Here is Lego’s official Nintendo Game Boy — with lenticular display

We asked for the cleanable Lego Nintendo Game Boy… did Lego deliver? After revealing this January that it would instrumentality up the challenge, it has revealed a astir awesome instrumentality connected the 1989 classical that’ll outgo a comparatively tenable $60 successful the US. It’s already up for pre-order today for an October 1st vessel date. At 3.5 inches (14cm) wide and 5.5 inches (9cm) tall, it looks similar it’ll person the aforesaid dimensions arsenic the original.

As you’ll spot successful the galore images below, this Game Boy doesn’t rely connected miniature hats for its iconic fuchsia A and B buttons — Lego has seemingly created pitch-perfect buttons that look to recess into the frame. The console’s curves are besides captured remarkably well!

And unless I’m precise overmuch mistaken, it comes with printed tiles alternatively than sticker labels to assistance replicate the Game Boy’s many, galore iconic labels for its buttons, measurement dial, on-off switch, “Dot Matrix With Stereo Sound” highlight, arsenic good arsenic larger features similar the Game Boy’s mono talker grille, artillery compartment latch, and serial fig astir backmost that person proven hard to emulate successful bricks. (That serial fig has an easter egg, by the way.)

But possibly champion of all, this Lego Game Boy tin amusement disconnected existent scenes from the classical games utilizing swappable lenticular lenses that’ll amusement you antithetic images erstwhile viewed from antithetic angles. You tin popular successful a brick-built cartridge of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening or Super Mario Land, and “watch” the classical Nintendo logo driblet arsenic you rotate the surface downwards (you’ll person to ideate the Game Boy’s da-DING beep). Or, popular successful a antithetic lenticular lens to spot Link cozy up to Marin connected the formation successful Awakening’s astir bittersweet scene:

I built Nick Lever’s fan-designed Lego Game Boy myself, and person the existent woody that plays existent cartridges too, but I’m going to beryllium mighty tempted to prime up the authoritative Lego 1 arsenic well. If those buttons determination erstwhile you propulsion them, I uncertainty I’ll resist! Do privation it came with Tetris, too, though.

Lego and Nintendo person besides recreated portion of the archetypal US Game Boy commercial utilizing the set. It’s on Instagram, and you whitethorn beryllium capable to play it (with a tap) successful its embedded signifier below.