I spent 3 hours with Lego’s new Pokémon Smart Play sets — they solve the Smart Brick’s biggest problems, and are simply perfect

The most fun I’ve had at work for some time is when Josie and I got to build the Lego Smart Brick Darth Vader TIE Fighter set for our YouTube channel. Well, it was… as now that’s been replaced by the hours I spent playing the brand-new Lego Pokémon sets today — all 12 of them — as they’re everything I could want as a long-term fan of both, and they're a true evolution (pun intended) of the Lego Smart Play system.

We built the new LEGO Smart Brick Darth Vader TIE Fighter set - YouTube

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My favorite improvement: you could forget these sets are at all Smart Play compatible.

This isn’t meant as a slight against the Smart Brick — I think the techno block is an incredibly fun play feature — but my biggest criticism of the original Star Wars batchis that they...

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