Nintendo has teamed up with Lego once again to create eight new Super Mario-themed character packs.
As the Lego blog sums up when the Lego Con 2022 ended, “two Lego Super Mario designers, Alice and Didier, ran against a 90-second clock to find the eight new Lego Super Mario characters in the character packs. of series 5..
After searching among piles of Lego bricks, the couple finally revealed a red Yoshi, a purple toad, a shy blue guy, a Waddlewing and more. We also saw Nabbit, Hammer Bro, Toady and Baby Yoshi.
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Each package contains a “mysterious buildable character with an action tag”, as well as a small construction to use as a display stand or “to improve level play”, all designed to be used with a set of introductory courses. Suitable for ages six and up, they will be launched in August and will retail for £ 5.
“Lego Super Mario toy games of unlimited possibilities bring Super Mario characters into the real world. Starter courses and expansion sets allow builders to expand, rebuild and create unique levels,” says Lego.
This is far from Lego’s first collaboration with Nintendo, of course; follows a year of Super Mario interactive toy releases featuring a complex and innovative folding set of Super Mario 64 and three new Luigi Mansion-themed Lego sets announced last year: Lab and Poltergust, Haunt-and-Seek and Entryway.
In other Lego news: We already knew that Lego Brawls, a mini-figure fighting game previously released in Apple Arcade, was due to be relaunched this summer on consoles and now we have a release date: September 2, 2022.
Published by Bandai Namco, the fighter will arrive on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S where the Smash Bros-like brawler will make “the chaos of the minifigures begin”.