Here is our review of the LEGO Super Mario Adventures with Luigi Starter Course.
Introduce children to the interactive LEGO Super Mario universe with this Adventures with Luigi Starter Course (71387). An awesome gift toy for trend-setting kids, it features a LEGO Luigi figure that gives instant expressive responses via an LCD screen and speaker. Players earn digital coins for helping LEGO Luigi complete spinning seesaw and flying challenges, interactions with Pink Yoshi and defeating Boom Boom and a Bone Goomba. The nougat-brown-coloured bricks in this Tower biome also trigger different reactions from LEGO Luigi, and the ? Block offers extra rewards.
What’s in the box?
The box contains 7 packs of LEGO and some simple initial instructions.
Building It
The in the box instructions give you enough detail to build the first set which is Luigi himself. You need put in 2 AAA batteries and download the app. Once you have done that you need to sync Luigi with your device and the app by pressing the Bluetooth button on his back.
The first thing that will then happen is that the app will update LEGO Mario – this took a few minutes to do so now would be a good time to sort the other bags of LEGO ready to build.
You can even see he is being updated by the image of a phone on his chest!
You can then step through the app to build each element. The app even shows a representation of the specific bag of LEGO to open and then walks you through step by step building it, even giving you the opportunity to have a 360 degree view to make sure you have built the thing correctly.
Now it’s time to play!
Final Thoughts
The starter kit comes with a lot of pieces to build and without the app you might have some problems (unless you like building LEGO without instructions). The app is actually brilliant, it tells you want pieces you need to build each section, with 360 degree views and then a little video at the end of each one showing what it can do.
The app also gives you tasks and challenges you can compete in, gives the ability to upload pictures of your creations and so much more. When you buy another set you can add it to the app very simply.
Building and playing with the LEGO Super Mario Luigi set was a lot of fun, certain pieces have a special bar code piece that the camera under Luigi reads in order to activate sounds and visuals on him, including collecting coins and finishing a course. You can even make him go to sleep if you want.
Having a main LEGO piece that plays sounds and has visuals is a really great idea and a lot of fun to play with on it’s own.
And the great thing about any LEGO set is that you can build it however you want and play with it however you want. And that’s exactly what we did. We can’t wait to add more pieces into our growing world!
You an even sync Luigi with Mario (if you have him) – that’s a lot of fun too and will bring hours upon hours of fun!
The set is aimed at ages 6 and over and contains 280 separate pieces and the LEGO code is 71387.
The LEGO Super Mario Adventures with Luigi Starter Course is available now priced £49.99 and is a so much fun – my 5 year old trusty assistant loves it (even though it’s not really aimed at his age quite yet!
You can learn more from the LEGO website.
Disclaimer: The LEGO Super Mario Adventures with Luigi Starter Course was sent to us for the purposes of an honest review. All opinions are the opinions of our reviewer.
