What are ya'lls favorite method to repurposing a set?

[SweetiePie88]

My uncle recently surprised me w/ "the first night". Problem is that i don't need the set since i already recreated the set from stuff from my collection a month ago. I know i could just return the set, even w/o a reciept, at walmart and put the money on the side to put towards the desert hideaway set a do want but the problem is that i don't want to start explaining why i returned it.

Problem is i'm drawing a blank on what to do w/ the thing b/c at a later date they got the spare cave set i asked them about and that set already will provide nearly all the parts i need for a minecraft project whenever I start building again. The only parts for that i'd have to pull from my collection are the 1x2 smokey bricks, extra torches, couple hinges(or a door piece), and i'm going to need some tiles and a few plates for the roof.

The only parts from TFN that i can think of that i can of a use for right away are the torches to use in the mine, the figures(creeper and steve) to use in the mine since my only steve and zombie are duking it out on my first cave set, and maybe walking off w/ some of the larger brown bricks for the mine i recreated last month since i ran out of 2x4/2x6's to recreate the big 2x10 brown brick "logs".

If i actually had a project In mind, besides the one i previously mentioned, that i could use it for, this thing could probably be used up in a matter of hours. Problem is that i'm currently taking a break from legos for the most part so i could focus on a few videos games(tetris, sims bustin out GBA, and might start luigis mansion again) so i haven't built in about 2 weeks now.

[Phoxtane]

Break it down into your collection for parts. That's the eventual fate of all sets in my collection once I get tired of admiring them and decide they'd be more useful that way.

[Legocity2713]

Break it down into your collection for parts. That's the eventual fate of all sets in my collection once I get tired of admiring them and decide they'd be more useful that way.

Usually thats what happens with me too. MOCing is inevitable. I think I can count on my fingers how many sets I have kept together and still have like that.

[Tariq j]

I agree, parts is the best way to go. I've done it with alot of sets and the set your referring to to (The First Night) has an excellent selection of parts which can be used across many themes.

Edited May 25, 2015 by Tariq j

[SweetiePie88]

I was originally thinking about going w/ the part out and store method but then id have to start hunting through several containers to find everything. Whatever i choose to do w/ the set, i was going to try and wait to crack the seal's when i know what to do w/ it.

[Peppermint_M]

First: This is a forum not a message board,so full words please. It is in the guidelines.

Second: So much of what I buy is just for parts that maybe 90% of my purchases last year were immediately parted out for MOCs. I file the instructions and the sticker sheet,then I part the lot.