Bricklink: Finding Parts and Using Wanted Lists

You would not believe the amount of times I want a piece but have no idea what it’s called on bricklink but I know a set it’s included in so I use the inventory breakdown to find it. Works every time.

Might be a useful tip for someone: "Decorated" and "pattern" will both find printed as well as stickered elements. So if you're not sure whether a pattern you're looking for is a print or sticker, or if you want to look at, say, all decorated 2x2 tiles, those are the search terms to use.

Bro straight up calling out individual stores for over pricing those giant orange wheels 🤣

4:18 You can change the settings so all options are always on display

I literally was just trying to place my first parts order to swap out the unattractive colors in the Dune Ornithopter set. I said to myself, "This is hard, I with there was a simple video" 2 hours later... BOOM! Video pops up in my feed without me even searching. There is a God! Thank you!

I genuinely appreciate this video! Thank you for making this!!

It is indeed a dark, dark road… Feels like Morpheus should be here beckoning us Neos down a deep rabbit hole Learned a few new tricks like the XML lists! Thanks! “But if you take the red brick…”

Super helpful video! Thank you!

Fantastic guide, I have been using bricklink for a few months now, but I still learned an abbundance of new tips and tricks, so thank you

Thank you for this! I have a list of parts I need to buy that I couldn't get at our local brick shop and, as I have yet to use Bricklink, I wasn't up on how to find them at the same store or the least number of stores. Thanks for saving me the time to figure it out on my own. Your content is always well thought out and stellar.

As someone feom the UK I've actually found it about the same price to get my pieces from a store out of the uk even though the shipping is so expensive because the stores in the uk don't seem to be as big as ones abroad so I'd have to of done more smaller orders which would of meant more postage. So it worked put about the same. Just thought I'd say that just so people check to see whats cheaper

So glad you made this video. At my LEGO store, I recommend bricklink to many customers who need help finding parts for their own builds, and I always say they should watch youtube tutorials about the website because it would take hours for me to explain it all in a store setting. I can now usher them to your video!

Thank you so much for this video. It's very helpful.

Great video on a topic that does not get enough documentation. You could do a whole tutorial series on this.

You were right about how dangerous bricklink is. Now I have an addiction, and I see the main page of bricklink more times I see a chair..

While the feature of wanted lists is excellent and most definitely something anyone should consider using, the auto buy option does have some drawbacks, especially in that it tries to get as many parts as it possibly can, while having price (and occasionally shipping) at a lower priority. One thing you can do in your wanted lists, is add a maximum price for a specific part or item, which isn't necessarily needed for parts that are cheap, but can be very useful to add if you are interested in specific minifigures, animals or full sets. It takes a bit of work, but it assures that it will only show up in the auto-search if you select the exclude 'Lots over max price' option. Thanks for showing people around in Bricklink for a bit, it is certainly something I would have wanted, when I was a new user! <3

Haha, interesting seeing how people use bricklink differently. I myself almost exclusively use the colour guide as it's easier for me to remember what colour the piece I'm looking for comes in and what category it belongs to. It's also easier for me to find interesting pieces in niche colours, as the kinds of mocs I'm building are more colour and texture focused (bionicle).

Thank you so much for making this. I've always had a hard time on bricklink.

I came out of my lego dark ages in 2012 and discovered bricklink in 2014. I didn't know it at the time, but i was becoming "Bricklink Literate" finding loopholes for the best deals on parts, figures and sets. Since Lego owned the secondary market, the secret's out. Everyone is on bricklink now, and what used to be affordable is expensive, and expensive is now unattainable. I'm just lucky I got my foot in the door when I did

i have been wondering how to actually use bricklink efficiently, so this video is a great help. im not really going to put in any huge orders but finding the right seller for the right pieces to buy together can be a pain.