Lego announces Pokémon sets are coming next year

You’re going to have to wait until sometime in 2026 to build your own Lego Pikachu or Charizard.

by Andrew Liszewski

Mar 18, 2025, 2:37 PM UTC

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Lego has shared a small teaser for its Pokémon sets coming in 2026.

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Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid.

Lego has announced that another popular gaming franchise is getting the plastic brick treatment. On its website, the company has teased that Lego Pokémon sets are “coming soon,” but also says the sets won’t arrive until 2026 — which isn’t as soon as we’d hoped.

There are no details yet on specific sets or which characters will be available in Lego form, but the teaser does include a peek at Pikachu’s tail built from yellow bricks.

Several Pokémon building sets have already been available for a while, but through Mattel’s Mega line, which features components that are Lego-compatible. It’s not yet known if Lego will have exclusive rights to making Pokémon building sets starting next year, or if Mattel will continue to offer them as well.

Today’s tease follows an announcement by Lego last January that, come October, it would be releasing a buildable version of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy handheld, which happens to be the console where the Pokémon games made their debut in 1996. But, as with these new Pokémon sets, we still don’t have many details about the Lego Game Boy.

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