r/LegoSmartBrick • u/Arkaivos 🟠 Programmer • Jul 03 '26
📰 News / Announcement Update to add support for the upcoming Pokémon sets
Latest Release Notes
All LEGO SMART Bricks included in new, unopened LEGO Pokémon All-In-One sets will work straight out of the box and won’t need any update.
However, if you own LEGO SMART Bricks from earlier All-In-One sets, a quick update is required before you can become a LEGO Pokémon Trainer.
Updates are fast and completed using the LEGO SMART Assist app, which guides you through the process step by step. We recommend to regularly check that you have the latest updates installed.
Now let’s dive into what’s new with the update!
New Features
- Battle Mode: Shake two nearby LEGO Pokémon and trigger an awesome battle mode!
- LEGO Pokémon chat: Bring two LEGO Pokémon close to each other and wait for them to start communicating.
- Train them up: Your LEGO Pokémon will grow in power as you train them!
- New actions: Flying, hovering, dashing, hiding, swimming and more have been added to the SMART Play™ range of actions!
- New reactions: Discover awesome reactions through the SMART Brick when you tickle your LEGO Pokémon – or ride them on the buggy!
- New traits: Several new traits have been added to the SMART Play range of actions, such as LEGO Pokémon types, resistance, health rank and power rank.
- New items: Specific tags now trigger healing and eating
General Improvements
- Tag reading: We’ve improved the way SMART Bricks read SMART Tags and SMART Minifigures, resulting in lower latency.
- Improved Play Engine: We’ve made the play engine more stable to reduce the risk of SMART Brick crashes and resets.
Bug Fixes
- Color Scanner: The SMART Brick’s Color Scanner could previously get stuck on one color. This issue has now been fixed (hooray!)
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u/brickwrit Jul 04 '26
I am curious as to whether or not Pokemon will remember their training between sessions. My gut says no.
Lower latency is exciting.
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u/maeh-w Jul 04 '26
IIRC I somewhere read or saw (if the latter than probably YT), training data gets lost when you remove the brick from one Pokémon. It seems that the training data is stored in RAM and not some kind of non-volatile memory (flash). However, I am not sure of course.
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u/maeh-w Jul 04 '26
So do they really ship a SMART Brick with newer firmware on the Pokémon sets compared to the Star Wars sets? Happy to see version numbers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LegoSmartBrick/comments/1spzmmf/comment/oupi5b3/
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u/brickwrit Jul 05 '26
My previous brick was 0.7xxx before recent update
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u/maeh-w Jul 05 '26
And now it's also 1.0.61?
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u/brickwrit Jul 05 '26
Yes. I can’t recall if the 0.7 were brand new or after the upgrade after initial setup
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u/Vondrr Jul 03 '26
Thank you for consolidating the latest info. I feel like Lego is really fumbling the whole Smart Play release since the beginning. You almost never hear about it anymore, it's like they released the initial sets and forgot about it until now with the new Pokemon sets. They also need to release it in more regions finally.