Nintendo has finally discovered the natural endpoint of Yoshi’s career: becoming an enormous plastic head that watches you build it.
A new teaser posted through the Nintendo Today app shows an extreme close-up of a three-dimensional, brick-built Yoshi beneath the words “LEGO Super Mario.” The message is simply “Hatching soon,” because apparently even a dinosaur made from interlocking plastic needs an entrance.
As GoNintendo reports, the teaser also carries LEGO’s “Adults Welcome” branding. That places it in the company’s premium display range rather than the smaller playsets aimed at children. Nintendo and LEGO have not revealed a set number, price, piece count or release date.
This Is a Very Different Yoshi
The close-up is the interesting part. Yoshi’s snout and eyes are rounded and built at a much larger scale than the minifigure-sized versions scattered through earlier LEGO Super Mario sets. It also looks nothing like 2024’s Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi, a 1,215-piece pixel-art display model with a hand crank that made Yoshi run and flick out his tongue.
This new build appears to trade that 16-bit silhouette for the softer, rounder Yoshi seen in modern Mario artwork. Whether the final set is a bust, a full-body model or something with another mechanical trick is still hidden outside the frame.
The Adult Mario Shelf Keeps Growing
LEGO’s adult Nintendo line has moved well beyond ordinary character kits. It now includes display pieces based on the NES, Game Boy, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong’s arcade cabinet and the earlier animated Mario-and-Yoshi model. A standalone premium Yoshi fits neatly into that increasingly dangerous shelf-space problem.
The teaser’s copyright line points to 2027, while “Hatching soon” suggests the full reveal should arrive before long. Until then, the only confirmed feature is the one Yoshi has always possessed: an extraordinarily large nose.
