![]() ![]() ![]() The airship is neat not just because it looks cool and can be wooshed around like a normal toy, but it opens up as well, so that you can use it like part of the course. The biggest set so far has been Bowser’s Castle but there’s now another of the same size called Bowser’s Airship, which is one of the ones we were sent. You need one of the two starter courses to use the other sets, as they’re the only ones that come with a Bluetooth minifigure, but they’re relatively cheap and have plenty of building potential on their own. The building isn’t very complex, if you’re used to sets aimed at adults, but thinking up new courses is an enjoyably creative exercise which really does feel halfway between playing with Lego and playing a video game (especially if it’s Mario Maker). You use a free app (there are no paper instructions) and build the individual elements, including a seesaw and some gear pieces, and then put them together however you want. The Luigi Starter Course has different characters (a pink Yoshi and Boom Boom) and pieces but works in the same basic manner as the Mario one. Although there are preset course designs that come with each set the idea is that everything is modular and so you can move platforms, towers, and obstacles around and make your own course, to be completed against a 60 second timer. Interactive elements also have action bricks, with the various obstacles gaining you coins if you navigate them successfully.Īdd all these elements together and you come to the central appeal of the line: to create your own Super Mario courses and navigate through them using the minifgure, thereby earning coins along the way. ![]() The sensor can detect colours, so that yellow is interpreted as sand, purple as poison, and so on, but each set also has multiple ‘action bricks’ which allow you to jump on an enemy and have the minifigure react with the correct sound effect and animations in its eyes, mouth, and chest. The exception is Mario and Luigi who are complex Bluetooth devices that have a sensor in their feet that can tell what kind of brick they’re standing on. There are no traditional minifigures in any of the sets and instead everything is built from ordinary bricks, which gives all the characters a charmingly blocky, N64 style look. You can read our review of some of the original Super Mario sets here but the basic idea is quite different from the Lego norm. ![]()
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