Super Mario World Peach's Castle 71408 Modular Toy Building Expansion Set with Bowser, Ludwig, Toadette, Goomba and Bob-omb Figures
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Web ID: 14686246Please add the build it paper booklet
For a hobby that doesn't and isn't supposed to require electricity and staring at a screen, I don't understand why the booklet to build isn't included. Please revise this decision. That said after having to find cables and chargers for an old iPad to download the app and dealing with a frustrated autistic person. We did feel that perhaps this was helpful given her disabilities. Both options would be good.
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Customer review from LEGO
Ultimately disappointing
Was very excited there was going to be a Peach's castle built, but ultimately this set is capped by the digital theme. I wanted a minifigure scale (with minifigures) version of Peach's castle. This is not fun and disappointing to fans of both Mario and LEGO.
Customer review from LEGO
Peach’s Castle
We bought this set for our child for Christmas in 2022. We’ve found he rarely plays with it, mainly because it’s difficult to play with bowser without him crumbling and constantly needing to be rebuilt. Several of the other items in this set are similiar. Overall the set looks nice and the revolving throne is cool as long as you can build it correctly, but we found this set frustrating and wouldn’t recommend it.
Customer review from LEGO
Excellent set
We were worried that the throne room would not work properly, as we've read the reviews before the purchase. We gave it a go anyway, and we are very happy that everything works fine, the mechanism works smoothly with no problem, which was a big relief. Our son is super excited playing with this set.
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Customer review from LEGO
Fun to build, lots of parts
I enjoyed building this set with my two sons. We already had a few of the other sets and had Princess Peach - but still surprised to see that she does not come with her own castle. The Bowser character doesn't seem to stay together well, and his head breaks off easily. I also would love to see the paper instructions included in the set and the online version as an option. Overall, it's a great set for the price with all the different features.
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Customer review from LEGO
Digital-only Instructions make this a bore
This set is ok, but it's pricy and uninteresting to build. I get that this is for kids an assumes you'll have the lego app to use with interactive Mario... but taking what would be a nice escape from all of the other screen-based activities in life, this and the rest of the Mario line only offers app-based instructions. Those instructions are also very slow and geared toward small children, with only 1 or 2 pieces per step, animated like a toddler cartoon. When you have a larger set like this one, it just becomes tedious. I would have hoped Lego would have changed this for the newest Donkey Kong sets, but they haven't. It's a real shame.
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Response from LEGO
The LEGO® Super Mario™ app comes with additional features such as 3D instructions with zooming and angle adjustments. If you'd rather stick to the basic PDF instructions, they can be downloaded via LEGO.build/MarioBI-BV!
Fixed the mechanism!
As many other reviews stated, the rotating mechanism is awful on this build. I kept trying to go back and see if I did something wrong. After a lot time reassembling and troubleshooting based on the instructions, and getting very frustrated to find the problem never got better, I started trying to figure out my own way to fix it. I ended up adding 3 pieces to the bottom of the purple square piece that the throne part rests on, and it seems to have fixed the issue! In fact, it now runs so smoothly and neatly and fits better into the space, that I can’t believe this isn’t how it was meant to be built in the first place. It has not come off track since making this adjustment. I am attaching pictures in hopes I can help some others have a better experience with this build! As a fan of Mario and LEGO I think this is a fun set, but I was extremely frustrated and disappointed considering what was paid for this set to encounter this kind of problem, as it was also my first time investing so much into a set and I had really hesitated to do so in the first place. But I hope my pictures showing the added 3 pieces can help anyone else who has the extra pieces lying around!
Customer review from LEGO
Be prepared!!
I purchased this Lego set for my daughter’s birthday. She loves legos and the Mario movie. Be ready to spend more money and buy the other packs so you can have princess peach to go with the castle. How can you have peaches castle and not include peach?! Yes it does say it in the box, but come on, just increase the price and have peach included! Also be prepared to download the instructions. There are no printed instructions that come with these sets! We were at a place with no internet celebrating my daughter's birthday and of course she wanted to play with them right away. We opened the box and no instructions. Just a nice booklet instructing you to download the app and directions. Talk about a disappointed and upset child. But once we got home a week later, we were able to download the instructions. Then I had to let my child use my smart phone for quite some time to build. This is just ridiculous. These legos are already expensive enough but to not include the directions is absurd.
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Response from LEGO
We're so sorry to hear you were disappointed. We decided to go with digital instructions for our LEGO® Super Mario™ sets as they are more interactive and allow you to zoom and rotate. We hope it will grow on you and you will have fun building all kinds of levels! You can also find PDF instructions at LEGO.build/MarioBI-BV.