This $200 Lego NES set features a scrolling 8-bit Mario

The last Nintendo/Lego was for kids, but this one is aimed at the adults.

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[limeos]

To do Duck Hunt, they would need to make the Zapper, but I suspect that Lego doesn't do guns, even fake ones. I could be wrong.

Also, how long do we think it'll take for someone to rebuild this as a fully-playable NES? I'm thinking the emulated Raspberry Pi version (with LCD screen) appears a couple weeks before the one that can read actual NES cartridges.

Lego's internal rule is no depictions of contemporary, real life guns.

Fictional or historical guns are fine.

Even for fantasy/fictional settings, they don't like war-focused or gritty (almost) real stuff. That was the reason they unfortunately rejected Firefly and Halo sets from Lego Ideas. I guess if Disney can endorse Star Wars, Lego can too. Same for Lord of the Rings.

In the classic Space sets, it was ovbious that those shooty thingys might be weapons or they could have been sensor equipment. It was mostly left to your imagination.

 

[AlexHilbertRyan]

Pathetic ,lego should be able kids and creativity and not sets filled with custom brick pieces that only serve a single purpose.

Lego you sold out to the hipsters.

Honestly, how many custom pieces do you actually spot here? The sprites, probably, though it is hard to tell with the little enemies. Apart from that it looks like just stickers and creative use of existing parts.

An excessive inventory of distinct bricks was a problem of Lego's troublesome phase in the late 90s and 2000s, but since then they have greatly reduced the number to less than half. And if you hang out at Lego forums it is often remarkable to see what creative uses people come up with for seemingly single-purpose bricks.

Anyone who watched "Lego Masters" would have seen those "creative uses" a dozen times a week.

I suppose you are going to argue that lotto commericals are perfectly honest saying that you will win.

I challenge anyone to share a picture of a tower or bridge being built using half of the pieces from one these sets that contains many non brick pieces.

 

[steven_ansell]

*twitches*

No! We don't need the myth of blowing on cartridges to be spread any more. Yes, people did it, but it only caused damage to the cartridges.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/125 ... eally-help

Unfortunately the behaviour is a great example of pareidolia in humans.

 

[Shadwhawk]

I suppose you are going to argue that lotto commericals are perfectly honest saying that you will win.

I challenge anyone to share a picture of a tower or bridge being built using half of the pieces from one these sets that contains many non brick pieces.

You sure are hung up on towers. Large-scale towers or buildings are easy to integrate parts of all sorts into, because of the scale.
Here's one made out of surfboards:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/75711523@N04/23620719739

Howabout wings?
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/medi ... 8fab_z.jpg

Dishes, arches, and claws?
https://brickarchitect.com/2018/jeff-fr ... ityscapes/

Maybe a treehouse made out of technic axle connectors and bananas?
https://bricknerd.com/home/quite-possib ... ver-7-2016

Even Lego does it:
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/asse ... 55?page=12
Look at all the details. We've got digger buckets, Thor's Hammer, claws, cupcake frosting, spigots, jumper plates, welding guns, plates with clips...all just to decorate buildings.

Howabout we scale down to furniture?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jREE8zaWj0c/ ... O%2529.jpg

There's a vanity with parts including control sticks, hot air balloon panels, green lantern lanterns, minifigure fans, wheel fenders

Maybe turn some minifigure stud-shooter guns into a soda fountain?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l56wtQ09ef8/ ... achine.jpg
Or furniture?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7TfptX2os3k/ ... zorro.jpeg

Your lack of imagination is your problem, not Lego's.

 

[Dr Gitlin]

Pathetic ,lego should be able kids and creativity and not sets filled with custom brick pieces that only serve a single purpose.

Lego you sold out to the hipsters.

Honestly, how many custom pieces do you actually spot here? The sprites, probably, though it is hard to tell with the little enemies. Apart from that it looks like just stickers and creative use of existing parts.

An excessive inventory of distinct bricks was a problem of Lego's troublesome phase in the late 90s and 2000s, but since then they have greatly reduced the number to less than half. And if you hang out at Lego forums it is often remarkable to see what creative uses people come up with for seemingly single-purpose bricks.

Anyone who watched "Lego Masters" would have seen those "creative uses" a dozen times a week.

I suppose you are going to argue that lotto commericals are perfectly honest saying that you will win.

I challenge anyone to share a picture of a tower or bridge being built using half of the pieces from one these sets that contains many non brick pieces.

I’m not sure if I’m less impressed by your posting history of whataboutism and casual racism, or your doubling down on 30-year out of date ideas about Lego.

 

[Dr Gitlin]

Actually I’m kidding, it’s definitely the racism.

 

[rosen380]

"https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7TfptX2os3k/ ... zorro.jpeg"

I love that they left the single stud on the seat of the chair (presumably) so that you can sit a minifig there and not have it slide off.

Granted, not sure why the other one doesn't have the exposed stud.

 

[cb88]

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?

Not if said cable uses a lego stud connector on both ends... with a stud with a hole in it and maybe locks into place on the unit with a lego snapped over it I think there may be similar legos for holding axles or something?

 

[japtor]

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I love that they left the single stud on the seat of the chair (presumably) so that you can sit a minifig there and not have it slide off.

Granted, not sure why the other one doesn't have the exposed stud.

I'd like to think it's the classic problem of "oh crap I ran out of pieces" and making do with what you have left to get as close as possible.

Back to Mario, I'd be down to get it to make this Hulk Bowserbuster armor:

https://twitter.com/crownavy/status/1283405806596063237