BrickLink Designer Program Series 5 available for pre-order tomorrow
Posted by Huw,
Crowdfunding for BrickLink Designer Program Series 5 begins tomorrow, 10th June, at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST, and will end on 24th June.
Normally, I would predict that some of the sets, such as 910049 Adventure in Transylvania pictured, will sell out almost immediately. However, the maximum number that'll be produced this time around has not been disclosed: in the past it's been 30,000 of each, but I suspect it'll be 'as many as possible' this time.
We'll be reviewing the set, in brief, tomorrow morning.
Head on over to BrickLink to view them all and place your order, or check them out in our database.
Are you planning to order any?
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I thought I'd heard something about 30k somewhere? Am I hallucinating?
Planning on Transylvania, and that might be the end of my BLDP era. I've wanted a lot of classic castle theme reimaginings and this pretty much covers it. I know Wolfpack is getting one but I feel like they need to retain at least "OG only" crown.
These days, Min requirement is 3,000 and Max is 30,000 per set, @Huw . :o)
Wait, Brickset got more than 1 copy this time?
Wait, they are changing things?!?! What is happening?!?!
"More Series 5 Sets? You Got It!
The love for Series 5 has blown us away! We know it’s tough when sets sell out before you can get your hands on them, so we teamed up with our manufacturing friends to make more sets available. This may not be the case for future series, so don't miss your chance to get in on the fun."
Series 5 page says this:
"More Series 5 Sets? You Got It!
The love for Series 5 has blown us away! We know it’s tough when sets sell out before you can get your hands on them, so we teamed up with our manufacturing friends to make more sets available. This may not be the case for future series, so don't miss your chance to get in on the fun. "
DEUX de chacun des sets suivants: 910049 puis 910053 et enfin 910051.L'achat est important mais cela en vaut la peine.BONNE JOURNÉE a tous.
I'm not planning on ordering any, but I like most of them. I just don't need any more sets at the moment. Quite the opposite, I have to massively reduce the size of my collection over the coming months.
@Huw looks like they've set the limit at 30,000
Very Interesting....Bricklink has gone back and modified their FAQs. They appear to have changed any reference to "Up to 30,000 of each set will be manufactured during a limited, one-time production run" to a more generic, "Will produce a limited production of each set." They, however, still reflect a 30,000 max for Series 6, 7, and 8 so whatever they're doing with Series 5 may simply be a trial balloon.
Additionally, the FAQs note that, "Each crowdfunding period will be 3-4 weeks" yet Series 5 crowdfunding has been reduced to 2 weeks. Might this be related to the removal of a maximum limit? My recollection is that previous series had a 4 week crowdfunding but Bricklink has removed the timeline information from those series.
This is all fascinating when you consider their recent supplemental sale of previous BLDP Series sets. And based on the awesomeness of Series 5, maybe they were worried that they'd be leaving too much money on the table by enforcing a max?
@AustinPowers said:
"I'm not planning on ordering any, but I like most of them. I just don't need any more sets at the moment. Quite the opposite, I have to massively reduce the size of my collection over the coming months. "
Austin, is there a way to directly contact you re that project?
Transylvania is my only choice, but it's supposed to sell out pretty fast. If I can get it, good... if I don't... it doesn't matter.
The Translvania set should have been a regular retail release, especially given it's scope and popularity. If I can get one, it'll become a vacation spot for the Cullen family, oh and Bella too, I suppose.
Want Transylvania zn Tortuga. First time I will buy from the bricklink program. But my wallet will hurt a lot...
Getting the Mushroom Village to go with my Mushroom House!
I've bought at least one in each series from the beginnin, but having built a couple of the larger ones, I find that the lack of printed instructions diminishes their desirability for me. It doesn't feel the same, especially if you take weeks to build a set, during a free 15 minutes here and there, a few pages at a time, the way I usually do.
TLC should offer an option to send printed instructions for extra cost.
Luckily there isn't a medieval castle this time, so I my wallet can take a breath... Oh wait, there's a 300+ bucks pirate island I need, never mind. (And some San Diego Comic Con pre-orders, yikes!)
@greycat said:
"DEUX de chacun des sets suivants: 910049 puis 910053 et enfin 910051.L'achat est important mais cela en vaut la peine.BONNE JOURNÉE a tous."
Se cada um falar na sua própria língua, este blog fica uma confusão inütil. Além disso é uma questão de educação com os restantes membros usar apenas o inglês. É a minha opinião...
Definitely interested in the Antique Shop, and maybe the Popcorn Wagon.
Last one I ordered was Brick Cross, but ended up seeing sense and cancelling due to lack of space for a railway layout!
This is all so knee jerk. They removed 30,000 from the FAQ and Macro Series Timeline but each Series 5 set still denotes 30,000 in its individual Set Timeline.
They're going to mess this up, somehow. Lol.
@edmi said:
" @greycat said:
"DEUX de chacun des sets suivants: 910049 puis 910053 et enfin 910051.L'achat est important mais cela en vaut la peine.BONNE JOURNÉE a tous."
Se cada um falar na sua própria língua, este blog fica uma confusão inütil. Além disso é uma questão de educação com os restantes membros usar apenas o inglês. É a minha opinião..."
Olen täysin samaa mieltä kanssasi! Jos jokainen alkaa puhua omaa äidinkieltään, tästä tulee todellinen sekasotku. Lopetetaan se nyt heti!
Ja muuten, minulle sopii Tortuga, Transylvania ja Mushrooms.
@Davian said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"I'm not planning on ordering any, but I like most of them. I just don't need any more sets at the moment. Quite the opposite, I have to massively reduce the size of my collection over the coming months. "
Austin, is there a way to directly contact you re that project?"
He can be reached at ALT-BRANDSRULE.STARFLEET@ compuserve.net.
:o)
@yellowcastle said:
"This is all so knee jerk. They removed 30,000 from the FAQ and Macro Series Timeline but each Series 5 set still denotes 30,000 in its individual Set Timeline.
They're going to mess this up, somehow. Lol."
It's certainly unclear. The email from them earlier stated 'Only a limited run of sets will be released' but it was crossed out, I figured to make the point that it was not limited this time.
@DearMisterLegoBreaker said:
" @edmi said:
" @greycat said:
"DEUX de chacun des sets suivants: 910049 puis 910053 et enfin 910051.L'achat est important mais cela en vaut la peine.BONNE JOURNÉE a tous."
Se cada um falar na sua própria língua, este blog fica uma confusão inütil. Além disso é uma questão de educação com os restantes membros usar apenas o inglês. É a minha opinião..."
Olen täysin samaa mieltä kanssasi! Jos jokainen alkaa puhua omaa äidinkieltään, tästä tulee todellinen sekasotku. Lopetetaan se nyt heti!
Ja muuten, minulle sopii Tortuga, Transylvania ja Mushrooms."
Mi sie wydaje, ze kazdy uzytkownik moze uzywac swojego jezyka, a nie ze koniecznie jezyk angielski. Przeciez kazdy ma swój translator i nie musi rozumiec jezyka anglosasów. Milego dnia i zólciutkiego sloneczka!
Overheard during the most recent Internal LEGO Weekly Planning session...
LEGO Bosses: Series 5 goes on order Tuesday.
Bob from Accounting: We are seeing an increased level of interest online for this series...
Sheila from IT: We'll be sure to take some of the servers offline for maintenance that morning
LEGO Bosses: Why again are we only making 30,000 per set?
Bob from Accounting: We only get 95% of the profits on these and artificially limiting the number of sets increases interest and FOMO. We are also already overbooked, producing tiger faces and weird space ship skate park police apartments.
LEGO Bosses: Foam what? Who made that deal? Remove any mention of a 30,000 limit from some but not all areas of the website and renegotiate with the designers.
Alice from Operations: If we book more than 150,000 sets, we're going to be short on personnel and packaging.
LEGO Bosses: Move that last person left in Color Quality Control over to Outbound Processing and follow our Mr. Gold process for when and how often to use paper packaging.
Gonna try to get the Mushroom Village. Got the house, and would love to expand the display!
None from Series 5 are worth (for me) the asking price, the castle is nice but I have no idea what to do with if I were to get and build one. The program as a whole is a bit too "MOCy" for my eyes.
I keep looking at these with the hope that I can 'dismiss' at least one of the 3 i've chosen. Not happening... so i'll order the castle, Tortuga and the mushroom village then have 6 months to find £800.
I like the Antique Shop, but I may pass this time. There's still a huge backlog for sets planned EOL this year that I would like to buy.
Drooling about The Thieves of Tortuga. The pre reviews are encouraging. Not having it, don't have the funds. Life is much more than LEGO. I will download the instructions, though. The minifigures and pieces are not exclusives, someday I'll have the money to have the minimum required. For those who can afford it, and love Pirates, go for it!
All the sets for this round are great. Personally I plan to get Transylvania & Tortuga.
Transylvania and Tortuga definitely, maybe the Popcorn wagon, though I'll be spending more than I did on the previous series for the same number of sets.
Even when it's in pay in three, which I hope to do, as I did with the last lot, it still hurts.
Hopefully the Mushroom Village will last a few hours and I’ll not need to set an alarm for the middle of the night.
Good luck to everyone wanting Transylvania and Tortuga.
Tick, tick, tick.
Like Austin, I should downsize. But, I'm getting Castle, Pirates, Mushroom. On the fence about popcorn and antiques.
I’m definitely getting the antique store, but I’ve gotta say, this is one of (if not the) best waves of the BDP. They all look really good! From everything I’ve heard, they will increase the production for this series only, but I don’t think there’s a set number that is open to the public. I’m sure they’ll cap it at something not super higher than the 30,000 but who knows.
@WideWonderfulWilliam said:
" @thor96 said:
" @DearMisterLegoBreaker said:
" @edmi said:
" @greycat said:
"DEUX de chacun des sets suivants: 910049 puis 910053 et enfin 910051.L'achat est important mais cela en vaut la peine.BONNE JOURNÉE a tous."
Se cada um falar na sua própria língua, este blog fica uma confusão inütil. Além disso é uma questão de educação com os restantes membros usar apenas o inglês. É a minha opinião..."
Olen täysin samaa mieltä kanssasi! Jos jokainen alkaa puhua omaa äidinkieltään, tästä tulee todellinen sekasotku. Lopetetaan se nyt heti!
Ja muuten, minulle sopii Tortuga, Transylvania ja Mushrooms."
Mi sie wydaje, ze kazdy uzytkownik moze uzywac swojego jezyka, a nie ze koniecznie jezyk angielski. Przeciez kazdy ma swój translator i nie musi rozumiec jezyka anglosasów. Milego dnia i zólciutkiego sloneczka!"
Chiqaye chi yaal, ink’a’ chik na’ajmank naq tqasik’ ruheb’ li qaatinob’aal NATIVO. Wanko sa’ li na’ajej b’ar wi’ yal naru naqakut yalaq k’a’ru chi najteril esil sa’ jun aj jalol ru aatin ut naqil k’a’ru na’el chaq. Ma nakanaw ajwi’ chirix li aatinob’aal a’in, Q’eqchi’? K’a’ruhaq xintzol anajwan!"
Can we PLEASE post in English, or at least post in both English and whatever you speak above it? Some of these above posts Google translate doesn't work for, and as the website itself is in English, it just makes sense from a readability standpoint. Would you like it if every post Brickset made was in Welsh or Latin?
Latin: 'Lego desinendum est adglutinare, quia malum est.'
OR
Welsh: 'Dylai Lego roi'r gorau i wneud sticeri gan ei fod yn ddrwg.'
OR
English: 'Lego should stop making stickers as it is bad.'
Mushroom Village and maybe the Antique Store.
I'm sitting this one out, for the first time. Really like the Transylvania castle / haunted house, but I have no need of it, other than somewhere for my 9464-1 Monster Hunters Vampyre Hearse to live.
Very interested to see what happens with the increased maximum production, but I instinctively do not like the way it has been communicated, and the retroactive removal of mentions of the production limit and pre-order length from the Bricklink website that others are reporting.
Hopefully this series goes well, and folks get what they're after!
@gylman said:
"TLC should offer an option to send printed instructions for NO extra cost. "
I fixed it for you, and wholeheartedly agree.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @gylman said:
"TLC should offer an option to send printed instructions for NO extra cost. "
I fixed it for you, and wholeheartedly agree."
Flight Attendant: Is there a Doctor onboard?
Dad: *Nudging me* That should have been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Graphic Designer to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Why don't you save him as a PDF and see if that helps.
Want all the sets except for the smallest one ??
Trabsylvania Castle is peak. They are not going to top this. Great build. Solid playfeatures. And decent price!
@yellowcastle said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @gylman said:
"TLC should offer an option to send printed instructions for NO extra cost. "
I fixed it for you, and wholeheartedly agree."
Flight Attendant: Is there a Doctor onboard?
Dad: *Nudging me* That should have been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Graphic Designer to help, are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Why don't you save him as a PDF and see if that helps."
Hey! I'm so glad you reached out.
I’m actually at capacity by helping someone who’s in crisis dealing with what BLDS 5 sets to get, and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you.
The pro thing about Tortuga is that you only need a ship and you have a great pirate lay-out. I don’t have a pirate lay ouy yet, so may be i should get this one. It is the perfect pirate newbie set. Plus you can use it for One Piece as well.
The pro thing about Transylvania is that it is just beautiful. What a great color combination. Plus you can fit all your spooky minifigs overthere.
The pro thing about the mushroom world is that it is freaking cute and very fun with all those builds for mushrooms and flowers. Very good for mixing with fantasy minifigs.
The bad thing is that they cost money and use space. I’ve got me some thinking to do.
I want all of them, but that’s a little past my current LEGO budget, so going for my “needs”, Mushroom Village & Thieves of Tortuga!
I just don't know. I like some of them, but money...
And I have previous series and still unopened, so I likely will never build these either. Seems silly.
@Sethro3 said:
"I just don't know. I like some of them, but money...
And I have previous series and still unopened, so I likely will never build these either. Seems silly."
But those boxes are pretty. Especially if ypu alternate BLDP sets with unopened, black, Lego 18+ sets. The white, black contrast is amazing!
@StyleCounselor said:
" @Sethro3 said:
"I just don't know. I like some of them, but money...
And I have previous series and still unopened, so I likely will never build these either. Seems silly."
But those boxes are pretty. Especially if ypu alternate BLDP sets with unopened, black, Lego 18+ sets. The white, black contrast is amazing!"
So...prison stripes?
@PurpleDave said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @Sethro3 said:
"I just don't know. I like some of them, but money...
And I have previous series and still unopened, so I likely will never build these either. Seems silly."
But those boxes are pretty. Especially if ypu alternate BLDP sets with unopened, black, Lego 18+ sets. The white, black contrast is amazing!"
So...prison stripes?"
You'll never catch me, Copper!
@yellowcastle said:
" @Davian said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"I'm not planning on ordering any, but I like most of them. I just don't need any more sets at the moment. Quite the opposite, I have to massively reduce the size of my collection over the coming months. "
Austin, is there a way to directly contact you re that project?"
He can be reached at ALT-BRANDSRULE.STARFLEET@ compuserve.net.
:o)"
ROFL
Good one.
Seriously though, I plan on clearing out that part of my collection by three means: Bricklink, Ebay, and via the internal marketplace of the company I work for. The former two for smaller and medium sized sets that are easier to ship, and the latter for the larger and rarer sets that are better sold locally / directly. It's all just a matter of time and logistics really.
@AustinPowers said:
" @yellowcastle said:
" @Davian said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"I'm not planning on ordering any, but I like most of them. I just don't need any more sets at the moment. Quite the opposite, I have to massively reduce the size of my collection over the coming months. "
Austin, is there a way to directly contact you re that project?"
He can be reached at ALT-BRANDSRULE.STARFLEET@ compuserve.net.
:o)"
ROFL
Good one.
Seriously though, I plan on clearing out that part of my collection by three means: Bricklink, Ebay, and via the internal marketplace of the company I work for. The former two for smaller and medium sized sets that are easier to ship, and the latter for the larger and rarer sets that are better sold locally / directly. It's all just a matter of time and logistics really. "
Dang. I'll be in Germany in July. Hmmm.
Although, I should really be following your example.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @yellowcastle said:
" @Davian said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"I'm not planning on ordering any, but I like most of them. I just don't need any more sets at the moment. Quite the opposite, I have to massively reduce the size of my collection over the coming months. "
Austin, is there a way to directly contact you re that project?"
He can be reached at ALT-BRANDSRULE.STARFLEET@ compuserve.net.
:o)"
ROFL
Good one.
Seriously though, I plan on clearing out that part of my collection by three means: Bricklink, Ebay, and via the internal marketplace of the company I work for. The former two for smaller and medium sized sets that are easier to ship, and the latter for the larger and rarer sets that are better sold locally / directly. It's all just a matter of time and logistics really. "
Dang. I'll be in Germany in July. Hmmm.
Although, I should really be following your example. "
The thing is, I have amassed over a thousand sets over the last twelve years or so, and most of them never got opened and built but went into storage in the attic or at my parents' house "for a rainy day" that never came. I have dozens of sets that are now considered valuable by collectors and since I don't see myself ever getting around to building them I would be stupid not to sell them on, make some money in the process and give someone else the chance to enjoy opening a MISB set they might have been looking for for a long time and never gotten it due to it only being available for insane amounts of money by scalpers. Of course I am no charity either and I am not giving them away for free (I am not that rich that I could afford to do that), but I am not looking for insane amounts of profit either, so my asking prices will always be the cheapest for a MISB copy in that condition then available on the platform I choose to sell the set on, be it Bricklink, ebay or wherever.
@AustinPowers said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @yellowcastle said:
" @Davian said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"I'm not planning on ordering any, but I like most of them. I just don't need any more sets at the moment. Quite the opposite, I have to massively reduce the size of my collection over the coming months. "
Austin, is there a way to directly contact you re that project?"
He can be reached at ALT-BRANDSRULE.STARFLEET@ compuserve.net.
:o)"
ROFL
Good one.
Seriously though, I plan on clearing out that part of my collection by three means: Bricklink, Ebay, and via the internal marketplace of the company I work for. The former two for smaller and medium sized sets that are easier to ship, and the latter for the larger and rarer sets that are better sold locally / directly. It's all just a matter of time and logistics really. "
Dang. I'll be in Germany in July. Hmmm.
Although, I should really be following your example. "
The thing is, I have amassed over a thousand sets over the last twelve years or so, and most of them never got opened and built but went into storage in the attic or at my parents' house "for a rainy day" that never came. I have dozens of sets that are now considered valuable by collectors and since I don't see myself ever getting around to building them I would be stupid not to sell them on, make some money in the process and give someone else the chance to enjoy opening a MISB set they might have been looking for for a long time and never gotten it due to it only being available for insane amounts of money by scalpers. Of course I am no charity either and I am not giving them away for free (I am not that rich that I could afford to do that), but I am not looking for insane amounts of profit either, so my asking prices will always be the cheapest for a MISB copy in that condition then available on the platform I choose to sell the set on, be it Bricklink, ebay or wherever. "
All completely understandable. I'm in the same situation (except the parents part).
Unfortunately, the sets I would be interested in are older (70s-80s Classic Space) than 12 years ago. I have everything (I think) from that era.
@StyleCounselor said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @yellowcastle said:
" @Davian said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"I'm not planning on ordering any, but I like most of them. I just don't need any more sets at the moment. Quite the opposite, I have to massively reduce the size of my collection over the coming months. "
Austin, is there a way to directly contact you re that project?"
He can be reached at ALT-BRANDSRULE.STARFLEET@ compuserve.net.
:o)"
ROFL
Good one.
Seriously though, I plan on clearing out that part of my collection by three means: Bricklink, Ebay, and via the internal marketplace of the company I work for. The former two for smaller and medium sized sets that are easier to ship, and the latter for the larger and rarer sets that are better sold locally / directly. It's all just a matter of time and logistics really. "
Dang. I'll be in Germany in July. Hmmm.
Although, I should really be following your example. "
The thing is, I have amassed over a thousand sets over the last twelve years or so, and most of them never got opened and built but went into storage in the attic or at my parents' house "for a rainy day" that never came. I have dozens of sets that are now considered valuable by collectors and since I don't see myself ever getting around to building them I would be stupid not to sell them on, make some money in the process and give someone else the chance to enjoy opening a MISB set they might have been looking for for a long time and never gotten it due to it only being available for insane amounts of money by scalpers. Of course I am no charity either and I am not giving them away for free (I am not that rich that I could afford to do that), but I am not looking for insane amounts of profit either, so my asking prices will always be the cheapest for a MISB copy in that condition then available on the platform I choose to sell the set on, be it Bricklink, ebay or wherever. "
All completely understandable. I'm in the same situation (except the parents part).
Unfortunately, the sets I would be interested in are older (70s-80s Classic Space) than 12 years ago. I have everything (I think) from that era."
Much of my collection is NISB, going back to the late 90’‘s/early aughts. I have my own little toy store and it makes me so happy. On good days, I let myself shop. :o)
I can’t imagine ever opening 10182 Cafe Corner (value) or 6766 Rapid River Village (beauty) but I often hear the sirens of 70709 Galactic Titan and 10219 Maersk Train. I’ll strap myself to the mast and hope the children focus on City and Creator, ignoring my original white whale 10179.
I've just ordered my First Brinklink Designer Program set! The Popcorn Wagon!