Lego storage solutions --help, please!

[frogs]

Somebody must have discovered the Holy Grail of Lego storage -- something with sufficient capacity for large quantities of bricks, but also separate compartments to keep wheels, people and other fiddly bits in order.

Has anyone found a good solution for this?

Watching with intense interest...bionicles in our case...

Again, no solution but will be watching with interest.

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I googles storage box compartments and there are lots to choose from.

HTH.

give up and shove it all in a box!

resign yourself to the chaos

We just went from one box to a bigger box to an even bigger box - till we ended up with a massive chest of the bloody stuff.

No idea how you'd find anything in there to be honest!

Those boxes are all too small, I fear. You get quite large volume quite fast with Lego. And the 'shove it all in a box' solution doesn't work either -- that way they never play with it because they can't keep it even vaguely sorted and they know that I'll go nuclear if they just upend it all over the floor.

I was hoping there was something a bit more subtle than the GLTC-type plastic coloured boxes, which are too young for their taste anyway.

Hmm.

I think there is a special box you can buy - whcih is kind of like a tiered colander..whcih self sorts the bits based on size....

Just google what I did. There are pages of it but I wasn't going to link all of them!

oh frogs, you might have to try and resist the urge to go nuclear when they tip it all out

yours are old enough to put it all back at the end of the day aren't they?

or can you get them one of those big mats (to pour it out on) that at the end of the day you pick up and it pulls into a big bag which you empty into the box? I then just let them leave out the models that are 'half developed' iyswim

Really SMS?

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Arf at tiered colander!

Wouldn't work, though, they don't want the bits sorted by size but by type -- ds wants his techy bits separate, dd2 wants the bricks separate from the windows and doors so that she can build houses all day, and they all want the minifigs separate from everything else.

Even if they tip it out, it takes ages for them to find anything if it's all mixed up. Sigh.

Wow SMS thanks for the link!

This would solve the problem, but I think it might be slight overkill.

Tempting though, I wonder if they're available in the UK?

what about one of these www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80073304 for each of the dc. They could write on the front of each drawer what it contains and then have a bigger box for a general stuff.

lol frogs

thing is mine are the same but I doubt the little buggers charmers would actually spend the time separating the lego themselves so until they get to that point, I'm certainly not doing it for them! I also doubt mine would keep it that way hence the giant box but then no-one in our family is very tidy at all so maybe your family is leaps ahead of us in those stakes (not hard ).

fwiw, the best storage stuff you can get is in the hardware stores or B&Q for organising tool boxes and nails and screws. You can get some giant plastic boxes with good compartments there!

We finally succumbed to two of these (our lego collection is MASSIVE).

I have told the children they are allowed no more lego kits with grey bricks in them :D

Iris 6 drawers

photo of them in use all sorted out into colours/wheels/instructions - took me about 2 days to do as previously they were all scattered around most of the house!!!

Yes...I appreciate that it isn't quite what you wanted. It might suit others on teh thread though.

I would probably do multiple ice cream boxes, olf chinese cartons, butter pots or whatever is an appropriate size and then stick them all in 1 big crate.

Ikea is very good for storage too...

try FIRA, other options available check their website

we have Glis for thoe magnetix balls and stick things - quite good but may be too small for your needs. It is flexible. There are 3 fixed compartments but each can be divided into 3}

more individual Glis

but Rubber you should not sort by colour...check this link. It is easier to find a red brick in a collection of shape sorted pieces than it is to find a specific shape in a box full of red pieces.

Not rubber I am massively impressed at your housekeeping skills.

I disagree about the colour thing, actually, the lego instructions are in colour so once you know the colour bit you want it's easy to narrow it down. ime!

But if you have a collection of red bricks...finding hte 44 cube is harder than dinding a red 44 in a biox full of 4*4's...it stands out.

Oh and Rubber.....if you was to take a photo now would it still look like that?

Bollocks to that SlightlyMad - it would have taken me even LONGER

The kids suggested it, actually, as they were fed up of losing all their pieces because if I found a bit on the floor I couldn't work out which child it belonged to and would guess (and was more frequently wrong than random chance would allow).

People pieces were separated as were wheels etc because they like making vehicles and different people most of all. They helped break up all the different models they had stashed in various drawers upstairs and sort them out. Touch wood... it's stayed fairly neat AND got played with much more since.

Ta da!!

Was thinking of the 25-drawer system rather than the 44-one -- even we don't have quite that much. Mind you, then we could sort playmobil as well.