We would like to welcome you to the Brikido blog, where, as members of the Brikido team, we will write about our most interesting experiences with Lego bricks, and we will also try to inspire you to create your own constructions – not necessarily using the Brikido algorithm, sometimes just letting your imagination run wild.
There are many blogs about Lego bricks on the Internet, we hope that ours will be as good as the best ones. Our blog is intended for everyone, with particular emphasis on families with children. Children (and maybe adults too?) often need stimulation with new incentives – in our opinion, Lego bricks are way better at this than smartphones and tablets. We plan to inspire you to have fun and not necessarily buy new sets all the time.
So here we go!
My Mom taught me that when you start doing something, it is worth ESTABLISHING YOUR WORKSTATION FIRST – so today we concentrate the post on sorting the bricks.
There are several approaches to organizing Lego bricks:
- The ideal approach in which most of the bricks are kept built as in the original sets. We do not recommend this approach, although in that case the order is perfect. Bricks should be used to build & destroy; repeat!
- System approach – depending on possessed number of bricks, we distinguish individual categories and keep them in separate boxes. There are convenient drawer boxes available on the market, but we use many different ones, including dishwashed plastic takeaway lunch boxes. We distinguish the following categories of pieces and keep them separately:
- Bricks (including Technic beams)
- Plates
- Minifigures with accessories and tools
- Vehicles and transportation – parts typical for cars – wheels, steering wheels, wheel arches/fenders, chassis, windows, etc.
- Lego Technic
- The so-called “lights”
- Hooks/connectors
- Slopes, bows, tiles, inverted bows
- Small roof tiles, inglots, tiny sloped tiles
- Miscellaneous – everything else!
You can additionally consider separating another category for large-sized, unusual blocks – e.g. entire walls constituting one element.
In special cases, when someone has really huge amount of bricks, it may make sense to separate additional categories or color divisions of the above-mentioned categories.
- Total mess – acceptable for us only at the Lego Duplo stage
- Mix the above methods!
In our opinion, bricks can be categorized also in many other ways (e.g. by colors), but the proposed method is, in our opinion, the best.
The attached photos show our ordered bricks.
Bricks (including Technic beams)
Plates
Minifigures with accessories and tools
Vehicles and transportation – parts typical for cars – wheels, steering wheels, wheel arches/fenders, chassis, windows, etc.
Lego Technic
The so-called “lights”
Hooks/connectors
Slopes, bows, tiles, inverted bows
Small roof tiles, inglots, tiny sloped tiles
Miscellaneous
All of them!