Sorting and storage of minifigs

[jditlev]

My minifig sorting is a mess. It's all stored in one big box (30 x 40 x 10 cm) and parts like plumes, epaulettes, hands etc are suborganized in small plastic bags. It's far from ideal. 

Any suggestion on how to organize that better? I don't have much extra room for shelves and boxes and I don't expect my collection to increase that much. So the solution must not take up much place. Ideally it fits into a shelf in IKEA Kallax shelving unit 🙂

If you have examples on how you store and sort minifigs, I'd ver much like to see that. 

[Karalora]

I sort my minifig parts into cheap bead storage boxes--I have a couple boxes for hair, one for heads, two for torsos, etc. I use the compartments to further break them down in ways that make sense to me. Built minifigs are sorted using tiered latch boxes with handles and are divided by setting theme (City, Pirates, Castle, etc.) I'm looking at my Kallax bookshelf right now and if I were using them for LEGO storage, the boxes would fit, though not all in one compartment.

I'm afraid I can't give more specific advice than that because I don't know what sort of storage boxes are commonly available in Denmark. Do you have a big craft store chain?

[jditlev]

That's not a bad idea at all with the bead storage boxes. 👍 

Will check out what's available. We have som craft stores around, so maybe worth a visit soon

[MAB]

You could also get a baseplate or build a base out of plates and use that to store minifigures, or torsos and legs.

Edited 9 hours ago by MAB