Bricklink's AFOL Designer Program 2024

[Pseudoty]

You have until the end of this month to “vote” for the ones you like, only 375 entries to look at, ugh. 
 

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/main.page

[$20 on joe vs dan]

1 hour ago, Pseudoty said:

You have until the end of this month to “vote” for the ones you like, only 375 entries to look at, ugh. 
 

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/main.page

I got to page 5 and tapped out

 

only ones that caught my eye was the library books and the polar bear (in terms of uniqueness done well)

 

[maybe we can take shifts...each of us take 5 pages and highlight anything worth noting...]

Edited March 7, 2023 by $20 on joe vs dan

[Pseudoty]

1 hour ago, $20 on joe vs dan said:

I got to page 5 and tapped out

 

only ones that caught my eye was the library books and the polar bear (in terms of uniqueness done well)

 

[maybe we can take shifts...each of us take 5 pages and highlight anything worth noting...]

Same, I started seeing the same sets twice so gave up. There are a few unique ideas like the Fan set but none that would be must buys, and how many Medieval sets can we have. 
 

Here are 2 that are nice but I probably only saw a third of the entries:

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/431/Retro-Ant-Habitat

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/376/Gothic-Cathedral

[Moppy]

You can put 96 to a page and it goes way faster.  I'm not too impressed though.  Was much better using the ideas sets that got the votes but didn't get chosen as an official set by lego.

[Pseudoty]

The default view is “Random” so change it to name to stop seeing duplicates 

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/297/-THE-EPIC-SPACE-MECHA-OF-BLACKTRON

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/624/Abandoned-Fortress:-The-Driftwood-Gangs-Hideout

[DadsAFOL]

I actually think there are a lot of great designs.   I voted like/love on probably 20-25 of them.   Unfortunately builders took advantage of the 4000 piece limit, so whatever makes it though, its gonna be ridiculously expensive to get all that qualify/win.   Both JKBrickworks and BrentWaller (previous Ideas winners) submitted sets.  If others did, I didn't catch them.

[Brick_Dude]

Yeah, site is wonky in terms of navigating.  Agree.

I’m a sucker for the Cathedral.  

 

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/376/Gothic-Cathedral

[Chormeister]

Out of all of the medieval ones, I liked this one best. Looks like it might even be able to be integrated into a city with a little creativity…

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/346/Medieval-Market

[exciter1]

11 minutes ago, Chormeister said:

Out of all of the medieval ones, I liked this one best. Looks like it might even be able to be integrated into a city with a little creativity…

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/346/Medieval-Market

Needs more sausages.

[Shortbus311]

The Cathedral is one of my favorites like others said. I also like the Parisian-Street because I think it would be a good one to resell lol...

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/323/Parisian-Street

[kumas]

right after the start I could have given likes from the overview but now only from detail which is pretty uncomfortable

[Pseudoty]

9 hours ago, Shortbus311 said:

The Cathedral is one of my favorites like others said. I also like the Parisian-Street because I think it would be a good one to resell lol...

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/323/Parisian-Street

I didn’t even see that one and thought I viewed them all. 

4 hours ago, kumas said:

right after the start I could have given likes from the overview but now only from detail which is pretty uncomfortable

Yes that was the issue I was having, they changed it and you now have to go to the details page and when I would go back to the overview different sets would be there. 
 

Just checked on the Lego Store Modular and it is up to $550. 

Edited March 8, 2023 by Pseudoty

[marcandre]

I like the Library. Lot of junk there, they need to tighten up the standards somehow. 

[xeeeej]

12 hours ago, Brick_Dude said:

Yeah, site is wonky in terms of navigating.  Agree.

I’m a sucker for the Cathedral.  

 

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/376/Gothic-Cathedral

I love the cathedral as well, but fear there is a 0% chance it would ever get made.  Lego steers clear of war and religion.

[BricksBrotha]

4 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

Just checked on the Lego Store Modular and it is up to $550. 

Very curious to see where this one lands by the end of 2023.

[kumas]

8 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

I didn’t even see that one and thought I viewed them all. 

Yes that was the issue I was having, they changed it and you now have to go to the details page and when I would go back to the overview different sets would be there. 
 

Just checked on the Lego Store Modular and it is up to $550. 

I wrote to BL support and they replied the feature had problem with volume of traffic and they plan to bring it back. So I wait with further voting until then bcs now it is pretty unusable for me.

[Captain_chaos]

Just had the first arrival come today. The others are 'in warehouse'.

 

[Cheese]

Me too, along with the diner.  Have the Station and Observatory en route now.  Had bought them all with the intention to add to my modular town, but the prices on eBay might persuade me otherwise.

[coelian]

Lookong forward to collecting all my sets tomorrow, i had to order from the French lego site as it was 20-30% lower than the swiss rrp. Good thing i don't live too far from the border. 

[Captain_chaos]

On 5/17/2022 at 6:46 PM, Captain_chaos said:

Well I've ordered the Station, Chalet, and Construction Site. Since it's in a year's time, future me can worry about paying for it. 

Thanks, past me. They're all here now.

 

[MotorCityMuscle]

anyone in the U.S. wanna sell their construction site to a fellow bp'er?

[Greanie]

1 hour ago, MotorCityMuscle said:

anyone in the U.S. wanna sell their construction site to a fellow bp'er?

I would love to get my hands on 'Studgate', is this a good spot to post that 'WTB' or is there a forum here somewhere?

[Bold-Arrow]

11 minutes ago, Greanie said:

I would love to get my hands on 'Studgate', is this a good spot to post that 'WTB' or is there a forum here somewhere?

https://www.brickpicker.com/forums/forum/87-brick-classifieds/

[scratchdesk]

Started to get my sets. Super disappointed that yet again my bricklink shipments come in looking like someone played soccer with them at UPS. I wish I could at least get a replacement for…

This one is the 1950s Diner. Box bent in 2 directions and seals all popped. 
 

I tend to wonder if it’s really the carrier or if it’s the warehouse loading/ unloading to the carrier. I send out tons of stuff and never have problems like I do from Lego. Probably has a lot to do with underpacked flimsy boxes too. 
 

/vent

 

Edited March 18, 2023 by scratchdesk

[Shortbus311]

Started to get my sets. Super disappointed that yet again my bricklink shipments come in looking like someone played soccer with them at UPS. I wish I could at least get a replacement for…

This one is the 1950s Diner. Box bent in 2 directions and seals all popped. 
 
I tend to wonder if it’s really the carrier or if it’s the warehouse loading/ unloading to the carrier. I send out tons of stuff and never have problems like I do from Lego. Probably has a lot to do with underpacked flimsy boxes too. 
 
/vent
 
http://bp-forum.s3.amazonaws.com/monthly_2023_03/BC65B6C8-67EB-4068-8753-D90D30E2E871.thumb.jpeg.803c58747da5f53b68156a16529aff5b.jpeg

I have never had any issues arriving to Virginia from IL. I would guess that it is your local UPS distro site that is sitting on your boxes during their coffee breaks.