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⭐ The Family Unlock

One optional thing you can buy, once. It keeps a dad-and-son project going — and it pays for the pizza. 🍕

First, the important part: Brickinator is free, and the free version is the whole app — drawing, brick mosaics with real parts lists, guided builds, 3D sculptures, the stop-motion movie studio, voice-overs, Magic Scissors and Little Kids mode. Nothing your child already uses will ever be taken away or put behind a price. This is a tip jar with a few nice extras, not a trap.

What you get

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Printable instruction booklets

Print-quality, multi-page, one step per page — like the booklet that comes in a real set, but for the thing your kid invented. For flat mosaics and for 3D builds, where every step shows the pieces to add now in colour and everything underneath in pale grey. The keepsake grandparents actually keep.

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Box art

Turn any build into a poster that looks like the front of a real set box: the picture big, your child's name as the designer, a piece count, an age badge and its very own set number. Print it and put it on the wall.

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Titles & credits for the movies

A proper opening title and an end-credits card, so a stop-motion film plays like a real short. They go in as ordinary frames — so they show up in the saved GIF, and your child can move or delete them like any other.

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The giant canvases — and a guide big enough to build them

64 × 64, and the enormous 96 × 96: 9,216 studs, four times the biggest free size and nine baseplates of bricks. Nobody can build that from one sheet of paper, so the baseplate guide splits it into a page per plate, each with its own parts list, plus a map showing how they fit together.

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A supporter badge in My Stuff

A small thank-you that sits with your child's other badges — and our genuine gratitude.

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Every extra we add later

One unlock, forever. No subscription, no renewals, no second purchase. Whatever we build next is included.

$14.99 — one time, forever. Never a subscription.

🔜 Coming soon

The store isn't open yet. Brickinator only just launched, and the unlock goes on sale shortly — everything above already works in the app.

How it works when it opens — no account, ever:
  1. A grown-up buys it on a secure checkout page (we never see your card details).
  2. Your receipt email has a key. Swap it for a one-click unlock link on the unlock page — that's the only page on this site that ever talks to a server, and your child never sees it.
  3. Tap that link on any device your child uses. Done — nothing to type, no account, and it keeps working with no internet at all.

That's the whole system. No sign-up, no password, no account to manage — the key lives on your device, exactly like everything else your child makes. Your email stays with the purchase; it never touches your child's side of the app.