Yesterday, Nintendo revealed the full LEGO Super Mario lineup in all its glory, showing off brand new Expansions and Character Packs that will no doubt serve as great additions to the standard Starter Course.
We saw the likes of Yoshi, King Boo, and Thwomp all be treated to their very own sets, but one character is particularly interesting. Why? Because it appears to be a brand new Super Mario character that has never appeared in any previously released games or media.
We're talking about Boomer Bill, who appears in the Boomer Bill Barrage Expansion Set. We've never seen a reference to a 'Boomer Bill' before, and as @MarioBrothBlog notes, this isn't simply a renaming or mix up of the classic Bullet Bill, because that character appears elsewhere in the LEGO collection.
Here's the set in question, and some children looking very excited to see it twirl around in the air.
So, will Boomer Bill be a thing going forward? Can we expect to see it appear in the next Mario game? We guess we'll have to wait and see.
We dare you to leave us a comment below without using the word 'OK'.
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Let me just get this out of the way:
OK boomer
I was wondering about that... very strange. Nintendo approved it... so what does it mean?
@StuartGipp no way someone wasn’t gonna say that at some point
Isn't it just another name for the Bansai Bill?
Apparently people said it’s like a Banzai Bill but the size of a normal Bullet Bill? Either way, odd. Love my obscure facts.
Could be a hint of some upcoming news for a new Mario game for the anniversary year, but I would have thought there may be other new characters appearing in these Lego sets too.
Then again, there are likely more Lego sets unannounced...
Simple. In this day in age why would Lego want to sell a product with a "Bullet". And, I'm sure they have a policy about product naming. Have you ever seen a Lego product with the word bullet?
I think they renamed the Banzai Bill to Boomer Bill to Americanize it. They look pretty similar
@CaptainAN64 Yes
Apparently in Japanese it has the normal name for Banzai Bills. Why they changed it to something else over here, I have no idea.
@Octane I'm guessing they didn't read the article. 🤣
Maybe Lego wanted to sell even more Lego sets, so rather than trying to sell kids 2 Lego Bill sets they decide to name the other 1 Boomer Bill so their parents would spend the cash on it?
Though I'm going w/ banzai, that one seems fairly obvious and the most straight forward. Don't need our little 'Murican children learning that there Japanese. Next thing ya know they'll be flying airplanes into aircraft carriers.
This will make for an interesting piece of trivia.
Bowser is going to have to have a chat with Boom Boom about spending too much time with the sentient ammo storage.
My guess would be that it IS a Banzai Bill, but that the word "banzai" somehow has the wrong connotation in some of the areas the set will be released.
@GloverMist
It is visibly larger than the Bullet Bill even in the LEGO sets though. Look and size fits with the regular Banzai Bill.
It's because Nintendo and Lego don't want their toys to feature names referencing gun culture, hence they made the alteration of Bullet to Boomer.
According to Twitter comments, it might be that "bullet bill" from N64. Looked like a banzai, but smaller
@CaptainAN64 100%
Is the monty mole preorder sold out? Can't find it on the Lego Store any more
"...and some children looking very excited to see it twirl around in the air."
Hahahaha! Brilliant!
I imagine Lego are wanting to shy away from the word “bullet” for such a young target audience
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