Post by The Hegemon on May 22, 2023 23:55:46 GMT
I've waited far too long to sort my embarrassingly large heap of bloks, so I'm soliciting advice.
At the most basic level I sort between "old" and "new" Mega, an admittedly arbitrary distinction with the intent of keeping the older plastic elements from the newer. The elements can be distinguished by sound, because the older stuff has a higher pitch "rattle," along with a different glossiness in the colors.
Beyond that I sort by color, but that can become problematic thanks to Mega's huge palette, which can result in small numbers of bloks in a dizzying array of colors.
From there, if the numbers justify it, I break the color down into different types of element, bricks/plates/tiles/brackets etc. Sometimes that doesn't work out--I don't have enough "gold" elements, for instance, so they're all in one box. Also, there's a million shades of green and of yellow and of gray, so you can easily fall down the rabbit hole.
So how do you do it?
At the most basic level I sort between "old" and "new" Mega, an admittedly arbitrary distinction with the intent of keeping the older plastic elements from the newer. The elements can be distinguished by sound, because the older stuff has a higher pitch "rattle," along with a different glossiness in the colors.
Beyond that I sort by color, but that can become problematic thanks to Mega's huge palette, which can result in small numbers of bloks in a dizzying array of colors.
From there, if the numbers justify it, I break the color down into different types of element, bricks/plates/tiles/brackets etc. Sometimes that doesn't work out--I don't have enough "gold" elements, for instance, so they're all in one box. Also, there's a million shades of green and of yellow and of gray, so you can easily fall down the rabbit hole.
So how do you do it?
