>>11370415>>11370437>>11370577it's not Mario or Peach, it's the little goombas and various enemies that they could not do in minifig scale, without making custom molds for each one of them
sure they could have done that from the beginning, and by now we'd have plenty, but in the beginning they wanted bling-bling noises and a "game" function, and "brick-built" was a thing they were (and still try to) heavily push
Lego knows the moment they make a Mario minifig, the brick-built version implodes (they might try it if the electronic version sales slump?)
I'd be interested to see a comparison of Sonic (minifgs) sales vs Mario (brick-y) sales
