emily Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Not a joke! Not an illusion! The LEGO Message Boards are done. Kaput. Toast. None of us 'round here are huge fans of the LMBs, I know, but they've been a fixture of the Lego site since, like, 2003, right? Pretty big deal that they are finally at their end. Cirevam, Quisoves Potoo, Ayliffe and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 oh boy Ayliffe, Pranciblad, aidenpons and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashDSB Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 noghiri, ProfessorBrickkeeper, Ayliffe and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirevam Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Holy fruits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Cupcake Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Ok. Brigs, CrashDSB, noghiri and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ace Railgun Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 And I thought it would never happen. emily, Quisoves Potoo, Lind Whisperer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lol username Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The topic for discussion of it. Reminds of the closure of LU except this time I don't care that much lol. I'll archive what exists of my own old posts privately and that'll be that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emily Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 mods please implement this emote here so it is not lost forever, tia le717, Quisoves Potoo and noghiri 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 23 minutes ago, Pereki said: mods please implement this emote here so it is not lost forever, tia I second this. The LMBs were the first online forum I ever used, and I was once very active on there... I even got interviewed by the moderators at the height of my activity. It's a bit sad to see them go... Lind Whisperer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
origamihero Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 At least this will be lost forever. (your probably getting access denied pages like I am , sorry) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Time for us to scour the LMBs for those posts. This event will make for great content for legomessageboards.tumblr.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigs Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 4 minutes ago, origamihero said: At least this will be lost forever. You wish. The Ace Railgun, ProfessorBrickkeeper, Quisoves Potoo and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirevam Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 1 hour ago, Pereki said: mods please implement this emote here so it is not lost forever, tia In memoriam aidenpons, Lind Whisperer, Quisoves Potoo and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 34 minutes ago, Brigs said: You wish. Archived this page on the Wayback Machine to double-ensure it being archived in case that image later gets removed. http://web.archive.org/save/http://www.rockraidersunited.com/topic/7648-i-cant-believe-the-lmbs-are-freaking-dead/ (By the way I have no idea what it is about that topic you want to forget, I'm just going on an archiving spree right now. :P) Brigs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lind Whisperer Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Wow... O.o Quote Please keep in mind that if you select an avatar in the LEGO Life app... The what...? *Googles* https://www.lego.com/en-us/life Quote Creative STUFF After creating your profile and awesome minifigure avatar, jump in to see what the LEGO Life community have been up to! Sharing STUFF Then get building, sharing and tagging your LEGO builds and funny photos! Follow STUFF Like what you see, follow your favorite builders and comment on their creations. Then follow your favourite groups and themes to be shown more of the stuff you like best! So...LEGO Instagram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I was starting to worried that it had been lost forever, but apparently not!http://web.archive.org/web/20141114131338/https://community.lego.com/t5/LORD-OF-THE-RINGS/I-LIKE-FRODO/m-p/3439289/highlight/true I LIKE FRODO. HOW'S YOURS? EDIT: Apparently all 90 pages are archived, lol. EDIT 2: Just archived a topic about the I LIKE FRODO topic... very meta. http://web.archive.org/web/20170105043019/https://community.lego.com/t5/COMMUNITY-CHAT/I-LIKE-FRODO-HOW-S-YOURS/m-p/8430276 Quisoves Potoo and Brigs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobaFett2 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I was never active on the message boards but I definitely browsed them a little at times. It's a bit sad to see another piece of the LEGO website from your childhood disappearing, but such is life. Quisoves Potoo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Heheheh... guess what else will be preserved forever? http://web.archive.org/web/20141115105208/https://community.lego.com/t5/LEGO-VIDEO-GAMES/LDD-Final-Boss-is-Too-Hard/td-p/8011776 The Ace Railgun, le717, PeabodySam and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quisoves Potoo Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Sic transit stultitia mundi... Much as the historical-pack rat in me would like to see them stay, I can't blame LEGO for closing the LMBs. Aside from them being the lackadaisical cesspool they presently are, they require lots of time and money to do what plenty of folks will happily do for free nowadays. This wasn't the case for much of their lifespan, obviously, but now any chucklehead can create a LEGO fan forum gratis, using ProBoards or some such software. And as others have already remarked, it will be amusing to see the squirming, foaming tide wash up on the shores of Eurobricks, BZPower, et al. Especially seeing as that first one is age-restricted... Pranciblad, aidenpons and Brigs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben24x7 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Salvage stuff from the LEGO Message Boards? ,,,Nah, I think I'll let my "Legends of Chima" story-thing sink into the eternal abyss. (I wanted to link it, but it turns out I removed the LMB link because apparently it was "disrespectful to [someone] who died", or something(???). But eh, you're not missing out on anything.,it' was a long, boring, pile of cr** anyway.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 7 hours ago, Ben24x7 said: Salvage stuff from the LEGO Message Boards? ,,,Nah, I think I'll let my "Legends of Chima" story-thing sink into the eternal abyss. (I wanted to link it, but it turns out I removed the LMB link because apparently it was "disrespectful to [someone] who died", or something(???). But eh, you're not missing out on anything.,it' was a long, boring, pile of cr** anyway.) Out of curiosity, what was your username on the LMBs? EDIT: Also, @Terrev, archived both of your user profiles, because why not. http://web.archive.org/web/20170105152207/https://community.lego.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2348041 http://web.archive.org/web/20170105152540/https://community.lego.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1007616 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayliffe Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 (¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-> ţh€я€ ɨ$ ɲ๏β๏ď¥ ℓ€ƒţ ţ๏ $ą¥ ¥๏µя ƒąɲƒɨȼ ɨ$ ǥ๏๏ď -.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯) Brigs, Pranciblad, le717 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickulator Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 The lego website my is earliest memory of the internet, from back in the 90s, and the very first version of the LMB was my first experience of talking to people online and being part of a community like that.... and online communities are something that have had an enormous impact on the path my life has taken and the opportunities I've had. While I haven't posted on the LMB for probably 15 or 16 years and everything I did post disappeared a long time ago, I can still trace back a lot of the things that have happened in my life back to that terrible little forum. So it's a shame to see it go. I'm still not over ibricks closing tbf. eagleeyedan and le717 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pranciblad Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Y'know, it's been about half a day now and I still don't have a suitable reaction to this. However, I think 16 minutes ago, Ayliffe said: [this] matches my feelings pretty well. Ayliffe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagleeyedan Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I've stuck around on the LMB's in just one topic for the past several years after my interest mostly fizzled out, but it'll be a very different site now. Not much reason to even have an account there anymore without MLB/Club Pages, game leaderboards, multiplayer games, really no reason to have repeat traffic to the site now. I'm guessing their traffic will plummet this summer after it closes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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