Brick à Brack

Brick à Brack
The Brick à Brack logo (as of June 2016)
Founded by	Robin Blaisot Rémi "R-creator" J.
Current admin	Maxime Baconnais "Max_LG"
Years active	2008 - Present
Website type	Forum Film Directory Resources
Language	French, English
Link	brick-a-brack.com

Brick à Brack (also known as BàB) is a French brickfilming community website, founded in 2008 by Robin Blaisot (AKA ParodAnim) and Rémi "R-creator" J. It is currently owned by Maxime Baconnais. In 2017, it introduced an English version of the site. In 2022, Brick à Brack acquired Brickfilms.com, and planned to launch a new merger site, Brickfilms.com by Brick à Brack, in 2023.

History

In 2008, Robin Blaisot and Rémi "R-creator" J. decided that the French brickfilming community, mainly present on Dailymotion and the BrickPirate forums, should have a website in which they would share their brickfilms and help each other. They created 'brickabrack.forumactif.org', later called brick-a-brack.net and Brick à Brack gained progressively in popularity.

In 2012, the community moved to a totally hand-crafted website, Brick-a-brack.com.

In 2017, Brick à Brack gained Recognized LEGO Fan Media (RLFM) status, in January 2018, Brick à Brack became a Recognized LEGO Online Community (RLOC).

In November, 2017, Brick à Brack announced the availability of their website in English.

In April 2018, Brick à Brack introduce a community map where members can share their location and a brickfilming event calendar.

In July 2018, Brick à Brack held the #SummerContest2018, a two month event consisting of weekly challenges with many prizes that were given out.

On February 21, 2022, the servers hosting the website crashed, and were unable to be restored. On February 25, the website returned on a new server with all data from before July 2021 intact. 70 percent of the data from after July 2021 was recovered and re-added to the website in the next few days.

On September 17, 2022, Brick à Brack announced that they had acquired Brickfilms.com, which had been mostly dormant for the previous 14 years. Brickfilms.com had been the central location for the English-speaking brickfilming community from late 2000 until 2008, when disagreements with new owners caused the community of the time to found and migrate to Bricks in Motion instead. Brick à Brack announced their intentions to preserve historical content and launch a new merger website, Brickfilms.com by Brick à Brack, in 2023.

On January 5, 2023, the Brick à Brack domain was blocked and now redirects to the Brickfilms.com website.

Significant Events

• Each year, Les Brickstars reward the best brickfilms of the year.
• Since 2010, Brick à Brack hosts the 8*8*8 Contest annually.
• Each week, Brick a Brack highlights promising new brickfilms as "le Brickfilm de la semaine", or "The brickfilm of the week".
• Each month, members of Brick à Brack can vote for their favorite brickfilm of the past month. The chosen brickfilm is highlighted as the "Brickfilm du mois" (Brickfilm of the month).
• Brick à Brack regularly organizes annimation challenges, which has its own dedicated forum category.

Official Brick à Brack competitions (2009 - 2022)

Recurring contests: Brickstars · 8x8x8 · CABBAB · Invent the Sequel · Silent Contest · Summer Contest · VocalFlix One-off contests: La Brique Burlesque · Minifig sans minifig · Thor: Ragnarök Contest · Fantastic Brickfilms and Where To Make Them · Avengers: Brickfilmers Assemble · Scary Contest · Imagine a Future · One Week Challenge Non-brickfilm contests: Le voyage de la Minifig · Concours de décors See also: Official Brickfilms.com by Brick à Brack competitions (2023 - Present)

External Links

• Brick à Brack Current Brick à Brack website
• Brick à Brack Old Brick à Brack website