Pokémon Pokopia’s Adorable New Figure Set Lets Fans Build Their Own Real-Life Pokémon Town
Image by Charlotte DavisTakara Tomy has revealed a new Pokémon Pokopia playset that turns the Nintendo Switch 2 game’s town-building mechanics into a customizable physical environment filled with familiar locations, terrain, and accessories.
The “Let’s Build! Everyone’s Town” set is being released alongside a new collection of MONCOLLE figures based on several of the unusual Pokémon forms and characters created specifically for the game.
Pokémon Pokopia launched for Nintendo Switch 2 in March 2026 as the franchise’s first life simulation game, placing players in control of a Ditto that has transformed into a human and awakened in a largely deserted world.
Instead of focusing on traditional Pokémon battles, the game revolves around gathering materials, crafting furniture, growing plants, and gradually rebuilding the environment into towns where more Pokémon can live.
Ditto can also learn moves from the Pokémon it meets and use those abilities to interact with the environment, including growing plants with Bulbasaur’s Leafage, watering crops with Squirtle’s Water Gun and transforming into Pokémon capable of reaching otherwise inaccessible areas.
The new playset recreates that focus on building and customization through an environment made from different terrain sections representing grasslands, rocky areas, cliffs, beaches and the ocean.
A Pokémon Center, crafting table and Berry trees can be positioned around the town alongside smaller pieces including wooden tables and chairs, beach chairs, stairs and fences.
Square slots across the main play area can be filled with interchangeable graphic tiles, allowing different parts of the environment to become grassy areas, flower fields or farmland depending on how you choose to arrange them.
Included tiles depict grass, flowers, tomatoes and wheat, while the set also comes with three Pinap Berries, two grass tiles and two flower tiles among its smaller accessories.
The modular approach closely follows Pokopia’s core loop of gradually turning undeveloped land into a functioning Pokémon community, while allowing the physical town to be repeatedly rearranged rather than limiting it to a single fixed layout.
A Ditto figure transformed into a human and wearing a rounded hat is included with the playset, meaning there is already a character to place within the town without needing to purchase any of the separate MONCOLLE releases.
Existing MONCOLLE figures can also be added throughout the environment, allowing the population to include other Pokémon beyond the new Pokopia-specific collection.
Takara Tomy is launching four dedicated Pokémon Pokopia MONCOLLE figures alongside the set, with each standing approximately 4 cm tall and designed to fit naturally into the town environment.
The new “Ditto (Human Form with Cap)” figure recreates the game’s protagonist after transforming into a human, complete with the unusual rounded appearance, simple features and cap seen throughout the adventure.
“Pikachu (Pale)” recreates the strange Pikachu known as Peakychu in the English version of the game, replacing the character’s familiar bright yellow appearance with much paler fur and noticeably drooping ears.
“Ditto (Dragonite Form)” features Ditto after copying Dragonite and combines the Pokémon’s familiar body shape with Ditto’s unmistakable expression, representing one of the transformations the protagonist can use to travel through the world.
“Professor Tangrowth” rounds out the opening wave with another design created specifically for Pokémon Pokopia, featuring sections of white coloring and the unusual human-made-looking object worn around its head.
The Pokémon Pokopia MONCOLLE range will expand again shortly after launch, with Ditto (Lapras Form) and Mosslax already confirmed as the next two additions.
“Ditto (Lapras Form)” follows the same idea as its Dragonite counterpart by combining Lapras’ body with Ditto’s recognizable face, reflecting another transformation used to explore Pokopia.
“Mosslax” recreates the unusual Snorlax covered in moss and plant growth that players encounter during the game, turning another of Pokopia’s game-specific Pokémon variants into a physical figure.
The “Let’s Build! Everyone’s Town” playset is priced at ¥4,950 (approx. $31 USD / £23 GBP).
The Ditto (Human Form with Cap), Pikachu (Pale), Ditto (Dragonite Form) and Professor Tangrowth MONCOLLE figures are each priced at ¥715 (approx. $4.50 USD / £3.30 GBP), with Ditto (Lapras Form) and Mosslax set to carry the same price when they are released in October.
The playset and first four MONCOLLE figures are scheduled to launch through physical hobby goods retailers in Japan, as well as through online specialist retailers such as HobbyLink Japan, on August 29, 2026.
Ditto (Lapras Form) and Mosslax will follow on October 1, 2026.
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