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how do you all store lego?

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leftmydignityatthedoor · 28/10/2011 15:53

Ds is turning 5 at xmas and is getting a lot of disney cars lego. How should I store it? I envisage tears about lost pieces and his younger sister trying to eat small pieces.

Help!

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RaspberryLemonPavlova · 28/10/2011 20:13

Regarding instructions for particular models, if you have lost any they are available to download from the Lego website

Pigleychez · 28/10/2011 20:14

Opps a link would help! Blush

this

verybusyspider · 28/10/2011 22:01

I have a homemade version of one of those too Grin

does anyone use tool boxes? I was temped by something like this or this

I really need a solution for keeping sets together, we have the a4 folder of instructions but ds's get bored hunting for pieces

MelancholyAngel · 28/10/2011 22:21

Really Useful Boxes!

We organised by colour with DS1 which makes it easy to tidy but a pain to find the bits so we now orginise by type. People bits in one box, one wide flats , two wide flats other flats. We have a big box for all the bricks you know the classic lego two by two, two by four ones a box for right way up slopes a box for wrong way up slopes a box for wheels and one for wings. A box for round flats and one for the tiny little one bobble ones. A box for the smooth flats ...

twolittledarlings · 28/10/2011 22:25

so so sorry I mean verybusyspider

I couldn't scroll down when type the message so could not doublecheck - sorry

WhinGin · 28/10/2011 22:31

verybusyspider I was wondering about something like this or this depending on size of the sets, I imagine they could be made to work in most kinds of boxes. At the moment we only have a few sets so they are in bags inside a plastic shoe box but it is a problem I envisage us having come Dec 25th, DS is 4.5 and I foresee a Lego Christmas!

I do like that scoop bag though Grin

Kahu · 28/10/2011 22:35

Pattern to make lego sack like swoop bag above. Bit faffy but you could make a simple version using grommets & a drawcord & not bother with all the bias trim etc. Fab because you can spread everything out.

WhinGin · 28/10/2011 22:43

Thanks Kahu

Pigleychez · 28/10/2011 22:50

Similar ready made bag! here

moonbells · 28/10/2011 22:52

Plastic Heroes tubs. Stackable. And you can sort into different ones if necessary. I try and keep flat bits in one, anything round in another and plain bricks in a panettone tin. Though with the amount of lego currently waiting for tomorrow morning and the waking of Mr-now-4 I can't quite see it fitting in the existing boxes!!

(Expecting lego equivalent of a sugar rush at about 8am)

lolah · 28/10/2011 23:04

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TheDetective · 28/10/2011 23:29

You lot are lucky :/ My DS easily has over £1000 worth of the chuffin' stuff, and it is ALL in one giant drawer in his bedroom. He has stuff from every bloody range they do, and it is all mashed in together! He could never attempt to remake the thing once its been taken apart!!! Problem is he just wants to make it once, and then use the bits to make his own models. Might just stop buying it now. Waste of sodding time!

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leftmydignityatthedoor · 29/10/2011 06:08

Hmmm that sack looks a bit complex for me since I can barely sew on a button. Thanks for all the ideas, am loving the fact that a lot of you seem like you have been waiting a long long time for someone to ask you this question!

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lolah · 29/10/2011 23:39

I posted a link for Lego storage that seems to have offended some of you! I don't have any connection with them, read about them on another forum and loads of posters have linked to various storage options? Seems a bit ott to have a post deleted, wouldn't mind but it was my first post, been a lurker for agesConfused

LondonMumsie · 29/10/2011 23:44

16 kilos of lego - wow! Our storage is similar, though.

startail · 29/10/2011 23:51

One of those cheap plastic towers with shoe box sized draws in the playroom. It's cheap and nasty, but you can take the draws out easily to rumage.
DD2 has just sorted all her playmobile into lots of shoeboxes and put them on her "new" book case.
(DH has modified one of those hamming pocket book racks, that are great for toddler books, but not small paperbacks)

4madboys · 30/10/2011 00:06

i have boxes that roll under the bed, they are big but shallow so they can hunt through and find bits easily :)
they have lids as well, we have 5 of them as my boys have TONNES of lego! you can fit just fit 5 under one bed, well four easily the other one is a bit of a squash and has to go in sideways and in front of the other boxes.

my elder boys have some drawers in a unit where they have seperated and store all their technic lego :)

oldraver · 30/10/2011 00:35

I've just got DS1's Lego out for DS2 and there are 22 sets so have to sort out in colour order. I've put some in one of those plactic drawers on wheels some others in 99p boxes I got form Co-Op

I have also bought a zipbin I only paid £7.99 a couple of weeks ago

CaptainNancy · 30/10/2011 21:20

They have those zip bins in Home Bargains and TKMaxx atm if anyone is interested btw. I decided against getting one because even though the road map bit inside would be fun, I didn't think it would stack well with the storage we already have (ikea samla boxes- all shapes and sizes nest, stack together easily, clear plastic so you can see what's inside them at a glance).

Mominatrix · 30/10/2011 21:34

DS1 has 4 years worth of lego all in bits. Initially, we just had a big Really Useful Box, but the myriad of teeny tiny pieces (which always seemed to be the MOST important pieces) always were in some crevice at the bottom so we got a new system.

For the small pieces, they are organized by type into Stanley tool bit boxes like this and this (we have about 4 boxes total). For the larger bricks, they are organized by type in Lego storage boxes like this - there are a variety of sizes and most are in either the smallest size or the one size up. Base plates and angled pieces (to make wings) are stored in 2 separate very large storage boxes.

Minifigures are stored in these with one for general minifigures and another specifically for Star Wars.

This is where all pieces currently in use (or more accurately, disuse) are kept until I have the time/energy to resort at the pieces tossed on the floor.

Mominatrix · 30/10/2011 21:41

meant to type "re-sort all the pieces..."

ShriekingLisa · 31/10/2011 00:28

DS has only started getting lego this year and only has abit so fits in a small box but has informed us tonight he is asking santa for Lego City Police Station.....yeah at £60 he can have two of them Hmm

Might just have to get a cheaper small version of it.

reelingintheyears · 31/10/2011 01:00

On the stairs so that when DP goes down early in the morning he treads on it and nearly kills himself.

Made me laugh at the time.

He didn't find it so very funny as it happensGrin