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UPDATE: Due to an unexpected need to relocate, I am moving up my plans to end custom kits sales on May 31, 2003. Some made-to-order items have an even earlier cut-off date, so please read the catalog pages caefully. Thanks! Brickmania to Halt Custom Kits Sales!!! Hello there! This is an important announcement and update containing timely information, so please read carefully! You are receiving this message, because you have either bought my custom Lego kits, loose parts, or have otherwise expressed interest in my Lego creations. First, the big news is that I will be halting production and sales of all Brickmania custom model kits as of June 30, 2003. I have pursued my custom Lego kits with a passion for the past four years, but it has been at the expense of other important aspects of my life. Aside from Brickmania, I also run a record label and music distribution company. I'm not a person to give less than 100% effort in the things I do, but I can not give that kind of effort to running two businesses at once. Having this difficult choice in front of me for the past two years, I've finally made my decision - that being to stop Brickmania. I'm not disappearing from the Lego community, but will uninvolve myself from any sort of business aspects of it. Here are some details of what will happen before I shut down Brickmania for good: New kits to be completed (see notations below for more info): Brickmania 208: Panzer V "Panther" German Heavy Tank (to be released April 2003) The next WW2 custom model kit to be released in April 2003. It has contains 854 pieces and will cost $230 (plus shipping). This will be limited to a single run of only 10 units. Preorders encouraged (you can pre-pay for your kit now on my site, to be shipped first or second week of April). The mother of all WW2 Heavy Tanks will be released as a custom kit in May of 2003. I do not yet have a part count, so the final price is also not set. It will most likely have a comparable part count and price to the Panther and recently released T-34 tanks. The number of kits being made has not yet been set and will be determined by customer interest. The pictures on my web site show a Tan variant, but the actual kit will be in dark gray bricks. The tan variant is will only be offered on a "made to order" basis and will cost more than the standard production. It will also be shipped sans two very rare elements which the customer will have to locate on their own: 4 tan 2x2 round corner "macaroni" bricks (http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/3063) Brickmania 20x: Motorized conversion kit for Panther / Tiger (to be released May 2003) This will contain the Bionicle "Manas" IR controlled motor and elements needed to covert these two kits into motorized models. Brickmania 004: Guarded Church expansion modules E and F (to be released May 2003) These long-awaited expansion modules will be available on a build to order basis for a very short while. These are still in their final prototype refinement stages and prices have not yet been set. Additional module C and D units will also be available for a very limited time, also on a built to order basis. Rough prototype models are depicted on my web site here: http://www.brickmania.com/Church/modules.htm Brickmania CD001: "Brickmania Instructions Vol. 1" CD-Rom (to be released June 2003) A factory manufactured CD-ROM containing all of the instruction books and partslist to complete all of my Brickmania kits (except 001) will be available. The price for this CD will be $40 plus postage and will available for delivery in June of 2003. All previously released kits are in their final productions runs and will be discontinued when they sell out. All remaining kit inventory will be broken up and / or auctioned off after June 30. Here are the numbers of kits still available as of March 18, 2003: Brickmania 006: Guarded Church ($720 plus shipping) = 2 I will be liquidating my entire spare parts inventory over the next several months via my Bricklink store. I have already begun the stocking process, but tens of thousands more new parts will be added over the next several months: http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=brickmania Leftover parts will probably be placed on eBay sometime after June 30. I may also sell / auction off some of the prototype models for many of my kits. I will be updating my web site as the final kits are nearing completion. Please check back often for updates! It's been great and these next few months should be even better. Dan Siskind of Brickmania |