This $200 Lego NES set features a scrolling 8-bit Mario
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"The 2,646 piece set goes on sale on August 1, and we expect it to cost around $200 here in the US."
Site went live, $229.00
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/nint ... stem-71374
Site went live, $229.00
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/nint ... stem-71374
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That is really brilliantly designed. It’s a shame that like most interesting Lego sets, these will almost certainly get picked up by eBay and Amazon resellers looking to make a profit.
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That's usually only a problem after they stop making them.
Usually while they're in production you can find plenty available.
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I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/pira ... -bay-21322
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Very cool, I'm definitely right in the target demographic for this one. Getting a NES as a kid was a big deal.
But I'm also at that age when I look at things like this and think "neat", and then follow it up with "where the heck would I put that after I built it?" I simply don't have the free surface space. Maybe other adults have tastefully empty houses with white drawers just waiting for the right accent piece to go on top of them.
Me? I've got so many toys already they're spilling out of shelves. I'm looking semi-guiltily at the LEGO Voltron kit in the corner of my office that's still only half built, and not sure where those lions are going when it's done. They used to live in a half-finished state on top of the CRT stand in that corner, but got kicked off when I put my 3D printer there.
It's a good problem to have, the too many toys thing, but it does curb impulse purchases of big display pieces like this I gotta admit.
But I'm also at that age when I look at things like this and think "neat", and then follow it up with "where the heck would I put that after I built it?" I simply don't have the free surface space. Maybe other adults have tastefully empty houses with white drawers just waiting for the right accent piece to go on top of them.
Me? I've got so many toys already they're spilling out of shelves. I'm looking semi-guiltily at the LEGO Voltron kit in the corner of my office that's still only half built, and not sure where those lions are going when it's done. They used to live in a half-finished state on top of the CRT stand in that corner, but got kicked off when I put my 3D printer there.
It's a good problem to have, the too many toys thing, but it does curb impulse purchases of big display pieces like this I gotta admit.
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It needs a lockout to prevent turning the crank when the cartridge is removed
It would be an interesting engineering challenge. Pneumatics, maybe?
It would be an interesting engineering challenge. Pneumatics, maybe?
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I was given a Lego Star Destroyer as a gift. I built it, then gave it away for that reason. Now I have kids and wish I had it back. just for the pieces.
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Why not make a new table or storage shed out of Legos to put your Lego creations on/in?
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Or Classic Space, ideally in a more affordable form than Benny's Spaceship. That would be a perfect nostalgia trip back to my youth.I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
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Same here.
I live in a small place and really don't 'collect' anything cause I just don't care to have a bunch of stuff around even decorative. So seeing this I'm like hells yeah then nope cause I just don't care for tchotkies.
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Or Classic Space, ideally in a more affordable form than Benny's Spaceship. That would be a perfect nostalgia trip back to my youth.I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
They have some decent new space sets in their City line that my kids have enjoyed building and playing with:
https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/city? ... c7e52d303e
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Or Classic Space, ideally in a more affordable form than Benny's Spaceship. That would be a perfect nostalgia trip back to my youth.I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
They have some decent new space sets in their City line that my kids have enjoyed building and playing with:
https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/city? ... c7e52d303e
Those are fun but aside from a rocket here or there ... they're all kinda variations on the same Space Shuttle type theme over and over and over. ...
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I have to admit, that is very nifty. However, with all of the studs covered, it doesn’t look very LEGO-y.
Hopefully, the set doesn’t have any unique pieces.
:O
Hopefully, the set doesn’t have any unique pieces.
:O
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Just following the market, for better or for worse. Classic Space is of an era of Space 1999 and OG Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rodgers. Now, pop culture spends more on Marvel and whatnot.Or Classic Space, ideally in a more affordable form than Benny's Spaceship. That would be a perfect nostalgia trip back to my youth.I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
Maybe the pendulum will swing again. I for one am bored of superheroes and want more red and blue lasers.
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Or Classic Space, ideally in a more affordable form than Benny's Spaceship. That would be a perfect nostalgia trip back to my youth.I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
I'd kill for some BLACKTRON!
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Just following the market, for better or for worse. Classic Space is of an era of Space 1999 and OG Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rodgers. Now, pop culture spends more on Marvel and whatnot.Or Classic Space, ideally in a more affordable form than Benny's Spaceship. That would be a perfect nostalgia trip back to my youth.I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
Maybe the pendulum will swing again. I for one am bored of superheroes and want more red and blue lasers.
For whatever reason the superhero sets were all kinda ... terrible. Just not interesting legos.
Star Wars is going that way too, like how many rando star wars vehicles (that don't even appear in the movies) do we need?
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Or Classic Space, ideally in a more affordable form than Benny's Spaceship. That would be a perfect nostalgia trip back to my youth.I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/emme ... shop-70821
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/benn ... quad-70841
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Looks cool and all, but no space to put it when built. Maybe if I come across some serious money, I'll have a LEGO/Disney room. The Disney part would be for my wife.
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SNOT—studs not on top—is how AFOLS—adult fans of Lego—prefer to build stuff now. Like I said in the post, construction techniques have come a very very long way form the lego sets of the late 1970s and early 1980s you might be familiar with.
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I can count maybe twenty identifiable studs on the Saturn V over there on my bookshelf.
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I tried to make mechanical versions of arcade machines out of Lego back in the late 70's / early 80's. Most of them weren't particularly successful, nevertheless they were still hours of fun to make.
Aurich might be amused to know Lego Pinball was and is possible. Orientate the bricks sideways to take advantage of the smooth sides for the table bed, use chunky wheels for bumpers and use rubber bands to power the side kickers, flippers and plunger.
Young sonolumi was never going to let the fact his parents couldn't buy him a real arcade machine hold him back.
Aurich might be amused to know Lego Pinball was and is possible. Orientate the bricks sideways to take advantage of the smooth sides for the table bed, use chunky wheels for bumpers and use rubber bands to power the side kickers, flippers and plunger.
Young sonolumi was never going to let the fact his parents couldn't buy him a real arcade machine hold him back.
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The blue-and-yellow colour scheme of classic space is amazing, and if Lego released new sets in that theme (and re-released old sets at a reasonable price) then people of my generation would snap them up.Or Classic Space, ideally in a more affordable form than Benny's Spaceship. That would be a perfect nostalgia trip back to my youth.I don't mind Lego making some bank on the licensed type products.
I just wish they'd bring back Pirates and Castles ...
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Anyone ever wonder about (or feel guilty purchasing) all this non degradable plastic Lego just keeps producing ? Most of it eventually ends up in a landfill or floating in the ocean.
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...then you might need a reminder what the core audience both companies (moreso Lego though) built their brands on by focusing on...
Not saying both companies shouldn't make products for all ages, but, really. They ARE toy companies.
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Ars, no link to the MOC at Brickcon last year from where Lego & Nintendo clearly stole this idea?
https://youtu.be/nz8JGww6ukY
https://youtu.be/nz8JGww6ukY
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It needs a lockout to prevent turning the crank when the cartridge is removed
It would be an interesting engineering challenge. Pneumatics, maybe?
Would something involving an all-plastic Bowden cable too thoroughly violate the Lego-ness of it?
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To be fair, the non-movie vehicles ARE what we need now. The Disney Trilogy vehicles are crap. The "Resistance" fighters are basically the same old models warmed over three years in a row with just different colour pallettes, and don't even get me started on the other sets out of Ep9. The Sith Fighter looks like a Chinese knock-off set.
Now Major Vonreg's Fighter from SW: Resistance is solid. After building it I'm pretty sure it was originally meant to be a 20th anniversary version of the Interceptor that Disney stepped on to convert the palette, but I just did it last week and it's a solid build, and looks cool as hell even if Vonreg got the short shrift as a character.
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Quick googling suggests that ABS requires about 95MJ/kg for production, which suggests that as a very handwavey order of magnitude sort of guess, this kit has about the environmental impact of several days, maybe a week, of my short commute.
So: a fair bit more than zero, but not a lot more than the fact that I ought to turn up my thermostat set point in summer and down in winter. We make these happiness-impact trades every minute of our lives.
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