UPDATE:
As of July 2021, this method sadly no longer works. The Lego Life app has undergone an update which makes these early pictures inaccessible. I hope those of you who used this method enjoyed it while it lasted.
I’ve just discovered something groundbreaking.
For years, it’s been thought that everything posted to the Lego.com galleries has been lost to time following the site’s closure as a result of Lego’s social media platform, Lego Life.
However, there may still be hope for the thousands of creations we all posted back then.
I downloaded Lego Life when it first released, hoping it was a suitable replacement for the galleries, only to find it was a ludicrously childish platform filled mainly with toddlers. Whatever the case, I’d created a new account for this purpose, which I quickly discarded when I deleted the app. However, I just recently redownloaded the app to see if anything had changed, only using my old account details from the galleries.
And you will not believe what I saw when I went onto my profile.
It’s all there. Everything I ever posted on the galleries, all still working and with the original descriptions. This is nothing short of incredible. While I personally already had most of my photos kept in a folder on my computer, there were a few here I’d been missing for years, like this action shot of Phantrax:
So here’s what I’ve gathered from this:
The galleries weren’t replaced by Lego Life.
The galleries became Lego Life.
Everything we created must still be there somewhere if I can access this. If anyone else posted anything in the galleries back then and can remember their account details from the time, I strongly urge you to try this so I can see if this works for all users or if it was just a fluke with my account.
Because, if this does work for everyone, we could theoretically recover a huge amount of the lost photos.
UPDATE:
It’s been confirmed that the method works.
