LEGO items are immensely popular, as evidenced by the Lego shops on the streets and the LEGO Masters TV show. You can buy used LEGO at BrickLink, the online marketplace for new and used LEGO bricks. How do you complete your collection?

BrickLink is an online marketplace for all kinds of LEGO fans selling Lego bricks and sets. The idea was conceived by LEGO fan Daniel Jezek in 2000 and adopted by the LEGO Group in 2019. It is largely a site operated independently of LEGO itself and is very popular with AFOLs (Adult Fan or LEGO) due to its wide selection of options and cheap prices for individual bricks.

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BrickLink

To shop on BrickLink, you need to create an account at www.bricklink.com and choose whether you mainly want to buy or sell bricks. In this article, we only focus on buying stones. Some providers at BrickLink are professionals with millions of bricks in their collection, but most of the providers are LEGO fans selling bricks to support their expensive hobby.

How do these sellers get so many stones? In most cases, by purchasing sets in-store or online and posting the content brick by brick on BrickLink. This sounds like a lot of work, but BrickLink has handy tools to automatically place all the pieces of a set in your store and give them a per piece price. Generally, a seller can receive 200 to 300 percent of the set price if he sells all the bricks individually. Of course, as a seller, you should have enough time and space to sort all these stones, store them and re-sorb them when they’re sold.

So much for a short background. BrickLink is not Bol.com or Amazon, your order is placed on the BrickLink site, but your communication is with the individual seller, so carefully check if the reviews of a particular provider are positive before transferring funds. Meanwhile, BrickLink is a secure environment with few or no scams. Our personal experience is very positive, we have processed more than 350 transactions.

BrickLink is a mecca for LEGO enthusiasts.

brick owl

BrickLink is the largest online marketplace for Lego bricks, but it is by no means the only one. Brick Owl is a direct competitor of BrickLink and many professional BrickLink stores also have offerings on Brick Owl. Think some bricks are too expensive on BrickLink? You can find them cheaper at suppliers in Brick Owl.

How does BrickLink work?

After you create an account, you can start browsing BrickLink. Click to get an idea about the offer parts below Browse LEGO items† Now you will see all kinds of categories how many gems can be found in that category. By the way these are unique stones, each stone can later be found in several (sometimes dozens) colors.

For example, click brick and then Brick 2×4 to find the most iconic Lego brick. below lot for sale You can now see how many lots (lots) per color are for sale. For example, if 2000 back black This means that there are 2000 lots of this black stone for sale worldwide. Each batch can be made up of hundreds of bricks, so you know there are several million Lego bricks on BrickLink.

LEGO Pick a Bricks

LEGO itself also offers the option to order Lego bricks, but you will only find bricks that LEGO currently produces; the offer is therefore much smaller than on BrickLink. One advantage is that there is no price difference between different colors, so 2 x 4 bricks always have the same price, which is not the case with BrickLink. Another advantage is that shipping costs are much cheaper in LEGO.

One downside is that many bricks are much more expensive than the providers at BrickLink. You can find a Pick a Brick store by clicking www.lego.com/nl-nl. Pick a Brick† If you order more than 55 Euros, you will not pay shipping costs. Orders under 55 Euros will be shipped to your home for 5.95 Euros. If your order is less than 12 Euros, you will also pay a service fee of 3 to 6 Euros, depending on the stones you order.

looking for stones

Brick prices vary widely, this is because LEGO does not always produce the same bricks in the same colour. New colors and shapes are added each year. This is why a particular green brick was very scarce last year and may be available at BrickLink for 30 cents each, while currently available for 3 cents, as LEGO now mass-produces that particular brick again.

If you click on the color of a stone, you will see a laundry list of suppliers with that particular stone in the assortment, organized by price. It’s wise to filter the search results a bit. below vendor ships I choose you Holland and below Condition For example, would you choose new† Right click more options and choose Vendor location e.g European Union† This prevents shipping costs from skyrocketing and you don’t have to pay customs fees on your purchase.

then click Call to see the parties that match your filters. below Condition (Number) you see how many stones are in the supplier’s collection. click opinion to view the item in the merchant’s store.

You can avoid additional costs by installing the right filters.

Minifigures and Sets

At BrickLink you will not only find bricks, but also complete sets, minifigures, original boxes and instruction booklets. When in a provider’s store, for example, left click mini figures to see all the lego dolls.

to order

Each provider can set their own prices and shipping costs. As soon as you enter a provider’s store, first Conditions to see what the shipping costs are and whether the store charges other costs such as handling fees or PayPal fees. It is also possible for a store to charge a minimum price per lot (price per lot). I

the inks you see below parts You can select all the lots in the store’s collection by category or color. Click on one of the tracks and you will see all available games appear in the main window. By the way, there may be several batches of the same brick of the same color in a shop, for example, if one batch is new and the other is used.

To add stones to your basket, write the number of stones you want from the lot in the box and select it. Add product to cart† After adding everything you want, click the green button above it to go to that store’s shopping cart. Now pay attention, because each store has its own shopping cart and associated shipping costs. If you want to see all the baskets of all the stores you have ordered, click on the gray shopping basket at the top right.

Colors

One annoyance for many LEGO fans is that the color names in BrickLink are not the same as those from the LEGO Group. For example, Light Bluish Gray in BrickLink is called Medium Stone Gray in LEGO itself. A table with both BrickLink and LEGO names can be found at https://kwikr.nl/kleur. Some colors were only available for a few years, you can see that below Active years

Rebuild a set

BrickLink is not only used to buy or sell individual bricks, you can also use it to collect bricks from sets that are no longer manufactured by LEGO. The entire inventory of a particular set can be viewed and all gems in a set can be put on the ‘Wanted List’ instantly. For example, type Ferris wheel in the search box and click below Set on the set you want to replicate. If you want to buy the whole set from a BrickLink provider, you will find the search results below.

below My Wanted List can you do too Section Output Click it. below Add to Wanted List then choose Create New Wanted List and enter a name for your list. click Submit to editcheck all tiles if necessary, remove any tiles you have and continue with all other tiles in your new list. Add to Wanted List click. If you are currently in a store looking for stones, you can: Shopping centre over Wanted List See what gems from a particular list the shop has in its collection.

Create a new Wanted List.

Studio

Part of BrickLink is the Studio program. You can use it to make digital models, view others’ models, and create instruction booklets. Since it’s from Studio BrickLink, you can easily export a Wanted List if you’ve built a nice model. The program is available for Windows and Mac and can be downloaded from https://kwikr.nl/blstudio.

click Download Studio to install the program on your computer The application also allows you to subject your designs to a stability test, which is very important when creating a digital model. It may look solid on screen, but your model may fall apart if you recreate it in real life. Once your digital model is finished, you can use Studio to create beautiful digital images of your creation.

Previously, LEGO had another 3D program called LEGO Digital Designer (LDD), but the company announced last year that it would switch entirely to BrickLink Studio. By the way, you can easily import your LDD models into Studio.

Part Designer

PartDesigner is another program from BrickLink and is for designing homemade bricks or minifigures. By the way, you do not make completely new creations with it. Upload images to make your own dolls or add digital stickers to bricks.

You then export these gems or minifigures for use in Studio. PartDesigner is still in beta, but you can already download it for PC and Mac.

Make your own minifigures or bricks with BrickLink PartDesigner.

other people’s creations

If you want to be inspired by what others are doing with LEGO, you should definitely take a look at the BrickLink Studio Gallery page. Here you can see all kinds of digital models that users have created in BrickLink Studio. Look for a specific creation or be surprised Personnel Selections to watch. Click on a design to see more images. For some creations, you can immediately put the required parts on a new Wanted List by pressing the button. Add tracks to Wanted List click.

click Easy Buy, BrickLink will look at the store where you can order the most bricks as cheaply as possible. Click below picture if you want to see what stones you need parts list

This is not possible on all models, by the way, if available For Display Only this usually means that LEGO does not have the rights to display the model. then you can building steps Click to get an idea of ​​how the model works.

Do you want to copy this design? Then click Easy Buy and BrickLink will find the cheapest shop for you.

MOCs via Rebrickable

Not only are official sets set up, there are also many sites that offer models made by fans. A well known site is www.rebrickable.com. Find a MOC (My Own), purchase instructions directly via PayPal, and add the required bricks directly to a BrickLink Wanted List under Inventory.

Lego Ideas

Have a good idea and want LEGO to produce your design? Then sign up for LEGO Ideas and upload your creation. As soon as your design gets ten thousand likes, LEGO will evaluate it and you will have the chance to actually build your set.

The chances of this happening are not very high because only a few works are selected from thousands of applications per year. Know that once you have uploaded an idea to the site, you may not be able to provide instructions for it on other sites for money.

Various fan-designed sets have been produced by LEGO.

Source: Computer Totaal

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