Asking for a friend.
Yes! I just did this with 25000 pieces I got on FB market place.
Identifying what you can build: You want: rebrickable.com
- Add any sets you have.
- Add any parts you have.
Then you can search for what you can build - filtering by exact colours/close matches/any.
You can also filter only official sets, alternative builds for official sets and MOC (make own creation - builds other people have come up with - both paid and free)
Identifying Parts: Finally as someone who took weeks adding all my parts and only discovered this app in the last few days…
This website you can take a photo of any one piece and it will give you the part number so you don’t have to hunt for it on the rebrickable parts list. It is astonishingly accurate!
Other tips: Sort your parts first. I went through 2 key stages…
- Reduce to broad categories: brick, plate, bracket, minifigure etc.
- remove every part of one type at a time regardless of color and then add them etc.
With rebrickable you can just select 1x2 brick and add 10 black and then just quickly change number and color to 8 green etc. So colour’s are not worth sorting til the very end!!
Plus identifying all the green 1x2s in a pile of 1x2s is a LOT easier than identifying all the 1x2 greens in a huge pile of green stuff.
I’ll stop now as it’s becoming a wall of text but any questions feel free to ask!
Oooooo boy. Time to go to my parents and get some shit built.
Do it! I cannot stress how much fun it is to discover that your handful of sets can also be built into a dozen other cool things. Especially if you struggle to come up with amazing ideas yourself, the more sets you find you can build, the more you’ll learn.
On that note - if you haven’t played with Lego since you were a kid like I did … you are about to be blown away by how cool some of the build techniques are and what they can accomplish.
This one might help: https://brickit.app/
Build new creations from your old bricks
Just scatter your bricks and take a photo. Brickit will show you hundreds of ideas for what to build with them, along with the exact location of each piece you’ll need.
I haven’t tried it myself, you could give it a try and post what you make?
Rebrickable lets you select the sets you have and tells you what else you can make out of the pieces. Can’t recall if you can add individual pieces.
I don’t have an answer, just wanted to thank you for the pic! Those old-school pneumatics* (thank you!) gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling!
I had underestimated how much I had in that box in the basement. I broke it out last night for my 3 year old. It was a bad idea to do that just before bed time ;)
It’s never a bad time to Lego!:)) I always get spaceship ideas at 2 AM!:))
Sounds like a wonderful time, wish you and your wee’un happy bricking!
hydraulics
pneumatics :)
Oh, crap, you’re right! Sorry and thank you!
Have you tried using the Lego app ? I don’t know if it will tell you sets but I think it has a feature to suggest builds based on what bricks you have
I already identified a couple sets I had on brickset.com. The lego builder app doesn’t have the instructions for 2 out of the 3, they are too old it seems.
