LEGO Super Mario has been a fairly decent commercial success – LEGO keeps producing sets, and anecdotally, the theme is quite popular among younger kids and families, for whom Mario is a much bigger star than Mickey Mouse. While the LEGO Super Mario theme is primarily targeted at kids, with its physical meets digital play…
Review: LEGO 71395 Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block
The LEGO Super Mario theme is quite divisive amongst LEGO and Nintendo fans, partly because it’s not a typical minifigure-centric theme, and also partly because the phygital play (a portmanteau for physical and digital) isn’t really geared towards adults or older LEGO fans, who contribute most to the online discourse, on blogs, social media or…
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is how we’ll get LEGO Mario Minifigures
This morning’s Nintendo Direct was filled with all sorts of surprises, such as the announcement of the all-star cast of the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie, and a theatrical release date – 21 December, 2022. The Super Mario Bros movie announcements begin at about 29:00 in the September 2021 Nintendo Direct. The English voice actors…
All the new LEGO Super Mario Summer 2021 sets revealed, including new multiplayer mode featuring Luigi!
Can’t get enough of LEGO Super Mario? LEGO and Nintendo have revealed all the sets from the third wave of LEGO Super Mario sets, launching on 1 August 2021 Today, the LEGO Group has announced a new unique social play experience that for the first time enables children and fans to connect LEGO® Mario™ and…
Wave 2 of LEGO Super Mario coming to you in January 2021!
Fans of LEGO Super Mario rejoice as World-2 Wave 2 of sets have been announced by LEGO, enlarging the LEGO Mushroom Kingdom in 2021! Fans can expand on the LEGO Super Mario products launched earlier this year with a whole new range of sets and Collectible Characters – all designed to help them build a…
Thoughts on the new LEGO Super Mario theme – it’s not exactly what you expected
So, this is certainly not what most people expected when LEGO teased a new Super Mario theme. LEGO’s partnership with Nintendo will see an entirely new and novel play experience born out of LEGO Super Mario. Billed as “neither a video game nor a traditional LEGO brick-based set, LEGO Super Mario™ is a new product…
