LEGO Pokémon should cross paths with Architecture

LEGO Pokémon is coming next year and a crossover with Architecture is an unexpected but ideal path for the theme to take.

Of many proposed LEGO Pokémon set concepts from fans over the past few decades, a recurring suggestion has been to recreate the towns, cities and iconic locations from the Pokémon games. Ideally, this would be as minifigure-scale buildings, but such a scale presents issues for depicting Pokémon perfectly.

There's another path for LEGO Pokémon to take to explore the in-game locations that have become so well-known, though – LEGO Architecture's microscale buildings. The theme's line of small, intricately detailed buildings, including the Skylines collection, offers an avenue to depict Pokémon's locations at a smaller scale without taking up too much of the theme's budget.

A budget-conscious mindset may be especially useful for the LEGO Pokémon to have as well to ensure they can hit as many of the fan-desired set concepts as quickly as possible, offering an initial range as diverse as LEGO Fortnite's first four sets.

It's not like licensed themes crossing paths with LEGO Architecture is a new concept for the LEGO Group either – Harry Potter has done so twice, including in the new 76444 Diagon Alley Wizarding Shops with its reconfigurable design.

A modular design lends itself well to the iconic design of Pokémon's towns too, and a reconfigurable set with several classic buildings to make one of several locations based on different layouts would work well. It would fill the niche of a nostalgic LEGO Pokémon set aimed at an older audience, who knows the Pokémon games before the towns had much more varied designs.

This concept is one that KraftyKoopa1 has already explored ahead of LEGO Pokémon's launch next year, recreating a Pokémon Center, Poké Mart, Gym and Professor Oak's lab. Their designs feature a singular path in front, able to be displayed next to one another similar to the LEGO Architecture Skyline series.

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For now, there's no sign of what LEGO Pokémon will include, but the theme is coming next year and you can find out more by clicking here.

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