where do your MF's live?

[Hewman]

They all go in zip lock bags and then placed in the box of the set they come from. Extras I've bought go in a zip lock bag and then in another larger bag with other little bags full of minifigs.

[ghoulrealm]

I store mine in bioncle canisters sorted by theme and a couple filled with minifig accessories. I also store the animals in the same fashion.

[Cardinal Brick]

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[Pate-keetongu]

my minifigs that aren't in sets or mocs, are in small box. I haven't got very munch MFs.

I'm citizen!

[natelite]

my mfs stay with the sets. as for the extras...i have this weird habit. i can't stand chopping up spare mfs and storing as parts. my spare mfs are always complete. and i meticulously go through BL to make sure the spare mfs are constructed exactly as it should be in the original.

it drives me nuts when i received a fleebay auction advertized as "100% complete" only to find the heads have been switched. so now i gotta go and buy new heads from BL.

some afols love diversity in their "army", as for me, i love original mfs and painstakingly make sure they all have the same heads. :-P

sometimes my son would play with the mfs and always switch heads, body parts, accessories around. and when i clean up, i always have to put the original back together again for some reason. :-P maybe it's OCD. :-P

[Shadows]

my mfs stay with the sets. as for the extras...i have this weird habit. i can't stand chopping up spare mfs and storing as parts. my spare mfs are always complete. and i meticulously go through BL to make sure the spare mfs are constructed exactly as it should be in the original.

Now there's what I'm talking about. I do exactly the same thing, to the point that I'm building minifig cross-reference lists for rebuilding those previously mixed up figures. Right now, I'm converting the whole thing into a useful minifig reference for www.Classic-Pirates.com and will eventually do the same for all the other themes.

Only difference is that I love those crazy mixed up auctions from the bay of evil. I like to get one in, sit down with all of my cases of minifig parts (sorted by theme) and restore all those poor little souls back to their original glory. It's like an act of mercy. :-)

Now, to be fair, I will make the occasional custom out of spare parts, but if I intend to buy a figure for that purpose, I will only do it if I have an original as well, that will stay in it's proper form. Usually I'll buy two of any figure I get from Bricklink, just in case I want to do that. More often than not, they stay in exactly their original configuration. :-/

...and when i clean up, i always have to put the original back together again for some reason. :-P maybe it's OCD. :-P

Yes, yes it is. Embrace it. Just because it's obsessive, and compulsive, and some moron calls it a disorder, doesn't meant it's wrong. *wacko*

OCD ON! *y*

[SuvieD]

Just wondering, where and what do you do with your MF's? eg do you put them in a bag/tin/box or do you put them on display

All of the above. Most are in the old red LEGO plastic cases. Others are in bags for selling and yet others are in buckets or PaB cups just to keep them sorted.

[natelite]

Yes, yes it is. Embrace it. Just because it's obsessive, and compulsive, and some moron calls it a disorder, doesn't meant it's wrong. *wacko*

OCD ON! *y*

i agree. these days, anyone who is less than perpetually happy is often classified with an illness. even being unhappy is a disease to be cured. :-| :-D

[The Kid]

Er, everywhere and anywhere, really. Wherever you go, there's sure to be a minifig grinning up at you. Scary thought, actually.

TK

[hollisbrick]

Er, everywhere and anywhere, really. Wherever you go, there's sure to be a minifig grinning up at you. Scary thought, actually.

TK

lol they are watching you while you sleep 8-

[Vimes]

Most are stored in resealable plastic bags with the appropriate sets.

Some are displayed in formation (e.g. stormtroopers with officers) or within the appropriate sets in my showcase.

I also have a sorted collection of spare minifig parts within plastig bags.

[Erdbeereis]

I was wondering..

Where do you normally keep the minifigs that come in your sets. Do you store them together with the set or do you keep all in one big bucket or something like that.

I personally keep for example all of my pirate figs in one plastic bag, all of my castle figs in another and so on. And then I put all of the bags in a large clear container.

What are your methods?

[filefolders]

I have town and miscellaneous figures in a big box and everything else is stored with it's respective sets and MOCs.

[Faramir]

Sets that I still have built are kept with their figs, but I also have a Graveyard Drawer of sorts in which all of my older minifgs reside. (Along with loose MF parts and such.)

Faramir

[hollisbrick]

Hmm I think there was already a topic like this...yea i remember I made it! here's the topic I made http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?...l=your+minifigs

[Shadows]

Hmm I think there was already a topic like this...yea i remember I made it! here's the topic I made http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?...l=your+minifigs

And a fine topic it was, so fine that I have merged the two together. Good call.

[Erdbeereis]

Ah good it looks like a mod merged the threads.

Sorry guys! I should have done a search.

EDIT: Thanks imperialshadows!

Edited May 11, 2008 by Erdbeereis1

[hollisbrick]

And a fine topic it was, so fine that I have merged the two together. Good call.

Yes it was quite a good topic wasnt it Thanks IS

[Oky]

I take all minifigs apart that are not an essential part of a set that I have still built and on display! :skull: I divide them into heads, torsos, legs, and accesories. The torsos and legs go in that big, yellow carton sorting box with different minifigs printed on the sides that was available on S@H last year, while the heads and accessories go into cheap, small, see-through plastic sorting cases. The torsos and legs are sorted by color; the heads by theme and/or kind (classic smiley, city, castle, pirates, aqua, ninjas, license, non-yellow, aliens/creatures); the wigs by kind & gender; and the weapons, tools, and other props by size and theme/era.

So, you see I am a very organized person! This might be minifig cruelty, but in the end I now exactly where to get which part of a minifig!

[Sir Norman Ray]

At the moment, everywhere.

My South Essex army is kept under my computer desk. When I need to feel better, I look at them. All those smart red uniforms.

I have a lot of spare Pirate based stuff (Bluecoats, pirate crews, swords, cannons, hats, pistols) which are stored into a 4 drawer thing. Also, mingled with them, is some LEGO star Wars.

Over my computer desk itself are current interests. BrickArms stuff mainly (weapons and 5 US Soldiers) plus my own LEGO Persona and a band of mercenaries made from Wild West and Adventurers bits. Also Ted from The Cubes seem's to be here, and not at work

In the garage in a a drawer set around 3 foot high is all my other LEGO. Bricks, minifigs, bases, instructions, the odd Warhammer bit, the random Wallace and Gromit thingy and other stuff.

I say at the moment, because I am due to move in the Summer to my own house, which will mean it should all be in my bedroom (I currently live in the smallest room) and it means ease of access at last.

[Dragonator]

Yes it was quite a good topic wasnt it Thanks IS

It can't be a good topic until I've posted in it, so I better do so now.

I keep almost all my minifigs on display, with tier original sets. If a set is dismantled, then the minifigs roam free in other places, such as under the table or on other displays. Something I get really paranoid about is mixing minifig parts though. If I ever need to make a custom figure for something (such as the EBRP), then I will make sure I remember which figs I took parts off, so I can put them back their. I just hate seeing a figure from a certain set with the wrong face, or the wrong legs or something. This sounds weird I know, but there you have it.

[Shadows]

I just hate seeing a figure from a certain set with the wrong face, or the wrong legs or something. This sounds weird I know, but there you have it.

You don't want to scroll back to my first post in the thread, or you might begin to get a complex that you're as weird as me. Just trust me on this.

[hollisbrick]

It can't be a good topic until I've posted in it, so I better do so now.

I keep almost all my minifigs on display, with tier original sets. If a set is dismantled, then the minifigs roam free in other places, such as under the table or on other displays. Something I get really paranoid about is mixing minifig parts though. If I ever need to make a custom figure for something (such as the EBRP), then I will make sure I remember which figs I took parts off, so I can put them back their. I just hate seeing a figure from a certain set with the wrong face, or the wrong legs or something. This sounds weird I know, but there you have it.

lol yay my topic is good now anyway..

i'm definately with you on this one I start twitching when I see the wrong head with the wrong torso or something like that

[Nikola Bathory]

Stock figures (as they look in the instructions):

With their appropriate sets.

Yes, that's how I store them as well.

[Stony]

Either in my unsorted bins, in the pantry next to the coffee, on top of the TV, and pretty much everywhere else.

Edited July 5, 2008 by Stony