What do you use old/trashed LEGO for (if you cannot recycle them)?

Calibrick

Just out of curiosity, what uses have you found for your old or unsellable (i.e., chewed up) LEGO, beyond recycling (if your area offers that)?

I have used 1x2 bricks to hold up LED lighting inside some of my scratch-built non-LEGO model kits, as a weird example, and of course making a color palette using 1x1 plates. Just wondering what unusual uses we have found as a community for leveraging old LEGO! :-)

Papa Pearson

I will use them for MILS plates when I can. They can be used as filler bricks for MOC's. I will occasionally put them into my store and list with a description as damaged/scratched or whatever. They will sell if have them low enough.

brickos

The damaged and used LEGO, i do use in my Halloween or trashed future landscapes as it brings a kind of destroyed look to the build. Planning to do an abandoned house for next Halloween as well as a yet another Jack’o’lantern that is destroyed, it will stay anyway in the cold outside to say hello to the kids doing trick or treat…

Papa Pearson

I will use them for MILS plates when I can. They can be used as filler bricks for MOC's. I will occasionally put them into my store and list with a description as damaged/scratched. Good to use a filler bricks

Papa Pearson

Sorry, didn't mean to post the same answer twice.

Calibrick

What is a MILS plate? (love the MOC filler idea, as well as for halloween decorations!)

White Horse Bricks

Mils is a lego modelling standard. It basically defines how things are laid out on a baseplate so that different builders can combine their plates for a larger display.

https://www.abellon.net/MILS/

Papa Pearson

@Calibrick ...MILS (Modular integrated Landscaping system). Lots of city/MOC builders have gone to these to fit the new road plates.

Calibrick

Thanks everyone, that term was new for me! :-) I'm totally curious now and am going to research it!

mfav

@Calibrick
https://www.hispabrickmagazine.com/magazines/
in the search box on the left, do a search for "modular" and another for "MILS"

That should get you the balance of the source material…what isn't at the MILS page listed above.

Calibrick

Thanks for the link, Mfav, that will help get me started!