New (5) from $129.95 Lego Sort and Store Sort, store and find your Lego bricks. This system lets you easily sort your bricks so you can always find just the one for your project. The Lego Sort and Store The Storage Solution for your Lego Bricks Finally, the ultimate Lego brick sorter and storage system and a perfect display for any playroom. Simply pour your Lego bricks into the Sorter, shake it gently and the bricks will magically sort themselves into the small, medium and large piece sections. Lift each section to reveal the sorted Lego bricks inside. The trays inside are great for storing bricks until the next building project. It can hold over 1000 Lego bricks. Decorated with the classic Lego face, the Sort and Store has a built-in carry handle. Lego bricks sold separately. Sort & Store your LEGO bricks. A fast and easy way to Sort & Store your LEGO bricks! Tip your LEGO Bricks into the Sorter. Shake gently and LEGO Bricks will sort into small, medium, and large sections.
Lift each section to reveal sorted LEGO Bricks inside. Built in carry handle. Can hold over a thousand LEGO pieces. LEGO pieces sold separately. 11.2 x 10.2 x 12.2 inches 4 - 10 years #113,037 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games) #1,610 in Toys & Games > Preschool > Pre-Kindergarten Toys > Activity > Building Sets #3,402 in Toys & Games > Building & Construction Toys > Building Sets 5 star62%4 star17%3 star14%2 star5%1 star2%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsThis is a great product! I was happy to find it on ...The LEGO Headbest to put in a few handfuls at a time ...Somewhat difficult to useNice product but not for my younger childNot good at allA little disappointing See and discover other items: lego yellow heads for minifigures Over the years, LEGO has released a wide range of LEGO storage containers. Some feature their logo sculpted into the container while others use LEGO baseplates for their lids. Still others are little more than plastic containers with stickers on their sides.
Recently, a new product has entered the market. It has the appearance of a large LEGO minifigure head and claims to both sort and store your LEGO pieces. By far, this makes it look like one of the most unique LEGO storage accessories in quite some time. The question remains, is it worth it? ➡ WHAT THE LEGO STORAGE HEAD COMES WITH Let’s start off by examining all the pieces of the LEGO storage head. This will give you a better idea how it all works and allow you to see details that you may miss in the store. ➡ HOW THE LEGO STORAGE HEAD WORKS Start by removing the stud cover. Then dump the LEGO elements you wish to sort inside the opening. Then close the stud cover. Pick up the entire unit and gently rock the LEGO head around. Make sure not to shake the unit since this will decrease the effectiveness of the filters. You may add additional pieces to the LEGO head and repeat the process several times. Once the LEGO head has finished sorting, you may unclamp the top of the head and un-stack the trays.
Pieces should be sorted into one of three main compartments. The largest pieces should be up top while smaller elements will be lower down. ➡ EFFECTIVENESS OF THE LEGO STORAGE HEAD SORTER As you can imagine, there are some problems with this sorter. LEGO has such a wide variety of elements that you’ll often find large elements that are skinny slip down to lower levels. Also, there is no guarantee to get all the same elements on the same level. Ideally, this works the best for sorting out basic elements like bricks. For this reason, the sort feature on this unit is especially nice for play situations. For instance, you have a variety of unsorted pieces that you want to play with. Put them in the LEGO head and you instantly have a rough separation of small elements, medium elements and large elements. A more detailed builder will most likely not find this very useful. ➡ TIPS FOR USING THE LEGO STORAGE HEAD As stated before, this unit will be most effective with basic elements.
However, if you want to have a bit more versatility in how this is used, you can try the following methods to get more out of the LEGO head. The LEGO storage head will definitely be a bit more collectible than other LEGO storage units. However, this should not be your only reason for purchasing this item. As it stands, full retail price does seem a bit much. It is my recommendation to get it when the price drops below $30. The LEGO storage head is available at several local department stores as well as on Amazon. Check here: Lego Sort & Store Head. If you would like to read more about LEGO storage solutions check here: New (5) from $55.07 LEGO Storage Head Large, Boy, Yellow (Discontinued by manufacturer) Do home storage the iconic way with the very recognizable LEGO® Minifigure head. Use the head box for whatever you feel like tidying - and enjoy having this great icon in your room. 9.4 x 9.4 x 10.7 inches 4 years and up #15,931 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
#291 in Toys & Games > Preschool > Pre-Kindergarten Toys > Activity > Building Sets #516 in Toys & Games > Building & Construction Toys > Building Sets 5 star72%4 star12%3 star8%2 star4%1 star4%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsSuper cute for a Lego BirthdaySTURDY AND HUGE.I bought a boy head and a ...Looks great not the best for storageTwo Stars Too SmallI would recommend for any lego loving kid Multi-Purpose Storage For Any Lego Fan See and discover other items: big heads I need to rephrase my question. Has anyone built or used a large pigeon hole/ chute/ bin collection system to sort LEGO elements? The sorting system doesn't need to be made of LEGO bricks. I just want to know if any of you studio builders sort your elements in a more organised fashion than the average fan. I'm trying to figure out if this is a project I should take on, or a boondoggle I should avoid... While they won't do the sorting for you like that clever youtube video, there are a couple of commercial sorting products that can help you bulk-group your legos by size as a preliminary sorting mechanism, through differently-sized grates.
Box4Blox has been around for a while. Good review of it at Brother's Brick. Lego has recently produced their own similar Sort and Store shaped like a minifig head: At our house we organize by color, and have a large bucket of each (mostly because its easier for the kids to help maintain the organization, hypothetically anyway...). I've toyed with the idea of getting one of these, pouring each color bucket through, and ending up with convenient size-groupings within each color. Should be much easier to find what we need. I have a fairly large collection. Processing bricks is a lot more pleasant with my homemade device, which is vaguely similar to the devices above, but made from MDF. Note that the commercial products have holes that are square, not round, so the size of bricks that is blocked by them is kind of variable. My sorter has two sorting levels, one with 30mm holes and one with 15mm holes. Because LEGO bricks are 8mm per stud, nothing 4x4 or over falls through the top level, and nothing 2x2 or over goes through the second.
I could have done 22/23mm holes for 3x3s and 7mm for sub 1x1s, but empirically they're rare pieces and not worth the effort. The holes are laid out in a hexagonal grid, on a sheet of MDF large enough to cover - and fall straight through into - my storage boxes (450mm square, as that's the size the sheets come in). Spacing of the holes and thickness of the MDF was selected to ensure strength - MDF doesn't distort too much before breaking, and using MDF was important because it's cheap, common and unlikely to damage the bricks. There are sides to each tray to prevent spillage, and nodes on the underside to lock each layer into the one below. The hardest part in constructing my sorting trays was finding drill bits for making 30mm and 15mm holes; I found only one 30mm spade bit in my local hardware superstore, and I had to go to a commercial tool supplier for the 15mm bit. I also needed a new drill, as my existing one couldn't spin slowly enough to make round holes with a spade bit. So, here's the entire unit;
you can see the sides to hold a reasonable amount of LEGO without spilling over: And here's what LEGO swamping the 30mm holes in the top looks like. Most of the time I'm operating at this level; the second level can contain a large number of pieces given they're so much smaller. The second level gets the smaller parts falling through while you're pawing through the top tier. You can see the spacing created by the tall corner posts, this is to allow a 2x16 plate (the longest part I'd expect to process - 128mm) to fall through if it wants too - but typically something that long won't fall from the top level, as its lowest centre of gravity lays it flat and so the great length won't fit through the topmost holes. If one were to slip into a hole, it could be raked into a position to fall, so about 10% or 20% of pieces as large as this fall through to this level. The small detritus finds its way to the bottom level Here you can see the locking nodes that prevent the tiers rotating and moving off the tier below.
Prior to building this I experimented with a number of designs and found that they had a common problem of clogging up. This experiences that to some extent too, but has a vast number of holes to minimize the impact, and a finger poked up from below can clear the blockage. Radar dishes and large cones, for example, are good at filling holes. I do have a tumbler to separate out plates and other small items from bricks, but it requires a lot of work to cause the separation so I wouldn't recommend it as a sorting tool. I could supply an image for those with an academic interest. I showed my device at my local LUG, and a year or so later another member went and made his own tennis-racket inspired LEGO sifter. I humbly suggest this device suffers from the same problem with square (or sometimes triangular) holes that the commercial devices exhibit. Here's a video I found: Keep in mind that the time it takes you to build and use one of these is probably greater than the amount of time it takes to sort by hand.
I don't think slots would work great as the bricks could fit into multiple shapes/sizes of holes. One thing you could try is a "panning for gold" method - put pieces in a bowl and swirl them around. The heavier ones should fall out. Don't know how well it would work, but it is worth a shot. I designed and built a lego sorting and storage desk for my son late last year. It has 16 bins and 16 corresponding holes in the top. It also has an interior baffle system to keep lego pieces from jumping into incorrect bin. I had to go through several designs to get it to work right, be ergonomic (all drop slots within reach while seated), and make it easy to assemble. Although I have patent pending on the design, someone with reasonable skills could come up with their own version for personal use. The table works well, but it is designed for center-of-room use to allow access to all the bins. My son and my wife often sit opposite each other at the desk while sorting to make things go more quickly.
We sort by type mostly, with simple combinations of blocks sorted to one side of the table, and non-block type pieces to the other. )... and we've tried many different machines. Bottom line is that, unless you're dealing in tens of thousands of parts, Pubby is right: "...the time it takes you to build and use one of these is probably greater than the amount of time it takes to sort by hand." I think people forget about the "using" part of this. Someone has to stand there and shake the basket. Someone also has to break-apart the bricks. I find that our minimum wage labor does the job much faster. When sorting by color, yes, it helps to have a table with a big hole in the center where you can toss the bricks (a bucket underneath catches them). The problem with collection trays affixed to the side of the table is that they fill-up quickly. You and I arrived at similar solutions. I used plastic buckets to sort by size: The most promising approach that I have seen is being used by LETZGO (http://www.letzgo.co.kr/home) a Korean start-up that aims to make Lego affordable by offering Lego sets on a rental basis.