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Pokémon keyword and description preparation - Jeff Jones - 2025-06-17

this would make no sense as the theme would not release for a year in advance (am i using that right?)
we dont know what the sets are going to be (minifig playsets with molded pokemon?, buildable pokemon?, statues?) 
side tangent over
if you have been living under a rock (or under geodude?) there will be lego pokemon sets releasing in 2026
before that mega had the license along with other companies.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/pokemon/about

with that said here is my description and keywords for a hypothetical molded pikachu if it goes that route


Code:
0 Animal Mouse with Pointy Ears and Zigzag Tail
0 !KEYWORDS Pokemon, Pokémon, Generation 1, Gen 1, Set ?????, Rebrickable ?????, Bricklink ????, Pikachu, Electric Type
on second thought we would probably go with Animal Pikachu 
on an another second thought since pokemon is also the name of the species (genus?, kindgom?, domain?) in the game, Animal Pokémon Pikachu would be better
as with all other nintendo themes (mario, zelda, animal crossing) it would recieve A ?????pxNN
revised example
Code:
0 Animal Pokémon Marill with Black Tail, White Stomach and Red Ears Pattern
0 !KEYWORDS Pokemon, Generation 2, Gen 2, Set ?????,
0 !KEYWORDS Rebrickable ?????, Bricklink ????, Pikablu, Water/Fairy Type
what are your thoughts and maybe betters ideas? Wink

RE: Pokémon keyword and description preparation - Chris Böhnke - 2025-06-18

Given how often the in-game "species" words are duplicate and/or barely make sense, I'd rather not bother with them. If you insist, stuff like "Mouse-Pokémon", "Shellfish-Pokémon" etc. can optionally be placed in the keywords (same for type, generation, region, index or whatever)...

"<Head, Modified|Animal|Creature> Pokemon <name>" would likely be enough.

Still a bit too early anyways to speculate (for what we know, it could just be a bunch of Brickheadz Rolleyes ).
If number of molded pieces is low enough, simple and short is usually best.

And the "é"/"e" distinction is likely ignored by the server anyways.