Category: Community (Page 4 of 158)

BrickLink has revealed the five sets that will be available as part of the Series 3 BrickLink Designer Program crowdfunding. These models were chosen by fans as well as input from BrickLink out of 185 designs. Crowdfunding for these sets will begin in October 2024. Details about the sets and pricing will be announced around that time.

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Harbormaster’s Office

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The Art of Chocolate

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Forest Stronghold

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Camping Adventure

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Lost City

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Yesterday during LEGO’s Black Friday 2023 preview livestream, they showed off a new feature for the LEGO Pick a Brick system with the Modular Building Collection add-ons. Here you can build some small add-ons for the modulars and they have provided all the parts for that particular model. As of right now, you can’t order the the parts yet as a set but you can still get the pieces individually and LEGO has even provided the building instructions for free.

• Construction Site – 150 pieces/$25.72
• Winter Scene – 148 pieces/$24.95
• Vending Stand – 172 pieces/$31.20

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After a few days of downtime, BrickLink is now back up and running with operations seemingly back to normal. As confirmed, they did get a ransom letter and from their investigations and they’ve been looking into some suspicious activity on the site since October. At this point, they suggested that it was a credential stuffing event in which cybercriminals use stolen usernames and passwords from another site to access BrickLink. As a result, you’ll have to change your passwords when you access the site and suggest not using the same ones as for other sites.

Welcome back and thank you for your patience. We were down for longer than anyone would have wanted. Now that we’re back up and running, we can share with you what’s happened.

As many of you will know, we received a threat and ransom demand on Friday, November 3rd. We’d been aware of and actively managing some limited suspicious activity since mid-October, with unauthorized sellers offering products at huge discounts and fraudulently accepting payment from buyers.

As soon as we were aware of the potential escalation on November 3rd, we put the site into maintenance mode out of an abundance of caution. We did this to protect our members and keep complete control of the platform while investigating.

We found that a relatively small number of BrickLink accounts may have been accessed. It is important to note that there is no evidence so far that our systems were compromised.

At this stage we believe this was a ‘credential stuffing’ incident, where

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Last Friday, BrickLink went into maintenance mode and users on the site weren’t able to access it. The reason they gave was they were investigating some “unusual activity.” Many people speculated that the site may have been hacked and some users were given ransom messages.

After a day or so of radio silence, BrickLink finally started giving some updates and today they confirmed that their investigations revealed that a small number of accounts have been accessed by “unauthorized individuals.” This pretty much confirms that the site was hacked mostly likely due to old coding that’s still in use.

There’s still legitimate fear that some store inventories may have been wiped out which could be damaging to one’s livelihood. Even the site being down for a few days surely have impacted sales for many already as well as for buyers.

As of right now, BrickLink is still down and will be offline for the foreseeable future. Hopefully, they’ll keep up with the regular updates.

Friday November 3rd, we temporarily closed the BrickLink site due to unusual activity.

Since then, the team has been working super hard to make sure we can reopen as soon as possible – and we’re getting closer to doing that.

Our investigations so far suggest that a very small percentage of our accounts may potentially have been accessed by unauthorized individuals. We’ll be in contact with people directly soon with more details.

Thank you for your patience and support – the kind posts we see from all of you on social media make

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If you’ve been on BrickLink the past few hours, you may have gotten a maintenance message but behind the scenes, the site may have been hacked. The main page gives the following message:

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. We are currently investigating some unusual activity, so it’s too early to speculate further. We will share more information once it’s available.

In addition, it also appears that there have been ransom messages sent out to a number of BrickLink accounts for both buyers and sellers wanting Cryptocurrency or else items and store inventories will get deleted.

Obviously, if you have a BrickLink account and have used the same password for other platforms, I would suggest changing those passwords just to be safe. There’s been no official word from BrickLink or LEGO at this time and we’ll see if they do give any updates on the situation.

Thanks to Michael on Meta for the heads up on this piece of news.

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LEGO has announced there will be a Black Friday 2023 Preview livestream from Denmark this year on November 8 at 6:30 pm ET. Here they will reveal the new LEGO set as well as a gift with purchase set that will be available during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. There will also be a chance to win a signed set or one of thirty $100 gift cards.

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LEGO has announced the LEGO Insiders Club which is a free new membership program for children. Some of the features of the program include the LEGO Masters Academy where kids can learn building skills from Master Builders. There’s also trophies they can earn by completing missions. Kids can join now with the help of parents and there are safety features that you can control what kids can and cannot do.

Introducing LEGO® Insiders Club, our new membership program for children. This is the ultimate kids fan community where signed-up children can learn building skills from LEGO® Master Builders, complete creative missions to unlock trophies and personalize their account with their unique avatar. And this is just the beginning.

LEGO® Insiders Club members don’t just build with bricks, they also build their creative confidence and LEGO fandom by getting access to inspirational videos that they won’t find anywhere else.

Kids can only join LEGO® Insiders Club with permission from a parent or guardian. Once they’re in, you decide what your kids can and can’t do.

It’s easy to join Insiders Club with a little grown-up help. Start the sign-up process with your children using your existing LEGO® account for adults. In just a few minutes, they’ll be on their own Insiders journey!

Key Features So Far Include:

LEGO® Masters Academy – Learn building skills from LEGO® Master Builders

Missions and Trophies – Complete creative missions to unlock trophies

Avatar Builder – Create their own minifigure avatar

Built-in safety – Safe and inclusive with parental controls

More features

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