User Shares Idea for a LEGO Super Nintendo Entertainment System Set

LEGO Ideas user FoxDude5795 has proposed a set based on the SNES, complete with two controllers and five cartridges that can be inserted into the console. It could become an official set if it receives enough support votes and the judging panel approves it.

Fans of older consoles have already received LEGO sets that let them build a Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive, and the original PlayStation.

FoxDude5795 submitted the set, titled Nintendo Game Console, to LEGO Ideas yesterday. It had attracted 166 supporters in less than 24 hours. Projects are typically given 60 days to reach their first 100 support votes.

The name does not mention the SNES, probably for legal reasons, but the design closely resembles the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or SNES Mini.

The proposed set includes two controllers and five game cartridges that can be inserted into the assembled console. It is based on the American NTSC version of the SNES, with pink power and reset buttons. All the buttons, including the cartridge eject button, switch or spring back just like those on the original.

Like other LEGO Ideas projects, FoxDude5795’s design needs 10,000 support votes before the judging panel will consider it. Having reached 100 votes, the creator now has 360 days to reach 1,000 supporters. The next milestones are 5,000 and 10,000 votes.

If LEGO Group eventually releases the set, modders could potentially make the console and cartridges run games, as they have already done with BrickBoy and BrickBoy’s BrickStation kit for the LEGO PlayStation.