LEGO Super Mario 2027: 8 sets, same day, price-per-piece spread of ×2.83

Eight boxes, one line, one announcement date (August 26, 2026), one release date (January 1, 2027). No ambiguity here: these sets aren't on sale yet — these are announcements with confirmed retail prices, not estimates.

The full ranking

Sources: Hoth Bricks, August 26 and 27, 2026 — inventories and euro retail prices for all eight sets, full minifig casting. Price per piece, wave total (2,092 pieces for 304.92€) and spread (×2.83) recalculated programmatically from these figures, never copied.

What you'd expect — and what actually happens

The usual intuition: the bigger the box, the cheaper it is per piece — a classic scale effect. That holds here — the 72060 (850 pieces, the wave's biggest set) ranks 2nd best ratio at 0.1176€. But the intuition collapses from there: the wave's two worst ratios (72056 at 0.2884€ and 72057 at 0.2720€) are also its two smallest boxes, at 104 and 147 pieces.

So it's not the brick count that sets the price here. It's a mix of other factors — minifig count and rarity, included mechanisms, where the SKU sits in the range — that piece counting alone doesn't capture.

The duplicate, priced for once

Hoth Bricks flags a specific detail: the Mario and Goomba shipped in the 72052 Mario's Pipe Jump (61 pieces, 9.99€) are strictly identical to ones shipped elsewhere in the wave. Three characters in total are duplicated across the eight boxes: Mario, Koopa Troopa, and Bowser.

9.99€ of the total budget buys a character already owned elsewhere in the same wave — measurable before the sets even release, with no need to wait for a single sale to notice it.

My take

Nowhere do I write that you should buy the 72055 and avoid the 72056 — that's not what these figures let you conclude. What I take away is a pricing mechanism: within a wave announced the same day, under the same license, with the same Mario cast, price per piece can vary up to threefold with no relation to box size. A collector who chooses based on piece count alone is picking the wrong variable.

How I track this with Cault

When I add several sets from the same wave to my wishlist, Cault calculates each one's price per piece automatically — I don't need to pull out a calculator to spot that the 9.99€ box actually costs more per gram of plastic than the 99.99€ one.

The takeaway

Eight sets, one announcement day, a price per piece ranging from 0.102€ to 0.288€ — a ×2.83 spread that has nothing to do with box size. And a cast duplicate that already costs 9.99€ out of the 304.92€ total. Release is set for January 1, 2027; none of these figures will change before then, but nothing stops you from reading them now.