Wakura Onsen has introduced a new attraction that mixes traditional hot spring relaxation with some familiar Pokemon characters. This brand-new Pokemon Footbath is located in Yuttari Park on the Noto Peninsula, specifically in Nanao City, and was just opened just a stone’s throw away from the Nanao Bay beach.
LEGO has teamed up with The Pokemon Company for a fresh wave of sets that add real-time reactions to classic construction play. Twelve new SMART Play sets go on pre-order today and reach stores August 1, 2026. The line mixes brick-built Pokemon figures with a special hub brick that reads tags hidden in the models and responds with lights and sounds tailored to whatever scene a builder creates.
Pokémon turns 30 this year, and the Pokémon Company wants to give its followers a little something to celebrate. They created the Game Boy Jukebox, which is a modest tribute to the original Game Boy. It’s a device that pulls music directly from Pokémon Red and Blue. We’re talking 45 tiny mini cartridges buried in the box, each with a single track or sound effect from the original 1996 games.
A pink, blobby Ditto turning into a person to farm, create and befriend Pokémon in a world sounds like a spin-off only Pokémon could pull off. Pokémon Pokopia, announced during the Nintendo Direct on September 12, 2025, is a new take on the franchise by combining life simulation, crafting and survival elements into a chill experience. This game, out on the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026, asks you to turn a wild landscape into a Pokémon paradise.
Ever spent hours hunched over a table sorting through stacks of Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, or Yu-Gi-Oh! cards? Introducing CardMill, a device that takes this task off your hands, thanks to artificial intelligence.
A new Pokémon series is coming and it’s a whole new approach. Unveiled at the July 22, 2025, Pokémon Presents, Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu reimagines the franchise through the stop-motion magic of Aardman Animations, the British studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.
It’s official, the LEGO Group and The Pokémon Company International announced a new multi-year partnership that will bring characters like Pikachu, Charizard, and more, to life, in 2026. No other details have been released, but the company did say that these new sets will allow fans to “build beloved Pokémon in LEGO brick form,” possibly even their evolutions.
If the BBC created a Pokemon-themed ‘Planet Earth’ show, it would probably look something like EnlargedKai’s ‘Pokearth’. This 5-part documentary series draws inspiration from Sir David Attenborough’s work, but follows the lives of several iconic Pokemon characters: the Spheal, Doduo, Wailord, Clodsire, and Magikarp.
