I quit buying bulk lots for 2 reasons. 1) prices rocketed from £4-5.00 per KG, to over £20 per KG in some cases. 2) Sellers of bulk lots (charity shops etc) used the name to pretty much maximise what they could get for pretty much "bags of crap". A 20KG bulk lot listed as Lego, and under scrutiny the pics mainly being of Lego, once arrived turn out to be box's of general crap, (Chinese knock off bricks, broken toys etc) and very little Lego at all

Setting up a bricklink store was the best thing I ever did for managing my collection and dealing with bulk lots. I was also drowning in parts I would never use and constantly trying to find solutions on how to store it all. Once I setup my store I posted all parts I knew I’d never use. I posted minifigs I had no interest in. Now when I buy a bulk lot I do a preliminary sort of what I want and what the store gets. It’s helps fund the next lot too.

I agree with buying bulk lots, at the start I was also buying everything, which had a lot of colored bricks you dont use a lot, now I try to only get bulk lots with lots of greys/browns or bulk lots you can visibly see some interesting sets. Processing bulk lego is a lot of work and is so time consuming, but in the end it gives such a satisfaction and really helps you build up a decent part inventory long term! For info, in europe the used bulk lego price per kg is €10 ($5 a pound)

I got out of Lego and back in around the same time as you. I ordered two separate 10lbs bulk Lego boxes from Goodwill to introduce me to the new bricks. I’m glad I did, but it’s a young man’s game. I’d like to do more orders but I don’t have the time

I'm just starting out, and bulk Lego is hard to find in my city. There's a thriving Lego culture here and the cheaper bulk stuff is snapped up quickly by seasoned resellers, and the prices are opportunistically excessive as most recognise the value of the Lego they have to sell. It would take an incredibly lucky stumble for me to find an affordable and substantial selection of pieces. I see the value of the regular System colourful bricks, though, as they can be used for constructing landscaping and anything else hidden by the surface texture pieces. I also would use them in making prototypes for testing out sizes and techniques before committing to buying the correctly coloured pieces you need for the final.

I’m relatively new to buying bulk Lego but I think forcing yourself to 100% clean and process each large bulk box you buy before buying a new one is a good rule to implement for anyone getting into this. It’s hard to turn down a good deal or a lot with parts you’ll want but aside from it preventing you getting in over your head, it’ll make you more patient and thoughtful with what you buy. There’s no rule that everything from bulk lots needs to stay in your collection either and that doesn’t mean you have to go all in and start a Bricklink store. Plenty of people will buy bulk of whatever you don’t use, especially if it’s cleaned and somewhat sorted.

I'm definitely at this point in my collection as well. A deal has to be exceptionally good for me to and to pick up a bulk lot on Facebook marketplace or somewhere similar.

I rather look on eBay for bulk sales of specific colors or pieces, let's say 100 x 2x4 bricks in grey. I know what I need, I know what I get. That may cost me more than a FB marketplace purchase, but especially the time I have to spend sorting and cleaning is way less.

I totally get this. I feel the same way about bulk Lego. Lot's of joy but I'm to a point now that I maybe don't need so much Lego. I still like digging through bulk though, it's like a treasure hunt!

I'm a cheapskate. And I'm new to the hobby and interested in city building. So what I'm trying to do is identify buildings I'm interested in having and then doing as you've been doing, which is "shopping my collection" to try to piece together sets. At this early stage it hasn't been a hugely successful enterprise, but it has been fun. I've been buying mainly from thrift stores and augmenting with BrickLink buys. I suspect that as my collection of loose pieces grows it'll be easier to find parts for sets. In the meantime, I'm learning a lot about patience....

I get your point. I bought to my son 16kg (35lbs) bulk lego in FB marketplace. Of course my son loved it. But if I think about how many parts there´s are in that amount that I myself would like or could use in my own moc's... Not much.

unforts I don't think I will ever stop buying bulk - its kind of an addiction now, I have everything now at least sorted into boxes of types (plates, slopes, tiles, you get the idea) and once in a while I'll sort a bag of *rounds/something* down into individual components but of mixed colours. I really need to go buy a tub or 3 as I haven't in a few weeks so I can sit down and sort - its relaxing if nothing else, the only real problem is storage - but big plastic drawer storage with bags of each part in seems to work ok. (also there's nothing quite like finding a couple of nice mini figs in a random tub of Lego).. When you have a couple of pounds of just one component you know there's an issue :)

I loved lego growing up and now I got a young son who is now into lego even though he destroys the sets almost as fast as we build them haha. I am wanting to basically do the same things, buy in bulk lots of parts so we can build almost any set we wanted, still going to cost a small fortune. I have even considered buying good knock off lego bits as some of them are really good. For now im just happy to build things again and have a good excuse lol.

7:17 so…many…tires. Even with my collection that is almost entirely intentional (that is, buying or being gifted sets I wanted, buying parts I wanted, not buying bulk/mystery parts), there are just so many wheels and tires that I’m unlikely to use. It’s the nature of Lego: each and every car/truck/ninjamobile has 4+ wheels , whether it’s a 9-piece Classic Space rover or a 1200-piece Land Bounty. But when you’re building your own things, even if they’re much bigger and more elaborate than official sets, they probably don’t need tons more wheels. So you buy 5 100-piece cars, build a 500-piece vehicle, and use maybe 8 wheels, and now you’ve got 12 left over. Build a bigger castle, you’ll use more bricks. Build a bigger spaceship, you’ll use more wedge plates. Build a bigger rover? Good chance it’ll still only have 4-8 wheels. It adds up. • I have a small tub of vintage wheels and tires (‘60s-‘70s). • I have a small tub of old small wheels and tires (metal axle, permanently attached to the brick or plate). • I have a small tub of newer small wheels (starting when they introduced removable wheels) and tires and axle plates. • I have a small tub of medium wheels and tires that fit on axle plates. • I have a small tub of medium wheels and tires in the Speed Champions style and similar sizes. • I have a small tub _just_ for wheel 55981 and its variants and tires for it. And it’s probably not big enough, whenever I next part out and sort built things. This is the smallest size of wheel I use on the regular, and I more often use them for other things, rather than as wheels. • I have a medium tub of wheels and tires the next step up in size. • I have a medium tub for wheels and tires the _next_ step up in size, including wagon wheels. • I have a medium tub for older wheels and tires of a similar size, that aren’t interchangeable with the standardized rims Lego has been using since the mid-‘00s. • I have a medium tub for large Technic wheels and tires. • I have a medium tub for Technic motorcycle wheels and tires. • I have a large tub for large Technic wheels and tires. • I have a large drawer for hard plastic wheels. • I have two medium-size boxes tucked away, just for the really large Technic wheels and tires. • I have a small tub for tread sprockets, a small tub for modern Technic tread links, and a small tub for the small Technic tread links, rubber tank treads, and vintage tread links. These are the only ones that really scale with larger creations. So, yeah, totally a self-inflicted, first-world problem, but I suspect the only AFOLs who _don’t_ have a “too many tires” problem are the folks who build large city layouts and build dozens or hundreds of small vehicles to populate them.

Hi, I was thinking the same about the Castle in the Forest. The instruction is free and getting the parts from Bricklink may be a lot cheaper than buying one of the rare sets. And You can buy forestmen minifigures at Lego PaB and decide Yourself how many You want to buy and how to configure them. May I ask You what You approximately paid for all the parts You used for the castle in the forest?

I am new to lego and and I though about getting a bulk. I keep coming to the question of useful will those random pieces be.

my rules with bulk lego 1 clear pictures 2 1 euro for 100 gram 10 for 1 kilogram 3 i dont have the last bought bulk in mine collection clean.

Great vid buddy!

I also like to touch the parts.

hi 20 years ago lego changed star was came and start to pull them out of the pit note there's alot of lego in alot of homes i know the wife in a home is going to say no more lego we are losing the space for it i know there are older men in man cove with there cat or dog with lego are now getting low on space i am lucky i have space i stopped because i is eating up the space i have talked to alot of lego fans in 10 years 100% what you saying is real PAB BRICKLINK is super 20 years more i think sells will be down alot be cause of space i used to pick up alot of recording gear from people and alot was from lock up's i know lego i end up in lock up in my town there a big yellow and town next to me has 2 of them my in laws and sister's is full of lego we think co vid was bad i see lego going this way over time great point

You are too cute, don’t you buy another brick! 😅

There’s some disgusting stuff and used Lego,. Let me tell you pew, nasty and a lot of them are fake Lego lotta old rusted screws sharp objects I’ve seen at all. Be very very careful if you buy used Lego, and a box. Kids may have played with it and kids. Will be kids, so there could be anything, in the middle of that Lego, and you stick your hands in it you want to puke yuck. So be careful be very careful just like the old ball pits. There’s everything at the bottom in the middle of that thing. Beware.