The LEGO Pokémon sculptures we need next

With the considerable pre-orders for one of the first LEGO Pokémon sculptures, here are a few Pokémon that need their own LEGO models next.

After the reveal of LEGO Pokémon earlier this week, 72153 Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise has quickly sold out of pre-orders in various regions, forecasting success for this new partnership. As pre-orders continue for the remaining two models, 72151 Eevee and 72152 Pikachu and Poké Ball, we can only look to the future of the theme and what sculptures we need next after the initial high demand.

You can click here to see what else is rumoured for LEGO Pokémon later this year, and read on to see what creatures we think deserve a detailed 18+ sculpture next. Note that this is only speculation, and no further LEGO Pokémon models have been officially confirmed.

The first evolutions of the Kanto partner Pokémon trio

After the success of 72153 Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise, there's a clear contender for a future LEGO Pokémon sculpture. We've already got the final evolutions of the Kanto partner Pokémon trio as a 6,838-piece model, and a scale-accurate sculpture of the first evolutions would look great next to them.

Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle are much smaller than their final stage counterparts, which would result in a more affordable version of massive 72153 Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise. This would position it as both a sequel and an alternative for budget-conscious consumers.

These first-stage Pokémon are just as iconic as their final evolutions, and we can only hope that they'll have a place in this new theme eventually. In the meantime, 72153 Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise at least represent the partner Pokémon in some form.

Mega Rayquaza

When considering the numerous Pokémon forms that would benefit from an highly-detailed 18+ sculpture, Mega Rayquaza has to be a contender. This temporary form of the legendary Pokémon boasts even greater detail than the base form, with orange accents and trails of energy from its head.

It's an incredibly detailed design that would be too challenging to recreate properly in anything but an 18+ sculpture. It would also likely be too difficult and fragile to play with. It would arguably be better following a similar path to 71847 The Guardian Dragon, which has a similar colour scheme, shaping and is display-only.

Diglett

Following in the footsteps of the more affordable 72151 Eevee, Diglett is a logical choice for another lower-priced LEGO Pokémon sculpture. It has a fairly simple design, but with one notable feature that would make it ideal to display anywhere. Diglett burrows in the ground, never revealing the lower portion of its body and poking up out of a hole.

Whatever the surface, it digs right through, and this would be interesting to incorporate into a LEGO display model, but not unique. 40920 Bugs Bunny does something similar, proving that the concept is effective. Now, it just needs to be applied to LEGO Pokémon.

A customisable Unown sculpture

Continuing to take inspiration from official LEGO models, Unown has some major potential as a LEGO sculpture, or at least a group of them. Unown has many forms, including the letters of the alphabet and some punctuation, allowing you spell out words with their designs.

That's a perfect concept for a LEGO sculpture that can mix play and display seamlessly. 41839 Message Board employed a similar tactic and went on heavy discount before it was retired last year. With the support of a franchise as major as Pokémon, though, the idea may have more success.

Stakataka

One last contender would have to be Stakataka. The Ultra Beast has more potential than any other creature from the games for some kind of LEGO Pokémon representation. Stakataka is made up of several individual creatures stacked together, like bricks. The inside of the tower-like structure that makes up its body is hollow and decorated with dozens of glowing blue eyes.

The design is otherwise simple to achieve with LEGO elements, and a sculpture would be able to lean into a lack of posing options to be accurate inside and out. You wouldn't even need stickers to recreate the eyes, but use several light blue round jumper plates to capture the shape of the eye and the small iris.

While we wait to find out what is next for LEGO Pokémon, you can pre-order two of the upcoming sets now, ahead of the theme's start on February 27.

LEGO Pokémon 2026 sets

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