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I'm afraid this is just another example from BrickLink that shows that they don't have the right focus.
First we got MOC Shop. Turned out to be a complete fail. Then we got Mosaic. Another fail from the start. Now we have this. My prediction is that none of the designs submitted will meet the required amount in the fund raising step.
Instead, BrickLink should listen to it's customers (the sellers) and turn their focus to updating the outdated 20 year old website to modern standards. But -alas- they seem to have no interest in this.
I'm particularly concerned because BL -- based in China -- has a different opinion about the freedom of speech than in Europe.
People like me who are critical about BL are punished by a life time ban on the forum and there's no communication possible with the admins of BL.
You can take my words above for granted. No problem.
The real problem is that TLG agreed to cooperate with BL not knowing that BL doesn't accept the United Nations Human Rights Declaration (freedom of speech).
TL;DR: LEGO should stop their cooperation with BricLink ASAP.
I was kind of surprised. I submitted 7 designs, some ridiculously detailed, and they chose the Clovershire Castle as a finalist. (One of the simpler ones I did). Maybe they chose smaller as they would be easier to make? Mine most likely won't make it through crowdfunding but one can hope!
Part of the thing I think with this contest is the short amount of time the designers were given with the program software and everything, so I think some of the constraints might have filtered out any potentially really large projects? Then again, eight still have to be revealed so I can't accurately judge yet!
It's a nice program for making directions for you MOCS, but the actual contest and rules... Pass.
Again we were just gonna call it "Nightmare House" and NOT include a Freddy minifig.
Plus you can see better MOCs on eurobricks and flickr.
NXMH is a Holding and registered in Brussels.
So you should get something resembling a set box with instructions. No guarantees how nice the box will be though. Hopefully it will be at least up to the standards of a LCP set.
*shameless plug for my design, if you like it we'd love your support :)
https://www.bricklink.com/v3/crowdproject/view_design.page?id=57599
Some explanations and examples for Belgium here: https://www.bpost.be/site/nl/residential/parcels/international/Bijkomende_kosten_internationale_pakketten.pdf
https://tulli.fi/en/customs-duty-calculator
I'd love to buy a couple of the finalists as well but the custom fees are also stopping me to hit the buy now button...
So if I buy Jonas Kramm's Saloon for134 Euros (automatically converted from $US 149.99) , it will be an extra 32.20 Euros for me in the UK...
I was confused about the 24% VAT and why it kept defaulting back to EUROS, then I realised that this was a Finnish Customs website so VAT is higher haha. At least this is a 'worse case scenario' website for me with 20% VAT here in the UK...
It's the Behind the Bricks for the AFOL Designer Program.
It's really cool to see them working on our designs over there :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEYuqyVWIo
Right now on the Crowdfunding page it's only at 28%, so while I'm hoping it'll get there, I'm starting to think it's most likely going to be a failure. Still, 44 days is a while! Go, mediocre project, go! ;)
I'm guessing not though, since technically they would be considered a MOC.
haha