The 2026 LEGO® Festival 2026 has a headliner for the play zone this year and that headliner is Pokémon!
Guests can expect hands-on activities and creative interactive play, including the newly announced LEGO® Pokémon™ SMART Play™ sets as part of the ultimate summer celebration of family fun.
The Play Zone will offer kids and adults alike the chance to bring their Pokémon Trainer dreams to life, in the real world. Pokémon fans can level up their skills through a hands-on training journey – bonding with, nurturing, and training a selection of five Pokémon, to take on the most epic brick-built battles.
Full of activities and moments that will bring Pokémon into the physical realm through the LEGO® SMART Play™ system.
Entering the Nurture area, Trainers can build their Pokémon a tasty snack, then head to the snack table to add a SMART tag and see how their Pokémon reacts. They can also build and display a LEGO Poké Ball, plus snap a photo with the giant LEGO® Pikachu model making its way to LEGO Festival this summer at the family theme park in Winter Haven.
Not only that, but families joining the festival fun will also be among the first in the world to see the LEGO® Pokémon™ SMART Play™ system in action, and learn how to nurture, train and battle with their Pokémon in the LEGO® Pokémon™: Trainer Center, while interacting with favorite LEGO® Pokémon™ as they come alive in guests hands before they hit shelves in August.
“LEGO® Pokémon™ brings an exciting new way for families to play together at this year’s LEGO® Festival,” said Brian Bacica, Park President of LEGOLAND Florida Resort. “Whether you’re a lifelong Pokémon fan or discovering it for the first time, families can build and share unforgettable moments together through hands-on experiences.”
The new LEGO® SMART Play™ system is designed to help play last longer and feel more dynamic, active, social and interactive, and it is screen free fun. For Pokémon Trainers, this means more catching, more bonding, more training, more battling, and new ways to play – all available to be experienced at LEGO® Festival.
Running from July 20 to August 16, 2026, LEGO® Festival will turn LEGOLAND Florida Resort into a full-on festival of imagination across five interactive zones: Music, Creative, Chill-Out alongside the brand-new Thrill and Play Zone.
You gotta catch um all!
LEGO® Festival will be available at multiple LEGOLAND® Resorts worldwide with the Play Zone featuring at: LEGOLAND ® California, LEGOLAND ® Deutschland, LEGOLAND Florida, LEGOLAND® New York, LEGOLAND®Windsor and will be included in the regular ticket prices.
