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Upcoming BrickLink Changes in 2014-2015

October 17, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Users of BrickLink, this piece of news is probably what you’ve been waiting for. Chief Site Architect Marvin Park has given an outline for what’s in store for the updated BrickLink until the end of 2015. They’ve been gathering information from various sources and getting feedback for improvements to BrickLink. Many of the features listed are what buyers as well as sellers have been waiting for so it’s great to see that they’ll finally being implemented.

Also, they’ve dropped the version numbering system like BrickLink 1.0, 2.0, etc. to available confusion. As a substitute, the major revisions will have an unique code name. Check out below BrickLink has in store for the next year.

November 2014 – Price Quotation

– Sellers will be able to opt-in to give price quotes for orders.
– Buyers aren’t obligated to purchase the quoted orders but quoted items won’t be held for the buyers.
– Quotation-based ordering system will comply with the German e-commerce law (a.k.a German Button solution).

January 2015 – Automated Shipping Cost Calculation

– Shipping costs can be automatically calculated when sending invoices and quotes.
– Initial release of this feature will officially support USPS (USA), Royal Mail (UK), Deutsche Post (Germany), and PostNL (Netherlands).

Q1, 2015 / TBA – Express Checkout

– Paypal payments will be integrated within the store checkout process. (Finally!). Buyers will be able to send Paypal payments directly to sellers as part of the checkout process. (Q1, 2015).
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Creations for Charity 2014 Sale Begins Today

October 15, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Creations for Charity store opens today!

The 6th annual Creations for Charity sale starts today. If you haven’t heard about it before, it’s a fundraiser founded by Nannan Zhang and it is for LEGO builders to donate their creations to sell and raise money to purchase LEGO sets for underprivileged children.

Until the November 15th, you can donate your creations and they will be listed for sale until November 30th. Check out Creations for Charity to see the builds that have already been donated and help raise money for this very worthy cause.

Last year, the fundraiser donated over $20,000 worth of LEGO sets to children in six different cities across three countries and they hope to surpass it this year.

Merry Christmas from Creations for Charity 2013!

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San Diego – Fashion Valley October 2014 LEGO Community Window

October 9, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

To get in the Halloween mood, the LEGO Community Window at my LEGO Brand Store (Fashion Valley) has been updated by a couple of members from SandLUG. This month, we have Spooky Ville! which is a haunted house filled with a number of CubeDudes built by Jason which he names CubeCreatures. As you can see, the Creatures are based on monsters that you probably would see during Halloween time like Dracula, the Bride of Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, the Blob, the Frankenstein Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Headless Horseman, the Swamp Thing, and many more. I’ve been informed that a couple of the characters were built by Hao as well.

The haunted house itself is created by Hao and Tommy and has some interesting details like the way they created the cemetery headstone in the shape of a cross using a TECHNIC belt wheel and modified 1×1’s with clip.

If you’re in the area and have some free time, I highly suggest swinging by the store to check out the LEGO Community Window and see it in person because the pictures really don’t do it justice.

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The LEGO Group Ends Partnership with Shell

October 9, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

The Guardian is reporting that The LEGO Group has ended their partnership with Shell. This comes after pressure from Greenpeace and their viral video against Arctic drilling. Before, LEGO announced that the company would live up to their long term contract with the oil company but it looks like LEGO has done a complete 180 on the deal.

The partnership between LEGO and Shell has been going on since the 1960s with the first Shell sets being released in 1966. This most likely means that there will be no more promotional Shell sets being released anymore which makes existing sets go up in value on the secondary market. LEGO CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp notes:

“Our stakeholders have high expectations of the way we operate. So do we. We do not agree with the tactics used by Greenpeace that may have created misunderstandings among our stakeholders about the way we operate, and we want to ensure our attention is not diverted from our commitment to delivering creative and inspiring play experiences.”

You can the full statement from Jørgen here. And with that, this post will be the last time that we will be reporting on it.

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LEGO Inside Tour 2015 Details Announced

September 20, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Brickset has reported that LEGO has published details about next year’s LEGO Inside Tour. If you haven’t heard of the LEGO Inside Tour, it takes you on an very unique tour where you can visit Ole Kirk Christiansen’s original house, meet the LEGO designers, as well as take a look at the Billund factory. Another perk that you get from the tour is the exclusive set that is given away to attendees. This year’s set was The LEGOLAND Train (4000014).

If you’ve tried to applying for a spot on the tour before, you know that it’s extremely difficult to get in since they sell out within minutes. The LEGO Inside Tour is even harder to get in than San Diego Comic Con and I know how hard it is to get tickets to SDCC.

Registration for LEGO Inside Tour opens at 1.00 PM on Monday 3 November 2014 (Danish time)

There are four different tours that potential attendees can get in to:

5 May – 8 May
19 May – 22 May
9 June – 12 June
16 June – 19 June

The price for the tour has increased by 10% from 13,000 DKK last year to 14,500 DKK ($2500, £1500, 1900€) this year. Also, travel accommodations to Billund is NOT included so you will have to arrange that yourself.

Read more about the 2015 LEGO Inside Tour here.

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Countdown to LEGO (Blank) Continues

September 17, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

LEGO has posted another countdown image on their Facebook page as well as on their other social media pages such as Google+. Again, the image has the same line of colors across the top and bottom like in their image from a few days ago.

A lot of people have already debunked what the countdown is for already so if you want to know, check out our previous post.

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LEGO Announcement Accidentally Revealed? – (Spoilers)

September 15, 2014 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran

Earlier this morning, we reported that LEGO will be making an announcement to “reveal something very exciting.” It looks like LEGO has accidentally spilled the beans on what this announcement could be.

Over on LEGO’s Google+ post of the same image, you can see the details of the photo and the file name says “Bionicle-4-new.jpg20140915-4177-5fuc51.jpg.” This pretty much almost confirms that they will be announcing the return of LEGO BIONICLE in 2015 and shoots down my guess that it could be the LEGO Ideas results. For many of us in the LEGO community, we already knew about the return of LEGO BIONICLE next year but for the general public who aren’t in the know, this is news to them.

We’ll keep you updated but it kinda lessens the excitement just a tad bit.

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