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The light starts to decrease so quickly at this time of year. It bums me out, I'm rarely enamoured by the Big Bash, but it's a good thing to have on while I'm building Lego at this time of year. But as the light starts to fade, my options are limited to a pretty dull reading lamp... which I had to buy, because my loungeroom lights are 5 torturously bright LED lights that completely throw off my sleep rythm.
 

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I'm only seriously back into Lego over the last couple of years.

What's the deal with the Lego Bricklink crowdfund stuff? Since when does Lego need to crowdfund projects?

Where did these projects come from? Were they also crowd sourced?
 
nobbyiscool said:
I'm only seriously back into Lego over the last couple of years.

What's the deal with the Lego Bricklink crowdfund stuff? Since when does Lego need to crowdfund projects?

Where did these projects come from? Were they also crowd sourced?
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This started a few years ago when COVID caused the number of Ideas submissions to skyrocket. Lego went from a dozen or so in each round to more than 50, and of course they could only make 1 or 2 from each round.

In addition, many of the builds were large and complex, and not easy to turn into official sets.

They decided to implement the Bricklink Designer Program to allow some of the Ideas submissions not selected to be made available to fans that wanted them. These sets are not built to "official" standards, but are vetted and approved by Lego.

In order to avoid inventory/production scheduling issues with additional unplanned sets, Lego makes the sets available for pre-order only, which is where "crowd funding" comes in. If they reach a minimum order quantity, they will build them, up to a current maximum of 30,000 sets I believe. There is only one production run each, and they do not go on general sale.

I'm not sure if the BDP takes submissions from outside the Ideas process, but I don't think so.

TL;DR it's for sets that although worthy, don't make the Ideas official set cut.
 
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Capital Power said:
This started a few years ago when COVID caused the number of Ideas submissions to skyrocket. Lego went from a dozen or so in each round to more than 50, and of course they could only make 1 or 2 from each round.

In addition, many of the builds were large and complex, and not easy to turn into official sets.

They decided to implement the Bricklink Designer Program to allow some of the Ideas submissions not selected to be made available to fans that wanted them. These sets are not built to "official" standards, but are vetted and approved by Lego.

In order to avoid inventory/production scheduling issues with additional unplanned sets, Lego makes the sets available for pre-order only, which is where "crowd funding" comes in. If they reach a minimum order quantity, they will build them, up to a current maximum of 30,000 sets I believe. There is only one production run each, and they do not go on general sale.

I'm not sure if the BDP takes submissions from outside the Ideas process, but I don't think so.

TL;DR it's for sets that although worthy, don't make the Ideas official set cut.
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Super comprehensive, thanks heaps man. I'm about to torture myself and check out what, if anything, I would've bought in previous years...
 
nobbyiscool said:
Super comprehensive, thanks heaps man. I'm about to torture myself and check out what, if anything, I would've bought in previous years...
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Yeah don't do that, some of them are much rarer than this (I think the first series only had 5,000 sets produced and created a massive bunfight with unmet demand. Hence the current production limit of 30,000).

Lego promised to make the instructions publicly available on their site, so it is in theory possible to build your own from parts, but given your experiences doing this I'd not recommend it.

Just subscribe to the relevant email/blog sources so you know when the next round is available for pre-order. The next round is available from February 4, and popular sets still sell out quickly. See https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/main.page.

EDIT : I ordered the Art of Chocolate from Series 3 just on a whim, I thought it looked like something Lego would never make. Might be fun. Due for release around 1st March.
 
Went to Northland this morning, which is one of my least favourite places in Melbourne.

Is it normal for shelves to be so bare at this time of year? Did Target & Kmart overdo their specials? I've never seen anything like it, cos for some reason when they don't have Lego to put on their shelves, they don't replace it with anything. It was like toilet paper during COVID.
 
nobbyiscool said:
Went to Northland this morning, which is one of my least favourite places in Melbourne.

Is it normal for shelves to be so bare at this time of year? Did Target & Kmart overdo their specials? I've never seen anything like it, cos for some reason when they don't have Lego to put on their shelves, they don't replace it with anything. It was like toilet paper during COVID.
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Yes, this is usual, the toy shelves generally are bare after Christmas. What isn't usual is that no-one seems to have any of the new January 1 sets. I guess they figure that people don't buy toys in January, which is presumably why Lego has its biggest release on January 1.
 
Capital Power said:
This started a few years ago when COVID caused the number of Ideas submissions to skyrocket. Lego went from a dozen or so in each round to more than 50, and of course they could only make 1 or 2 from each round.

In addition, many of the builds were large and complex, and not easy to turn into official sets.

They decided to implement the Bricklink Designer Program to allow some of the Ideas submissions not selected to be made available to fans that wanted them. These sets are not built to "official" standards, but are vetted and approved by Lego.

In order to avoid inventory/production scheduling issues with additional unplanned sets, Lego makes the sets available for pre-order only, which is where "crowd funding" comes in. If they reach a minimum order quantity, they will build them, up to a current maximum of 30,000 sets I believe. There is only one production run each, and they do not go on general sale.

I'm not sure if the BDP takes submissions from outside the Ideas process, but I don't think so.

TL;DR it's for sets that although worthy, don't make the Ideas official set cut.
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Thanks for this, I wasn't sure how it worked either.

If the Tuting Machine doesn't get up, hopefully this is the fallback option. I need that set 🤣
 

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I'm sure my phone and social media algorithms deliberately serve me up Lego news, especially when it's in mainstream sources - even so, I've been pretty surprised by the amount of coverage for Lego x Bluey today. This is going to go apeshit.
 

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