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Game Boy

Name: LEGO Game Boy 72046
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 72046

89 · HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDINVESTMENT GRADE: AA2025421 pcsHigh agreement · 93%

Expert reviews

7analyzed

Owner ratings

5.7K+

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BrickScore

Highly Recommended

Owners

Synthesized Verdict

"With a BrickScore of 89.3 and 5,737 owner ratings averaging 4.75 out of 5, the LEGO Game Boy is a near-perfect execution of licensed nostalgia: every reviewer praised its working buttons, lenticular screens, and printed details, and virtually none found meaningful fault."

Reviewers are nearly unanimous in their enthusiasm for the LEGO Game Boy (72046), praising it as a love letter to Nintendo fans and a masterclass in nostalgia engineering. The tactile details, including functional buttons, a rotating D-pad, a flippable on/off switch, and a working cartridge slot, consistently draw comparisons to the original hardware. Owners back this up emphatically: 5,737 ratings average 4.75 out of 5 across all major retailers, with Amazon buyers giving it 4.9 stars, and 74% of LEGO.com owners saying they would recommend it.

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LOVED (7)

01Functional interactive elements: pushable buttons, rotating D-pad, flipping on/off switch, turning volume and contrast dials, and a working cartridge slot
02Three lenticular display screens that shift as you tilt them, capturing old-school screen animation
03Two game cartridges included (The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Super Mario Land) each on its own display stand

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CRITICIZED (2)

01Price-per-piece of $0.142 is above average for LEGO, and a handful of reviewers noted the $60 asking price feels steep at first glance before building it
02Some reviewers would have preferred different game cartridge choices (Tetris was mentioned as a preferred alternative to Zelda)

Build Facts what critics report

🧩 Difficulty

intermediate

🎯 Audience

collectors

In Their Words most-used terms across every critic review

gameoriginalbuttonscartridgecartridgesdisplayscreenprintedelementsscreenslenticulardetailonlytactileincludedstickerstechniquesinteractivedesignzeldadetailsswitchappealgamingauthenticqualitysoundprice

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Ecosystem

Original Game Boy (handheld) — The LEGO Game Boy achieves a near 1:1 replica of the original Game Boy. Stack them on top of each other, and you'll see that it's really close to being the exact same size, which is remarkable given the restrictive medium of LEGO. The different ports, wheels and buttons are all where they should be, and the LEGO versions are so faithful to the originals that you could use them as replacement stickers.

🎨 Designer Carl Merriam (named by critics)

Super MarioInvestment Grade

By Reviewer · 1

Avg score

100

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Editorial Source

100

BUY

"The LEGO 72046 Game Boy is one of the best and most satisfying sets of 2025, and is a glimpse of what's possible when all the stars align when designing a LEGO model."

Key Pros

✓Accessible price point (US$59.99)
✓Mostly printed elements (only 2 stickers)
✓Ingenious build experience with advanced techniques

Key Cons

✕Battery cover cannot pop open (would have been cool to include LEGO AA batteries)
✕No sound-brick functionality

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Minifigures & Standout Parts

Standout parts (per reviewers)

Corner mould with specific angle
New LEGO element commissioned to mimic the Game Boy's corners, complete with speaker slots and the B-button label printed on it
New bracket element
Bracket encountered in the set that the reviewer had never seen before
Lenticular screens
Three lenticular screens in green (a colour that doesn't exist as an official LEGO colour) depicting opening screen, Super Mario Land scene, and Link's Awakening scene
A and B button hats
Believed to be new hats, used for the A and B buttons construction
Printed elements
The set uses mostly printed elements rather than stickers, with only 2 stickers for the Game Pak cartridges

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Buyer Ratings

Amazon4.9

3,236 reviews

94%