BrickLink Designer Program Ongoing Discussion Thread

[RichardGoring]

And now all of them say funded. I wonder how successful this round will be compared to previous ones.

[JohnTPT17]

WALT is tempting me - might make for a fun, unique desk toy. Everything else isn't in the budget for me this time, though.

[squiz18]

looks like Sushi, Alchemist and Fortuna have sold out, in the UK at least 

[RichardGoring]

Oh wow, yes. They're sold out in the US too.

StoneWars is showing that only 37,000 of the Fortuna and Sushi Restaurant are sold and 40,000 of the Alchemist's Shop, so they're not getting up to the 50,000 limit originally thought. Total sales across series 7 are 143,500 so far with a few hours left.

https://www.stonewars.de/news/bdp-series-7-finale-designs/

[squiz18]

1 hour ago, RichardGoring said:

Oh wow, yes. They're sold out in the US too.

StoneWars is showing that only 37,000 of the Fortuna and Sushi Restaurant are sold and 40,000 of the Alchemist's Shop, so they're not getting up to the 50,000 limit originally thought. Total sales across series 7 are 143,500 so far with a few hours left.

https://www.stonewars.de/news/bdp-series-7-finale-designs/

Saw these figures on bricklink so looks like they went past 150,000 sales. 

42,000 / 42,000 / Alchemist’s Shop
40,000 / 40,000 / Sushi Restaurant
40,000 / 40,000 / Privateer Frigate Fortuna
16,174 / 30,000 / W.A.L.T.
14,057 / 30,000 / Antique Collection

TOTAL Units Sold = 152,231
 

I was tempted by the sushi restaurant but didn't pull the trigger. If fomo kicks in I'll get it on ebay. From what I've seen most of the BDP sets don't seem to increase massively on the aftermarket. 

 

[RichardGoring]

Curious. Very impressive to achieve this and suggests they will keep going for a while.

1 hour ago, squiz18 said:

I was tempted by the sushi restaurant but didn't pull the trigger. If fomo kicks in I'll get it on ebay. From what I've seen most of the BDP sets don't seem to increase massively on the aftermarket. 

I didn't get the General Store from series 1, but with the later train decided to get it. Found it for only $20 over RRP, so hopefully that continues, although at the same time, it feels like these are becoming more widely known about and bought to build with fewer being bought for resale as there isn't much in it.

[danth]

Dumb question. Can anyone point me to the "parts list" that bricklink designers are allowed to use in their builds? Is there one? 

[Leewan]

For each series they release a specific palette in stud.io that basically contains parts that are currently in production, but during the refining period we can use newer elements that appear between the submission date and the preorder date.

 

[Murdoch17]

Just a little over an hour left (71 minutes, actually) to go until ordering gets shut down! I wonder what the final numbers of orders will be?

Edited February 23 by Murdoch17

[danth]

32 minutes ago, Leewan said:

For each series they release a specific palette in stud.io that basically contains parts that are currently in production, but during the refining period we can use newer elements that appear between the submission date and the preorder date.

Thanks!

[icm]

On 2/16/2026 at 9:25 AM, icm said:

Got my order in for the Fortuna. I may go back and get WALT later this week but not today.

I waffled back and forth on it for a week, but I went and put in an order for a single copy of WALT this morning before the pre-order window closed. I'd say it's surprising how few copies WALT sold, but if everybody was as lukewarm on it as I was that's not all that strange. WALT is a cute little robot and very well designed at a very fair price, but it's not as different from Lego's usual fare as the Fortuna, and it doesn't fill such a huge niche gap in the product line as Fortuna does.

When it comes time to pre-order BDP 8 in June, I think I'll get Coconut Cape and the Hot Air Balloon.

[RichardGoring]

I ordered WALT after watching Racing Brick's review. It's small and cheap enough to consider it just for the build experience, which looked really good, and I liked the well thought out internals and face storage options. I agree that it doesn't fill one of the popular niches, but it's delightfully whimsical.

[JohnTPT17]

I hopped on the WALT train at the last minute as well. I figured that, at absolute worst, I can cancel the order before it ships if I'm really regretting things some May.