Comments on: Official Lego Minecraft set ships this summer

By: BBNinja

BBNinja — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:15:00 +0000

I was actually holding out on spending my 70 bucks worth of lego store gift card which I had intended to use the brick store to make my own minecraftian set but I can see now that there’s no point waiting for the “official” set. If they had used the game’s default textures on the bricks that would be worth it definitely but this just looks like crap. :/

By: BBNinja

BBNinja — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:52:00 +0000

SON…I AM DISAPPOINT. :/

By: Singe

Singe — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:34:00 +0000

I like how the set is divided up into four ‘chunks’. Some make fun now, but you KNOW this will lead to massive Minecraft-based Lego creations. I want to see a Lego derp-tower. Or a Lego landscape with a missing chunk error.

I’m just disappointed there are no redstone pieces which let you construct simple working circuits.

By: AviSolomon

AviSolomon — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:34:00 +0000

The unique thing about this set was that it was crowd-sourced garnering 10,000 supporters on LEGO’s version of Kickstarter:
http://legocuusoo.posterous.com/announcing-lego-minecraft-micro-world-the-thi

By: schrutzki

schrutzki — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:10:00 +0000

Surprise…

Except the random iron crosses, isn’t this minecraft lego set just the thing lego has been in the first way?

Looks suspiciously like the basic legos that were all that was available when I started playing lego. 50 years ago…

Next came windows (not the OS) and the whole thing got out of hand.

By: thezarray

thezarray — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:59:00 +0000

I see it as how bacteria trade DNA packets to increase immunities.

By: Hanglyman

Hanglyman — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:56:00 +0000

I hate the direction LEGO has been going for the past couple decades, but I would totally buy a Legend of Zelda set if it was based on the old, blocky NES Zelda rather than the newer games that wouldn’t fit the style as well. Minecraft, though… not only does it seem like a redundant idea, it doesn’t even look like they did a very good job of it.

By: jennybean42

jennybean42 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:55:00 +0000

Penny Arcade summed it up best:
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/01/30

By: Godfree

Godfree — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:02:00 +0000

Just showed this pic to my former Lego-building, now self-proclaimed Minecraft addict 10-year-old son. He burst out laughing. I asked him if he would play with the Lego kit and he said he’d rather play “real” Minecraft.

By: Marko Raos

Marko Raos — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:29:00 +0000

Lol, this just demonstrates how misguided the whole mainstream gaming industry has become… When Lego Online was first announced we naturally expected a game where you can build your own virtual world and share it with friends.
Instead we got lego-themed Wow with levels and quests-on-rails. Of course, it flopped.
And then came Minecraft which IS Lego online. Done by one guy in a basement.. and based on what? Lego.

And now Lego is using Minecraft for inspiration… Duh?

Jeez what is wrong with those big IP corps? They could have had the stars, one of the strongest IPS in the world, they basically INVENTED pre-PC sandbox toy genre and then … did a WoW clone? Pissing on everything Lego stands for? The creativity, the openness.. Everything? For a myopically directed storyline “product”? Makes me sick. Really.

Draw your own parallels with another big IP storyline-based mmo “product” that has come out recently.

By: ronan

ronan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:58:00 +0000

Isn’t the headline backwards? I think that is an official Minecraft Lego set, not an official Lego Minecraft set.

By: Gtmac

Gtmac — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:49:00 +0000

Just another whirr of the (sub)cultural blender. After all, everything should be mixed with everything else and because you can do something definitely means that you should, right?

By: TimmoWarner

TimmoWarner — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:40:00 +0000

In this particular picture, the thin dirt layer everywhere plus the grass capping a stone block spoil it for me.

If you’re going to try to sell Minecraft Lego, make it look like a world that could be generated in Minecraft! Attention to detail is always important in all things.

Still a cool idea though.

By: Kevin Pierce

Kevin Pierce — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:39:00 +0000

My son’s comment about Minecraft, which he plays way to much, is “This is what LEGO should have done.”

By: eviladrian

eviladrian — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:48:00 +0000

The obvious joke is that Minecraft Lego already exists and is called Lego, but it’s always good to see sets that allow for actual building rather than just assembling huge plastic components to make two kinds of robot.

By: boingboingdave

boingboingdave — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0000

lame. This is like selling Cheerio themed Cheerios. Shame that this beat out awesome ideas like Back to the Future Lego sets, Shaun of the Dead Lego sets, or Legend of Zelda sets which were all submitted ideas.

By: Joseph Chang

Joseph Chang — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:40:00 +0000

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!! lol~