{"id":137275,"date":"2026-05-21T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201482"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:55:00","slug":"nintendo-teases-lego-donkey-kong-rolling-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/21\/nintendo-teases-lego-donkey-kong-rolling-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Teases LEGO Donkey Kong, &#8220;Rolling Soon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/791223ffa5b06\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/791223ffa5b06\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"791223ffa5b06\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"LEGO Donkey Kong tease\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/791223ffa5b06\/lego-donkey-kong-tease.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/791223ffa5b06\/lego-donkey-kong-tease.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"LEGO Donkey Kong tease\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo has teased an official LEGO Donkey Kong set via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/nintendo_today\">Nintendo Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the redoubtable <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/wario64.bsky.social\/post\/3mmembbjxoc2y\">Wario64<\/a>, the video tease on the app shows only the logos of the Danish company and the SK series, with a little brick barrel rolling from right to left across a wooden tabletop:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-bsky-post\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/wario64.bsky.social\/post\/3mmembbjxoc2y @ 2026-05-21T15:34:24+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:knj5sw5al3sukl6vhkpi7637\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mmembbjxoc2y\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidsf5dqr4qgvpe6iqaokfcfoictyrmum6vbsvqr2hquyxxjjfehqi\">\n<p lang=\"en\">LEGO Donkey Kong set coming soon<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:knj5sw5al3sukl6vhkpi7637?ref_src=embed\">Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:knj5sw5al3sukl6vhkpi7637\/post\/3mmembbjxoc2y?ref_src=embed\">2026-05-21T14:16:21.222Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There are no further details at the time of writing \u2014 we&#8217;ll update when more details come to light.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t DK&#8217;s first brush with Lego bricks, of course \u2014 he&#8217;s already appeared as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/04\/lego-reveals-new-donkey-kong-adventure-playsets\">Super Mario<\/a> and Mario Kart lines \u2014 but this would be the first set in a dedicated Lego Donkey Kong series.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumours of <a href=\"https:\/\/retrododo.com\/donkey-kong-arcade-machine-could-be-getting-a-lego-set\/\">a Lego DK arcade cabinet<\/a> launching in August, potentially similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/05\/lego-expands-its-retro-gaming-collection-with-a-usd270-pac-man-arcade-set\">the Pac-Man one<\/a> which launched in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>There was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/08\/donkey-kong-lego-ideas-set-has-enough-support-for-an-official-review\">an impressive DK submission<\/a> to the Lego Ideas scheme (which lets fans and builders submit designs for peer review, with the vote-winners going to Lego for evaluation and the best ones chosen for production) back in 2024, and the rolling barrel and the pixel art print on top suggest a set that gets back to DK&#8217;s arcade roots.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will we get to see a pixel Mario in &#8216;Jump Man&#8217; attire? Or will it feature the plumber in minifig form (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/08\/donkey-kong-lego-ideas-set-has-enough-support-for-an-official-review\">which we definitely know is coming in 2027<\/a>)? Let us know your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/related-articles:201354,198526,170467 @ 1779378566 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Nintendo has teased an official LEGO Donkey Kong set via Nintendo Today. As noted by the redoubtable Wario64, the video tease on the app shows only the logos of the Danish company and the SK series, with a little brick barrel rolling from right to left across a wooden tabletop: LEGO Donkey Kong [&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-137275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137275","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=137275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}