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Brick & Mortimer, on Jan 20 2010, 06:28 PM, said:

...I'm going to do my share and add at least one Fire Brigade and one Emporium to the sales figures... in a couple of months probably

Same here.

[jamieberard]

Henri, on Jan 20 2010, 08:55 PM, said:

Can you share with us how many Cafe Corners were sold worldwide? And how many Green Grocers and Fire brigades sofar.
It is interesting to find out what would be considdered a succes at Lego for these kind of sets. I have no idea, is that a coule of thousands, 10.000s or 100.000s?

One more thing my son wants to know: where do those super-builders (like yourself) work, is that all in Denmark or are there builders everywhere around the world? I am sure some more people here would appreciate a few pictures of your workspace..... i

Hi Henri,

Some of the others are correct in answering that I cannot comment about sales or volumes of the sets.

All the designers who work on retail & Shope@Home exclusive sets are here in Billund. The company works very hard to make sure we're all on the same 'campus' in order to promote innovation and knowledge-sharing.

In addition to the Billund team, we also have concept designers around the world who are helping dream up ideas for future of LEGO. Plus we have amazing model builders and designers in Enfield, CT USA, the LEGOLAND parks, and model shops here in Europe who make amazing sculptures and special models used around the world to promote the brand or selective partnerships. Designers in Enfield are the ones who often create the giveaways for brand retail store openings plus they handle alternative model and inspiration model designs shown in the Brickmaster & LEGO Club magazines. The physical models given with a Brickmaster sumbscription, however, are designed here in Billund.

Sorry, but I am not allowed to show images of my work desk/area due to the fact that I'm surrounded by many things which have not yet been released to the market. If you've seen the video announcing the launch of the Emerald Night, that show's a glimpse of where I work. In particular, starting at around 1:12 you can see our new element shelves:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ma5gFAI4gXg

What's even better than that is a video done with Markus. It gives a very fun overview of some of our design process.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=i9gtBvAhWS0

Cheers,

jamie

[Rick]

jamieberard, on Jan 21 2010, 08:01 AM, said:

If you've seen the video announcing the launch of the Emerald Night, that show's a glimpse of where I work. In particular, starting at around 1:12 you can see our new element shelves:

Looks like you cleaned up for the occasion.
I like that you're commenting quite frequently lately. I hope that's not just because of the 'appreciation week', or you'll force us to have a 'Jamie Berard appreciation year'.

[grogall]

jamieberard, on Jan 21 2010, 09:01 AM, said:

Hi Henri,

Some of the others are correct in answering that I cannot comment about sales or volumes of the sets.

All the designers who work on retail & Shope@Home exclusive sets are here in Billund. The company works very hard to make sure we're all on the same 'campus' in order to promote innovation and knowledge-sharing.

In addition to the Billund team, we also have concept designers around the world who are helping dream up ideas for future of LEGO. Plus we have amazing model builders and designers in Enfield, CT USA, the LEGOLAND parks, and model shops here in Europe who make amazing sculptures and special models used around the world to promote the brand or selective partnerships. Designers in Enfield are the ones who often create the giveaways for brand retail store openings plus they handle alternative model and inspiration model designs shown in the Brickmaster & LEGO Club magazines. The physical models given with a Brickmaster sumbscription, however, are designed here in Billund.

Sorry, but I am not allowed to show images of my work desk/area due to the fact that I'm surrounded by many things which have not yet been released to the market. If you've seen the video announcing the launch of the Emerald Night, that show's a glimpse of where I work. In particular, starting at around 1:12 you can see our new element shelves:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ma5gFAI4gXg

What's even better than that is a video done with Markus. It gives a very fun overview of some of our design process.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=i9gtBvAhWS0

Cheers,

jamie

Thanks for the comments!

[MetroiD]

Rick, on Jan 21 2010, 09:09 AM, said:

I like that you're commenting quite frequently lately. I hope that's not just because of the 'appreciation week', or you'll force us to have a 'Jamie Berard appreciation year'.

That's quite doable - and besides, more than deserved!
Thanks for keeping in touch with us, Jamie :)

[d00dz]

Cant wait till this set is out!

Is there an ETA for rls date?

[Holodoc]

Thank you so much, jamie for giving some insight in the bricks we love and the way they are produced.

jamieberard, on Jan 21 2010, 09:01 AM, said:

In addition to the Billund team, we also have concept designers around the world who are helping dream up ideas for future of LEGO. Plus we have amazing model builders and designers in Enfield, CT USA, the LEGOLAND parks, and model shops here in Europe who make amazing sculptures and special models used around the world to promote the brand or selective partnerships.

We had the chance to visit the buildershop in Legoland Germany during our last event 2009.
There we were able to have a glance at what they were building and even how they planned for example the big "Villa Hügel" for the Discovery Center in Duisburg.
Here is a link to my BS-folder.
The pics named pict0149 and pict0150 are about Villa Hügel.

I would expect the building area in Billund to be at least similar to this.
There is one difference though: the park designers build for bigger outside models, the team in Billund does smaller and tabletop creations. So it could as well be all different in Billund.

[CallMePie]

If I'm ever going to get a modular building, it's going to be this one.

[Henri]

Hello all,

Jamie, thanks for the replies. Nice to be talking to the professional who builds the models I like so much.

Ever since the Modular houses have come to market, I got into the Lego City theme. Never before did it attrackt me so much, but now we already have a huge town. I cant wait to see the Grand Emporium lining up in my city....

I still owe you all the pictures of the Lego-Shop / Starbucks building but I want to wait just a week or so with that......You'll understand why when I do reveil the close-ups. The building is in the picture I posted here , next to the Grand Carrousel.
I hope my account gives me rights to post the pictures I want. I still have to go through some tutorials on that. I'll post a message when I get my pictures in there.
Is there a more suitable place to upload pictures perhaps, and link that in a posting here? Only free sites will be nice, I need to save money for my set of 10211.

Carpe Lego (pick a brick)

Henri

This post has been edited by Henri: 25 January 2010 - 05:23 PM

[TheBrickster]

MetroiD, on Jan 21 2010, 01:38 AM, said:

Thanks for keeping in touch with us, Jamie :)

Yes, I'll second that Jamie. It is great to see you taking time to visit these topics on EB. We appreciate it.

This is another spectacular set that I will certainly buy once released. I love the overall color combination, and it will provide a nice addition to "cap" or "corner-off" the other modular sets. I'm really looking forward to adding to my collection.

[jamieberard]

Rick, on Jan 21 2010, 09:09 AM, said:

Looks like you cleaned up for the occasion.
I like that you're commenting quite frequently lately. I hope that's not just because of the 'appreciation week', or you'll force us to have a 'Jamie Berard appreciation year'.

How could I not take advantage of this special week??

But it is true that I'm putting an extra effort this week to respond as much as possible. I'll likely be a bit more quiet soon in order not to take away from the next designer's week

[MetroiD]

OK, I guess that's all the answer we needed.
Jamie Berard appreciation year, anyone?

[richb]

jamieberard, on Jan 21 2010, 02:25 PM, said:

But it is true that I'm putting an extra effort this week to respond as much as possible. I'll likely be a bit more quiet soon in order not to take away from the next designer's week

It would be nice if there were credits on the box or in the build manual so that we could know who designed what! It's the 21st century, TLG should allow all you hard working designers some attribution.

At the least this is something that should be done after the fact within the large AFoL community maintained Internet databases; places such as BrickSet. I would have never guessed the same person that created the Fast Flyer also did Cafe Corner were it not for this forum.

[Rick]

MetroiD, on Jan 21 2010, 07:30 PM, said:

Jamie Berard appreciation year, anyone?

Cutlass Iz will be thrilled.

[peterab]

Rick, on Jan 22 2010, 06:58 AM, said:

Cutlass Iz will be thrilled.

I see you've joined up too Rick. Up to this point Jamie was pretty safe given all his stalkers were in Australia