LEGO is rebuilding Super Mario around actual minifigures. Eight sets were revealed at gamescom in Cologne on 26 August 2026, priced $9.99 to $99.99 and on sale 1 January 2027. It is the first time Mario, Luigi, Peach and the rest appear as standard minifigures rather than the large electronic figure the theme launched with.
Every set, with the numbers that matter
Price per piece is a blunt instrument, but across eight sets released on the same day at the same time it is the fastest way to see where LEGO put the value.
The spread is unusually wide. The best set on this measure costs a third of what the worst one does per part, which is not typical within a single wave.
Where the value is
72055 Mario's Beach Adventures at $19.99 for 196 pieces is the standout, at roughly 10 cents per piece. That is a normal rate for an ordinary LEGO set and a good one for a licensed theme, where fees usually push the number up.
72060 Fire Mario & Bowser's Castle is the flagship at 850 pieces and $99.99, and at about 12 cents it holds up well for the biggest set in a licensed line. If the range has one set that will still be on shelves in two years, this is the likely candidate.
72061 Fire Luigi vs. Koopa Troopa Battle is the quiet one worth a look. It is $29.99 for 241 pieces, the same price as 72056 with more than double the parts.
Where it is thin
72056 Luigi & Bowser Jr.'s Race is $29.99 for 104 pieces, and 72057 Yoshi at Mario's House is $39.99 for 147. At 27 to 29 cents per piece those are the two weakest sets in the wave by a wide margin.
There is a fair defence. Both are built around karts and vehicles, and vehicle sets carry larger moulded parts that a raw piece count undersells. A wheel or a chassis is worth more than a 1x1 stud. Licensed character sets also price minifigures into the total, and these are new moulds fans have not been able to buy before.
Even allowing for that, they are the two to wait for a discount on. Sets at this end of a range routinely reach 20 to 30 percent off within a few months of release, and neither looks likely to be scarce.
What actually changed
The older LEGO Super Mario line was built around a large electronic Mario figure with sensors, which made it a system of its own rather than something that mixed with the rest of a LEGO collection. Design manager Patrick Otley framed the reboot around giving children what they need to build their own stories.
The practical effect is that Mario characters now work with everything else. A Mario minifigure fits in a City street or a Star Wars cockpit, and the sets can be broken up and rebuilt like any other LEGO. That is a bigger change for a family collection than the individual set list suggests, and it is worth factoring in before writing off a 104-piece kart on price per piece alone. Anyone keeping track of what a growing collection is worth can log these in Stud Vault once they land in January.
What the reveal does not tell us
Three things are still open, and they matter if you are planning a January order.
The announcements we checked list US prices only. UK and eurozone pricing has not been published alongside the set list, and LEGO's conversions are not always proportional, so buyers outside the US should treat the dollar figures as a guide rather than a rate card.
Full minifigure line-ups per set are also unconfirmed. LEGO has named the characters arriving across the range, which are Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Koopa Troopa, Bowser Jr., Peach and Toad, but the announcement does not break down which figures come in which box beyond the largest sets. If you want a specific character, wait for the inventories before committing.
Finally, LEGO has said nothing about what happens to the existing interactive Mario line. There is no announced retirement date for those sets, so anyone hoping for clearance pricing on the old starter courses is guessing. If that changes, the sets to watch are the ones that have been on shelves longest.
The verdict
A genuine reset, priced unevenly. Buy 72055 and 72060 at full price without much hesitation, look at 72061 if you want more parts for $29.99, and let the two kart sets come down before picking them up. Nothing here is retiring soon, so there is no urgency beyond wanting the new minifigures on day one.
