Nintendo officially announces LEGO NES Building Kit with pricing and release date

HarveyHouston · Jul 14, 2020

LEGO sets have always been costly - the more detail in a set, the costlier. I remember getting my Bionicle 2nd gen toys back when they were being sold, and the bigger ones came close to $100. I got the larger ones on discount, fortunately.

Rival Canadian company Mega Brands' Mega Bloks are not cheap, either, albeit most of their toys are cheaper than LEGOs. Funny, I always preferred LEGO over Mega Bloks, though growing up, I had more Mega Bloks than I did LEGO bricks!

graeme122 · Jul 14, 2020

So this is what we get when 2 greedy overpricing companies come together.

I also need to buy the "Adventures with Mario Starter Course" at £50 just to get the thing to work. What a load of shite, paying £209 the whole thing should work.

Biduleman · Jul 14, 2020

For everyone complaining about the price, it's a 2600 pieces lego kit. That's the usual price for a lego set this big, it has nothing to do with the licensing or Nintendo being greedy.

Bladexdsl · Jul 14, 2020

you think this is expensive? NAH!!

StrayGuitarist · Jul 14, 2020

Very, very neat! But with 230 dollars, I could buy an Ibanez 7-string guitar, a pack of fresh strings, and have enough money left over to take my boyfriend to McDonalds.

Or buy a single LEGO set that I'd spend a day assembling, struggle to find a place to display it in my tiny living space, and do nothing but occasionally show it off to people and go "I spent 230 bucks on this thing".

Little_Anonymous_Hacker · Jul 14, 2020

Sansgaming420 said:
$230? You could buy a really good toilet for that money smh.

That would also be a waste of money. Toilets are overrated.

Deleted member 532471 · Jul 14, 2020

I Accept My Destiny Mario™

the nes mini was $100 and it actually played games that weren't make believe, and.... *gasp* even had sound effects without another accessory that costs the same price

Delerious · Jul 14, 2020

Gotta pay that sweet Nintendo premium, ya know?

Kubas_inko · Jul 14, 2020

LEGO: "Ok, the set has X number of pieces. We sell similarly sized pieces for Y amount of money."
Ninty: "Make it double and then add a half!"

Deleted User · Jul 15, 2020

One could probably buy the NES, SNES, N64, GB, GBC, GBA and DS for that collective price on Amazon, what the heck is up with Lego sets' prices

kyaputen_orima · Jul 15, 2020

Besides the rather steep price point, this LEGO set does look pretty cool.

weatMod · Jul 15, 2020

Reecey said:
let me get this right?... so you build the nes and the tv out of lego put your cartridge in the slot but you cannot actually play it, you have to wind the tv and the level plays out! I thought you could build the console and the tv and then play it like you would with the original nes with the cartridges this is stupid and expensive..

and you still have to blow into the cartridge too apparently :rolleyes:

Estriole · Jul 15, 2020

this could be epic if it's an actual NES and miniTV made out of LEGO as the CASING... and we can actually play the game... i think the hardware for playing NES is not that expensive anymore...

Nerdtendo · Jul 15, 2020

Clearly none of you guys are model builders

nine0nine · Jul 15, 2020

It's more than I am every gonna pay but for this many pieces, its a pretty average price. The statue of liberty kit was 200 bucks and its just standard green pieces. Some of the other licenced kits were over $300 for the same 2500 to 3000 pieces. Waiting for you China, do your magic.

HeartfeltDesu · Jul 15, 2020

Cool! Now I can get an NES with assembly and one game for three times the price of the actual console! Thanks Nintendo!

eyeliner · Jul 15, 2020

Brix will be shat.

Is this standalone, though? Or do you need to happily buy another set?
I wonder about the building possibilities with this thing. How much liberty do you have with this and how well it works with other sets.

ZachariasBarnham · Jul 15, 2020

Uh, yeah, that's gonna be a HARD PASS.

6adget · Jul 15, 2020

Fuck me running backwards with a pair of scissors. That shit is more than I want to pay for a cool looking thing that I would us once and then set it on a shelf. After that the only time I would even think about it would be trying to defend the amount I paid for it when a friend would say "cool! How much did you pay for it?"

Arkangelshadow · Jul 15, 2020

Hope the next one will be the N64 mini and not the lego Snes.

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