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My 8 year old went into the toy room earlier this week and played with the Lego collectible minifigures that were on display. Oh, the mayhem! Now I’m dusting areas that haven’t been dusted in years.
thank you very much, I have built it with my father. I would rebuild to fit all of them, but I have already glass door and glass shelves made and they did cost alot.
I went from a near divorce experience, when my wife finally realized the size of the collection, to her agreeing to a Lego room in our new house!
We are moving from a NYC apt to a house in south CA. Local LEGO store will be Westfield Topanga. Any good?
Non American forum users may appreciate that she was careful to omit an “S” at the end...I think I have taught her well! 😀
The key is finding the spouse a hobby that keeps them equally occupied... since Lego was not her thing I introduced her to British period dramas and that was that! 😄
On one occasion, while I was building the Temple of Airjitsu, she put the Modular Bank together - she even made sue all the ingots on the outside were facing the same way like on the box!
My collection/accumulation has been slowly taking over my home for a number of years now and I had been looking for an affordable way to expand my storage space in a way that I could both enjoy and protect the collection. I had been thinking about something along the lines of an office/construction trailer, but hadn't found anything suitable, close enough to bring home, or priced reasonably. To make matters worse, my parent's home was sold this summer and I was going to lose a lot of my extra storage space there as well.
Fortunately I found this from a local company that deals in new and used commercial trailers and shipping containers. It is a 36 foot long insulated trailer that had been modified by a film production company for storing and hauling their film equipment. In addition to being fully insulated it included the built in heavy duty shelving and work tables shown. It is also fully wired with a 200 amp electrical panel to which allows for a full set of lighting, 2 heaters, an air conditioner and numerous receptacles along both sides of the trailer. There is a second wall with a regular walk in door behind the roll-up door at the back of the trailer. I have also added heavy duty plastic shelving racks underneath the steel racking. It had been wired to operate off generator power and I plan to have it hardwired with permanent power soon. For now it has an external plug for "shore power" which allows me to have lighting and a couple of plugs running off of an extension cord.
I've been spending the past months slowly moving my collection to its new home, but still have a lot of work to do. Anyone who has had to move a large collection can appreciate the task. As sets are moved in I'm trying to keep them sorted and cataloged so I can be more organized hopefully find them again later. It has also given me a good chance to identify surplus sets that I can get rid of. I've got about 1/3 of the trailer full so far and still a lot of work to go.
The cost for the trailer, delivered on site was approximately $5000 CDN. About $250 for the gravel on the site and I spent another $500 or so on the additional shelving.
I live on a large rural property so the trailer isn't really that noticeable tucked in behind the shed that can be seen in the background.