BRIO’s catalogs for 2020 have been released. As in previous years, there’s a catalog for the European market and one for the USA. As in the last few years, most (but not all) of the new items coming to the USA were released last year in Europe.

The USA catalog is included in the Ravensburger one.

The European catalog is its own release.

BRIO is expanding the SmartTech line, starting in Europe, with the Smart Tech Sound lineup. The engine and the new tunnel design is shown here on the cover. It looks like children will be able to program lights, actions, and custom sounds via a record-and-play feature. There’s also an app that will allow for additional customization.

Coming to both the US and Europe is the #33557 Streamline Train which has some lovely styling:

And the 2020 Special Edition train:

Europe will see the #33657 Lumber Truck:

And in the fall, what appears to be an update to the Tower Crane:

The #33835 Light Up Construction Crane has very realistic styling with some impressive attention to detail, though of course it depends very heavily on plastic.

The lineup suggests that 2020 is an evolutionary lineup rather than a revolutionary one, but it’s a definite improvement over the lackluster 2019.