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Lego Smart Play Training House with Pikachu Set.

I recently got to spend a couple of hours of my workday playing with the new Lego Pokémon Smart Play Sets, and my inner 8-year-old is still screaming. So, I'll put this the way a child might: I love the new Lego Pokémon Smart Play Sets so much I want to marry them.

Seriously, though: These sets totally rule.

And as of Aug. 1, you can finally order these sets for your own personal Lego collection, and they're without a doubt some of the best new Legos we've seen in a while, and not just for Pokémon fans. Even if you've been skeptical of the Lego Smart Play system, I highly recommend giving these brickified monsters a chance.

The Lego Pokémon Smart Play collection
All-In-One SET
Lego Smart Play Pokémon Training House with Pikachu
$69.99 at Amazon
Lego Smart Play Pokémon Training House with Pikachu
Lego Pokémon Smart Play: Mewtwo's Lab Break set
$69.99 at Amazon
LEGO Pokémon SMART Play: Mewtwo's Lab Break
All-In-One Set
Lego Pokémon Smart Play: Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle set
$119.99 at Amazon
Lego Pokémon Smart Play: Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle set
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Trainer's Buggy Adventure with Squirtle
$29.99 at Lego
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Trainer's Buggy Adventure with Squirtle
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Charmander and Geodude's Cavern Clash set
$19.99 at Lego
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Charmander and Geodude's Cavern Clash set
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Eevee and Lapras's Treasure Hunt set
$59.99 at Lego
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Eevee and Lapras's Treasure Hunt set
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Berry Bash with Bulbasaur and Bidoof set
$19.99 at Lego
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Berry Bash with Bulbasaur and Bidoof set
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Cubone and Gengar's Spooky Showdown set
$89.99 at Amazon
Lego Pokémon Smart Play Cubone and Gengar's Spooky Showdown set

I'll admit that I was underwhelmed by the Lego Smart Play Star Wars sets released earlier this year. So I was a bit skeptical when Mashable got the chance to demo the new Lego Pokémon sets ahead of their launch. However, my Pokémon-loving colleagues and I had an absolute blast playing and geeking out over these sets.

Lego Charizard and Mewtwo in Battle Mode.
Lego Charizard and Mewtwo in Battle Mode. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

I'm excited to break down how they work, which sets are coming, and whether they're worth adding to your Lego collection.

You can also hear some of the adorable noises they make for yourself:

What are the Lego Pokémon Smart Play sets?

Lego Smart Play Pokemon Charizard figure
Charizard in all its glory. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

Mashable has been following the Lego Smart Play rollout closely. We were there for the Smart Brick's big debut at CES 2026 and on hand for the London launch event for the Pokémon Smart Play Sets this summer.

The Lego Smart Play Mewtwo's Lab Break set.
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The Lego Smart Brick and Smart Tag in the Mewtwo's Lab Break set.
The Smart Brick enables interacitivity with the Mewtwo's Lab Break set. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

The Smart Play system is built around a new Smart Brick, a modified 2x4 Lego piece. Lego crammed a lot of hardware into this brick, which features an accelerometer, microphones and speakers, LED lights, magnetic field sensors, a gyroscope, and a color sensor. The Smart Brick responds to Smart Tags included with the Smart Play sets, as well as various Smart Minifigures. An included wireless charger provides extra juice when the battery runs out.

SEE ALSO: The 10 best Lego sets of 2026 so far, from F1 to Monet and Pokémon
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The Lego Smart Brick looks like a regular 2x4 Lego brick. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable
Two Lego Smart Bricks charging on wireless charging pad.
Recharge your Smart Bricks with the included charging pad. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

The end result is a Lego set that responds to your play. Now, your Lego Mini Figures can talk to each other. They also light up or make noises based on your movements.

Lego Jolteon with Smart Brick.
Here's the Lego Jolteon with a Smart Brick. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

The Lego Pokémon Smart Play Sets take this even further. Once you add a Smart Brick to Pikachu, Jolteon, or Geodude, your favorite Pokémon will start to make adorable little noises and talk to each other. You can feed them, train them, and even enter them into a battle mode. Once you do, you can charge up special powers, level up your Pokémon, and pit them against each other.

a lego smart brick inside Charizard
The Smart Brick sits right in Charizard's tummy. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

The Lego Pokémon Smart Play Sets make incredibly cute noises

The real secret sauce behind the new smart Lego Pokémon sets? Pikachu, Squirtle, Bidoof, Geodude, Charmander, and Eevee make adorable little noises. They squeak and chatter back and forth when you place them near each other. When you push Squirtle's buggy around, it makes little choo-choo engine noises.

Lego Smart Play Training House with Pikachu Set.
Lego Smart Play Training House with Pikachu Set. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

And the pièce de résistance? The Pikachu Treehouse Set contains a hidden Murphy Bed. Place Pikachu or one of its smart friends on the bed, and they fall asleep and snore.

Lego Smart Play Pikachu takes a nap in the Training House.
Lego Smart Play Pikachu takes a nap in the Training House. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

It's enough to make you squeal at the cuteness overload, which is exactly what we did as we played with these little monsters at the Mashable office.

The aforementioned battle mode is also really cool. Some of the sets come with training stations, where you can level up Pokémon for a better chance at winning a match-up. You can power up your Pokémon's special power (shake too hard, and the move fizzles out), dodge attacks, and generally just have fun.

These are just some of the primary interactive elements, and a lot of the fun here will be trying out new things. You can add the Smart Tags and Smart Bricks to different creatures to explore new ways to play.

Lego Smart Play Squirtle with buggy and accessories
Squirtle comes with a buggy and barbecue set, obviously. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

Again, I've never been a huge Pokémon guy (I'm an OG Harry Potter nerd), and even I had a blast playing with these cute little dudes.

Remember: You need at least one "All-In-One" set

There is one thing I don't love about the Lego Smart Play sets: they don't all come with a smart brick. That's not as big of a deal here as it was with the pricey Star Wars sets, but check the product details carefully. You'll need to buy at least one set with a smart brick and charger (look for "Smart Play All-In-One" on the upper-right corner of the box). From there, you can build your own collection. I appreciate that the add-on sets start at $19.99, and you can get all-in-one sets starting at $69.99. Lego's prices aren't always so friendly.

The Lego Pokémon Smart Play: Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle set with accessories
The Lego Pokémon Smart Play: Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle set. Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

The adorable Training House with Pikachu and the Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle sets are both all-in-one kits that include Smart Bricks.

Lego Smart Play geodude with smart brick
Geodude rocks! Credit: Joseph Maldonado / Mashable

You can also buy interactive "Smart Play Compatible" sets, which include:

  • Mewtwo's Lab Break

  • Eevee and Lapras's Treasure Hunt

  • Berry Bash with Bulbasaur and Bidoof

  • Trainer's Buggy Adventure with Squirtle

  • Charmander and Geodude's Cavern Clash

  • Cubone and Gengar's Spooky Showdown

At least three of the sets are available on Amazon, and the rest are available at the Lego online store. Presumably, more smart Pokémon sets will be coming in the future.

Are the Lego Pokémon Smart Play Sets worth it?

Absolutely! We had a blast playing with these sets, and we appreciate that there are lots of sets available for under $75, and some for under $25. If you love Lego and Pokémon, we think this one will be fun for all ages.

You can purchase these sets at the Lego online store and through Amazon.

Lego Smart Play Pokémon Training House with Pikachu
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Lego Pokémon Smart Play: Charizard vs. Jolteon Ultimate Battle set
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In this photo illustration OpenAI icon is displayed on a mobile phone screen with the photo of Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI in Ankara, Turkiye on August 13, 2024

OpenAI’s first brand trip came with private cabins, monogrammed pajamas, gourmet outdoor dinners, and jars of honey stamped with the company’s logo. Online, the luxury getaway became a much less relaxing conversation about AI.

Over the weekend, the company flew a group of creators to Wildflower Farms, a luxury resort in New York’s Hudson Valley that bills itself as a "meaningful encounter with nature." The creators posted luxurious room tours — rates run roughly $1,500 to $3,100 per night — exploring the picturesque grounds, chatted with fellow content creators and OpenAI execs, and shared awe-struck clips with their tens to hundreds of thousands of followers.

"I'm still processing how insanely EPIC the last 72 hours has been," AI creator Justyn Warner wrote on Instagram. Warner said OpenAI flew him to New York for its "first ever brand trip," where he was surrounded by "some of the best creators on the planet and some of the brightest minds in AI."

The guest list leaned heavily toward people whose content already overlaps with technology, work, and entrepreneurship. Attendees included tech and career creator Megan Lieu; career and business creators Grace McCarrick and Avni Barman; software and fashion creator Sreya Halder (who has partnered with OpenAI before), among many other recognizable faces in the tech sphere.

For some social media users, the combination of artificial intelligence and a luxury wilderness retreat landed strangely. As posts from the weekend spread, attendees’ comment sections filled with questions about the environmental cost of AI, its effect on creative work, and why creators had agreed to help promote it in the first place.

AI summer camp meets AI's environmental footprint

OpenAI could hardly have chosen a more on-the-nose setting for the weekend. Wildflower Farms sits on 140 acres in Gardiner, New York, surrounded by meadows, woodlands, orchards, and views of the Shawangunk Ridge.

The resort, as glamorous and serene as it is, is an awkward backdrop for a company facing mounting questions about the physical infrastructure supporting its products.

AI may feel like something that lives entirely on a screen, but every ChatGPT request must be processed by servers in data centers, many of which are equipped with specialized computer chips. Those chips draw electricity and generate considerable heat. Keeping them from overheating requires additional electricity and, at many facilities, large amounts of water.

The International Energy Agency projects that global data-center electricity consumption will more than double between 2024 and 2030, with servers primarily used for AI driving nearly half of that growth. In the United States, data centers directly consumed an estimated 17 billion gallons of water in 2023.

"The concept of attending an AI brand trip surrounded by nature while it actively hurts the environment is an incredible bit," one X user wrote in response to a now-deleted post by tech influencer @meshtimes. In the r/NYCinfluencersnark Reddit thread about the brand trip, another commenter asked whether business influencer Nat Lucy was "gazing at where the new data center is gonna go," in her post. "Did they promise you fresh water when we run out?" another commenter wrote.

Communities are increasingly pushing back. At least 75 proposed data centers worth approximately $130 billion were delayed or blocked during the first three months of 2026, while a June report identified 430 local Facebook groups with more than 525,000 combined members opposing the projects.

OpenAI's latest proposal appears designed to get ahead of those concerns. On July 22, it announced Project Camellia, a data-center campus planned for rural Georgia. OpenAI promised the facility would use "minimal" water and would not increase residents’ electricity bills.

"We believe showing up early is the right way to build trust," the company said, while acknowledging that significant details about the project remain unresolved.

That emphasis on trust helps explain the value of bringing creators into the room. As psychologist and researcher Dr. Anna Kallschmidt said in a video regarding OpenAI's latest "unsurprising" brand trip, "Without trust, you have nothing. That is why these companies...are bringing these people in because they know people don’t trust them, and they’re hoping by bringing in faces that you trust, that trust will build onto [OpenAI]."

Kallschmidt added she receives an email "every other day" from an AI company interested in a brand deal, suggesting that OpenAI is part of a larger effort to find recognizable people who can make AI products feel more accessible.

That was precisely what bothered some people online: they saw OpenAI borrowing credibility that creators had already established with their audiences.

One Reddit commenter warned about "AI companies utilizing influencers who are more than willing to be talking heads for a company’s narrative that they probably know so little about." Another added, "Not all money is good money."

Creators are defending themselves

Once the backlash reached attendees’ comment sections, some began explaining why they had accepted OpenAI’s invitation. Career and business creator Grace McCarrick responded directly to people questioning her decision to attend:

"If I have the opportunity to be in the room and hear from people who are at the helm of change, I can do that," McCarrick said in one TikTok response. "It's actually well within my moral system."

McCarrick also called the backlash "shocking AI psychosis" in a longer LinkedIn post, and said she had no idea so many people felt this strongly about the technology. "It didn’t for one second occur to me that it could be controversial," McCarrick wrote.

The backlash also caught the attention of tech journalist Taylor Lorenz. "Influencers are getting cancelled for going on the OpenAI brand summer camp weekend trip, which is very interesting bc I have not seen similar criticism towards influencers who have been attending Anthropic events," she wrote on X.

In a follow-up, Lorenz noted that McCarrick already publicizes consulting work for Amazon, Uber, and DoorDash. Why, she seemed to ask, had this OpenAI retreat suddenly become the partnership that crossed the line?

OpenAI is investing in influence

This brand trip did not appear out of nowhere.

In February, OpenAI hired Charles Porch, Instagram's longtime vice president of global partnerships, for the newly created position of vice president of global creative partnerships. Porch spent more than 15 years at Instagram, Facebook, and Meta cultivating relationships with the kinds of people who can introduce a new platform or product to a much larger audience.

His résumé includes helping Beyoncé release her self-titled album exclusively on Instagram in 2013, convincing Pope Francis to join the platform, organizing activations at the Met Gala and Vanity Fair's Oscar Party, and overseeing a program that offered bonuses to creators who began posting on Instagram Reels.

That experience matters to OpenAI. Porch spent years convincing influential people to join a new platform and then turning their participation into moments that attracted everyone else. Now, he is applying that playbook to ChatGPT.

"I’m going to be the person that’s talking to creative communities around the world to figure out how we build the best products to serve them," Porch told Vanity Fair when his hiring was announced.

Porch is only one piece of that effort. On April 2, OpenAI acquired TBPN, a daily technology talk show hosted by Jordi Hays and John Coogan, in a deal worth somewhere in the "low hundreds of millions of dollars."

Often described as "SportsCenter for Silicon Valley," TBPN streams for three hours every weekday, mixing friendly executive interviews, industry gossip, and enthusiastic celebrations of new products and funding rounds. Its audience is relatively small but influential, including founders, investors, and technology executives. Guests have included Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Mark Cuban, and Altman, who has called it his "favorite tech show."

University of Washington professor Margaret O'Mara told NPR that the purchase appeared partly intended to influence how people in the industry talk about OpenAI. In the same report, tech scholar Sara Watson described the company as facing a larger "narrative change problem" as the public grows more skeptical of the industry’s promises.

The Wildflower Farms retreat brought that effort outside the Silicon Valley bubble. OpenAI is clearly aiming to surround its products with people who already know how to attract attention, explain new technology, and build loyal audiences.

The trip definitely succeeded in getting people to talk about OpenAI, though the company may have preferred a different conversation.



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Dreams and prophecies can never be dismissed in House of the Dragon, and that goes double for Helaena (Phia Saban), who has a proven track record when it comes to seeing into the future.

In Season 3, episode 7, she has a number of dreams. Some of these feel pretty straightforward — her dream about her baby being taken away from her, for instance — while others are a bit more cryptic.

So, what does she dream, and can any of these dreams offer us an insight into the future?

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What does Helaena dream in episode 7?

Helaena has four different dreams over the course of episode 7. The first one happens right at the beginning of the episode, while the next three are interconnected dreams that happen over the course of the same night's sleep. You could argue that's just one dream, but as they're four very different scenes we've broken them up:

  1. Helaena's in an empty courtyard, standing next to a white horse pulling a trailer. The large doors open and light comes in, before she's woken by Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) calling her name.

  2. Helaena screams during childbirth. Her baby is handed to a guard, who immediately takes it away.

  3. Helaena sits atop a large dragon while a crowd of people rushes towards her. She cries out, "Dracarys!" and the dragon unleashes fire upon them.

  4. Helaena is sitting outside a house in the countryside with two blonde children and a white horse, feeding chickens. Snow begins to fall, and the sun is blocked by an eclipse. She stands up, looking round, as white mist rolls towards them.

Four very different, intriguing scenes. But, how do they fit in with the show and the wider Game of Thrones universe?

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What could Helaena's dreams mean?

Okay, let's break them down one by one. The first, in which Helaena stands beside a horse in the courtyard, seems simple enough: This is surely Helaena dreaming of leaving her current imprisonment. The doors open and light pours in, but we don't see what's outside. This likely represents Helaena's uncertainty at where she would go if she did escape King's Landing.

The next dream seems like a manifestation of her very real (and understandable) fear of what might happen when she gives birth. As she's already been made well aware by her mother, Alicent (Olivia Cooke), a baby boy would be seen as a threat to Rhaenyra's claim to the throne — hence the soldier that immediately takes the child away from her.

The third and fourth dreams are where things get a bit more abstract. We do have some clues, though: In the third dream, for instance, the building Helaena sees in the distance is the Red Keep of King's Landing. It seems likely she's in the Dragonpit, where Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) had his coronation. And the dragon she's riding? That's a little more tricky to say. It's certainly not a dragon we've seen yet in the show, at any rate, meaning this is likely a vision of something that happens in the future. Could it be a vision of Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) attacking King's landing on the back of Drogon? Possibly, but in Game of Thrones, this doesn't take place in the Dragonpit. And although the dragon Helaena rides is dark like Drogon, it looks slightly more purple in its colouring. Perhaps this is a vision of something else?

The final dream, meanwhile? Our best guess is that this is another future vision, this time of the Long Night and the coming of winter that Game of Thrones revolves around.

House of the Dragon Season 3 is now streaming on HBO Max, with new episodes premiering Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.



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The Odyssey follows Odysseus on his long journey home from the Trojan War. Its viewers, however, are heading in the opposite direction...back to Troy.

Christopher Nolan’s epic has quickly become one of the year’s biggest movies. The film opened with $264.1 million worldwide, the largest global debut of Nolan’s career, and earned another $90 million domestically during its second weekend. By its 12th day in theaters, it had generated $727.9 million worldwide.

All that attention has also sent viewers toward a much older, looser interpretation of Homer’s Iliad.

Clips from Wolfgang Petersen’s 2004 film have been circulating across social media. Viewers are comparing the movies’ battle scenes, costumes, performances, and versions of the fall of Troy. Some have gone further, arguing that the critically dismissed Brad Pitt blockbuster may actually be the better movie.

The renewed attention is showing up beyond social media. As of July 23, Troy ranked 12th on IMDb’s list of most popular movies and 23rd on Letterboxd, while The Odyssey held the top position on both. By the end of the month, Troy had also climbed to No. 2 on AMC+ in the United States.

Suddenly, a movie once remembered primarily for Pitt’s armor and extremely committed workout routine is receiving a full cultural re-evaluation.

Why Troy looks different in 2026

When Troy opened in 2004, Hollywood was still crowded with historical and fantasy epics. Gladiator had arrived 4 years earlier, and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy had just demonstrated how emotionally and commercially successful a massive fantasy production could become.

That competition made Troy feel less remarkable at the time. Petersen removed nearly all the gods and supernatural forces from Homer’s story and condensed years of mythology into one muscular, star-filled blockbuster.

Critics were divided by the results. Troy currently holds a 53 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus describes it as an entertaining spectacle without enough emotional resonance. Audiences were warmer, giving it a 74 percent score.

22 years later, some of what once made Troy seem conventional has become the reason viewers are praising it. Compared with The Odyssey, fans say Troy better captures the sheer scale of the war. They have also singled out its radiant colors, weathered costumes, and supporting performances from Eric Bana and Peter O’Toole.

Most of all, viewers keep returning to its action: the battles clearly show the tactics of two armies, while the duel between Achilles and Hector lets audiences follow every blow. Those qualities stand out even more when placed beside The Odyssey, according to fans.

Of course, the two movies are trying to accomplish very different things. Troy is a war movie built around Achilles, Hector, and the destruction of a city. The Odyssey follows the exhausted soldier who has to live with what happened afterward.

Still, watching them so close together has made viewers appreciate a movie has been overlooked for years.

Troy was always more popular than its reviews suggested

Despite its mixed reviews, Troy earned more than $497 million worldwide during its original theatrical run. Nearly three-quarters of that total came from international audiences.

The irony is that viewers now seem more eager to defend Troy than some of the people who made it.

Pitt said he appeared in the movie because he had withdrawn from another Warner Bros. project and remained obligated to make something for the studio.

"I was put in Troy," Pitt told The New York Times in 2019. He said the experience convinced him to begin following his instincts when selecting future roles.

Bloom was even less nostalgic about playing Paris. "I think I just blanked that movie out of my brain," he told Variety in 2024, explaining that he never wanted to play the Trojan prince.

Christopher Nolan nearly made Troy himself

The most unexpected connection between the movies belongs to Nolan, actually. More than two decades before directing The Odyssey, he was originally hired by Warner Bros. to make Troy.

Petersen had begun developing the movie before leaving to work on a planned Batman vs. Superman project. When Warner Bros. abandoned that film, Petersen asked for Troy back. Nolan agreed, although he later told Empire that Homer’s world remained in the back of his mind. He was especially interested in how he would depict the Trojan horse.

Losing Troy worked out reasonably well for him. Nolan instead directed Batman Begins, which screenwriter David S. Goyer later jokingly described as Warner Bros.’ "consolation prize." The movie launched Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and helped establish the blockbuster career that eventually allowed him to return to Homer on an even larger scale.

That history makes the current comparison feel almost too good to be true. Nolan finally got to create his version of Homer’s world. And though Odysseus needed 10 years to find his way home, Troy needed 22 to get its retrial.



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