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Four months ago, a Lego fan earned around half a million dollars<\/a> when Lego put his limited-edition set on sale. Now, Lego is opening orders for round two of the BrickLink Designer Program at 8am PT \/ 11am ET on Thursday, June 6th \u2014 featuring five more limited-edition sets, each a fan\u2019s dream come true. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n They\u2019re charming, quaint, look like wonderful playsets, and the fan designers will get five percent of the proceeds from each sale! My eye\u2019s on the incredibly detailed Brick Cross Train Station… but I already splurged on last time\u2019s Parisian Street<\/a> so I\u2019d probably best not!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ready for high-res images, prices, and designer video interviews around each new set? Here you go: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n I am in awe<\/em> of how many Lego hot dogs were used in the making of the Ominous Isle\u2019s railings. Wouldn\u2019t want any pirates to fall into the drink! There\u2019s a dial to make that skull gate open, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Image: Bricklink Designer Program<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n One of my British colleagues says: \u201cIt\u2019s so cute! Captures a lot of the right vibes to me, at least having frequently passed through all of London\u2019s major stations.\u201d I adore it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I cannot look at this and not think of Back to the Future Part III<\/em>. I need to put the Lego Cuusoo DeLorean<\/a> on this railway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As I show you in my video below for an earlier BrickLink set, these sets come in special BrickLink boxes without paper instructions, and Lego\u2019s own designers don\u2019t have much of a role \u2014 but they are produced in a Lego factory, shipped by Lego, made of official Lego bricks, and Lego employees choose the five winners of each fan competition after fan voting is over. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Anyone can enter the BrickLink Designer Program, unlike some previous Lego challenges!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Lego Ideas program, by comparison, does<\/em> put fan designs on sale at retail, paper instructions and all, but Lego\u2019s designers pick far fewer sets \u2014 each of which go through a painstaking process to revise those sets for the masses. You can read my feature story<\/a> about how that works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n