{"id":86384,"date":"2026-07-23T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86384"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:36:44","slug":"new-lego-donkey-kong-set-is-a-throwback-to-before-mario-had-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86384","title":{"rendered":"New Lego Donkey Kong Set Is A Throwback To Before Mario Had A Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lego has officially revealed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-us\/product\/donkey-kong-arcade-72051\">Donkey Kong Arcade set<\/a>, a nostalgic throwback to one of the company&#8217;s first big games. A tribute to the groundbreaking 1981\u00a0arcade hit&#8211;which starred Mario as Jumpman&#8211;the 1,371-piece\u00a0set launches on August 1 and is priced at $200. It also comes with a gift in the form of an Animal Crossing kit featuring everyone&#8217;s favorite landlord, Tom Nook, valued at $5, if preordered from The Lego Store.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/LEGO-TBD-Super-Mario-72051\/dp\/B0G2T1VZ2L?tag=gamespot-preorders-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-us\/product\/donkey-kong-arcade-72051\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-us\/product\/donkey-kong-arcade-72051\">The Lego Store<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside the box, you&#8217;ll find all the pieces you need to build a nostalgic arcade cabinet. It features the original first stage of Donkey Kong, complete with scaffolding, ladders, and hammer details,\u00a0and a\u00a0mechanism to circulate the 21 barrels in a continuous loop. Other cool details include a function to move Jumpman with the joystick and make him jump by hitting the correct button. While you won&#8217;t get any minifigures inside of it, there are pieces included to build pixel-accurate versions of Jumpman, Donkey Kong, and Lady.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1829994\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"1024\" width=\"778\" data-id=\"1829994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lego-Donkey-Kong-2.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1829994\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1830000\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"1024\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1830000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lego-Donkey-Kong-3.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1830000\" \/> <\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">&lt;img data-ref-id=&quot;1829980&quot; data-wp-on&#8211;click=&quot;actions.core.image.showLightbox&quot; style=&quot;cursor:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lego has officially revealed its Donkey Kong Arcade set, a nostalgic throwback to one of the company&#8217;s first big games. A tribute to the groundbreaking 1981\u00a0arcade hit&#8211;which starred Mario as Jumpman&#8211;the 1,371-piece\u00a0set launches on August 1 and is priced at $200. It also comes with a gift in the form of an Animal Crossing kit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":86386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86387,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86384\/revisions\/86387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}