Lego NES Set Officially Revealed, Coming Soon

The Lego Group has confirmed a Lego NES Set coming on August 1. A TV piece has a mechanism that scrolls through a stage, letting you play as Mario "running" through World 1-1 of the original Super Mario Bros. The Lego figure from the Mario Starter Sets can also watch the on-screen action and react.

The 2,646-piece set comes with a miniature NES, controller, game cart, and CRT TV--all built with Lego bricks. The TV has a crank that scrolls Mario through a stage, and a miniature 8-bit style Mario can be manipulated to "jump" through the stages. It's all a pretty ingenious little way of nodding to the classic Mario games.

The set had leaked before its official unveiling, through fan sites like VJGamer and StoneWars (via Wario64). Shortly after, an official teaser with a silhouetted shape of the Lego set appeared to confirm the leaked photos.

The set costs $230 and arrives on August 1 exclusively at the Lego Store. Though it's not available to pre-order just yet, we imagine it will be up for grabs ahead of its imminent release date. The Lego NES will be sold at other retailers starting in 2021.

That's also the release date for the Lego Super Mario sets, which consists of one starter course ($60) and 10 expansions that range from $20 to $100. There are also blind-box characters for $5 apiece, and Power-Up packs with suits like Fire Flower Mario or Propeller Mario for $10 apiece. At more than $200, the NES set is easily the most expensive set of Nintendo's partnership with Lego.

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