The results are in... another successful campaign!!!

We did it. It was another successful campaign. This one was a bit different. I knew I was moving this year so we ran a campaign from the end of last year, took a break for five months during the move, and then came back strong to wrap up the campaign.

In case you forgot, we used 15% of our profits from the Bricks for Bricks Bricklink store and eBay store to give to giveyourbricks.com and the Chalk Guy LEGO Drive.

Our grand total for the year was…

$580

Thank you all so much for your patronage so we can support great causes. The Chalk Guy LEGO drive requested smaller sets so we shipped 43 sets to them to give to kids in hospitals. We were told they’d send us a picture so when we get it, we’ll add it to the post.

Stay tuned for our next campaign.

Happy building!

Bricks for Bricks Bricklink.com store is back open!

Sorry for the wait, but I’m finally back open on Bricklink.com. You can visit the store here. I’m working on getting the eBay store back up and running. In the meantime, there are a few new sets I’ve accumulated from during the closure to include a few GWPs.

We’re still running the current campaign for the Brick Chalk Guy so 15% of the profits will go towards buying sets for kids who can’t afford them.

Thanks and happy building!

Temporary Store Closure

Sadly, I closed the Bricks for Bricks Bricklink.com store and put the eBay store on vacation this evening. It will be closed for a few months and with any luck, it will re-open in the late summer/early fall 2024. I will do my best to keep up with posts as able and provide updates as it gets closer to the store opening.

I will also be ending the current giving campaign early and will work to get the Chalk Guy Lego Service project some fun sets to give to those who need them most.

Thanks for your patience. Happy building!

Minifigure Key Chain Gift with Purchase

The next two orders at the Bricks for Bricks Bricklink store will get a LEGO VIP blue minifigure key chain (one per order). No minimum order amount required beyond the $5 store minimum.

Happy Building!

I Made it into a Popular Youtube Video (sort of... okay, not really)

I did it! My store got featured by a famous AFOL in the Fan Media who called me out by name to say thanks for getting him the set he needed to finish the coolest video ever!

Or not so much…

Okay… in the video below, David of Solid Brix Studios, builds a LEGO Star Wars MOC only using sets from LEGO without any additional pieces. If you skip to the 3:20 mark, he holds up set #75098-1: Assault on Hoth. So yeah, he bought it from the Bricks for Bricks BrickLink store. I get it, you watched the video and he said none of that so I could be making it all up, but you’ll just have to trust me on this one.

So thanks David for supporting Bricks for Bricks and our efforts to give. The current campaign ends in 10 days so we appreciate all the orders and for helping us to help others.

Biggest Give yet from Bricks for Bricks!

We were able to give $928 to Creations for Charity through our giving campaign that started in August and ended in November. Thanks to everyone who made purchases from our store so we could be so generous to a great cause!

According to the Creations for Charity site, this year they raised over $35,000! This is awesome! Thank you to everyone who donated whether it was through buying from the site, supporting the Beyond the Brick 24-Hour live stream, or making a purchase from Bricks for Bricks at our Bricklink.com store.

We will announce our next campaign soon. In the meantime, happy building!

Black Friday to Cyber Monday Sale

From Friday 26 November 2021 to Monday 29 November 2021, everything in the Bricks for Bricks Bricklink.com store is priced as follows:

5% off orders over $80

7% off orders over $110

Hopefully the Bricklink interface took my sale. If you don’t see the discount prices, let me know at store@bricksforbricks.com.

And as a reminder, 15% off the profits go to the 2021 Creations for Charity drive on 29 November. It’s looking like this will be our largest amount we have given yet so we’re excited.

Happy building!

Creations for Charity has Begun for 2021

Creations for Charity - 2021

15 October to 30 November 2021

I’m slightly late to the game, but the 2021 Creations for Charity drive started back on 15 October and runs through 30 November. You can read more about the drive this year and what Creations for Charity is by going to their website here.

15% of the profit from sales at the Bricks for Bricks (on BrickLink.com) store will get donated to Creations for Charity on 29 November. So if you don’t see anything you like at Creations for Charity’s site, but you do at the Bricks for Bricks store, you can still support.

Thanks for your willingness to give! Happy building!

20 Years of Bricklink

The famous secondary LEGO marketplace turned 20 years old on 19 June. Bricklink has been posting some special web content to highlight the occasion. If you go here, you can see all of the content for the 20 days. They have gone through history, first members, stories about using the site from users, and a post from an Admin as of the writing of this post. If you want to see more stories or if you want to post your own story, you can go here. There are a lot of great stories about people finally being able to recreate old sets or piecing together lost sets.

My Bricklink story… I joined Bricklink on 31 July 2009 according to my profile. Has it been that long? I found out about the site and had also downloaded Lego Digital Designer (LDD). I started building some MOCs and needed the parts for them. My MOCs are pretty awful and I quickly learned that I was not a good builder… despite that, I’ll post some pictures of my work which was made possible from bricks purchased on Bricklink.

First off was the diesel engine shown below. I really wanted to capture the stripe going across and was very proud of myself that I figured out how to make the stripe angle up. Otherwise, the engine is a bit too long and is very fragile with no real good place to pick it up. Thank goodness for 9v motors and rails though.

Moving on… I built a small train display and it looks pretty scary. I bought #4561-1: Railway Express off of a teenager locally through a site in the place I was living in. He sold all of his LEGO for $115 to buy an iPod. I got a full up 9v train and motor along with some Harry Potter and Star Wars sets. I got the better deal as I’ll bet he doesn’t use his iPod anymore. Anyways if you look at the bottom left, you’ll see my MOC of #4561-1 rebuilt into a “better” train. The engine is pretty awful, but I like the double decker car. Someday I will modify it, but for now it looks good. I later built a second car with a few orders from Bricklink. There are a few other less impressive builds in the picture as well. However, I’m glad to still have #4558-1: Metroliner and #4547-1: Railroad Club Car.

There are a few more MOCs that I sourced through Bricklink, but I am too embarrassed to show them as they are just plain awful. Thankfully three things happened… one is that I discovered modular buildings and that I didn’t need to try and design something awful, when LEGO would produce something incredible. Two was that around that time some amazing trains came out to include #10194-1: Emerald Night (Bricklink helped me build some extra cars and a caboose… sorry no pics of those), #10219-1: Maersk Train, and #10233-1: Horizon Express. Finally, three is I became a Dad and the amount of time I could spend bricking decreased substantially.

I decided to start a store in 2014 as Bricks for Bricks kicked off. I tried some in person sales and that didn’t work out well (see here). In October 2016 I started Bricks for Bricks on Bricklink and did quite well. You can read about some of our giving campaigns here. That ended in May of 2018 when I transitioned with my non-brick job to Germany. I hope to return to selling on Bricklink when I return to living in the USA.

Happy birthday Bricklink! And happy building!