New Super Mario sets officially announced!
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LEGO has announced the latest range of Super Mario sets, which will be released on the 1st of August.
The LEGO Group brings 2-player action to the LEGO Super Mario universe with LEGO Mario and LEGO Luigi
Let’s-a go! The LEGO Adventures with Luigi Starter Course, available for pre-order, enables new 2-player interactive play, while brand new Expansion Sets including Bowser’s Airship lets fans level up for even more exciting adventures.
Billund, June 22nd, 2021: Today, the LEGO Group has announced a new unique social play experience that for the first time enables children and fans to connect LEGO Mario and LEGO Luigi figures for brand new 2-player adventures in the LEGO Super Mario universe. Perfect for family activities, this exciting feature will encourage even more social play, with two players able to enjoy the universe of LEGO Super Mario at the same time for new brick-built adventures.
Once connected via Bluetooth, 2-player adventures with LEGO Mario and LEGO Luigi (or any combination of the two figures) are made possible. Now, children and fans can play as a team, collect extra digital coins by doing in-sync actions like walking, flipping and jumping, or work together to defeat enemies, complete challenges, share rewards or even by changing up the play and competing against each other.
The new unique 2-player feature was also shared in a video posted by the LEGO Group and Nintendo earlier today.
“For us it’s all about encouraging continuous creative rebuilding and extended playtime. With today’s announcement, we’re not only bringing LEGO Mario and LEGO Luigi, their friends and enemies to life in new interactive ways for endless fun, we’re also thrilled to expand their play experience and the LEGO Super Mario universe with even more new sets and characters, something we really hope will excite fans”, says Simon Kent, Creative Lead, LEGO Super Mario.
71389 Lakitu Sky World
The interactive and highly-anticipated Adventures with Luigi Starter Course is the latest extension of the LEGO Super Mario product line, the result of a unique partnership with Nintendo, that has introduced an entirely new way to play with LEGO bricks. Players will be able to get their hands on LEGO Luigi with the LEGO Super Mario Adventures with Luigi Starter Course, a set that contains elements for both single and dual play from August 1st.
LEGO Luigi and LEGO Mario, the fraternal twin brothers, are available as separate Starter Courses – both functioning as entry points into the world of LEGO Super Mario –with the 2-player interactive play available using any combination of the two figures from August 1st.
71391 Bowser’s Airship
As well as unveiling the new Bluetooth-enabled 2-player mode, the LEGO Group is also introducing four new Expansion Sets, two new Power-Up Packs and ten new Character Packs. The four new Expansion Sets represent highly immersive builds for kids to expand their Starter Courses, and feature elements that are suitable for single play, but also enable dual play, and extra coin collection.
Available for pre-order from today is the ‘Bowser’s Airship Expansion Set’. The set gives fans a first chance to build an exciting new level within the universe, taking on the infamous flying ship. Fight off Kamek, a Goomba and a Rocky Wrench then battle with the ship itself! The ship can be arranged in ‘flying mode’ or folded out in ‘course mode’.
71388 Boss Sumo Bro Topple Tower
The other new products introduced today include: Frog Mario and Bee Mario Power-Up packs, which let players change up play and dress LEGO Mario in his playful frog and bee suits; and a Boss Sumo Bro Topple Tower Expansion Set, where kids can use their LEGO Mario and/or LEGO Luigi figure to bring down the Topple Tower – fun for solo play, or for playing with friends and family. The full list of products announced today are:
- 71388 Boss Sumo Bro Topple Tower Expansion Set (£24.99, $29.99 USD, €29.99)
- 71389 Lakitu Sky World Expansion Set (£34.99, $39.99 USD, €39.99)
- 71390 Reznor Knockdown Expansion Set (£64.99, $69.99 USD, €69.99)
- 71391 Bowser’s Airship Expansion Set (available to pre-order today) (£89.99, $99.99 USD, €99.99)
- 71392 Frog Mario Power-Up Pack (£8.99, $9.99 USD, €9.99)
- 71393 Bee Mario Power-Up Pack (£8.99, $9.99 USD, €9.99)
- 71394 Character Packs – Series 3 (ten collectable Character Packs, including Galoomba, Parachute Bob-omb, Crowber, Boo, Amp, Torpedo Ted, Bony Beetle, 1-Up Mushroom, Scuttlebug and Swoop) (£3.49, $4.99 USD, €3.99)
All Sets and Packs offer fans limitless ways to expand, rebuild, customize and create their own action-packed challenges and lots of creative fun in a highly-interactive experience that now features 2-player connectivity with LEGO Mario and LEGO Luigi.
71390 Reznor Knockdown
The LEGO Super Mario Adventures with Luigi Starter Course and Bowser’s Airship Expansion set are available for pre-order now through http://www.LEGO.com/preorder-luigi and http://www.lego.com/preorder-bowsersairship respectively, ready to launch August 1st, 2021 on www.LEGO.com and from selected leading retailers around the world. The remaining announced products will be available to purchase from August 1st.
Are you impressed with the new Super Mario range? Let us know in the comments.
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some these actually look kinda cool, especially the airship, but I wish they'd just start doing minifig-scaled stuff already
Wow very cool, my son will go wild when he sees this. 2-player action will be awesome! New power-ups are fun and the new sets look great.
I am just wondering if the power-ups will also fit Luigi, or if they will bring out these suits specifically for him, the propeller suit is red, so I would love a green one for Luigi. But we'll see!
According to what I saw on New Elementary the pants and hats are interchangeable between Mario and Luigi.
This is going to make my son's day!
"with the 2-player interactive play available using any combination of the two figures from August 1st"
I hope I'm reading and understanding that part of the article correctly. "any combination" should mean two-player games with two Mario figures, right? That's a really good move if it's true.
Bullet Bill in an expansion set?!
I have no one to play co-op with but I don't care, I'm getting Adventures with Luigi on sale and playing co-op solo!
Love the colors on Lakitu Sky World!
The airship is amazing.
airship is amazing
The ship is nice but a bit too pricey to convert to a minifig set imo unless there are going to be serious discount.
It's nice to see new color for those ship parts though.
Only ship looks cool xD
I don’t know why LEGO keeps placing one-plate gaps in between ship hull pieces. Not maritime-safe nor aesthetically pleasing IMO.
Should be four Reznors, everyone knows this!
I’ll just have to put on some NIN to compensate...
@TheRightP_art said:
"I don’t know why LEGO keeps placing one-plate gaps in between ship hull pieces. Not maritime-safe nor aesthetically pleasing IMO."
Can't speak for all recent sets with the ship hulls as I'm not familiar with em, but in this case the hull sections slide outwards along those tiles so there's definitely a reason for it this time around!
Another fan of the Airship, having not had much interest in the rest of the theme. Shame it doesn't come with Bowser, or at least one of his children(?).
These look really good! I'd been hoping for a set with Reznor since I figured the gameplay for their boss battle would translate really well to physical play. The airship looks amazing too.
still not quite to my taste, but im glad these builds are getting more involved, the first few waves really felt limp to me
As I much as I don't care for this style, some of these sets in this wave actually look really good. Especially the sky and airship sets - I've been waiting for the latter to happen!
Also, the Reznor set is a nice touch. *Cues Super Mario World boss theme*
@ComfySofa said:
""with the 2-player interactive play available using any combination of the two figures from August 1st"
I hope I'm reading and understanding that part of the article correctly. "any combination" should mean two-player games with two Mario figures, right? That's a really good move if it's true."
Mario and Luigi are the only figures, so it should work with Mario + Luigi, 2 Marios, or 2 Luigis.
I am not sure how effective the two player gameplay will be since I can imagine players bumping into each other a lot. In addition, the advertisement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYt1v5_mSf8
made it seem silly. However, if Lego executes it well then it should add a lot of fun.
Moving in sync, that's a clever way to implement co-op play in that system.
I'm still impressed by the originality of this theme.
Wow, frog and bee suit power-up packs. Those powerups haven't been seen in YEARS. The frog suit only appeared in Super Mario Bros 3, and wouldn't reappear as a usable powerup until Super Mario Maker 2, and the Bee Suit is exclusive to the Super Mario Galaxy games, that last of which (Super Mario Galaxy 2) was in 2010, though Galaxy 1 did appear in 3D All-stars last year.
I do still hope they do something with F.L.U.D.D. at some point.
Love all the new expansions, characters and power up suits. Everyone who’s saying Mario has been a major flop and isn’t selling is obviously wrong. Lego just doubled down on the theme big time. They never would have if it was losing them money.
These look really good. The airship is definitely going on my list.
These look really fun. My inner child is jumping up and down and my outer adult is turning out his pockets.
Not for me, but I can see why families with children would enjoy this a lot!
@The_Toniboeh said:
"some these actually look kinda cool, especially the airship, but I wish they'd just start doing minifig-scaled stuff already"
As cool as it could be to have minifigure-scaled versions of some of these characters, I'm honestly a much bigger fan of the brick-built characters at this point, chiefly because there are SO MANY different characters and creatures in the Super Mario franchise. And it's much easier to make custom brick-built figures than minifigures of any that don't end up showing up in sets (like, say, alternate Yoshi and Shy Guy colors), since minifig-scale versions of a lot of these characters would likely be more reliant on unique or specialized molds.
I think if LEGO did decide to make minifigure-scale Mario characters, a good avenue for that could be in the context of a big exclusive set, like maybe a Princess Peach's Castle set similar in scale to the Disney Castle. That way, the set would be big enough to offset the cost of any new character-specific molds, but wouldn't overlap too heavily with the more play-oriented designs and more "ordinary" price points of the other Super Mario sets.
I think I'm seeing some new Olive Green 3x3 Macaroni tiles in 71390 Reznor Knockdown!
@The_Toniboeh said:
"some these actually look kinda cool, especially the airship, but I wish they'd just start doing minifig-scaled stuff already"
Theyve put a lot of energy into these and theyre selling really well to kids afaik, so they might not ever. BUT, i wouldnt be surprised to see a Nintendo CMF line or two with Mario and Luigi minifigs and system scale LoZ sets at some point.
@jonwil:
I’m not sure that’s true. If you look on the front, there’s a ridge right below the screen on Mario, and there’s a matching ridge quite a bit lower on Luigi. This may act to prevent the Mario pants from fitting high enough on Luigi to contact the switches. The Luigi pants have longer suspenders, which should serve the same purpose when trying to make Mario wear Luigi’s pants. I think these outfits are character-exclusive, and Luigi fans will just have to repurchase any costumes associated with desired power-ups.
@PurpleDave said:
" @jonwil :
I’m not sure that’s true. If you look on the front, there’s a ridge right below the screen on Mario, and there’s a matching ridge quite a bit lower on Luigi. This may act to prevent the Mario pants from fitting high enough on Luigi to contact the switches. The Luigi pants have longer suspenders, which should serve the same purpose when trying to make Mario wear Luigi’s pants. I think these outfits are character-exclusive, and Luigi fans will just have to repurchase any costumes associated with desired power-ups."
All the "Power Up" packs are compatible with both Mario and Luigi (and these newer ones released after the Luigi starter set are even labeled on the back of the box to show that they work with both).
That said, some of hats like the ones from the Fire Mario, Propeller Mario, and Builder Mario ones, have had Mario's "M" emblem on them, so even though they work just fine with Luigi, their APPEARANCE seems ill-fitting/inaccurate when Luigi wears them. So it is nice that these ones do not have printed initials on the hats!
I’m glad to see there is a 2 player mode as that would certainly add another level of play. Perhaps I will be buying the Luigi set now…
I just don’t see any likeness to Mario games when I see these sets. Mario games are bright with bold colours, rolling fields, and soft edges. Replicating this in Lego must be nearly impossible
Bargain basement discounts in 3...2...1
@PurpleDave said:
" @jonwil :
I’m not sure that’s true. If you look on the front, there’s a ridge right below the screen on Mario, and there’s a matching ridge quite a bit lower on Luigi. This may act to prevent the Mario pants from fitting high enough on Luigi to contact the switches. The Luigi pants have longer suspenders, which should serve the same purpose when trying to make Mario wear Luigi’s pants. I think these outfits are character-exclusive, and Luigi fans will just have to repurchase any costumes associated with desired power-ups."
If the power-up costumes can't be shared between the brothers that would make them ever worse value for money and frankly it would seem like a bit of a con... HOWEVER, as Mario is worth an incalculable amount of money to Nintendo, I wouldn't be surprised if they had limited what Lego and Lego users were able go do in terms of changing what the main characters look like. Maybe Luigi wearing Mario's dungarees is the Nintendo marketing team's worst nightmare...
@Metroidman97 said:
"Wow, frog and bee suit power-up packs. Those powerups haven't been seen in YEARS. The frog suit only appeared in Super Mario Bros 3, and wouldn't reappear as a usable powerup until Super Mario Maker 2, and the Bee Suit is exclusive to the Super Mario Galaxy games, that last of which (Super Mario Galaxy 2) was in 2010, though Galaxy 1 did appear in 3D All-stars last year."
Oh! I hadn't even noticed those. The Frog Suit wouldn't be the first thing that only showed up recently in Mario Maker (the Hammer Suit), but the Bee Suit has indeed not been seen in over a decade.
I hope Lego pulls from more obscure/older sources like this in the future!
hopefully the airship is a sign that we will start getting normal sets soon. best mario set yet.