Check out our timelapse build and review of the new LEGO NES console, controller, Super Mario cartridge, and television sets - plus a brilliant easter egg! #ign
Hey! Thanks for watching my unboxing/timelapse build of the new LEGO NES! It was SUCH a fun build. Sorry for saying "uhh" and "umm" so many times in this video. I stayed up very late and woke up very early to work on this video so I was kinda loopy :) Let me know if you have any questions about this LEGO set and I'll do my best to answer them below! Thanks
I don't think nintendo would give Lego the rights to use mario like that. I think they rather make the mario game themselves, and if they were making a mario game, they would probably make way more money making a 3d mario follow up to odyssey.
This is actually really neat, and I could easily see it being a background prop in people's Nintendo-related youtube videos. That said, that looks like a fairly solid build, and should it need to be packed up and put away it could probably just be wrapped up, unlike a lot of other lego kits that are about as solid as handling Christmas ornaments.
Wow. I just built this today and didn't even notice that hidden Easter egg while building it. I was just following the instructions and listening to podcasts so sort of spaced out.
Honestly I feel like they should just make a version that's just the console itself without the TV part. It could be half the price and I think a lot more people would be likely to buy it. They could have just made these two separate sets at $100 each and offer a bundle instead of forcing you to go all or nothing.
Wish I was more of a Nintendo fan so I would have an excuse to get this set. I'm lacking that feeling of nostalgia I'm sure a lot of people are feeling when they see this. Without that it's really hard to justify getting one. But it's a really cool set.
something that would be really cool is a couple expansion packs for this. something like a racing game or zelda. it could just be like a flat panel you put in the tv and a cartridge and sell them for like 20-30 dollars for each. i think that would be pretty cool
Maybe I'm just being silly here...but a CRT like that would be highly unlikely to have composite input...a TV like that would even be unlikely to have COAX. It would probably have one of those rabbit ear connectors that needed another adapter.
Imagine if there were bricks with built in HDMI-, micro-usb- and nunchuck connectors; such that you could just just put a NES Classic inside this thing and call it a day. I suppose I could always make those myself though.
Blowing in the cartridge to make the games work an urban myth? Listen buddy, I was there, there was no way in hell that my games would work, unless I showed them some love. Myth... Yeah right.
Those are not audio / video switches! They are the composite video (yellow) and mono audio (red) jacks. You know the ones that are on pretty much every video device until hdmi took over.
Just my opinion but would be cool if lego made kits for all consoles, would be cool as a display piece, also really like this, would buy it if it was cheaper
This was amazingly done for being shot all remotely. You guys really made this as great as it could be given social distancing circumstances! This sold me. Just bought one.
Oh man, thank you so much! That seriously means the world to me. I’ve made a real effort to up my production skills and shooting/lighting stuff from home since quarantine started so it really makes me happy to hear you say that
I'm not sure, honestly. That's one of my few complaints with this set. They easily could've chucked a few more "wire" parts in the box since the ports are there for them to connect.
I'm hoping people put the instructions + brick list online so people can buy the parts to make their own carts and put custom stickers on them. I would LOVE a gold Zelda cart in this style.
Ok, that easter egg is something that really SHOULDN'T have been shown yet. It was clearly withheld from any of Lego's marketing, promo images, or showcase videos for a reason. This is something that was clearly meant for builders to find on their own as a little surprise while they construct the NES. Also, to have the video released a few hours BEFORE anyone in America can actually buy it to experience for themselves is completely unfair. If you want to show the easter egg, that's fine. Just maybe wait a month or two after launch to give people a chance to discover it for themselves. But no, you gotta be the first. You gotta get the clicks.
@@BrianAltano Cus honestly I thought it was the Mario figure compatibility that you alluded to at the end. I never heard of a Lego product having "spoilers" so I didn't think it would be that much. Whether I clicked on it or not, I still think the reveal was released too early. Just as you had the surprise when you built it, let others have time to discover that as well.
@@metroid767 Right, but when I'm trying to avoid information about a thing because I'm saving it for myself, I tend to not click on videos and articles about it, especially when the headline implicitly states "Hidden Secret." It's not like I spoiled it in the headline. It's deliberately revealed six minutes into the video.
Brian Altano That is fair. I think i was just annoyed at the timing and being unaware of what actually might be shown. I apologize for my overly headstrong initial comment. Hope I didn’t upset you.
Hey! Thanks for watching my unboxing/timelapse build of the new LEGO NES! It was SUCH a fun build. Sorry for saying "uhh" and "umm" so many times in this video. I stayed up very late and woke up very early to work on this video so I was kinda loopy :) Let me know if you have any questions about this LEGO set and I'll do my best to answer them below! Thanks
Brian Altano how well does Super Mario Bros. work on the fake NES?
LOL
Is it available now if not when will it be available
@@aydendutile993 Goes on sale on August 1st!
@@metrocappy4246 It's basically a chunk of world 1-1 that loops forever without ever reaching the flagpole so it's sort of a perpetual hell for Mario.
I am totally expecting someone building a functional NES Lego System; taking the circuits of the original NES and installing them inside the Lego NES
Definitely
It’s been done
The set hasn’t even officially released yet and somebody has already done it. Amazing. Or have I been bamboozled...
TheMuchSwagDoge it’s on a channel called BrickDepot
@@Seti12345 where
That hidden level is actually very cool!
5:42 for the Easter egg
Best Easter egg period.
I swear were getting a Lego Mario game soon
yea fr they’re comings out with paper mario lego is prob next
I don't think nintendo would give Lego the rights to use mario like that. I think they rather make the mario game themselves, and if they were making a mario game, they would probably make way more money making a 3d mario follow up to odyssey.
Zachary they gave Ubisoft rights with Mario+ rabbids, so you never know.
@@Mud9 Its TT games who devolpe the Lego games so I believe Nintendo have the day if they would like a Lego Mario game
@@KITARO true there. Guess it depends how successful they think it would be through whatever the lego game studio is.
Compared to the price of less Lego kits this isn't that expensive.
Well kinda the same honestly LEGO is pretty expensive
Crazy Cardenas I’m not disagreeing I’m just saying comparatively.
Damn IGN, just all kinds of 80s and 90s classics today huh
I'm 32 years old and I will ALWAYS love legos....this right here is so freaking cool. Definitely getting it.
Lego and Nintendo is just for anyone.
I like Lego but I love Nintendo
Me: I want LEGO rn
My wallet: your gonna be some saving up to do
This guy along with a couple other employees are the only reason I watch ign
Yeah same
Can't stand Greg Millar.
Same
And the trailers
Especially after the sonic thing
Just a matter of time before someone figures out how to build more levels
Andrew Alarcon that’s the first thing I wanna try
Yeah and lego will probably build expansion packs to do other games for it
Joe Mann they definitely will if this set gets popular
6:06 the secret
Thx
Hope everyone sees this.
🐐
Thank you
It's not an urban legend if it worked! 😂😂 The ol' blow it clean and love tap it in trick worked 95% of the time.
I was looking for this comment
Blowing the cart doesn't clean it. It's the act of removing and inserting the cart that realigned the pins in the reader.
@@ArcaJ Pretty sure debris like dust and dirt would prevent contact at times between the cartridge and the docking slot, but sure you're right.
Blow in the cart, and the pop down...💯🤙 Duster wasn't really a thing for us 80s/90s kids 🙄
my wife's boyfriend said he will buy this for me on my birthday 😍
Your wife is a very luck woman
Hold on? Ur wife got a boyfriend?
Wait, What?
So... your buying it for yourself?
pretty much every reply here is a literal woooosh
But can it run Crysis?
LMAO
This is actually really neat, and I could easily see it being a background prop in people's Nintendo-related youtube videos. That said, that looks like a fairly solid build, and should it need to be packed up and put away it could probably just be wrapped up, unlike a lot of other lego kits that are about as solid as handling Christmas ornaments.
My wife spent $600 on Mario LEGO this morning. I gotta say, you love to see it.
Here on Brazil, the starter set is already $600
@@valdirberbert9361 Is this a joke? Can you prove it?
If we didn't had all these taxes it would come for 300 and something
video game companies are very wholesome. They just decide to work with Lego or anything else, and I support that brotherly love. It's amazing.
Except that the force their employees to work extreme overtimes.
Damn that Easter egg was completely unexpected but so freaking awesome.
Imagine if Nintendo mans other consoles in LEGO like a LEGO SNES or LEGO GameBoy
Wow. I just built this today and didn't even notice that hidden Easter egg while building it. I was just following the instructions and listening to podcasts so sort of spaced out.
Honestly I feel like they should just make a version that's just the console itself without the TV part. It could be half the price and I think a lot more people would be likely to buy it. They could have just made these two separate sets at $100 each and offer a bundle instead of forcing you to go all or nothing.
It feels like a toy more than other LEGO sets.
So legos aren’t a toy ( other than the vary few LEGO collector sets )
I guess you need to hit that soon in order to even get one. Looks like a very nice piece to build and put on display.
Brian Altano looks like Anthony Fantano’s older brother.
Blowing on the cart was not an urban legend.
Urban legend that believed all over the world.
Wish I was more of a Nintendo fan so I would have an excuse to get this set. I'm lacking that feeling of nostalgia I'm sure a lot of people are feeling when they see this. Without that it's really hard to justify getting one. But it's a really cool set.
Same. I was a SNES Kid.
something that would be really cool is a couple expansion packs for this. something like a racing game or zelda. it could just be like a flat panel you put in the tv and a cartridge and sell them for like 20-30 dollars for each. i think that would be pretty cool
The idea that blowing on the carts is an urban legend (and doesn't really work), IS ITSELF an urban legend. It does work.
Maybe I'm just being silly here...but a CRT like that would be highly unlikely to have composite input...a TV like that would even be unlikely to have COAX. It would probably have one of those rabbit ear connectors that needed another adapter.
The hard news guy still works at ign
this is the coolest lego kit I've ever seen. And yes, blowing into those karts totally worked. A lot of times, they wouldn't otherwise
Imagine if there were bricks with built in HDMI-, micro-usb- and nunchuck connectors; such that you could just just put a NES Classic inside this thing and call it a day.
I suppose I could always make those myself though.
Blowing in the cartridge to make the games work an urban myth? Listen buddy, I was there, there was no way in hell that my games would work, unless I showed them some love. Myth... Yeah right.
Wow that Easter egg was tastier than a Cadbury
Brian, you killed it with this video. Very informative and professional shots. I kinda shrugged when I first saw this but now I want it sooo bad!
Ordered first thing this morning!! So loving this. I swore I wasn’t buying any Lego for at least another year to curb my addiction.... HaHaHaHaHA
Raspberry Pi inside this official LEGO NES?
_the nostalgia hammer has strucked me hard
Those are not audio / video switches! They are the composite video (yellow) and mono audio (red) jacks. You know the ones that are on pretty much every video device until hdmi took over.
1:44 ummmmm no bro. No. If you actually had one growing up you KNEW that worked. It definitely worked.
Correlation=/ causation
Taking the game out and putting it back in probably did the trick already.
Rick Moranis builds Legos. Cool!
They should have scaled it 1:1. That I can put my original NES board and stuff in it :-). Would be the best shell ever
I fully expect people to mod this with the classic NES mini components so it is playable
Urban legend? Uh, Na man... cleaning dust off of electronic contact points helps them work better.
You should try dusting once in a while.
Hey blowing on the cartridge actually worked! Always did that when it had a hard time reading a game.
Just my opinion but would be cool if lego made kits for all consoles, would be cool as a display piece, also really like this, would buy it if it was cheaper
Need The LEGO Super Mario Movie?
Urban Legend?
- It's to get rid of the dust or other residue which would interfere with the contacts.
I get the vibe it was your first lego build ever 😂
This was amazingly done for being shot all remotely. You guys really made this as great as it could be given social distancing circumstances! This sold me. Just bought one.
Oh man, thank you so much! That seriously means the world to me. I’ve made a real effort to up my production skills and shooting/lighting stuff from home since quarantine started so it really makes me happy to hear you say that
I can't wait to see someone mod these into a fully working NES!
My thoughts exactly.
I was debating wether to get this set or not today. Sad that I didn’t get it...
Great review, learned a few things I never even knew about, you definitely nailed all the major selling points!
Talk about sensory memory. As soon as I saw the back of the TV, I smelled ozone l7ke from an old CRT.
What a cool easter egg! I love that thing,might get one as the Nes is my fav console.
That tv is fancy. We never had one that was RCA cable compatible.
Dope review man! cant wait for our set to get here!
real life easter egg
Nice video, I might get one now
Great set for sure but any one else concerned that Nintendo have more Lego sets than games out this year?
The box said,18+ and up,that means not for amateur builders.
They made the controller “wired”, why didnt they make av cables to connect the 2?
I'm not sure, honestly. That's one of my few complaints with this set. They easily could've chucked a few more "wire" parts in the box since the ports are there for them to connect.
I wish it was a real NES Lego.
This is the coolest set ever I think its worth it hope they make more lego classic systems
I couldn't hear you over the cereal I was chewing
How cool would it be for Lego to release more NES carts with screens for this....zelda, metroid, etc.
I'm hoping people put the instructions + brick list online so people can buy the parts to make their own carts and put custom stickers on them. I would LOVE a gold Zelda cart in this style.
Looks real cool
This is so sick
i wanna see lego playstation 1 and 2
Dymond2010 No.
Nice set. But price makes me shiver 🥶
Incredibly cool, but too rich for my blood.
That's a big box.
For that price you'd think it would at least play the original Super Mario Bros.
Too cool, with the television :) Love that...
0:40 at least you are sincere
who's gonna put raspberry pi on that thing
What an interesting idea. Who'd have expected something like this?
I feel like we could get a LEGO update for Mario maker
Oh man I would LOVE that.
I bet these little kids never played Nintendo before
And?
@@nicolasdziwinsky6769 and
Doesn’t matter
How would they have been able to?
I thought it was a real console for a bit there 🤔
Just put you nintendo mini inside it and see if it fits, that's all we wanna see :)
The price includes a TV and not just the console so it makes up for it ;)
Can you guys do a Prediction video of sets for upcoming waves you want to see??!
Like more Mario theme characters/ sets
Or other Nintendo properties!
Omg that Easter egg blew my mind! A hidden level... who would have thought!
LEGO Super Mario has been released today
Bought it this morning, can’t wait for it to get here
You didn't have to blow on any of the pieces for it to come together.... wow
But, does it make you fell like spiderman?
Spider-Man doesn't really fall that often. He has webs that attach to things that keep him from falling.
Very cool, just hate the price.
Ok, that easter egg is something that really SHOULDN'T have been shown yet. It was clearly withheld from any of Lego's marketing, promo images, or showcase videos for a reason. This is something that was clearly meant for builders to find on their own as a little surprise while they construct the NES. Also, to have the video released a few hours BEFORE anyone in America can actually buy it to experience for themselves is completely unfair. If you want to show the easter egg, that's fine. Just maybe wait a month or two after launch to give people a chance to discover it for themselves. But no, you gotta be the first. You gotta get the clicks.
So... why did you click on a video about it, then?
@@BrianAltano Cus honestly I thought it was the Mario figure compatibility that you alluded to at the end. I never heard of a Lego product having "spoilers" so I didn't think it would be that much. Whether I clicked on it or not, I still think the reveal was released too early. Just as you had the surprise when you built it, let others have time to discover that as well.
@@metroid767 Right, but when I'm trying to avoid information about a thing because I'm saving it for myself, I tend to not click on videos and articles about it, especially when the headline implicitly states "Hidden Secret." It's not like I spoiled it in the headline. It's deliberately revealed six minutes into the video.
Brian Altano That is fair. I think i was just annoyed at the timing and being unaware of what actually might be shown. I apologize for my overly headstrong initial comment. Hope I didn’t upset you.
20 people can't be first
Just saying I'm second
Edit: accually I was 3rd and thanks for 20 likes! Try to make it to 30 Bois!
Damn it. It’s a lego set not kit. The fact that u keep calling it a kit is insane.
A LEGO nes that’s awesome now I’m just waiting for a LEGO game boy
Kits gonna sell out and be worth 2k later
I love your videos ign keep up the great content awesome job
Yes it's expensive but...LEGO!!!
At that price, I fully expected it to be functional. $230 for two blocks of plastic... each to his own, I suppose.
You think that crazy, there's people who charge thousands of dollars for rocks.
Yeah, welcome to LEGO. Their stuff is expensive.
Thanks to the power of the internet, someone somewhere will make this work....... Like for real
.... I'm now contemplating whether I really need a next gen console yet or if I should just get this 🤣😂