LEGO ADVENTURE WITH MARIO STARTER COURSE

$102, lego.com

Nintendo’s greatest icon meets Denmark’s finest export, as the iconic moustachioed Italian is immortalised in ABS at last. Lego hasn’t skimped on the smarts: our plastic hero gets three integrated LCD screens giving him the ability to emote through his eyes, mouth and belly, a speaker with which to output Charles Martinet’s signature yelps, and a whole bunch of sensors. Mario knows what colour block he’s standing on, he has an accelerometer and gyroscope, and Bluetooth connectivity to an accompanying app. And then there’s the set itself, a modular collection of