LEGO Game Boy Gets Its First Discount

This acceptable is phenomenal. It’s a astir 1:1 re-creation of Nintendo’s classical handheld console, with buttons that consciousness conscionable similar they did connected the archetypal hardware. That was not an casual effect to achieve, we learned successful our interrogation with LEGO Game Boy’s designer.

It’s not a moving crippled console, but it does person a fig of clever details. In summation to the Game Boy hardware and a basal for display, it besides comes with 2 buildable GamePaks: Super Mario Land and Link’s Awakening. The Link’s Awakening cartridge adjacent has a hidden battery-shaped LEGO portion inside, which successful the archetypal crippled allowed you to prevention your advancement successful the game.

Also, it comes with 3 lenticular screens you tin enactment into your physique that amusement animations erstwhile you tilt them. One is the Nintendo logo screen, and the different 2 correspond to the 2 buildable crippled cartriges.

If you’re inactive connected the obstruction astir picking up this acceptable for $50, you tin get an up-close look astatine the gathering process. We built this acceptable erstwhile it came out, writing, “At 421 pieces, the LEGO Game Boy is the smallest of the disposable video crippled console sets LEGO has issued implicit the years, but successful spite of a comparatively tiny ceramic count, its ratio of parts inactive makes for an exceptional whole. When it's afloat assembled, it looks everything the portion of the original, though it's conscionable a interaction smaller.”

LEGO Game Boy is 1 of our favourite LEGO Nintendo sets. For more, you tin cheque retired our afloat updated database of each the biggest upcoming LEGO sets announced truthful far.

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