Play a game of 'Nostalgia' Lego
by chucking away bits that you couldn't sketch in 15 seconds with a high school geometry set, e.g. any Batman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter bits. In short, anything that isn't square, triangular, round or flat.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 16:24, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

^ this
fucking gimmicky pieces
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 19:09, Reply)

Why do you hate little Lego men?
And women?
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:12, Reply)

because it defines the overall scale of your creation
you can't pretend your space station is miles long and wide and high in its majestic ponderous rotation if there's a yellow-faced dude with claw hands and no knees that is apparently 900 feet tall stood on top.

You COULD just build a bigger model but then I didn't have Mediocre's budget for sheer numbers of bricks to begin with.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:54, Reply)