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When looking at Amazon price comparisons a filter to remove marketplace We have thought about doing that but many people find marketplace items
sellers would be useful. in the listing useful and occasionally there are bargains to be had. However
we will see whether there are many comments about this and if so consider
changing it.
The way sets can be added and the ACM-feature have improved the site
much. I also think the database is getting better and more complete every
year, so thanks for the work! Brickset really is getting cooler each year.
More set reviews for everyday themes and sets We tend to review sets that we like and/or those we think will be popular.
There are too many released to do them all! If you or anyone else would
like to review sets for us, get in touch.
When using the website from my mobile phone, every time I open an article We are shortly changing out ad network so this will hopefully not be a
after a few seconds I'm redirected to some spam site. It's very annoying. The problem.
solution I found was to stop the page loading before the ads are loaded, but
it's an uncomfortable solution. I ended up not using brickset from my mobile.
I understand ads, but they shouldn't make the site unusable.
J'ai enregistré tous les sets de notre collection, ma femme et moi, et j'aimerais
pouvoir en sortir l'inventaire pièce par pièce de mes presque 100000 pièces
pour pouvoir au mieux les ranger dans ma "LEGOroom". Est ce possible ?
More articles please
One thing I think would be useful would be to have the option to add This is possible already, see http://brickset. com/faq, 4th question.
additional checkboxes for our collection, plus the ability to filter listings based
on them. To give a personal example, I'd like to have a checkbox to indicate
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which sets form part of the family's "communal" Lego (i. e. sets that are
separate from the category "Do Not Touch, This Is MY Lego Collection!")
I like Brickset very much. :-) It is with one other my favourite non-official We are constantly working on improving the database. If you notice any
LEGO site. Maybe one little hope I have, the database is far from accurate for anomalies let us know and we’ll make changes.
older sets, maybe thanks to the cooperation with BrickLink this can be
We get our inventories from LEGO. com which are often inaccurate.
changed. . . ?And for some sets the inventory isn't linked to the others ("this
Obviously, we can’t just copy them from other fan sites, as much as we
piece appears in those sets, etc. "), I mean typically "This inventory has been
might like to.
obtained from Rebrickable. com. ", that limits search work on Brickset and
forces to use other sites.
Thank you for running such a brilliant site. : )
should be easier to add images to reviews!
Too many ads We are shortly changing out ad network so this will hopefully not be a
problem.
Overall excellent work by you all, brickset is a daily visit for me and an
essential resource for current and historical lego information.
thank you to exist :)
The Forum can be a bit confusing at times and could do with a freshen up.
Database is great easy to find sets and adding own sets is a great plus for this
site, always find the reviews interesting and honest.
It could be useful to include a feature whereby a set can be listed as 'I own', This is possible already, see http://brickset. com/faq, 2nd question.
but the user can then select whether the minifigures that come with the set
are also owned. This would allow people who sell duplicate minifigures or
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pick up sets second hand without minifigures etc. to list the correct number
of minifigures.
Post confidential pictures of unreleased sets We are unable to do this, sorry.
keep up the great work!
The wishlist is a little bit hidden, I think if you would add a hutten in the upper That’s a good idea, we’ll add it to the ‘to-do’ list.
tight conner next to the sets you own that Goes straight to the wishlist would
be very nice.
Include more shops in price comparisons and deals like Asda ,Tesco, John We’d love to but either (a) they do not operate affiliate schemes or (b) they
Lewis do but we have not been accepted onto their programmes.
Well done, keep up the great work - really key resource for AFOL community
and proud to be British
I would like to have the chance to sort the sets by age group That should be possible but we don’t have data for every set which would
limit its usefulness
The adds can be irritating sometimes. Especially when one appears when you We are shortly changing out ad network so this will hopefully not be a
open the pop up image viewer. If you then close the image viewer, the add problem.
sticks around over the top of everything else in the middle of nowhere.
Some reviews are mere set-descriptions and no reviews at all.
I feel that every star wars set gets a review however some other themes do
not get quite the same treatment.
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It would be great if you could follow other users be able to view what sets
they have or the ones the want.
I lowered the rating of the reviews, not because of the quality, they are
amazing, but the amount of sets Lego release is vast. I would guess that we
have enough people in each category that could review the releases?
Maybe add a feature that lets you see what articles your commenting on
I just wanted to tell you how wonderful the collection manager is. It's so
intuitive and easy to use!
Please merge the main Brickset site with the forums.
Perhaps you could add a way to indicate that you own a set, but not the This is possible already, see http://brickset. com/faq, 2nd question.
minifigures. I have some sets where I've traded the minifigs, and some that
I've bought used that did not include the minifigs. This would cause the
Minifigs Owned value to be more accurate.
Everything is great, apart from the forum which looks awful and is not easy to
navigate
Keep this doing this fantastic work! Brickset is the first webpage I visit
everyday!
I would like it arbitrary sorting on the entire database was possible (eg. to see This is possible already using advanced queries: http://brickset.
what the sets with the most parts are, what the highest rate set is, etc). Apart com/queries/mine
from that everything is brilliant, keep up the good work.
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You should make it so that when you click on discounts on amazon it takes
you to the set page instead of an article page.
The new can sometimes be out of date, but in general you are very good at
keeping up to date. The images are all very good and the whole website
works very well sometimes there are few things that I think "could be easier
to find", but overall very good. Keep up the excellent work!
The forum is hard to use, complicated. Want it to be more integrated in the
mainsite, easier to make a comment. Clean up the interface/layout.
Option "Sets" in the search could be pre-selected because in 99% of all search You can set an option to change this, http://brickset.
requests you look at sets and when you search for several sets (e. g. 10000- com/profile/preferences, ‘remove all search option’
12000) you receive no matches and when you search for one specific set the
design of the search result is really in great need of improvement.
Best LEGO page.
Afol community news
I have a problem posting comments to the news items on the front page - in Others have reported this but we can’t replicate it. If you still have
maybe a third of cases, my comment disappears when I hit "post comment" problems contact us using the contact form and tell us what
and other people have complained about it too. If you could find a way to device/browser etc. you are using
stop it happening it would be great.
There is currently no place to review collections, e. g. 2016 police sets or
Jurassic World sets, etc. I love collecting Lego even more than building it.
There are lots of tags and themes and subthemes but I would like to see them
as first class entities in their own rights with photos, reviews, prices, piece
counts etc.
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Excellent site. I really appreciate all the hard work you and the team put in.
The ads, while necessary are presented in an awkward way on mobile. I
assume this is dictated by the supplier though.
The site is great! I would like to be able to export the data of the advance This is possible already
collection manager into an Excel or CSV file.
You can always tell when Huw has written an article/update as there will Thank you for the feedback, I’ll take it on board.
always be a snide, naysaying comment about how he doesn't like something.
I'm not saying negative opinions shouldn't appear, but it just comes across as
passive aggressive and dull. It's a toy aimed at children, have a sense of
perspective and cheer up, for God's sake.
Appreciate your site for Amazon sales and for database of sets. Current news
is also nice.
I would love it if the comment section on articles was made better. I would These are things we might add at some point although tagging users is
like to be able to reply to a comment and/or tag a person, which would make made more difficult by the fact usernames can have spaces in them, a
the comment section more alive and community-based. Sometimes I have a decision I made some 10 years ago that I now regret!
question for the writer and I would like for him/her to be able to respond
directly to that question - and that I would then get a notification. You might
think it's too "social media"-ish, but I think a lot more people would be
inclined to comment if it worked like that instead.
I view on the phone . . . . just news . . . . database? Yes indeed! Click on the menu bar to see the options to search it.
Please keep Classic View. Contact me and I’ll reinstate it for you
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faster loading of pages with bigger number of sets. This is usually down to the speed your browser can render the page. With
100 sets it struggles a bit. All I can suggest is to reduce the number of sets,
or upgrade your computer 
Nope, everything's alright
lack many LEGO products not set We don’t add every ‘LEGO’ product, particularly those not actually made by
the company.
I would appreciate an option to re-order our wishlists by priority You can do that now using the rating stars.
Being able to add fellow Lego fans and veiw their sets etc
More attention on older sets
Maybe have separate "tabs" for the reviews and everything else on the home
page. I sometimes get confused while only skimming the page is there
something new about the lego friends line or is it "just" a review?
The banner adverts that cover the bottom of images in news articles and set We are shortly going to be changing out ad network so this will hopefully
pages are annoying - a simple fix would be to move the adverts a bit lower so not be a problem.
they are still underneath the image but they do not obstruct the view of the
lower part of the image. Other than that, thank you for the great work!
Reviews of old themes
Forum links on front page widget should go to last page, to see current debate
and save a click
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The standard of homepage reviews is exceptionally high but I would love to Thank you for your comments. The Capn. only has so many hours in the
see more. CapnRex's reviews are particularly good so perhaps he could cover day but I’ll try cracking my whip to increase his output!
a greater range of themes. Thanks for a fantastic website!
I have stopped visiting brickset on my tablet device because of the occasional We are shortly changing out ad network so this will hopefully not be a
aggressive ad that opened new browser tabs. No problems at all when problem.
accessing it from other devices.
I realize many of your staff are from Britain but the over-emphasis on such We try to cater for all locales but of course it will have a UK bias given most
localization makes the site a lot less useful for the vast majority who aren't of us are in the UK.
British. Also, the site reviews come across as brown-nosing Lego. Calling
nearly every set you review excellent diminishes all of your reviews because
there's no sense that you're critiquing them rather than just kissing Lego's
butt.
I tend not to use the Brickset link when buying, and instead go direct the S@H Unfortunately, that’s not now affiliate marketing works: please click on the
web site. It would be good if we can register our Lego VIP number against a links if at all possible.
registered site like Brickset via the S@H VIP user settings, to help fund the
site. This would also be very good market data for Lego, as it shows how the
majority of AFOL's are associated.
Website navigation isn't that easy. Especially when you need to find some New parts are flagged in the ‘more’ listing on the home page side bar.
features you don't really use that often. A good example - new parts added
into DB. It isn't that easy to filter or select the dates when these were added.
I struggle finding this each time.
The tone in quite a lot of Huw's articles can be quite condescending or You may have noticed Huw is writing fewer articles these days so this
aggressive, particularly in cases where he's not personally interested in the should not be so much of an issue: instead subject matter experts write the
subject (e. g Lego video game news, or licenses that don't interest him). reviews and articles.
There's also a sense of arrogance, too - for example in the article for this
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survey 'I can't think of many websites that do this, certainly not LEGO-related
ones, and to be honest it is not something that we have to do given that
nobody pays to use the site, or comes here to buy products or services from
us. '. The main problem with Brickset is this writing style - it needs some
work.
Old sets usually have worse quality pictures than more recent ones. This kind This is inevitable but we are continually improving our images and if you
of skews the rating I gave for the set images question. Otherwise the site is can provider better ones please get in touch
great, integration with rebrickable is a super useful feature, and it's complete
enough to be the only LEGO-related site in my RSS reader. Thanks, and all the
best!
The only thing to mention and only minor. When you enlarge a photo it's Just click on it again.
difficult to get back to normal size again. Thanks
Brickset is usually my first stop for Lego news, but lately, the front page has
been more and more occupied by lists of sales, reviews, and new set news
that I've already see on Twitter and social media. It feels more commercial
than communal to me. I miss discovering new aspects of the AFOL experience
- fan-produced books and creations. I also love your editorial content and
would love to read more articles. As ever, your tags are great for helping to
filter content. I'm not a big reader of fan reviews, they vary in quality, often
cover the same ground, can be either exhaustingly long-winded or cursory.
However when I find a reviewer I trust, I like the ability to search for their
other reviews, that's very powerful.
More specific filters in Advanced Collection Manager and connection with
Bricklink (et simila) for sets wanted, so as not to have a double list
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New 'stars' feature doesn't work, pages take quite a while to load fully,
information incomplete for sets such as the minifigs for 70588 and 70589
great site - i love it
News articles need occasional improvement. Huw tends to dismiss certain That’s why they write more than Huw these days…
themes and news articles as irrelevant which is frustrating. There is room for
opinion in news articles but CapnRex101 and TheBrickPal tend to find a more
effective means of conveying their views.
When selecting a review (using a mobile phone) from the home page, it'll take I think the picture is hidden to make the page display properly on a mobile.
you straight to the text of the review. It would be handy if the brickset picture I suspect if you flick to landscape view you’ll see it.
of the set always appeared right at the top of the review, as a reference point
to what the user is referring to. Much like how the desktop version does.
some reviewers/news writers seem to have a significant superiority complex
or chip on their shoulders and could do with conveying their opinions in more
friendly and enthusiastic way.
Thanks!
I have two things regarding browsing/filtering sets:1) When selecting filtering Yes, there are some anomalies we are aware of with the filtering. The code
options, the browser back button doesn't always work how I'd like. For is very complex and resolving it is in the ‘too difficult’ list at the moment!
example, when I'm on a set-detail page, I click the theme to view all sets and
then filter on a subtheme and then filter on a year. When I then press back, I
don't go back to the previous filter with theme and subtheme (without year),
but it goes completely back to the set-details page where I stared. Kinda
annoying. It's also inconsistent, because sometimes (I haven't figured out
exactly how/when), the browser back button DOES take me back to the
previous filter. And, sometimes it does take me back to a previous filter, but 4