This article was originally written for TheNintendoVillage.com, a website I founded and ran from 2018 to 2021.

Last week, LEGO unveiled a new collaboration with Nintendo in the form of an interactive Super Mario playset. If you’re hoping for other themed sets in future though (Zelda anyone?) you may be in luck.

In an interview with LEGO fansite The Brothers Brick, Jonathan Bennick - Design Manager at the LEGO Creative Play Lab and Digital Design Lead for LEGO Super Mario - revealed his hope that this first Super Mario set will be the first of many:

“I can’t go into any specifics here, but I can say that we haven’t worked for four years to release just one wave of products. We hope to have a long and fruitful relationship with Nintendo and their IPs, and we are really looking forward to working with them on a longer-term. They have a lot of very exciting IPs that we might do or might not do.”

We’d highly recommend checking out the full feature over on The Brothers Brick as there’s a ton of information about the way the set came together, how Nintendo and LEGO both leveraged their respective expertise, and the role that Mario co-creator Takashi Tezuka played in the project.

In the meantime, let us know which Nintendo IP you want to see get the LEGO treatment next down in the comments!

Source: The Brothers Brick