Lego celebrates MAR10 Day with seven new sets and Princess Peach’s Castle

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MMAR10 Day has seen the announcement of a number of new Lego Super Mario sets, including a Princess Peach starter course and minifigure.

Nintendo and Lego have been collaborating on Super Mario themed sets for years now, in what has been one of the most successful new lines of recent years for Lego. They’ve made toys of even very obscure characters, and recently expanded out into the Luigi’s Mansion series, but the one person they haven’t featured, until now, is Princess Peach.

Announced today, on MAR10 Day itself, is the Princess Peach Starter Course, which features a Princess Peach minifigure for the first time.

Six other new sets have also been announced today though, including a massive new Peach’s Castle set, a new Yoshi set, a homage to Super Mario 3D World, and a marvellous looking Shoe Goomba.

Rather than just being normal Lego sets, with ordinary minifgures, the idea of the Super Mario series is that you build your own custom Mario courses and then use special Bluetooth minifigures to see how many coins you can collect within two minutes.

There’s already Mario and Luigi minifigures and the one of Peachy works in the same way, with a sensor at her feet that allows the figure to detect both colours – so it knows if she’s walking on lava or poison – and special Lego bricks with QR codes on them.

The QR codes trigger special animations on the figure’s chest and relevant music, sound effects, and quotes. So if you jump on a? block it’ll know or if you come across a friend or enemy the minifigure will start talking to them. The three different Bluetooth figures will even talk amongst themselves.

The previous expansion sets, like Bowser’s Airship and the Lego equivalent of Super Mario Maker, have all been great and the six