What to do with (expensive!) assembled Lego sets?

[Anonymous]

My son is drowning in Lego sets from generous family members. These are the expensive $100+ sets that align with a popular sci-fi movie that seems to be churning out sequels each year and thus, new Lego-branded schwag.

Once assembled, he plays with them for a spell then moves on. (It actually drives me wild to think about how much money is just sitting in his room gathering dust but that's a post for another time.)

My question is, what do you do with these assembled sets once they've run their course?

I've saved the boxes and instructions but taking them all apart is daunting so I doubt I'll do that. Plus, can you really re-assemble these incredibly large sets if they are no longer broken down into smaller numbered packages? Seems like that would take FOREVER.

Or do you ditch the box and leave them assembled and somehow try to store them.

Or do you just sell them--cheap--to someone else who can deal with all this Lego insanity?! Though I do have a 4-month old that stands to inherit them.

Help! Any tips are appreciated.

[Anonymous]

You can sell them prebuilt. Especially with the box and instructions.

I’d buy the original blue Volkswagens bug if you have it (not the new one with a surfboard).

[Anonymous]

When my 11 year old grew out of legos I put broke them down somewhat and stored them in plastic bins in the attic. I'll pull them out for the grandkids. Before he outgrew them I just tried to coral the chaos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can sell them prebuilt. Especially with the box and instructions.

I’d buy the original blue Volkswagens bug if you have it (not the new one with a surfboard).

I don't but it sounds like a cool set. And thanks for the suggestion. Just found this site:

https://theplasticbrick.com/forms/submit/sell

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my 11 year old grew out of legos I put broke them down somewhat and stored them in plastic bins in the attic. I'll pull them out for the grandkids. Before he outgrew them I just tried to coral the chaos.

This gives me an idea. I think I may just store them all in the attic until he's almost college age and he can do with them as he'd like. Perhaps by then he'll need the cash and will sell them off!

[Anonymous]

I'd think they have some value, even if they're not new in the box. If you want to sell them, your best bet is Craigslist or a local online classifieds website, so people can pick them up from you rather than you trying to ship them.

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine put shelves up around the playroom (out of reach) and put her son’s assembled legos on display. It looks pretty cool.

[Anonymous]

He will circle around and start to play with them again as his imagination and story lines develop.
Mine did the same as yours and about 6 mo later strung the sets together and made a town with various characters. I played with them, too, to get the kids going, and they just took off.

[Anonymous]

It is very easy to rebuild the big sets.

Throw the pieces in a big baggie or bin.

When he wants to put them together, sort the bag by color and piece type.

The sorting takes about 30 minutes but you do need a lot of space.

Once they are sorted by color/type it is much faster to assemble than when it first gets opened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine put shelves up around the playroom (out of reach) and put her son’s assembled legos on display. It looks pretty cool.

Did she use Kragle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is very easy to rebuild the big sets.

Throw the pieces in a big baggie or bin.

When he wants to put them together, sort the bag by color and piece type.

The sorting takes about 30 minutes but you do need a lot of space.

Once they are sorted by color/type it is much faster to assemble than when it first gets opened.

Or you could sort them into sandwich size ziplocs when you put them away and put the small ziplocs in the box or a larger bag with the instructions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is very easy to rebuild the big sets.

Throw the pieces in a big baggie or bin.

When he wants to put them together, sort the bag by color and piece type.

The sorting takes about 30 minutes but you do need a lot of space.

Once they are sorted by color/type it is much faster to assemble than when it first gets opened.

Or you could sort them into sandwich size ziplocs when you put them away and put the small ziplocs in the box or a larger bag with the instructions.

That would be a ton of bags though since there are usually 100+ types/colors of pieces in the big set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine put shelves up around the playroom (out of reach) and put her son’s assembled legos on display. It looks pretty cool.

Did she use Kragle?

Of course Ms. Business used Kragle!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is very easy to rebuild the big sets.

Throw the pieces in a big baggie or bin.

When he wants to put them together, sort the bag by color and piece type.

The sorting takes about 30 minutes but you do need a lot of space.

Once they are sorted by color/type it is much faster to assemble than when it first gets opened.

Or you could sort them into sandwich size ziplocs when you put them away and put the small ziplocs in the box or a larger bag with the instructions.

That would be a ton of bags though since there are usually 100+ types/colors of pieces in the big set.

Yes, I know. I do a lot of Lego sets. It's easier and the bags are cheap. If you dump them all in together you'll never want to sort them. You reuse the bags when you repack again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is very easy to rebuild the big sets.

Throw the pieces in a big baggie or bin.

When he wants to put them together, sort the bag by color and piece type.

The sorting takes about 30 minutes but you do need a lot of space.

Once they are sorted by color/type it is much faster to assemble than when it first gets opened.

Or you could sort them into sandwich size ziplocs when you put them away and put the small ziplocs in the box or a larger bag with the instructions.

That would be a ton of bags though since there are usually 100+ types/colors of pieces in the big set.

Yes, I know. I do a lot of Lego sets. It's easier and the bags are cheap. If you dump them all in together you'll never want to sort them. You reuse the bags when you repack again.

Meh, it is really easy to sort them and makes it so much easier to put the large sets ($100-300) back together.