Every single LEGO Super Mario set is now retiring by summer 2024 – what could it mean?

Every single LEGO Super Mario set is now due to retire by summer 2024, meaning the interactive theme could be off shelves altogether by the beginning of 2025.

While the LEGO Group had previously planned to keep its core trio of LEGO Super Mario starter course sets – 71360 Adventures with Mario, 71387 Adventures with Luigi and 71403 Adventures with Peach – in production until the end of 2026, it’s now brought their retirement up to July 31, 2024. As things stand, that’s the latest date by which any current LEGO Super Mario set will still be on shelves.

That includes the Donkey Kong and Dry Bowser expansion sets launching in August that have yet to be released, which means that if no new LEGO Super Mario sets debut in the first half of 2024, the entire theme will be gone for good by next summer. We can only speculate as to the reasons for this early retirement, but it’s a definite sea change in the LEGO Group’s plans.

The original 2026 retirement date for the three LEGO Super Mario starter courses – each of which includes a digital character required for the rest of the interactive expansion sets – suggested that the company planned to keep launching add-ons for at least three more years. But if Mario, Peach and Luigi are all out of production, future expansions would be unusable for new customers.

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Could we be staring down the barrel of LEGO Super Mario’s final wave? That’s one possibility. Another is that the LEGO Group is simply planning to relaunch its Nintendo theme in the second half of 2024 (or first half of 2025), perhaps with new starter courses that use the same trio of digital figures. But there is a third option, and it’s one that’s not without precedent in Billund.

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When the LEGO Harry Potter theme returned in 2018, it kick-started a three-year cycle of minifigure-scale additions to Hogwarts Castle, each new set connecting to its predecessors. In 2021 – for the theme’s 20th anniversary – the LEGO Group scrapped that original approach, rebooting the line with a new, boxier take on the Wizarding World school that’s also now in its third year.

What those new sets lacked was backwards compatibility with the previous sections of Hogwarts, in both their design language – grey roofs were out, sand green roofs were in, to name one example – and their subject matter. (Here again was another Great Hall, another Clock Tower, and so on.) This is LEGO, so you could always combine the sets yourself with a little tinkering. But they weren’t specifically designed to slot together.

Could the same fate now be on the table for LEGO Super Mario? Will the LEGO Group reboot the interactive theme with new digital figures and expansion sets that aren’t compatible with those we’ve been collecting for the past four years? With one eye on Harry Potter, it doesn’t feel completely out of the question – even if the impact would be far greater, given the digital component involved.

It also wouldn’t be a total surprise to see a theme built on technology developed over four years rebooted and improved upon, in the same way a video game console doesn’t last forever. Maybe we’ll see a stronger tie with whatever Nintendo’s next console ends up being? The gaming company has already said the successor to the Switch won’t arrive before April 2024, but that means it could well debut in the second half of next year – right on time for the LEGO Group to relaunch Super Mario.

Or maybe the two companies really are just calling time on this first foray into the LEGO x Nintendo space. With seemingly no new digital character joining Mario, Peach and Luigi in August (bucking the theme’s annual trend), that too wouldn’t be the most surprising outcome.

We’ll have to wait for official confirmation from the LEGO Group to know one way or the other. For now, check out the tables below for a full rundown of the current retirement dates for every LEGO Super Mario set.

LEGO Super Mario sets retiring by July 31, 2023

Set namePricePiecesRelease date
71404 Goomba’s Shoe£8.99 / $9.99 / €9.9976August 1, 2022
71407 Cat Peach Suit and Frozen Tower £59.99 / $79.99 / €69.99494August 1, 2022
71409 Big Spike’s Cloudtop Challenge£59.99 / $69.99 / €69.99540August 1, 2022
71412 Big Bad Island£39.99 / $44.99 / €44.99354August 1, 2022

LEGO Super Mario sets retiring by December 31, 2023

Set namePricePiecesRelease date
71406 Yoshi’s Gift House£29.99 / $29.99 / €34.99246August 1, 2022
71413 Character Packs – Series 6£4.99 / $5.99 / €5.9952 (may vary per pack)January 1, 2023
71414 Conkdor’s Noggin Bopper£12.99 / $14.99 / €14.99103January 1, 2023
71415 Ice Mario Suit and Frozen World£19.99 / $24.99 / €24.99105January 1, 2023
71416 Lava Wave Ride£29.99 / $34.99 / €34.99218January 1, 2023
71417 Fliprus Snow Adventure£59.99 / $64.99 / €64.99567January 1, 2023
71418 Creativity Toolbox Maker£54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99588January 1, 2023

LEGO Super Mario sets retiring by July 31, 2024

Set namePricePiecesRelease date
71360 Adventures with Mario£54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99231July 10, 2020
71374 Nintendo Entertainment System £229.99 / $269.99 / €269.992,646August 1, 2020
71387 Adventures with Luigi£54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99280July 10, 2021
71395 Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block£169.99 / $199.99 / €199.992,064October 1, 2021
71403 Adventures with Peach£54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99354August 1, 2022
71408 Peach’s Castle£114.99 / $129.99 / €129.991,216August 1, 2022
71411 The Mighty Bowser£229.99 / $269.99 / €269.992,807October 1, 2022
71419 Peach’s Garden Balloon Ride£44.99 / $49.99 / €49.99453January 1, 2023
71420 Rambi the Rhino£8.99 / $10.99 / €9.99106August 1, 2023
71421 Dixie Kong’s Jungle Jam£20.99 / $26.99 / €26.99202August 1, 2023
71423 Dry Bowser Castle Battle£94.99 / $109.99 / €104.991,321August 1, 2023
71424 Donkey Kong’s Tree House£57.99 / $59.99 / €64.99555August 1, 2023
71425 Diddy Kong’s Mine Cart Ride£94.99 / $109.99 / €104.991,157August 1, 2023

Click here for a complete list of LEGO sets retiring in 2023.

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Chris Wharfe
I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

Chris Wharfe

I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.

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