{"id":124119,"date":"2019-12-20T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/20\/lego-accused-of-muscling-in-on-fans-after-bricklink-takeover\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:40:11","slug":"lego-accused-of-muscling-in-on-fans-after-bricklink-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=124119","title":{"rendered":"Lego accused of muscling in on fans after BrickLink takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sale has alarmed secondhand brick collectors but Danish toymaker claims it is about reconnecting with customers For 20 years the website BrickLink has been the best kept secret in Legoland, used by superfans to track down those elusive missing pieces and trade coveted minifigures for big profits.Nicknamed CrackLink, it is the world\u2019s largest online community of adult brick fans \u2013 called AFOLs [adult fan of Lego] in Lego speak \u2013 who, with more than a week\u2019s pocket money to burn, are important customers for the world\u2019s biggest toy company. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/dec\/20\/lego-accused-of-muscling-in-on-fans-after-bricklink-takeover\" target=\"_blank\">Lego accused of muscling in on fans after BrickLink takeover<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sale has alarmed secondhand brick collectors but Danish toymaker claims it is about reconnecting with customers For 20 years the website BrickLink has been the best kept secret in Legoland, used by superfans to track down those elusive missing pieces and trade coveted minifigures for big profits.Nicknamed CrackLink, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}