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Nintendo Lobos Nintendo's weirdest idea in game consoles in years it works with a Nintendo switch and it's an unfolded cardboard kit that's like robotics meets Lego meets origami I've got the two lab oak it's right here and I haven't even opened them yet and before I get to play with them I want to unbox them and show you and me what's exactly inside I've got the lab o2 kit the toy con 2 kit which is the robot kit which has awesome box art and the Nintendo lab Oh toy con one variety kit which has the tools to build all the other stuff that you probably have seen in the other videos including a piano and motorcycle a little robot fishing pole and a little house thing that you put your switch in plus the ability to interact and do other things so these are big boxes really big and I brought the switch here to compare this which looks really tiny so you feel like you're getting a big box here and there they're heavy because there's a lot of cardboard inside so let's open up to icon one first go and let's give it a go cardboard box for cardboard things inside ooh it's a very it's a very nice clean the beginning get started and this has the Nintendo lab Oh game box so it's not download it's actually a game card and see if I can get that open well put it aside for a sec but inside there there we go I can open that up open that here twine one you as a place to put your name and inside is a little antenna switch game card so no downloads necessary that's got everything including toy con garage all the software that'll work with this kit so it says get started make play discover and it tries to guide you through number one remove the game card number to insert the game card into a switch console number three select make and start building so it includes instructions Howard Lego instructions to guide you through I did those at a demo I haven't done them yet here with this kit let's try to keep this intact and move this off to the side here are all the pieces now on the top these are parts that I last used for the fishing pole orange string we have blue string we have some plastic grommets I remember sticking those into cardboard like Lego Nintendo's instructions will make a clear when you need to use this stuff so you've got some some of those pieces here with no numbering or label but I remember that they will tell you to get that ready just put that off at the side for a second but you can see in a rubber bands we've gotten more rubber bands here it's a lot of things going on there's rubber bands there's a little foam pieces going on these are the reflective stickers now these should work with the IR camera and a toaster we have rubber bands more stickers lots of little stickers those are key and more blue string unknown what this is for we will know when we play the game don't lose any of these pieces keep those in this bag now we've got lots of cardboard and I kind of take this out of the box carefully first ones labeled a wow this is a lot of cardboard they're basically the rest of not a surprise the rest of lab oh is cardboard it's a lot of cardboard sheets and I don't want to I don't want to mess any of these up so I'm gonna take these put them off to the side oh okay thankfully they're all lettered so you won't lose track like this one up here it says H lay them out they're all pre perforated and remember using them last time if they're pretty easy to detach so let's see what we've got I'll put this box off to the side here and yeah okay so we've got a we've got another a that's green we've got a third a that's blue and then we're back to be blue see blue so that's you know there's there's two codes is the color and there's also the letter D you can also see what project it's for at the top well oh I don't want to detach these yet okay keep that intact E now it says there's a little fish up there so that's for the fishing kit let's put that back over here you'll be very careful now also for the fishing kit F these look like they're for the house a now there is not just stuff in here for the the five projects there's extra pieces to that can be used for other things within toy con garage for other kind of DIY projects there's that there's this is the motorcycle part do the sheets for the motorbike kit a b c d e looks like the handlebars are part of the handlebars yeah ok this one's big I'm gonna keep going through the letters of the alphabet geh alright the motorcycle one is a pretty big project I did not get to do that one yet piano got the pieces to the piano here this is a real playing piano so if you tap the keys it'll it'll make I mean real Nintendo toy cotton playing piano it'll make noises when you tap the the keys so these are all for that I think there are 28 sheets of cardboard in this kit I like if there's just like a little tadpole over there for no clear reason just to be fine G here's some musical notes here's a little singing frog here's where some of the keys are it looks like possibly it's hard to tell that's it that's the whole box it's actually less random things than I expected and a lot more sheets of cardboard which should not be surprising because all of this like paper craft is really done completely through folding and popping out cardboard as you can see that the other pieces are pretty minimal which is pretty cool so we're gonna do a lot more with this when we actually start building it and playing with it but that's what you get in the labo variety kit and we're gonna take a look at the robot kit now this thing has awesome box art it also costs $10 more than the variety kay this is $80 for the robot kit and the box art on the back is pretty cool too because you're controlling a giant backpack robot which is fun but you won't be able to do any other types of projects with this it's all about using the robot and it's all about unlocking more game modes with the robot so you make the robot which is supposed to be a much bigger project than any one of the individual kits with the variety pack you play with these crazy string controllers and things that sense your movements there's also a discovery element so you can open it up and see that again the way that all these things are triggered is through infrared stickers that interact with the camera and maybe there's some other things too it also promises there are ways to play that I didn't even know about there's Robo studio which is like a DJ mode there are some extra challenges to unlock very nintendo there's some customization suggestions that maybe can guide you to how to color in and and design it yourself and hey if you have another toy con robot kit there is a vs. mode so you could do total Pacific Rim robot on robot gameplay with four joy cons on the same console that's fun but just remember you have to buy two robots to even get to that and customization you can do some stuff a toy car garage here but I'm not sure how much you can do with this kit whether it's the software I mean a lot of that is about bringing your own devices and customizing the joy Kahn's let's get into unboxing so again I haven't seen what's in here I'm expecting it to be pretty similar to the variety pack in terms of a whole lot of sheets of cardboard the box is a little bit thicker than the other welcome to Nintendo lab oh alright so similarly very clean get started here is the instructions which again remove the game card start up and follow that's nice they include a game card for this for a Nintendo lab oh by the way I feel like I keep saying lab oh and labo and alternating it's all those words that everyone's gonna pronounce a little bit differently so that's what happens with with unusual new brand names here is the game card for a robot I like the game card art that's cool as you can see it so that's there put that aside and let's start unboxing the rest of it put that over here and wow there's a lot more straps and stuff that come with this one not surprising because you're building a backpack with this so some of these are backpack straps some of them again are are kind of pulley type strings same type of strings and grommets that were in the other kit so there's a consistency to it there's also cool because it maybe means if you have both kits there are extra things you could you could do between them unclear but possible and inside is stickers not quite as many stickers but a bunch of stickers and a lot of blue and orange string and a lot of these sturdy feeling straps that are just you know just pure pieces of cloth here for fabric so different lengths and you'll figure out what to do with those once you start getting into the experience but that was over there and the rest is all cardboard so let's take these out I think this looks like fewer sheets then came with the variety pack these are all for building the lab Oh robot when I remember wearing it is that it is largely the backpack there's also some foot attachment stuff and there's also a visor that you pull down over your face that allows you to enter into different game modes like a first-person view so I haven't set this up yet but I'll just show you what's in here before we ever set it up we've got once again pieces by it looks like that are coated to parts of the robot that's that's clearly the the mask a I remember wearing that I think it's tall my Twitter profile and that's the robot I think probably the rest of the instructions a B C and so on right go through those you know when you set these up you basically end up which is like a lot of oh no yeah I don't want to attach that yet oh this one's it that's interesting this one's a whole unfolding one so that's like a special it's extra stuff in there it's probably to make it into the even larger piece so that's an unfolding piece of cardboard that I'm not gonna not gonna do yet because I want to pop it out but I think it seems like a pretty key part of the the case of the backpack g.h yeah now I the color changed there's a different part of the robot where J is this interesting looks like again it's a folding the folding part of it so kind of change his own inside here there's a whole bunch of other what is this more stickers lots of white reflective stuff it's right in the middle of this many sheets of probably reflective material for inside the robot but I don't know it doesn't even have numbers on it so three four sheets of that stuff inside inside part J so I'm just gonna it's like folding so I'm just gonna stick that just stick that back in there and deal with it later okay k this looks like some hand and foot stuff labeled left right we're gonna go through the whole alphabet here L and M and n oh there's like a little city at the bottom there's like a little little details and stuff they drop in just for fun probably because you end up on card card end and you start to feel like you need a break and they want to cheer you up keeping your kids focused Oh these effector the fists again P here's Q up is another weird piece Q is a unfolding bit yes the stuffs it gets a little more elaborate you know certainly I don't want to bend these or break them I'm sure I haven't looked into replacement parts but I think there are ways that if you want to replace things you could I hope there are ways to replace things and our that's what comes with it pretty clear cut and this one has a lot more folding pieces to the robot and that that's you know that's one project you're gonna do with robot you're not going to engage in in building a lot more of them but I think it does take a lot more time so that's what's in both the lab Oh kits and they're gonna be available soon and we're gonna play with them and try using them programming them stay tuned for more I'm Scott Stein and CNET thank you for watching