Last week, I participated in an in-depth discussion with brothers Grinch and West on their weekly conversational LEGO podcast AFOLs Welcome. The focus of our discussion was exploring strategies to organize, sort, and store your LEGO collection.

Listen to the episode on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• Amazon Music
• Pocket Casts
• YouTube (video)

You can also watch us talk by viewing the episode on YouTube. (I even cleaned my LEGO room to have a less distracting background!)

AFOLs Welcome Episode 45 – The Brick Architect – Sorting and Storing LEGO.

While I encourage you to listen to our whole conversation, you can use these links to jump to a specific topic…

• 25:47 – Introduction – About Tom Alphin
• 32:10 – Making ‘The LEGO Architect’ book
• 35:41 – Making ‘The LEGO Storage Guide’
• 39:23 – LEGO Parts Guide / Most Common LEGO Parts
• 43:11 – My Goal: Creating resources for LEGO Builders
• 48:39 – Creative constraints of the LEGO System
• 50:12 – Favorite Theme / Set
• 52:55 – Expanding on my book in the future
• 59:37 – Sorting Strategies – Part, Color, Element
• 1:03:50 – How my sorting strategy has evolved
• 1:07:15 – Storing Air
• 1:10:01 – Increasing number of unique parts (and labels)
• 1:12:17 – Importance of a Hierarchal system
• 1:13:23 – Creating succinct part names for Labels
• 1:21:10 – BrickLink vs Brick Architect Hierarchy
• 1:24:45 – Storage recommendations for all ages
• 1:30:22 – When to stop sorting?
• 1:33:23 – Minifigs and Instructions
• 1:37:27 – Final Thoughts