Nintendo’s ongoing collaborations with Lego will soon mean the arrival of Yoshi into the Super Mario crossover sets. Today’s Nintendo Today app updates include a teaser image showing the green dinosaur poking his plastic head into frame like a photobomb, and given the size of the blocks just making up his eyes, it’s looking like a decent-sized figure.
For reasons beyond human understanding, Nintendo has gone to extraordinary lengths to make it impossible to capture images from the Nintendo Today app, not just blocking basic screen capture tools, but even going so far as to undermine apps like Scrcpy from being able to mirror your phone screen onto a PC. Because god forbid anyone share any of the adverts that Nintendo Today is entirely made up of. So a massive thank you to My Nintendo News from which we’ve been able to source a screenshot of Yoshi, rather than me just taking a photo of my phone screen.
The copyright information down the side is stamped with “2027,” rather strongly suggesting this isn’t going to be a set released in time for this year’s holiday season. But it’s clearly going to be part of Nintendo’s more grown up range, given the potential scale and number of pieces. As GamesRadar points out, Yoshi looks like it could be on a scale with the 2000-ish brick Mario Kart sets, which would put the price at around $150.
Obviously this is all speculation based on a single image, but it’s undoubtedly the announcement of a Yoshi set, and it’s not going to be a little kid-friendly box. Whether Yoshi will be joining the Mario Kart crew is unclear, or perhaps the cute dino will be getting his very own unique built. It seems we’re going to have to wait until 2027 to find out.