In some cases, you actually build in ‘temporary’ coverings, leaving hidden detail inside. All these and more are here, lovingly recreated. There’s elements like King Bob-omb’s summit, the tree stumps you stomp for a star, the Bowser sliding puzzle over Lava, Chain Chomp’s prison, and the poor Snowman head without a body. If you strongly remember these designs, you’ll instantly spot memorable pieces of design in this micro-format. The level dioramas of Mario 64’s first, fourth, and seventh courses are just absolutely brilliant. Here’s some of my favourite little features and Easter Eggs summarized - but not all of them, to preserve surprises… Lovely Level Dioramas And the more Lego does with Mario, the more my mind begins to race with potential gaming crossover possibilities - for the officially announced upcoming Sonic set to the ever-present promise of Zelda or another Nintendom franchise getting the Lego treatment.Īs far as this set goes, the best thing about it, of course, are the Easter Eggs that fans can enjoy when building the set and admire once it’s built. It’s one of my favourite Lego sets of the year - of recent memory, in fact. It’s subverted expectations by being made up of micro-dioramas, but it’s a fabulous build nevertheless.
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No matter how sturdy it is.Īnyway, it’s an absolutely lovely set, and while last year’s NES was cool, this feels like exactly the sort of set fans were crying out for when they were disappointed that the Lego Mario series was made up of minimalist, modular play sets. The bottom of the block is actually hollow, but this seems deliberate - it saves wasting pieces on a side you won’t see, but is also ample deterrent to stop people from holding it above their head and punching it Mario-style… which wouldn’t be wise, given the amount of moving parts there are for the mechanisms. I don’t feel like it has to be particularly tenderly handled at all, at least by Lego standards.
The block itself is a little smaller than I’d imagined, but it’s also densely-packed with stuff and totally solid. That leads to magic, though - the first time you fold the stages into the block and then unfurl them to see the mechanism you’ve built in action is a truly magical moment. It’s a fun build, though it has several steps that I thought were surprisingly complex for a licensed Lego set, even one aimed at adults. Inside the block, and folded out with a few tugs here and there, are dioramas of three iconic Super Mario 64 scenes: Bob-omb Battlefield, Cool Cool Mountain, Lethal Lava Land, and of course Peach’s Castle. If you don’t know anything about this set, here’s the lowdown: it’s a classic Mario series question mark block (which ironically didn’t appear at all in Mario 64, something the instruction booklet acknowledges), but it holds secrets. The set itself is filled with tiny references to Mario 64 - and anyone who is remotely familiar with the game will have several moments of glee as they put it together and realize what exactly it is they’re building. That photo is an easter egg of a sort, but there’s plenty more besides. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. That’s why it comes in a black box (this is how Lego now designates ‘adult’ sets, which were formerly called ‘Creator Expert’) and with a properly-bound instruction book that also includes a message from the designers and a glorious photo of them dressed in nineties clothes, playing Mario 64 on original hardware. Like the Lego NES that released last year, this is different from the digitally-augmented kid-friendly playset adventures of Lego Mario & Luigi - it is first and foremost aimed at adults. I tell you this so that you can either add credence or a pinch of salt to my verdict, depending on your inclination.Īnyway - from the moment you open up the instruction booklet, Lego knows exactly who this set is for. So on the venn diagram of people this set might be aimed at, I’m slap bang in the middle. I’m also what the community calls an ‘AFOL’ - an ‘Adult Fan of Lego’. Its level layouts are seared into my soul. I was seven years old when Super Mario 64 was released nostalgia for that game runs through my veins. Now, to be clear… I’m totally the target audience. I’m still a huge Lego nerd, and pump an alarming amount of my disposable income into sets yearly - and so that hopefully signals that it means something when I say I think the new Lego Super Mario 64 ? Block is one of the coolest sets I’ve ever built. Games, punk music, and Lego all share that honor. Of all the passions I had when I was a kid, only a handful of them have truly endured to adulthood.
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