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?

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Actually I like the ones that Notrubber has as well, that might be the way forward. Did you take the castors off?

We use tool boxes for bulk storage with lift out compartments for fiddly stuff and sets.

I want to sort DTDs.

I want it to be organised

I want to take controll

but I am sodded if I am going to do that...as I know damned well that my hours of work won't last 2 minutes.

It takes far more concentration to sort by shape - especially as the newer sets "cheat" and have lots of different molded shapes (particularly the Star Wars stuff for some reason).

Yes, it's much like that now except they have a few models on the top of the units made up. It has only been a few weeks though, to be fair.

Never bothered to put the casters on, frogs. I find casters more hassle than they're worth on those plastic units.

With the drawers you linked to, frogs - check they're big enough - some are really small and are designed to fit on the wall for small screws etc - the pictures can be misleading until you read the dimensions.

Lol, SlightlyMad ... I do hear you. I did find it oddly satisying sorting it all out though . Maybe I'm just a bit strange. It had got massively out of control in our house though - crammed in every drawer and bits getting lost all the time. Something drastic needed to be done.

We, DH and I had a sit-down. We decided that if we were going to indulge our DSs with kilos of lego, we kind of have to let them upend the lot on the floor! They are only allowed to have IT and IT alone out on the floor at a given time, then it's allowed to stay out til they stop playing with it (usually up to a week) then they have to pick it all up (they have a couple of large sheets of stiff cardboard to help shovel it back in and of course I do help!).

It would certainly be ME that ended up colour coding all of ours (we DO have a separate mini-fig and accoutrements snap lock sandwich box, I must say) and I fear that the DSs wouldn't play with it if they knew how much hassle was associated with putting it away!