Set Display

[E of Alshire]

Do you display LEGO sets alongside your own creations? Do you even build LEGO sets, or just use them for parts?

I only display LEGO models when I don't have something of my own for my shelf. LEGO models are built once to familiarize myself with the parts, then sorted into the collection. Exception- both Black Knight's Castle and King's Royal Castle are bagged and untouched, ready to build if I don't have anything of my own.

[Brickzone]

I display the models for a time before deconstructing. The Viking line for example I had intact for some time, then I disassembled them. Ditto for a lot of old Castle sets like Black Falcon's Fortress and Robin Hood sets. Some other models I will be keeping intact, and probably using as is as part of my own scenes. These would include Café Corner and Market Street (may disassemble once I've made a complete town scene, but they'll be as is in the midst of my custom creations). I've swapped a few less obvious parts (needed some dark bley flat tiles from between the floors). The tan Creator house didn't get displayed too long before I used it for parts. I've kept some of the city vehicles intact for my planned town scene.

I also have King's Mountain Fortress, Black Monarch's Castle and Black Knights Castle kept intact. I have a mint condition Fire Breathing Fortress as well that I haven't made up my mind about - but it's not on display at present cause I ran out of space. Seems a shame to mix it into my collection, but as a set, it's not the most important to me.

I also have my Black Seas Barracuda, Imperial Flagship, and Imperial Port Royal kept intact. Again, I intend at some stage to do a custom soldier/pirate scene including these (well, the last I'll probably customise/add to). I disassembled all my other pirate sets (a nice source of gold for my castle treasury

I also haven't sorted out my Castle '07 lego yet; I want to modify/expand the existing sets before just including their parts in my general collection.

[Jojo]

Hello!


I have indeed some sets on display. Mainly the classic sets: Yellow Castle, Knights’ Tournament and Knights’ Procession. I also have some US-only sets on display (they are special to me because they were never available over here), as well as a Guarded Inn, my favourite set.
Besides those I have in fact some recent Castle sets on my shelves, not for display purposes, though, rather unintentionally. Like you I build every set I own (not each copy that I may own, of course), so I simply did not yet disassamble them again. Most sets I get are meant to fill the storage boxes for my own creations, while at the same time they are part of my set collection. At least I have the building instructions and the bricks, may they be assembled or not.


Bye
Jojo

[clubninja]

Being the opposite of most of the folks here, I primarily collect sets and keep the MOC stuff to a secondary role. My display shelves are 100% sets. My Town/Train, Space, and Castle "scenes", however, are a mix between MOC items and existing sets that fit in nicely (for example, Cafe Corner is part of my town, alongside MOC buildings).

[Bruce N H]

Hey,

When I get a new set, I build it one time, then within a day it is torn apart again and put in the "to sort" bin. A very few exceptions have stuck together for a long time - the UCS TIE Interceptor and the Siskind Blacksmith Shop were on display for a couple of years. Neither one made it past moving from one apartment to another, though. Now I only have MOCs on display (and not many of them - usually I disassemble them soon after finishing photography).

Bruce

[Count Blacktron]

Do you display LEGO sets alongside your own creations? Do you even build LEGO sets, or just use them for parts?

Ummm....

Yes?

I have for the past couple of years parted out all my sets except for the Star Wars line, a few City, Train and Pirate sets, my Exploriens and Life On Mars sets, and some Batman and Castle that are in a multi-verse display together. Included also in the display are a few creations of my own making that I do not at this time intend to add to the Great Sorting. Everything else is parts after I build what sets I decide are more than just parts initially. Building is either focused on some sets to see them along side each other, to find out "how they do that" or simply whimsy.

[Remyth]

I display some sets for a while, but none forever. I still have most of 6060 together and currently I have Market Street together (having got it for Christmas,) but I do not display them beside my MOCs, for I almost never display my MOCs for more than a few days, a week if they are lucky, unless they are very big and I'm afraid of all of that sorting...

Anyway, I do not display my sets for long, because I usually want peices from them almost imediately.

In Christ,

[Tedward]

I have almost always built every set I bought but recently I did not build a couple of KK2 sets I got for parts. I never leave them together but do have several "bits"". For example I still have the car from HP:Escape from Privet Drive which I love and I saved the fire hydrant from one of the Spiderman sets and re-use it on my town sidewalks. I do have the Hoth Base set (without stickers) set up but when I need parts it will be absorbed.

This is an interesting question because VicLUG was invited to participate in a small community museum show which is basically a display of one family's stock sets. They have done it for three years now just after Christmas. We have been given a glass display cabinet and a space to hang our new club banner. [see picture of set-up]

They are really into LEGO but have no idea what "MOC" means and I was telling one of them about BrickLink which they had never heard of. In discussing our participation we were adamant that our entire display would be MOCs without any stock sets (I was even unsure about using an unmodified motorcycle.)

I will probably be leaving the new Town Plan set put together for awhile it is sort of special. I might also leave more together if I had room but when my display/storage space is some shelving less than three 32x32 baseplates in size...