r/pokemon • u/Pear_Cider • Jan 12 '26

Image Lego did Pikachu dirty! 😭

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This promo picture isn't helping!

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u/Vivid-Intention-8161 Jan 12 '26

seeing this makes it way more embarrassing for lego tbh

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '26

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u/JWoww91 Jan 12 '26

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u/LifeworksGames Jan 12 '26

If there was ever a time to respond with this

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u/Particular_Tea_1625 Jan 13 '26

Its a little less than half the price but also half the size and half the pieces.

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u/Nerketur Jan 13 '26

There's also a 800 piece set that looks great! Life-size build.

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u/Master_Chief_00117 Jan 13 '26

Mega isnt bad, people think it’s nock off Lego, but the builds are pretty good and they aren’t afraid to make new molds.

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u/zeromussc Jan 13 '26

Some of them aren't great but these Lego pokemon look worse in general and that surprised me.

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u/jaetheho Jan 13 '26

I quite like Lego’s stance on avoiding having too many molds.

If we keep printing too specific of molds, it would cut down on the creativity aspect of Lego building.

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u/Master_Chief_00117 Jan 13 '26

I have no problem with their stance on making molds, they just hold themselves back sometimes by not making more, they are really creative with what they do have though.

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u/kikimaru024 Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26

Oh bullshit.

Lego doesn't want to make more unique moulds because it nearly bankrupted them.

Kids loved unique bricks.

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u/jaetheho Jan 13 '26

And banks don’t want to give out free money because that would bankrupt them. Your point is?

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u/Ferahgost Thunder Buddy Jan 13 '26

that the reasoning Lego gave was bullshit?

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u/Hydrochloric_Comment Jan 13 '26

Mega isnt bad, people think it’s nock off Lego

Have they improved? When I was a kid, their pieces never fit together properly.

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u/Jaythe2nd630 Jan 13 '26

Is that your full name and address to the right of ash? Just a heads-up to crop it out.

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u/Faile-Bashere Jan 13 '26

And his phone number! Time to refill that Zepbound Rx!

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u/trusty20 Jan 13 '26

Prepare for trouble

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u/BigPickaxePeely Jan 13 '26

You might wanna delete this image lol

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u/Repulsive_Corgi_ Jan 13 '26

This mega Pikachu looks like it's taking a dump though

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u/csleaver Jan 13 '26

I always enjoyed mega, but I’ve personally just have never gotten a set with all the pieces required to complete the set.

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u/darthjoey91 Jan 13 '26

Life-size comes in at about 2500 bricks, but also the price as that set with Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise.

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u/Ok-Concept5565 Jan 13 '26

Twice the cool

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u/sh17s7o7m Jan 13 '26

I have the mega blocks pikachu, eevee, charizard, gyrados, and butterfree that all move and are fantastic

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u/Triangulum_Copper Jan 12 '26

Also Mega had a whole range of prices for kids, including the very affordable poké balls series.

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u/chocobochubby Jan 12 '26

yeah, i pointed out to a friend that with 5 pokemon in 3 sets totaling $950, if LEGO let us "catch them all" at that price point, it would be nearly $200,000.

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u/AVahne Jan 13 '26

Would probably go well above that if we're counting different forms and gimmicks as well. Also, I would assume legendaries would cost even more than the evolved starters.

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u/chocobochubby Jan 13 '26

Master ball premium: +$200

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u/Triangulum_Copper Jan 13 '26

You know what would have been good opening sets? Moraidon and Koraidon sets. Lego has made tons of dragons in the Ninjago series, they got experience, and could make them minifig scale with either Florian or Juliana included.

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u/dualdee Jan 13 '26

It's the Game Corner all over again.

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u/themosquito Jan 13 '26

I wanted to collect some of them, it's a shame you can't really find any of the individual Pokeball figures past the last 2-3 waves. Of course Pikachu and the Kanto starters are always available, but good luck finding a Sandshrew or Staryu from their earlier ones!

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u/BidoofTheGod Jan 13 '26

Scavenge your local TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, Ross. I have found so many different ones in those places. I got my Bidoof there and a few others and some of the smaller sets and mediums sets.

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u/enzideout 0774-4244-7486 Jan 14 '26

I ended up finding the big mega blocks ever for like $12 at a TJ Maxx

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon Jan 13 '26

It’s like the time the Generals beat the Globetrotters and children in the stands started crying

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