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LEGO bin update: 2nd and 3rd bin


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acces denied to -all-/the first two the legoz

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Sorry about that, I just tried accessing all of them in an Incognito browser and had no trouble accessing the correct pages.
How do you go about identifying sets in a big bin of mixed bricks?
It boils down to associating a particular part or minifigure to a specific set. On both Bricklink and Rebrickable, their catalog of all the existing LEGO parts gives you, for each part and each color it ever came in, the related sets they were sold with.

Many minifigures are specific to a single set, to this is often the easiest way of identifying a set. But it doesn't guarantee the rest of the set's parts are in the bin! I've had several disappointments like this, where a set-unique minifigure ends up not yielding a full set.

Beyond that, certain parts in certain color are featured in few sets which makes them rare by themselves. So begins a fun puzzle work of cross-referencing parts to increase the likelihood of a specific set to have participated in the conception of the bin.

The worst for me has been the brick boxes like the 10696 Medium Brick Box, because I have no interest in reconstituting them but they somehow feature uncommon color part combinations. So I've been excited to find a part with few sets before realizing it was part of such a box.