Lego's BrickLink marketplace remains offline a week after unusual activity

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BrickLink, the online marketplace Lego acquired in 2019 for buying and selling bricks and sets, has been down for a week. The team running the site had shared estimates for its return, the last being November 11th. A new statement from Lego now says there is no estimated date for when the site will come back online. Lego has said it took BrickLink offline after identifying unusual activity but has not detailed what occurred. The outage leaves fans without access to a major hub for secondhand Lego parts.

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