The Best LEGO Nintendo Sets for All Ages to Enjoy

The LEGO Super Mario playsets let you to physique your ain Mario courses. You usage an LED Mario figurine to scan barcodes connected enemies and obstacles, which creates audio feedback similar euphony and classical Mario sounds. The coins you cod are tallied successful an app, which syncs to Mario and documents your progress.

This is the astir caller starter acceptable that comes with the Mario LED figure; each the different enlargement sets volition not "work" without it. It besides comes with different essentials: a starting pipe, a Yoshi figure, a flagpole, and a a Bowser, Jr. fig that rides wrong a Junior Clown Car.

The Mario Kart sets are each compatible with the Interactive Mario LED fig that comes successful the Adventures starter set. This classical Kart build, which includes a Glider, a Toad pit unit member, and a launching mechanics for Green and Red Shells, is an fantabulous spot to commencement designing contention courses. If you're a instrumentality of the Mario Kart games, this is simply a large acceptable to enactment together.

At conscionable $19.99, it's 1 of the champion fund LEGO sets you'll find. And with Mario Kart World retired present connected the Switch 2, we're apt going to spot a batch much of these sets.

We built this acceptable for its launch, and it managed to implicit present connected its promise. The LEGO Piranha Plant has property and adorability to spare, and its terms belies its quality. It's uncommon to consciousness similar you're ever getting a woody erstwhile you bargain a LEGO set. But this Piranha successful a tube is reasonably priced and worthy each penny. Highly recommended.

One of the best, astir nostalgic LEGO sets successful caller memory, this depiction of Mario & Yoshi moves with the crook of the crank. And it's not conscionable Yoshi's feet – it's his caput and arm, arsenic good arsenic Mario's cape. A abstracted mechanics triggers Yoshi to unfastened his rima and instrumentality retired his tongue. It's besides astir 16 inches tall, truthful the bright, 16-bit colors truly pop. It's a large acceptable that comes consecutive from our wide favourite Mario crippled ever made.

We photographed and wrote astir this acceptable erstwhile it launched. A 2-in-1 build, this acceptable lets you take betwixt the Ocarina of Time iteration oregon the Breath of the Wild iteration. You besides get 3 versions of Link, 1 Princess Zelda, and accessories that see the Master Sword and a Hylian Shield. While it is decidedly amusive to enactment together, it is wide 1 of the much costly LEGO sets you'll find.

The Mario & Standard Kart acceptable mounts onto a tilted stand, which gives the content that Mario is performing his signature powerfulness descent maneuver. We built and reviewed this acceptable for its launch, and we were impressed by its size and expressiveness.

Typically successful Mario games, Bowser is the last brag of the last castle. But successful 2023's Super Mario Wonder, helium merges with and becomes the castle itself. Prince Florian & Castle Bowser doubles arsenic some a show portion and a playset (compaticle with the different LEGO Super MArio sets). Take the castle disconnected its stand, and the caput opens up to uncover further interactive elements inside.

The LEGO Game Boy has a comparatively debased terms of $59.99, on with a debased portion number of 421. However, it's a adjacent 1:1 standard replica of the classical gaming handheld, and it comes with 2 buildable "Game Pak" cartridges, Super Mario Land and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

A self-contained playset, the Yoshi Bike is technically 1 of the LEGO Super Mario playsets, but it looks crisp capable and implicit capable to basal isolated from it. The motorcycle itself has a large plan (with Yoshi eggs connected its sides) and a reddish ammunition launcher connected its backmost to support it from incoming projectiles.

At the extremity of Ocarina of Time (1998), Ganondorf reveals his existent "Ganon" signifier —a hideous boar-like demon with tusks and a atrocious attitude. This LEGO acceptable includes a monolithic buildable Ganon with 2 swords, positive minifigures for Link, Zelda and Ganondorf. You tin airs these elements wrong a larger diorama of Ganon's ruined castle, which besides conceals 3 Recovery Hearts and the Megaton Hammer.

How Many LEGO Nintendo Sets Are There?

As of February 2026, determination are 20 LEGO Super Mario sets, 7 LEGO Sonic the Hedgehog sets, 13 LEGO Animal Crossing sets, and six LEGO The Legend of Zelda acceptable disposable for acquisition connected the authoritative LEGO store.

A Shift successful Approach

Prince Florian & Castle Bowser is technically an enlargement playset, but it is marketed arsenic a standalone set. It demonstrates what seems to beryllium a caller LEGO Nintendo attack for 2026 and beyond: a plan ethos that does not strictly delineate a children's acceptable from an big set. We saw this with the Mario Kart - Mario & Standard Kart acceptable that launched successful May 2025. And we're seeing it again with the Ocarina of Time - The Final Battle acceptable that volition motorboat successful March 2026.

We've besides noticed an accrued accent connected the Mario Kart playsets implicit the Super Mario platformer playsets. And that makes consciousness from a fiscal standpoint. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (not Super Mario Odyssey), was the apical selling crippled connected the Nintendo Switch. And 82% of players who bought the Nintendo Switch 2 besides bought Mario Kart World Tour, which launched with the console.

The early, child-oriented LEGO Super Mario playsets were precise piecemeal and airy – isolated, singular elements and simple, level plates that connected the elements together. The builds were excessively rudimentary, adjacent for children's builds – they felt similar LEGO sets designed for children who don't similar LEGO.

What Does the Future of LEGO Nintendo Look Like?

Today, the LEGO Super Mario sets are much important and detail-laden, adjacent though they inactive person the barcodes that designate them arsenic enlargement playsets. The champion of these sets marque the mobile gameplay a secondary interest to however it looks connected display, and however amusive and engaging it is to build. And that is wherever the accent should ever be. Because whether it's for kids oregon adults, the joyousness comes from the physique itself; the last merchandise is the outgrowth of that.

There's a large LEGO documentary connected Netflix; it's portion of a moving bid called "The Toys That Made Us," and I would urge it to anyone. My biggest takeaway from the movie is that LEGO has tried, galore times, to flight oregon broaden its entreaty by creating different toys oregon by reinventing the bricks someway – by overlaying them with augmented reality, oregon repurposing them successful immoderate odd, niche fashion. But it ne'er turns retired good oregon lasts, and LEGO keeps returning to the happening that radical emotion most.

Those archetypal Mario playsets were a measurement excessively acold and emphasized play implicit build. And present that LEGO is creating sets that are much successful enactment with their plan and institution strengths, the aboriginal looks bright.

Also, beryllium definite to cheque retired our lists of the champion Star Wars LEGO sets and champion Harry Potter LEGO sets. And if you're much into superheroes, you tin instrumentality a look astatine the champion Marvel LEGO sets arsenic well.

Kevin Wong is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN, specializing successful LEGO. He's besides been published successful Complex, Engadget, Gamespot, Kotaku, and more. Follow him connected Twitter astatine @kevinjameswong.