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A major site update is coming soon. Jeff will tie it all together. Looks great.

BrickLink has never had any products, let alone manufactured any products. So they are learning as they go. And they learned real fast that hand-packing sets is extremely labor intensive. They are also being super cautious about not making errors, so double checking counts and the bag QA process slows them down, but that's a good thing. They've finally gotten into a groove, and they have opened 2nd and 3rd shifts to accelerate the overall velocity. It's quite an interesting experiment.

I’m not surprised at all, BrickLink ARE (or I guess were) simply the venue, have any of the BrickLink team ever sold parts under their own platform? all of us part sellers will have a very good idea of how long it will take to pick and pack 1 copy of Löwenstein at 2000 parts in 497 lots. I have a pretty efficient space, it’s as small as practicable, everything is very well sorted to avoid picking wrong parts, easy to access and my picking order keeps me in the same place as much as possible. I recently had an order of 5000 parts in 192 unique lots it took me approximately 2 hours to pick and bag. No message from customer so I assume I didn’t make a mistake... LEGO keep the unique part count down as low as possible in the larger sets, for a reason and they have automation. I suspect this idea was conceived without thoroughly working out the logistics, and the reason for the message was due to having started picking and packing. Then having that major “oh s**t” moment. Reality slap in the face. employ more pickers? Possibly, but that maybe a problem folks tripping over each other. on the castle alone, let’s say they can double my speed so it takes 1 person 2 hours per set to pick and bag. That’s 5000 person hours, over 600 person days 8 hours a day without a break. Just for one Löwenstein. And I didn’t include the time taken to unpack and sort the incoming parts. Let’s hope TLG were “nice” and packed all the parts at 1 per box or bag! i don’t see them fulfilling all orders before Christmas, assuming sales resume on the other sets and they all sell out, unless they really did sort out the logistical issues. Sales commence on Monday... those eBay resellers may want to revise their listings ?

Alright everyone, one month until the close of this thing. I'll break the ice on adding some sweeteners on top of these amazing prizes. I will offer up this - for each raffle winner that has donated at least $100 between ticket purchases and regular donations (in any combination), I will add their choice of any one of the following options to their prize (all are new sealed): - 10259 Winter Village Station - 40289 Mini Harry Potter Diagon Alley - 41624 AND 41625 Mickey and Minnie Brickheadz - 41317 Friends Catamaran - 40334 Mini Avengers Tower - 75227 Vader Bust If the total money raised tops last year's total (just over $40k), I'll give this bonus to all raffle winners, regardless of how much they donated. Get out there and get some tickets!

rapid price appreciation for captain america 41589 down to 8 sellers on amazon and lowest price for new is $54.90.

Video review comparing all three Tantive sets...

i think he was saying that your skill level and knowledge was superior to average

For those that remember the Hamleys Bricktober offer of a couple of months ago.. They are giving them away as a freebie in store (with purchases over £40 of lego) its not really advertised very well (there was a couple of vague signs amongst the lego) Dont know if its national, but this was in cardiff yesterday

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like a jerk. Mixels and Brickheadz are similar in a lot of ways and after the success of the Mixels theme, I figured these would do well after they retired. Anything with "series" or numbered in the name or theme helps after retirement.

Well you are the founder of this Forum.

If I am honest I am really surprised about the appreciation of the first wave brickheadz since they were available everywhere. I was ready for selling 2xRRP but now most are already 2,5-4x, so I think 3-5x RRP is the way to go. Perfect Investment sets btw. = small and available with discounts and most thought brickheadz would be stinkers

Honestly, they didn’t need to use this crowd funding model and if they move forward I hope they actually move to much more streamlined approach. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Forum

Looks like some sellers need to update their eBay listings. It’s hilarious that they mention in the FAQ that they expected some designs to sell out in presale, then throw a lame “we didn’t expect the number of orders.” Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Forum

Why?why? Why? Does anyone on this site responde to this guy? I am now of course but can’t there be some label tagged to members that so obviously offer nothing to the site!?!? How many times has he said he is going away?

There will be a delay. They just mailed this We originally planned to start shipping in May, and we are confident we can meet that goal. We have designed a tight production schedule wherein each design is produced and packed in batches. This means you might receive some designs before others, but don’t worry — the shipping for pre-orders is still free. However, the community’s response to the AFOL Designer Program was larger than we expected. What this means to all our backers is that there will be a delay. We will try to fill orders as quickly as possible, but according to our most recent projections, some orders will not be shipped until as late as end of summer. You will be notified as soon as your design is ready to be shipped and we will not charge you until your order is ready to ship. We’re shipping out designs in the order in which pledges were made, so if you pre-ordered on day one, you’ll be one of the earliest people to receive your order.

So how many pallets of LEGO did this neighbour buy from you ?? ?️‍♂️

I like how the two cheaper iterations of the Hoth base since the AoH base have the four shield generators instead of the three that was in the expensive set.

Tau Vengeance Battlesuit by Garry

eBay Dragon Sanctuary $300, buy in was $43 SYWR points. I miss the good old SYWR days.

1 Lego Architecture The White House 21006, FB Marketplace: $105, buy-in $35.77 1 LEGO Movie Brickheadz 41635 - Wyldstyle: $79 shipped, buy-in $15.90 (My First TLM2 Brickheadz sale...trying to decide what to do with the rest of them. Sell in sets? Hold longer? Sell my extra Emmets/Wyldstyles as a pair? New territory here.)