Super Mario

Mario Kart, Mario & Standard Kart

The big Mario Kart display set that lives up to the hype, honestly.

4.4/5

Set 72037 · 2025

Pieces1,972

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number72037

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The verdict

If you grew up mashing the accelerator on Rainbow Road, yes, grab this one.

It's a 1,972-piece LEGO® set that turns the Standard Kart from Mario Kart 8 into a chunky, sticker-free display piece with a brick-built Mario riding shotgun. It's pricey and Mario is stuck in his seat forever, but the build is genuinely one of the best of 2025. Perfect for an adult fan who wants a shelf centerpiece rather than a toy.

Best for: Adult Nintendo fans who want a showpiece Mario Kart display

The full review

What it is

So your mate is eyeing the big Mario Kart set, and here's the short version: it's worth it. This set recreates the Standard Kart from Mario Kart 8 at a scale big enough to actually sculpt the thing properly, with a chunky bumper, deep side pods, and those dramatic twin exhausts sticking out the back. Riding it is a brick-built Mario, posable at the head and arms so you can have him gripping the wheel or throwing his signature fist pump. It comes in at 1,972 pieces and it looks like a proper trophy on a shelf, not a kid's toy. LEGO even dropped the reveal on March 10, aka MAR10 Day, which is the sort of detail that tells you the whole thing was made by people who care about the source material.

The catch

Now the honest caveats, because your mate should know before dropping the cash. The price is $169.99 (or 149.99 pounds), which works out to a fair 8.6 cents a piece, but it's still a chunk of money for something that mostly sits and looks good. Mario is permanently seated. He's built into the driving pose and can't stand up, and reviewers point out his leg proportions wouldn't even work if he could. The steering is the other quibble. The wheel itself is tiny (basically sized to fit between Mario's shoulders because his arms can't angle inward), and while the front wheels do turn, once you plop Mario's weight into the seat they barely budge. So the play function is more of a novelty than a feature. None of this is a dealbreaker for a display set, but if your mate wants a rolling toy, this isn't that.

Who it's for

Here's who should pull the trigger: any adult Nintendo fan who wants a centerpiece, someone who loves a build packed with clever techniques, or anyone hunting a birthday gift for a grown-up gamer. It carries a strong 4.4 out of 5 on Brickset and reviewers across the board have called it one of the best builds of the year. Who should skip it? Little kids who want to actually race it around the floor, and anyone on a tight budget who'd rather have two smaller sets. But if the shelf space and the money are there, this is an easy recommend. It's the kind of set you finish and just leave sitting out where you can see it.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build is split across 17 numbered bags, and the first nine are all kart. That means you spend the front half of the build sculpting the body before Mario even shows up, which keeps things interesting because the kart is where the clever engineering lives. There's a white racing stripe running down the middle made from a slope that clips into place, and in some spots parts aren't even connected to each other. The upside-down red sub-assembly just floats, held down later by slopes and tiles locking it from above. The massive wheels slot in near the end with printed hubcap tiles, and Mario himself comes together last as a posable figure with a movable head and arms.

For parts nerds, this one delivers. Mario needed two brand-new molds: a Plate Special 2x6 shaped for his black moustache, and a genuinely weird one-off piece for his nose. There are no stickers anywhere, with all 12 printed elements doing the decoration work, covering the eyes, the cap and kart 'M' logos, the glove knuckles, the hubcaps, and the exhaust trims. New Elementary flagged rare recolors worth pulling too. At 8.6 cents per piece for 1,972 parts, the value math holds up nicely for a licensed set, and you're getting genuinely useful bulk plus those printed extras rather than filler.

Fun facts

01LEGO revealed the set on March 10, 2025, aka MAR10 Day, the unofficial Mario holiday, then put it on sale that May.
02The kart is modeled on the Standard Kart from Mario Kart 8, and the larger scale let designers sculpt real detail into the bumper, side pods, and oversized exhausts.
03The whole thing uses zero stickers, with every decoration printed, right down to the tiny stitches on Mario's gloves.
04Mario required two entirely new molds just for his face: a special plate for his moustache and a unique piece for his nose.