Avid users of the hughly popular BrickLink platform can expect to see several new updates from mid December, as they announce infrastructure improvement, site speed, responsiveness, security, and stability. This coincides with their 25th anniversary and 5 years as part of The LEGO Group. One of the main changes will be the use of your LEGO account to login and track orders. How this will work is anyone’s guess, will users be able to merge accounts? We’ll find out soon as the update is set to roll out mid December. Click here to read more about the changes via the official BrickLink page. 

The five BDP Series 3 comprise of a nice mix of sets including Harbormaster’s Office, The Art of Chocolate, Forest Stronghold, Camping Adventure and Lost City. Coming in at various prices, from £44.99 to £249.99, there is something for everyone at every budget. Pre-orders are now being taken, the sets need to accumulate at least 3,000 orders to be produced, where a further maximum of 30,000 set will be made, shipping will start early 2025. For more information please see the list below, alternatively head over to the official Bricklink website below and pre-order your favorite(s) now.

https://www.bricklink.com/r3/designer-program/series-3/main.page

Harbormaster’s Office

£159.99 / $209.99 / €179.99

The Art of Chocolate

£189.99 / $229.99 / €209.99

Forest Stronghold

£249.99 / $299.99 / €279.99

Camping Adventure

£44.99 / $54.99 / €49.99

Lost City

£239. 99 / $289.99 / €269

The five BDP Series 3 sets will be available to pre-order 8th October 2024 from 8am (PT). They comprise of a nice mix of sets including Harbormaster’s Office, The Art of Chocolate, Forest Stronghold, Camping Adventure and Lost City. Coming in at various prices, from £44.99 to £249.99, there is something for everyone at every budget.

For more information please see the list below, alternatively head over to the official Bricklink website below.

https://www.bricklink.com/r3/designer-program/series-3/main.page

Harbormaster’s Office

$209.99 / €179.99

The Art of Chocolate

$229.99 / €209.99

Forest Stronghold

$299.99 / €279.99

Camping Adventure

$54.99 / €49.99

Lost City

$289.99 / €269

Starting today until 14th June, you can cast your votes on the builds that take your fancy. There are a total of 307 in this round so it’ll take you awhile to get through them all, I won’t list them all here but they’re available to peruse at your own pace here. Just like the previous Series’, simply vote by using the emojis on the projects you like.

The Review Stage will run straight after with the final five designs being announced 19th August. Good luck to all that have taken part.

The sets are a mix of themes including the Wild West, Castles and Boats. They will begin crowdfunding in early 2025 with sets that receive over 3,000 pre-orders being produced. As before 30,000 of each will be manufactured during a very limited run, they will then start to ship a few months after.

Crowdfunding recently closed for the first series of sets with some selling out rather quickly. Series 2 will begin crowdfunding this June and Series 3 in October. In the mean time, check out the five sets below, which ones take your fancy? Let us know via the comment section.

Medieval Seaside Market

Merchant Boat

Siege Encampment

The Riverside Scholars

Wild West Train

At the time of writing this post, two out of the five sets are still available to pre-order, with approximately 80% sold of the General Store (910031) and 55% of the Parisian Street (910032).

Those that have pre-ordered should know that Series 1 sets will begin production and shipping some time in July 2024, followed by Series 2 pre-orders starting 1st June.

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/main.page

Still available:

Sold out:

Bricklink has been down since approximately 20.00 CET showing the maintenance page with the message: “We are currently investigating some unusual activity, so it’s too early to speculate further. We will share more information once it’s available.”

With many businesses and AFOLs depending on the site this of course caused further speculation on several social media. On Reddit unverified ransom messages to Bricklink surfaced. According to these big stores might have their inventories affected. It’s unconfirmed at this moment if these threats are substantial and if any accounts have been comprimised.

It would be a nightmare for everyone involved if this indeed is the result of a breach in the Bricklink security. Let’s hope taking the site down is preventing serious damage to the site, accounts and user data. At this point this was the only information we could gather regarding the situation. Since many users will be wondering what is going on, we felt it was the right thing to do to share this.

Update november 4th

Whilst not discussing the causes Bricklink has updated the message on it’s landing page:

We’re sorry Bricklink isn’t currently available.
Update November 4th. 3.58 am EST We continue to investigate the unusual activity. We want to make sure we take the time to investigate fully. We will be back up and running as soon as possible.

This new initiative allows fans to showoff their creations and earn money from the instructions. As most fans know, BrickLink sellers stock a vast number of parts which are conveniently and easily compiled thanks to the amazing BlinkLink system, making purchasing the MOC you want to build easy and straightforward. Simply search through the MOC Pop-Up Store for the design you like, click the purchase option and choose where you’ll be purchasing the parts from.

Please note that parts maybe distributed by multiple sellers, this is how BrickLink works. The MOC Pop-Up Store is not the same as the BrickLink Designer Program.

Watch the handy tutorial video below for how to search and order via BrickLink. Check out the full range of MOCs and instructions here.

How to purchase tutorial:

Bricklink has announced the finalists of the second round of their Designer Program. This saw fans vote for the projects they wanted to see produced after being rejected by LEGO Ideas. The five finalists are listed below and will go through to the crowdfunding stage in June 2024.

Check out the winning entries below and see which one(s) take your fancy. Fore personally I really like the look of the Mushroom House and Train Station. Leave your comments below and let us know.

Logging Railway by ties25

The Ocean House by Hanwas

Mushroom House by JonasKramm

Brick Cross Train Station by brickester

Ominous Isle by jazlecraz

From the 12th June until 30th June you have the opportunity to cast your vote for your favourite fan designs. Following the vote and and the internal selection process, a total of 5 designs will be announced towards the end of August, going onto be made into real BrickLink sets sometime in 2024.

Approximately 200 designs were submitted, so we’re sure you’ll find something that tickles yours fancy. Simply login, find the designs you like and hit the appropriate vote button.

Click here to take a look for yourself, then let us know which ones peka your interest via the comments section below.

Random selection for example: