Lego Pokémon Is Lastly Actual and Coming Subsequent 12 months

Pokémon and Lego formally introduced their first-ever collab, which is able to launch someday in 2026.

Earlier at this time, the announcement leaked on the Lego Mexico Fb web page, which posted a brief video teasing the collaboration. The footage included a Lego brick of Pikachu’s tail and the sounds of sparks of lightning. Though the teaser was rapidly faraway from the Fb web page, grainy screengrabs of the clip discovered their means onto the Lego Leak subreddit earlier than migrating to X/Twitter. Seeing that the proverbial cat was out of the bag, Lego and Pokémon rapidly took it upon themselves to substantiate the longer term collab on the Lego website.

“Electrify your creativeness in 2026 and prepare to construct one thing we’ve by no means constructed with Lego bricks earlier than,” learn Lego’s taste textual content.

Prepare to impress your creativeness in 2026 💛 ⚡️ #LEGO #Pokemon #LEGOPokemon pic.twitter.com/EaFoVetuvg

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) March 18, 2025

Lego and Pokémon’s collaboration is definitely a match made in heaven for followers on either side of the aisle. Lego’s final high-profile collaboration was with Nintendo for a 1,972-piece Mario Kart set, which was naturally introduced on Mario Day (March 10). This was the primary time these two titans of the collectible scene had labored collectively.

The Pokémon franchise is ready to launch its subsequent upcoming sport, Pokémon Legends Z-A, on the tail finish of this yr on the Nintendo Swap, making the timing of this Lego launch good. It’s an opportune time to be a fan of both product, particularly if one has a considerable disposable earnings.

Within the transient second when the world was considering whether or not this collaboration was faux, there have been murmurs from on-line Lego followers questioning if Pokémon was executed working with Lego competitor Mega Bloks. Whereas it’s nonetheless too early to inform whether or not the mega-popular Nintendo franchise ended its friendship with Mega Bloks for Lego, what we are able to know for positive is that, come 2026, followers should battle tooth and nail to assert no matter thousand-piece set the pair launch earlier than scalpers get ahold of them.

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