The BrickLink Designer Program Series 5 pre-orders went live yesterday and BrickLink did a new thing with this series by making more sets available for fans. They didn’t say how many of each set was the maximum number produced but a reader over on our Reddit page yesterday was able to figure it out. If you look at the source code for each of the sets, you can see the code of the maximum number of sets that will be produced.
Adventure in Transylvania had the highest “adjustment” as the it had a maximum of 40,000 sets but was later bumped up to 50,000. The Thieves of Tortuga started of with 30,000 sets but was later adjusted to 40,000. Mushroom Village and Popcorn Wagon were at 34,000 but it has since been decreased back to 30,000. The Antique Shop didn’t change from the original 30,000. There’s still a possibility that the latter three could get bumped up but we shall see.
This is very interesting as it seems that LEGO/BrickLink is trying to predict how popular each set is and either the devs are manually adjusting the numbers or there’s some code that automatically changes them according to how popular a set is.
As of this post, all of the sets have been funded with Adventure in Transylvania being the closest to selling out at about 90%. Popcorn Wagon is next with about 80% of the stock depleted. The Thieves of Tortuga follows with about 75%.
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