Lego is releasing a new Lego Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Building Kit for adults as part of their Lego Group and Nintendo partnership. The new kit offers a brick-built NES model packed with realistic details, including the accompanying 1980’s style Lego television set, so nostalgic gamers and Lego fans can recreate their favourite Super Mario Bros. childhood experiences.
The kit will let adult fans take a trip down memory-lane by building a mechanically functional version of an all-time favourite console with Lego bricks. The new NES Building Kit will include a controller with a connecting cable and plug and even an opening slot for the Game Pak with a locking feature. The console also comes with a buildable retro TV, featuring a flat 8-bit Mario figure on the scrolling screen. Fans can scan an included action brick with Lego Mario from the Lego Super Mario Starter Course, so he reacts to on-screen enemies, obstacles and power-ups just as he would have in the iconic Super Mario Bros. game.
“Super Mario has been a cherished figure in the gaming world for over thirty years now,” said Maarten Simons, Creative Lead on Lego Nintendo Entertainment System, the Lego Group. “Many adults still fondly remember that first time they saw Mario leap across the small screen, even if the graphics were a lot simpler than they are today. With the Lego Nintendo Entertainment System, we’re letting them truly indulge in that nostalgia, recreating one of the most-loved consoles of all time so they can see the Super Mario from their childhoods once again – and even to share the experience of gaming in the 1980s with their own children.”
The Lego NES will be available exclusively at the Lego Certified Stores nationwide or online at greatyellowbrick.co.za from September 1st 2020 at a recommended retail price of R3799.99. From 2021 it will also be available at other leading retailers.
The full Lego Super Mario product line also launches at the beginning of September and will be available directly from Lego Certified Stores and at greatyellowbrick.co.za as well as at leading retailers.
Starter Course
- 71360 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Adventures with Mario Starter Course (R999.99)
Expansion sets
- 71362 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Guarded Fortress Expansion Set (R879.99)
- 71363 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Desert Pokey Expansion Set (R349.99)
- 71364 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Whomp’s Lava Trouble Expansion Set (R349.99)
- 71365 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Piranha Plant Power Slide Expansion Set (R519.99)
- 71366 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Boomer Bill Barrage Expansion Set (R519.99)
- 71367 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Mario’s House & Yoshi Expansion Set (R519.99)
- 71368 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Toad’s Treasure Hunt Expansion Set (R1199.99)
- 71369 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Bowser’s Castle Boss Battle Expansion Set (R1759.99)
- 71376 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Thwomp Drop Expansion Set (R649.99 – available only with select retailers)
- 71377 – LEGO® Super Mario™ King Boo and the Haunted Yard Expansion Set (R879.99 – available only with select retailers)
Power-up Packs
- 71370 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Fire Mario Power-Up Pack (R179.99)
- 71371 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Propeller Mario Power-Up Pack (R179.99)
- 71372 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Cat Mario Power-Up Pack (R179.99)
- 71373 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Builder Mario Power-Up Pack (R179.99)
Character Packs
- 71361 – LEGO® Super Mario™ Character Packs (R69.99)
