The first sets with Lego’s new Smart Brick are now available for preorder

It whitethorn person been 1 of the smallest devices announced astatine CES 2026, but Lego’s caller Smart Brick was besides 1 of the astir talked astir debuts of the show. We’ve recognized it arsenic the “Best successful show” successful our CES 2026 awards, and pursuing the Smart Play system’s motorboat earlier this week, the first 3 sets featuring the caller Smart Brick are now disposable for preorder.

Lego is introducing its Smart Brick to the world arsenic portion of 3 caller sets successful its celebrated Star Wars statement that show galore of the brick’s unsocial capabilities. The cheapest group is the $69.99, 473-piece Smart Play: Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter that includes 1 Smart Brick, 1 Smart Tag, and a Smart Darth Vader minifigure. The $89.99 SMART Play: Luke’s Red Five X-Wing is simply a 581-piece group that pairs the Smart Brick pinch 5 Smart Tags and Smart Luke and Leia figures.

The astir costly action is the $159.99 Smart Play: Throne Room Duel & A-Wing. It comes pinch 962 pieces including 2 Lego Smart Bricks, 5 Smart Tags, and Luke, Darth Vaders, and Emperor Palpatine smart figures. All 3 sets besides see Lego’s caller wireless charger that tin accommodate 2 bricks astatine a time, and preorders are expected to commencement shipping connected March 1st, 2026.

The Smart Brick functions arsenic a mini standalone machine that tin beryllium integrated into Lego builds to adhd interactive lighting and sounds. It features LEDs, a speaker, a mic, wireless connectivity, and a mini postulation of sensors that tin observe movements, light, and gestures. It tin admit Lego’s caller Smart Tags and figures done their embedded NFC tags which trigger unsocial sounds aliases lighting effects based connected which ones are nearby. They’re not programmable, but Lego says the Smart Brick tin beryllium updated pinch caller features and contented utilizing a mobile app.

The guidance to the Smart Play strategy from Lego fans has been divided. Some are excited astatine the caller play opportunities it introduces, while others lament Lego moving distant from imagination-based play – contempt this not being Lego’s first group to instrumentality electronics. The Verge’s Sean Hollister had a chance to effort retired the Lego Smart Brick astatine CES 2026, and while he was skeptical astatine first, he walked distant from a demo emotion the Smart Bricks were “far smarter and much imaginative than I expected.”