A Message from the LEGO Group
by Niels B Christiansen, CEO, The LEGO Group | Nov 26, 2019 08:09 EST
Niels B Christiansen
The LEGO Group CEO
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I am super excited to share some big news with you today. The LEGO Group has reached an agreement to acquire BrickLink.
We have a few things to finalise and plan to complete the acquisition before the end of the year. You can read the official announcement HERE.
As many of you who follow the LEGO Group may know, we don’t traditionally make acquisitions. Over the years, we’ve grown the business organically, focussing on our core and working to reach more kids with LEGO® play.
But BrickLink is different. It has a special connection with the AFOL community and the opportunity was too good to miss. Why?
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- You’re important to us. BrickLink is one of the largest, independent communities of LEGO enthusiasts in the world. Our adult fans are incredibly important to us and we are serious about creating more great experiences together.
- We want to collaborate more. You are awesome fans and we’re grateful for your support. Your creativity is awe-inspiring, as the recent AFOL Designer programme showed. We are keen to do even more, and this is a great platform from which to do that.
- We see huge potential in BrickLink and we want to be part of its future. The BrickLink Studio offers fans a unique creative experience, while the marketplace is an important source of elements for your incredible builds. We recognise this and will continue to preserve and develop this aspect of the platform.
Thank you BrickLink team
I want to recognise everything Jay, Marvin, Russell and the BrickLink team has done over the past six years to make BrickLink what it is today. They have taken Dan’s incredible vision to the next level while staying true to his purpose of bringing fans together. BrickLink wouldn’t exist without Dan, and we can assure you, we will keep his original mission close to our hearts. I would also like to thank Eliska Jezkova for her support and we are pleased to announce that she will continue to be involved as a BrickLink Goodwill Ambassador.
BrickLink also wouldn’t exist without you – the loyal, dedicated, entrepreneurial and incredibly creative members, sellers and fans. Thank you for the support you’ve shown to BrickLink. We will do our best to honour your interests and passions.
We look forward to welcoming the BrickLink team to the LEGO Group and continuing to work to make the best possible platform and experience for you.
To help us do that, we want to hear your views. During the coming weeks, the team will host an AMA to help us understand more about what you want out of BrickLink. Stay tuned for details.
I am excited about the future and I look forward to building the next phase for BrickLink, together.
Niels
tldr: The LEGO Group can’t wait to collaborate more closely with the awesome BrickLink community!
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This news has 15 replies
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(Cancelled) - mscheaf(155)
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Cancelled
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(13 days ago, 2019-11-26, to Administrative)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - JerseyBrickGuy(1510)
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Lets hope that bricklink is allowed to keep it's independence.
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(13 days ago, 2019-11-26, to Administrative)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - romax1989(164)
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Can we get assurances that bricks and pieces will in no way be integrated into
the bricklink website and affect the economy and value of parts?
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(13 days ago, 2019-11-26, to General)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - Cirrusbreeze(204)
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I’m very excited by the news.
One thing that drew me to Bricklink was the chance to buy sets that I missed
out on as a kid, including parts and sets that were only sold in some countries.
LE...
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(12 days ago, 2019-11-26, to Administrative)
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(Cancelled) - lylefish1(535)
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Cancelled
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(12 days ago, 2019-11-26, to General)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - kzinti(4179)
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As a long time denizen of this community, I am genuinely interested to see what
Mr Christiansen and his team have in mind with the acquisition of BrickLink.
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(12 days ago, 2019-11-26, to Announce)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - BrainOfTheBrick(37)
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/>I want to recognise everything Jay, Marvin, Russell and the BrickLink team
has done over the past six years to make BrickLink what it is today. They have
taken Dan’s incredible vision to th...
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(12 days ago, 2019-11-26, to LEGO)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - Captain_Q(4791)
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HMMMmmmmm.
A while ago when I started selling here on Bricklink. one of the things I did
was buy directly from the TLG's website when they had discounted Lego for
the purposes of pa...
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(12 days ago, 2019-11-26, to Selling)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - KyleKatarn98(53)
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I hope retired sets and minifigures will be still available...
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(12 days ago, 2019-11-27, to Administrative)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - lfklocke(235)
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I do not understand how this is beneficial to sellers who are reselling Lego
sets in competition to the Lego stores?
Sure we could expect collaboration on new sets but Bricklink is a buyin...
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(12 days ago, 2019-11-27, to Feedback)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - MISB_Collector(67)
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I told Lego I was selling Lego bricks and they banned me for ever ordering Lego
bricks through the internet. I told them no one told me the rules and they labeled
me a business and told me I was ...
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(5 days ago, 2019-12-04, to LEGO)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - bwes(106)
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There is a reason for us to be on Bricklink. It's because Lego cannot offer
this.
Of course the transaction fees will go up!
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(5 days ago, 2019-12-04, to LEGO)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - Proprietor(1654)
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I’m going to make an outlier prediction, based was on the above paragraphs, that
TLG turns BL into a dedicated MOC site and eliminates the marketplace. They alone
will sell th...
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(4 days ago, 2019-12-05, to LEGO)
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STUD.IO with only PAB elements - runner.caller(969)
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>In NEWS, Admin writes:
>We see huge potential in BrickLink and we want to be part of its future. The BrickLink Studio offers fans a unique creative experience.
Honestly, if one wanted to...
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(3 hours ago, 2019-12-09, to Buying)
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Re: A Message from the LEGO Group - MonkeyManWhee(92)
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The Best thing would be to invest in Stud.io, Quality of Life updates to the
website (clean up the interface, add missing brick images, etc..) and prune bad
sellers, encourage trus...
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(2 hours ago, 2019-12-09, to Announce)
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