The idea and concept for the group have been in discussion as early as 2002, where fan groups and organization started in the former Yahoo Groups community forum. But the interest started by three people who shared a similar childhood interest to LEGO®, and content for the group page was not active until January 2008 when a local distributor for the brand reached out and invited the founders at a private tradeshow event to unveil the new sets for that year.
Co-Presented, Events & Appearances
- LEGO® Tradeshow (February 2008)
- Rustan’s Home Building Competition (2008)
- Philippine Toy Con (2008-2012)
- LEGO® Christmas Land 2008
- Featured on Good Morning Kuya (RJTV29 Morning Show)
- Featured on Umaga Kay Ganda (ABS-CBN Morning Show)
- Featured on Lovely Day (GMA7 Sunday Magazine Show)
Originally Philippine Bricksters was created not only as a community that catered to the interest related to the LEGO® brand, but also other building toys such as Keepley (Formerly known as Enlighten), MEGA Brands (MEGA Blocks | MEGA Construx), KRE-O, COBI, K’NEX, OXFORD (the manufacturer for Kre-O), and discontinued brands like Hasbro’s Built to Rule.
There was no immediate or even organized plan that Philippine Bricksters would become a community, but due to a short-lived unofficial tie-up with then local distributor for LEGO® (Formerly, 2006-2018), the group began to explore and expand in participating in their events.
After the demise of Multiply.com (2003-2013), the community moved to Facebook as the group under the “Phil Bricksters Marketplace” name, but prior to that, there was already an unofficial group in place that was set up two years earlier, which was not officially sanctioned or authorized by the original founders. Currently, that group changed its name to avoid using ‘Philippine Bricksters’, but you can still see the URL ‘PhilBricksters’ on the Facebook Group as an affiliated site.
The failure of "Philippine Bricksters" as 'the only' community at that time (2007-2012) is its own success paving the way to 'Clone Brick Groups' spinning off to local tribes, which includes a community using the 'Bricksters' brand name attached to their group name becoming the former community's legacy. They also unconciously continuing the legacy at the same time honoring the "Bricksters" name because they came from the former group. This also includes the rise of the RLUG (Recognized LEGO® Users Group) communities in the country. As they say in Filipino culture and society 'the more, the merrier' communities in supporting this hobby expands its reach, and interest within the Philippines that building toys like LEGO® can be affordable to anyone at the same time open up opportunities to other brands that are related to this type of construction toy.
Philippine Bricksters does not have an official community group page, and the former Marketplace was deactivated in Mid-2012 as the founders decided to focus being the media site prompting interest about building toys supporting and promoting communities internationally associated to LEGO®, KRE-O, and MEGA BLOKS through news and education, which also include content including other unknown brands through Social Media via Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter also on blog and website platform.
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