BrickLink Designer Program bans LEGO modular buildings for Series 6
The guidelines and rules for the sixth series of the LEGO BrickLink Designer Program have been detailed, placing a ban on LEGO modular buildings next time.
It seems to be the end for modular building models in the LEGO BrickLink Designer Program as for Series 6 at least, you will not be able to submit any such builds. This news comes as part of the guidelines update for the next series.
Specifically, the guidelines state that while buildings are still acceptable, they should not reflect the modular buildings format, going into detail on what exactly isn’t allowed, including baseplates and buildings in the same style as the official LEGO Icons range.
This is a surprising change given the staggering number of modular-compatible builds that have become LEGO BrickLink Designer Program sets previously, including 910008 Modular Construction Site, 910009 Modular LEGO Store, 910013 Retro Bowling Alley, 910023 Venetian Houses and 910034 Brick Cross Train Station.
The new guidelines also prohibit depicting harm to animals but fishing and using any official food elements is still allowed. Notably, zoos, aquariums and other similar facilities are also banned, and you are now only allowed to show animals in their natural habitat.
The guidelines similarly state that highlighting fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas isn’t allowed for Series 6 either. All these updates aim to reflect the theme of the next series – a vision of a sustainable future.
Models based on NINJAGO, DREAMZzz, Friends and Monkie Kid join the LEGO Icons modular buildings as banned topics for Series 6 too, though we can’t recall seeing too many inspired by the original themes in the past five series.
Other guideline updates include that each minifigure head design may only be used once in a submission, but this doesn’t count for skeleton heads. You also need to ensure that there is only one minifigure for every 325 parts at most, but again this doesn’t count for skeletons.
Submissions can no longer use LEGO in the title or any other LEGO property, buildings cannot include modular in the title and Castle and Classic Space models should not include a faction name in the title.
It’s a huge update for the BrickLink Designer Program and some of this may be reverted in further series, though some could be permanent changes. For now, don’t start planning any modular buildings to submit for the foreseeable future. You can submit models for Series 6 starting from September 16 until September 27, keeping these new rules in mind.
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The wokerati have invaded LEGO too.
When a company ban exactly the thing that makes them profit the most and people are more axcited about it. I can understand that buildings are excessive sometimes, even that rule of one minifigure every 325 parts, sounds more like they want to start to cheap out. To get more profit as every greedy company. Thank God they aren’t in the stock market. It would be worst.
well that sucks
… what a bunch of crap. Well, probably think they are helping by just telling designers what they won’t bother making. But it’s still crap.