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Nintendo x Lego collab


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I need to see how creative they get with the sets, the fun for me with Lego is building, not displaying (don't really have the space for it anyway, so I'll keep future bigger sets to a minimum). @Vileplume2000 mentioned a recreation of 1-1, which I also immediately thought of. Which at first glance, as Mario and Lego nerds, sounds cool, but if you think about it, that's just fucking boring to build (plus something you can almost do with basic Lego, no need for a set). The problem is Mario has barely any iconic buildings, they're all platform levels, and especially in the 2D games, they're visually not that super interesting, or at least not interesting to serve as a basis for a Lego set. I think most ideas for sets will come from the 3D games.

I think the flagship set for this series will be Peach's castle, which I'd love to build, but probably don't want to display haha. I can also see them doing some retro throwback to 1-1, but definitely not a flat one-one-one recreation, just a small "3D" set inspired by those looks, with unique Goomba figures and obviously question mark stickers. I could maybe see a generic mushroom village, and a Bowser's castle. The last one they'd have to design themselves, where surprisingly it's probably the Mario Kart games where you can get the best look at a full Bowser castle, and would also be easy to do as they have plenty of existing castle blocks to use. Just a grey castle with lava bits thrown in, an Thwomps as exclusive figures, apart from ario and Bowser and Peach of course.

That said, if the tweet is a real indication, I'm not going to like the look of a Mario minifigure. Luckily I can stick ot my Nendoroids.

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They've always seemed so reluctant to work with Lego in the past.  When ideas have gone through Lego Cuusoo/Ideas in the past they've always been closed down because of a pre-existing relationship with Knex.

I don't think we'll get much though.  Maybe just a couple of Super Mario sets rather than an entire series.

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Interesting idea and a neat way to tie it into the franchise, but isn't the fun of lego to be able to experiment? This seems rather prescribed, but it is just one video for now with no specific details.

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7 minutes ago, Sméagol said:

Haha. I wasnt to build something. But I suspect this will be a special dedicated set, and we'll still get the Peach's Castle for the builders.

This isn't a single set.  This is likely the combining of all the sets they're producing.

Bit gutted there's no minifigures.  But maybe next time.

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12 minutes ago, will' said:

It looks like they've managed to take two of my favourite things, Mario and Lego, and make something that looks nothing like neither.

From the presser:

"Neither a video game nor a traditional LEGO brick-based set"

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Yeah, I would've much preferred something more like a traditional Lego set than this "prescribed" set with a single expected "solution".

 

The fun of Lego is in building something of your own; not really in following instructions to just build a given set.

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So after seeing it, I’m a bit torn now. Like most I wanted some traditional sets based on Peach’s castle, Bowser’s castle, scenes or sets of characters. This is a cool idea and I really like that they have tried something that ties into the games, but depending on how they are I don’t know if I’ll be buying so much now. I just want a huge Peach’s castle just like the Disney castle set. 

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