SatoAilDarko
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Since 2011 K'Nex has released various Mario figures and sets.
What are you thoughts on a Mario K'Nex game in the vein of the Lego games?
At the start of this year footage of a prototype of a Halo Mega Bloks game was put online:
Prototype of cancelled ''Mega Bloks Halo'' Game surfaces (basically ''LEGO Halo'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZB8d11d9go
Pretty cool video by PtoPOnline which is the same dude who posted the Until Dawn first person prototype.
Game was beeing developed by n-Space and got cancelled around 2013. It looks pretty cool, and the video is filled with gameplay. Like really polished gameplay
While it was canceled it did look very interesting.
Personally I think it would be very neat to see someone else tackle the playing as buildable toys concept. Have Mario build vehicles and contraptions, connect various enemies together, transform something by breaking it apart and rebuilding it.
I can't really think of many gaming franchises Lego has done sets for aside from Minecraft and Angry Birds along with the Lego Dimensions' Portal and Sonic Level packs.
Mega Bloks has had quite a few game franchises Halo, Destiny, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Skylanders and recently Pokémon. I think it probably isn't worth it to Lego to offer these franchises better offers than what they're getting.
K'Nex would offer an even more distinct "game world" than Mega Bloks would compared to Lego.
Most of the individual characters in K'Nex form:
Look at some of the stuff released (most of the sets are long out of production) for an idea of how characters, objects and settings would look in a K'Nex style.
Blind Bags:
Mario Kart Wii (August 2012):
Series 1 (February 2013):
Series 2 (July 2013):
Series 3 (February 2014):
Series 4 (July 2014):
Series 5 (February 2015):
Series 6 (August 2015):
Series 7 (February 2016):
Series 8 (August 2016):
Series 9 (February 2017):
Series 10 (July 2017):
Series 11 (October 2017):
Building Sets:
Mario Kart Wii:
Ultimate Combination Building Set:
Mario Circuit: Ultimate Building Set:
Mario & Donkey Kong Circuit Start Line Building Set:
Bowser's Castle Ultimate Building Set:
Mario and Yoshi vs. Stone Bowser Course Building Set:
Mario Kart 7:
Bikes:
Piranha Plant Slide Track Building Set:
Mario Kart 8:
Super Mario 3D Land:
Stacked Goombas Building Set:
Prongo Building Set:
Flying Cloud Building Set:
Ghost House Building Set:
Bowser's Castle Building Set:
New Super Mario Bros. 2:
Reznor Building Set:
Desert Building Set:
Beach Building Set:
Thwomp Building Set:
Super Mario:
Dry Bones Building Set:
Cannon Building Set:
New Super Mario Bros. U:
Layer-Cake Desert Building Set:
Super Mario 3D World:
Cat Mario Building Set:
You can take advantage of them being buildable toys in several ways like weird mashups:
Or have them be broken apart:
My 3 year-old neice two months ago found those tow Princesses and really loved them.
I actually thought of this thread because of that and I bought my first blind bag (Series 10) in years (Series 4) a few days ago to get Mario Maker Mario.
After 5 years of two blind bags a year this year will be the first to have three released. With Series 11 schedule for October in time for Mario Odyssey. Some actually unique figures are showing up with Maker Mario and Vacuum Luigi.
Several years ago there were 8 of the very first blind bags, Mario Kart Wii, on clearance for $1 at my local CVS. I bought all of them and somehow got all unique figures except for an extra Mario instead of Bowser who was the rarest. One of the luckiest moments I've experienced. After that I got Peach, Daisy, Wario and Bowser Jr only missing Waluigi. Specific characters are marked with a number underlined on the back.
