Best Ways to Get LEGO Pieces for Your MOCs!
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- 5 ways we get our LEGO bricks and pieces (on a budget)! Building MOCs is the next step after we run out of sets we like, but buying LEGO pieces can be a real challenge. In this video, we share what we've learned about about saving money on LEGO.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:19 - The problem
0:45 - 1. The Pick-a-Brick wall
4:18 - 2. BrickLink
6:55 - 3. LEGO.com pieces
8:52 - 4. Basic bricks boxes
9:32 - 5. Parting out sets
10:59 - Can we build the wall?
Method 1: The Pick-a-Brick wall at the LEGO store
Here you pay by volume, instead of per piece. Depending on the type of part, this can get you 40 to 90% off of what you'd pay elsewhere.
Tips: Call before you go to the wall, and go when it's been restocked recently. Pack your cup well - fill all the spaces! And ask the employees for tape.
Method 2: BrickLink (bricklink.com)
BrickLink lets you buy exactly what you need, from third-party sellers. It can be way faster than LEGO.com, which also lets you buy specific pieces on demand.
Tips: Figure out how to minimize shipping costs. Buy in bulk. Use BrickLink wanted lists to maximize how many parts you can buy from each store. Definitely buy retired pieces here. Do due diligence on the seller's history.
Method 3: The LEGO.com online parts store ("Bricks and Pieces")
LEGO's first-party online parts shop. LEGO sells most of its non-retired parts here, split into categories they call "Bestsellers" and "Standard". Slow, but reliable. Free shipping over $35.
Tips: Use this for low piece counts (because there's no lot minimum) and for rarer colors (because all colors are the same price).
Method 4: Classic brick boxes, especially Bricks Bricks Plates 11717
Can be very cheap if all you need is generic bricks and plates. We've used these extensively for building out the bulk of the invisible infrastructure of our city.
Tips: 11717 comes with four 16x16 plates, and is always on sale at walmart.com!
Method 5: Parting out sets that are on sale or just a good price per piece
The overall price per piece for sets is cheaper than picking out individual pieces anywhere else, except the Pick-a-Brick wall.
Tips: Buy sets for parting if they're deeply discounted (like at least 30-40% off), or if they're very similar to what you're hoping to build.
And we finish off the video by seeing if we've assembled enough pieces to build a LEGO city wall! (Secret LEGO city update!) - Навчання та стиль
In my area, we have a weekly local paper full of ads and a “Buy & Sell” section. I have bought two “significant” Lego lots that way. The first time a teenager decided he was too old for Lego and wanted to sell his entire collection. It was well over $2000 dollars worth of Lego for $250, which included 3 train sets and tracks. They alone were worth far my than my cost. The second purchase was even bigger, which got me over $3500 of Lego for $500. That lot took me over a month just to separate, clean and store. I had to buy two large storage systems just to accommodate the pieces. Buying second hand can be a huge savings. Sometimes there are non Lego bricks mixed in, but I use them in support and unseen ares in some of my MOC’s.
Wow, very cool. Sounds like two amazing finds!
very very lucky. my area people are all "I KnOw WhAt I hAvE"
Ok, you a one of those who are not far to Kids. Nice
@@AndiRCR oh, grow up. Kids don’t place ads, parents do. If no one bothers to find out what things are worth, that’s not my fault. That’s the whole point of Flea Markets, Buy &Sell’s, Pawn Shops, and etc. I suppose you never bought anything that you knew you were getting a good deal???
I've been on the other end of this as the teenager deciding to be too old for Lego. Definitely regret doing this all of these years later, but am glad that it went to a loving place.
this is unironically the most important lego video ever uploaded
UA-cam just recommended this channel, and I really love your small lego city. Mine is at a similar spot, and it's nice to see something other than the gigantic basement-sized lego cities from other youtube channels. I think the multi-level design is a great idea; it adds a lot of depth and dimension to the smaller build, and I might have something similar as a long-term goal of mine, depending on PAB-wall contents of course!
I also really like the spider plot to show the benefits/drawbacks of various brick purchasing options. I wish I had seen this earlier on, it would have saved me a lot of money buying parts.
Another option that I have found are thrift shops where they will sometimes have a bunch of used LEGO for very cheap and I’ve been lucky to get some expensive parts and minifigs that way but it will require some cleaning and the condition varies widely. Alternatively there is also Facebook marketplace where someone will sell a huge collection or bulk parts but I’ve found less luck this way.
Also both will have some other third party toys or bricks mixed in too but usually I’ll avoid those whenever I can
tread carefully on that, my local thrift throws random mega blocks and items that aren't even close to building bricks in the bags
Bulk buys on FB marketplace (or other used sales platform) are the best if you don't have a specific goal in terms of bricks and want to grow your collection quickly.
A lot of the times, it's (parents of) teenagers who have no interest in Lego anymore and want to make some money out of it. They usually don't want to bother sorting to sell them as used sets so they sell at a much lower price than they usually do otherwise (most listings I've seen hover around 12€/kg).
I got 25kg of Lego this way for 240€ in total. Still in the process of sorting it out but it's well over 20,000 pieces and there's quite a few minifigs in there too. Of course, there's some non-Lego stuff thrown in there but no more than a few hundred grams. So far I estimate I've saved 80-90% compared to buying new.
I havent seen that much hand movement since trunks attacked frieza
This was really good content. Loved the diagrams, examples, and calculations. I'm really happy I found your channel.
Nice breakdown! I like the use of the graphs. I often buy bulk used parts through kijiji here in Canada. I have gotten large Rubbermaids full of lego for really good prices. Unfortunately you spend a lot of time sorting and it can be a crapshoot for what you get but you can often get some really good stuff if you recognize specific parts.
I am so happy I stumbled across your channel! I just love your video production quality, thoroughness in delivering information, and focus on added value like methods in which you can use points or save money as Lego can be quite an expensive hobby. Please continue creating videos as I am certain that you will do extremely well with your channel.
You can make a biblically accurate angel with those eyes
oooh yes we can
awesome video! love the editing and story telling
Your video's edits are really getting better!keep up the good work!
Love you guys! Awesome video!
If you live on the other side of the pond, in Germany to be precise, you have another way to get your hands on clamp-on building blocks. The company Bluebrixx has stores in many cities, where there is also a "pick-a-brick wall". However, the difference is that you pay per gram rather than per cup. So you only pay for what you really need and are not forced to fill your cup as full as possible. And the bricks offered by Bluebrixx also have a higher clamping force.
And while we're on the subject of other clamping block manufacturers. They also have their own online shops such as webrick or yourwobb.
Great stuff!
I was wondering when the next video would go up.
Bricklink and Brick Owl are so addictive 🎸
Great video! Pleasantly surprised!
The editing is so professional!
What a great breakdown- the radar chart was a thoughtful touch!
Pack the under side of bricks with small tile pieces. Connecting pieces together can save on space, especially with clip pieces. Connect the clips to any bar or piece that can fit within the clips.
Thanks! Great tips!
Very informative! I love the charts you made after each method
Thanks so much, very glad you like them!
The video production is so beautiful. You two have a movie in you.
Thanks so much!!
Two Girls, One... Lego... Cup?
Best guide on this issue. Very thorough
Awesome love the knowledge, love the style of city so creative and rare, great voices pretty much asmr… seems kinda serious for Lego even tho it seems geared towards AFOL community ;from smiles to dead serious back to smiles it’s style feels like a Lego podcast…that might limit your audience to adults especially when the algorithm notices only adults are clicking liking and subbing
Good tips
I'm really surprised you didn't mention thrift stores or garage sales. It's a great way to get a lot of stuff cheap if you wanna just have a good base to build from rather than targeting a specific thing.
Wow I love your videos
Most excellent! Your video edits with action shots worked out great! 😃 Nicely organized info, well thought out analysis and great tips!
Tool?? As in you would make a software tool to automatically access the webpage and perform searches for certain pieces for availability? uhh yes please (if so)!
I completely forgot Pleasanton even had a store 🤦🏻♂️ It would be super helpful if store managers would just publish online: available and incoming PAB wall inventory rather than having to call them all the time. (Although that might likely scale up a rat race, from sellers and builders, of high value pieces and would sell out way too fast before anyone slower or too busy had a chance to get to the store (which is kinda what was happening (rat race) with the former Bricks & Pieces when they used to release new elements the same day the sets launched))
Love you videos
Great content, you can also try BAM -Bricks and mini figs for bulk LEGO.
if you need any ideas for something to do with 1,000 eyes, you could look into making some lovecraftian monstrosity by combining it with tentacle parts and those horn/teeth parts to make a creature that looks like nothing that exists and also terrifying in some way
scARY
LEGO CITY WOW 👌🏻 👏🏻
Looking forward to what you will do with those 1000 eyes :D
For a bulk of random pieces for cheap, craigslist is a good option too.
Have you thought of working on the tool you mentioned in this video? It would be really great to have an easier way to find the bricks we need.
I would 100% very much use a tool that automated searching out parts on the Lego site. I've wanted to build a few things, and it tends to be a little cheaper to purchase all the parts through Lego, but that time sink is a massive bummer.
Is that the same for the boxes now with the discount if you reuse them
id definitely use some type of integgrated search tool, please do desgn it if you can
I've been working on partner builds for my Ninjago OCs. But only Scourge's final form is done. I still need a few more parts for Ryu's animal form and Minipix's Mech
I like how they slowly unravel the scam that is variable prices for the same piece of plastic. Not to mention plastic products should never cost that much.
Great stuff! I wonder ... what would you say was your most common piece for building that wall? I'm doing a similar, but extended one in my village, and I'm finding myself trying to fill in space by using the 1x2x5 Light Blue Grey columns, but they are not as stable as a stack of bricks and look boring in comparison. I was fortunate enough to get 2 cups worth of 1x2 profiles, but they alone aren't even close to enough.
Wow, nice profile brick haul! We lucked into a bunch of 1x10 light bluish gray bricks at the PAB wall, so that's our most common piece - the rest is lots of profile bricks and a few 1x bricks of shorter lengths (1/2/3/4). We've found that with the 1x10 bricks we can still get an okay-looking pattern by shifting position carefully, even though they're long - though if we'd had the choice, we'd have preferred 1x6s or 1x8s.
They had balljoints in the store, I have know arround 50 of each type.
You should definitely use those eyes to build a biblically accurate angel lol
Ain't no way in facebook meta these people are real.
Make more music 🙏
+1 subscriber for you
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The pick a brick wall is great, but we don't even have a single LEGO store here in Australia -~- The LEGO group seem to just really hate Australians for some reason, what with that and just how much they price hike us (And I'm factoring conversion into that)
EDIT: Just realized there's actually a few here in Australia, but not in many places. One in Perth, a few in Brisbane and Sydney, and one in Newcastle.
theres one in perth! i went there today
I tried ordering from brick link & it failed
it really sucks for me because there is only 1 lego store in my country and its like a 10 hour drive from where i live. So pick a brick is not an option for me :(
Sorry to hear that!
For me i jsut take off lego pieces from sets
so... what telling me is to just get a 3d printer and do my things with it?
I may have been a little too drunk for that intro
Buying random bags of pieces from the local ebay knockoff. Other options prohibitively expensive
LEGO!!!! GAY!!!!!
Great video, thanks.
I use a tool for online Pick a brick: There's a Chrome extension called BrickHunter. It allows to import a xml parts list file downloaded from Bricklink, and automatically search these pieces on Lego Pick a Brick.
Whoa, thanks so much for the pointer - this is exactly what we're looking for! Our lives will be changed forever.
Awesome video! It popped up when I googled something like "how to get more lego for building moc" and it provided an excellent, thorough, and easy to understand answer. For now, I've only been building store-bought sets, and was wondering how to start building my own - and what to use for that. I can't see myself tearing down a set I bought because I liked it enough to display it, but on top of all the ways of buing individual pieces, you gave me the idea to buy super cheap sets I wouldn't have bought otherwise - I don't think I'd mind foraging them for parts. :) Didn't really think of that before, because I'm very peculiar about my sets and they are sacred. 😂 Wouldn't be able to pick a single piece away. 🫣