Channel Update & The Future of Brick Arena 

I remember watching you doing Lego hauls in your old office under the stairs. The videos you did showing off the progress of your house extension. The big Lego hauls in your office. The big purchase of a Lego store to expand Brick Arena. The weekly vlogs showing off what orders big and small customers made. Including spotting orders I made! I’ve really enjoyed watching your channel over the years. Best of luck. 😀

"I'm not only the Brick Seller Hub President, I'm also a client!" GREAT MARKETING MOVE!!!!

Just wanted to post my thanks for all the effort and time you put into putting out vlogs each week. I am not a seller or regular commentor but I do enjoy watching various Bricklink store vlogs as it is an interesting business in a hobby I love. Your vlogs were well done and a staple of my viewing rotation. I hope you are able to find a reasonable price for your store and enjoy your upcoming retirement, it is well deserved. Thanks again for your contribution to the hobby, I hope you do leave the channel up as it is documentation of an impressive journey. Best wishes in all future affairs!

Thanks for everything, living to enjoy life & be healthy is very important, all the best with the sale of the store

Really enjoyed watching your videos each week having first started when you were laying the foundations of your Lego room. Good luck with the sale and the retirement when it comes, I’ll have to get another bricklink order from you soon.

All the best for the future Keith. As the inspiration for my own store opening last year and my education in operating from the beginning I wanted to say thank you for everything, it's been a pleasure to tune in each week and learn and understand how this crazy selling world works. Enjoy the wind-down, the retirement and the future with your family. Thanks and it's been a get ride!

Watched you from the early days when you were buying LEGO when I used post LEGO videos on Little Posties! Hope you are enjoying your break Keith and hopefully you will enjoy your retirement. If you struggle for interest due to the size of the store let me know but I am sure someone in the network will take it off your hands!

Great journey. Enjoyed following for years. Onwards n upwards Keith.

Wishing you all the best! I have learned a lot from watching your channel and will continue to watch until you sign off! What a wonderful achievement, paying off your mortgage and planning for a wonderful retirement with your family.

Thanks for all the content & it was a pleasure to follow you along on your BL journey. You have been one of my inspirations into setting up a store & I have now been full-time for 2 years. Gotta say that it is a tough market nowadays & I see more and more people thinking about letting go. Have to admit Brexit really messed up what UK stores are capable of on BL :/

I’ll definitely continue watching, especially now as you’re entering a new phase. You’re absolutely right that nobody ever talks about an exit strategy, so this will be very interesting. One question: what do you think about the idea of continuing selling (but not buying) at ever reduced prices in order empty the store gradually?

I’m sad to see you going, you’ve been my inspiration since I started selling on Bricklink 4 years ago, your videos etc have helped me get to where I am today with my own store. I had noticed in a few of your recent Vlogs you were as passionate as you had been but didn’t see this coming. Thank you for all your help and support from all the Lego community.

You're a legend and inspired many. Now it's Keith time and slow down on the lego. I'll carry on watching, loved watching my orders for my MOCs appear on your channel. Enjoy your holiday

Sad to see you are finishing up but glad you are getting to retire. Have enjoyed many many episodes over the years. All the best in the future

I'll miss your Sunday video :( (I watch them all the time. Sorry I haven't commented for ages tho like you things have changed in my life & I'm trying to work out what is next for me) I did have my BrickLink store closed for about 2 years because I had to look after my parents. I opened the store a few months ago now just for extra cash really now 👍 I hope everything goes well for you & thanks for the videos that have given me loads of ideas for my store to :)

Best of luck Keith. Seems like you have given this decision plenty of thought and I doubt anyone would say prioritising health and family is not the right thing to do.

Best of luck with retirement Keith, you’ll be missed. I’ll keep an eye out on what you’re selling! Thank you for the channel, it’s really helped me start of my store.

Best wishes. It’s better to get out while you’re ahead. You don’t want to wait until you’re forced due to health reasons. Focus on family and health and all else will fall into place. Hopefully. 🙏

Congrats on your impending retirement! Your health and your family come first. I’ll be watching until the end.

I'm not surprised about you wanting to enjoy some retirement and actually enjoy life fully. However, I am really looking forward to the change of pace on the blog and following the process of closing a business, that you very rightly say is not spoken about enough.

Sad to see you go keith, wish you all the best for the future, enjoy your retirement pal,

I would be lying if i said i wouldnt have expected this, knowing your age, starting brick seller hub and frankly seeing your interest decline over the last few months. I feel like in the end buying the other store might have overwhelmed you a bit after a while. Just know that for beginning stores like me you did a lot with making videos explaining aspects of the work, and that alone would make me wanna suggest to leave the channel up for those videos. I wont be leaving and am interested to see how a BL store is getting sold. And for all your hard work for the community as a whole i have nothing but respect and many thanks. We appreciated it!

All, the best for the future Keith, your channel definitely inspired me to build my very large store. Processing all that bulk definitely would have lost your interest as it nearly did me after 3 years of continuous processing. I'll be keeping an eye out when your store gets listed. Good luck.

It's very sad but I understand why you decided to sell it. Good luck and thanks for your previous vlogs

Be a shame to see you go. But will continue to watch till the end.

It will be sad to see you go. I have followed your Bricklink journey the last few years - shortly after I began mine - and I still found it interesting to see your processes and progress. I know you never discuss sales numbers but your comment that 'bricklink could never reach the numbers of my previous salary,' intrigued me for two reasons - i) I've been in the Bricklink (and ebay) business, as a side hustle, for almost three years and my turnover has more than doubled year on year; ii) Your store whilst a decent size does not feature in the Top 50 for sales volume (not value) over six months in the UK - I have tracked that data for a while now. I haven't quite cracked the top 50 either, yet my current 12 month rolling turnover is £37k (BL & ebay). I'm curious to know what you think the ceiling is for a UK seller on Bricklink.

Hi Keith, as I am loading parts into BL I am watching your vlog, it is a shock but a very understandable decision, Hopefully you can beat the average lifetime of your family but I understand you want to enjoy the time with your family instead of Lego time, maybe a smaller store with only figures is an option? Keep the vlogs going for as long as you have the energy, I really like watching them, thank you for all your time and I will see you for now in the vlogs.

Saw this coming a mile off - as the weekly vlogs were getting boring to watch, and would have obvisouly been boring to film and edit too. To be honest I preferred it when you did the hauls on getting sets from deals you had found. You could have taken the cam to the local jaunts and taken us (the viewer) for the day, and filling the boot of the car. This would have got you out the house,, and maybe retained some of your mobility issues. I totally emphasise with the health stuff - as I have been stuck in a desk job for the past 25 years, and now take a proper effort to get away from the screen, and have a proper allocation of time strretching and moving my joints. I don't fear as much about losing my job, and if a manager dosent like me being AFK frequently, then tough! - health and family come first. (after oxygen, of course!) lol

Keith you were also one of my inspirations in getting into opening and running a Bricklink store, I can totally understand where you are coming from, Best of luck with the winding down and sale of the Bricklink side of things and I look forward to watching the process and gaining any hints and tips for when it's time for ICKLEBRICKS to wrap things up. Thanks for all you do..... Darren

Keith - Thank you for all that you have done for the Lego & Bricklink community from all the way over here in New Zealand. I got into Bricklink after stumbling across the vlogs and now I have been able to support my daughter's love for Lego! It has encouraged us to post our own content and has been a great source of fun. Enjoy whatever may come and I am sure many more Middlesborough games. If you are ever over our way, please reach out. Coffee on us! Jason (Kiwi Brick Exchange)

Sad to hear this, but fully understandable. I have been watching all your videos since the beginning, it was very interesting to see the full journey and really wish to see how the exit goes. Thank you for all the information you shared, it was a huge help. Greetings from Hungary Best Regards George

I do love treasure hunting scrap lego ( luckily as have 1000's Kilos stockpiled) but the monotony of breaking down sets is mindnumbing, I recently purchased 15 Dark Falcons & what a job that was, sure it was kinda exciting all those minifigures & they easily covered the cost of the purchases. I myself am retired due to ill health, & 4 hours solid breaking down sets can play havoc with ya knees & circulation. Top tip guys every hour get up & stretch those legs get a cuppa then crack on, taking those breaks is essential. ( I try to follow my own advice but truthfully get lost in the podcast or audibook im listening to. ) I often ask myself why am I doing this but in truth its still to fund the hobby, not mine really more my fathers, he loves the big technic sets, Im more into epic modulars & flipping them. meanwhile my sales & my healthy pension allows/helps me buy in fresh sets & flip them so the ones we keep are pretty much free, this keeps things interesting. Exciting when I can grab half price or less deals & know im tripling up. Keeps my father happy & me out of trouble. Glad to hear you are improving your health & keeping up the gym, the brick store has kepy you afloat, been an experience & its served its purpose. I wish you well in your retirement & a big thankyou for keeping us entertained for all these years, your tricks & tips have been invaluable. Although its sometime away your channel will be sorely missed im sure. I had an idea about the amount of lego you have ,maybe you could within sales split it into 3 types, Bricks, Technic & minifigs - making the 3 portions more digestible to sell/ affordable wise. I mean shift the lot as one, but its an idea to shift in sections if it sits a while.

Hey, I wasn't expecting it, but you seem to have reflected quite a bit on the subject. All good things must come to an end and I'm looking forward to watching the ending saga. Congrats on your future retirement, the fam and health allways comes first, and it's your time to enjoy it. Thank you for letting us take part on your journey! And here's to an epic end of the road!

Thanks for the fun times. Loved watching your blogs. You will truly be missed. Cheers on your retirement.

Can’t say it’s come as much of a supprise I remember having a call with you earlier this year and it was clear your heart just wasn’t quite in it any longer, I remember seeing brick seller hub and assuming that was your was of phasing out the store, I’ll be sure to hit you a message try get another call booked in before you pack up, but your doing the right thing looking after your health first mate 👍

Hi you were one of the earliest vloggers I watched when i decided to sell on Bricklink. Your videos i will certainly miss. At the end of the day its your decision and retirement is looming for you. I will continue watching until your last one , have the best last few months or weeks whatever it will be , Thank you Keith

I really wish you the best of luck. You have taught me so much and I've really enjoyed your videos and your journey.

Sad to hear you will be out of the LEGO community for the most part. I have truly enjoyed your videos and watching yout journey. I do wish you the best! Enjoy retirement, I certainly have enjoyed mine.

Thanks for all the great content and knowledge shared over the years. I have often wondered how people plan to exit Bricklink, especially those who build up stores to run in retirement. Best wishes for a long and happy retirement. Will you get back into building Lego?

Nooooooo!! lol.. I only just found your channel this year and I’ve found your Bricklink journey so interesting. I’d be sad to see you go but it’s sounds like retirement will be well earned. Will def watch right up til the end and perhaps it’ll give me the opportunity to go back and your journey from the stsrt. Thank you, congratulations and good luck!!

Keith We will miss your videos a lot! It has been great watching these over the years and you and these were extremely helpful in us setting up our own small store, even kindly responding to our emails when we had a few questions. Thank you and we wish you the very best for the future and for retirement. As others have said we will be watching until the very last vlog! Take care and all the best to you and the family.

All the best Keith , has been a Voyage watching you and your store

You were the one that got me motivated to start my own brick link store and to see you go very sad

Keith, it won't be the same without you! You were the staple vlog at breakfast every Monday morning before the kids got up. As a Bricklinker myself, I know how you feel, but at some point, you have to put your feet up, you've earned it. If you've still got a load of the bulk in the container, I'll drop you a line. Go enjoy the new found time.

Best wishes Keith, thanks for all the useful tips through your channel. I’ll treasure the Yoda Clock and catalogue I bought off you recently 😊

Wishing you nothing but the best! Completely understand prioritizing health and family above everything else.

Ahh wow Keith, I feel so many emotions from this update. You've clearly had so many weighted decisions on your shoulders and I can only imagine how stressful and emotional it's been for you. It will be a shame to lose such a great member of the bricklink community and someone who's vlogs I have religiously watched for years now. But on the other hand, I am so very happy for you. It's really great to see your plans for retirement come to fruition and you are such a genuine and kind hearted person that you massively deserve it. You have inspired so many people, including myself, to start a bricklink store and given so much knowledge and entertainment freely to benefit lego fans around the world. So even though thank you doesn't hold the power of the true gratitude I and i'm sure so many others feel towards you, I will say it anyway. Thank you for everything you have done and given to us and I look forward to all of the remaining vlogs yet to come and watching you achieve your well earned retirement.