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

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After reported leaks, Nintendo made the news official today: a LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Building Kit will be released. This NES Building Kit comes complete with a controller, cables and even a cartridge slot. There's also buildable CRT TV, featuring a flat, mechanically-controlled 8-bit Mario figure on the scrolling screen. The NES kit will also be compatible with the LEGO Mario from the LEGO Super Mario Starter Course, which reacts to on-screen enemies, obstacles and power-ups similar to the classic Super Mario Bros. game. A brand-new trailer showing the kit in action was also released today:



The LEGO NES will be available exclusively from LEGO Retail Stores and LEGO.com from August 1st 2020 at $230. From 2021 it will be available also at other leading retailers around the world.

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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!
 
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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.
 

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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".
 
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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
 

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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:
 
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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...
 
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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.
 

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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.
 

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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?"
 

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