After some teasing and online speculation, Lego has officially revealed its next collaboration with Nintendo: A Piranha Plant that will fit perfectly on your desk or shelf. Unlike previous Lego Mario sets, this one won't break the bank with its price tag.
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Nintendo and Lego have been collaborating on Super Mario, including a popular series featuring electronic Mario characters and custom levels built from Lego bricks and pieces. This collaboration between the two family-friendly brands has resulted in some big and expensive sets, like the impressively large Bowser from 2022 and the giant Super Mario 64 block from 2021. While those sets were nice, they weren't cheap, with Bowser costing $270 and the large block costing $170. So we were pleasantly surprised to see that Lego's latest Nintendo set—a gorgeous Piranha Plant—is well under $100.
Revealed on Thursday, the Lego Piranha Plant – set number 71426 – consists of 540 pieces and costs $60. According to Lego's website, the Piranha Plant will be released on November 6th.
The oddly affordable Mario-themed plant set isn't as expensive as that radical NES set, but it doesn't feel like a budget set either. The brick-built Piranha Plant isn't blocky or overly cluttered with custom pieces, so it still looks like a regular Lego, while also being instantly recognizable. That's not easy to do; look at Lego Chewbacca. It's also nice to see such a cheap set with fully posable parts. The plant's head, mouth, stem, and leaves can be moved around and posed in funny (or suggestive) poses. And Lego's website says the set also comes with two Super Mario coins.
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It should be noted that this Piranha Plant set cannot connect or interact with the Super Mario sets and levels, but you could just place it next to the levels and it would look awesome.
We really hope this is just the beginning of something new. We'd love to see more Mario enemies and characters in affordable brick sets like this, instead of them all being expensive, bulky, or tied into level-based playsets. Next up: We want a Goomba the size of a melon.
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source of information:kotaku.com
