Lego!

itzmee

Chakani wrote: »

Superglue.....? I'm speechless!

Just like my friend who superglued her son's Brio trainset so the kids wouldn't mess up the "proper" layout, defeating the whole point of a creative toy.

DS actually asked us to glue his plane and airport together as he didn't want it falling apart while he was playing with it, and it would take hours to put back together.

Caroline73_2

Put an old sheet on the floor when the children (or adults) play with Lego. Then you can tip up all the boxes onto it and its easy to gather up when they've finshed playing.

vesper

We had a big plastic toybox for ours when we were children, that when the lid was opened had 2 little sections near the hinges that we used for little bits. Big bits were all then all thrown in together.

Miss my lego, will have to go and have a sneek around my parents, am sure they kept it all.

Chakani

itzmee wrote: »

DS actually asked us to glue his plane and airport together as he didn't want it falling apart while he was playing with it, and it would take hours to put back together.

Each to their own

Kittendreich

I do believe lego should be all mixed together to make whatever you want - more fun that way! I don't think there were any sets when I was little. However, each to their own (except for the superglue person...just buy a toy, not lego if you don't want to be able to build and rebuild it!).

From a storage point of view when we were little my mum made (and we now use for our girl) a large drawstring bag to store the lego in - when you opened it it became a very large, flat cirle. This went on the floor and contained the lego mountain which you could search through to find what you wanted, once you were finished playing all lego got thrown back into the centre and the drawstring closed - really effective and, as it was homemade, cheap (just denim-type fabirc and a red cord). Also minimises the number of pieces on the floor to get stuck in the carpet and then your foot!

building_with_lego

Hello :wave:
I know a little of this subject

We have several large tubs to sort roughly by theme -Castle/ Pirates/ Ninjago/ City/ Space/ Fire (as we have the super set), and Accessories (people and their bits and pieces, windows, doors, foliage etc)- then have smaller tubs within the tubs to sort people and accessories, and tiny bricks and modified plates. I will say, however, that the system relies a lot upon a certain mother sorting through periodically and getting things back in the right tub .

Definitely keep the manuals in a folder somewhere so that the covers don't come off and get lost. You may like (or not) to have a browse through brickset and find more sets that you could build from the pieces you already have. I look at the small promo sets, download instructions for a few, then keep them with the appropriate parts OUT OF REACH in small bags- ideal if we're going out for a meal and want to entertain people.

Enjoy! :rotfl:

julie03

my 18yr old is still lego mad and has a table filled with lego star wars and has boxes of lego everywhere and space ships on shelves.

these would be quite good for lego as you could still see it all


and if you really love lego you could get one of these, my son would love one

shegirl

julie03 wrote: »

my 18yr old is still lego mad and has a table filled with lego star wars and has boxes of lego everywhere and space ships on shelves.

these would be quite good for lego as you could still see it all


and if you really love lego you could get one of these, my son would love one

Where do you get the bottom ones?

SunnyCyprus

My son, 10, LOVES his lego! but doesnt love keeping it tidy! so i got a small cheap bookshelf from argos, 4 shelves, about 3' high, and 10 plastic tubs to keep it in. 2 tubs are the really big 'under-the-bed' size, 1 each for black pieces and grey pieces, seem to have loads of that colour! and then 8 smaller boxes. all the lego is organised by colour, and his instruction bookes live in one of his desk drawers. all the tubs sit on the bookshelf and about once amonth or so we sit and sort the bricks back into their boxes.

mrcow

We have a large Ikea storage rack and all the Lego is sorted by colour into separate boxes.

My son has well over £2k worth of Lego and it's the only way of keeping it in any order. The system works really well (although it took us 4 days to sort it in the first place and we have to go through it once ayear or so to re-sort)