LEGO Super Mario 2024 set listings suggest change could be on the cards

A handful of listings for LEGO Super Mario 2024 sets boast unusually strong price-per-piece ratios for the interactive theme, suggesting change may be afoot.

While larger LEGO Super Mario sets usually have pretty favourable price-per-piece ratios – see this summer’s 71427 Larry’s and Morton’s Airships, for example, which includes 1,062 pieces for £74.99 / $79.99 / €84.99 – the theme’s smaller sets don’t usually fare as well. 71415 Ice Mario Suit and Frozen World costs £19.99 / $24.99 / €24.99 for 105 pieces, while 71416 Lava Wave Ride includes 218 pieces for £29.99 / $34.99 / €34.99.

It’s unusual, then, to see future LEGO Super Mario sets listed with such strong price-per-piece ratios at lower price points. But that’s exactly what you’ll find on price comparison site brickmerge.de, which has published the first details on January’s LEGO Super Mario range – despite suspicions the interactive theme was winding down ahead of next summer’s retirement of all three starter course sets.

The smallest set in the range, 71428, comes in at €9.99 for 107 pieces, which is pretty much on a par with this year’s 71420 Rambi the Rhino. So far, so good. But the next two sets are where things get interesting: both 71429 and 71430 are apparently due to retail for €19.99 apiece, and include 230 and 228 pieces respectively. The current highest piece count for a LEGO Super Mario set at that price is 180 in 2020’s 71363 Desert Pokey.

An extra 50 pieces per set is nothing to sniff at, particularly given the LEGO Group has shifted the goalposts for most of its price tags over the past couple of years. 71431 is even more surprising, with 458 pieces in the box for only €29.99 – blowing past the previous record of 267 pieces for €29.99, set by 71382 Piranha Plant Puzzling Challenge in 2021. (Again, pre-price rises.)

The biggest LEGO Super Mario January 2024 set (so far) includes an even 500 pieces for €44.99, which puts it somewhere on a par with the likes of 71389 Lakitu Sky World and 71399 Luigi’s Mansion Entryway. But altogether, those five sets paint a picture of potential change for the LEGO Super Mario theme – and if the Mario, Luigi and Peach starter courses really do all retire as planned in summer 2024, a complete shift in direction could well be on the cards.

We won’t be the ones to say the ‘m’ word, but we’re all thinking it.

Every LEGO Super Mario set listed for 2024 so far

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