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A while ago I had seen a project by souichiro. He made an awesome Mario Building Set. I really wanted to try it myself, but didn’t quite have the right person to make it for. Then at Christmas my son got a Mario game and dove in to a “Mario Phase” It was the perfect opportunity to make this project. I used a 2×4 to cut the base platforms that got painted brown, and the rest was cut from pine 1×4’s. I made the tube pieces from a 1 1/2”x2” reducing coupling from my husbands plumbing stuff, it works really well and the guys can actually fit down the hole. (I am pretending that I meant that to happen, it really was more of an accident/after thought)
I printed pictures of the different people and characters and used my scroll saw to cut around the outsides. The painting took a really long time, the characters and blocks are all double sided so they can be seen from all sides. Not all of the characters are finished. You can see Boswer is only outlined, and we are missing all of the koopa turtles. those pieces will come a little later.
We have already improved the “thwomps” by drilling a hole through them so they can slide up and down the poles and really thwomp things.
My son has also requested a couple of red, blue and grey platforms for lava, water/ice and the castle levels.
Thanks for looking!
Katie (MrsN)
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a1Jim
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#1 posted 472 days ago
Looks like a lot of fun,good job.
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captferd
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#2 posted 472 days ago
Brings back some memories.
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Tyrone
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#3 posted 472 days ago
Very cool.
If I ever have a son in the future,(I plan to.) he’ll be getting something similar.
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Sheila Landry (scrollgirl)
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#4 posted 472 days ago
This is SO CUTE! My son would have died for one of these when he was your son’s age! What a great job you did with painting, too. He must love having such a cool mom! :)
Sheila
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clieb91
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#5 posted 472 days ago
Katie, That looks like a lot of fun. You did a great job.
CtL
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#6 posted 471 days ago
My son has been Mario Brothers obsessed for about 3 years now, and has all of the little rubber figurines and the entire collection of Mario plush…even some of the more obscure characters….so he would totally LOVE something like this! Turned out very cute :)
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CTanner
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#7 posted 471 days ago
Awesome! My kids grew up with these characters and they have still have all of the systems and still play many of the original games… My son is sitting next to me playing the latest 3D Mario and he says that your play set is really cool.
Craig
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#8 posted 471 days ago
OOOOOHH, Katie! These turned out absolutely fantastic! You did such a wonderful job on these, and it’s such a well put together set. I really like the pipes, and the bullet on the chain is amazing! Very creative, and full of love. I’m sure he’ll play with them for years and have memories for his lifetime.
Great work :D
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#9 posted 471 days ago
Looks really great and fun to build
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