The LEGO Group and The Pokemon Company International have unveiled 12 new LEGO Pokemon Smart Play sets, with pre-orders live as of 4 June 2026 and a full launch set for 1 August. The range brings LEGO’s Smart Play and Smart Tag technology to the Pokemon line for the first time, letting children feed a brick-built treat to LEGO Pikachu or tickle LEGO Charizard for a laugh through smart bricks paired with the figures. First-ever LEGO versions of Mewtwo, Umbreon, and Sprigatito headline the lineup alongside returning Kanto favourites, with the 605-piece Mewtwo’s Lab Break centrepiece priced at USD 69.99.

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— Pokémon UK (@PokemonNewsUK) June 2, 2026

Ticket prices run from USD 14.99 for the Jigglypuff Concert up to USD 119.99 for the Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle, sitting well below the USD 649.99 ceiling on the previous Kanto starter wave. All 12 sets are scheduled to ship from LEGO stores and select retailers on launch day.

What Smart Play Adds To The Pokemon Range

Smart Play is LEGO’s interactive-brick layer, built around a Smart Tag that triggers sounds and lights based on how a figure is handled. In the new Pokemon sets, the Smart Tag clips into a brick-built treat the player can offer to Pikachu for a feeding reaction, or onto a tickle-style brick used to draw a recorded laugh from Charizard. Each set carries its own set of audio cues tied to the Pokemon it features, with the same Smart Tag designed to move between compatible bricks across the range.

This is the first time the Smart Play feature has appeared in a LEGO Pokemon set, after earlier outings in other LEGO ranges. The integration leans on the bonding-and-care framing the Pokemon brand has used since the franchise’s earliest games, pulling that emotional hook into the physical build for the first time. The interactive moments concentrate on the most recognisable Pokemon in the wave, with Pikachu and Charizard carrying the headline feeding and tickle reactions while the smaller boxes focus on the build itself.

The 12 LEGO Pokemon Smart Play Sets In Full

The full 12-set lineup covers entry-tier impulse buys at the lower end through to display-scale battle dioramas at the top of the range, with USD pricing confirmed for every box.

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First-Ever LEGO Mewtwo, Umbreon, and Sprigatito

Three Pokemon make their LEGO debut in this wave. Mewtwo arrives as the centrepiece of the USD 69.99 Mewtwo’s Lab Break, which builds out the genetic-lab interior with the Psychic-type’s iconic containment tank and a brick-built Master Ball. The figure stands 19cm tall on the 605-piece build, filling a long-standing gap in the LEGO Pokemon roster that had previously skipped the Kanto Legendaries entirely.

Umbreon takes top billing in the USD 79.99 Umbreon vs. Garchomp Championship Battle, an arena-style box that pits the Dark-type Eeveelution against the Sinnoh pseudo-legendary in a battle diorama. Sprigatito rounds out the trio of debuts in the USD 34.99 Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly Battle, the first LEGO set to feature the Paldea starter trio together. The Paldea additions bring the franchise’s most recent generation into the brick range alongside Kanto, Johto, and Sinnoh staples, broadening the lineup well beyond the Gen 1 focus of earlier waves.

Pikachu, Charizard And The Returning Roster

The Smart Play interactions cluster around the most recognisable Pokemon in the lineup. The USD 69.99 Training House with Pikachu builds a small home base around the franchise mascot and uses the Smart Tag for the feeding mechanic, with the brick-built treat doubling as a play prop outside the interactive moment. The USD 119.99 Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle, the priciest box in the wave, scales the Fire-type up for the tickle reaction and pairs it with a Jolteon arena setup.

Beyond the headline pair, the wave reaches across multiple generations. Bulbasaur and Bidoof share a USD 19.99 berry-themed set, Squirtle leads a USD 29.99 buggy adventure, and the Eevee evolution line gets a USD 59.99 treasure-hunt box paired with Lapras. The Mythical Mew receives a dedicated USD 49.99 drone-search build, while Cubone and Gengar anchor a USD 89.99 ghost-themed showdown that sits among the larger non-Smart-Play boxes in the range.

How Pricing Compares To Earlier LEGO Pokemon Sets

The Smart Play wave undercuts LEGO’s previous Pokemon range at every tier. The Kanto starter line that preceded this announcement ran from USD 59.99 at the low end to USD 649.99 for the flagship display set, with most boxes clustered well above the USD 100 mark. The new wave caps at USD 119.99 and places nine of its 12 sets at USD 79.99 or lower, with the USD 14.99 Jigglypuff Concert pushing the range into pocket-money territory the Kanto sets never reached.

The trade-off sits in scale. None of the new boxes approach the piece count of the larger Kanto displays, and the headline Smart Play interactions concentrate on the Pikachu and Charizard sets rather than spreading across the full lineup. The pricing structure reads as a play for the broader toy-aisle audience and the gifting market, sitting alongside rather than replacing the adult-collector-tier display sets the earlier flagship boxes targeted.

Pre-Orders Live Now Ahead Of August 1 Launch

Pre-orders for all 12 sets opened alongside the announcement and are live on LEGO’s official storefront as of 4 June 2026. The full wave is scheduled to ship and arrive in LEGO retail stores on 1 August 2026, with select retailers also confirmed to stock the sets from launch day. Regional pricing outside USD was not confirmed in the announcement, and no exclusivity windows have been flagged for any of the 12 boxes across markets.

The next confirmed beat for the LEGO Pokemon line arrives on 1 August, when the full wave hits shelves and the Smart Play interactions become available to test in person for the first time.

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