Time to put away some Lego sets and make some space 

[@MayoHosko]

With so many Star Wars sets it helps to focus on certain types of Star Wars sets. They take up a lot of *SPACE*

[@sg-brick]

It is already november 18 over here... After this one I really need to go to bed 😅 Grtz, SG from Belgium 🇧🇪

[@BricksOnAnIsland]

😳 a Jedi Oswald? Padavan or Master? Putting away sets is always hard.... I used to re-store them in the original boxes, but more than one set in one box. Like: the sets from the 1995 adventure theme, the one with the yellew vehecles, all fitted into the biggest box. But it hurts to store things away.

[@joe-bowling]

I store multiple sets in a single box. I used to keep all the boxes and it was a mess, so earlier this year I went through everything and started getting rid of small boxes and combining sets in the large boxes, and I keep a spreadsheet that lists what sets are in each box.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

Yeah putting sets in storage is always a sad day

[@jamesrolfe1651]

I disassemble them, clean the parts, catalogue and sort the parts, find the manual, and put the complete set into a storage bin. The bins I use tend to hold 2-3 smaller sets depending on size. 1 modular will fit inside them. If I am doing a whole series, I use a bigger bin and store as many as I can in one bin. For example, I just did all my son’s Minecraft sets and put 25 in each of 2 bins.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

Wow, sounds like you got a whole system. Maybe one day I can become that organized.

[@TheOtherGuys2]

Yeah, that's how I tend to take things apart when they're going into storage. Anything that I don't want getting bent, like thin laser cannons, I'll take it off, and anything that's a weak connection that would fall off on its own, or that would make the thing fit in a smaller space. I actually just went through a couple of my bags after my cat tore the bags open, and I repackaged them in one of those big brick buckets. All kinds of classics in there, the 2000 A-Wing, some podracers, an old snowspeeder.. I suppose it would take up less space to dismantle them completely, but if you're keeping them separate anyway, why bother? Lately I've had to do this with more of my city sets than Star Wars. No one wants to buy those ones, so I can't sell 'em, and my city just isn't big enough, and certainly doesn't have the roads, for that many tow trucks and whatnot. I probably ought to put some more of the Star Wars ones away, at least the ones I don't really do anything with. (That is to say, about seventeen thousand speeder bikes and advent calendar minis. And maybe a few others. Side note: There's a 3x3 angle plate on the bottom of that Mandalorian fighter's right wing that's on backwards.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

Yeah I certainly can understand your point on the city size. It’s why I haven’t bought the most recent modular yet, just no where to put it. The struggle is real.

[@joe-bowling]

I take sets apart in reverse order of the instructions and number the bags just like the instructions. For older sets, I will mark the bag for which pages of the instructions it goes to. I used to take sets completely apart as a matter of pride, but I've started storing some sections already assembled, like the pool table in the Ghostbusters firehouse, or sections of wall and flood. I would never get that set rebuilt every year if I didn't do that.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

You take apart your ghostbusters firehouse every year? With all that dark red I’m not brave enough.

[@chefeddie6164]

So, you realize you now have to build a Jedi Oswald figure. That would be the most Oswaldified thing ever.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

I guess we never know

[@nigelhunt228]

I bag my sets in the exact same way and have the same space issues😁

[@Mardigrasman23]

I try to take apart all the pieces when I bag them up

[@darthgbc363]

I try to fit a set into a 1 gallon bag, a 2 gallon bag works too. I will chunk apart to fit it.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

That is a great idea. I may try that size.

[@mgmg3000.]

Belated happy life day to you and yours😄 I stopped buying "play" sets the last couple of years because of all the great sets aimed at adults, too. I've been strategically giving my older (2016-2021) sets away to kids who I know will enjoy them. The sets I give away, I put back into numbered bags, but I also have sets stored just like yours, waiting to find the right kid for them. It surprises me how good it feels to get rid of those sets, but I'm not a collector of any one theme, though, so it may be easier for me. I know those kids will never appreciate the prints in those sets as much as me😅

[@jasonsbricksin5]

Letting go so someone else can experience the joy can be very rewarding.

[@totallyaddicted2bricks989]

I sold 90% of my Star Wars playsets (just keeping UCS sets, helmets & Brickheadz) and it was the best thing I ever did. Even selling as used, I either made money or broke even on most sets. There are too many and they are all over priced.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

Yeah I think you are right about the feeling of freedom it can give you by letting go, sometimes it’s just a hard step to take unfortunately, but I think I’m getting there.

[@SKYeung-ts3vk]

That’s my goal for this year, I did successfully buying less lego this year, but I ended up picking up quite a few funwhole set instead, lol

[@jasonsbricksin5]

Congratulation, It is always a struggle.

[@ABrickDreamer]

I know that feeling Probably now I have more sets stored away than the ones on display

[@jasonsbricksin5]

It is just a problem that continues to grow.

[@glennbrown2704]

I am running into similar issue to what you have. I got out of my dark ages 10 years ago and have picked up many of the star wars sets over the past 10 years. I have run out of space and need to clean up my collection. I am going to pack some sets into large zip lock bags and keep them in larger pieces. I'm in the stage of, do I pack them away or sell them off. I have a feeling if I just store them away they will stay in a storage tub in my crawl space. If I sell them off, I can reuse the funds to buy future sets.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

Yes, I’ve had the same thoughts on selling them. It’s just a matter of figuring out which sets I won’t have regret of letting go down the road. Good luck

[@BrickTsar]

I prefer now to completely disassemble unless there are assembly pieces with stickers over them. Honestly, I really don’t know what I’m going at this point.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

If we are honest, I think a lot of us don’t know what we are doing at this point🤣

[@tynovel]

I get you. There are sets that I was excited to get as well, but after getting and building it, they seem to lose their appeal. I don’t know why but I guess the set didn’t meet some requirement I was expecting of it. Or maybe due to the lack of space.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

I find my space issue over this past year has really lowered my excitement over new sets that have come out. Yes it’s exciting to buy a new set but it’s not exciting to put away a sealed box for who knows how long. Oh well, these are the dilemmas of an afol.

[@tynovel]

@ have you explored Alex’s idea of a shed/barn/garage behind your house for Lego?

[@DJ-ih8tzslegostickers]

I guess im the opposite of most lego star wars fans. While the UCS sets are really cool and display well, i prefer the playset vehicles better. They're alot cheaper, fun to build in one sitting and much more swooshable. 😂 But man its hard to walk by the sail barge, at-at, and falcon ucs displays at the lego store.

[@jasonsbricksin5]

We all have to decide how we want to collect. That’s one of the beautiful things about the hobby in my opinion is that there is no wrong way.

[@onecleverpig]

Ahh yes, the outtake from RotJ where vader and palpatine sat around for 20 minutes waiting for Luke to backflip up to the main platform because his play feature was crap

[@MimiDonDoLEGO]

We reverse build our sets and place them in ziplocs. For larger sets, I may combine several bags into one ziploc. My ultimate goal is to build something like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYeZg4iXasiYibc to store them

[@jasonsbricksin5]

That would be a great solution. My issue that the only place I could fit a rack like that is in my garage and I worry about leaving my Lego out there in the hot summer months.