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ok cool the book i had used is now unavailable for borrowing. guess i need to download it now. thats what the publishers wanted right
VERY outdated now. wanna fix this before the site's 28th birthday in april
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{{Infobox website
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| owner            = Brickshelf II, LLC. <!-- or: | owners = -->
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| creator          = Kevin M. Loch
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'''Brickshelf''' is an [[Wikipedia:Image hosting service|image hosting service]] for LEGO images created by Kevin Loch.
As of February 2025, Brickshelf contains over 4.9 million files in 430 thousand folders.
<!--
== History ==
== History ==
scans of [[building instruction]]s from discontinued LEGO sets
Kevin Loch began hosting scans of LEGO instruction manuals on his website ''kl.net'' on April 19, 1998, due to
<ref name="RTL Loch 98-04-19"/>
On April 19, 1998, [[rec.toys.lego]] user Kevin Loch began hosting scans on his website kl.net.
<ref name="lugnet.publish 762"/>
{{formatnum:100000}} files on February 24, 2002; {{formatnum:250000}} files on March 17, 2003.<ref name="lugnet.publish 4655"/>
Brickshelf surpassed one million files on September 22, 2005.<ref name="lugnet.announce 3045"/>


== References ==
== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="Bender">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/legolovestory0000bend/page/107/mode/2up?view=theater |title=LEGO: A Love Story |first=Jonathan |last=Bender |year=2010 |pages=107-108 |publisher=[[Wikipedia:John Wiley & Sons|John Wiley & Sons]] |location=[[Wikipedia:Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]] |ISBN=978-0-470-40702-8}}</ref>
}}
 
<ref name="lugnet.publish 762">{{cite newsgroup |title=Scan site is moving! |first=Kevin |last=Loch |date=August 31, 1999 |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.publish |url=https://news.lugnet.com/publish/?n=762 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250216110716/https://news.lugnet.com/publish/?n=762 |archive-date=February 16, 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="lugnet.announce 3045">{{cite newsgroup |title=Brickshelf surpases the 1 million file mark |first=Eric |last=Sophie |date=September 22, 2005 |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.announce |url=https://news.lugnet.com/publish/?n=3045 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250217082421/https://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=3045 |archive-date=February 17, 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="lugnet.publish 4655">{{cite newsgroup |title=Re: Happy Birthday Brickshelf! |first=David |last=Eaton |date=September 3, 2004 |website=[[LUGNET]] |newsgroup=lugnet.publish |url=https://news.lugnet.com/publish/?n=4655 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250216113248/https://news.lugnet.com/publish/?n=4655 |archive-date=February 16, 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
<ref name="RTL Loch 98-04-19">{{cite newsgroup |title=instruction scans |first=David |last=Eaton |date=April 19, 1998 |newsgroup=rec.toys.lego |[email protected] |url=https://groups.google.com/g/rec.toys.lego/c/XFKw_SWooeA/m/4T1Skduj9CgJ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250216115708/https://groups.google.com/g/rec.toys.lego/c/XFKw_SWooeA/m/4T1Skduj9CgJ |archive-date=February 16, 2025 |url-status=live |via=[[Wikipedia:Google Groups|Google Groups]]}}</ref>
 
}}-->


[[Category:1999 establishments]]
== External links ==
* {{Official website|brickshelf.com}}


[[Category:Internet properties established in 1998]]
[[Category:LEGO image-sharing websites]]
[[Category:LEGO image-sharing websites]]
[[Category:LUGNET]]
[[Category:LUGNET]]

Revision as of 02:15, 12 January 2026

Brickshelf
A simple drawing of a red 1×1 LEGO brick with two smaller shapes, one blue and one yellow, leaning against it
Created byKevin M. Loch
URLbrickshelf.com
RegistrationOptional (required to upload files)

History

References