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Nintendo Labo

Construction Kit
2018-2021 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Nintendo (manufacturers)
Place of origin
Japan (manufactured)

Nintendo Labo Game and Variety Construction Kit contains six cardboard kits which can be contructed into interactive toys. The toys include a car, fishing rod, house, motorbike, piano, which when connected to a Nintendo Switch console become animated and interactive.

Object details

Categories
Games
Digital Play
Construction Toys
Object type
Construction kit
Parts
This object consists of 9 parts.

  • Packaging
  • Packaging
  • Video Game
  • Model
  • Model
  • Model
  • Model
  • Model
  • Model
Titles
  • Nintendo Labo (manufacturer's title)
  • Variety Kit (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Printed card and cardboard, plastic
Cardboard
Plastic
String
Electrical Components
Printing
Brief description
Construction kit for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Labo Variety, Nintendo, 2018
Physical description
Printed card box containing a packaged videogame cartridge and six cardboard kits which can be constructed and combined with a Nintendo Switch console to create interactive toys.
Dimensions
  • Box height: 65mm
  • Box width: 455mm
  • Box depth: 345mm
Production typeMass produced
Gallery label
(01/07/2023)
Cardboard computing

Labo is a crafty kit and softwareto turn the Nintendo Switch into adigital toy. Users can get to gripswith the basics of engineering andcoding while slotting the consoleinto a steering wheel, a piano andeven VR goggles.

First, you fold the cardboard sheetsaccording to the instructions.Then you insert the Switch and thefun begins…

15 Labo Variety Kit
Designer: Nintendo
Date: 2018
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Materials: Cardboard, plastic, rubber, cotton
Museum no. B.1-2022

16 Nintendo Switch
Designer: Nintendo
Date: 2017
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Materials: Plastic, glass, electronics
Museum no. B.19-2022

[Young V&A, Design Gallery, Design helps us to learn, group object label]
Subjects depicted
Piano
Fishing Rod
Houses
Motorcycles
Robots
Summary
Nintendo Labo Game and Variety Construction Kit contains six cardboard kits which can be contructed into interactive toys. The toys include a car, fishing rod, house, motorbike, piano, which when connected to a Nintendo Switch console become animated and interactive.
Associated object
B.19:1-2022 (Accessory)
Collection
Young V&A Collection
Accession number
B.1-2022

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Record createdFebruary 5, 2021
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1577842/nintendo-labo-construction-kit-nintendo/
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