How To Find Out What Lego Set You Have

Find for the rarest slice(s)

My usual method for identifying a set I'1000 not familiar with is to discover the rarest role. It's not always possible to find the rarest part but I tin usually guess which parts are rare given how many of them I have in my collection.

For System sets I will usually ignore unmodified bricks, plates and tiles in common colours.

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Example

When I was trying to find the set up in the example shown below from this question. I ignored all the plates and the ii black 1x1 studs as they were all common parts in standard colours.

The only 2 parts remaining were the bluish Minifigure Seat (4079) and the bluish Steering Wheel (3829).

From those two parts it was easy to identify information technology as a vehicle and with the arrangement of the pieces I could tell it was a iv-stud wide vehicle. Since around 2005-2010 it has become more common for LEGO to produce vehicles 6 or viii studs wide so I assumed information technology was a fairly old set.

To identify these ii pieces I used the catalogue search on Bricklink, if I didn't know the proper noun of these pieces I could have search by category, or if I knew the piece number (found often on the bottom of many parts) I could have searched for that as well.

Every piece on Bricklink has a list of 'Known Colors', the steering wheel had 222 set entries for the colour bluish and the steering wheel had the minifgure seat had 68 results for the colour blueish.

I sorted the listing by selecting 'Year Released' to 'Up' so that I would encounter the oldest sets start and fix the preview mode to 'List with Images' so that I could see both a photo of the set and relevant information. (I also recommend using 'Thumbnail Gallery').

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General Tips

• The colours that I consider 'standard' are Red, Xanthous, Dark-green, Blue, Blackness and White. These colours are probably the most mutual and are nigh always included in bulk brick buckets.

• Around 2004, the color of lite/nighttime grey and dark-brown bricks were changed slightly. Modern greyness bricks are often known as 'bley' because of their blueish tint. Related: What is the bley (blay) color?

Minifigure Tips

• There was only 1 variation of the caput for Minifigures prior to 1989, the classic smile head. This piece continues to be used for archetype releases equally well as Modular sets although it is non every bit common. We can dominion out any 'non-classic' minifigure heads as being later on this year.

• Minifigures with two-sided heads were not produced until 2001.

• Minifigures with short legs were not produced until 2002.

• The kickoff minifigures with realistic peel tones were released in 2003. Only yellow minifigures were available previously. Related: Why do some minifigs have yellowish heads and some are flesh colored?

• Microfigures were get-go released in 2009

How To Find Out What Lego Set You Have,

Source: https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/404/how-can-i-identify-lego-sets-from-a-box-of-parts

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