2025 Super Mario and Animal Crossing sets revealed!

Interesting new wheels for Mario Kart...

I really hoped the Mario Kart sets would have been minifigure based and sized accordingly.

Not everyone will agree, but for once I'm actually glad Lego Mario is at a larger-than-minifig scale. The karts we've seen so far look really good, especially my beloved Biddy Buggy! The only thing it needs is a set of roller tires :P

Love Mario Kart,
But not the biggest fan of the wierd scale.
May pick up Yoshi or the Standard Kart if cheap.

Disappointing and underwhelming. Can't we just have a bunch of minifigures and some real karts, please? Or some larger scale presentation figurines with their car models? This in the most terrible way reminds me of the failed carting sets from LEGO Friends a few years ago...

As someone who has never been overly keen on the Super Mario sets, these look… not bad at all. It would have been near impossible to design accurate karts to minifigure scale. And nice to see them continuing with Animal Crossing, plenty of scope for future sets.

I really want that standard kart. I don't own any of the big Mario interactive figures but I just want that!

Weird that the Able Sisters' Clothing Shop only has one of the sisters, it seems.

These look great!

As someone who regularly uses the Yoshi Bike in Mario Kart, getting a LEGO version is a very nice surprise.

@vizzitor said:
"I really want that standard kart. I don't own any of the big Mario interactive figures but I just want that!

Weird that the Able Sisters' Clothing Shop only has one of the sisters, it seems."

It's like them only doing one of the Dodo Brothers. I wonder if they're gonna do a CMF or maybe a set with some of the "Missing" characters. Like we got Celeste, but not Blathers.

Blathers, Orville, the missing two Ables and Digby (Isabelle's brother) seem odd omissions as they'd finish "Family".

ABLE SISTERS! ABLE SISTERS! ABLE SISTERS!

FASHIONS MADE LOVINGLY BY CLAW!

No Sable, though. Seriously? Who's making all the clothes?

Overall, the AC sets are a bit of a letdown, though the minifigs are brilliant - Poppy is my standout favourite!

Animal crossing continue looking amazing

Oh cool! They finally made the Able Sisters shop--
>No Sable
I TEAR OFF MY SHIRT, FALL TO MY KNEES, AND I CRY UNTO THE HEAVENS

Seriously, that breaks my heart. We get Mabel but not Sable as well?

On the bright side, we got Celeste so with that head mold that must mean Blathers is just around the corner.

This is just making me want Fabuland to come back. :(

despite never having played the game, I believe I like AC as theme a little too much - but it has so many buildings! X)

The Mario Kart sets look cool and make you wish Mario used real minifigs once again.

Why they don’t do minifig scale sets for Mario is beyond me. Mario Kart sets would be the greatest thing ever

I get that Nintendo isn’t going to go for a Mario CMF any time soon. But having Mario Kart without Mario is weird. And, sure, you can bring across dead-eyed computer Mario, but that doesn’t really cut it. (A brick-built alternative there – and for Luigi and Peach too – would have been preferable.)

What's Sonic the Hedgehog doing in 77055?

@AverageChimaEnjoyer said:
"What's Sonic the Hedgehog doing in 77055?"

A post credits crossover building towards the Smash Ultimate Cinematic Universe

As a huge lifelong Nintendo fan, if you’d told me Lego would make sets of their properties but I wouldn’t be interested in buying most of them I would have slapped you in the face.

They'll really do everything except give us minifigs lol.

That said all of these (both Mario Kart and Animal Crossing) look pretty decent for what they are. I might pick up 72032 and try to build a brick-built Mario to drive it.

Love love love those Mario Kart sets! It was pretty clear from the teaser that they were going to be at this scale, so I’m not sure why anyone is surprised/disappointed about it now. The karts look great, love all the new wheels, and I can’t wait to get my hands on that B Dasher!

I can already hear the mario fans complaining it's not minifigure scale and that we still haven't got a mario minifigure

Did someone at lego make a blood pact to never make minifigures? It’s almost 5 years since the theme began. This is ridiculous.

The sets look good for what they are, but I think Hot Wheels just makes better MK toys all around.

@AverageChimaEnjoyer said:
"What's Sonic the Hedgehog doing in 77055?"

It's his girlfriend, Sonique. Wait, you might be too young for that.

At this rate, if we got minifigures, it could be a "careful what you wish for" scenario, because LEGO's current way of pushing every divergent art style into classic minifigure heads and standard minifig face rendering would probably not do justice to most of the Mario characters.

What's the yellow fruit on the tree in the Able Sisters shop meant to be? If anything, it looks like lemons, which have never been in the games, but are they supposed to be peaches? A pink color would be much more fitting and recognizable if so. And perfect peaches from New Leaf are more orange-gold, so it doesn't match those either.

@PurpleDave said:
"Is that a new flower?

"Simon Kent, Design Director at the LEGO Group, says: “We are beyond excited to turbo-charge our LEGO Super Mario universe with the reveal of these latest Mario Kart sets, that we know fans have been eagerly waiting for.”"

You keep saying this word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Universe?

I just want a smiley face banana peel

Remember when K'NEX made Mario Kart sets?

The idea of Lego Mario Kart sets sounds good. The execution... less interesting than I hoped.

These are so cute! The Mario Kart sets look fantastic, with great brick-built characters as usual including fun new ones like Baby Mario, Luigi, and Peach! The karts themselves look great too, taking full advantage of the enhanced scale compared to minifigures to offer a great selection of well-designed kart options.

The Animal Crossing sets are extremely cute too, though like this year's airport, the Able Sisters shop only includes one of the titular siblings! If this goes on like this we're really going to need a minifigures series or something to fill in the "gaps" being left in the cast of characters.

As I expected, people not accepting that they don't want to do minifigs. The karts look great, and not everything needs to be a minifigure. Get over it already.

@Rimefang said:
"I really hoped the Mario Kart sets would have been minifigure based and sized accordingly. "
I've seen a lot of fan-made minifigure-based Mario Kart sets and they're boring. Of course, I have no idea where I could display a full race track of these sets, but that's the eternal problem. The figure and kart builds are where the fun will be.

@Joefish said:
"Why is there no Mario in the Mario Kart set? It could be scaled for the electronic figure, but I don't see how it could sit in it."
I think the open area is at least 4x4, so I think the issue is just he may be riding high. I expect the intent is for it to work like other vehicles in the line with a tile under Mario's scanner, but we'll need more info to tell for sure.

The Mario Kart line was the PERFECT opportunity to finally include Wario and/or Waluigi figures, but do I see them anywhere? Nooooo, as USUAL the lamestream media (LEGO, Disney, whoever else I am mad at) SUPPRESSES the true Waluigi-pilled fanbase of America today.

I know I'm the weirdo here, but part of the appeal of the Super Mario line has been the lack of minifigures!

I for one, am excited to see this bizarre new brick-built minifig (with hands!) format. Fits the vibe of SM and helps it stand out!

On the one hand, I still really wish we could get the Mario characters as minifigures; but on the other hand, I admire the line's dedication to doing something unique with the property, and the karts do look like fun.

The Animal Crossing sets are adorable, albeit a bit pricey. I don't even play the game, but I love the way these sets look.

Am I the only one who likes the brick-built figures?

As a builder of models of real-life rockets and historical space stuff, 33492 in white is pretty sweet news … but as an Animal Crossing fan … YAY, POPPY!

Don't mind Mabel casually displaying a headless corpse in her shop window.

Looks fun, although I'm disappointed that there are no blue shells. How am I supposed to knock out the leader?

@8BrickMario said:
"What's the yellow fruit on the tree in the Able Sisters shop meant to be? If anything, it looks like lemons, which have never been in the games, but are they supposed to be peaches? A pink color would be much more fitting and recognizable if so. And perfect peaches from New Leaf are more orange-gold, so it doesn't match those either."

Lemons were in new leaf (also mango’s, bananas, persimmons, lychees and durian)

Say it with me folks
Not everything need to be minifig scale, and I'm very glad that Mario sets aren't
Mario characters designs won't translate at all in minifig scale/design/molds

I admit I wasn't keeping up with leaks so maybe there was something there that led people to believe these Mario Kart sets may have been minifigs, but if not.... I don't get what everyone's so loudly disappointed by. I understand wanting Mario minifigs, but it's pretty clear at this point that the Mario theme has a system and style that it's sticking with.

@Robot99 said:
"I understand why they're starting with karts, and these frankly look amazing compared to past Lego Mario offerings, but I hope they get to proper tracks at some point. I don't know how they'd pull it off, but it was always a dream of mine as a kid. Some of the tracks in this series would make for incredible sets - like Neo Bowser City, Tick Tock Clock, Waluigi Pinball, Wild Woods, or even just good ole' Rainbow Road."

To be honest, while I'm a huge fan of track design in the Mario Kart games, I'm not sure how tracks would work in Lego sets even if these karts were minifigure scale. The Lego City Stuntz sets were already huge and expensive, and those were more or less designed for one bike to go on at a time—having a full circuit, with room for karts to pass each other, might be too much to ever hope for. Maybe something like that is best left to MOCs...

Do some of you actually want Mario minifigures? Or do you simply want *a* Mario figure? We’ve seen so many characters and creatures brought to Lego form thanks to the buildable character format. If the sets were minifigure based I’m certain we wouldn’t have Wiggler, Kamek, Toadette, Dixie Kong, Lemmy, etc. etc.

Even still, I don’t think Mario minifigures would look *that* much better than buildable equivalents. While I’m sure characters like Funky Kong or Dry Bowser could be done justice as traditional figures, I think they look phenomenal the way we already have them represented, and it’s sad how many fans dismiss them based solely off the fact that they aren’t minifigures.

The vast majority of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s roster already exists in Lego form. We’re just missing a few of the humans, the Inklings and Petey Piranha if I’m not mistaken. If these sets took the turn of introducing minifigures then all of the other racers available would be rendered incompatible. Keeping the Mario sets consistent with each other is more consumer-friendly in my eyes.

Tl;dr I like that the Mario sets do their own thing and have carved their own niche in the Lego world. There’s more to building sets than the minifigures included. Minifigure based sets likely wouldn’t spoil us in character diversity as much as the already existing Mario building system does.

Truly shocking that the Mario Kart expansion to the Mario theme is designed to work with the Mario theme.

@gatorbug6 said:
"I suppose starting at $15 isn't too bad for kids weighed against other themes. However, kids are going to need at least 2 sets to really have play. And if a kid's fave is DK, you're paying twice over the Yoshi for the same perceived value: a car and a character. Minifig scale just makes more sense—smaller products mean kids can get more (and terrain sets would be far more manageable to produce). We can critique the lack of minifigs for personal preference, but here, it really hurt the line for potential and the target market."

I mean, a car for a big character and a bike for a small character would likely cost different amounts no matter what scale you were working at. If we were working with minifigure-scale the "premium" for molded character parts would likely take more of a bite out of the value of sets (just look at how much bigfigs like Hulk increase the cost of sets and you'll get a pretty decent picture of what "minifig" versions of characters like Donkey Kong or Bowser might add to the cost of sets, regardless of the scale of other characters).

And to be honest, even at minifig scale I think it'd be a serious challenge to include tracks/scenery at a decent value. As I mentioned before, the Lego City Stuntz sets are a good example of how much even a small track can cost with Lego quality levels, and tracks would have to be quite a bit bigger than that to allow for the true chaos of Mario Kart gameplay. So even if things were minifigure scale, I still think a solution like the one presented here—with flexible track barriers to imply the presence of a track but little else—might be all we'd be likely to get.