Want to get into MOCs but.....

[Toye]

Hi there,

I'm a New Zealander and still relatively new to these forums, signed up several months ago.

I've played with lego since I was a kid, probably about 3 or 4 years old. Played with it till about 12 or so and then I moved on to other things.

Several months ago, now at 21 years, I received a flier advertising lego at steep discounts. Thought, what the heck - for nostalgia's sake, and went and bought several sets including Brickbeard's bounty for about $30 NZ ($20ish US)

Well I haven't stopped buying and have now dropped probably about $500 NZ on new lego, mostly on city sets.

The problem I have is that I want to get into building MOCs as I find the normal lego city sets and such too simple and basic to keep me interested for a long time. The only thing stopping me from making nice MOCs is that I have no idea how to keep track of what piece belongs to what set. I want to know this because I want to be able to rebuild these sets sometime in the future (hopefully with my kids :)) and the fact that bulk legos resale value drops a whole lot.

So I'm wondering, is there any way to keep track of this?

cheers

tldr:

Want to make MOCs but want to keep track of what pieces belong to each set - if possible, how?

[Siegfried]

Bricklink provides quite up-to-date inventories of most sets (for example) so providing you don't care about the exact pieces it's not hard to rebuild sets.

[streifen]

another way is to keep your instruction booklets (assuming you had intentions to "misplace" them).

either way, if u want to build back the original, u will still need to break up your MOCs and identify piece by piece.

[dr_spock]

Peeron is also another source for sets parts inventory

http://www.peeron.com/inv

Edit: fixed spelling error.

Edited March 5, 2011 by dr_spock

[Fuzzylegobricks]

In The Back of most instruction booklets there is a parts list and pictures of them. You could scan the page onto your computer or print them etc. so you will have a copy of the pieces. Maybe even laminate the page!

*Fuzzy*

[meyerc13]

I'll second the recommendation of bricklink. Last year my (at the time) 2 year old daughter destroyed my son's LEGO City. It was through inventory lists from Bricklink and the manuals that I was able to piece it all back together. Sometimes I would use the inventory and dig for parts until I had parts for a set assembled, checking off the parts on the inventory list as I went along. Other times I would pull certain colors that I knew went together (i.e. Orange was probably a tow truck or garbage truck... certain colors were clearly Atlantis or Space Police).

[bricked one]

just buys doubles, one for parts, the other to keep together

[SpacySmoke]

I say just jump in and start building! There's always Bricklink or Peeron to help you recreate your official sets.

I was like you not too long ago and was very reluctant to dismantle my sets just for some parts I needed. But because of those resources, I was able to let go of that....plus, I did buy some doubles!

[CptMugwash]

Well, what I do for MOCs is order any parts I need off Bricklink, I go through looking to see what parts I need and ones that look cool and interesting, I think it's a bit cheaper then buying doubles just for parts.

A few years ago I did fish around on peeron and found instructions for my old sets, haven't gotten around to rebuilding them yet but I will, eventually