On the last Valentine’s Day, I got a Lego Apollo Saturn V set from my wife as a gift: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-nasa-apollo-saturn-v-92176
[the pic from official Lego.com webpage]
I like Lego, and also like everything about space, so naturally the gift was accepted with much gratitude from me. Then we spent several evenings slowly assembling it together, while living in my parent’s home after escaping from bombarded Kyiv. This was a nice experience to work on the rocket together.
[the result:)]
Later this Spring, we bought another set. Now, it was a McLaren F1 2022 car: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/mclaren-formula-1-race-car-42141
We are fans of Formula 1 and particularly McLaren team, so we had been waiting for this car from the moment it was presented.
[the pic from official Lego.com webpage]
The set quickly went out of stock in Western online stores, but probably because of the war, people in Ukraine were busy with other things than Legos, and it was quite easy to buy it here. We started assembling the car together again and… unfortunately, it was not as fun as Saturn V.
Why? Because most pages with instructions contained only one part, which could be conveniently assembled by one person. In each of the 4 big steps of the whole construction process we also had to open several bags with lots of parts simultaneously. They took a lot of space, too much space together with the car which is quite big itself. So we developed a sequence, in which one person assembled the detail, and another helped with finding some parts for it in those big piles of Lego pieces. Then this other person put the new detail to the car.
With Saturn V we could usually build two details at the same time. The whole rocket basically consists of identical four-component sets put on top of one another. So we could work together, help each other with building details if needed, and then put the assembled parts in place.
Thus, I came to a question: why there is no specific label on the Lego sets being sold, like «good for two (three, four) persons» like we have for video games? It would be very useful, and probably not very difficult to define for the company.
I have even found a few posts on Reddit where people asked about sets suitable for building together:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/31zse4/lego_sets_that_two_people_can_build/
https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/nur1b8/what_is_a_good_set_for_a_couple_to_do_together/
Though it looks like some of the sets recommended just have completely separate components, with separate manuals even. I think that building together something like the mentioned Apollo Saturn rocket (with one manual) is more fun.
So, I hope that someone from Lego company will think about this niche and create more multiplayer Lego sets for us, and also explicitly labels such sets as the ones which could be built together!