mrklaw

City is clearly a system. I'm not sure when they started modulars whether they expected it to be a short run of a few cool models, or develop into something more regular. I expect they monitored things to see how it went. So there may not be a system around how they are planned, or if there is it may only have been developed recently, so early patterns of release might not apply anyway.

How do you break down prior to sorting? Just done a few sets and simply broken them down into a big bucket, with the aim to then sort into bricks/plates/specials etc, but is this an ok way to do it - is it better to sort into basic categories while you disassemble? edit: oh and for those in the UK, tesco have packs of 8 'TUBZ' - small food containers with lids that look like they might be useful for storage.

Forgive me AFOLs, for I have sinned... Today I bought my first lego in secret. I blame brickbadger. Last week I bought two little sets (propeller adventures and the lego delivery truck) from Amazon and they turned up this week. My wife rolled her eyes and pointed out I still haven't sold my technics sets that were going to 'make room' for new lego, so I shouldn't be bringing any more into the house. Fair enough really, and they weren't even must have sets for me, just a nice discount. This morning brickbadger posts that Ewok Attack is 38% off on Amazon UK. I've wanted (1) scout trooper minifigs and (2) speeder bikes for a while now, so I jumped on it. during checkout, amazon casually mentions that 'people that buy this set, also buy these' - scout trooper/rebel trooper battle pack and snow trooper battle pack. Two more in the basket :/ then my dirty deed. 'ship to alternative address'. This is the first order I'm getting shipped to my office. My MO will be to pull the contents, maybe even open the bags and sneak them into the house into the pile of unsorted lego before anyone notices. we have so much lego that its easy to think I can build those from what we have. My kids will probably notice that we've never had Ewoks before, or those special speeder bike pieces. Save me jeebus before I sin again.

I think I'd just sandwich those with cardboard to protect them, bag them and lay them flat in a cupboard somewhere.

I like the approach of using what you have to draft things, then you can properly figure out what pieces you need afterwards when you're happy with the designs. As long as it doesn't take too long to break something down enough to switch a brick over...

Tell me about it - my 7-yr-old can't decide between olivias house and Dino attack :D

I want some Hoth themed sets more focused on the battle. Currently we have little side stories like the wampa cave, and echo base. I want more core battle sets, perhaps broken up into mini sets that can come together to build a full scale battle. Eg probe droid, speeder bikes, cannons, generator. A bit like we saw with endor

TIE fighter, no doubt. It would complete your set of OT fighters, and it's probably the best official TIE there is. Not a hugely interesting build, but the finished article is beautiful

Corner based restaurant, this time with a decent interior. That should satisfy those that just started with modulars and missed cafe corner.

Hi Daisy, welcome to eurobricks. Would be good if you could post some thoughts on the friends sets you buy in the town forum. I'd love a perspective from a woman buying them for a girl - often you get a male AFOL view which can be very different. My daughter is 7 (and her name is Daisy!) and wants a friends set for her Birthday in June, so all impressions are welcome.

We keep some items in separate drawers - car parts, house parts (windows,bodies etc), but aren't fussy about theme. We do keep technic separate but even with normal sorting they'd be separated anyway. At the end of the day, what do you want to be able to do? If you want to build MOCs, you want quick access to the bricks you want. Do you want to have to check 4 different locations to see if you have enough yellow 1x4 bricks, just because you're keeping them in themes? If you want to be able to rebuild sets, then you can still do that with a fully sorted system. If you have precious sets I wouldn't even sort them into themes, just keep them as a set,separate from the rest. Maybe start off by putting normal bricks into the main sort, and keep theme-specific items (accessories, minifigs) separate?

You can stay :p

Lego should make double sided printed road plates. Straight on one side, junction/corner on the other. That way they could sell double packs and if you choose you could have two straight pieces.

I meant do it from scratch. I'm a novice too, but I think you'd be fine. Best way to get bulk bricks would be bricklink, but then I guess maybe you could just buy the log cabin :) I'll have a quick look at prices Edit - I guess you could buy enough reddish brown bricks and roof pieces for around $10.

Very nice!

Do you want to make your own designs too? I would think a log cabin would be a great first MOC project, and as you say you have fond memories of them, you could personalise it to those memories. Why not take a look at the instructions on Lego.com, it looks quite a simple basic build - 1x brown bricks, overlapping at the corners to give the log effect.

Or just print put a picture with examples of the pieces on, and stick those on each drawer. I think I just used Peeron or similar and then pasted several pieces into one picture in photoshop.

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thanks, will give this a try

two of these - link - for the small parts, they are large enough to take everything up to 12 long axles. Only pain is you have to open each one separately, and for technics its good to have quick access to lots of different connectors. So we're switching to some of these - link - in 4 litre boxes. There is a slight gap at the top but hopefully there won't be too much cross-pollination of pieces. then we have four 4L boxes from the same really useful range to hold different larger pieces (small technic - 5 holes or less; large technic - 7 holes and up; power functions; misc). Once we move to the divided trays all of that will fit in a standalone tower of 7x4 litre boxes

do you have any big/heavy books like UCS instructions or technics?

for page protectors (plastic bags) in ring binders, and hanging files - do you not find your heavier manuals crumpling over time? eg for page protectors in a ring binder, they'd pull down on the top ring, and for hanging files they'd push the file 'open' and collapse onto themselves?

Can people post examples of how they dress their streets? I'm looking for inspiration for a beginner for things like traffic lights, and general street furniture. Ideally to go alongside a modular street but unlimately I'm looking for ideas so scale isn't as important as imagination. Thanks :)

I think this is down to the fact that modern sets have a lot more detail, which means smaller pieces etc. that can mean its difficult to make something new unless you have a large number of sets to build up enough bricks to give you that flexibility. In 'the old days' most things were pretty blocky and made from basic bricks. That lack of finesse also meant that you could fairly easily reuse the bricks from a set to make almost anything else, as the common, core parts list was smaller

They almost couldnt be more different. One is a playset with a ton of minifigs, that happens to be roughly the shape of the death star but doesn't pretend to be accurate. The other is a beautiful recreation of the imperial shuttle. If you like both, the DS will disappear first, so if you plan on eventually getting both, get that one. If you only plan to choose one, I'd go for the shuttle, but that's just because I did :) plus I figure it'd be easier to knock up a playset with some set pieces in it as a MOC easier than it would be to MOC a UCS shuttle.