LEGO Super Mario Has Been In Development For Four Years

LEGO Super Mario Has Been In Development For Four Years

LEGO Creative Play Lab’s Design Manager discusses the four-year-long process of building the hotly anticipated new LEGO Super Mario playset.

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LEGO Super Mario Has Been In Development For Four Years

Lego Super Mario has finally been announced, and it turns out that it took four years to make the combination a reality. LEGO Creative Play Lab’s Jonathan Bennink sat down for an interview yesterday, where he described the process of bringing the dream mash-up between Nintendo’s favorite plumber and Denmark’s favorite building toy to life.

After years of wondering what Mario would look like in Lego form, fans were greeted to an enticing tease from Nintendo during March 10’s Mario Day celebrations, which featured a glimpse of a LEGO figure dressed in a certain pair of iconic overalls. Further details were unveiled a couple of days later with a bombshell video of the new LEGO Super Mario playset, a sort of electronic board game featuring a large Mario figure jumping across a course of LEGO-style mini levels from his classic adventures, filled with equally LEGO-fied versions of iconic Super Mario characters like Yoshi, Bowser Jr., and the ever-unfortunate Goomba. The game uses an LED screen on the chest of the Mario figure and sound effects pulled straight from the games themselves to keep track of the player’s score as they hop along the obstacle-ridden course, collecting coins and making their way to that Bowser flagpole at the end.

In an interview with The Brothers Brick, LEGO Creative Play Lab Design Manager Jonathan Bennink explained that the project was the result of a four-year partnership between Nintendo and LEGO, an described the story of how this highly-anticipated crossover came to be. He also goes into detail regarding the special LEGO pieces that were created for the Super Mario set, such as the high-tech Mario figure itself, the technology that the game utilizes to re-create the Super Mario experience in LEGO form, and, while he remains tight-lipped on the subject, expresses an interest in releasing further Mario LEGO sets – and even branching out into other Nintendo franchises like The Legend of Zelda or Donkey Kong.

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Although the various LEGO-themed games have been available on Nintendo consoles for years at this point, this is the first real collaboration between the two companies. According to Bennink, LEGO even brought on Mario co-creator Takashi Tezuka in order to keep true to Nintendo’s philosophies of innovation and interactivity, in addition to the classic Lego themes of customization and imagination. Like all LEGO sets, everything in LEGO Super Mario can be taken apart to build something new.

The hard work of the two companies shines in the LEGO Super Mario set, as the bright and colorful world of Nintendo’s classic platformer works extremely well in the form of LEGO bricks, not to mention the LED screen-enhanced Mario figure being a technical marvel in itself. As Jonathan Bennink points out, Nintendo and LEGO’s four-year-long partnership means that fans could be looking at further Mario sets in the future, as well as those other Nintendo properties. The idea of a LEGO Zelda dungeon set or a build-able Star Fox Arwing is an enticing one, but in the meantime shared fans of both Nintendo and LEGO will be able to enjoy the fruits of Bennink and LEGO Creative Play Lab’s four years of labor when LEGO Super Mario hits store shelves later this year.

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