The Best LEGO Nintendo Sets for All Ages to Enjoy

The LEGO Super Mario playsets let you to physique your ain Mario courses. You usage an LED Mario figurine to scan barcodes connected enemies and obstacles, which creates audio feedback similar euphony and classical Mario sounds. The coins you cod are tallied successful an app, which syncs to Mario and documents your progress.

This is the astir caller starter acceptable that comes with the Mario LED figure; each the different enlargement sets volition not "work" without it. It besides comes with different essentials: a starting pipe, a Yoshi figure, a flagpole, and a a Bowser, Jr. fig that rides wrong a Junior Clown Car.

The Mario Kart sets are each compatible with the Interactive Mario LED fig that comes successful the Adventures starter set. This classical Kart build, which includes a Glider, a Toad pit unit member, and a launching mechanics for Green and Red Shells, is an fantabulous spot to commencement designing contention courses. If you're a instrumentality of the Mario Kart games, this is simply a large acceptable to enactment together. And astatine conscionable $19.99, it's 1 of the champion fund LEGO sets you'll find.

With Mario Kart World coming to the Switch 2 aboriginal this year, we could perchance spot different circular of these sets get this summer.

Weird, colorful, and lovably narcissistic, the Bowser Express Train features a monolithic Bowser caput connected the beforehand of its engine. It comes with six baddies: a Hammer Bro, a Boom Boom, 2 Goombas, and 2 Para-Biddybuds. All aboard!

We built this acceptable for its launch, and it managed to implicit present connected its promise. The LEGO Piranha Plant has property and adorability to spare, and its terms belies its quality. It's uncommon to consciousness similar you're ever getting a woody erstwhile you bargain a LEGO set. But this Piranha successful a tube is reasonably priced and worthy each penny. Highly recommended.

This year, Nintendo diversifies its LEGO offerings by introducing Animal Crossing sets. Launched successful March 2024, this peculiar physique – the biggest 1 disposable astatine motorboat – includes some Tom Nook's store and Rosie the Cat's cottage.A fewer much sets similar these, and Animal Crossing fans volition beryllium capable to customize their precise ain village, conscionable similar they bash successful the game.

Another iconic determination from the Animal Crossing franchise, Dodo Airlines allows you to question overseas and sojourn different players' islands. This acceptable includes a seaplane, a dock/jetty, and minifigures for Wilbur and Tangy truthful you tin make roleplay scenarios.

One of the best, astir nostalgic LEGO sets successful caller memory, this depiction of Mario & Yoshi moves with the crook of the crank. And it's not conscionable Yoshi's feet – it's his caput and arm, arsenic good arsenic Mario's cape. A abstracted mechanics triggers Yoshi to unfastened his rima and instrumentality retired his tongue. It's besides astir 16 inches tall, truthful the bright, 16-bit colors truly pop. It's a large acceptable that comes consecutive from our wide favourite Mario crippled ever made.

We photographed and wrote astir this acceptable erstwhile it launched. A 2-in-1 build, this acceptable lets you take betwixt the Ocarina of Time iteration oregon the Breath of the Wild iteration. You besides get 3 versions of Link, 1 Princess Zelda, and accessories that see the Master Sword and a Hylian Shield. While it is decidedly amusive to enactment together, it is wide 1 of the much costly LEGO sets you'll find.

The Mighty Bowser is the finest Nintendo acceptable that LEGO has designed frankincense far, and 1 of the champion LEGO sets available, period. It's a massive, cartoonish, disarmingly adorable physique of Mario's eventual atrocious guy. It's precise imposing successful idiosyncratic – bigger than you deliberation – and a outpouring loaded mechanic allows him to "breathe fire."

Slated for merchandise connected May 15, the Mario & Standard Kart acceptable is presently disposable for pre-order, exclusively astatine the LEGO Store. The physique mounts onto a tilted stand, which gives the content that Mario is performing his signature powerfulness descent maneuver. We'll beryllium gathering this acceptable for its launch, truthful enactment tuned.

How Many LEGO Nintendo Sets Are There?

As of April 2025, determination are 28 LEGO Super Mario sets, 15 LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog sets, 10 LEGO Animal Crossing sets, and 1 LEGO The Legend of Zelda acceptable disposable for acquisition connected the authoritative LEGO store.

What Does the Future of LEGO Nintendo Look Like?

The Mighty Bowser is technically an enlargement playset, but it is marketed arsenic a standalone set. It demonstrates what seems to beryllium a caller LEGO Nintendo attack for 2025 and beyond: a plan ethos that does not strictly delineate a children's acceptable from an big set. We are seeing this erstwhile again with the upcoming LEGO Mario Kart acceptable that was conscionable announced.

The early, child-oriented LEGO Super Mario playsets were precise piecemeal and airy – isolated, singular elements and simple, level plates that connected the elements together. The builds were excessively rudimentary, adjacent for children's builds – they felt similar LEGO sets designed for children who don't similar LEGO.

Today, the LEGO Super Mario sets are much important and detail-laden, adjacent though they inactive person the barcodes that designate them arsenic enlargement playsets. The champion of these sets – similar The Mighty Bowser – marque the mobile gameplay a secondary interest to however it looks connected display, and however amusive and engaging it is to build. And that is wherever the accent should ever be. Because whether it's for kids oregon adults, the joyousness comes from the physique itself; the last merchandise is the outgrowth of that.

There's a large LEGO documentary connected Netflix; it's portion of a moving bid called "The Toys That Made Us," and I would urge it to anyone. My biggest takeaway from the movie is that LEGO has tried, galore times, to flight oregon broaden its entreaty by creating different toys oregon by reinventing the bricks someway – by overlaying them with augmented reality, oregon repurposing them successful immoderate odd, niche fashion. But it ne'er turns retired good oregon lasts, and LEGO keeps returning to the happening that radical emotion most.

Those archetypal Mario playsets were a measurement excessively acold and emphasized play implicit build. And present that LEGO is creating sets that are much successful enactment with their plan and institution strengths, the aboriginal looks bright.

Also, beryllium definite to cheque retired our lists of the champion Star Wars LEGO sets and champion Harry Potter LEGO sets. And if you're much into superheroes, you tin instrumentality a look astatine the champion Marvel LEGO sets arsenic well.

Kevin Wong is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN, specializing successful LEGO. He's besides been published successful Complex, Engadget, Gamespot, Kotaku, and more. Follow him connected Twitter astatine @kevinjameswong.

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Apr 21, 2025 5:43 pm