Minifigure-scale LEGO Super Mario sets revealed!

Bowser Jr looks..... off.

Those new Mario sets looks greats, but this is *a lot* of new molds... I prefer the new minifigures over the blocky electronics ones, but for now, I think I prefer brick-built Bowser and Goomba over these new molded ones : same size but more Lego-like.
Having bought the previous Mario kart set, I can't help but feel a bit ripped off by the new minifig-scale one...
No new barcode tiles, but at least if you have them, you can put them back in these new builds to add a little more electronic magic. My electronic Mario would love to battle this minuscule Bowser. ;)

Lack of print on legs on Brothers just looks cheap.
Shame because sets look fun

Also its hilarious thats fake bowser figs look better than official one

These look like proper Lego sets for everybody. Very good first wave!

After the brick built ones,
Moulded minifig parts look a little odd.

Especially for the likes of Bowser and Yoshi

Oh my god these sets are just absolutely sublime, I might just collect them all!
2027 is going to be an amazing year for playsets, we're still waiting on information on Dragon Ball Z

Right now on my wishlist for future waves, all I want is Birdo and I'm happy

Finally. Would get these.

All i have to say is LET'S-A-GO! Definitely getting a few (and about time too!! Now can finally do all that same-scale Mario vs Sonic stuff as well XD). I can imagine these will sell so well at first that prices will drop pretty soon. I wonder what the polybags will be like....

@Freddy_Hodson said:
"I know, there's always "you don't have to buy them", which is perfectly true, and I won't. But does nobody else think this is just a tremendous shame? The playable Mario sets are a joy—not only equal to these in terms of colour and design, but creative, and more importantly one of the only themes remaining that is identifiably aimed as something exclusively for children to play with outside of Duplo. What do these have that those didn't? It feels to me like a victory for people who collect minifigures, and a defeat for those who prefer to play with Lego rather than just display it. You can't see big bulky Mario and minifig Mario sitting harmoniously side-by-side on a shelf, so this is almost certainly just the end for that line."

I agree - I wonder if Smart Play will be the next move for this line to merge the two ideas.

Midfig Bowser looks like some 3rd party plastic toy.

@TheBrickPal said:
"Love them! So glad we finally have sets like these; the wait was definitely worth it.

I'm also happy to see Mario Kart World represented, given the Mario Kart 8 focus before."

I like the way Nintendo went with the interqctive courses, but these are amazing.

Cant Explain it, but Yoshi looks like a Bootleg :(

@ao_ka said:
"Crazy that we could have gotten this six years ago already but instead they insisted with the proto-Smart Play monstrosity. And how people tried so hard to justify it with things like "this is because it is based on a game series and it needs to be a game in a way!!""

Blame Shiggy.

72052 is just the perfect set, it is everything we wanted from this theme.

@Crux said:
"Love it. No notes.

Okay, one note: I don't see any note-blocks. So, no notes.

I will be buying a lot of these, and I appreciate that we are now one step closer to a Smash Bros CMF."

Nintendo CMF!

Looks good it but it does look like its fake LEGO. Definitely will be getting some of these. YAY Cow!

Well, now I know what my 2027 LEGO budget is going towards.

Yay! No SMART Play!!

3 sets with only Mario seems like a waste of slots. But of course it's because as always we must gatekeep characters throughout the more expensive sets. Yoshi sadly looks awful. 4+ sets always a shame.

Look at 72052 and tell me with a straight face that price per piece is a universally perfect metric. (It's not.)

Cool! The figs look great. I want that pipe piece.

@stefwaffles said:
"I find it surprising how similar several of these are to the interactive ones, many of which were well designed with great brick built characters, despite most afols scoffing at them.

I think these new ones look good overall, but it does feel a bit like someone put the interactive sets through a minifig filter and these popped out "

The game sets were very well designed for what they were, but they don’t really help me with my years-long goal to actually build a Mario Kart track that I can fit into one of my club’s displays.

I like the Mario/Luigi/Peach minifigs, but the brick-built enemies have always been my favorite part of the Mario sets, and it looks like we might be done with that.

Yep! Love this. Love the price points!

Very good sets, I really like those
But the minifigures... yakes... I still don't understand why people are so adamant in wanting minifigs for everything, and sorry not sorry but it's just a dumb mentality, not every Lego theme needs minifigs and the new Mario line is a proof
For me, the figs looks like knockoff, if I saw images of the figures online (without the sets) I would have thougth that they were fake

@Freddy_Hodson said:
"I know, there's always "you don't have to buy them", which is perfectly true, and I won't. But does nobody else think this is just a tremendous shame? The playable Mario sets are a joy—not only equal to these in terms of colour and design, but creative, and more importantly one of the only themes remaining that is identifiably aimed as something exclusively for children to play with outside of Duplo. What do these have that those didn't? It feels to me like a victory for people who collect minifigures, and a defeat for those who prefer to play with Lego rather than just display it. You can't see big bulky Mario and minifig Mario sitting harmoniously side-by-side on a shelf, so this is almost certainly just the end for that line."
This is exactly how I feel. These are just scaled-down versions of what they've already done. The karts are at the same size and almost equivalent build to City karts and cars, though I love the MK9 cow build. If you swapped out Mario characters for Sonic, some of these sets would fit just as well in that theme. I said this when Mario was first released: standard Lego themes increasingly seem interchangeable except for the licensed minifigures, and Mario was not like that at all. Now it is.

Let the rave begin! Especially for Bowser character! And I double on the "Shockingly well priced" comment above!

@Freddy_Hodson said:
"I know, there's always "you don't have to buy them", which is perfectly true, and I won't. But does nobody else think this is just a tremendous shame? The playable Mario sets are a joy—not only equal to these in terms of colour and design, but creative, and more importantly one of the only themes remaining that is identifiably aimed as something exclusively for children to play with outside of Duplo. What do these have that those didn't? It feels to me like a victory for people who collect minifigures, and a defeat for those who prefer to play with Lego rather than just display it. You can't see big bulky Mario and minifig Mario sitting harmoniously side-by-side on a shelf, so this is almost certainly just the end for that line."

I assume LEGO makes these decisions based on a multitude of factors, and I imagine one of the biggest ones here was that the course-builder subtheme was fun, but there weren't enough fresh ideas to keep each set interesting, and I think they fully exhausted those during the 5 or so years those sets were on shelves.

No Kart for Peach to race in?! Darn.

I'm surprised I don't like these much given that this theme would have been a dream for me at one point. Most of the figures look very awkward except Bowser, and even he, inexcusably, has static wrists. The pipe platform piece also looks foreign to LEGO.

Also, it's a pet peeve of mine whenever a generic Mario enemy is referred to in the singular like an individual defined character. That is not "Goomba". That is "a Goomba", one of hundreds of thousands who has no characterization beyond going squish when Mario steps on it. Mario creature names are mostly generic species names like "dog" or "cat", not individual people names unless the Mario creature has a special name and characterization. Individual characters named the same as their species like Yoshi and Toad don't help with the confusion, though.

@M_longer said:
"Midfig Bowser looks like some 3rd party plastic toy."

No. it looks worse. I seen fake bowsers that have fully modled claws, handcuffs and 4 colored shell.

These look so much better then the Mario 'game' sets. The two smallest sets are surprisingly affordable (and look the best I think).

Is that bowser (and Yoshi) fig even Lego?

If they go that far off the lego look, they could go all in and create some collectible plastic figs toys that don't have to bother with things like studs compatibility ...

@8BrickMario said:
"I'm surprised I don't like these much given that this theme would have been a dream for me at one point. Most of the figures look very awkward except Bowser, and even he, inexcusably, has static wrists. The pipe platform piece also looks foreign to LEGO.

Also, it's a pet peeve of mine whenever a generic Mario enemy is referred to in the singular like an individual defined character. That is not "Goomba". That is "a Goomba", one of hundreds of thousands who has no characterization beyond going squish when Mario steps on it. Mario creature names are mostly generic species names like "dog" or "cat", not individual people names unless the Mario creature has a special name and characterization. Individual characters named the same as their species like Yoshi and Toad don't help with the confusion, though."

It's also funny that "Yoshi" is an extremely common name, so it's the equivalent of having a species called "Steve."

I wish I could get the one with Yoshi and Mario, but the price is too steep. I think I'll settle for the smallest set with Mario.

@bondre said:
" @Freddy_Hodson said:
"I know, there's always "you don't have to buy them", which is perfectly true, and I won't. But does nobody else think this is just a tremendous shame? The playable Mario sets are a joy—not only equal to these in terms of colour and design, but creative, and more importantly one of the only themes remaining that is identifiably aimed as something exclusively for children to play with outside of Duplo. What do these have that those didn't? It feels to me like a victory for people who collect minifigures, and a defeat for those who prefer to play with Lego rather than just display it. You can't see big bulky Mario and minifig Mario sitting harmoniously side-by-side on a shelf, so this is almost certainly just the end for that line."

I assume LEGO makes these decisions based on a multitude of factors, and I imagine one of the biggest ones here was that the course-builder subtheme was fun, but there weren't enough fresh ideas to keep each set interesting, and I think they fully exhausted those during the 5 or so years those sets were on shelves. "

They were also running out of characters to anchor the sets, and the buy-in was incredibly steep if you wanted to really be able to do much with the game. Dimensions was a less expensive game to get involved with.

Is it just me or does the gate piece in bowser's castle look 3D printed?

@8BrickMario said:
"I'm surprised I don't like these much given that this theme would have been a dream for me at one point. Most of the figures look very awkward except Bowser, and even he, inexcusably, has static wrists. The pipe platform piece also looks foreign to LEGO.

Also, it's a pet peeve of mine whenever a generic Mario enemy is referred to in the singular like an individual defined character. That is not "Goomba". That is "a Goomba", one of hundreds of thousands who has no characterization beyond going squish when Mario steps on it. Mario creature names are mostly generic species names like "dog" or "cat", not individual people names unless the Mario creature has a special name and characterization. Individual characters named the same as their species like Yoshi and Toad don't help with the confusion, though."

Look at the other images for the sets- Bowser's wrists definitely rotate.

Looks really cool. We just need Wario and Waluigi. The knockoffs have had all these characters for years now.

Bowser's horns look odd, but besides that, the figures look really nice

@PurpleDave said:
" @bondre said:
" @Freddy_Hodson said:
"I know, there's always "you don't have to buy them", which is perfectly true, and I won't. But does nobody else think this is just a tremendous shame? The playable Mario sets are a joy—not only equal to these in terms of colour and design, but creative, and more importantly one of the only themes remaining that is identifiably aimed as something exclusively for children to play with outside of Duplo. What do these have that those didn't? It feels to me like a victory for people who collect minifigures, and a defeat for those who prefer to play with Lego rather than just display it. You can't see big bulky Mario and minifig Mario sitting harmoniously side-by-side on a shelf, so this is almost certainly just the end for that line."

I assume LEGO makes these decisions based on a multitude of factors, and I imagine one of the biggest ones here was that the course-builder subtheme was fun, but there weren't enough fresh ideas to keep each set interesting, and I think they fully exhausted those during the 5 or so years those sets were on shelves. "

They were also running out of characters to anchor the sets, and the buy-in was incredibly steep if you wanted to really be able to do much with the game. Dimensions was a less expensive game to get involved with."

https://mario.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters

Still plenty of blood left in the stone.

But not Geno. You will NEVER see Geno again.

Yes

Finally! The minifigs look great!

The sets look great! I'm delighted to see Mario get minifigures although certain characters will take some getting used to in the new format. Yoshi seems to have suffered the worst. I especially appreciate the price points for the sets. I'll keep an eye out for the two cheapest sets and see if they get discounted at all. It would be fun to have Mario and Sonic racing each other. I'll wait until the polybag is revealed in case there is a cheaper way of obtaining Mario though. Hopefully we see Rosalina and the lumas in the near future! I would love to see something from Mario Galaxy, but that may not happen, especially my dream of a midi scale comet observatory.

These look great, and I certainly like the prices. Although I’m definitely tempted to spend a fortune so I can build Level 1-1 from the OG Super Mario Bros. Army building goombas and Koopa troopas will not be cheap, and then I’d still need the pipes.

I’m not a huge fan of the large molded heads, especially for Peach and Toad. I understand to an extent the Mario Bros having them because of their unique head shapes and large mustaches, but I also think regular minifigure heads or slightly modified minifigure heads would work too. I also miss the charm of the brick-built characters such as Bowser and Yoshi.

Maybe I’m just jealous as a Ninjago fan, where we can’t get major characters with molded heads with printing.

Are those new fender molds?

@560heliport said:
" @8BrickMario said:
"I'm surprised I don't like these much given that this theme would have been a dream for me at one point. Most of the figures look very awkward except Bowser, and even he, inexcusably, has static wrists. The pipe platform piece also looks foreign to LEGO.

Also, it's a pet peeve of mine whenever a generic Mario enemy is referred to in the singular like an individual defined character. That is not "Goomba". That is "a Goomba", one of hundreds of thousands who has no characterization beyond going squish when Mario steps on it. Mario creature names are mostly generic species names like "dog" or "cat", not individual people names unless the Mario creature has a special name and characterization. Individual characters named the same as their species like Yoshi and Toad don't help with the confusion, though."

Look at the other images for the sets- Bowser's wrists definitely rotate."

I still feel like the jury's out. In some images, it looks like there is no place for a wrist seam (the bracelets are even painted on, not chunky and dimensional to provide an easy cutoff for a separate hand piece), and Bowser's hands are never shown oriented horizontally--not even on his kart handlebars, which rather suggests they cannot be realistically posed on his own vehicle. Why else would they not be oriented correctly? Yet in some images, the hands do look slighty tilted and like there might be a seam. It's definitely not obvious like most bigfigs though, and I still have doubts. Maybe the arms raising up and down changes the angle of the hands.

These are great! Good molds, NO SMARTPLAY! Very reasonable prices, too.

I'll be picking up at least all the Mario Kart sets. Which, in a very cool move by Lego and Nintendo, gives you almost the entire main cast. Missing Peach and Yoshi (space is an issue, so the castle and Yoshi's house are question marks for me), but I imagine they'll be in future sets.

@Freddy_Hodson said:
"I know, there's always "you don't have to buy them", which is perfectly true, and I won't. But does nobody else think this is just a tremendous shame? The playable Mario sets are a joy—not only equal to these in terms of colour and design, but creative, and more importantly one of the only themes remaining that is identifiably aimed as something exclusively for children to play with outside of Duplo. What do these have that those didn't? It feels to me like a victory for people who collect minifigures, and a defeat for those who prefer to play with Lego rather than just display it. You can't see big bulky Mario and minifig Mario sitting harmoniously side-by-side on a shelf, so this is almost certainly just the end for that line."

The old sets will work really well with the new minifigs.

I guess I’m a little surprised there isn’t a version of Peach with the skirt shape from 71037-10 Rococo Aristocrat, because I think she’d look really cute with that one, but maybe they’re saving that for her castle set.

But they have to use normal minifigure heads for Toy Story these days?

@bondre said:
"Is it just me or does the gate piece in bowser's castle look 3D printed?"

Yeah, or molded in a speckled plastic. But these product images are typically CGI these days, so neither possibility should show up like that.

@Crux:
I said _anchor_ the sets. They’ve done Mario and Luigi (and Peach?). What other playable characters are there in the basic platformers? Starter sets have to retire, too, and when that happens you need to either have a new character lined up, or hope the previous character is desirable enough that newer customers still need to pick that one up. They got into Mario Kart, but that doesn’t really work with the game characters and the code tiles, which is why characters like Baby Mario/Luigi worked in that format…and why minifigs make just as much sense as keeping the game characters going.

@bondre said:
"Is it just me or does the gate piece in bowser's castle look 3D printed?"

I think that's just the texture the plastic is cast in. The castle gate isn't a glossy-finish mold.

@PurpleDave said:
" @bondre said:
"Is it just me or does the gate piece in bowser's castle look 3D printed?"

Yeah, or molded in a speckled plastic. But these product images are typically CGI these days, so neither possibility should show up like that.

@Crux :
I said _anchor_ the sets. They’ve done Mario and Luigi (and Peach?). What other playable characters are there in the basic platformers?"

Wario, several shades of Toad, Toadette, Nabbit, a rainbow of Yoshis, Daisy, Rosalina. Waluigi has never been playable in a platformer. Peach was playable as early as in SMB2 and has been playable many times since.

If we're also including Mario Odyssey - and nothing you proposed prohibits this - the list also includes playable versions of Goomba, Paragoomba, parts of a Goomba-picture, Bullet Bill, Banzai Bill, Cheep Cheep, three variations of Chain Chomp, the letter M, a cactus, a Moai statue, a statue of Bowser, the actual Bowser, two actual dinosaurs, Wiggler, Lakitu, the letter A, a Piranha Plant, a tank, a conifer, a sentient purse, a rock, a pole, the letter R, a manhole, a Podoboo, a fork, a Fire Piranha Plant, Dry Bones, Hammer Bro, Fire Bro, Chargin' Chuck, parts of a Mario-picture, the letter I, a slab of meat, an RC car, a taxi, a zipper, a rocket, a fist, a second rock, the letter O, a woodpecker, a third rock, and a frog.

Fun game, Mario Odyssey. Not very historically accurate, but who in their right mind would care about something like that?

This is good! With 72052 and 72060 you get most of the important characters. I don't like the sets with Yoshi or Toad so I'll wait for the second/third waves to get them as well as the rest of the baddies. 72056 could be interesting for the characters but I definitely do not like the vehicles, so I'll have to hope they'll come in some other sets later on - I'm assuming Lego will try to milk the bejesus out of these new molds.

Looks like the tube part is screw-able or at least lockable with other pieces. Could be interesting for mocs if we get them in other colours down the road (so far light green and black). Aside from that, no good new parts or recolours of interest for my mocs at this point.

These are amazing.
And honestly as good-looking as I can imagine in Lego form. I’ll be hard-pressed not to buy the lot.

seems that the Lego x Nintendo collab ticked the right boxes this time.
Also the prices don't seem too outrageous (aside from the 4+ sets, but 4+ have been notoriously more expensive for the larger pieces...) so I'm happy.

You know I’m combining Luigi with the new LEGO City Police Sets.

> @GreyMagistrate said:
> But where's Daisy?

it seems still a bit too niche for an appearance rn, unless there is a CMF line.

I'd say though 2028/29 could be the best chance, since it could line up to the third Super Mario movie, and at the end of the second one of this year Daisy was teased as the post-credit scene.

For now though I'd bet more on Rosalina getting a higher chance to be turned into minifigure first, being last year and this year the celebrations around Super Mario Galaxy Movie and the preminence of Rosalina in recent Super Mario videogames.

@GreyMagistrate said:
"But where's Daisy?"

Probably some future wave's Mario Kart set. Since she's a popular mainstay there, and there aren't many concepts for sets based on mainline Mario games which she'd be likely to appear in.

These look absolutely wonderful. Very fun to play with. Our kids (and their parents) are going to love them. Well done Lego!

@8BrickMario said:
" @bondre said:
"Is it just me or does the gate piece in bowser's castle look 3D printed?"

I think that's just the texture the plastic is cast in. The castle gate isn't a glossy-finish mold."

The design is most standard bar. Bars need to be a lot smoother than this appears to be, or there will be problems with uneven wear, and loose grips.

@Shadowcloner said:
" @GreyMagistrate said:
"But where's Daisy?"

Probably some future wave's Mario Kart set. Since she's a popular mainstay there, and there aren't many concepts for sets based on mainline Mario games which she'd be likely to appear in. "

Super Mario Wonder!

@PurpleDave said:
" @8BrickMario said:
" @bondre said:
"Is it just me or does the gate piece in bowser's castle look 3D printed?"

I think that's just the texture the plastic is cast in. The castle gate isn't a glossy-finish mold."

The design is most standard bar. Bars need to be a lot smoother than this appears to be, or there will be problems with uneven wear, and loose grips."

I have 2025 copies of the gate pieces from the Creator Haunted Mansion set last year, and the plastic is textured and matches the renders of these sets here. That's just how the piece is made. LEGO doesn't seem to have an issue with it. They've also released bar accessories with soft plastic that got scarred by minifigure hands in the past, like the classic broomstick or the pharaoh cobra staff.

There's box art for the sets now!
https://stonewars.com/news/lego-super-mario-minifigures-overview/

No mushroom power up?

Oh well. These look great. The castle is a must have.

Excellent looking sets. Great additions to the LEGO Super Smash Bros Universe.

Wonder if those shells will be used for a certain island-dwelling martial arts master. Maybe those rumors will be proven true soon.

@Bricks_Unbound said:
"Excellent looking sets. Great additions to the LEGO Super Smash Bros Universe.

Wonder if those shells will be used for a certain island-dwelling martial arts master. Maybe those rumors will be proven true soon."

The shells look to be designed to work with the current stud shooter, so they’ve got a long block sticking out of the back end.

@R0Sch said:
"Weird that nobody cares about the prices... 30 bucks for 100 pcs. or 40 bucks for 150 pcs. or 60 pcs. polybag content for 10 bucks is next level of rip-off, no matter if they finally made proper Mario minifigures."

Agreeeeed!

@zipper said:
"No mushroom power up?

Oh well. These look great. The castle is a must have."

I didn't even notice. I would've expected that.

@R0Sch said:
"Weird that nobody cares about the prices... 30 bucks for 100 pcs. or 40 bucks for 150 pcs. or 60 pcs. polybag content for 10 bucks is next level of rip-off, no matter if they finally made proper Mario minifigures."

4+ prices should always be ignored, these are pretty consistent with how Lego has been charging 4+ for years.
And The successful mandalorian speeder set proved to Lego they can charge ten dollars for a licensed polybag build with a Minifigure.

Shocked at the prices. 2 little cars for 30 bucks? Must be the Bowser effect.

Since I never ended up getting any of the Mario Kart sets that worked with the interactive figures, I'll definitely be getting 72054. Probably get 72052, too. Speaking of 72052, I'm tempted to use it's coin to make at least one additional coin for 21358.

@Aquatikelfik said:
"No new barcode tiles, but at least if you have them, you can put them back in these new builds to add a little more electronic magic. My electronic Mario would love to battle this minuscule Bowser. ;)"

"Who's the big bruiser now?"

@Rimefang said:"The beach surf themed set looks like an interesting set. Swap the Mario head for Stormtrooper head & helmet and you have a budget friendly Spa Trooper."

Make's me wonder how many copies of 72055 we'll see on Bricklink that don't have the minifig, but do have his head.

@GreyMagistrate said:"But where's Daisy?"

Yeah, I'm really hoping that she shows up, and in a reasonably-priced set.

@alfred_the_buttler said:"These look great, and I certainly like the prices. Although I’m definitely tempted to spend a fortune so I can build Level 1-1 from the OG Super Mario Bros. Army building goombas and Koopa troopas will not be cheap, and then I’d still need the pipes. "

But you could offset some of the cost of that army-building by selling off all the excess Marios you'd end up with.

@PurpleDave said:" @Bricks_Unbound said:"Excellent looking sets. Great additions to the LEGO Super Smash Bros Universe.

Wonder if those shells will be used for a certain island-dwelling martial arts master. Maybe those rumors will be proven true soon."

The shells look to be designed to work with the current stud shooter, so they’ve got a long block sticking out of the back end."

Yeah, the launchable shell piece was created for the previous Mario Kart sets.

Thank goodness

@SillyTwig said:
"Bowser Jr looks..... off."

Quite the contrary

4+.
And don't forget Trump tariff