balance the water tower, you can create one solid trunk going up the middle of the base, while using the posts around the outside.

    • 8

      Test out your plan using LEGO's Digital Designer online. The program is designed so that you can virtually build your water tower to make sure that it has the dimensions needed to remain in place. You can also purchase hard-to-find pieces through the program, such as walls that you be used for the water storage tank.

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      Construct more difficult towers as your skills improve. For example, you might start off with a a square tank with thick posts and realize that you can make the posts thinner and round out the tanks as you go along. As an expert, you might even attempt to build a large water tower, where you can use different colors of LEGOs to spell out the name of a city on the tank.

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