

This has been a close collaboration, over four years in total of development. How involved were Nintendo, did they give you ideas or did they just hand you the keys to the Mushroom Kingdom? He also has motion sensors, so you can jump him, you can shake him he gets all dizzy, put him on his back and then he falls asleep, etc. Mario recognises the action bricks, and knows when the level starts and then from there on you collect coins by interacting with the different blocks, platforms, enemies and bricks. The sensor also reads special action bricks, you can see on some blocks and the enemies as well as the start and the finish. You can also totally use bricks from your own bin in these colours. So green, blue, yellow, and red, and depending on what you read, he has a different reaction to that. He has two sensors, a special brick sensor that reacts to the four basic Lego colours. He has a speaker that can talk to you and play music at the same time. He's brought to life with an LCD display, so we can animate his eyes, mouth and belly screen. Super Mario Lego: Swap brick-breaking for brick making in this interactive world And then he recognises what's going on the rolling screen beneath and plays sound effects. You can even put Mario on top of the little television.

We've also just announced the Lego Nintendo Entertainment System which was a lot of fun to work on as you can imagine, that's bringing the old school 8-bit NES back. And then you can of course rebuild and try it again. With Mario you collect as many coins as you can in 60 seconds, and the amount of coins that you collect depends on how you play and what you build. You build levels for him out of your imagination, and anything between the start to finish to his level.

Mario comes to life in brick form, and he reacts to Lego bricks. Lego Super Mario is the product of a partnership with Nintendo and Lego. We talked to the brilliant Jonathan Bennink, design lead on Lego Super Mario and design manager of legos Creative Play Lab.Ĭould you explain to me your latest Lego sets Super Mario and the Lego Nintendo Entertainment System? To celebrate Lego and Nintendo have collaborated to bring the 8-bit world of Mario and the Classic Nintendo Entertainment system back in glorious brick form.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of video game icon Super Mario.
