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I also hope that the buy-out does not adversely affect links between Bricklink and the upcoming Piqabrick system.
1 - Is LEGO going to see a part selling on BL for a higher price and bump up their price, which leads to my second question.
2 - Will LEGO see that there is high demand for an out of print part and start selling it again.
I would love, as I am sure others would, to see LEGO start producing certain parts again in colors/designs that arent available right now. That is to say the color is available and the design is still in use but the color/design combo is not. For instance the sand green bricks with the groove in green grocer, or the black roof tiles used in the haunted house.
As someone who doesnt sell on BL and only buys, I dont see this as a problem but I can understand how the sellers wouldnt be happy about it, if it were to happen.
BrickLink must have some profitability to justify the acquisition. Owning the largest player in the secondary market permits easier access to limit things like prototypes, demos, controversial sets, etc. that they don't want sold on the secondary market.
And maybe they fold it into P&B and Ideas. It seems like consolidating multiple AFOL platforms into one comprehensive site would make some sense.
(But it also makes sense to have a functioning [email protected] website.)
It reminds me of the Henry Ford quote regarding the Model T "You can have it any color you want, as long as it's black".
The LEGO quote will be something like " We are really interested in knowing and delivering what you want, as long as it is only our product and meets our parameters".
It will pretty much make any data they collect tainted by their own bias.
We love the creativity that the Studio Gallery fosters amongst all of our designers. There have been over 17,000 creations uploaded by all of you! Many of these designs are incredible original creations; however, we have noticed a number of submissions in the Studio Gallery that are Intellectual Property (IP) related subjects.
In order to allow you to continue to show off all of your creations in the Studio Gallery, we will be setting designs that are IP infringing to Display Only. This means that all of your images and description will be visible, but the Studio file cannot be downloaded, and the parts list will not be available.
If any of your designs in the Studio Gallery are related to IP subjects, we ask that you please go ahead and switch them to Display Only.
How to switch your design to Display Only
Navigate to My Studio and click the name of your design. Uncheck the “Allow downloads” checkbox, and then click Save at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for understanding, and we hope to continue to see your wonderful designs in the Studio Gallery!
- The BrickLink Team
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=4002019-1#T=S&O={"iconly":0}
May be the last year of this...
That said, those looking to continue such pursuits can go elsewhere or set up their own third-party LEGO marketplace to fill the gulf created by these changes to BrickLink.
https://www.bricklink.com/v3/terms_of_service.page
https://www.bricklink.com/v3/terms_of_service_designer.page
As well as various parts regarding IP infringement, it also says that one person cannot upload another's design, even with permission. Since there are users who seem to specialise in taking YouTube build videos (good, but not my cup of tea) into Studio instructions (much more my style), that's going to be annoying.
(There's other resources too for MOC instructions, but Rebrickable is the one I use most.)
My worry is how far will this go, does it mean I have to be careful in the future when I upload a parts list from rebrickable into a wants list, will I have to make sure it's named something inconspicuous so I'm not advertising I'm buying the parts for a large Star Wars ship?
I appreciate that's probably overkill but the AFOL community has lost a valuable resource to design, display, share and buy the bricks for their MOCs from a single place.
While our designers invent new pieces all the time to make our toys better and more fun, we try to keep as many of the older parts as possible in stock!
Sometimes – and this is especially true for older sets – we run out of a part and don’t have the exact replacement anymore. If you couldn’t find the right part through our Bricks & Pieces or Pick A Brick services, we might still have something similar in our current assortment. After all, creating a new, fantastic toy often involves re-using our tried and tested older molds!
Of course, there are also a bunch of fan websites and other retailers around that might still have the part you’re looking for. Keep in mind that these aren’t our sites so the LEGO Group isn’t responsible for their content, and the items they’re selling could be new or used.
If you’d like a different piece or want some help finding out what might work instead, please get in touch with us.Looks like they've managed to F##@ it up good and proper and they've only had it three weeks.
That's got to be a record in IT incompetence.