Lego’s next release is a digital brick loaded with sensors that add new layers of interactivity to its play sets. WIRED got exclusive access to the Lego labs where the Smart Brick was born.

Lego has made its biggest change in decades. And people are not happy. The Danish toy maker has introduced “smart bricks” that light up. The company unveiled the Lego Smart Play at the CES 2026 in Las ...

But some argue new ‘Smart Play’ technology undermines the Danish construction toy’s gift for harnessing a child’s own imagination It may be time to retire that hyperspace zoom noise you perfected ...

Lego integrates electronics with sensors, light, and sound generators into building bricks. To start, these Smart Bricks will bring three Star Wars sets to life. Under the motto “Let them play back ...

The brand-new, jaw-dropping Lego smart brick tech can recognize other bricks, activate effects and play music. They're debuting in Star Wars Lego sets this spring and we got an early look at CES 2026.

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Last year’s LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild The Galaxy was one of the most unexpectedly joyous things to come out of LEGO since the original LEGO Movie. Instead of yet another cute but clearly cheap seasonal ...

The LEGO Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory set aspires to capture the detail, color, and eccentricities from the original story. Any question of which Willy Wonka the set is inspired by is answered ...

"My Melody & Kuromi" director Tomoki Misato tells IndieWire about turning two kawaii classics into the streamer's next great animated stars, for Sanrio superfans and newbies alike. When stop-motion ...

The Lego Group is teaming up with Aardman Animations, the stop-motion studio behind Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, and Shaun the Sheep, on a new project encouraging kids to combine brick-building with ...

Your task is to create the most epic battle scene that you can make using at least 2 LEGO minifigures of your choosing. The specific characters, battle setting, storyline, weapons, and outcome are up ...

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