HELO1{"id":134188,"date":"2021-07-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/?p=134188"},"modified":"2021-07-01T10:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T09:56:27","slug":"lego-bricklink-designer-program-crowdfunding-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/lego-bricklink-designer-program-crowdfunding-starts-today","title":{"rendered":"LEGO BrickLink Designer Program crowdfunding starts today","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first round of crowdfunding for the BrickLink Designer Program kicks off later today, with seven rejected <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/ideas-2\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Ideas<\/a> sets up for pre-order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of the models in the running racked up enough votes to reach the <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/ideas-2\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Ideas<\/a> review stage, but was ultimately turned down by the <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> Group. The BrickLink Designer Program has now given them a second lease of life \u2013&nbsp;but not all of the seven projects in this first round will go into production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only the first five sets to reach a minimum of 3,000 pre-orders will advance from the crowdfunding phase, which means two of these models won\u2019t make the cut. If you\u2019re desperate to see any of them realised as official sets, you\u2019ll want to make sure you\u2019re there as soon as crowdfunding starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-castle-of-the-forest\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Castle-of-the-Forest.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133836\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Castle-of-the-Forest.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-castle-of-the-forest\/\" class=\"wp-image-133836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Castle-of-the-Forest.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Castle-of-the-Forest-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Castle-of-the-Forest-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-bionicle-legends\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-BIONICLE-Legends.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133834\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-BIONICLE-Legends.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-bionicle-legends\/\" class=\"wp-image-133834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-BIONICLE-Legends.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-BIONICLE-Legends-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-BIONICLE-Legends-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-great-fishing-boat\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Great-Fishing-Boat.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133837\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Great-Fishing-Boat.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-great-fishing-boat\/\" class=\"wp-image-133837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Great-Fishing-Boat.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Great-Fishing-Boat-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Great-Fishing-Boat-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-sheriffs-safe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Sheriffs-Safe.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133842\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Sheriffs-Safe.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-sheriffs-safe\/\" class=\"wp-image-133842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Sheriffs-Safe.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Sheriffs-Safe-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Sheriffs-Safe-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-pursuit-of-flight-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Pursuit-of-Flight.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133841\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Pursuit-of-Flight.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-pursuit-of-flight-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-133841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Pursuit-of-Flight.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Pursuit-of-Flight-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Pursuit-of-Flight-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-particle-accelerator-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Particle-Accelerator.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133840\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Particle-Accelerator.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-particle-accelerator-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-133840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Particle-Accelerator.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Particle-Accelerator-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Particle-Accelerator-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-kakapo-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Kakapo.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"133838\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Kakapo.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/first-round-of-lego-bricklink-designer-program-sets-revealed\/bricklink-designer-program-kakapo-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-133838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Kakapo.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Kakapo-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BrickLink-Designer-Program-Kakapo-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s another reason to be timely about things, too: pre-orders max out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/only-5000-copies-of-each-lego-bricklink-designer-program-set-will-be-available-to-pre-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/only-5000-copies-of-each-lego-bricklink-designer-program-set-will-be-available-to-pre-order\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5,000 per set<\/a>, and each user can purchase up to five copies of each model. Supplies are therefore very limited, which means we could be in for another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/as-expected-lego-made-a-complete-hash-of-the-ulysses-space-probe-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/as-expected-lego-made-a-complete-hash-of-the-ulysses-space-probe-launch\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA Ulysses Space Probe debacle<\/a> for the most popular projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An eighth model was originally planned to be in the mix for today&#8217;s round, but ThomasW&#8217;s Mountain View Observatory has been pushed back to a subsequent crowdfunding phase thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/rejected-lego-ideas-set-shelved-at-the-last-minute\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/rejected-lego-ideas-set-shelved-at-the-last-minute\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;unforeseen complexities&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of those three crowdfunding rounds will start regardless at 4pm UK time today, July 1. Prices for each set are yet to be confirmed, but we&#8217;ll let you know as soon as we can. For a closer look at each of the models in this wave, hit the links below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/the-bricklink-designer-programs-castle-of-the-forest-tips-its-hat-to-a-classic-lego-theme\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/the-bricklink-designer-programs-castle-of-the-forest-tips-its-hat-to-a-classic-lego-theme\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Castle of the Forest<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/lego-bionicle-is-back-in-the-bricklink-designer-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/lego-bionicle-is-back-in-the-bricklink-designer-program\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BIONICLE Legends<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/set-sail-for-round-one-of-the-lego-bricklink-designer-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/set-sail-for-round-one-of-the-lego-bricklink-designer-program\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Great Fishing Boat<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/unlock-a-rejected-lego-ideas-set-in-the-bricklink-designer-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/unlock-a-rejected-lego-ideas-set-in-the-bricklink-designer-program\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sheriff\u2019s Safe<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/the-bricklink-designer-program-takes-to-the-skies\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/the-bricklink-designer-program-takes-to-the-skies\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pursuit of Flight<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/a-lego-particle-accelerator-brings-a-touch-of-science-to-the-bricklink-designer-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/a-lego-particle-accelerator-brings-a-touch-of-science-to-the-bricklink-designer-program\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Particle Accelerator<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/the-bricklink-designer-program-is-representing-an-endangered-species\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/the-bricklink-designer-program-is-representing-an-endangered-species\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kakapo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Support the work that&nbsp;<em>Brick Fanatics<\/em>&nbsp;does by purchasing your&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\/\">LEGO<\/a>&nbsp;through one of our&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\/\">affiliate links<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of crowdfunding for the BrickLink Designer Program kicks off later today, with seven rejected LEGO Ideas sets<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":1199,"featured_media":105165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,158,7916,6082,22,9362,509],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}