I’ve always found these ornament storage boxes are great for storing LEGO. Was struggling to find more and stumbled upon one at Target today. Just wanted to pass along the info.

Was just chatting in the comments of a previous post and I'd found these fun kallax inserts sold by a UK company.

There's some fun space backgrounds, one that looked like it'd suit dinosaurs etc.

Haven't ordered any yet and no links the to company. But I might try my local craft store to see what kinds of plain/patterned cardboard they sell. Maybe even some wrapping paper would work.

Basically just excited by the concept and thought I'd share :)

https://funserts.co.uk/products/planet-landing-space-station-corridor-adventure-bundle-for-ikea%c2%ae-kallax

Hello everyone, I would just like to share my input on this topic, and curious if anyone shares my opinion or disagrees with me.

In a perfect world, everyone could have infinite space, and an infinite number of storage bins for every part type and color.

With those limitations affecting everyone, majority of people chose to mix colors and focus on sorting by part type.

This works majority of the time, but with certain types of elements like common bricks or plates, it makes a lot more sense to sort by color than brick type. When I build MOCs, I typically have color schemes in mind and it's much easier just to grab a bin full of brown bricks of all sizes.

A 2x2, 2x4, 2x6, 2x8 etc have very similar uses and can be substituted easily enough. I understand the argument of "finding a single red brick is hard in a sea of red" but I disagree when you have just a few similar types of parts mixed together.

-It saves a lot more time to just grab one individual bin vs taking out many different types of bins, and searching each one for the color of bricks I need.

-It also gives you a good representation of how many pieces of said color you actually have in your inventory.

-If I want to build a large blue creation,, I would love to just have all my similar blue bricks in a single bin.

My point: it's okay to sort by color for pieces that are common and of similar type.

Probably will only last a few minutes, but got my 6yo + 3yo’s LEGO shelves reset with the few days off.

Bottom left is all minifigs/parts and right are the loose bricks grouped by color (works best for them).

I completed sorting my original childhood batch of Lego, so I decided to make an investment in about 100lbs of bulk Lego from Facebook marketplace. Very excited to be able to sort through all this and add everything to my inventory, this batch should keep me busy for a WHILE!

Hi everyone!

I’ve just launched my app, BrickInvest, on the App Store (iOS).

It’s designed to help LEGO enthusiasts track prices of used LEGO sets and monitor their collection’s value. I’d love to hear your feedback!

If you check it out, let me know what you think or how I could improve it. Thanks for your time, and I hope BrickInvest can become a useful tool for the LEGO community!

Let me know if it works for you!

(Not sure if I am allowed to post a link to it? So I won’t) I hope this post is okay. I am in need of feedback and to create a useful app!

If this post is not allowed - please help me create a post that is allowed - i do not wish to break any rules.

Hi, college student here. I've had this idea for a while, and I thought what better place to ask than a subreddit about storing legos.

I haven't been able to find any resources on sorting bulk legos, so I thought it would be interesting to delve into the topic. How do you guys sort your legos?, especially if you have a really large amount of them. I see a lot of people posting pictures of what must be hundreds of pounds of legos.

I'm thinking about creating some kind of machine that would sort legos and was wondering if this is an idea even worth pursuing, even as a personal project.

Any idea on how to keep Lego sets that are made already ‘clean?’/not dusty..? I was thinking of using a can of compressed air but then I was like ‘would the pieces blow off eachother?’ Cause of the pressure..??

Help???

Hellooooo, I’m looking for cute lego storage bins! Not necessarily like bead containers or organization but like storage bins where I can just throw them all in, not ones that take up a ton of space though, maybe like a foot tall?

Thank you!

This question probably gets asked a lot but I am wondering How many categories makes sense for a medium sized collection? Right now I'm breaking down my hogwarts modular castle sets. these are the categories I have so far.

Bricks

Plates

Snot

Tiles

Slopes

Technic

Stickered

Doors and windows

Grass flowers

Building elements

Minifig and minifig accessories

Sticks

Hinges

Vehicle

Panels

Miscellaneous

Has anyone created a database where I put in the part number and it tells me the category it belongs in?

In the last few years, I have been collecting the winter village/Christmas themed legos to use as decorations or themed display around the holidays. What would be the best way for me to store these legos after the holiday? I would love to keep them built and together as much as possible just so I don’t have to rebuild all the sets every year. The smaller pieces from the advent calendars I’ll use a tackle/jewelry box container. But any suggestions for the bigger sets? Thanks!

Are we throwing them out? I feel that’s the obvious answer, but wanted to know if there’s anything better I could be doing!

Good ideas for printed tile organization? Just placing them on plates?

I help lead Lego after school programs for a variety of elementary schools. I recently acquired a bunch of Spike Essential kits but need a way to reduce the amount of space they take up. Our instructors need to be able to bring about 7 kits to and from the schools each session. This number of kits takes multiple trips for one person to haul. The bottom of the bins are mostly empty except for the electronic components and larger plates, so I am sure there is a better alternative. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to condense down the kits while still allowing for individual kits for student groups?

Mods, my sincere apologies if this is not a place to ask this. If so, I will delete the post asap.

I see similar questions now and again, but naturally can’t find them now, and couldn’t find a sub with a title referring to finding parts either.

As I came across the red piece while sorting (a batch I bought 2nd hand, which also contained quite a lot of off-brand stuff) I figured the link is poor but I’ll try it..

Anyway, the yellow piece is Lego. The red one had small holes between the large ones, instead of those hourglass-like indentations, which feels fake to me.

Google Lens gave me nothing, so if anyone has a suggestion, I’d appreciate it!

I've seen a lot of posts on here regarding minifig storage that shows off a lot of very cool ways to store the piece-by-piece parts together.

I'm curious if anyone has any great recommendations for storage options for fullly assembled ones. Preferably not just things like plastic bags.

On the flip side, is it just not wise to store them like that, or?