BrickLink designer program series 3 finalists announced
Posted by Huw,
The five designs that have been chosen to progress to the crowdfunding stage of BrickLink Designer Program series 3 have been announced.
Don't get too excited just yet, though: that stage of the process does not begin until October 2024, so it will be well into 2025 before they are produced as sets.
The timetable for all three series is as follows:
- Series 1: Crowdfunding in February 2024, shipping in July
- Series 2: Crowdfunding in June 2024, shipping in November
- Series 3: Crowdfunding in October 2024, shipping in March 2025
View the five winning designs after the break then let us know in the comments which ones you are most excited about.
Harbormaster's Office
The Art of Chocolate
Forest Stronghold
Camping Adventure
Lost City
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Awesome choices!!! RIP my wallet (in 2025...)
Can't wait to see those 2025 prices.
Forest Stronghold looks fantastic! Basically 2 castles in one. Whether I get it will depend heavily on the price, but I've got a year to save up and think about it :P
That forest stronghold looks pretty cool. BUT I don't have the money to start collecting Bricklink sets.
I'll pick up Forest Stronghold and Lost City. Love the way they look.
Why does Bricklink not have a mobile version in 2023?
2 Castle sets? Wow, seems the people DO want those Castle sets ...
Really like that Forest Hideout!
These are really nice designs. Realistically I'll probably only get the Forest Hideout, but some great choices here.
Forest stronghold is not much of a forest... :)
It's a nice set, but the pricing of it will be sky high.
Chocolate, Camping and Lost City are all on my list! Love all these though!
Camping Adventure!
It's cute and not enormous.
Probably getting them all.
Forest Stronghold looks great but the price will probably be eye-watering and I already have Castle in the Forest. The Lost City though, that's different enough and looks a bit smaller. Potential is there.
Wow. These are all fantastic.
The representation of the water level in the Harbormaster's Office set around the rowing boat as being substantially above that represented by the plates the set is built on (whilst good in theory) will cause nothing but metaphysical confusion when integrated into the wider Lego environment. It blows my mind just thinking about it.
That being said, I like the set & its a nice selection of sets in general.
Good group this time around!
Love the camping set. Also looks like it's going to be the only affordable one.
Lost City looks like a great D&D setting.
The Art of Chocolate should be done as next years Winter Village set rather than through this process.
Great choices, these all look nice...but I can't justify paying the high prices of Bricklink Designer Program sets so if that trend continues I'll pass (though I'll still enjoy watching the race to pre-order when they go live. Last time FOMO almost made me pull the trigger for the Observatory but in the end my wallet won the battle).
Why does the process take so long?
I like the lost city but, i would go with the forest stronghold as my favourite.
I can see the camping set displaying nicely next to the Treehouse or A-Frame Cabin. The castle will sell out within minutes.
Oh God. I feared (and craved for), they will select forest stronghold. My wallet just started to cry because I want set from S1 - S3 crowdfunding
These look quiet nice. But "luckily" I don't want any, since they *still* don't ship here...
I am glad the art of chocolate has finally made it into production, although with so much detail inside and outside this is a fantastic set but the price may make you consider other options. The Forest Castle will instantly sell out and also gives you the option to create just one large castle!
All good builds and definitely not the worst of the bunch, but none that are particularly interesting to me. I had rather seen a few other ones.
the chocolate shop would fiit perfect in a winter village!
Great sets, and I really like aesthetics of the Lost City, it's different enough to be really interesting. However, I attempt to temper my purchases of official Lego sets , so I won't be adding Bricklink to that number. Best of luck to those who do.
'Camping Adventure' and 'The Art of Chocolate' are the 2 that I may well be tempted by. The others don't really grab me that much.
Camping adventure please. Too many big sets still in the "Want" list! :D
Great and creative designs, but give the winners a medal and sell the instructions for $9.99, we got enough sets designed by your random neighbour with a price equivalent to the GDP of Burkina Faso.
Awesome! Two of my favorite things combined: LEGO and chocolate :)
Was this the series that included the Mushroom House?
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/44070f46-f09d-4d7d-82a5-b9184345d847
If so, I'm sad that it wasn't selected. I know the Designer Program winners tend to be huge sets (modular-style or Castle), so it's too bad that the Camping Adventure got the one "smaller set" slot in this series. It's really nice, but there have been plenty of other camper/RV sets before, where as the Mushroom House was more unique and whimsical.
@Modok said:
"Was this the series that included the Mushroom House?
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/44070f46-f09d-4d7d-82a5-b9184345d847
If so, I'm sad that it wasn't selected. I know the Designer Program winners tend to be huge sets (modular-style or Castle), so it's too bad that the Camping Adventure got the one "smaller set" slot in this series. It's really nice, but there have been plenty of other camper/RV sets before, where as the Mushroom House was more unique and whimsical."
The Mushroom House is a finalist in Series 2 of the Designer Program on Bricklink. Crowdfunding for Series 2 is in June 2024.
@Bricklunch said:
" @Modok said:
"Was this the series that included the Mushroom House?
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/44070f46-f09d-4d7d-82a5-b9184345d847
If so, I'm sad that it wasn't selected. I know the Designer Program winners tend to be huge sets (modular-style or Castle), so it's too bad that the Camping Adventure got the one "smaller set" slot in this series. It's really nice, but there have been plenty of other camper/RV sets before, where as the Mushroom House was more unique and whimsical."
The Mushroom House is a finalist in Series 2 of the Designer Program on Bricklink. Crowdfunding for Series 2 is in June 2024. "
Thank you! Sorry for the confusion.
Bricklink sets are a pass for me due to lack of printed instructions.