Organizing Pieces?

[Toa Kopaka TJByrum]

I am about to begin the monumentous task of building all of my Bionicle figures. So far I have 6 completed and about 5 more coming along. I collected them since 2001 (Lewa Mata was my first Bionicle) and so I have pretty much every single one that came out up until Voya Nui. I have a few Mahri and Phantoka sets as well but not enough to mention.

 

I first divided by color but that isn't as easy as I thought. I think I might divide by category, cause I'm aware of what pieces belong to who (Axonn's axe, Nuju's ice spikes, Kopaka's launcher, etc.

 

How do you organize your pieces?

[Toa Smoke Monster]

Since I usually don't take apart my sets once I build them, the majority of my pieces are composed of my sets which I keep in my closets. Any loose pieces I have, and I don't have a lot of them, I keep in a small glass case.

 

I don't know if this would be consider to be keeping them organized, but that is how I keep my pieces.

[25K Now!]

I don't, unfortunately.

 

They've all been chucked in a box.

[Rahkshi Lalonde]

I /try/ to keep them separated by type. (huge bionicle pieces, lego bricks, pins and plus-rods, beams and liftarms...) but it never ever works. they all end up in one big bin again. :0

Edited September 20, 2014 by Rahkshi Lalonde

[randomreviewerbros]

I /try/ to keep them separated by type. (huge bionicle pieces, lego bricks, pins and plus-rods, beams and liftarms...) but it never ever works. they all end up in one big bin again. :0

Yeah same here lol

[Cambion]

i sort by colour, and then black pieces and pins/axles are further sorted. system is kept completely separate from technic/bionicle/hf.

[dotcom]

The way I tend to organize them, and how I still have them actually (i organized them all two years ago and haven't used them at all in the time since) is by type, specifically: heads & masks, torso pieces, socket pieces, limbs, armor, weapons, and all the other technic stuff. These last two categories are firckin' huge

[Sumiki]

I have a bunch of small clear drawers which are easily accessible from a makeshift desk. A majority of pieces which were formerly organized by type are now organized by color and are in drawers adjacent to aforementioned table. Some parts - generally large, unwieldy Technic - are stored in some of my canisters, which are displayed on a wall. The rest of the pieces that aren't in assembled MOCs or on my desk strewn about in various stages of completion are stuffed into a few "general other" bins which I never seem to get around to.
 
... dang, the longer it took to write this out the more I wonder how I manage to find anything.

[Akavakaku]

I have a bin for System, a bin for Technic, and a small case with individual compartments for rare parts I'd rather not spend most of my time digging for, like Bohrok eyes.

[-Windrider-]

Into the Rubbermaid container it goes.

[Nidhiki of the Shadows]

I use my sets for display purposes, but back when I moced a lot, I sorted my piece by type (like, all axles in one pile, ball joints in another etc.). I would also sort out all of the specialized set pieces before hand.

 

-NotS

[Element Lord of Milk]

I just put mine into ziploc bags by colour, it helped a lot when I was rebuilding my collection. Just recently I also put together separate bags for ammo pieces and blended pieces.