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I think you have to know what your goal is first. If you're just trying to identify what sets may be present, that's one thing. If your going to sell it off in mixed bulk lots, that's another thing, and if you're planning on building your own parts library or bricklink store, then you have to go all the way. I just went through a 90lb lot with over 200 figs that were all jumbled up - individual hands, legs, arms everywhere. Old Harley Quinn's head with Han solo's torso and one orange arm, one blue arm - that kind of thing. First sort (1 big bin for each category): all bricks (including modified), slopes, plates 4x4 and up, plates that aren't a square or a rectangle, plates 1-wide and 2-wide (same bin), anything that's 1x1, anything with printing or a sticker applied, all wedges and hulls, all minifigs parts and accessories, anything technic (except bricks), and anything "interesting" (like a slope in a rare color, an odd vehicle plate, anything that might lead you directly to only a handful of sets). I throw things like telescopes, goblets, coffee cups, "flames", bones, barbs, binoculars, and loud hailers in with the 1x1's. And then 1 bin for everything else. Second sort: the "everything else" bin gets sorted into big pieces and not big pieces. Plates get sorted into 1-wide, 2-wide, 4-wide, and 6-wide. Bricks get sorted into 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6+, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 2x6+, and everything else (1x1x5, 1x2x2, 4x8, etc.). Slopes (both regular and inverted in the same bin) become 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, anything thats 2 bricks tall, and everything else. Third sort: 1x2 plates get separated into modified and regular. If you are trying to re-create sets, you'll spend a lot of time going through modified 1x2 plates, so you can certainly subdivide these. Same with 1x2 bricks. If you're going for sets or inventory, then technic gets sorted into axles, connectors, lift arms, pins, gears, and everything else. The "everything else small" bin from the 2nd sort gets all the handles, panels, seats, stop bars and light saber wands, and barrels/ trash bins/ container boxes pulled out. The "everything else big" bin gets all windows/ doors, and windscreens pulled out. Target has these cheap bins that they sell in bundles of 5. I think they're 6qt bins with your choice of green or grey snap on lids. They're like $5.25 for 5 bins. I got 40 of them at first, and also used large Lego PAB cups for some parts. That ought to give you a really good start.

Bricklink usually has those extra items listed as Gear when looking up a set. For example, when I pull up any one of the Speedorz sets (Ice Tower), the five included collectable cards are listed as Gear. The ones with a comic book show up listed as Book (Wolverine's Chopper Showdown).

By color is not a very practical way to sort. When you need a certain piece and have to sort through a pile of stuff the same color it makes it difficult to find anything. Here are a few things I do. first seperate all standard Mini figs, bricks, plates, and slopes into their own bins. I then organize those by size & color and it generally goes fairly quickly. Then I make pre sort bins for: Mini fig parts & accessories Modified Plates Modified Bricks Arches Technic Tiles panels Wedges Curved bricks Curved slopes wind screens Vehicles parts Bionicle (i think I might be missing one or two, but its late & i need to sleep) & Other (by the time you have everything else removed this bin does not seem as daunting a task.) also Non-Lego Then I sort further from those categories into my organizer bins. I use bricklinks parts catalog as the basis of how I want my end result to be sorted and to determine what category certain odd pieces belong to. hope that helps

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These are some of the best figures and toys lego has put out so far..as far as aesthetics and playability go....but that only gets you so far in toys. Just look at the printing, and the way the larger toys are designed. I've built hundreds of lego sets...and craggers command ship was one of our favorites

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"Good day to you! I assume at this price the lot includes the kid? Please confirm."

Somebody get a calculator and tell a lazy frog what the BP value on all that comes to. I'll be over here eating bonbons.

I read this as "Please steal sets from TRU, Walmart, Target, etc, and sell them to me." Who wants to bet that TLG has already read the OP and contacted PPD?

I sold the hair piece for $70 on ebay today. I'm happy since it was basically like money I didn't know I had!

Pretty rough business...I have to get up at 2 am, EVERYDAY of the yr, as I also make the donuts, but it's pretty profitable...just wish my rent wasn't so much (almost 7k per month!) lol I was actually considering doing a little toy store at my shop, selling mainly legos, but I don't want to be there more than I am already. I do have 32 flavors of some excellent ice cream there. Maybe I should change the shop's name to something like this: Donuts, Bagels, and Legos. lol yes, I have been...it happened when I first started. I bought a couple sets on ebay from the CC scammers, before I knew about it, and TLC blacklisted me shortly after...but I do have a couple willing sisters, and some friends that help me buy stuff when I need, with their info. =) I don't buy from TLC much anyways. I buy most of my legos from target.com....I have a connection for target giftcards for 20% off. So, when target has a sale, I load up for the double discount, as target doesn't really have a limit on lego exclusives....plus ******(I got almost $1,000 back from ****** last quarter!) These are all $500 target cards that I already used to buy legos with.

as of right now I have 47 Black Pearls and 42 Queen Revenge, and when Costco had the Black Pearls for $59.99 on Clearance since nobody was buying them I should kick myself for not buying 100 of them. Ed