Lego fans, how do you deal with large sets and the space they take in your home?

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digger@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 108d (1 reply)

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.

Blaze@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 108d

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

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 108d

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

RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 9 pts · 108d (1 reply)

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This image is severely outdated, the table is now full, but you can get the idea.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

Blaze@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 108d

Reminds of the Lego movie!

Wxfisch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 108d

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.

infinitevalence@discuss.online · 7 pts · 108d

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.

adhocfungus@midwest.social · 6 pts · 108d

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.