Mario Lego… is it any good?

[Runaway1]

Just that really. I’m wondering about it for dd who will be 7, but not sure if it will be really fun or something that gets built once and gathers dust. Does anyone have any experience and how has it gone down with your kids?

Ds2 is a bit older (15 now) but he's had his for a year and enjoys it.
You don't need the app to check the scores etc. The little model shows you their score.
We only get bits when they're quite reduced.

Thanks, yeah, it’s quite pricy. I’ll wait for a sale!

We’ve got a shit tonne of this stuff and it’s barely been looked at beyond the first day it was all opened!
i think it’s pretty cool but ds was never a particularly big Lego fan so not sure what I was expecting really 😂

One hit wonder in our house. It got dragged out maybe three times but definitely not played with as much as regular lego

Yes I wish they had done traditional min figures sets instead of the "large figures" Ninjago or minecraft sets gets much more play here, even though DS loves Mario and Luigi.

Mine do t have the stuff to play it as such but the 15yo has the cube built and on display and it is very cool and clever the way it folds away.

My DS is a huge Mario fan but those sets were very short lived. You need an app to build them, none of them come with traditional booklet instructions. Imo, they are trying to be something that they are not (a game) with the scoring etc. The only thing that gets played with from these sets are the figures (Mario, Luigi etc). I would not buy them again.

Ds is nearly 13 and we got him a couple of sets when they first came out, he’s been adding to it himself and has quite a few now. They go through cycles of being played with a lot and then abandoned for a while. He’s had them all out again this week. When he first got them it was a bit of a pain because he’d need to borrow a phone so that he could play it with the app but now he has his own he can just get on with it.

I’d say the biggest problem with them is storage. He likes to keep the bigger sets built so that when he feels like setting up a course it’s all ready to go and they do take up a lot of room.

@Desperado40 this really annoyed me about it actually, the fact that there’s no booklet and you need an app to construct it.
a big plus point to me of ‘toys’ is that it’s screen free - ds didn’t have a screen of his own so we needed to give him one of ours (which was fine, I wasn’t begrudging that part of it!) - it just takes what had always been a good old fashioned toy and turned it into yet another thing that involves bloody screens. Not a plus point for me.

@TheChosenTwo absolutely this. I was really annoyed that he had to again be glue to a screen in order to build the sets with no paper instructions alternative.

Ds desperately wanted this, played for a bit but then got bored - it’s pretty limited unless you buy loads of (imo overpriced) sets. he has added to it since but the last set he asked for for Christmas stayed in the box unbuilt for about five months.

Also word of warning - where he’d not played for ages the battery inside Mario had leaked.