Super Mario Power-Up Packs revealed
Posted by Huw,
LEGO has just distributed images of four new Super Mario packs that will be released in August:
NEW LEGO Super Mario Power-Up Packs let fans level up their gameplay even further!
71370 Fire Mario Power-Up Pack
When LEGO Mario is powered up with this suit, he can gain Fire Attack power - a new way to attack enemies and collect extra coins.
71371 Propeller Mario Power-Up Pack
Propeller sounds are triggered when players dress LEGO Mario in this suit and make him ‘fly’ to try and win coins. The propeller suit allows LEGO Mario to take to the skies, making new sounds as he soars through the air and collects coins. Take LEGO Mario on an action-packed flight and turn your living room into a giant LEGO Super Mario level!
71372 Cat Mario Power-Up Pack
This suit gives LEGO Mario cat-like skills. Dress him in the special trousers and cap and he’ll start to meow and purr. Wearing this suit gives Cat Mario the special power to walk up vertical obstacles and collect coins. It’s the purr-fect way to have even more fun with the LEGO Super Mario levels.
71373 Builder Mario Power-Up Pack
When LEGO Mario is wearing this suit, players can earn digital coins by making him stomp hard on LEGO bricks in the course they have created. The more he stomps, the more coins you win! It’s a brick-bashingly brilliant way to have even more fun with the LEGO Super Mario levels.
To play with the suits, fans will need the LEGO Mario figure included in the 71360 Adventures with Mario. No batteries needed for the Power-Up Packs, just dress LEGO Mario in the suits to power up.
All Power-Up Packs will be available from 1st August 2020, RRP £8.99
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You do know that Nintendo also put up a video, right? You might wanna add that, just a heads-up.
These seem pretty pointless but I really like them. I want Luigi as well (and for these suits to fit him as well)
So it's like playing dress-up with Lego Mario?
Brick-bashing? I don't think I like the sound of that...
Real disappointing.
All the Mario sets just confuse me but I know my almost-3-year-old will play with them for hours.
I reckon Lepin could really go with this.
I wish they would've picked some more classic suits instead of propeller and cat Mario. I wonder how much influence Nintendo has in terms of what content is made?
Hm... I have mixed feelings about these. The extra interactions they offer seem great—my favorite is definitely Cat Mario, with all his meow-ing voice clips. But that one's like my least favorite as far as the appearance is concerned, simply because it's the least accurate to the actual power up in the games, which is more of a full body catsuit with a hood. The Propeller Mario suit also suffers a bit in this respect, since the helmet-style headgear from the games just turns into an undersized hat. The best looking one is Fire Mario, but even that is technically inaccurate—the actual Fire Mario has a white shirt with red overalls, not the other way around. Unfortunately, sharing the same core electronic component with the Mario face and red shirt built in limits the potential for accuracy. This could also limit the potential of future expansions—you couldn't really do an accurate Metal Mario or Invincible Mario this way, either.
The good thing is, as minor expansions to the core starter set, these are fairly cheap. As such if I enjoy the main sets well enough I could see picking up one or two of these to complement it.
These look like Nintendo microtransactions on LEGP sets. They look cool but I fear Nintendo is going to squeeze hard this license rather than make the most out of creative decisions (regular minifogures and Peach Castle ala Cinderella Castle).
I like these, wonder how do they detect which suit is on, and don't understand the price. I mean you can get an entire small city vehicle plus a minifig for that money. Even if the suits are relatively large and complex parts, I don't see that much plastic here. Maybe there's a tech element I'm not seeing.
Are these each like just 4 pieces?
I think these packs will be meh sellers in stores as I dknt think they will be as desirable as the main starter pack, but I will definitely pick one of these up to go with my pre ordered starter pack maybe even all four if I go full in on the Mario theme.
I just realized that the Cat suit is supposed to have yellow arms and that the Builder suit has it's yellows and reds swapped.
Great, now I'm not going to be able to ignore that >_>
These are literally the worst thing Lego has ever produced.
No Tenookie suit!?!?
I think these will be discount fodder like Dimensions sets or Life of George. But even worse as there isn't much to them without the base set. At least with Dimensions, we got great microscale builds, cool minifigs and IPs never done before by LEGO, and were easy to appreciate without playing the game. I have bought quite a few of them for the minifigs, and I don't own a single console that would even have been compatible. Life of George I bought very cheap for the pieces included. I used them as brick packs as the set consisted entirely of colors I actually use; as opposed to all the pastels in most brick boxes today.
These are very inaccurate. I don't know why LEGO insisted in taking the theme in this weird direction. The adult fans certainly seem disappointed, and while I don't know what kids will think of this new play system, I get the feeling that it will lose its novelty pretty fast. Children loved Ninjago but they never cared for the spinners.
@Ladondorf said:
"Children loved Ninjago but they never cared for the spinners."
I grew up with the original Ninjago sets, and the spinners were one of the biggest draws for me and many others. This with sell as well, though, because unlike the spinners, there’s not figure included, just accessories. You can’t play with it right out of the box.
Can someone please add up the cost of the sets available so far, and work out if its just cheaper to buy the most expensive switch and every mario game released for it so far. This is looking a bit like Dimensions to me. Great Idea, great individual sets but to make it work and to "complete" it costs hundreds of pounds. I will try to buy the starter at a reduced cost later on and maybe a single add-on.
As an adult LEGO/Nintendo fan, I find this just awful. I would never buy this for me or for my kids.
I really like the fire flower and builder suits, but I think it's a real shame that the actual Mario is exclusive to the starter pack. It would be nice to be able to buy just Mario, or maybe even a Mario without any of the tech included, so you could feasibly display these all next to each other at once.
@Ladondorf whatchu talking about "kids never cared for the spinners." I collected pretty much every single one during the first two years and literally cried with joy when they brought 'em back with Legacy.
@Lyichir said:
" The best looking one is Fire Mario, but even that is technically inaccurate—the actual Fire Mario has a white shirt with red overalls, not the other way around. Mario this way, either."
Fire Mario for NES was red shirt with white overalls.
I don’t think there’ll be any inbetweens with this theme; it will either absolutely go off or sit on shelves.
Meh. I’m already considering skipping the rest so I’m not sure about getting these.
While these look great, I’m really surprised they are not selling LEGO Mario in a cheaper set.
To me, for this theme to really work and reach the target audience, an intro set must be at or less than $40 USD. $60 is just too much to ask and then to have expansion sets without the Mario character to actually give them the play value is really questionable.
Will still buy the starter set, but hopefully that will be when it goes on sale for $50 or less.
I would’ve liked molded Power-Ups (or at least brick-built ones). The idea of including Builder Mario is kind of interesting but it’s a little strange since he’s not a Power-Up outfit.
@Trigger_ said:
"I would’ve liked molded Power-Ups (or at least brick-built ones). The idea of including Builder Mario is kind of interesting but it’s a little strange since he’s not a Power-Up outfit."
In the recent Super Mario Maker 2 game, it is like the other ones, as once Mario walks into the power-up he’s transformed into the Builder Mario.
@Trigger_ said:
"The idea of including Builder Mario is kind of interesting but it’s a little strange since he’s not a Power-Up outfit."
The Builder Suit is a Power-Up in Super Mario Maker 2.
EDIT: Ninja'd by MasterofLightning
I know this might make me a terrible person, but am I the only one that hopes this fails miserably?? I grew up on Nintendo and now my 7 year old boy is obsessed with Mario and Super Smash Bros. And we're both scratching our heads with this product.
Give us real mario minifigs!!!!
@MTBrickHouse said:
"I wish they would've picked some more classic suits instead of propeller and cat Mario. I wonder how much influence Nintendo has in terms of what content is made?"
I was thinking the same thing.
@jimmystang said:
"I know this might make me a terrible person, but am I the only one that hopes this fails miserably?? I grew up on Nintendo and now my 7 year old boy is obsessed with Mario and Super Smash Bros. And we're both scratching our heads with this product.
Give us real mario minifigs!!!! "
I'm kind of hoping that if it does moderately well, they'll give us normal sets. Chances are that they'll just retract the license if it fails...
I'm seeing maybe 12 parts for each of these. At best these would need to sell for around £2.99 / $3.99, then you might have a viable 'power-up' add-on here. That's assuming some IRQ code inside the suit / hat to trigger the additional functionality, unless it's something more involved than that.
The only reason I can't say I'm disappointed by this, is that it's pretty much what I expected when I heard of these $10 sets in the first place. Apart from that, I think this Supra Mayro Dross nonsense only rivals Jurassic not-Park as "most disappointing Lego theme ever". It pretty much goes like - Lego: "We got a Nintendo license!" - everyone: "Yay! Mario and Zelda minifigs!" - Lego: "Nope, let's show you this overpriced Duplo-level play system instead".
And don't say the Lego marketing department are geniuses and knows what they're doing, they don't. It's the same "geniuses" who now has to sell Hidden Side at 40% off (even around here, where lego discounts are about as rare as chicken teeth) - everyone told them on first sight that the confusing box art would kill it, since it doesn't show the actual model and makes it look like the app is required.
As Lordmoral and Lego34s mentions, this reeks too much of microtransactions. It's the same reason Dimensions and the entire toys-to-life concept failed, it was in essence "physical DLC" - you paid a moderate price for the base product but then got nickle-and-dimed to get the actual full experience. And while the Dimensions sets were neat they were also lousy value - non-gamers felt half the price went into digital content not available to them, while gamers had to buy a lot of sets they didn't care about just to unlock in-game stuff.
I suspect this blunder to go the same way as Spybots, something pretty much no-one will even know existed in a few years time. We can only hope the clowns in marketing gets the hint and actually introduces the minifig sets we all want before Lego/Nintendo gives up on this license altogether.
This is so disappointing. Nintendo and Lego is a dream pairing, but these just look like such a gimmick. Why didn't they just do something more traditional with the license?
@ra226:
On the contrary, Brick Bash is a pretty fun event. I got to display the final version of my Starro the Conqueror there.
"Dress him in the special trousers and cap and he’ll start to meow and purr."
... I'm sorry. Say what, now?
Okay, so LEGO Mario has so far left me scratching my head. I love Nintendo, I love LEGO, but this all seems... poorly thought out. I feel like they put all their eggs in one basket by relying on this electronic Mario.
For one, the sets themselves aren’t great as standalone models. You’ve got a few nice hits of scenery and brick built characters, but that’s about it. Bowser’s castle feels just like a few parts of a building rather than a complete structure. Heck, some sets are just flat out empty looking without Mario himself there. The entry price is $60, and then it gets higher the more you want to add on. I get you’re not supposed to buy everything, but you can buy a couple of better Mario toys for this price. Heck, you can buy 5 high quality Mario figures for the price of one electronic LEGO Mario starter kit and then better play sets to boot. You can buy a videogame for that price where you can... actually play a Mario game.
These suits also annoy me. The idea behind them is cute, but seeing them in action is... a little lame. This board game system feels like it mostly operates on an honor code of some sort, and many of these abilities look like they could easily be used to farm for coins. As a game it’s kinda leaving you to fill in the blanks a lot. As a toy, they’re expensive. As a collectible, they don’t even look accurate to their source material. LEGO is a building toy. These are just two oversized doll parts and some small pieces.
I just wish LEGO split the difference with these sets. Throw some mini figures into the sets so you at least have something to play with if ya don’t want to fork over the money for the electronic Mario. The sets would be much more appealing to me then, and I wouldn’t dislike the idea as much. As of now, the sets are just a poor value for the money and not great standalone products in my opinion.
Nintendo always seem to be weird when it comes to merchandising. They always have to do something odd rather than say give us proper decent action figures or whatnot. It's a reason I've never been a massive fan of them.
Do you know what would have worked? a "Nintendoworld" theme of sorts.
Examples -
An Arwing set with Starfox (and Falco) minifigs.
F-Zero racer two packs with driver minifigs.
Zelda dungeon room with Link and some monsters.
Ridley brickbuilt figure and Samus armour brick built figure (with Zero suit inside it).
It's not hard to think of ideas.
This dumpster fire of a Mario line makes Galidor look like a masterpiece.
@Elite_1 said:
"This dumpster fire of a Mario line makes Galidor look like a masterpiece."
Okay, I certainly wouldn't go THAT far, lol.
If one were to not acknowledge the price point, I could see a kid having a lot of genuine fun with this.
You couldn't PAY a kid to play with Galidor.
Why? Just why?
I just hope that if they do release minifig scale sets, that they have molded heads.
Mario with a normal minifig head would just look off
Mario sure has some HUGE nipples!
I know these are for kids, i do. I just cant help feeling its a massively missed opportunity. It feels like, as others have mentioned above, like Lego is trying too hard with this, Hidden side's AR, brickheadz, now the bricksketches, to appeal outside its core market (again!) and in turn they alienate the people who already buy their products. You got the Mario license? Great, make figs and bulidable levels. they would sell like hotcakes. This stuff is ugly trash.
I don’t get the hate for these at all. If it’s not a theme for you, keep walking or add a comment with some actual thought behind it. People want minifigs, we get it. No need to dump on this theme because of it.
They aren’t very expensive and they add some cool classic outfits for Mario with an interactive component. I could easily see many kids loving this theme. I’m probably going to get the main Mario set for my kids for Christmas and a couple extra smaller sets as well.
@Lordmoral said:
"These look like Nintendo microtransactions on LEGP sets. They look cool but I fear Nintendo is going to squeeze hard this license rather than make the most out of creative decisions (regular minifogures and Peach Castle ala Cinderella Castle).
"
I’m not sure why these are being viewed differently than any small accessory Lego set, of which they’ve made many for most Lego themes.
I was really curious to see how this theme would play out, but this ain't it chief.
The starter kit is pretty expensive at $60 USD, and these expansion "DLCs" at 10 bucks a pop for a couple bricks and a new pair of pants seems excessive as well.
Maybe if all the prices were slashed in half (save for possibly Bowser's Castle) it could work, but otherwise this is just going to be for the rich kids.
Are parents going to be able to afford/willing to pay for the starter pack and all of its acoutrements? Seems unlikely. My parents wouldn't have. A shame, it's a theme I'd have thought would otherwise be perfect for kids but the pricing might be prohibitive.
@Jack_Rizzo said:
"Are parents going to be able to afford/willing to pay for the starter pack and all of its acoutrements? Seems unlikely. My parents wouldn't have. A shame, it's a theme I'd have thought would otherwise be perfect for kids but the pricing might be prohibitive."
I think if people can’t afford anything past $10-$40, then they aren’t getting much Lego from any theme. Even a few $20 sets every so often adds up quick. All Lego is expensive compared to other toys. That’s why the cost criticism is strange to me, on this site of all places.
@Jack_Rizzo:
A $60 set costs a lot less now than it did when I was growing up. Back then, most themes never got more than one set in the $50-100 range, and until sometime in the late 70's, a minimum wage job didn't even pay $100/wk. Now that same job pays more in two days.