 | | Re: LEGO box —Patrick Leahy
| | | | (...) I don't think there's a reason to. The boxes are useless. The LEGO parts are what are useful. I don't know why so many people keep useless LEGO boxes; they're good for keeping the parts in place at the store, but once buy it, the box has (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Bram Lambrecht
| | | | | | (...) If the box has reasonably strong walls (eg, a big set like 8880 or 6982) I often cut off the flip-top and use the box for sorting/storage. The smaller trays from medium size boxes are also good for storage. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Selçuk Göre
| | | | | | | | Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote in message news:20000117.104043...uno.com... (...) This was exactly what I'm doing till my collection was about 10000-12000 pieces, then it was a must to changed the storage into a stackable drawer system. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Bram Lambrecht
| | | | | | | | | (...) sorting/storage. (...) I'm at ~35,000 pieces, and the boxes work fine, but then again, there's an entire room in my house pretty much dedicated to LEGO. I have about eight stackable large plastic containers about the size of LEGO tubs, two (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Selçuk Göre
| | | | | | | | | | Bram Lambrecht <braml@juno.com> wrote in message news:20000117.150709...uno.com... (...) That's the trick..:-) I live in an apartment flat with a living room plus two other rooms. One is used as our bedroom, and other one (10m2 approx.) is used for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.storage)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Frank Filz
| | | | | | | | | Selçuk wrote in message ... (...) sized (...) Now I wonder how many people have been embarassed by storing their "adult" toys (nudge nudge, wink wink) in LEGO (or any other "kids" toy) boxes? (and having a visiting child discover them "um, er, um, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.storage)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | | | | | (...) Hm, "fragile" would seem like precisely the quality such an object would *not* possess. LFB (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Patrick Leahy
| | | | | | | (...) I can see why someone would use a large one for storage. What I think is odd is that people sometimes collect the boxes. LEGO boxes just don't seem like the right material for a collection [especially if you never use the pieces [LEGO stuff is (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Jeff Thompson
| | | | | | | | (...) I like the big pictures on the front (bigger than on the instructions on the large sets). And I like the alternate models on the back. So I keep the boxes. I do take out the cardboard inserts and flatten all but the largest boxes (which don't (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Selçuk Göre
| | | | | | | Z <leahy@concentric.net> wrote in message news:FoHy7y.Ivz@lugnet.com... (...) odd (...) like (...) pieces (...) are (...) I use my bricks for building, and I never put any set aside from the other pile of bricks and I only use 3-4 of the bigger (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | | | | May I suggest trimmming the followups down to just storage at this point? I'd say we're off topic for most of the rest of the groups. (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Mike Reed
| | | | | | | As it is now, all my sets are in their respective boxes, piled up in my closet at my apartment. Lack of room to set up my town being the main reason. Once I do get the room I will set up my town again and probably just pile the empty boxes (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —John Neal
| | | | | | | I don't mean to be a putz, but this thread is cross-posted *way* too much. Please trim off .trains if you are posting to it. -John (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Ron Atkinson
| | | | | I believe the box are useless but one question come up. If I want to sell that Lego Model in the future and will most lego fan prefer the parts in the box or just send parts in a zip sandwich bag? Ron Z <leahy@concentric.net> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Nick Taylor
| | | | | | If you're a 'collector', then the boxes are important, but since I'm a builder (not a collector) and have no intention of selling my LEGOs, I don't save the boxes ... but I do save the back panel from most boxes since they show alternative building (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Frank Filz
| | | | | Ron Atkinson wrote in message ... (...) the (...) Having the box will generally make it easier to sell a set later, and you will generally get more for it. I keep all the boxes for sets which I don't break down for parts to be sold. I flatten all (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.storage, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Andrew Knowles
| | | | | Frank, You have the right idea! I keep everything as well. Except for the old plastic bags. I originally did it just to keep track of the sets I had but now I use them to prove to people that I really do have the sets I say I have even if they're (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.storage)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO box —Jason Catena
| | | | | (Crossposted to lugnet.build because this is more about building vs. collecting than storage issues.) (...) I take care of inventorying the sets I've bought by cutting the UPC bar code (which contains the set number) from the box before I flatten (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.build)
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