LEGO modular buildings return to BrickLink Designer Program
After a lengthy absence since the last modular building, the street-based builds are back in the BrickLink Designer Program in full force.
The Series 10 finalists were unveiled last night, including five builds covering just three overall topics. This included one Castle submission, one Wild West model, and three projects for city displays. There’s a major focus on the urban landscape in Series 10, and two of these three models are explicitly designed to go into your modular street.
The pavements on both brickhucker’s Firehouse and rocknbricks31’s The Space Café match that of the official LEGO collection, and the scales mesh well with the modular buildings. The two essentially act as one-and-a-half baseplate corner modules, though the Firehouse has a smaller corner section behind the green tower.
The only thing they’re lacking is fully-fledged modular connection points via Technic pins. That won’t stop them from mixing in with the official modular building sets with ease. The only modification you’ll need to make is replacing the light grey tiles on two of the edges with dark grey tiles. That’s provided the final designs don’t substantially change the fan designs, which they rarely do in the BrickLink Designer Program.
It’s a dream come true for modular building enthusiasts (but a nightmare for your wallet next February), and marks a surprising return to modular buildings after the concept was essentially banned in August 2024. While Brick Cross Train Station was designed to connect to official modular buildings, including connection points.
Later buildings, including Series 6’s The Art Factory, had to adapt to the new rules, eschewing traditional modular aspects to be more standalone. They can still be modified to be traditional modular buildings, but they’re not ready out of the box.
KingCreations’ University of Science has yet to see its final design revealed, but the fan design already foregoes the standard modular design, though it is on baseplates that can be added to a modular city with relative ease. Now, it would appear that the BrickLink team are much more accepting of fan-designed modular buildings. It will be interesting to see how this impacts future rounds.
These two new modular fan creations will go up for crowdfunding in February 2027, alongside the other three models in Series 10.
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