What do you do with your sets/MOC once you've built them?

[Capt. Redblade]

I like to keep sets on display as long as possible, and only take them apart if I'm running out of shelf space (which is more common than you think ) or if I'm sick of looking at it day in, day out. (A much rarer occurance.)

[wolfwing]

I like to keep sets on display as long as possible, and only take them apart if I'm running out of shelf space (which is more common than you think ) or if I'm sick of looking at it day in, day out. (A much rarer occurance.)

heh yeah, I have two shelves for them now, but as I figure out where I'm storing lego...that will go down :> I really really want a large mansion or something with tons of store room.

[Redhead1982]

The sets I buy, I always build first, then have them out for a while, and then take apart and sort. If I get a set for bricks only, it goes straight to the sorting bucket. As for MOCs, they're out on the shelf for ages. Every now and then, I do take them apart. My modular buildings are usually at the local LUG show for display, once or twice, so I have them built for at least a year. The bigger the MOC, the harder to take it apart.

[Multiverse]

I usually don't wait long - when I buy a set, I do it for the parts, so the question is really whether I even want to build it first. With Modulars, Winter Village and landmark sets, it's a different thing, though. I don't plan on taking them apart at all.

[Fugazi]

I merged this topic with a very similar one created not that long ago.

[SweetiePie88]

depends. Sets can go anywhere from immediately being used to being assembled and displayed or stored for months or even the rare case of years. I have a lego tractor, for example, that is special to me(set I got from my very first lego store B&M store about 3 years ago) so it's still assemble. But the city forest police station I got maybe a month ago has mostly been dissembled for parts for projects or parts to be sorted and stored. Only unassembled items left are the robbers' atv and the helicopter.

With mocs, it also really depends. Sometimes they are immediately taking apart if it doesn't come out right, but they normally don't last long with the rare exception. Last year I got the blue roadster and turned it into this kind of almost golf cart looking thing during the fall of last year and it's still together now. Then today I began work on a tow truck made out of a lego garbage truck and i'm not in a rush to take it apart

[LEGO Family]

First of all. When i build MOCs normally they get dissasembled almost immediately after ive taken the pictures i need for posting. On rare occations i have them hanging around.

I have one still hanging that i made 2 years ago. Its "the little blue book" from Doctor Who, im not sure if ive posted it in here.

Also i have my Classic Space still around, cause i builded it with my stepson, and we still need to make the 5th "classic fied" episode together. ( This isnt part of the build, so i could have dissasambled it.)

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=87415&hl=

And right now while im building my Chronicle of Dragon Dent project, i now and then really want to tare it apart for parts. But so far i havent really needed any bricks from it. Also its 6 baseplates, so its taking up a lot of space. Considiring my Castle project is 16 baseplates so far, my whole apartment by now has LEGO all over the place.

I love it. My girlfriend really doesnt agree that LEGO has to be placed in cabins in the kitchen though. :P

I mostly buy sets for pieces, but i have a few around for display. A few LOTR sets, and when i get to build my tower of orthanc that will definately be on display for a while since i builded an exclusive stand for it alone. ( Im educated master cabinet maker).

Edited October 16, 2013 by LEGO Family

[rodiziorobs]

Anything I build-official sets or MOCs-only lasts until a time when I know I'll have time to dissemble it all at once-I hate having to spend two sessions dismantling and sorting.

For example, I have half of a Sopwith Camel right now that I am kicking myself over for not just staying up an extra half-hour and taking completely apart.

With MOCs, they also have to stay together long enough for me to get pictures. Before my dark ages, that never happened (because I didn't have a camera) but now that's more important.

I have always, even since I was a child, considered that a set was only as good as its parts, because no matter how good a model was, I always wanted to see what I could make on my own.

Edited October 17, 2013 by rodiziorobs

[eurotrash]

I think my attitudes to MOCs and Sets has changed a lot since my emergence from the Dark Ages (December/2011). I originally kept Sets complete and untouched and MOCs were created and left alone.

Nowadays Sets get built quickly, but then get deconstructed shortly thereafter as I evaluate the different building techniques that were used or hijack the pieces for a specific build (VW Camper competition, etc.). Modular MOCs & Modular Sets stick around for a lot longer, but like urban Detroit get rapidly stripped of any interior for reuse elsewhere.

I've only totally taken apart one Modular, but my city is currently sprawling out of control with thirteen different 32-wides....

[ThatLegoBrick]

does anyone else find it rather boring with the instructions? i pull them apart almost straight after building, i mainly just use the parts

[Peppermint_M]

Well, some of my sets are still stored even now. The Agents command truck was so cool that it is still all built, though I did strip the interior for later refurbishment and the MMV is there. Then again some sets never even get built! As a rule I let them sit a month, if I really like the set then it will last until I am desperate for a part.

Some sets are those I bought on eBay, ones I wanted very badly as a child and finally got as an adult. They will remain built for as long as I can keep them.

My MOCs last as long as I want them to, I have a box full of Speed Racer scale cars (and the Speed Racer cars themselves) and a fair number of planes. I am most likely only ever going to take those apart if I am building a like-for-like MOC, so a car is changed into another car and a plane likewise.Others come apart super quickly, either I come back and think they need changing or they are structuraly unsound enough to fall down!

[Paul B Technic]

About 75% of my sets are on display, the rest are used for MOC'ing and modifying. I am planning on taking a couple of my display sets to pieces sometime soon.

My latest MOC will be staying together forever :)

Edited December 12, 2013 by Paul B

[naf]

I used to have all of my classic space, futuron, and blacktron 1 Lego on display at one point. It was pretty large and took up a couple of tables in the basement. However, it was taking up a large chunk of the kid's play area so I disassembled them all, bagged by sets, and stored them away. I consider these to be collector's items and won't mix them in with the "general population."

I always build new sets that I purchase, even if I get them just for the figures or as a parts pack. I'll have the new set displayed in my bookcase for a few weeks, then I disassemble and add the bricks to my sorted bins for moc'ing. I keep a few of my star wars starfighters up on display indefinitely, but I'd rather use most of my new parts to MOC with.

I have some of the large exclusive sets like Ewok Village and Orthanc which will pretty much stay permanently assembled if I can find some place to put them.

[Vee]

All my sets are on display, when a new set is launched that I won't be able to display I simply don't buy it.

Ditto.

I became addicted to Lego recently. But I have a plan. I am actually building "permanent ornaments" for my home office. I have some areas, shelves, top of cabinet, top of speakers, etc, that will hold lego sets. I don't do MOC, but I am doing some improvements to some sets, some are very simple, one so far more elaborated.

My plan is to have enough legos in my office to use all those areas and so please my eyes and avoid me to use those areas with random stuff that end up messing up my office like I have always done for years.

Once I run out of space in my office, I will stop buying Legos _for me_. I still have my daughters that like Lego like normal kids do and have their own sets (a few I took for me with their "authorization" :-)) and what they do with them is not of my concern. I do give them advice... I will keep buying sets for them every now and then as we have always done.

As for getting bored of what I will have in my office, chances are slim. I am that kind of guy that gets "emotional" with my things and so it is unusual for me to get bored of my own things, specially when they cost me a ton of money (legos are expensive!).