A new feature has been added to Pick a Brick at LEGO.com which has prompted me to add a complementary one here.
If you're in North America you can now upload a list of parts that you want to the PaB page, rather than having to search for them individually there. It's being piloted in NA at the moment and will be available everywhere in due course.
This therefore makes it possible to compile your wanted parts list elsewhere, including here at Brickset.
This is an update of an article first published in 2015 which I am reposting now in response to a growing number of requests added to our suggestion box that can be fulfilled by using these features, which suggests that they are not well known about.
As well as the standard 'own' and 'want' checkboxes in the set listings, you can enable up to eight others and label them as you see fit. You can use them to indicate, for example, sets you used to own, sets your kids own, sets you've just ordered, sets that the dog chewed the instructions for, and so on.
Additionally, you can add input fields to the 'own' and 'want' checkboxes to record the quantities of the set you own new and used, and also the number that you want, and how badly you want it.
The big red My Menu menu item at the top of the page (when viewing the site on a large screen) provides links to your content such as reviews, BrickLists, queries and so on.
It also provides a quick and easy means to bookmark pages on the site for later retrieval. It's a feature that few people use, so I thought it would be worth reminding you about it.
It's also available when viewing on a small screen device, as I will show in this article.
Tips & Bricks has carved out a niche for itself by presenting building tutorials, set reviews, MOCs and more in a unique, attractive and consistent way on Instagram, Facebook and its own website.
Recently Alex and the team that run the site published a guide to using Brickset which I thought was so useful that I'd mention it to you here. It explains how to access and use the basic features of the site as well as some of those that are more hidden away, so even if you've been visiting for a while you may learn something from it.
When you add a set to your collection, Brickset automatically adds the figures it contains to your minifig collection.
But what should you do if you sell the minifigs, or if you've bought a used copy of the set that has some or all of them missing? And what if you have two copies of the set, one with minifigs, one without?
This tutorial explains how to deal with each of these scenarios.
If you record your set collection here at Brickset you will already know that you can view the minifigs that are in the sets you own, and can also log any that you have acquired loose.
It's also possible do to the same for parts. This tutorial explains how to do so.
Rebrickable is a site that allows you to determine which official sets and MOCs submitted by its users you can build from the parts in sets you already own.
It's been possible to synchronise your set collection recorded here with Rebrickable to enable you to take advantage of its features since 2012. The site has recently been upgraded so now would seem like a good time to remind you how to connect to it.
This tutorial covers setting up the connection between your Brickset and Rebrickable accounts, exporting your collection to Rebrickable, importing it from Rebrickable if you have it recorded there, and also how to access some of the site's features without leaving Brickset.
BrickLists provide a way to create lists of sets that can be viewed and shared with others. Typically, they are used where the sets in question can't be listed together using other methods, such as by searching for a particular theme, year or tag, or by creating a query.
Anyone can create them and, if appropriate, make them discoverable by other users.
I had originally planned on posting this tutorial a month or so ago but while preparing to do so I felt that creating them was not as easy as it should be so I made some usability improvements first.
This article will explain how to make BrickLists as well as introducing a number of new features. It also provides some best practice guidelines for when it is and isn't appropriate to use them.
Update 22/7/21: A number of images are missing from this article. We will reinstate them as soon as we can.
The recent user survey highlighted the fact that not everyone is aware of some of Brickset's advanced features.
In attempt to remedy this I will be writing a series of tutorials which will each explain a particular feature or how to accomplish a particular task. Over time they will form a useful reference in the news archive.
To start with I will explain how to customise which articles appear on the home page and how you can hide those you don't want to read.
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