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You know a set must be bad if its still on the shelf at $11

The whole thing seems almost like a Willy Wonka type trick. Lego invites LAN members to Billund to interview designers about upcoming products to review. Lego slips a ‘gobstopper’ in as a test. Bricksie takes the bait by editing out all but a few frames of the “gobstopper”. Bricksie ignorantly thinks he can get away with this by claiming it was an accident. Bricksie is then flushed down the proverbial chocolate drain of influencers who think they are above the Lego gobstopper test.

I suspect LEGO has to take a tough stance on leaks so that they don't face a constant stream of "whoopsies" from content creators jockeying for advantage over their competition. I can certainly understand his frustration, but, as he readily admits, he knew the rules and should have been more careful when editing the video.

I'm probably going to get some flack for this, but here goes. I actually think he has a legitimate gripe. Did he make a mistake? Yes. But it wasn't malicious, or attempting to skirt the system Lego has in place. Lego has effectively reduced his earning capacity for the next 6 months for as he stated very little investment output for lego compared to the views they receive from LAN member channels. By the time he buys, builds, and reviews the new sets buying on release day, most of the reviews, which are typically the highest viewed lego videos on youtube, have been posted for days or weeks. It will affect his earnings, and he has a family to support. So I understand his frustration, although I'm not sure airing it on youtube was a good idea.

no need to go publicly bending over for likes by them YouTubers ( not just this fella whom I’ve never seen a video from before, which just proves my point below.) Own it, accept it, move on. They just want to become a sob story and benefit financially from it. If that’s hating then 🙋🏽‍♂️.

A new coaster added to our collection this holiday season.

that's a painful set

Recently there have been a few influencers that have been give early access to sets and designer interviews, Racing Brick, David at Beyond the brick, Jays brick blog and more they have seen sets a year in advance like Gringotts and know they can’t reveal anything about it and don’t. But when the set is eventually released Lego already has the designer videos ready to go where as before they would come out weeks later. Lego frequently has unreleased sets out on display and the influencers know they can not share any information on the sets in any matter. He knew this or wouldn’t have edited his own video, he made a mistake, and now has to pay the price. I don’t see how Lego is to fault at all. It is not like they accidentally had an unreleased set out early. Perhaps the designer was proud of his work and had his set out on his desk. I understand if Bricksie did this intentionally it would be different and mistakes happen but the end result is the same. Perhaps if he wasn’t in such a rush to get content out to get views to make money this wouldn’t have happened.

I understand your point, but looking at the leak, it was footage from an interview with a lego designer in Billund. In Lego's own offices. So instead of Lego making sure the unreleased product wasn't available for video footage, they put the onus on the influencer, and later, after someone else took the video, tore it down frame by frame, blamed the leak on the creator and punished him financially. No fault on Lego, all on Bricksie. Lol. I bet the designer suffered no financial loss from the leak, or even Lego for that matter as it encourages excitement and discussion for the unreleased product. It's literally free publicity.

I had 15% off on mine

not seeing 20%

So size does matter?

That’s how you get put on double secret probation.

Working on Viking Village, and hung the Great Wave. GF built the Taj, she said it was repetitive as most sections are built X4 and some X16 but loved the detail especially the build that is not visible once the set is completed and looks amazing when done, also she did Cat & Mouse. She is going to do the Grand Piano next and I may finally break open the Titanic if we can get a few days with some snow.

Returned to my hometown Grand Rapids, Michigan for Christmas and visited the public museum with family. They are host to a really stunning minifig scale moc of the city set approximately in the olden times. It's a bit of a mish-mash in order to include some notable buildings, of course. It's really well done.

Wrapped up my annual Christmas modular building tradition. Started on the 25th, but ended up taking a little longer than expected on account of 'holiday commitments'.