Lego One Piece Sets Sail on Netflix Before Season 3

So, Netflix is making it very clear they want to be the home of all things One Piece. If you keep up with global pop culture at all, you already know the anime has been running since 1999 and has more episodes than I have socks—seriously, it just keeps going. And now Netflix isn’t just sitting back with their live-action version; they’re going full throttle on a bunch of new projects, the weirdest (and probably funniest) being Lego One Piece.

Lego, Pirates, and Telling Tall Tales

Here’s the deal: Before the live-action show comes back for its season 3 (“The Battle of Alabasta”) in 2027, Netflix is dropping a two-part Lego special on September 29, 2026. This isn’t just a money-grabby spinoff (well, not only that)—it’s a retelling of the first two seasons of the live-action series, but filtered through the extremely unreliable narration of Usopp. And, honestly, if you know anything about Usopp, you know his idea of “truth” is... flexible at best.

He’ll be recounting the Straw Hat crew’s adventures to Tony Tony Chopper, the series’ adorable, gullible reindeer-doctor who joined the live-action crew in season 2’s last episodes. Basically, the whole thing is set up so Usopp can exaggerate whatever he wants to someone who’ll pretty much believe anything. Perfect combo for a Lego show, really.

“Lego One Piece will bring the live-action story to life from Usopp’s point of view—meaning anything goes.”

If you’ve seen any Lego specials before, you know what to expect: the story you more or less remember, but dialed up to ridiculous, with brick jokes and slapstick everywhere. One Piece is already over the top, so at this point, we’re reaching new levels of cartoon logic. Also, apparently there are already physical Lego sets tied in with the live-action show, which makes this feel even more like a “let’s cover every base” moment for the brand managers.

Who’s Actually Making This?

• The LEGO Group (obviously—that part would be weird if they weren’t involved)
• Shueisha (the Japanese publisher with the license to the manga)
• Tomorrow Studios (who do the live-action Netflix version)
• Atomic Cartoons (they handle the animation)
• Tom Hyndman is running the show as showrunner
• Manga creator Eiichiro Oda is executive producing—so there’s at least some level of official approval here

But Wait, There’s...More Anime?

Just in case this didn’t sound like enough, Netflix is also working with Shueisha, Toei Animation, Fuji TV, and Wit Studio (yes, it takes this many companies to move a pirate ship) to create The One Piece, an all-new anime. This one’s supposed to adapt the full manga—start to finish—using modern animation techniques. The pitch is that it’ll stick closer to Oda’s manga than the original anime did, which is kind of wild considering the first anime is already over a thousand episodes deep and still nowhere near the manga’s end.

No release date yet for this new anime adventure. Look, by the time they’re done, there could be two giant anime series, with thousands of episodes each, telling almost the exact same story—just in two different animation styles. And who knows, maybe a whole string of Lego versions, too. If you’re a One Piece completist, get ready to basically spend your free time until retirement just keeping up.