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BrickLink Designer Program Series 6 Fan Vote Live

October 7, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Ahead of the Series 3 pre-orders going up tomorrow, the fan vote for the BrickLink Designer Program Series 6 designs is now live. Like before, use the three emojis to vote for your favorite designs until October 18. After that, BrickLink will deliberate for a month and the final five designs will be announced on November 18.

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LEGO Releases Statement on LEGO Shop Hack

October 5, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

Last night we reported that the LEGO Shop was hacked to promote a crypto scam and LEGO today has released a statement to Engadget about it. They did confirm that there was an unauthorized banner (shown above) and they have identified the cause of why it happened and are implementing measures to prevent it from happening again. Everything should be back to normal now and no user accounts were affected but I suggest changing your password anyways and using the two-factor authentication.

“On 5 October 2024 (October 4 evening in the US), an unauthorised banner briefly appeared on LEGO.com. It was quickly removed, and the issue has been resolved. No user accounts have been compromised, and customers can continue shopping as usual. The cause has been identified and we are implementing measures to prevent this from happening again.”

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LEGO Shop Hacked by Crypto Scam

October 4, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

It looks like the LEGO Shop has been hacked and is hit with a crypto scam. If you are shopping, I would be very wary and keep a close eye on your bank accounts. The scam is in the banner when you hit the main page and it changes to the normal one with the Jabba’s Sail Barge a few seconds later.

If you happen to click on the links, it goes to a marketplace where they are selling “LEGO Tokens” with ETH. I would not buy or sell any of it as LEGO doesn’t do crypto. Thanks to ZTBricks for the heads up.

Update: It looks like the site has been fixed. Good on them to get it done quickly but we’ll see if there was any damage done.

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Twitch Adds LEGO & Brick Building Category

October 1, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

For those who want to build a LEGO community on Twitch, they have just added a new LEGO & Brick Building category. Here you can watch various creators building whatever their heart desires. Builders have long been building on Twitch but there is now a dedicated category so it’s more organized and easier to find LEGO creators.

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LEGO Brick Take Back Trade-In Program Introduced

September 28, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

An interesting email came in today from LEGO where they are introducing a new buyback program called LEGO Brick Take Back. LEGO is basically buying back your preowned LEGO bricks and you can trade it in for LEGO e-Gift Cards.

It seems that LEGO is buy bulk back and they are offering $6 per pound (USD) for conforming bricks which include LEGO bricks and elements that are fully disassembled and in good condition, LEGO Minifigures and Mini-dolls (no need to disassemble), and LEGO Baseplates. Your parts are then checked to meet eligibility criteria and their goal is to keep as many bricks in play as possible. It looks like this is a test run to see the best way to accomplish their agenda.

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LEGO Releases Official Statement Regarding Building Instructions

September 20, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

A few days ago, LEGO put up a survey regarding the future of LEGO Building Instructions and the potential switch to digital instructions. The survey was quickly taken down after an overwhelming amount of backlash across LEGO fan sites and social media or just timely coincidence.

Today LEGO has released an official statement regarding the issue and they have confirmed that they have no plans to stop using physical building instructions.

We would like to reassure fans that we have no plans to stop using physical building instructions in our products.

We conducted this survey to understand more about our adult fans’ preferences regarding our products and building experience, something we do regularly across a range of topics.

We would like to thank our LEGO® Insiders members who took the time to respond to the survey – your feedback is important to us and helps us make our LEGO experiences even better.

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Future of LEGO Building Instructions Survey

September 18, 2024 / Allen "Tormentalous" Tran / 0 Comments

First seen on Brickset, there’s a new activity survey asking about the future of LEGO Building Instructions and the potential switch to digital instructions. It’s a quick eight question survey in the Insiders Rewards Center about the possibility of you purchasing LEGO sets without paper instructions and if you would accept any incentives for buying these sets without paper instructions. For completing the survey, you will earn 50 points.

Sustainable Building: Help us decide the future of LEGO Building Instructions!

We want to play our part in building a sustainable future for generations to come. One way we can do this is to reduce our paper usage by switching to digital building instructions. It’s a small change that can make a big difference – and we’d love to know how you feel about it. Let us know by taking this quick survey.

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