Behind the Scenes Video Reveals How Comic-Con's 14 Foot Tall LEGO Bowser Was Made
LEGO has given Super Mario fans a treat by releasing a behind-the-scenes video featuring the construction of the giant LEGO Bowser that was shown off at San Diego Comic-Con this summer. At 14 feet tall, it’s certainly one of the more impressive creations to come out of LEGO in recent times, and no doubt plenty of fans will be interested in seeing it brought to life.
The first in-person San Diego Comic-Con since 2019 brought plenty of intriguing reveals and announcements for fans of all things geeky. Much of the focus, as per usual, was on comics and movie-related announcements, including reveals for highly-anticipated films like Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Amid all this, Nintendo and LEGO had brought a massive brick-based Bowser to the show floor, an aptly monstrous replica of Mario’s longtime nemesis made up of nearly 700,000 individual pieces and sporting mechanical parts allowing the statue to roar and move its arms, head, and eyes.
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The behind-the-scenes video LEGO shared this week offers a brief yet intriguing glimpse at this king-sized Bowser’s creation. Running at just 48 seconds, the video shows a mix of real-time and time-lapse footage of the creators going over the 14-foot-tall LEGO Bowser’s design, separate sections being assembled brick-by-brick, and finally the whole thing coming together. Accompanying text also states that it took the team 3,290 hours to complete the 663,900-brick construction.
The video also comes at the perfect time to drum up excitement for LEGO’s other take on the classic Nintendo villain. Tomorrow, October 1, marks the release of the LEGO Mighty Bowser set, the latest addition to LEGO’s line
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