Hadn't heard about the Mexican factory being shut down. I thought about ordering some of the Aug 1st sets day one but I decided to wait. Guess maybe I should have ordered them, haha.
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The LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System - Lets Lego!
- Thread starter KTroopA
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I totally forgot about this one and I see it sold out, which is unsurprising. Wish I could've grabbed one!
Local store had this in stock so I braved the mall and picked it up. This is my first big Lego set. I've been waiting for something that really appealed to me and wasn't selling for half a fortune, and this ticks both those boxes. Very excited to get building.
Has anyone with the LEGO Super Mario figure had the special feature not work properly? Mine plays the music, but there are no sound effects as I "move" Mario through the level using the crank.
I got one of these years back with the rewards thing they had. Still haven't opened them though.Slightly offtopic since it's not LEGO, but NoE sold it on their website recently and it looks amazing.
Mario makes his sounds by the coloured tiles being read by his scanner, so he needs to be standing over those.
I wondered what those colored tiles were for, I just didn't connect the dots in my head. Thank you for clarifying! I will have to try it out today.
I'm also debating going to Target and grabbing some expansion sets for Mario. Anyone have any thoughts on which ones are worth the money?
Fortunately didn't happen with the NES, but the previous couple of sets I've bought (the bookshop and pirates of barracuda bay) I've had a missing piece and a incorrectly coloured bit.. Never happened with any of the previous 8 large sets I've purchased.
this is a pain i felt in bag 1. put the whole set away in frustration then two days later watched Ryukahr build his and realized i swapped two bricks.
i hope your replacement comes in quick.
99% of the time you've used the wrong part somewhere or left one in the bag or it's just hidden under something else. It's very rare for parts to actually be missing. I've bought hundreds of sets in the last eight years and I've had an actual missing part once (when it was curiously replaced with a completely different one that wasn't even supposed to be in the set). Lego has been getting worse in terms of colour consistency and printing light colours on dark bricks, but having the right parts is basically always user error. I couldn't find one gear in this exact set and had to replace it, but sure enough, once I had finished that bag, there it was.
I almost finished lunar lander and it needed two black 2x2 tiles that I didn't have. But I did have two in Dk grey. Traced back and sure enough I'd misread and used black earlier when it wanted grey
quite often if it's an internal part they're not visible so you can swap for a spare in a different colour if you have some spares from other sets
quite often if it's an internal part they're not visible so you can swap for a spare in a different colour if you have some spares from other sets
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No we were really thorough with building the thing. We needed 2 1x2 green pieces, but there was a 4x1 green piece in the bag that wasn't used anywhere. And we missed another grey piece.
Just finished the console and cartridge. It's taken most of the day, off and on. The attention to detail is ridiculous. And the amazing little [redacted] blew my mind when I realised what I had just done. I don't want it to end...
Edit: The controller plug works! I mean, of course it does. But it does! 😂
Edit: The controller plug works! I mean, of course it does. But it does! 😂
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I've built three of the Lego Mario sets: the starter, the Guarded Fortress and the Bowser's Castle Boss Battle. As builds, they're nothing that exciting. There's plenty that goes into the action features and I've yet to actually try playing it, but it's definitely more for the play experience rather than display. They take up a ton of space, and obviously everything can be connected however you want, including the little 4x4 plates that come with the booster packs.
The real star of the show, for me, is the figures. While Mario is this oversized thing, the enemies are actually pretty decently sized to a minifigure and I'm sure they'll be useful for that one day. For now, once I tear everything down they'll be spread around my display, at least the iconic ones. I don't really care for the modern enemies, but obviously the Koopa, the Goomba, the Piranha Plant and Bowser himself are super classic. I don't have any real underwater sets, but having a Blooper or Cheep Cheep in such a display would be great. If nothing else, they can hang out with my Yellow Submarine. Basically, my Lego collection is a big city packed with random figures, and I love just putting weird combinations of characters in there.
For just the figures, they're super overpriced, but the play features are probably fun for kids and you do get a decent amount of bricks for other stuff, in quite useful colours.
The real star of the show, for me, is the figures. While Mario is this oversized thing, the enemies are actually pretty decently sized to a minifigure and I'm sure they'll be useful for that one day. For now, once I tear everything down they'll be spread around my display, at least the iconic ones. I don't really care for the modern enemies, but obviously the Koopa, the Goomba, the Piranha Plant and Bowser himself are super classic. I don't have any real underwater sets, but having a Blooper or Cheep Cheep in such a display would be great. If nothing else, they can hang out with my Yellow Submarine. Basically, my Lego collection is a big city packed with random figures, and I love just putting weird combinations of characters in there.
For just the figures, they're super overpriced, but the play features are probably fun for kids and you do get a decent amount of bricks for other stuff, in quite useful colours.
Finished mine. How the Mario in the TV moved was a mystery to me until the last second. Occam's Razor. And the color tiles at the top of the TV are for sound effects? Darn, I'm going to have to get one of those silly lego Marios.
This set is the first time in a while since I've done a Lego anywhere near this complicated in 20+ years. It is interesting how the direction of the pieces just change all over the place willy nilly, and I remember that was more of a Megablock thing back in the day. Random colors on the insides of things (visibility?) and numbered bags are also new to me. I got to thinking about a similar Lego Genesis or SNES and came to the realization during building the level that such a thing would probably kill me. Getting all the 1x1 pieces to line up reasonably drove me nuts. I'm also a little bummed out that the easter egg on one side of the system isn't duplicated similarly on the other side. I felt for sure that was going to be the case until it wasn't. Anyway, super fun, now to find someplace to stash this thing.
This set is the first time in a while since I've done a Lego anywhere near this complicated in 20+ years. It is interesting how the direction of the pieces just change all over the place willy nilly, and I remember that was more of a Megablock thing back in the day. Random colors on the insides of things (visibility?) and numbered bags are also new to me. I got to thinking about a similar Lego Genesis or SNES and came to the realization during building the level that such a thing would probably kill me. Getting all the 1x1 pieces to line up reasonably drove me nuts. I'm also a little bummed out that the easter egg on one side of the system isn't duplicated similarly on the other side. I felt for sure that was going to be the case until it wasn't. Anyway, super fun, now to find someplace to stash this thing.
The engineering behind this set keeps blowing my mind. Lego has some very talented designers on staff.
I couldn't stop examining the lock mechanism for the cartridge tray. Its so genius!
I couldn't stop examining the lock mechanism for the cartridge tray. Its so genius!
Yeah the 'pieces pointing in all directions' is something they've done for a while on the bigger/more complex sets. I think combined with use of plates rather than bricks it is a technique that gives them more precision and flexibility placing pieces in 3D space. Works really well but can be quite obscure - like 'wtf am I doing' until it comes together
We are missing a fourth piece now, really feels like we won the lottery..
As someone who builds a lot of big Lego it's not super common but when it does happen it's usually more than one piece. I have had it happen with every technic car I've built and with the stranger things set there were about 4 or 5 missing.
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I'd make fun of these prices, but I collect high-end sports cards.
So I can't.
This looks amazing though.
So I can't.
This looks amazing though.
Other people had issues like this. I believe you can contact LEGO and they'll send you the missing piece(s).
oops. Turns out I'd started bag 4 when it shoudl have been bag 3. Managed to get quite a way into it before running out of pieces. got past those both now :)
Its a dense build. Only just starting bag 5 out of 20+..
People loving this, should give Labo a try. The complexity of some of the stuff as you build it, then see it and the "how does this do that ?" is there too. XD
This is so awesome :) just ordered mine!I'm loving the build on this. Got through the NES yesterday and stopped there. Had to snap a pic of the entire family!
Such a great pic! Love to see them all like that.I'm loving the build on this. Got through the NES yesterday and stopped there. Had to snap a pic of the entire family!
LEGO needs to give us a proper FAMICOM next, yeah?
Thank you!! I missed tor the first time around and was disappointed that I'd missed it for good. Just grabbed it from the Canadian version of the website.
Just for future reference, with LEGO releases, eventually it will be readily available. There's no real risk of you missing it for good.
This is good to know, thank you! I've not built a big set like this since I was a kid and I figured the "Nintendo factor" would make this a really difficult set to get. Glad that's not the case.
Yeah, it's pretty rare for a set to be impossible to find/buy before it's retired.
And super popular sets usually don't even get retired for years, so I'm guessing the NES will be around for quite a while.
I was a little worried since I'd heard rumors that LEGO's production was impacted by Covid (there's a lot of sets that are selling out or going on backorder), and since I'm tight on money at the moment I can't get the NES for a while, but it seems like LEGO was smart enough to know it would be a really popular set.
Dang, mine arrived today. That was incredibly fast. Got a long weekend starting tomorrow and I know what I'll be keeping busy with!
I've had the past couple of days off so I worked on this with some Blu Ray commentaries and SGDQ replays in the background. I really enjoyed building this; it was fascinating seeing the more complex elements come together. The Easter egg is a really nice touch although it took me a while to realise what it was lol. Looking down from above I wasn't sure what it was while I was constructing but I leaned back from the desk and then it clicked. I appreciate that there were several spare Mario elements included so you can play around a bit and design your own "levels".
