We've had a LEGO NES, and we've been waiting patiently for Nintendo to give us a LEGO SNES. Sega gave us the LEGO Mega Drive, and still, Nintendo didn't answer with another console set for us to build. Ok, they gave us the Game Boy, so I can't really complain, but the point I'm trying to make here is that I'm currently SNES-less, and I've got a yearning for some more Nintendo building.
When Nintendon't, the retro gaming community do, and I've got FoxDude5795 to thank for bringing a Nintendo SNES LEGO set to the fold. It only went live today, and it's almost reached its first milestone of 100 followers, a milestone it had 60 days to fulfil.
I think we all know where FoxDude got inspiration for this LEGO set, despite it not actually referring to the SNES in the title (probably for legal reasons). They've spent a lot of time playing retro Nintendo consoles over the summer and, like me, just wanted to see more home console sets for people to build.
The set comes with two controllers and five game cartridges to plug in. It uses the NTSC SNES design with the pink power and reset buttons, and all of the buttons, including the eject button, switch or spring like the original.
In all honesty, it looks like a SNES Mini, but that's ok. It's definitely SNES-shaped, and FoxDude describes it as a medium-scale build. It's the kind of set that would be easy to display anywhere too, with its compact nature, and I like the fact that it comes with multiple cartridges that will hopefully come with different game stickers to stick on.
And here's something you might not have thought of - modders could make those cartridges and the console actually play games, just like with the BrickBoy and BrickBoy's LEGO PlayStation kit, the BrickStation.
As with all LEGO Ideas sets, FoxDude has to get 10,000 supporters before this goes before the LEGO Ideas judging panel. It's on 99 at the time of writing (I've supported!), and will then have another 360 days added on for FoxDude to get to 1,000 supporters. The next milestones are then 5,000 and 10,000!
Head to LEGO Ideas to show your support for the project for free, and hopefully we can get it over the line and made into an actual set!
