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Lego fans, how do you deal with large sets and the space they take in your home?
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Blaze piefed.zip Blaze@piefed.zip
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Tolookah discuss.tchncs.de Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Cry a bit, get depressed that I don't have space to show off Lego, buy more Lego as therapy, repeat.

In reality, I've been putting up shelves as fast as I can, but it's not fast enough.

Shelves

Some shelves are more packed than others

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digger lemmy.ca digger@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-02
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I know that this may be an unpopular opinion, but when I'm done, I take them apart and put them back in the box to do later, like a jigsaw puzzle.

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Blaze piefed.zip Blaze@piefed.zip
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I know that this may be an unpopular opinion, but when I'm done, I take them apart and put them back in the box to do later, like a jigsaw puzzle.

Seems like the most realistic way to manage them to be honest

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WxFisch lemmy.world Wxfisch@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
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My wife has a rule that I can’t get a new set until I have a place to put it. In reality this turns into not building a set I already bought until I squish together more sets on a shelf somewhere so my displays look crowded and unorganized.

I did start taking my smaller Star wars ships to my office at work to put there and that cleared out a good bit of space, but not really enough for another UCS build.

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adhocfungus midwest.social adhocfungus@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-08-03
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Shelves that are already at maximum capacity. Anytime we get a new set we disassemble a Harry Potter set, but soon that won't be an option and I guess I'll need to find more shelves.

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RamenJunkie midwest.social RamenJunkie@midwest.social
Joined: 2025-01-24
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I have a large basement space and no one else goes down there so I have a city.

This image is severely outdated, the table is now full, but you can get the idea.

LEGO City

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Blaze piefed.zip Blaze@piefed.zip
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I have a large basement space and no one else goes down there so I have a city. This image is severely outdated, the table is now full, but you can get the idea.

Reminds of the Lego movie!

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infinitevalence discuss.online infinitevalence@discuss.online
Joined: 2023-06-14
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I take them apart and build new creations. Some of the smaller sets I might keep together like the Speed series, but for the most part the fun for me is building and creation, not collecting.

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