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 of Super Mario sets. Made up of 2,800 pieces and standing at 12.5 inches, the retail Bowser figure may be nowhere near as massive as its Comic-Con counterpart but is still hefty in its own right, and with a price tag of $269.99, Mario fans will need plenty of spare coins to get their hands on it.
There’s plenty of Bowser for fans to look forward to this month, in fact. Beyond the new LEGO set, fans will see Bowser in Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, where he will be joining the roster of playable characters. Before that, though, fans will likely see him in the first trailer for next year’s Super Mario Bros. movie, which will premiere at New York Comic-Con on October 8. This should give fans their first look at Bowser as voiced by Jack Black, though whether that’s a good thing will largely depend on how one feels about the movie’s somewhat controversial voice cast.
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