After Nintendo and Lego teased a collaboration earlier this week, we've finally been given a glimpse of the toy sets behind the moustache - and they're looking a little more high-tech than you might expect. Well, it is Nintendo after all.
In a new video released today you can spot power and bluetooth buttons on Mario's back, meaning Mario can interact with the environment to set off countdown timers, stomp on blocks and collect coins. The press release describes it as "neither a video game nor a traditional Lego brick-based set", allowing kids (and adults) to create their own "real-life game levels created with Lego bricks".
"The new product that we developed together with the Lego Group combines two different ways of playing with each other," said Nintendo exec Takashi Tezuka. "On the one hand, the world of Mario can be built and designed completely freely, on the other hand, you can play with Mario in exactly this self-created world. "