There were quite a few minifigures from that theme, but never really any larger buildings.
I didn’t have to think long about what to create, as I was playing with the idea to build something from the Old West at that moment anyway a theme many fans would love to see made by The LEGO Group properly. I decided to participate nevertheless and to use that opportunity to finally get familiar with a digital building tool. The AFOL Designer Program immediately caught my attention but I actually expected that entries would be dominated by those fans in the community who focus on digital building. The LEGO Group provide all the pieces, but packaging and shipping gets handled by BrickLink in the US. The price of the freedom to produce sets of fan designs is that they are not official LEGO sets and therefore don’t come with the LEGO logo or a set number. For example, only a single detail was changed on my model. The AFOL Designer Program instead tries to stay close to the fans’ original designs and doesn’t intend to make any major changes on the submissions. The extent of how much gets changed differs from project to project, but as you can see on the recently released Steamboat Willie, they don’t hesitate to rebuild the model completely. Because submissions had to be built in BrickLink’s own digital building tool Studio, they also had to test the models on stability.Ĭomparison of the AFOL Designer Program to LEGO IdeasĪt this point in the path of a LEGO Ideas set the designers in Billund would take the submission and make it a LEGO set that fits within the company’s guidelines. They made sure that the models fulfilled all the predefined criteria: to be creative, new and not from a licensed theme. Quite stressful, but the tight schedule will all be worth it when the sets get shipped – perhaps as soon as May.Īfter the submission phase the first part of the collaboration took place when the most promising designs of the 400+ entries got built and tested by a team including LEGO designers. That may sound like a second LEGO® Ideas to you but I will take a look at the differences, and they are essential!Īnnounced in September 2018, builders had two months to come up with new designs and submit them on BrickLink. Both companies collaborate on making a small selection of fan designs into sets for sale. The AFOL Designer Program is a first-of-its-kind cooperation between The LEGO Group and BrickLink.
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