Toy Block Pokémon?

At a certain event that occurred a little over a week ago, I also discovered a mini toys exhibition, and one of the toys exhibited there is for a certain kind of toy blocks. I found that there were many themed sets of these toy blocks, but alas, I found none for Pokémon. It appears that despite the popularity of Pokémon, this has not been an area where Pokémon has been majorly incorporated, though some strides today have shown and may be considered to show an inclination for this.

At best, currently anything that involves Pokémon and (that specific kind of) toy blocks is unofficial. They may be exhibited as pictures and videos, but not as something that can be replicated directly, as is meant to be done with the actual toy blocks. Yet admittedly they are highly creative and show high adaptability of the existing sets of toy blocks for this purpose. The effort that goes into these must not be very little as well, at least for the exhibition aspect. The replication is another matter.

Some parties have undertaken efforts to create toy block sets for Pokémon. However, these too are unofficial, though also highly creative. While this solves the replication problem, they are also quite different from what could be imagined or has been exhibited. The quality may also be further questioned due to their unofficial quality in regard to both the Pokémon and toy block aspects. It might be interesting to play around with them, but it has to be kept in mind that they're unofficial, and that may affect satisfaction as well.

Perhaps as a consolation, there is one thing that does involve Pokémon in toy block form. That would be the recently-released game Pokémon Quest, which was first released on the Switch before also being released on mobile platforms. In it, Pokémon appear in block form as if they were made out of toy blocks. I have not played this game yet due to other time-consuming matters, and further details about this game are best saved for a separate post, but it's helpful to know that this is pretty much the closest official thing that involves toy blocks and Pokémon.

Whether or not Pokémon will end up having more stuff in toy block form, even something as official as a featured toy block set of the particular kind I saw, is an open question. The new Quest game may provide an incentive, but that's not a sure thing. What is sure is that the idea of combining Pokémon with toy blocks is a neat idea (though not novel) that has been realized in various forms. The only thing that remains is to take things to the next level.

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