If you fancied 1% of the net sales of an officially licensed Lego Pokemon set, you missed your shot. Lego and The Pokemon Company closed entries to their joint card-building contest on 6 May, and more than 750 fan submissions came in.
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Start organising for freeThe premise was simple: build a Pokemon TCG card out of Lego bricks. The winning entry gets turned into an official Lego kit, with the creator banking 1% of net sales, ten complimentary copies of their set, and a featured biography on the box. Stonewars reports the official set is targeted for 2027.
Some of the standouts are wild. RegosMan217 and Kimezima built dimensional Garchomp and Ceruledge designs that break out of the card frame entirely, while AjRed's Giratina is intricately textured and Tofu.brikett's Gengar plays with deep purples and greens. RKFern's Mewtwo and Rhinoswagobius's Giratina go the opposite direction with flat, card-faithful builds. Chrixeleon's Joltik is a tiny brick spider the article cheekily flagged for its "exposed wiring" Lego art.
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Find events near youLego is now picking five favourites for community voting, which runs from around 28 May to 11 June. The full result, with the brick set design unveiled, won't land until 4 February 2027.
This is a lovely one to follow if your group runs casual Pokemon nights. A quick "vote on these" pile during the next session adds five minutes of fun and ten minutes of arguing about why Joltik is clearly the right answer. It's also exactly the sort of cross-hobby story that makes Pokemon's pop-culture footprint feel genuinely massive in a way few other tabletop properties manage. Worth dropping into your group chat alongside the link to the contest gallery so the table can argue voting picks together.
