Pokémon

Kanto Region Badge Collection

Eight badges, one region, and a whole lot of nostalgia in plastic pins.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 40892 · 2026

Pieces312

Minifigsn/a

Year2026

Set number40892

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The verdict

This is a display piece first and a build second, it is quick, it is charming, and it is clearly made for someone who already knows what a Boulder Badge is without being told. If you want a meaty engineering challenge, this will not give you one, but if you want a shelf of Pokémon history you can point to and name every badge from memory, it delivers exactly that feeling.

Best for: Original-generation Pokémon fans who want a nameable, giftable desk display rather than a big build

The full review

What it is

I grew up resetting my Game Boy cartridge because I refused to lose a single gym battle, so when I found out LEGO was building the eight Kanto badges as brick built pins, I got a little emotional about it. This set takes the Boulder, Cascade, Thunder, Rainbow, Soul, Marsh, Volcano, and Earth badges, the exact eight you earned working your way across the original region, and turns each into a small buildable badge you can mount or stand on a included display base. It is less about the challenge of the build and more about the payoff of seeing something you have only ever seen as a pixelated icon suddenly exist as an object.

The catch

I will be straight with you about what this is not. At 312 pieces spread across eight separate mini builds, no single badge is going to test your patience or your technique the way a big vehicle or landscape set would. Some of the individual badges are genuinely just a few dozen pieces each, so if you are the kind of builder who wants hours of focused assembly, this will feel over quickly. It is also a set that leans hard on knowing the source material, if you have never played Red, Blue, or Yellow, half the appeal simply will not land the way it does for someone who has.

Who it's for

I would put this in the hands of a lapsed Game Boy kid who still remembers their team lineup, or a parent introducing their own kid to the original 151 through the games rather than just the show. I would steer away from builders shopping for a serious construction project, or anyone picking Pokémon sets purely for minifigures, since a badge collection like this is built around display pieces, not characters.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build itself moves fast and stays light on your hands, you work through the badges more or less one at a time, and there is a satisfying rhythm to finishing one small shape and immediately starting the next. Nothing here requires the kind of studying-the-instructions-twice concentration that a big Technic or Icons set demands, which makes it a genuinely nice one to build side by side with a kid or a friend without either of you getting frustrated.

Where it earns its keep is in shaping, not novelty. LEGO had to make eight distinct, instantly readable silhouettes at a small scale using mostly ordinary parts, and getting a rainbow shape or a heart shape to read clearly in brick form without a single dedicated new mold is a neat bit of design even if it will not excite anyone hunting for rare elements. The included stands or display base are the practical payoff, letting you actually show the badges the way the games always promised you would.

Fun facts

01Kanto is the original region introduced in Pokémon Red and Blue in 1996, and the eight badges in this set are the same eight a trainer collects on the path to the Indigo League in those games.
02This set is part of LEGO's first wave of officially licensed Pokémon sets, the earliest formal partnership between the two brands after years of fan speculation.
03The badge names in the set, Boulder, Cascade, Thunder, Rainbow, Soul, Marsh, Volcano, and Earth, map directly to the eight Kanto gym leaders in the order most players faced them.
04Badge and pin style display builds have become a recurring small-set format for LEGO outside Pokémon too, giving fans of a franchise a low commitment way to collect symbols rather than full scenes.