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LEGO has officially announced the LEGO SMART Brick at their first-ever CES event. LEGO’s Chief Product & Marketing Officer, Julia Goldin, was on hand to reveal the SMART Brick which is the size of a 2×4 LEGO brick. The system consists of the brick, the tag, and the minifigure. There’s a chip inside the brick that is smaller than the LEGO stud. The platform that the SMART Bricks is used on is called Smart Play.

#LEGO announced #SMART Brick at #CES. Kids are digital natives. Wanted to bring tech into physical play. Stay true to the system open ended. Truly intuitive. Silicon chip smaller than one brick stud. pic.twitter.com/y29lAyOh3a

— Jeff (@mediawhiz) January 5, 2026

The SMART tag and minifigure has codes inside that defines the behaviors. The SMART Brick has a tiny speaker as well lights and sounds and can also sense a SMART minifigure. The bricks can form a decentralized network so they can talk to each other when they’re close. In addition, the SMART Bricks have spatial awareness and know where they are stacked in a three dimensional space.

LEGO has announced the Smart Brick

A 2×4 brick that can create sounds, light up & detect what characters and builds it is being used in pic.twitter.com/OgpGuuyZIS

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 5, 2026

The first theme that LEGO will be using the SMART Brick on is LEGO Star Wars. Three new sets have been revealed to use it.

Via Engadget

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LEGO has just released a teaser on social media with something that has “a whole new dimension of play.” The announcement will be some time tomorrow, January 5. In the short clip, there are some minifigure hands and quotes from kids that says “it sounds like it’s actually talking.” The final clip shows some kind of coiling going on. Note that LEGO will be a CES 2026 (Consumer Electronics Show) for the first time so it’ll be something big and innovative and brand new for LEGO. What do you guys think it is?

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It’s a new year and that means we can now do a recap of what when on for The Brick Fan in 2025. It’s always fun to look back and see what happened during the year compared to previous years.

There were a total of 928 posts last year with July being the month with the most news with 105 posts. Of those posts we had 19,010,766 page views and that was a 26.5% decrease in views from 2024. Although the views are down, it doesn’t really tell the whole story because the engagement through social media have increased significantly.

The most popular day on the site was May 2 with 244,621 views which was the day that the summer 2025 LEGO sets were revealed for a majority of the themes. As a result, May was also our most popular month of the year.

Again like with 2024, our review numbers are terrible since nobody really reads them. I’m not sad or disappointed in it because we’re not known that much for LEGO reviews compared to other fan media sites. We do the work and put it out there and if someone takes our opinion on a particular set, that’s good enough for me. That’s just how the cookie crumbles.

Like I mentioned before, we’ve changed up our social media strategy a little and that has boosted our presence a good deal which in turn boosted engagement. I have a certain goal in mind for 2026 and we’ll see if we can achieve that.

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It seems that LEGO has a bunch of stock for the LEGO Ninjago Micro Ninjago City (40703) as they are literally giving it away with purchases of $20. The 339 piece set was originally available back in March 2024 when it was an LEGO Insiders reward item costing 2,700 points. It was then bundled with the other micro Ninjago sets for 5,400 points but I guess nobody wanted to spend their points to get it.

You can also double up the LEGO Ninjago Micro Ninjago City (40703) with the Winter Gazebo (40778) with purchases of $150. It looks like it’ll also work with pre-orders but the Gazebo will not so plan accordingly.

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Last week, we reported that BrickLink would be stopping operations in 35 countries around the world. The reason given was that they didn’t have the resources to support Marketplace operations in those area at the same level as other countries and would end on December 12. This announcement angered and saddened many LEGO fans in the affected countries because BrickLink may be the only way to get LEGO or it was their livelihood.

Head of BrickLink, Steven Lee, has issued an apology statement regarding the announcement. They basically apologized that BrickLink didn’t allow enough time to the affected countries enough notice so instead of closing on December 12, they just pushed it back to January 31, 2026. They are also removing fees from November, December, and January.

The apology letter didn’t really explain why they don’t have the resources to support those countries. They letter was just long-winded without explaining and it all sounded like corporate talk which doesn’t really help the situation.

Dear BrickLink Community,

I’m writing to share an update on our announcement on November 21st regarding the closure of BrickLink® Marketplace in 35 countries.

First, I want to apologise. We went about informing and engaging our community and sellers the wrong way. It wasn’t with the care and transparency we strive for, and you’ve been right to point this out. While some of your feedback has been tough to hear, we appreciate you sharing your honest thoughts and feelings on this. It’s what this community is all about.

Deciding to close these markets

BrickLink has announced that they are stopping Marketplace operations in 35 countries. Starting December 12, 2025, BrickLink Marketplace will not be available for members in the following countries:

• Argentina
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Georgia
• Greenland
• India
• Indonesia
• Israel
• Kazakhstan
• Lebanon
• Moldova
• Morocco
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Peru
• Qatar
• San Marino
• Saudi Arabia
• Serbia
• South Africa
• Taiwan
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• Vietnam

They mention that they don’t currently have the resources to support Marketplace operations in these areas at the same level as everywhere else but this announcement potentially affects millions of fans overseas. They did mention that they will be review the decision regularly and hope to reopen these countries in the future.

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