"Smart Play revolves around Lego's patented sensor- and tech-packed brick. It's the same size as a standard 2x4 Lego brick, but it is capable of connecting to compatible Smart Minifigures and Smart Tags and interacting with then in real time. By pairing these components, kids big and small can create context-appropriate sounds and light effects as they play with the Danish company's toys."
"For example, launching on March 1, the $100 Lego Star Wars Smart Play Luke's Red Five X-Wing 584-piece building set will feature two Smart Minifigs-Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia-plus five Smart Tags that will offer up laser-shooting sounds, engine sounds, and light effects, as well as refueling and repair sounds. All of the sounds are coordinated by the set's central Smart Brick brain."
"One is a 473-piece Darth Vader's TIE Fighter kit ($70) with ion engine sound effects, but the pick of the three could well be the $160, 962-piece Throne Room Duel set with three Smart Minifigures of Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, and Luke Skywalker. The combination of the brick brain plus connected figures will apparently let players recreate (or indeed rewrite) the final lightsaber battle-complete with humming laser sword sounds-between Luke and Vader at the end of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi."
Lego unveiled Smart Play, a platform centered on a patented sensor- and tech-packed Smart Brick the same size as a 2x4 Lego brick. The Smart Brick connects to Smart Minifigures and Smart Tags and interacts with them in real time to produce context-appropriate sounds and light effects without screens. Initial Star Wars Smart Play sets launch March 1, including Luke's Red Five X-Wing, Darth Vader's TIE Fighter, and the Throne Room Duel, with prices and preorder dates announced. Lego claims the platform includes more than 20 patented world-firsts developed with in-house teams and Cambridge Consultants.
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