LEGO’s pop-up store closes tomorrow
The LEGO Group’s pop-up store at BrickLink closes tomorrow, so this is your last chance to snap up surplus BrickLink Designer Program submissions.
The MOC Pop-Up Store opened in early September, offering a way to buy fan-designed sets that didn’t make the grade in the BrickLink Designer Program. A handful of those models are now in contention in the third series of the crowdfunding scheme, so may one day be able to purchase directly from BrickLink (for likely lower prices), but this is the only way to easily acquire the rest.
Easily does not equal cheaply, though. The MOC Pop-Up Store is essentially a grander version of BrickLink’s ‘Easy Buy’ button, which automatically calculates the most straightforward way of buying a wanted list – whether that’s through the fewest number of stores, or those with the cheapest shipping costs. The MOC Pop-Up Store differs in that it also throws Pick a Brick into the mix, potentially offering a cheaper way to source some elements.
The price ranges on the sets in the store vary wildly as a result, with at least one – jazlecraz’s Forest Citadel – estimated to cost anywhere up to £1,013.34 to piece together when the store originally launched. (The top-end prices have now been removed, so this one simply states ‘starting at £363.95’.) You’ll need to go through the process of adding the set (and its digital instructions) to your basket to see the actual price.
You’ll see four different options and prices when checking out, including a combo of BrickLink stores and Pick a Brick; the lowest possible price from BrickLink stores; the fewest BrickLink stores that can fulfil the order; and the price when ordering only from domestic BrickLink stores. There are currently 50 different LEGO sets to choose from in the MOC Pop-Up Store, but you’ll need to act fast if you want any of them.
That’s because the store closes at 19.59pm UK time on November 15. That timestamp was on the table from the very beginning, and the LEGO Group and BrickLink have promised to ‘evaluate the program and consider next steps’ once it wraps up tomorrow. The long-term goal is to keep models available for at least six months if the program continues, though that will apparently depend on element availability.
Head over to BrickLink to take advantage of the MOC Pop-Up Store while you can (provided your wallet is deep enough, and if you want to sacrifice any of your LEGO Insiders Weekend/Black Friday budget).
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