The following is a List of Lego Resources that will be beneficial to new members. (Moderator please pin to the top)

[Official Lego sites]

https://www.lego.com/en-ca
The Lego website is a great place that has many cool features.
a) The Lego shop carries the entire lineup of existing production sets available for sale including some that are sold exclusively here.
b) The VIP section is where you can get a VIP membership which enables you to earn points with your purchases that can be used towards discounts and exclusive contests. Becoming a VIP also gives you early access to new sets, and qualifies you for exclusive monthly gift with purchase sets.
c) A subsection of the Lego shop is the Pick a Brick area where you can order from a constantly changing assortment of individual bricks. https://www.lego.com/en-ca/page/static/pick-a-brick
d) The Lego website carries Building Instructions for every set ever made. It can be found under the Support tab. https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions?marketfallbackfrom=en-ca
e) Also found under the Support is the Replacement Parts section called Bricks and Pieces, this is where if you your current production set comes with a missing/broken piece you can get it replaced for free. https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/replacementparts?marketfallbackfrom=en-ca A subsection of Bricks and Pieces is where you can buy bricks and minifigures from existing Lego owned IP sets. https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/replacementparts?marketfallbackfrom=en-ca
f) Finally there is a Kids Zone that has free Lego themed games and puzzles for kids to play with

https://lan.lego.com/
The Lego Ambassador Network is the website for Registered LUG’s to interact with The Lego Group. It is a great place to see what other LUG’s from around the world are building for their events.

https://ideas.lego.com/
Lego Ideas is a special website designed by Lego to interact with consumer fans of Lego. Every month Lego Ideas host building activities and contests with great prizes to incite people to get creative with Lego bricks. The most popular feature on Lego Ideas is Product Ideas, a place where fans of Lego can vote on and submit ideas for new sets to Lego via a crowd sourcing. New products Ideas are given milestones to accumulate votes of support from other fans, and if an Idea makes it to 10,000 supporters in time, it goes on to be reviewed by Lego, and potentially made into a real official set for purchase.

Feel free to add other Lego Resources, with a brief description and website link.

So recently found a interesting lego youtube channel, that I had never seen before, and thought a thread on cool online resources would be helpful to member's. If you find something cool while browsing feel free to share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRn5waE0qfk Can Lego BREAK a Steel Axle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUVvQk7XLd4 Making a Drone with Lego Motors and Propellers

This guy is a bit more famous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZxTXKQ6C4 Office Worker - LEGO Automaton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5y1pdPVDx8 The Ultimate LEGO Machine Returns!

Hi everyone,

Those of you who have been following my post in the MOC section about my experiences with designing Lego MOC's digitally with Stud.io and Mecabricks, have seen some snippets of my latest creation. Today I am proud to present to you my proposal for the next Lego Ideas set, the Rosefinch Keep. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/98293548-02a7-4898-b333-db3d17f8271e

Welcome to Rosefinch Keep the northern stronghold of Sir Rosefinch noble knight of the Wolfpack kingdom. While the Wolfpack was originally advertised as a small faction of rogues, renegades, and bandits; to me growing up they were knights from a distant northern kingdom. The Keep is home to Lady Astrid, Squire Hans and Sir Rosefinch, who is instantly recognizable by the red bird he wears atop his helmet. The Keep is guarded by two strong Wolfpack warriors, and like every good old building is home to a ghost.

I designed the Keep out of Black and Medium Stone Grey bricks, reminiscent of classic castle sets. The Keep is located in the northern frontier of the Wolfpack kingdom, and is built upon rocky islands off the shores of a lake, for protection from rival Kingdoms and roaming monsters. The buildings that make up the Keep are connected via stone bridges over the cold water below. The Keep is not just a decorative structure; it is functional too with all rooms accessible for play through moving walls and floors.

Reasons why the Rosefinch Keep would make a great LEGO set:

1st The kids who grew up playing with the classic black and grey castle sets, are now Adults with children, and money to spend reliving childhood memories.
2nd The bricks and pieces used to build this set are universally applicable to build multiple alternative MOC’s with for extended play by children and AFOL’s alike.

3rd The size of Rosefinch Keep is just right for a set. It is large enough to fit in among modular buildings. Yet has a small enough part count that keeps the price affordable for regular people not just AFOL’s.

4th Lastly the Wolfpack kingdom deserves to have its story told with their very own full size castle set.

Details:

Part count 1275
6 Minifigures (1x Sir Rosefinch knight, 2x Wolfpack guards, 1x Lady Astrid, 1x Squire Hans, 1x Ghost)
5 Animals (1x dog, 1x horse, 1x goat, 2x seagulls)
4 Rooms (1x bedroom, 1x armory, 1x kitchen, 1x secret vault)
1 Tree minifigure scale
Building was built using Stud.io
Minifigures were built using Mecabricks

Thank you:

Thanks for your support and comments. If you would like to see the Rosefinch Keep become a LEGO set please share with friends and family.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/98293548-02a7-4898-b333-db3d17f8271e

Update, Have passed the 100 mark and now have 420 days to go! Thanks for all the support.

I am going to hijack this thread and post some pictures of Milug @ Brickcan 2018. If you have pictures feel free to share.

I filled out each of the comment sections, hopefully they read it.

I enjoy the new exclusive vip stuff you can get like the coin series, but I really want them to allow us to instantly redeem VIP for discounts on purchases right from our shopping cart again, which was so coinvent. The current process of clicking on a voucher to get a discount code emailed to you that is only good for 30 days before it expires and you loose your points, is unrewarding.

anyways fill it out, and maybe they will listen to your concerns on the VIP program

LEGO VIP Rewards center is seeking your feedback!

LEGO is asking for some feedback about the VIP program in the LEGO VIP Rewards Center and you can earn some points for your time. This survey was open to other parts of the country a few weeks ago but has recently opened up in the US.

The purpose of the survey is to help improve the VIP program and the rewards that LEGO provides. There’s 21 questions

@Krista big topic in the gaming industry as loot boxes and pay to win schemes are big money makers for mobile and online games. Belgium made them illegal last year and Germany is moving to make them 18+ only https://www.engadget.com/germany-video-game-loot-boxes-adult-requirement-145154466.html

https://www.bricklink.com/r3/designer-program/introducing.page this link has pictures and what design stage they are at

The following is a List of Lego Resources that will be beneficial to new members. (Moderator please pin to the top)

[Official Lego sites]

https://www.lego.com/en-ca
The Lego website is a great place that has many cool features.
a) The Lego shop carries the entire lineup of existing production sets available for sale including some that are sold exclusively here.
b) The VIP section is where you can get a VIP membership which enables you to earn points with your purchases that can be used towards discounts and exclusive contests. Becoming a VIP also gives you early access to new sets, and qualifies you for exclusive monthly gift with purchase sets.
c) A subsection of the Lego shop is the Pick a Brick area where you can order from a constantly changing assortment of individual bricks. https://www.lego.com/en-ca/page/static/pick-a-brick
d) The Lego website carries Building Instructions for every set ever made. It can be found under the Support tab. https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions?marketfallbackfrom=en-ca
e) Also found under the Support is the Replacement Parts section called Bricks and Pieces, this is where if you your current production set comes with a missing/broken piece you can get it replaced for free. https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/replacementparts?marketfallbackfrom=en-ca A subsection of Bricks and Pieces is where you can buy bricks and minifigures from existing Lego owned IP sets. https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/replacementparts?marketfallbackfrom=en-ca
f) Finally there is a Kids Zone that has free Lego themed games and puzzles for kids to play with

https://lan.lego.com/
The Lego Ambassador Network is the website for Registered LUG’s to interact with The Lego Group. It is a great place to see what other LUG’s from around the world are building for their events.

https://ideas.lego.com/
Lego Ideas is a special website designed by Lego to interact with consumer fans of Lego. Every month Lego Ideas host building activities and contests with great prizes to incite people to get creative with Lego bricks. The most popular feature on Lego Ideas is Product Ideas, a place where fans of Lego can vote on and submit ideas for new sets to Lego via a crowd sourcing. New products Ideas are given milestones to accumulate votes of support from other fans, and if an Idea makes it to 10,000 supporters in time, it goes on to be reviewed by Lego, and potentially made into a real official set for purchase.

Feel free to add other Lego Resources, with a brief description and website link.

@Krista Early morning, is that is the best time to call any call center. lunch time and dinner time are the worst times to call a call center. Lego's call center people with the southern American accents seem to be more friendly and helpful then the other reps I have spoken too.

@Krista it varies between 15 minutes to the longest was on hold was 40min. I have had to call them several times this year, something has gone wrong with every order so far.

1st call was due to the new VIP rewards center they have separated the redemption of point between over the phone vs online, I clicked the redeem over phone by mistake so was forced to call in to get them to reverse the vip issue. ( I dislike the new vip points system, having to go to another website to get a code that if you don't use within 30 days you forfeit the points is not rewarding at all IMO)

2nd call was the fact I was that the shop at home would not allow me to complete a order with the redemption code for the castle vip coin. (they had to manually order it separately for me with my code)

3rd call was for the above missing gwp issue

Hi, all If you have purchased the Lego blacksmith shop like I did today. https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/medieval-blacksmith-21325
Check your order confirmation. While your shopping cart shows you will get the Valentines gift for spending over $40 and the year of the Ox set for spending over $85. The order confirmations are showing only the year of the Ox gwp added to the order. You will need call Lego customer service in order to get it added back to your order.
1-800-835-4386
Monday to Friday 8am - 10pm ET
Saturday and Sunday 10am - 6pm ET

@MyBrickYard the general publicly viewable comments are at the bottom of the page below the pictures https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/fd5cc3b8-284f-4520-825f-7c3f5e4a50fe

the Lego only comments were below the 30 click boxes, but you can only vote once