Bricklink and LEGO.com Account Merge

[danth]

7 hours ago, MAB said:

I often get people asking me to price match another store when I have bulk quantities and the other store is doing very low prices for a few. I always refuse for this reason.

That's crazy that people would try to haggle on Bricklink. That's some dedication to being a tightwad!

[MAB]

18 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

Pricing on Bricklink at times can be far below LEGO's cost to produce certain parts. Recently, I began working on a large MOC and needed a bunch of plates for filler. Lime green and orange aren't popular sellers and I was able to scoop up thousands of plates and curved plates for cheap. If LEGO demands a minimum price on BL, there are other sites out there when I can go as well.

Yeah. Buying for my daughter was much cheaper than buying for my son. He wanted natural colours for castles, she wanted lots of pinks and pastels for Friends houses and shops. 

[SpacePolice89]

I did the integration this morning. Everything went fine. I also tried to log out and then in again. It worked well and now I have to use my Lego account password instead of my old Bricklink one.

[MAB]

Yes, all fine now. It was a complete farce yesterday so they took bl offline for about 8 hours, but it all seems good now.

[SpacePolice89]

After all the problems I was a bit worried but now I'm happy that everything went well and that I can continue to use Bricklink.

[AmperZand]

2 hours ago, MAB said:

Yes, all fine now. It was a complete farce yesterday so they took bl offline for about 8 hours, but it all seems good now.

Can confirm that BL was down yesterday. Today, all's well. I was able to integrate my BL and LEGO accounts without issue. 

[Murdoch17]

I'm glad people are able to log in. I've just contacted LEGO CS (as it told me to) to look into it because my email is 'unretrievable' when trying to sign in. Everything was going swimmily until the very last step, too...

[Wolfpack]

This is not a merger at all!

People with lego.com accounts can login on bricklink, but we with bricklink accounts cannot login neither here not there and our accounts will be deleted in December. It is such an insidious move.

[Murdoch17]

I got a message back Lego CS this morning: They told me they are "aware of this issue and are currently working on fixing some issues on on our end. I will send this across to our support team to take a look at."

I was hoping to get some LEGO ordered today, but I guess that ain't happening anytime soon. At least they are answering messages quickly, usually it's a couple days to get a response - this response was received about 5 hours after I messaged them, so they get points for that! I will keep you guys updated if I hear more from them.

[The Reader]

BrickLink was down for maintenance yesterday (and the day before?). I merged my accounts today and everything went fine. Luckily no problems.

[DonQuixote]

I had trouble signing in yesterday.  Couldn't get inn. Everything is fine now

On 8/18/2025 at 10:02 PM, SpacePolice89 said:

In Swedish we have a saying "man ska inte inte måla fan på väggen" which translates to "do not paint the devil on the wall" 

Is this a loose translation ? Because as a native Dutch speaker who also understands German, I don’t understand anything from this sentence.  Swedish is a germanic language but I don't recognize any words.

man=man?

väggen=to swipe ?

 

I do know that some words in Swedish are somewhat similar in Dutch as I have had a Swedish girlfriend a long time ago

[SpacePolice89]

4 hours ago, DonQuixote said:

I had trouble signing in yesterday.  Couldn't get inn. Everything is fine now

Is this a loose translation ? Because as a native Dutch speaker who also understands German, I don’t understand anything from this sentence.  Swedish is a germanic language but I don't recognize any words.

man=man?

väggen=to swipe ?

 

I do know that some words in Swedish are somewhat similar in Dutch as I have had a Swedish girlfriend a long time ago

In this context "man ska inte" has the same meaning as "you should not". "Man" means man but is used the same way as "you" in English. "Ska is a more modern form of "skall" which is similar to the old English "shall". "Inte" means not. "Fan" means devil ( Contraction of fanden (“the Devil”), from late Old Norse fendinn, perhaps from Frisian with the original meaning "the tempter, he who tempts". Cognate with Danish fanden, Icelandic fjandi, Faroese fanin and Swedish fan. ) "Väggen means wall. "Måla" means to paint and "på" means on. Swedish, Danish and Norwegian is using very similar words for the most part while the pronunciation is very different especially between Swedish and Danish. I try to watch as much Danish tv as possible to learn better Danish. When I go to Denmark I always try to speak Danish but I still have a very very thick Swedish accent. When I try to read Dutch I can understand some parts but not others. I learnt English at a young age because of relatives in the US and Canada that visited us often and we also visited them a lot. Learning English helped me learn other languages. Learning Finnish has given me much headache because it is so different from other languages. Nowadays I speak basic Finnish that is good enough for the workplace. I live in the part of Finland where most people speak Swedish so I mostly use Finnish at work with Finnish colleagues or when I go to Helsinki. I always mess up the Finnish suffixes because you can say words in 15 different ways with different endings. I learned Finnish in my early 20s when I played hockey for a team where almost everyone spoke Finnish. It was only me, a Canadian and a Russian that didn't speak the language but after half a year I learned the basics.  

[DonQuixote]

11 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:

In this context "man ska inte" has the same meaning as "you should not". "Man" means man but is used the same way as "you" in English. "Ska is a more modern form of "skall" which is similar to the old English "shall". "Inte" means not. "Fan" means devil ( Contraction of fanden (“the Devil”), from late Old Norse fendinn, perhaps from Frisian with the original meaning "the tempter, he who tempts". Cognate with Danish fanden, Icelandic fjandi, Faroese fanin and Swedish fan. ) "Väggen means wall. "Måla" means to paint and "på" means on. Swedish, Danish and Norwegian is using very similar words for the most part while the pronunciation is very different especially between Swedish and Danish. I try to watch as much Danish tv as possible to learn better Danish. When I go to Denmark I always try to speak Danish but I still have a very very thick Swedish accent. When I try to read Dutch I can understand some parts but not others. I learnt English at a young age because of relatives in the US and Canada that visited us often and we also visited them a lot. Learning English helped me learn other languages. Learning Finnish has given me much headache because it is so different from other languages. Nowadays I speak basic Finnish that is good enough for the workplace. I live in the part of Finland where most people speak Swedish so I mostly use Finnish at work with Finnish colleagues or when I go to Helsinki. I always mess up the Finnish suffixes because you can say words in 15 different ways with different endings. I learned Finnish in my early 20s when I played hockey for a team where almost everyone spoke Finnish. It was only me, a Canadian and a Russian that didn't speak the language but after half a year I learned the basics.  

Finnish is hard. It's not even an Indo-European language . Learning Farsi/Persian or Hindi might be easier. Impressive you managed that. 

Oh 'man' means 'men' in Dutch. That's allmost the same. A neutral form of you/thou. Ska/skall = zal (Dutch) 

fanden is related to 'to find out'

uit vinden ( Dutch) . According the link you provided. 

väggen and måla, I don't find words in Dutch and German that are similar. väggen sounds like 'vegen' (to wipe). But I don't see a relation with  muur (wall) .

måla sounds like malen (tot mix) 

So maybe mixing paint because you need to mix colors to have other colors. So with that word I see a relation with Dutch 

 

If you explain every word, you a can see similarities but it's obvious that nord germanic diversed a long time ago from south germanic (German, Frisian, Dutch) 

Edited September 20 by DonQuixote

[Peppermint_M]

It would have been easier for me to merge if I could ever remember my LEGO.com password. Though it is all sorted now. I will miss my old BL avatar, but at least I can keep my username. I am somewhat attached to this name I chose something like 20 years ago...

[9v system]

On 9/19/2025 at 9:48 PM, Wolfpack said:

This is not a merger at all!

People with lego.com accounts can login on bricklink, but we with bricklink accounts cannot login neither here not there and our accounts will be deleted in December. It is such an insidious move.

yes im curently having the same issue, i wanted to get some stuff for my new brickowl account but cant even log in im so angry right now

[Plumber]

Was never happy with TLG acquiring BL and the account merger hasn't helped to settle any concerns.

Since this merger was implemented I have had to put in my birth year (yeah right!!!) and location every time I login, is this what everyone is seeing?

It's really aggravating and I object to having to provide that information in the first place.

I for one will be moving  majority of my custom (buyer only) over to Brickowl as from now, see you all there soon!

[MAB]

On 9/22/2025 at 9:52 AM, Plumber said:

Was never happy with TLG acquiring BL and the account merger hasn't helped to settle any concerns.

Since this merger was implemented I have had to put in my birth year (yeah right!!!) and location every time I login, is this what everyone is seeing?

It's really aggravating and I object to having to provide that information in the first place.

I for one will be moving  majority of my custom (buyer only) over to Brickowl as from now, see you all there soon!

It is probably your browser not saving cookies correctly. 

[Autumn]

I've taken a look at my cookies, even completely reset them and every time I open up Bricklink it asks me for my cookie preferences, date of birth, and a verification code to log in. Every time I open a new page or tab it wants my cookie preferences again even after I've logged in. It's so irritating.

[Murdoch17]

It's still totally broken for me... it's been five days since roll out and I can't log in due to errors on their end - and I'm not alone! My brother can't log into his account, nor my father into his! I contacted LEGO CS on Friday, they told me they'd pass along my message and to be patient and I've heard nothing back since. This whole issue is totally ridiculous!

Edited September 23 by Murdoch17

[MAB]

4 hours ago, Autumn said:

I've taken a look at my cookies, even completely reset them and every time I open up Bricklink it asks me for my cookie preferences, date of birth, and a verification code to log in. Every time I open a new page or tab it wants my cookie preferences again even after I've logged in. It's so irritating.

They've tweaked it again today and made it worse. 

[The Reader]

13 hours ago, Autumn said:

I've taken a look at my cookies, even completely reset them and every time I open up Bricklink it asks me for my cookie preferences, date of birth, and a verification code to log in. Every time I open a new page or tab it wants my cookie preferences again even after I've logged in. It's so irritating.

Same here! It worked fine at the weekend, but showed these malfunctions yesterday. Even my basket from B&P got emptied everytime I left Lego‘s homepage. 

[Alexandrina]

Got to admit, I was expecting this to be a worse process than it was (namely: I was expecting to be forced into the autogenerated Lego.com username instead of being able to keep my own). The actual merger process was painless in my experience and it looks like BL is functioning the same as before.

Sympathise with those that don't have Lego accounts, though

[Drewsko]

On 9/19/2025 at 7:22 AM, Murdoch17 said:

I'm glad people are able to log in. I've just contacted LEGO CS (as it told me to) to look into it because my email is 'unretrievable' when trying to sign in. Everything was going swimmily until the very last step, too...

Both me and a circle of friends have ended up in the same boat. I'm starting to suspect that this bizarre hiccup ties back to how old one's LEGO.com account might be. I signed up circa 1999/2000 and back then emails weren't needed for signing up, I only created and added mine around 2010. Somehow despite spending years making LEGO.com orders my account never got the email saved into personal info, and even though I've since added it that seems to be tied to the problem the Bricklink merger's bringing to light: the website simply does not register my email as a login credential, and as of yet not part of the critical info the BL merger needs.

I'm hoping LEGO picks up on this and figures it out, this could be one of the weirder backend issues of running a site that was a lot more open to kids 20 years ago when the shopping was shuffled away on the "Shop At Home" page.

[Murdoch17]

2 hours ago, Drewsko said:

Both me and a circle of friends have ended up in the same boat. I'm starting to suspect that this bizarre hiccup ties back to how old one's LEGO.com account might be. I signed up circa 1999/2000 and back then emails weren't needed for signing up, I only created and added mine around 2010. Somehow despite spending years making LEGO.com orders my account never got the email saved into personal info, and even though I've since added it that seems to be tied to the problem the Bricklink merger's bringing to light: the website simply does not register my email as a login credential, and as of yet not part of the critical info the BL merger needs.

I'm hoping LEGO picks up on this and figures it out, this could be one of the weirder backend issues of running a site that was a lot more open to kids 20 years ago when the shopping was shuffled away on the "Shop At Home" page.

My account began in 2007. Of note: My brother also has Lego and Bricklink accounts, and his was not messed with beforehand like Lego suggested some months back to reserve a username, and he was able to get his to work just yesterday. Whereas I changed my LEGO username to Murdoch17 to be consistent (it was this originally in 2007, but Lego forced me off it when they auto-generated usernames a while back),  and thus I can't get in. I wonder if that has something to do with it?

[Feuer Zug]

I waited until today to do the merger. Thanks all for taking the pain in early adoption. Your bug hunting is appreciated by us that got a smooth experience.