After LEGO Game Boy, here are the next consoles that should get the brick treatment

Christmas 2025 was something I wanted to pass by quickly. Despite being a Dad, my son isn’t aware of the holiday season just yet, and British TV around this time is worse than ever, meaning a day of watching terrible soaps with family. However, one shining light that helped the holidays was being gifted the LEGO Game Boy set, released earlier that year.

You can build an original 1989 handheld, complete with a separate cartridge, featuring labels of Super Mario Land and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. I spent much of Boxing Day (December 26) building it from start to finish, and it was a joy. However, I can’t help but think there’s potential for more consoles and handhelds to become LEGO.

The Escapist recaps

• LEGO was established in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Danish carpenter.
• The LEGO name comes from the Danish phrase, “Leg godt”, which means “Play well.”
• The company has become iconic, with regular yearly revenue of almost $1 billion, thanks to plenty of crossovers with other brands for its products.
• LEGO Game Boy came out in October 2025 and is made up of 421 LEGO pieces.

Virtual Boy

Nintendo’s Virtual Boy was the company’s bizarre effort to release a headset that could show a 3D image with the classic red and blue colors you may have seen in the early 1990s. The system was bulky, expensive, and had a handful of good games. However, Virtual Boy is coming to Nintendo Switch consoles soon as part of the Nintendo Online Service.

To mark the occasion, it would be great to be able to buy a LEGO Nintendo console of Virtual Boy, complete with a couple of cartridges to build that feature WarioLand and Tetris stickers to place on them. With an adjustable stand and perhaps a red and blue screen, a LEGO take on one of Nintendo’s biggest failures could be a big draw for many.

Sony PlayStation

Granted, imagining a rectangular block that looks like Sony’s PlayStation console may seem boring initially, until you realise that building its controllers, memory cards, and some iconic accessories with it could be fantastically enticing to many. Another aspect of what made the console memorable was its DualShock controller, PocketStation, and plenty more.

Imagine thousands of LEGO pieces that make up the console and these accessories, complete with a mechanic for the DualShock that simulates its rumble functionality. Seeing that and a PlayStation LEGO game console in any glass case or on a shelf would be a great look, and could hopefully set the stage for more PlayStation LEGO products to appear down the line.

Nintendo 3DS

The Nintendo 3DS is seeing a resurgence in 2026. With prices for the handheld going up, many players, this writer included, have rediscovered the 3DS as a perfect device to use that’s between a smartphone and a Nintendo Switch. With games locked to the platform, like Brain Training, Nintendogs, and Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, what better way to celebrate its return than in LEGO form?

For this take, customers could choose from a limited range of colors, something that was abundant in many Nintendo 3DS models and their predecessor, the Nintendo DS. One of the screens could take inspiration from an Etch-a-Sketch, too, where users can draw on it with a LEGO-stylus. Combined with a folding hinge, a LEGO-3DS could be a great differentiator from the Game Boy.

Sega Dreamcast

Although you can buy and build a Sega Genesis controller right now, the Dreamcast console from 1999 would look fantastic as LEGO, complete with its controller and with a VMU (Visual Memory Unit). Almost 27 years since its launch, there’s still a lot of love for Sega’s last console, and there’s no better way to mark it than to see it as LEGO.

Building the Dreamcast could have some fun easter eggs, such as swapping the red and blue swirl on the logo to reflect its market, or a removable modem. A game case could feature stickers for Phantasy Star Online, Sonic Adventure, or Shenmue, perhaps with an instruction manual. Combined with a VMU showing a Chao from Sonic Adventure, it could be a sellout for Christmas 2026.

Amiga A500

The Amiga A500 is a deep cut for UK gamers, but one that could have worldwide appeal as LEGO. It may look like a 1980s keyboard with some junk in the trunk, but the amount of fantastic games available, like Lemmings, Flashback, Worms, and so many more, makes it a market for the Amiga.

Building a keyboard with a LEGO-ified disk that can have stickers of one of the above games would be a great touch. But even the task of putting every individual key together, complete in that yellow-tinted color, would be a challenge for the seasoned LEGO owner. The Amiga is a relic of its time, and it deserves to be part of a LEGO collection.

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References

1. Game Boy™ (LEGO)
2. I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy part. 1 (Natalie the Nerd’s blog)