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[โ€“] trueheresy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Yes! I just did this with 25000 pieces I got on FB market place.

Identifying what you can build: You want: https://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...

https://brickognize.com/

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!

[โ€“] trueheresy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

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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