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LEGO is teaming up with Nintendo once more for a unique toy release. As revealed by an announcement trailer, the latest collaboration involves a large "?" Block, which can be unfolded, with the contents within being a complete tribute to Super Mario 64, in full LEGO glory. It's a 2,064 piece playset that features Peach's Castle, Bob-omb Battlefield, Cool, Cool Mountain, and Lethal Lava Land, as well as 10 character minifigures such as Mario, Yoshi, Peach, and various Super Mario 64 enemies and characters. The Super Mario 64 ? Block playset will be available exclusively from LEGO on October 1st for a whopping $169.99, with a second release set for 2022 with general retailers.

 

[thehawksfuckingdead7]

$169.99 = £122 …. But it’s set to be £159.99 over here…. Yeet.

I could get myself three different games with that money lol.

 

[MarkDarkness]

Screw Nintendo.

 

[Kioku]

I'd rather pay someone to make models of the maps than blow that much on LEGOS!

 

[XDel]

Pointless, why not just play the game?

 

[sup3rgh0st]

Lego sets cost, on average, 10 cents (USD) a piece. 2064 * 10c is $206.40USD. While this set is expensive, it's perfectly in line with Lego's other sets. Regardless of your thoughts on the price of injection molded plastic pieces, there is no 'Nintendo Tax' here.
Lego has always been expensive, as are other high quality toys such as BRIO train sets. They're built to last and aren't for everyone's wallet.

 

[Chelsea_Fantasy]

$169.99 = £122 …. But it’s set to be £159.99 over here…. Yeet.

Taxes in the US are different...

 

[BraveDragonWolf]

When I saw the thumbnail for this, I immediately was thinking, "Mario 64 itself is already blocky..." Then I saw the video...

They could have done a lot better...

 

[Deleted member 194275]

The levels are easily recognizable, but I believe that will look like a mess for who never played the game.

Side note here: GBAtemp users really hate Nintendo.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Cute, but way too minimalistic. Looks like something you could do by just finding the right lego pieces and putting some stickers on them.
Hell, I could prolly do a better and bigger diorama myself with cardboard or what.

 

[BlazeMasterBM]

cringe. It's way too expensive.
I actually recently got a bootleg Lego Wario though, that was pretty cool.

 

[drazenm]

Lego and Monopoly are greatest wh0rs out of any product and franchises out there. There's literally a Lego set and Monopoly edition of EVERYTHING!

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Everyone bitching about the block being too big don't seem to realise this is going to sell 90% of its units to 30+ year old men where that block will sit on a shelf with a bunch of other random assorted media crap

 

[Arras]

That's why we have Chinese rip offs

Chinese ripoffs are cheap, but they never click together as well or have the color consistency. Lego manufacturing QA is no joke.

 

[nWo]

I thought that it was going to be like the LEGO Mario electronic series. I myself am not a LEGO fan, but the LEGO Mario... damn when I see what it was and all that, I was happy because it is really nice to have around, and because it almost looks nothing like a LEGO, so I was okay with it. When I saw this, I said, hell, it's gonna be awesome!! But seeing those sad, sad little figures.... man, what a let down. The Peach one!! what the hell....

 

[shorty_bobert]

Man everyone's life goal in this thread is to be miserable

 

[SecureBoot]

Been looking for a new fun build to put on display. Maybe Ill spend some Christmas money on this later in the year

 

[MochaMilk]

I legitimately cannot stop laughing...

 

[raxadian]

Will they ever do a Metroid one?

 

[AshuraZro]

I get the opinion of Lego being a rip off but I’m a bonafide sucker who goes in for this. The one super nitpicky thing that immediately stood out to me is that Super Mario 64 didn’t use ? Blocks. They were ! blocks.

 

[Vila_]

People keep complaining about the price even though it's fairly consistent with simiar more adult oriented sets, I doubt a kid is going to buy this let alone know what a nintendo 64 is. Lego 100% knows who it's targeting this towards and they know that mony is not an issue for most of that audience. The set is cool I guess.