Is there a tool where I can enter my Lego pieces and it tells me what sets I might have?
Is there a tool where I can enter my Lego pieces and it tells me what sets I might have?
Asking for a friend.
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Yes! I just did this with 25000 pieces I got on FB market place.
Identifying what you can build: You want: rebrickable.com
- Add any sets you have.
- Add any parts you have.
Then you can search for what you can build - filtering by exact colours/close matches/any.
You can also filter only official sets, alternative builds for official sets and MOC (make own creation - builds other people have come up with - both paid and free)
Identifying Parts: Finally as someone who took weeks adding all my parts and only discovered this app in the last few days...
This website you can take a photo of any one piece and it will give you the part number so you don't have to hunt for it on the rebrickable parts list. It is astonishingly accurate!
Other tips: Sort your parts first. I went through 2 key stages...
- Reduce to broad categories: brick, plate, bracket, minifigure etc.
- remove every part of one type at a time regardless of color and then add them etc.
With rebrickable you can just select 1x2 brick and add 10 black and then just quickly change number and color to 8 green etc. So colour's are not worth sorting til the very end!!
Plus identifying all the green 1x2s in a pile of 1x2s is a LOT easier than identifying all the 1x2 greens in a huge pile of green stuff.
I'll stop now as it's becoming a wall of text but any questions feel free to ask!
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Oh and when searching parts look out for printed parts or very unique looking parts - often you'll find those are in very few sets and it'll give you an idea of sets you might have.
Additionally rebrickable let's you convert parts into sets if you have all the parts.
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Oooooo boy. Time to go to my parents and get some shit built.
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Do it! I cannot stress how much fun it is to discover that your handful of sets can also be built into a dozen other cool things. Especially if you struggle to come up with amazing ideas yourself, the more sets you find you can build, the more you'll learn.
On that note - if you haven't played with Lego since you were a kid like I did ... you are about to be blown away by how cool some of the build techniques are and what they can accomplish.
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Psh I have an 8 year old. I've built so much lego in the past 3 years I've seen all sort of cool mechanics. I like to get those speed champions cars too.
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Ah I'm envious... Mine is only 2 and there is a lot less interesting stuff going on with Duplo 😅
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Thank you so much! I guess first I need a nice way to sort all the pieces. I’ll need to look up some advice on that.
Good thing that I have some vacation coming up.
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For me it looked like tupperware city... Every old plastic container I could find.
This was helpful to me although says much more than needed - for a TLDR just scroll down to the example with the red bricks being categorised into big groups and then broken down again. (I can't emphasize enough though doing things by color is horrendous 😅)
There isn't anything on here I don't think but I do think there is r/Legostorage (might not have remembered the name perfectly) which has tonnes of good ideas and advice. Ultimately after you have added all the parts you are going to want to store them in a meaningful way to actually get them quickly.
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