{"id":596560,"date":"2026-05-21T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596560\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:58:16","slug":"nintendo-teases-lego-donkey-kong-rolling-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596560\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Teases LEGO Donkey Kong, “Rolling Soon”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LEGO<\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n

Nintendo has teased an official LEGO Donkey Kong set via Nintendo Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As noted by the redoubtable Wario64<\/a>, the video tease on the app shows only the logos of the Danish company and the SK series, with a little brick barrel rolling from right to left across a wooden tabletop:<\/p>\n

LEGO Donkey Kong set coming soon<\/p>\n

\u2014 Wario64 (@wario64.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-05-21T14:16:21.222Z<\/a><\/p>\n

There are no further details at the time of writing \u2014 we’ll update when more details come to light.<\/p>\n

This isn’t DK’s first brush with Lego bricks, of course \u2014 he’s already appeared as part of the Super Mario<\/a> and Mario Kart lines \u2014 but this would be the first set in a dedicated Lego Donkey Kong series.<\/p>\n

There have been rumours of a Lego DK arcade cabinet<\/a> launching in August, potentially similar to the Pac-Man one<\/a> which launched in 2023.<\/p>\n

There was also an impressive DK submission<\/a> to the Lego Ideas scheme (which lets fans and builders submit designs for peer review, with the vote-winners going to Lego for evaluation and the best ones chosen for production) back in 2024, and the rolling barrel and the pixel art print on top suggest a set that gets back to DK’s arcade roots.<\/p>\n

Will we get to see a pixel Mario in ‘Jump Man’ attire? Or will it feature the plumber in minifig form (which we definitely know is coming in 2027<\/a>)? Let us know your thoughts below.<\/p>\n

\"Gavin<\/p>\n

Gavin first wrote for Nintendo Life in 2018 before joining the site full-time the following year, rising through the ranks to become Editor. He can currently be found squashed beneath a Switch backlog the size of Normandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Nintendo has teased an official LEGO Donkey Kong set via Nintendo Today. As noted by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[378,59,12857,136,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-596560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-donkey-kong","tag-gb","tag-lego","tag-nintendo","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}