For a professional plumber, Mario spends very little time fixing Toad’s temperamental boiler or clearing Yoshi’s blocked drains (not a euphemism). In fact, he seems to spend just as much time bumping his head on blocks as he does investigating pipes, so it’s probably about time he got his own Lego set.
Nintendo’s nonconformist approach to gaming has been transferred to the Lego realm, so you get a slightly wonky-looking Bluetooth-enabled Mario with LCD screens in his eyes, mouth and belly, movement and colour sensors, plus a speaker for emitting the sounds of the Mushroom Kingdom. As the portly plumber traverses the real-life Lego levels he’ll collect virtual coins, squash Goombas and interact with the seven action bricks before taking on Bowser Jr, making this a mashup of a traditional Lego set, a board game and Super Mario Maker.