LEGO Message Boards Wiki

This is the LEGO Message Boards Timeline. Major events in the Message Boards' history are listed here, sorted by year.

1999-2001[]

  • The LEGO Message Boards are created in a Beta testing phase. They are not yet available to the public.
  • Some LEGO employees, such as admin, join the Beta.

2001[]

  • The Beta test ends.
  • The Message Boards are officially established and now available to the public.
  • False and Matt02, some of the first users, join the Message Boards.

2002[]

2003[]

  • Not much is known about this year, because all of the users and posts that were made in this year were displayed as posted on May 18, 2005.

2004[]

  • Not much is known about this year, because all of the users and posts that were made in this year were displayed as posted on May 18, 2005.

2005[]

2006[]

  • Not much is known about this year, as most users who were active then have long since retired.

2007[]

2008[]

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2010[]

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2016[]

2017[]

  • On January 4, WhiteAlligator revealed that the Message Boards were being retired.
  • On January 7, diglett809 became the first user to reach rank Hippie.
  • On January 23 and again on February 23, the requirements for ranks were lowered, and many users ranked up as a result. All known ranks were reached except Rapper.
  • On February 27, all users who spent time to post or give likes on the "new" Message Boards were given the rank Alien.
  • On Tuesday, February 28, as the the last day to participate on the boards, the Mods invited all users to join in saying goodbye to this awesome community.
  • On Tuesday, February 28, at 8:20 P.M. EST the entire community was made “read-only” in anticipation of the closure. Users were then able to read and save content from the boards without creating any new topics, comments, or signatures.
  • On March 6, the Message Boards were meant to be retired but remained open with an announcement that they would be taken offline at an undetermined future date. Later, they announced that the Message Boards would close on March 30.
  • On March 30, the LEGO Message Boards fully closed, were taken offline, and removed from LEGO.com. The last known time of them still being online was around 6:00 PM Eastern.

This article is complete.
Comment: Needs more information on 2016.