Thanks to Nintendo and LEGO's ongoing partnership, LEGO Mario is now a real thing that exists – you can still order one and everything! – but that isn't stopping others from sharing their own designs, including this mammoth take on our favourite moustachioed plumber.
Bricker Builds, a group of designers and artists based in Atlanta, Georgia, is offering up a custom design of Mario (and a Power-Up Mushroom) for your consideration. The builds aren't endorsed by Nintendo; instead, they're essentially sold as a big bundle of official LEGO bricks that happen to combine to make popular characters, and instructions come included with your purchase.
This unofficial LEGO Mario takes nearly 5,000 bricks to build and is described as 'life-sized', which in this case actually works out at "over 2 feet tall". Bricker Builds says that "if you purchase the bricks through us, you'll be getting brand new, official LEGO bricks fulfilled by Canada First Bricks, the largest and most trusted 3rd party brick supplier in North America."
As our headline has already given away, this thing isn't cheap. Mario costs a whopping $899 USD, while the Power-Up Mushroom will set you back $175; you can use code 'PowerUp21' when buying both together to receive $75 off.
So, what d'ya think? Would a two-foot Mario transform your living room? Do you have a ridiculously valued copy of Super Mario 64 lying around that could generate the necessary funds? Let us know in the usual place.
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I’m a big fan of LEGO - but the layer on layer ‘solid’ pixel art style designs like this have never interested me.. the Technical piece use and design of the normal ‘sets’ are far more appealing, personally.
Waiting for the Block on this by Nintendo
I'd be more interested in attempting to construct my own.
Is this 'News', or an advert? I don't know.
Let's ask our resident expert:
@gcunit brilliant 🤣🤣🤣
I'm not sure what's worse, $900 for less than 5000 pieces, or $65 for a PDF instruction file.
It seems weird that Mario is 2 feet tall here. I would have thought he was say 5 feet or something, at least based on his height in all the old games next to the likes of Princess Peach, who is apparently normal sized.
@impurekind I thought that was strange too at first (given that it's apparently life-size) but, well...
@chardir well if you are so good why don't you try bulding it without those instructions??
Lego bricks are expensive...but not THAT expensive. It would probably be cheaper to buy the bricks directly from Lego and just order the instructions.
@gcunit You'll be needing that image a lot more for this site now.
@FTL I absolutely agree. I can only imagine how boring it must be to build something like this. No clever solutions to the inherent limitations of Lego, mostly just a whole lot of the same few colours of brick, stacked one over the other. No thank you. And the price per piece is just ridiculous.
Interesting that they're allowed to sell these with official LEGO bricks in a pack, outside of LEGO themselves.
I got the Lego Mario. Also did a Lego voiceover for a Passion movie in 2019.
@Dogorilla How do you know the new Donkers arent just 8 foot tall?
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