| | Cool LEGO Site of the Week
February 9-15, 2003
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BI Portal
Jacob McKee
| | BI Portal is a portal for fan created building instructions, it has links to some 300 instructions. You can browse the instructions by category, by author, or display all links at once.
The portal is free to use. However, some of the instructions are not for free. This is clearly stated but I could only find five that charge a fee. The instructions have ratings and reviews so you can quickly find what others have found cool.
If you register (again, for free) you get access to additional features. You can now upload links to your own instructions. Just fill out the short form with an URL to the instructions, a thumbnail and some other small things. The instructions become online at once and the process is surprisingly pain-free. Another really good “member” feature is bookmarks, with which you can bookmark instructions so you easily can access them again. So if you browse BI Portal at work (on your lunch hour of course) and find a cool building instruction you bookmark it and when you get home to your bricks, just get online and build away! Just remember to rate the instruction when you’re done!
(Reviewed by Tobbe Arnesson)
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