CES has taken over Las Vegas this week, bringing with it the standard flood of flashy — and infrequently costly — tech bulletins from firms like Nvidia, Sony, Anker and loads of others. One model I completely didn’t have on my bingo card, although, is one you undoubtedly know: Lego. The Danish firm simply introduced Lego Good Play, its first foray into “good” {hardware}, led by the Good Brick — a bit with a tiny chip smaller than a Lego stud that lets the brick reply as you construct and play, utilizing a built-in micro-speaker, accelerometer and LED array.
Because of all of that injected tech, it could inform when it is being moved, which manner it is going through, even how shut it’s to different Good Bricks as you construct. The speaker and LEDs then play sounds and lightweight up primarily based on the way you’re really utilizing the set — way more than your customary canned sound results. The Good Brick is just one piece of the Good Play system. It additionally contains Good Minifigures and Good Tags — the latter is mainly a tiled piece — that may acknowledge and reply as properly.
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A nice shock is the value of a few of these units. The present non-smart 625-piece Lego Star Wars TIE Bomber Mannequin Constructing Equipment has an MSRP of $65 (although it’s on sale proper now for $52), whereas this 473-piece Good Play model is barely $5 extra.
You’ll order the Good Play on Friday, Jan. 9.
$70 at Lego
It is 2026, so absolutely these should require an app for any of this to work, proper? Nope! Lego constructed a wi-fi system known as BrickNet that enables the Good Bricks to speak instantly with one another utilizing Bluetooth-based know-how. No downloading, no Wi-Fi to arrange and no telephone required — you simply open the field and begin constructing, the way in which Lego has at all times labored. And to energy up these bricks, all you need to do is cost them on an included wi-fi charging pad.
Bear in mind if you needed to make these taking pictures sound results whilst you performed along with your Lego again within the day? Now, these Good Play units will do this for you … after which some. (Lego)
The primary of the Good Play choices are three all-in-one Star Wars units, not the ten,000-piece varieties geared toward adults, however smaller units that children can take pleasure in. And whereas they’re undoubtedly pricier than customary, non-smart units, the value soar fortunately is not insane. Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter prices $70, Luke’s Pink 5 X-Wing Set is available in at $90, and the larger Throne Room Duel & A-Wing combo hits a steep $160.
Pre-orders for all three units open this Friday, January 9, whereas the complete Good Play launch is scheduled for March 1st.
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This 584-piece set contains two Good Minifigures (Luke and Leia, in fact), in addition to one Good Brick and 5 Good Tags.
$90 at Lego
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That is the biggest (and costliest) of the three units which are accessible for pre-order this week. At 962 items, it performs iconic Return of the Jedi sound results, together with Lightsaber hums and the engine of the included A-wing. It’s going to even play “The Imperial March” whereas Emperor Palpatine is sitting on his throne.
$160 at Lego