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 Author: Stratego View Messages Posted By Stratego
 Posted: May 15, 2023 08:51
 Subject: Designer Programm
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Ich verstehe das ganze echt nicht wie und wann man da jetzt wirklich was bestellen
kann, ich gucke schon seit Jahren, und ich bin immer am denken wenn ich gucke
, das ich nichts bekommen kann, es wäre echt mal gut ein Video zu bekommen wie
es wirklich funktioniert von Anfang bis Ende von einer Serie
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: May 15, 2023 09:17
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In Designer Program, Stratego writes:
  Ich verstehe das ganze echt nicht wie und wann man da jetzt wirklich was bestellen
kann, ich gucke schon seit Jahren, und ich bin immer am denken wenn ich gucke
, das ich nichts bekommen kann, es wäre echt mal gut ein Video zu bekommen wie
es wirklich funktioniert von Anfang bis Ende von einer Serie

The process changed.  I won’t explain the previous programs (AFOL & BDP invitational’s
3 rounds) because it’s too late anyway.
So, here a summary of how BDP Series works now.

A series is:

1. 1 month for submitting your designs.

2. A couple weeks for voting, “crowd support.”

3. Selection.  Up to 5 designs are chosen as “finalists.”

4. 9 months to finalize the final designs (with LEGO’s help).

5. 1 month of “crowd support”: you can pre-order the sets.  Up to 20k sets are
sold, 2 of each per pre-buyer.  Sets that don’t reach 3k pre-orders are not produced
at all.

6. 6 months for production by LEGO.

7. Shipping.


So, as a buyer, what interests you is:
— step 2: you vote between hundreds of designs,
— step 5: you pre-order the 5 finalists, 11 months later,
— step 7: you receive your sets, 6 months later.

Series 1 is in step 4.  You’ll be able to pre-order in February.
Series 2 is starting step 1 today.
Series 3 will start step 1 in September.
And so on.