Nice video, the title had me sweating a little bit if I'm being honest. Let me respond to the questions/suggestions in order. - I do miss live streaming as well. I would like to get back into this and have been thinking of some ideas behind it. Long story short, live streaming takes a lot of time, and there are many other things that priority to running the channel but I do see a future in which we might be able to integrate that once again. - Getting more accurate price estimates has been a bit of a struggle for multiple reasons: The first reason is that we have noticed that our MOCs are literally changing the Bricklink market. The TIE fighters for example have nearly doubled in build cost since we released them. This is due to parts getting used up but also, and I think more so, because BrickLink stores are now following what we do more closely and buying out parts needed for our MOCs and charging higher prices. This really sux and we have some suggestions for BrickLink that might be able to prevent it, but the result currently is wildly fluting prices. Prices also fluctuate a lot depending on where you live. ALSO as if this wasn't complicated enough, there are some bad apples on the BL seller market that know how the algorithm works and will lure you into the auto-buy system with some below-market cost parts but then charge 10x market value on the rest. We have blacklisted a lot of stores that do this and when we check the box that says don't buy from blacklisted stores our auto-buy price can sometimes drop over $100 depending on what you're ordering. We were thinking about making some blacklists public but that enters a realm of attacking someone else's business which is a road I don't think we want to go down since we have to absolutely make sure we got things right. The GOOD NEWs is that Bricklink is working on shareable wanted lists that will hopefully allow us to import an auto updated price estimate. - Expert level builds are tough to explain to a potential customer. You mention the UCS Millenium Falcon as being an expert level build but I personally consider it to just be a BIG build with normal techniques. Marshal Banana who design the Shuttle Tydrium that we sell also made a custom Millenium Falcon that definitely uses techniques that are probably 10x more complicated than the official Lego set. So how do we explain that? I'm actually open to suggestions. "Super expert", "really really hard"? None the less it's helpful to understand that the models are much more difficult than you expected so we need to figure out a way to convey that to potential customers. - Lego reviews are something we want to do more. Again it's kind of like the streaming thing, it has to do with how much time we have but also the recent studio move and COVID related changes have changed what we can get done in a day. That being said we are actually working toward getting more sets to review so hopefully you will see that content return soon. Glad you enjoyed them! - The pricing of our instructions is basically what we have to sell things for otherwise the business doesn't function. You mentioned that you think the MOC community kind of became a bigger thing when we launched our store and that's because we started charging prices that actually interested top tier builders to work with us. We've actually had some builders decide not to work with us because we didn't charge as much as they wanted. One thing that we wanted to do to differentiate ourselves from other MOC stores is to have a higher level of quality. This means troubleshooting and building other people's sets ourselves to find errors and give feedback. A single MOC can take a designer 3-4 month to build, longer if it's a 20,000 part ISD, and then it takes us another month at least to buy the parts, stress test, give feedback, reorder parts to make changes and produce a video. It's a long labor-intensive process but it means you will not find a lot of errors with our builds and you will get a better quality product compared to other stores out there. Also, the ghost costs an estimated $1,800 in parts so we figured if you're going to spend that much money on a Lego build then you probably wouldn't have an issue with instructions that are less than 4% of the total cost. Also, there's website hosting fees, web development fees, chargeback fees, marketing fees, etc etc. Like some other MOC stores, we could just sell untested digital models, cut out the price of parts, stress testing, and save a ton of time and money but it means we're going to be selling a worse product. Our whole mission is to make the MOC buying process something that's more reliable when compared to the grabbag chances of other stores. We're not completely there yet but I think we offer a far better quality product in general than any other MOC store. Also Lego is super expensive which reduces how many people can afford to build custom, so if Lego becomes really cheap and we can sell 2x the amount of instructions because of it, then I'm happy to lower prices. Please ask Lego to reduce prices :) - As for the ugly. I'm sorry to hear that you are afraid to make a negative review of our products. As a video game reviewer myself 'LevelCap' I know that it can be hard to post a controversial opinion online because it opens you up to criticism of yourself, much more so than a positive review. But that's what being a reviewer is. I don't want to tell you how to go about reviewing as that's your business but I think you will find your own way forward. The two negative videos you posted about us that we had issues with were not about them being negative but because of the other issues that we talked about at length in our previous talk video, which people can watch if they want to know since that's a whole other fun adventure and this post is already way too long. Anyway, I hope I answered all the questions. If you have any other questions just lemme know!
Hey guys, so Brickvault and I tried to recreate my results for the AT-TE price, but were unable to do so. Obviously things on Bricklink fluctuate, but it seems I got an unusually high price. If you're looking at getting the AT-TE, do know the price is closer to $300, depending on preferences of course.
You weren’t saying what was bad about brick vault, you were giving constructive criticism, which means that you are helping brick vault and their future customers experience
BrickVault had a lot more videos when I was the second editor and co-host. With a smaller team they focus on MOCs now and some previously held series plus occasional videos on LAN provided sets. I noticed that decline was going for well over a year.
I really like it! I did, however, find it interesting that they compared it to the UCS version and said both are minifig scale. Both ships are noticeably different sizes. So they can't be the same scale. That's just not how it works. I understand minifig scale isn't a set thing, but still.
@@OntheBrick I would tend to agree except that custom builders and Lego themselves tend to alternate from around 1:42 scale to 1:35 scale depending on how big you think a minifigure should be. So two different size models can be minifigure scale, but we think our shuttle is closer to an accurate scale.
@@BrickVault In addition (while I am not sure if it's the case with the Lambda shuttle), for at least the alliance fighters and the Falcon the scale (compared to humans and then translated to minifigures) differs slightly depending on which physical or computer animation is used in the shot.
There's better landingcraft available on rebrickable in my opinion, not to mention with a considerably lower price (which is something that makes it hard for me to get instructions from brickvault)
R the pieces on the front of the gunship on the wrong sides? The 2x3 wedge plates would fill the gaps and make the front end look better if u switched sides.. Or at least it looks like it.
The thing with the listing point, I’d that these pieces are all from a single seller, which is always more expensive, if you used easy buy, the pieces themselves would be way cheaper
When it comes to the cost of things, I'll say this much. With the major company itself costs are baked in. With Brickvault, you get to see the transparency of that. Either way it's an expensive hobby. When you buy the instructions, you buy the design. It's a PDF so no one can change or alter it to protect the designer. What other file would you have them use?
That is a very tough question. I love both, but Ahsoka is my favorite character. It really depends. If I choose one, does the other not exist? In that case, I guess 7 seasons of 2003. I dont think 2 seasons is enough to tell a proper story in the 2008 clone wars.
good video but at a point you sad that the instructions have a price a bit too big. its true but when you buy the instructions you get them for life so if I stay to think its worth it. (this is my opinion)
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Nice video, the title had me sweating a little bit if I'm being honest.
Let me respond to the questions/suggestions in order.
- I do miss live streaming as well. I would like to get back into this and have been thinking of some ideas behind it. Long story short, live streaming takes a lot of time, and there are many other things that priority to running the channel but I do see a future in which we might be able to integrate that once again.
- Getting more accurate price estimates has been a bit of a struggle for multiple reasons: The first reason is that we have noticed that our MOCs are literally changing the Bricklink market. The TIE fighters for example have nearly doubled in build cost since we released them. This is due to parts getting used up but also, and I think more so, because BrickLink stores are now following what we do more closely and buying out parts needed for our MOCs and charging higher prices. This really sux and we have some suggestions for BrickLink that might be able to prevent it, but the result currently is wildly fluting prices. Prices also fluctuate a lot depending on where you live. ALSO as if this wasn't complicated enough, there are some bad apples on the BL seller market that know how the algorithm works and will lure you into the auto-buy system with some below-market cost parts but then charge 10x market value on the rest. We have blacklisted a lot of stores that do this and when we check the box that says don't buy from blacklisted stores our auto-buy price can sometimes drop over $100 depending on what you're ordering. We were thinking about making some blacklists public but that enters a realm of attacking someone else's business which is a road I don't think we want to go down since we have to absolutely make sure we got things right. The GOOD NEWs is that Bricklink is working on shareable wanted lists that will hopefully allow us to import an auto updated price estimate.
- Expert level builds are tough to explain to a potential customer. You mention the UCS Millenium Falcon as being an expert level build but I personally consider it to just be a BIG build with normal techniques. Marshal Banana who design the Shuttle Tydrium that we sell also made a custom Millenium Falcon that definitely uses techniques that are probably 10x more complicated than the official Lego set. So how do we explain that? I'm actually open to suggestions. "Super expert", "really really hard"? None the less it's helpful to understand that the models are much more difficult than you expected so we need to figure out a way to convey that to potential customers.
- Lego reviews are something we want to do more. Again it's kind of like the streaming thing, it has to do with how much time we have but also the recent studio move and COVID related changes have changed what we can get done in a day. That being said we are actually working toward getting more sets to review so hopefully you will see that content return soon. Glad you enjoyed them!
- The pricing of our instructions is basically what we have to sell things for otherwise the business doesn't function. You mentioned that you think the MOC community kind of became a bigger thing when we launched our store and that's because we started charging prices that actually interested top tier builders to work with us. We've actually had some builders decide not to work with us because we didn't charge as much as they wanted.
One thing that we wanted to do to differentiate ourselves from other MOC stores is to have a higher level of quality. This means troubleshooting and building other people's sets ourselves to find errors and give feedback. A single MOC can take a designer 3-4 month to build, longer if it's a 20,000 part ISD, and then it takes us another month at least to buy the parts, stress test, give feedback, reorder parts to make changes and produce a video. It's a long labor-intensive process but it means you will not find a lot of errors with our builds and you will get a better quality product compared to other stores out there. Also, the ghost costs an estimated $1,800 in parts so we figured if you're going to spend that much money on a Lego build then you probably wouldn't have an issue with instructions that are less than 4% of the total cost. Also, there's website hosting fees, web development fees, chargeback fees, marketing fees, etc etc.
Like some other MOC stores, we could just sell untested digital models, cut out the price of parts, stress testing, and save a ton of time and money but it means we're going to be selling a worse product. Our whole mission is to make the MOC buying process something that's more reliable when compared to the grabbag chances of other stores. We're not completely there yet but I think we offer a far better quality product in general than any other MOC store.
Also Lego is super expensive which reduces how many people can afford to build custom, so if Lego becomes really cheap and we can sell 2x the amount of instructions because of it, then I'm happy to lower prices. Please ask Lego to reduce prices :)
- As for the ugly. I'm sorry to hear that you are afraid to make a negative review of our products. As a video game reviewer myself 'LevelCap' I know that it can be hard to post a controversial opinion online because it opens you up to criticism of yourself, much more so than a positive review. But that's what being a reviewer is. I don't want to tell you how to go about reviewing as that's your business but I think you will find your own way forward.
The two negative videos you posted about us that we had issues with were not about them being negative but because of the other issues that we talked about at length in our previous talk video, which people can watch if they want to know since that's a whole other fun adventure and this post is already way too long.
Anyway, I hope I answered all the questions. If you have any other questions just lemme know!
Thank you for the extremely detailed response and answering all of the questions I had. I knew there were good reasons for it all.
Hey brick vault I love your mini star wars ships
@@OntheBrick i love what your doing
I think this is the longest comment I've ever seen in youtube
i got into you guys with minifig showcases
Hey guys, so Brickvault and I tried to recreate my results for the AT-TE price, but were unable to do so. Obviously things on Bricklink fluctuate, but it seems I got an unusually high price. If you're looking at getting the AT-TE, do know the price is closer to $300, depending on preferences of course.
Woah, the last time I was this early everything was ok.
I am so glad everything is fine between you guys!
You weren’t saying what was bad about brick vault, you were giving constructive criticism, which means that you are helping brick vault and their future customers experience
*Brickvault* : _sees title_
*Also Brickvault* : _sweats intensely_
That’s great! I loved this video so much. And so glad things are great between you guys now.
Very informative and i definitely agree with updating the estimated price on their custom sets.
BrickVault had a lot more videos when I was the second editor and co-host. With a smaller team they focus on MOCs now and some previously held series plus occasional videos on LAN provided sets. I noticed that decline was going for well over a year.
Hey Mike! Thanks for the insight and thank you for checking out the video!
What did you think of their Imperial Shuttle?
I really like it! I did, however, find it interesting that they compared it to the UCS version and said both are minifig scale. Both ships are noticeably different sizes. So they can't be the same scale. That's just not how it works.
I understand minifig scale isn't a set thing, but still.
@@OntheBrick I would tend to agree except that custom builders and Lego themselves tend to alternate from around 1:42 scale to 1:35 scale depending on how big you think a minifigure should be. So two different size models can be minifigure scale, but we think our shuttle is closer to an accurate scale.
@@BrickVault will you be doing a minifig scale imperial drop ship like the one from you new micro shuttles
@@BrickVault In addition (while I am not sure if it's the case with the Lambda shuttle), for at least the alliance fighters and the Falcon the scale (compared to humans and then translated to minifigures) differs slightly depending on which physical or computer animation is used in the shot.
There's better landingcraft available on rebrickable in my opinion, not to mention with a considerably lower price (which is something that makes it hard for me to get instructions from brickvault)
Aww the brickvault dogs are so cute! The designer did a great job! I love all of their models!
To buy everything with the B Wing which I tried to get, would cost me over $100 with a lot of those rare pieces. Like that retired cockpit piece.
Can you please make a tutorial on how to buy bricks at Bricklink (with partslist but without the designingnumbers of the parts) 🤔🙏
Absolutely!
Brickvault actually made video on that
I also think in general stability is able to be managed in larger builds.
I agree with what you said about estimated prices. It is hard to know if it will be in your budget if you can't get some idea of how much it will be.
R the pieces on the front of the gunship on the wrong sides? The 2x3 wedge plates would fill the gaps and make the front end look better if u switched sides.. Or at least it looks like it.
They are. I fixed it after the video on the gunship came out.
nice, well said. i hope to see some more reviews of sets and if you are reading this, then maybe the thunderjaw too sometime?
I would certainly love to!
The thing with the listing point, I’d that these pieces are all from a single seller, which is always more expensive, if you used easy buy, the pieces themselves would be way cheaper
This is simply not true.
@@OntheBrick I mean for me it always was
When it comes to the cost of things, I'll say this much. With the major company itself costs are baked in. With Brickvault, you get to see the transparency of that. Either way it's an expensive hobby.
When you buy the instructions, you buy the design. It's a PDF so no one can change or alter it to protect the designer. What other file would you have them use?
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Would you rather have 7 seasons of the 2003 Clonewars or 2 seasons of the 2008 Clonewars
That is a very tough question. I love both, but Ahsoka is my favorite character. It really depends. If I choose one, does the other not exist? In that case, I guess 7 seasons of 2003. I dont think 2 seasons is enough to tell a proper story in the 2008 clone wars.
@@OntheBrick I would agree.
I think it’s a good company, but I can’t bring myself to spend 50 dollars on instructions when I can just get them for cheaper on rebrickable
I slowed down the video for the ugly. It is interesting.
Same
good video but at a point you sad that the instructions have a price a bit too big. its true but when you buy the instructions you get them for life so if I stay to think its worth it. (this is my opinion)
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