Income of about 30,000 USD! Bricklink Designer Program Season 6 has started
2024-07-18
The sixth season of the LEGO Bricklink Designer Program (BDP) has now officially started. In this article, we will sort out the schedule and progress of the sixth season.
If you are a new LEGO player and don’t know what BDP is, don’t worry. You can also find an article introducing BDP in the extended reading at the end of this article. Come to a brief and hearty BDP literacy.
In addition, are you curious about how much money you can get as a fan designer of a BDP set?
Now that all matters of the first season of BDP have been completely concluded, players who are interested can design new works and submit them to the sixth season competition. To this end, Bricklink officially released new parts and new colors that can be used to design works.
At the same time, the Bricklink platform will hold a sixth season webinar at 10 am (Pacific Time) on August 5, 2024 to announce the new guidelines for the sixth season and answer fans' questions. Players who want to submit works now still have some time, because the Bricklink platform will only accept submissions from September 16. (Click to read the original text to view Bricklink's official detailed requirements and rules for submitting works)
At the same time, the Bricklink platform will hold a sixth season webinar at 10 am (Pacific Time) on August 5, 2024 to announce the new guidelines for the sixth season and answer fans' questions. Players who want to submit works now still have some time, because the Bricklink platform will only accept submissions from September 16. (Click to read the original text to view Bricklink's official detailed requirements and rules for submitting works)
BDP Season 6 Schedule
Submission starts: Players can now design their own model works, and submissions will begin on September 16th
Submission phase: The submission period is from September 16th to 27th, 2024
Voting phase: From October 7th to 18th, 2024, fans can vote for their favorite works
Judging phase: From October 18th to November 18th, the Bricklink team will judge the entries based on factors such as building experience, brand suitability and fan voting
Announcement of works: 5 selected candidates will be announced on November 18th, 2024
Crowdfunding phase: The crowdfunding phase will not start until October 2025. From this time on, players can reserve the sets they want through crowdfunding
Production and delivery: Each model will be put into mass production only if the pre-order quantity is at least 3,000, and will be produced and shipped in March 2026
BDP Season 6 Information
The rules for purchasing sets in BDP Season 6 have not changed significantly from previous seasons. Sets for BDP Season 6 can only be purchased through crowdfunding from October 2025.
The pre-order quantity for each set is at least 3,000 pieces. Each person can purchase up to 2 sets of each set. A set is limited to a maximum of 30,000 sets, and this is a one-time production and will not be reprinted.
The sets that reach the crowdfunding quantity will be produced between October 2025 and March 2026 and shipped to fans that year. They will only be delivered and will not be sold in any offline physical stores.
The Bricklink platform said that these sets will be shipped within about 6 months after crowdfunding.
Other information:
Each BDP set will produce up to 30,000 copies (each person can pre-order up to 2 copies)
Sets that receive at least 3,000 crowdfunding copies will be put into mass production
There is a maximum of 1 sticker for every 250 parts, and a maximum of 25 stickers for the entire set
The instruction manual for the BDP set is only available in electronic version
The original author of the set can earn 5% royalties. This ratio is half of the previous one, but the output is three times the previous one.
About the Bricklink Designer Program
On November 26, 2019, the LEGO Group announced the acquisition of BrcikLink.
In 2021, LEGO officially announced the "BrickLink Designer Program", also abbreviated as BDP.
LEGO invited some authors of IDEAS unsuccessful works that reached 10,000 votes to participate in the competition, and then launched crowdfunding for some of these products.
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We can simply understand BDP as "the crowdfunding model officially launched by LEGO, an advanced version of the LEGO IDEAS competition for heavy LEGO players."
Since BrcikLink has now become a company under the LEGO Group, all BDP sets use the production line and number naming library of LEGO official sets. These sets can be found in the LEGO official manual query, supplementary parts system and other channels, but they are not sold in stores.
BDP crowdfunded mass-produced sets are generally less restricted than IDEAS sets, with more parts, and the model's shape, subject matter, and assembly method are more inclined to adult players.
However, since BDP does not end one season completely and continue to the next season, different stages of different seasons are carried out simultaneously, which is why BDP is more boring and difficult to understand than the LEGO IDEAS competition.
The editor also tried to analyze here, if a fan designer's work successfully enters the crowdfunding stage and is shipped, how much money can he make? We use the minimum standard of 3,000 mass production quantities to calculate. If the model is converted into a medium-sized BDP set and the price is set at US$199.99, then the fan designer can at least get 3,000×199.99×0.05＝29,998.5 US dollars
The relationship between LEGO IDEAS and BDP can also be found in our article "Let's talk about the development trend of the LEGO IDEAS platform". Looking back at our previous articles on the BrickLink designer program, you can learn more about the progress of each season of BDP and the mass production sets.