Nike and LEGO team up on grade-school Air Max 95 Lucky Green pair

Nike and LEGO have turned the Air Max 95 into a kid-first collector’s piece. The new Lucky Green pair is a grade-school-exclusive release that trades the runner’s familiar layered body for brick-like paneling, LEGO dot details and a crisp square logo hit on the tongue, with a palette of Lucky Green, Black, Green Strike and Metallic Silver that gives the shoe a toy-box brightness without losing its streetwear edge.

That is the point of the collaboration: build desire early. Nike and the LEGO Group describe the partnership as a global, multi-year project aimed at empowering kids through active and creative play, and the Air Max 95 has become the cleanest expression of that idea. The silhouette is familiar enough to register instantly with sneakerheads, but the LEGO treatment makes it feel playful and collectible, a crossover that looks designed to move between playground energy and parent-approved nostalgia.

The new pair follows the first Nike Air Max 95 x LEGO collection, which launched worldwide on March 28, 2026, on the heels of Air Max Day. That drop landed across Nike.com, LEGO.com, select Nike stores and retail partners, with preschool sizing from 10.5C to 3Y and grade school sizing from 3.5Y to 7Y. LEGO also tied the release to a matching Air Max 95 x LEGO set, product number 43025, built from 1,213 pieces and aimed at ages 12 and up, a neat extension of the same crossover story in two different formats.

Nike and LEGO first announced their partnership in August 2024, then expanded it again in August 2025 with new co-created LEGO sets and apparel and footwear. That timeline matters because it shows how deliberate this has become. This is not a one-off novelty drop; it reads more like a loyalty pipeline, with LEGO’s building-block language and Nike’s legacy sneaker archive working together to make the next generation feel attached to both brands before they age into bigger sizes and fuller wardrobes.

The result is a sneaker that understands the current streetwear mood: familiar enough to chase, playful enough to share, and specific enough to matter. By turning one of Nike’s most recognizable runners into a grade-school-only proposition, Nike and LEGO have made the Air Max 95 feel less like a rerun and more like an entry point.