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The LEGO Ideas Third 2025 Review Stage is now set and we have now moved on to the First 2026 Review Stage with two projects already qualifying for it. Although I didn’t vote for it, the minifigure scale airplane turbine that actually works looks really neat. The other project features the Halliwell Manor from the late 90s to mid-2000s show with a trio of witch sisters.
BrickLink has revealed the final designs of the five BrickLink Designer Program Series 7 sets. Crowdfunding for the sets will start on February 16 at 8am PST. A minimum of 3,000 sets have to be sold before they actually produce them. There is now a real-time production system that dynamically change depending how popular a set is so the total number of available sets varies based on the number of orders and production capacity.
LEGO has released the press release for the newly announced LEGO SMART Brick and the LEGO SMART Play system. You can read more about it the functionality of it below. In addition, three new LEGO Star Wars sets have been announced with pre-orders going live on January 9 and releasing on March 1.
– 1x LEGO SMART Brick
– 1x LEGO SMART MINIFIGURE featuring Darth Vader
– 1x SMART TAG featuring the TIE Fighter
– 1x LEGO SMART Brick
– 2x LEGO SMART MINIFIGURES featuring Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia
– 5x SMART TAGS featuring the X-wing, Imperial turret, transporter, command center and R2-D2 accessories
– 2x LEGO SMART Bricks
– 3x LEGO® SMART MINIFIGURES featuring Luke Skywalker, Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader
– 5x SMART TAGS featuring an A-wing, throne, Death Star turret and Lightsaber™ duels (2x tags)
… ContinueIntroducing LEGO® SMART Play™: Bringing your creations to life
• The LEGO Group introduces LEGO® SMART Play™, a new play innovation that brings LEGO creations to life like never before.
• The platform is powered by the LEGO SMART Brick, which is packed with ground-breaking, world-first technologies that means LEGO builds can respond to how they are played with for the first time.
• LEGO SMART Play™ brings LEGO creations to life through seamless advanced technology enabling open-ended physical play, all without screens – and its platform
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
The LEGO Ideas Third 2025 Review Stage doesn’t seem to want to end as there are seven more projects that have reached the 10,000 supporter goal. As of this point, I’m not sure when it’ll end as we are well into 2026 and there are a few more projects getting close to hitting the goal as well. With this update, we’ve ballooned to 75 projects that are in the running to become an official LEGO Ideas set.
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?
A few days ago, LEGO revealed some new LEGO 2026 polybags and there are more that have been revealed at Lucky Bricks. Again, these polybags can be distributed in many ways such as being sold at various retailers, gift with purchase items, and redeemed at the Insiders Rewards Center.
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