LEGO Group Unveils LEGO Edition of Classic Nintendo Entertainment System

The LEGO Group has announced a LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Building Kit for adults, letting grown-up fans create their own NES console with LEGO bricks.

The new kit, the latest product of the LEGO Group and Nintendo partnership, offers a brick-built NES model packed with realistic details, including the accompanying 1980’s style LEGO television set, so nostalgic gamers and LEGO fans can recreate their favourite Super Mario Bros childhood experiences.

The new NES Building Kit includes a controller with a connecting cable and plug and even an opening slot for the Game Pak with a locking feature. The console also comes with a buildable retro TV, featuring a flat 8-bit Mario figure on the scrolling screen.

Fans can scan an included action brick with LEGO Mario from the LEGO Super Mario Starter Course, so he reacts to on-screen enemies, obstacles and power-ups just as he would have in the iconic Super Mario Bros. game.

Maarten Simons, Creative Lead on LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System at the LEGO Group says Super Mario has been a cherished figure in the gaming world for over thirty years.

Simon says many adults still fondly remember the first time they saw Mario leap across the small screen, even if the graphics were a lot simpler than they are today.

“With the LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System, we’re letting them truly indulge in that nostalgia, recreating one of the most-loved consoles of all time so they can see the Super Mario from their childhoods once again – and even to share the experience of gaming in the 1980s with their own children.”

The LEGO Group and Nintendo announced their partnership earlier this year, bringing a fun-packed LEGO Super Mario universe to life through a Super Mario Starter Course set that exclusively features a LEGO Mario figure who displays a wide variety of instant reactions to movement, colour and various action bricks.

This entry point set was followed up on in May with a series of Power-Up Packs and in June with the announcement of a range of Expansion Sets and collectible Character Packs.

This collectible NES building set is part of a range of inspirational LEGO models. It will be available exclusively at the LEGO Certified Stores nationwide or online at greatyellowbrick.co.za from 1 September 2020 at a R3,799.99. From 2021 it will also be available at other leading retailers.

The full LEGO Super Mario product line also launches at the beginning of September and will be available directly from LEGO Certified Stores and at greatyellowbrick.co.za as well as at leading retailers.