The right Lego Nintendo Sport Boy doesn’t exist…

Nick Lever, video editor and Lego Masters Australia finalist, has recreated the unique Nintendo Sport Boy in bricks — and with such droolworthy depth that I hereby petition Lego to make it into an official set.

It’s simply 364 items, solely 115 totally different elements, most of them widespread sufficient you’ll find ‘em filth low cost. Virtually each recognizable side of the Sport Boy is represented, from the angled rice-grain Begin / Choose buttons to the distinctive tint of the display screen — achieved right here by inserting lime inexperienced tiles beneath a trans-blue window.

Whereas there’s no detachable battery tray or entrance speaker, you’ll be able to certainly press down on the D-pad and click on in a “cartridge.” You may need to take a detailed take a look at these A and B buttons, too…

The one exception to the “let’s preserve the construct low cost” rule is that 6×6 lime inexperienced tile. “It was once $0.40 however now they’re bought out worldwide because of my silly construct,” Lever tells The Verge. However he says you’ll be able to merely use three 2×6 lime inexperienced tiles as an alternative.

With that one tweak to my BrickLink purchasing cart, it appears I might spend as little as $42 earlier than tax and transport to buy all of the elements I want. He’s promoting the directions for $5.65 at Rebrickable (which may additionally robotically populate your BrickLink purchasing cart), in case you’d love to do the identical.

This isn’t Lever’s first stab on the Sport Boy; subsequent time, he says he may attempt constructing the one which survived getting bombed within the Gulf Conflict.