Nintendo and Lego Are Collaborating On A New Game Boy Set

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Why would a LEGO Game Boy take longer after its announcement to release than the Switch 2?

I will never Lego the love I have for the OG gameboy

Well the original Game Boy always was a brick

Cool, I like when they make console LEGO. Hopefully SNES, 64, and GameCube at somepoint down the line?

@nukatha Maybe they wanted to announce it early to avoid leaks

Gotta love Nintendo.

We've got a announcement
It's console related.
About something you'll hold in your hands...

That's right Lego Gameboy.

I rarely buy Legos because of their environmental impact but I'll have to buy this. Lol

I rather Nintendo just re-release the original Game Boy with the most popular games or do a classic edition.

Cool. I’m a huge Lego fan and already have the piranha plant and Mario world sets (the other two big ones were a bit too expensive for me). I never had a game boy, but if this is fairly priced, I’d be excited for this one

Nintendo announcing everything but Switch 2 at this point. Good thing Genki has us covered on that front.

Jokes aside, I am interesting in what it ends up looking like, but probably not enough to buy and build it.

Oh no… I swore off buying LEGO but I’ll be back for this.

I hope the screen has the ability to apply different graphics. I’d love to be able to replace it to evoke different games. Obviously it won’t be the same resolution.

Sorry a little confused- will we be able to play games on it?

@IronMan30 besides its building process (maybe) Lego its a toy that barely ends on landfills, nobody throws his Lego away…

I’m certain it will have an LCD display and functional buttons and will be playable. I can’t imagine a replica of ‘the brick’ made of bricks, being a complete brick with no handheld functionality when it’s stupid cheap and easy to implement

With so little of it shown, I have to wonder if this will be playable or a “classic” version?

Finally, the Switch 2.

I don't think I will get interested with LEGO Game Boy idea as Game Boy games with 8 bit and monochrome color are not even my cup of tea, except certain of GBA games that I have some interest like K-1 Pocket Grand Prix games.
If I made a list of my gaming priority, when PS5 is my number one, GBA is at the bottom (at number 13, since I have 7 Nintendo machines and 6 PlayStation machines)

This does seem a little silly if it is just a Lego model of a game boy. Maybe it will have a “brick” that is a screen and electronics to make it playable and have a few classic games built in or something (similar to those Mario and Zelda anniversary game and watch things).

I did recently go to a Lego store with my kids and as a Super Mario World fan could not resist buying the Mario and Yoshi set. First time I’ve bought a Lego set as an adult.

Nintendo is doing literally anything but talk about Switch 2 and I both love and hate it at the same time. They’re just trolling us at this point and I find it incredibly funny.

@jon128 Why is that silly? They already made an NES set that didn't play games.

@Zequio that's a fair point. It's more the manufacturing process that affects the environment.

Ok…. I fought tooth and nail to avoid dropping $$$ on the NES one. That was hard enough for me. Now they go and do this. All it’s going to take is one too many beers one night and this will be arriving on my doorstep a few days later. Thanks Nintendo, you’re a master-craft at draining my wallet.

I immediately must have it. Goddam it!

Nintendo is revealing everything except the switch 2. classic nintendo.

Lego.
Maaaahrio.

Waaaahoooooo

Looking forward to that one.

That reminds me. There was a team on Lego Masters Australia Season 2, Episode 7, that built a Lego Game Boy.

Great series:
https://www.9now.com.au/lego-masters

@Dreamcaster-X I guess I shouldn’t have said it is silly. I just don’t personally get the appeal. I didn’t really get the appeal of the NES either but I suppose it was a little physical representation of that time period.

I tried to do that. With the cartridges and everything, I had removable carts to the screen and buttons, everything but a circuit board... 🧱

Super Nintendo Switch - designed by EPD4

The price will heavily factor into whether or not I buy it. I'd prefer not to spend $80+ on it. If it's replicating the Game Boy in size and whatnot, I can't image it will be a large set by any means, but these licensed builds always tend to have a higher price tag.

My prediction is that it’s gonna be a relatively life size replica judging by the teaser and the parts shown, it will come with 2 or 3 different cartridges (Tetris maybe, Mario Land definetly, but no Pokemon because they are partnered with MEGA), interchangeable plates that display the game, and it will also come with a stand for 80 bucks.

Build a big chunky Lego skin and slot the Switch2 into it?....?

@abe_hikura Nintendo are really the biggest trolls. I love it

It better have a reference to the Super Mario Land 2 level with Legos as platforms.

@PikminMarioKirby Unfortunately, I doubt we’ll get a 64 or a SNES. Lego seems to be releasing one big set for each console, and they already made one for those two

First ever console to be bricked out of the box.

(Well, first ever handheld console, to be exact - trust me to fail even at basic attentive reading😅)

This will sit well next to the lego NES (and my actual Gameboy!). Can't see any way this doesn't get purchased.

@Not_Soos
"It better have a reference to the Super Mario Land 2 level with Legos as platforms."

Those might be Nintendos own "N&B Block" bricks. Released from 1968 to the early 70s:
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/N%26B_Block

Instead of mini figures, LEGO could sell a little blind bag with a random Game Boy cartridge in each one that you build. I'd keep buying to get that one Pokemon Crystal cartridge 😭

Well considering I make my living selling GameBoy DMGs and Legos this might me right up my alley!

I recently got a Modretro Chromatic (FPGA GameBoy Color clone) so this is actually quite nice for a change. I'd love to get one.

And ofcourse it's Lego, it won't be playing any real GB games.

@jon128 I sustain your comment about it being “silly” if it has zero game functionality. I’ve said that the NES set was probably the least interesting build Lego has come out with, essentially a couple of big squares. Very low imagination use of Lego bricks even if it does somehow look magical to a person with a connection to the NES. But a Game Boy version that’s just a model game boy is even worse than that. Surely it has to do something to be some bit interesting as Lego? Many commenters here won’t be able to hold an opposing view of something being nostalgic while also being an uninteresting Lego set. But that’s a fan site for you.

@NinChocolate what the hell are you talking about? The NES Lego set is one of the most imaginative sets out there. You do know that it comes with an interactive and movable TV that plays a scrolling Mario Bros in brick form right? Just building the machinery to make it able to move makes it one of the best sets out there. On top of all the Easter eggs built into the set and console. Those are the cherry on top.
Having many Lego sets… the NES one shines above most of them.

My GBA is bricked so my GameBoy might as well be as well.

@Yoshi3 I actually did not know about the movement feature on the NES Lego set. That is pretty neat.

I guess when I thought the Mario and Yoshi one was just the pixel art I was less interested in that as well until I saw that it moved and then I wasn’t sold until I saw it in person and saw how much depth they added to it and how many parts moved. The SNES Super Mario World game is particularly nostalgic for me though.

My wants - more Lego sets
My needs - 10x10m2 storage space Lego set

I got VTOL set for Christmas and I love this huge monster but it won't fit into any space I have

@jon128 the NES set is exactly like that. It has a all the machinery and movable pieces that are such a delight to build just to see how creative the Lego engineers got to make it all work. Now imagine then putting the Mario figurine on top of the TV, which has a scannable sticker and it will play the Mario Bros music while scanning each coin, enemy and block on the scrollable brick screen to play the sound effects every time Mario passes through them. The first level scrolling through the TV is a delight.
Then add the console that also has a mechanism in which you insert the cartridge and it “sticks” to the bottom just like the real thing. Aside from a 1-2 level in miniature hidden on a secret compartment on the side.

Here’s how it looks: https://youtu.be/pfgFWiu3Z7U?si=3z1Vfy2_xg7bXhOS

I don’t know where did @ninchocolate got his idea from that it’s just a couple of soulless squares.

I expect the same level of creative engineering behind the Gameboy set.
The Mario Question Block, Mario & Yoshi, Pac-Man Arcade and NES set are some of the best Lego adult sets out there by their mechanics, design, engineering and interactivity alone.

Maybe Lego will announce a Lego Switch 2 set before Nintendo officially reveals the Switch 2.

I swear, Lego is aiming for a Lego version of every damn thing on the planet.

I wonder if they will ever make a lego Switch in the future

Hopefully getting closer to the LEGO consoles I would probably buy. A Wii, 3DS and Switch.

As it’s my fave Nintendo console I’m def gonna cop this

Hopefully this comes with a Lego stand which can get stability updates after launch.

Already sold lol

Watch it cost more than the actual Gameboy lol

@Yoshi3 Yeah that is cool. When it came out (and when I had seen it briefly in the store in the past) I had no idea it had all that movement. I did hear about the Easter Egg of 1-2 inside a compartment.

Now that I realize all of the Nintendo LEGO sets targeted at adults have this type of movement it does seem like they’ll do something similar for the gameboy and not something electronic like I previously suggested.

So cool to see the brick in brick form! Really can't wait for this set. I am also down for a SNES set!

I'm surprised it wasn't leaked by a Lego Game Boy accessory maker.

No "ding?"
That's just plain wrong!

@Anti-Matter
6 PlayStations?
They only have 5...

@Spider-Kev don’t forget the PS One/PSOne, not to be confused with the first PlayStation.

@geo-shifter
PSone was just a Slim PSx

@geo-shifter
PlayStation/ PSX / PSone
PlayStation 2 / slim
PlayStation 3 / slim
PlayStation 4 / slim / pro
PlayStation 5 / slim / pro /diskless

@Spider-Kev PSP and PSvita

@Not_Soos Great, now you've raised my expectations too high and I'm gonna be disappointed.