Updated at 10:03 am EST on Tuesday, March 18, 2025: confirming the leaked teaser is real and that the first Lego Pokemon sets will indeed be releasing in 2026. Nothing more than the same image of the Lego Pikachu tail from the teaser has been revealed.
Summary
- Pokemon might be about to get Lego sets for the first time in its history.
- A teaser that appears to have been shared prematurely on the Lego Mexico Facebook page has teased the debut of Pokemon Lego is coming in 2026.
- Pokemon has previously been tied to a deal with Mattel's Mega, preventing it from collaborating with Lego.
Lego has teamed up with pretty much every major IP that would suit its own sets at this point with one glaring omission - Pokemon. Despite Lego and Pokemon seemingly being the perfect pair due to their penchant🧔 for crossovers and mass appeal, there are currently no Pokemon Lego sets. However, a leaked teaser appears to have confirmed that's all about to change.
꧂on , the short teaser shows a ꦡclose-up of some bricks coming together to form what is unmistakably a Lego version of Pikachu's tail. Once the Lego tail is complete, electricity runs through it to briefly reveal the Lego and Pokemon logos before the Pikachu scurries away.
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The set will likely get an official rev🀅eal before the day is out.
, the teaser was shared by Lego Mexico, almost certainly in error with it not appearing across any other official Lego pages. The page also claimed the first Pokemon sets will be released in 2026. Although Lego doesn't tend to officially announce upcoming projects a full year in advance, it does make the ✱odd exception for particularly big reveals, and this would be one♉ of the biggest in its history.
Pikachu Has Been A Lot Of Things
But They Have Never Been A Lego Set
As for why there has never been an official Lego x Pokemon crossover, the latter has been tied up in a deal with Mattel. That deal has given Mattel the exclusive rights to create officially licensed toy brick Pokemon sets with there being a lot Pokemon Mega sets out there. Some pretty impressive ones, too, including larger, more💮 elaborate sets that 🦩have cranks you can turn to make it look like the Pokemon are moving.
As impressive as some of Mega's Pokemon offerings have been, they just aren't Lego. It might seem unfair, but Lego is the industry leader when it comes to toy bricks, and Mega simply doesn't compare. Mega's biggest client by faꩵr, the one thing it really had left over Lego, was its contract with Pokemon. Now, this teaser appears to confirm that deal has come to an end, and if Pokemon really is about to collaborate with Lego, there will be no turning back.
The possibilities of a Lego x Pokemon crossover are almost endless. Lego has more than 1,000 Pokemon to choose from, for starters. Not to mention human characters, locations, and different versions of many of those Pokemon. We already know there's a Lego Game Boy coming our way later this🌄 year. I don't know how, but if we are getting Lego Pokemon, something that combines the two as a part of the initial Lego Pokemon rollout w🙈ould be a guaranteed hit.
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