Last month LEGO announced that they had purchased BrickLink, an AFOL community of buyers and sellers.
I had and still have MANY concerns about this. First look at their history of dropping support for something with a huge fan base. I am speaking of LEGO Digital Designer and to some extent ReBrick (which was a LEGO pinterest-like site for sharing MOCs you loved).
They still offer LDD but it is no longer supported (meaning it will soon no longer work on PCs as they evolve). ReBrick is completely gone. It was a great resource for sharing LEGO MOCs that you loved with fellow AFOLs and for keeping all your favorites in one place. I used my account on that site as a way to store ideas for future MOCs of my own. Then LEGO came in and changed the format, removed all the saved, or rebricked, posts and turned the site into a contest based one. Eventually, the moved the contests over to LEGO Ideas and killed ReBrick altogether.
Here’s hoping they continue to develop and support Studio and leave the Studio gallery alone. I am not holding my breath on that one though.
BrickLink is already seeing big changes and the sale isn’t even official yet. Anyone selling custom items had all those items removed from their stores over night. A new TOS was posted and you can’t even log into your account unless you agree to them. I highly recommend fulling reading all the text and not just blindly agreeing to the new TOS.
Terms of Service
Designer Terms of Service
Seller Terms of Service
Just don’t be shocked when you log in and are faced with this prompt…
