Numbered bags in sets- yay or nay?

[Doc Brown]

Like some of you, I don't use any of the bags : I open all of them and sort everything on trays and I keep the box with 24 holes from the Lego Advent Calendar to sort small pieces.

Even the total number of pieces (i.e. the DeathStar or the Unimog).

But sometime it's a little bit difficult with black and dark grey pieces that aren't so different on the manual.

[gotoAndLego]

Anything over 1000 pieces and I wish it were numbered. I really wished UCS IMperial Shuttle were numbered because I almost didn't have space to build it.

[legotrainfan]

Yay or nay? I'd say a clear YAY. I'd go bonkers if I had to build the modulars without that wonderful system of making the building process faster and easier. However, I take the view that they are not needed with smaller sets, but it highly depends on what you consider to be a small set. It's quite a subjective matter.

[Kai NRG]

well, I'm one of them who enjoys looking for pieces... Anyway, to me searching for parts is part of the whole building process. I don't care about numbered bags and how it may reduce time, I'm not on a time trail or anything...

But I do understand why TLG has numbered bags; it's like Ikea; making it easy for big and complex builds. Especially ones that contain multipable hard to keep apart steps.

Personally, I enjoy finding the parts - as long as it doesn't take me that long. And it seems to me that the bags are fairly random - what I do is normally pour them out in the same spot but not on top of each other. Of course, I have a tendency to get several small sets rather than one bigger one - so I don't usually have trouble finding pieces!

[Napoleon53]

MMV was kind of fun to sort yesterday, and I soaked up all the tiny rare piece goodness, but if I had dumped it out on the floor and said, "Okee-dokee, I'ma start bilding naow," I would have gone nuts. Even after I neatly sorted them, I still had one or two moments of "They didn't give me that piece!" something that only happened to me in set 7051, but has haunted me ever since.

[Pingles]

I appreciate the numbered bags but I have to admit that when the bags are NOT numbered it is a peculiar form of delicious torture.

I complain and whine about it the whole time I am searching for a small part but at the same time I am having the time of my life.

Lego masochist, I guess.

[Lego Otaku]

I appreciate the numbered bags but I have to admit that when the bags are NOT numbered it is a peculiar form of delicious torture.

I complain and whine about it the whole time I am searching for a small part but at the same time I am having the time of my life.

Lego masochist, I guess.

Ultimate torture: set 10179 Millennium Falcon from start to finish with no pre-sorting allowed. They didn't come numbered, all 5200 pieces were dumped in one box. I don't know of Taj Mahal are numbered or not but over 6,000 of small and nearly all same color it'd be a torture as well!