{"id":110343,"date":"2020-03-14T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/first_mario_zelda_and_metroid_next_lego_wants_to_create_more_nintendo-themed_sets"},"modified":"2020-03-14T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:05:00","slug":"first-mario-zelda-and-metroid-next-lego-wants-to-create-more-nintendo-themed-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/14\/first-mario-zelda-and-metroid-next-lego-wants-to-create-more-nintendo-themed-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"First Mario, Zelda And Metroid Next? LEGO Wants To Create More Nintendo-Themed Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0a3a009758f27\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0a3a009758f27\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0a3a009758f27\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get us wrong, the Super Mario Lego reveal earlier this week was great and all, but where are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/legend_of_zelda\">The Legend of Zelda<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/donkey_kong\">Donkey Kong<\/a><\/strong> sets? They&#8217;d be amazing, right? If you&#8217;re still imagining what else Nintendo and LEGO could eventually come up with, the good news is there seems to be a real chance of it happening.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with LEGO fansite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brothers-brick.com\/2020\/03\/13\/everything-you-want-to-know-about-lego-super-mario-feature\/?\">The Brothers Brick<\/a>, Design Manager at the LEGO Creative Play Lab and Digital Design Lead for LEGO Super Mario &#8211; Jonathan Bennink &#8211; was asked if Nintendo&#8217;s <em>other<\/em> series could eventually be transformed into LEGO sets.<\/p>\n<p>While he couldn&#8217;t share &#8220;any specifics&#8221; just yet, he did say the LEGO team was open to the idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They [Nintendo] have a lot of very exciting IPs that we might do or might not do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LEGO apparently hasn&#8217;t worked with Nintendo for the past four years just to release one wave, either. It&#8217;s hoping for a long-term partnership with the Japanese video game giant:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>we haven\u2019t worked for four years to release just one wave of products. We hope to have a long and fruitful relationship with Nintendo and their IPs, and we are really looking forward to working with them on a longer-term.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, there you go \u2013 Nintendo and LEGO&#8217;s partnership could go well beyond Super Mario sets. Are there any particular sets you would like to see? <em>Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get us wrong, the Super Mario Lego reveal earlier this week was great and all, but where are The Legend of Zelda and Donkey Kong sets? They&#8217;d be amazing, right? If you&#8217;re still imagining what else Nintendo and LEGO could eventually come up with, the good news is there seems to be a real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}