How did you store your Lego?

Irish Guitarist

When I was a child I had loads of Lego but was never allowed to keep the original boxes as they took up too much room. All my Lego ended up in one big basket making it incredibly difficult to make anything from the instruction booklets that required special pieces. Actually I think the instructions ended up getting thrown out too. It got to the point where getting a new box of Lego wasn't any fun because it was just a pile of blocks to dump on top of the other blocks.

Were you allowed to keep your Lego in its original boxes or did yours end up getting thrown together as well?

shedweller

I found the original boxes a pain actually and was glad to get rid of them. Actually i had a technic lego set 8848 that had a usable box with a lid. That was then the holder of all my lego.
I pretty much never remade a set again either and liked making new stuff. This was in the 80's before fancy movie themed sets so there was less of a desire to keep a set if you get me.

You make a good point about not being able to find a part in the jumble of random bits. I recently attempted to remedy this for my kids and build a workbench and storage boxes. Worked well until i stopped devoting two hours a day re-sorting the bits the kids couldnt be arsed putting back in the right place. It now looks like a lad tipped all the lego out of a trailer onto the bench!
Ah well, i did try!

eviltimeban

In old biscuit tins, the big square ones.

da_hambo

Biscuit tin! Didn't have much so

shedweller

da_hambo wrote: »

Biscuit tin! Didn't have much so

The big USA tin did the job for us. Albeit a bit noisy and me mum used to go bonkers!

eviltimeban

shedweller wrote: »

The big USA tin did the job for us. Albeit a bit noisy and me mum used to go bonkers!

That's what I mean. The big ones. We had about three or four of them. As well as another old plastic box of older lego. Never ever kept them in sets.

Professey Chin

Couldnt build the feckin house though >_<

C.K Dexter Haven

I had a number of sets kept in their original boxes but these were mostly the technics ones. After that, just a big plastic box to hold all the other bricks etc.

I had one of these- brilliant when the whole thing was assembled, with full steering and a primitive wired battery and motor :P

It was fairly delicate though; wouldn't last a long play before it needed to go in for a service:D

steamengine

In the Hoover :-)

shedweller

steamengine wrote: »

In the Hoover :-)

Yeah, i've heard more than a few rattle up the tube. There's only so many i can pick up in a day!

whisky_galore

In a big plastic bag.

B*stards of things to stand on in bare/stocking feet though.

r3nu4l

shedweller wrote: »

The big USA tin did the job for us. Albeit a bit noisy and me mum used to go bonkers!

We had a USA tin and an Afternoon Tea tin We also had a special Christmas themed box that originally contained 20 packets of Monster Munch...bought in Dunned Stores if I recall correctly Mostly made up of the 2x4 type of bricks and a few police and fire engine sets.

sconhome

The cool thing about keeping your lego is getting to play with it all over again with your kids

littleteapot

we kept all of ours in a christmas tayto box...pretty sure the box got replaced a fair few times but i don't remember it happening. I don't think we ever got a proper set either. If I remember correctly, Nana used to just buy loads of it in second hand shops and give it to us.

uch

whiskeyman

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

It got to the point where getting a new box of Lego wasn't any fun because it was just a pile of blocks to dump on top of the other blocks.

That's all I had to work with, and it was the best ever!!
It's far better to use your creativity and make something yourself.

I only ever got one or two 'brand new' pieces, like a police van or boat, but I was lucky enough to 'inherit' my brothers lego, which was all jumbled in a big plastic box. We also got lots and lots of randoms pieces in 'Sales of Work' in the local schools over the years.
I built everything from trains, soccer stadiums, castles, airports, houses all without any instruction manual. That was the magic of lego!
I hope to pass it all on to my kids in later years. So many hours just sat there kept me so quiet. No wonder my parents loved it too!

Professey Chin

Lego was definitely better before so much licensing came into it. The original lego pirate, space city stuff was amazing.
SPCE SHUTTLE!!

L1011

That actually is a licenced set, though (NASA)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I built a box out of the Lego and put the one piece left over into it.

walshyp

How many pieces of lego could you shove up your bum when you were a kid?

whiskeyman

walshyp wrote: »

How many pieces of lego could you shove up your bum when you were a kid?

I bet you were always sh*tting bricks as a kid so...

uch

Lego also always tasted salty for some strange reason

Mars Bar

In this



Except ours was 2 base and not 3 base. Still have it too!

Rotunda Shill

We stored ours in a battered up Jacobs biscuit tin.