Brick.ie The Irish Association for Adult Fans of LEGO®

As a reminder the Series 1 for 2024 goes live at 4pm Irish time. There are 5 sets available (some a bit pricey)

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/main.page

I assume, if it is the same system as before, you order on Bricklink which will transfer you to the LEGO.com website to process the order and receive payment.

There will be a maximum of 30,000 of each set produced (up from previous rounds) and a maximum of 2 per household. It will be the summer before these ship.

Since September the MOC Pop-Up Store has been live on BrickLink with additional MOCs being added in October (ignoring the downtime this past week). The Community Engagement team does not have a real read on how AFOLs are reacting to this new feature/option.

Are people here generally aware of it? Have any of you actually purchased any of the MOCs?

Any feedback you'd like to give back?

Bricklink is currently down due to a ransomware attack.

The site was taken off line shortly after numerous breaches which concluded with a bricklink forum post by a hacked account indicating all accounts had been hacked and the hackers would begin purging store records (orders/inventory etc) for every hour that passes until payment of €50,000 in bitcoin is made.

If you use the same username/password for other sites, probably wise to change it.....

The pick a brick team is going to test providing us with lists of upcoming element launches and notifications of when elements will be removed from pick a brick.

The team has provided a list of soon to be discontinued 'last chance' items.

I am not sure if the link below can be accessed by everyone but if it cannot and anyone is interested I can send them a file. Please PM me if interested.

https://lan.lego.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=33220&key=ba7f72cbdeb0f7f3acab0d5025c65e56

Hi all I'm under pressure here trying to complete my new moc and I found it hard to order needed amount of 1x1 trans clear. This was available in last years lugbulk so if any of you have big juicy bag of it and no plans to use I'm willing to swap for different parts or sets or figures. I've plenty to offer. Pm me thanks

Only new to trying to build up stock for builds.

im seeing used lego going for the kilo 25Euro per kilo on average.

Is it worth buying the kilo just to start building up stock?

And on a side note: Do you ONLY use Lego or do you use off brands aswell?
or is that a No No ?

Hi, I just wanted to give a mention to the World of Wonder Toys shop in Nenagh. I was in it a couple of days ago and was blown away by their large selection of sets. They have even more online. They were kind enough to allow me to put up a Brick Feile poster. Will definitely be returning when I am down there again.

Earlier in the week i picked up a copy of

in smyths blancharstown for the animals as it's currently on sale. when i opened it i noticed loose lego in the box and at first figured one of the bags did not seal properly, i quickly noticed that there was a lack of animals and sure enough all the animals had been taken, the box resealed and returned to smyths. this was not an error at factory, someone bought the set, opened the box carefully, grabbed what they wanted and returned it.

so when buying sets for valuable parts it looks like there's at least one [insert suitable name here] out there buying sets and returning them sans the parts afols are probably buying the set for.

smyths did allow me to swap the set and check in store that the new one was all there.

The Pick a Brick 'menu' today in Dublin:

PaB Dublin 20230128 by Duq, on Flickr

Argos are to close all its Irish stores on 24th June and as they say it’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow someone good luck so expect a big closing down sale.

That being said obviously it impacts people s jobs which is sad and it gives smyths more power in the toy market in Ireland