When you make a set, is that it, do you leave it made, or do you then take it apart, store it unmade somewhere but still whole, or do the bits go into a big box to be reused for other projects that will in turn get broken up after a while and reused? Or is it a combination with some special models you keep and others that are more temporary in nature?

On a personal level I try to make a good model, (Or at least I did many years ago.) and then never took it apart once I was satisfied. I may think of a tweak here or there as time went on, but generally once it was made it was made. I have not made much since getting back into LEGO but am currently in the process of making a larg'ish house. I expect once it is done it will stay made and that will be that.

So what does everyone else do?

Sets are parted out, all of them. I have a plastic bin where I dump sets after I'm done building, reviewing, and playing them, and I take them apart slowly for parts for MOCs.

MOCs, scenes are usually taken apart, recent vehicles are kept together.

It depends. I keep my modular buildings together and on display. I don't foresee taking them apart anytime soon. When I have a creator set with multiple build instructions I keep it in its own bin until I'm done building all the varieties. Everything else usually gets about a month or two of display time and then ends up sorted into my general collection so I can build whatever I want with it.

I generally keep all set models together. I just can't part them out. For that my MOCs are limited to vehicles, small structures, or mods to existing sets. I am using BL to rebuild my loose brick collection for buildings.

I have most of mine built and displayed. Most of the city sets are, any castles I have and a few other sets I'm really impressed with. Probably about 50% are built.

I usually don't build sets. I part them out straight from the box with very few exceptions.

I generally do keep my creations together for a long time -often years. I recently moved to a new place and finally have a decent-sized LEGO room to display them.

My new LEGO-room (1) by Mad physicist, on Flickr

I also have shelves in my living room and a few more models dotted around.

LEGO shelves (1) by Mad physicist, on Flickr

and I still have some stuff stored in boxes...

Cheers,

Ralph

Depends on the set. Some I've kept together for decades. Some I built and disassembled for parts.

Depends on the set. Some I've kept together for decades. Some I built and disassembled for parts.

If they get broken I don,t build them again but lately I have put them on display

Depends on the set. If its a really great one (Tower Bridge for example) I have no plans of taking it apart. Smaller ones like little City sets and stuff usually get taken apart within weeks. And some I never put together at all (Like most of the POTC sets I have so far).

Generally everything is parted out and sorted, I don't keep my MOC built, if they ever actually get finished I don't leave them for more than a few days. I would rather have the pieces for the next one! I find the beginning of a MOC more exciting than the end, I know you get that feeling of satisfaction and completeness when its finished, but I'm a junkie for the excitement and planning stage at the start. If I had more money to spend on toys I might leave them built, as I could just indefinitely replace pieces lost from my MOC palette, but I also have a slight OCD with my collection, and I really like the feeling of knowing all my pieces are sorted exactly how I want them, and ready to use.

I do have two of my first MOC I made when I first started to play with Lego again. I will always keep them built, as they have a fair bit of nostalgic value now.

I keep them put together and on display. Though I am close to running out of room, so I may have to rotate stock and pack up a set or two as I get new ones. I'm not a MOCer though.

Only the Modular Houses, Star Wars sets (not many now) and my own MOCs are displayed in their full made-up form.

The others are scavenged for parts for use later. even my Indiana Jones sets have suffered as a result.

Since I'm more a builder than a collector, I never keep my sets intact. I always find a way to modify my set purchases to further improve them according to my liking. Though I never buy sets just to make them as parts source, I always use BL for that matter.

As far as MOCs go, once I built them, they will be a permanent fixture in my display cabinet (much like Ralph's). I don't take them apart, since like what I've said in a similar thread before, I consider my MOCs as fruits of my labor (like an artist's painting, sculptor's sculpture, etc.) that should never be discarded. Though I sometimes scavenge parts from them every once in a while when I'm lacking parts on a current project, which I eventually replenish on my next stop to BL.

I like to build the main model and B model, so i build the main model first then take the model apart build the B model and then decide which i prefer, and if necessary rebuild the main model. These then stay build and on display. But as i'm just starting to plan / build MOC's i can see that very soon i will just have boxes of parts and very little on display (or display models with parts missing that have been robbed for something else)

I like to keep all my sets assembled and original, but very rarely I modify them to improve their looks or functionality. Regarding MOCs, I only keep them assembled if they are really good, otherwise I just reuse the parts.

Most of my early sets (pre 2000) are in pieces waiting to be built up. All the sets I have purchased since my "dark age" I am keeping built up.

Paul

I keep my sets made up. But I havent reached maximum capacity just yet with my Lego storage so who knows what I will do when that sad day comes.

As for MOCs I produce, I dismantle them. Its because I know I can to better using those bricks and I just need to start over. It's also because I only really have a limited amount of bricks for MOCing and I need every free brick I can get. So usually I only have one MOC project going on at a time.

I keep all of my old sets built and on display for nostalgia's sake. However, I usually dismantle many of my newer sets as well as my entire Bionicle collection to harvest Technic and other useful pieces.

Since last summer, I started to keep many of my MOCs built for good. I'll take MOCs apart if they eat up a lot of pieces in my collection, or if I'm not totally satisfied with them.

Our sets are constantly rotating but there are always several built sets on display. I'd love to have more on display but i'd need a much bigger house to do so. It's bad enough we have a closet that is floor to ceiling storage bins full of legos just begging to be built. ;)

Jeff G.

I think space maybe the problem for now. Where we are at the moment we have limited space and whilst I have put the minifigs and a couple of smaller cars in a wall mounted cabinet I have no room for larger models to go on display, which is currently bugging me as I'd like a LEGO railway but have nowhere to put it.

It's no fun being old, but it's nice to make Legos enough of a priority in life that they stay made up.

Still not old enough that I can keep a train layout up permanently...but we are getting there. :)

With medium-large sets, I keep them together for quite a long time. I sometimes take them apart, make small MOC's, then take the MOC apart then put the pieces back on the set.

With small sets, I never keep them together for a long time. Usually the only reason I buy them is for parts, so I just use it for MOC's.

With MOC's, if it's something I like, I keep it together for a long time (there's a house and a castle I've built that are still together since about Summer 2009), but if there's something I want to build, and the parts are on another MOC, I take the first a MOC apart and use the parts for the new one.

I always keep my sets together and built, and only part out little sets that are good only for minifigures.

I really am just a collector, and I don't have enough parts to build MOCS with, so I keep them intact.

I've been 'in the middle of' sorting my parts for about 3 years now, so it's a mix of zip-lock baggies of old sets I need to rebuild and check all the parts, colour bags for large bricks, 'interesting' A and 'interesting' B, etc - so pretty much a disorganised mess.

Large new sets go in a glass display cabinet, currently displaying my Hogwarts, Slave 1 and some Indy sets. They'll be parted as I need to make space in there - the Indy's are next for the chop as soon as I finish my Burrow MOC.

I've got a 7x6 grid of 2 foot square bookshelves, each one of which is a potential location for showcasing a decent sized model, but they're too crammed with books and games. About 1/3 of them have a small or medium model on.

There's a Death Star on display in another corner, but I can't see that one being broken up, not least because nothing else you could possibly ever build needs that many grey bricks.

Edited May 1, 201113 yr by Jed

It depends. If the set is good i put it on a table where my lego city (town to be more exact) is. If the set is "bad" or i don't like it i take it apart and put the pieces in only 1 big container. I do not sort my pieces because i have a small collection.

I haven't bought for more than 4 months. I hope my store got some new sets! They'd better watch out, 'cause when i come, the shelves will be empty in no time!