The first big LEGO® news to come out of Gamescom is the official reveal of the LEGO Super Mario Kart sets. It was revealed during this year’s MAR10 Day events that the racing side of Mario’s world would be speeding onto shelves in early 2025. The range will be part of the LEGO Super Mario theme and feature several iconic Nintendo characters in brick-built form as well as offering the ability to use the three interactive LEGO Mario, LEGO Luigi and LEGO Peach figures. The LEGO Super Mario: Mario Kart sets will be available from January 1st, 2025. That’s not all there will also be three new LEGO Animal Crossing sets. Check out the new LEGO Nintendo sets below.
3, 2, 1… GO! The LEGO Group Reveals First-Ever LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ Sets
The LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ sets were officially revealed at gamescom, an annual trade show for gamers held in Cologne, alongside three new LEGO® Animal Crossing™ sets.
Cologne, Germany, August 21, 2024: Today at gamescom, the LEGO Group revealed six never-before-seen LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ sets, bringing Nintendo’s iconic Mario Kart franchise to the world of LEGO bricks for the very first time.
The addition of Mario Kart adds an entirely new dimension to the LEGO Super Mario experience, in which digital and physical play collide in the most spectacular fashion together. What’s more, the new sets feature some of Super Mario’s best-known characters, including Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Toad, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi and Baby Peach.
The LEGO Super Mario: Mario Kart sets were originally teased as part of the LEGO Group’s MAR10 Day celebration in March, and today’s reveal provides Mario Kart fans and LEGO builders their first full look at the new, highly anticipated products, launching January 1, 2025. Each set is designed to ensure that the LEGO brick version offers a fun way to experience the Mario Kart universe.
With vibrant characters, customisable karts and unique track items that will pave the way for endless play, these sets will get fans’ creative engines revving as they can turn unexpected surfaces into the ultimate Mario Kart track.
To add a layer of digital play, fans can also add a LEGO® Mario™, LEGO® Luigi™ or LEGO® Peach™ (figures not included) to the new Mario Kart sets which takes the interactive experience into high gear when putting one of the figures into the driver’s seat. This includes iconic Mario Kart audio and visual effects for race-starting, horn-honking, kart-drifting and gliding sounds from the game. Players can also use these characters to scan Item Boxes, allowing them to collect extra coins and help boost their score as they finish the race!
LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ – Yoshi Bike (72031) is the perfect build for fans who enjoy drifting between traffic cones or launching shells. Builders ages 7 and up can look forward to a Light-Blue Yoshi toy figure, a shell item, and a brick-built bike in this 133-piece play set.
LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ – Standard Kart (72032) is for all the original players, ready to race and drive the classic Standard Kart. The 174-piece set for ages 7+ includes a buildable model of the standard edition Mario Kart, a workstation, a Toad toy figure in his red pit crew uniform, plus a detachable Super Glider!
LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ – Donkey Kong & DK Jumbo (72033) is a set that features one of Donkey Kong’s signature karts – the DK Jumbo. Launch items such as shells and a banana on the course to slow down other players! The 387-piece set is for fans aged 8+.
LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ – Baby Mario vs. Baby Luigi (72034) is for ages 8 and up. The set features Baby Mario in his Biddybuggy and Baby Luigi in his Tri-Speeder, ready to launch shells for a Balloon Battle. There are 6 buildable balloons in this 321-piece set.
LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ – Toad’s Garage (72035) includes two Blue Toads (Pit Crew), ready to tune up karts in his garage. The Blue Toads are in the garage and all-focused on getting the B Dasher kart ready to race. Players aged 8 and up can use this 390-piece build to customize their very own kart.
LEGO® Super Mario™: Mario Kart™ – Baby Peach & Grand Prix Set (72036) is for ages 8 and up, showing Baby Peach in her Wild Wiggler kart alongside Lemmy in the Landship kart and Toad on the standard bike. Choose your character, drift around an obstacle-filled course and race to victory in this 823-piece set including a starting gate and more.
Simon Kent, Design Director at the LEGO Group, Group says: “We are beyond excited to turbo-charge our LEGO Super Mario universe with the reveal of these latest Mario Kart sets, that we know fans have been eagerly waiting for. We can’t wait for builders of all ages to put their pedal to the metal and bring Mario Kart races to brick-built reality at home with friends and family. The brand-new LEGO Super Mario: Mario Kart sets provide an immersive building experience and capture the heart-pounding action of the beloved video game series – showing fans that the world is your track like never before!”
Three new LEGO Animal Crossing sets join the party!
This wasn’t the only exciting announcement to come from the two brands at gamescom, with the addition of three new LEGO Animal Crossing sets also being announced: LEGO® Animal Crossing™ Stargazing with Celeste (77053), LEGO® Animal Crossing™ Leif’s Caravan & Garden Shop (77054) and LEGO® Animal Crossing™ Able Sisters Clothing Shop (77055).
This charming expansion allows fans to continue creating and exploring their own Animal Crossing villages and fun in brick play, bringing even more characters from the video game series into the LEGO play realm.
