Lego Pokémon Is Finally Real and Coming Next Year

Pokémon and Lego officially announced their first-ever collab, which will release sometime in 2026.

Earlier today, the announcement leaked on the Lego Mexico Facebook page, which posted a short video teasing the collaboration. The footage included a Lego brick of Pikachu’s tail and the sounds of sparks of lightning. Although the teaser was quickly removed from the Facebook page, grainy screengrabs of the clip found their way onto the Lego Leak subreddit before migrating to X/Twitter. Seeing that the proverbial cat was out of the bag, Lego and Pokémon quickly took it upon themselves to confirm the future collab on the Lego website.

“Electrify your imagination in 2026 and get ready to build something we’ve never built with Lego bricks before,” read Lego’s flavor text.

Get ready to electrify your imagination in 2026 💛 ⚡️ #LEGO #Pokemon #LEGOPokemon pic.twitter.com/EaFoVetuvg

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) March 18, 2025

Lego and Pokémon’s collaboration is easily a match made in heaven for fans on both sides of the aisle. Lego’s last high-profile collaboration was with Nintendo for a 1,972-piece Mario Kart set, which was naturally announced on Mario Day (March 10). This was the first time these two titans of the collectible scene had worked together.

The Pokémon franchise is set to release its next upcoming game, Pokémon Legends Z-A, at the tail end of this year on the Nintendo Switch, making the timing of this Lego release just right. It’s an opportune time to be a fan of either product, especially if one has a substantial disposable income.

In the brief moment when the world was contemplating whether this collaboration was fake, there were murmurs from online Lego fans wondering if Pokémon was done working with Lego competitor Mega Bloks. While it’s still too early to tell whether the mega-popular Nintendo franchise ended its friendship with Mega Bloks for Lego, what we can know for sure is that, come 2026, fans will have to fight tooth and nail to claim whatever thousand-piece set the pair release before scalpers get ahold of them.

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