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Guess Which LEGO Theme Is The Most Fun?
It’s a me, Mario! That’s right. Beats every other LEGO theme by a mile, and I nearly missed all the fun…
There are LEGO sets that you build and display. Then there are LEGO sets you build and play with. There are also LEGO sets that bring an extra gimmick like an AR dimension to the play experience, or transform — wink-wink, Transformers. But none of those get even close to Super Mario LEGO sets, and it took me half a decade to find out how much fun I was missing out on, not just as a brick-head, but also as a huge Game Boy Mario fan.
It’s universally accepted that when you buy a LEGO set, you don’t just buy it for building it once. For many decades, the Danish toymaker’s unique selling-point was less so the initial brick-building experience, but rather the creativity that follows. The child — or adult — takes the set apart, then builds something new out of it. For a long time, LEGO has very proactively encouraged and advertised this through offering B model instructions for each set, sort of nudging customers to see beyond the initial set’s design, and think creatively.
That philosophy has since been relegated to the Creator 3-in-1 theme, which, while fun, it’s far from enough of a push…
