LEGO Ideas 10K Club Projects Get A Second Chance!

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 by Brickfinder

LEGO Ideas and world’s largest online LEGO marketplace, Bricklink are teaming up to give those 10K projects another chance to be made into actual LEGO sets!

The Bricklink Designer Program will help “realize more of the amazing fan designs that are submitted to LEGO Ideas” allowing the fan to crowd fund the projects that they want to see on the shelves.

They have already selected 31 unrealised projects that garnered 10,000 votes on the LEGO Ideas platform and the fan designers are in the midst of optimising their designs for production.

There are certain criteria to meet along the way before it reaches the crowdfunding stage which will start on June 1st, 2021.

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You can read the full FAQ below:

WHY WERE SO MANY OTHER 10K CREATORS NOT INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BDP 2021 INVITATIONAL?
Considering the maximum number of sets we can produce, only 32 projects were selected among all the unrealized LEGO Ideas projects. No IP-based models are invited to the program as they cannot be produced through this program.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO DESIGNS THAT DON’T MEET THE PROGRAM CRITERIA DURING THE PRE-PRODUCTION PHASE?
Designers of all the participating projects have to revise their original design to meet the program requirements and pass the test building before May 31st. Only the projects that meet the production requirements will be listed for crowdfunding.

HOW MANY DESIGNS WILL BECOME BRICKLINK DESIGNER PROGRAM SETS?
Only the first 13 projects to reach the crowdfunding goal will become BrickLink Designer Program sets.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE DESIGNS THAT DON’T REACH THE CROWDFUNDING GOAL OR ARE NOT AMONG THE 13 QUICKEST TO HIT THEIR GOAL?
The remaining projects in the crowdfunding phase that don’t become BrickLink Designer Program sets will be sold as digital Building Instructions only, so that you can still have an opportunity to find your own bricks to build them.

HOW ARE FAN CREATORS COMPENSATED FOR THEIR IDEAS?
Fan designers will receive a 10% royalty fee for BrickLink Designer Program sets, while designers of Digital Building Instructions will receive a 75% royalty fee.

WHEN WILL I BE ABLE TO BACK (PRE-ORDER) PARTICULAR SETS?
The BrickLink Designer sets will be manufactured from September of 2021 and we aim to ship the first batch in November. We will be able to share more realistic shipping schedule when the manufacturing process begins.

WILL YOU MODIFY THE ORIGINAL LEGO IDEAS DESIGN DURING PRODUCTION?
In the BrickLink Designer Program, we do not intend to change the original designs that are loved by the fans, but there can be inevitable modifications due to production requirements, such as part availability and stability issues. All design revisions will be done by the original designer, and the revision history will be shared on the project’s details page.