Today's big announcement: LEGO has signed a partnership with The Pokémon Company to offer officially licensed Pokémon merchandise starting in 2026 and lasting for several years.

Until now, it was the Mattel brand that offered construction toys under the Pokémon license through its brand MEGA ConstruxIt is not yet known whether the license will be exclusive to LEGO from 2026, but it is very likely that this will be the case.

Update : Mattel confirms that the marketing of its officially licensed Pokémon products will end in December 2025, LEGO will therefore have exclusivity on this license from 2026.

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The five finalist projects of the seventh wave (Series 7) of the reboot of the Bricklink Designer Program were selected from 370 competing proposals following the public vote launched last February.

As with every wave, you will have to be very patient if you are interested in some of these products: the pre-order phase for these five products will not begin before February 2026, the sets that gather at least 3000 pre-orders will then be produced in 30.000 copies and will be available at best during the summer of 2026. No reissue planned, two sets maximum per household and per reference.

In the meantime, the creators of these different projects will have plenty of time to rework them to make them comply with LEGO's requirements, with Bricklink indicating that this adaptation phase will take place between March 31, 2025 and January 2, 2026. The inventory currently indicated on the sheet for each of these products will therefore be likely to evolve according to these technical adaptations.

The seventh wave of voting has begun Bricklink Designer ProgramEntitled Series 7, with this time 376 proposals in the running which are just waiting for your support to hope to one day become a quasi-official set.

The voting methodology is simple, you just need to show your more or less strong support or your indifference for one or more of the proposals using one of the three available smileys. You have until February 21 to support your favorite creations but keep in mind that this public vote will not be the only one to influence the choice of creations which will go further in the process, "internal" selection criteria will be at work to sort the various proposals with the most support before moving on to the crowdfunding phase.

The five selected creations will be announced on March 17, 2025 and the pre-order phase will not begin before February 2026. The sets that gather at least 3000 pre-orders will be produced in 30.000 copies and will be deliverable at best from July 2026. It will therefore be necessary to be very patient and have a credit card with extended validity so that the payment made during the pre-order phase can then be definitively validated at the end of the process and avoid disappointments.

If you want to take part in the selection of the competing projects, it's at this address that it happens. At this stage, your clicks do not commit you, you can go frankly.