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LEGO just released their "LEGO Worlds" game that is very similar to Minecraft, but with LEGO bricks. In recent years LEGO is ver much in franchise/brands, with

by frik 11y ago

LEGO just released their "LEGO Worlds" game that is very similar to Minecraft, but with LEGO bricks. In recent years LEGO is ver much in franchise/brands, with specialised sets reach from StarWars to Batman. Nowadays kids get sets and build them once and that's it. The joy of LEGO used to be to build what you had in mind with mainly generic bricks.

giancarlostoro 11y ago
My whole childhood whenever I would play Lego games, I envisioned something like Lego Worlds, hopefully it becomes competitive in it's own right. I hate that Minecraft has become the center point of all sandbox games. I wonder what kids would say about Garry's Mod? Heh.
creshal 11y ago
I grew up with Lego when it started the franchising, so I've collected a large amount of generic 80s and franchised 90s/early 00s sets, and I'd mostly disagree. Yeah, it made it (sometimes painfully) obvious what franchise a particular brick came from. But mix&match was still fun (because honestly, who wouldn't want Harry Potter with laser swords battling Martians and giant squid?) and most sets I owned were never once assembled according to their manual. Creativity is what you make of it.
rquirk 11y ago
I dunno... anecdata here, but my kids have quite a few sets - Batman, Ninja Turtles, Star Wars as well as some brick boxes and Lego City stuff - and they mixed them all together and now build whatever they fancy all the time. I was horrified actually, they don't care. In fact when I tried to build up a mini Millenium Falcon that's hidden in there I was told to clear off. The new sets do have a few weird "only for that set" bricks, like batman helicopter blades or weird rubber Jedi hair pieces, but generally everything still fits together with everything else. I will say that there does seem to be a high percentage of small round 1x1 transparent studs. Every set seems to come with loads of 'em.
- colomon 11y ago
  My problem is my son looks at the sets and says, "Dad! Dad! There's a brick I don't have in that set! You need to buy me the set!" But yeah, he builds a set by the instructions once, lets it stay together maybe a month, and then it's just parts going into the bins of bricks, to be endlessly remade into whatever catches his fancy.
- lsaferite 11y ago
  They LOVE those things in the Star Wars sets. Every one uses them as ammunition for blasters or every shape/size. And they are SO easy to lose. I find the dang things all over my house.
wvenable 11y ago
I played with Lego massively as a kid and the generic blocks always sucked. It was way more fun to get something like a space set, build it, and then use all those cool pieces in new ways. And that hasn't changed now. My son has tons of Star wars, police, etc, and other sets. And just like I did as a kid; the set gets built once and then broken down in a mass of pieces used to build completely new creations.
a_bonobo 11y ago
If you read through the history of LEGO [1], you'll see that these branded sets (together with massive manufacturing outsourcing) saved LEGO from bankruptcy [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lego https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lego
mcphage 11y ago
> The joy of LEGO used to be to build what you had in mind with mainly generic bricks It still is—they have more of that style of set out than ever.

by frik 11y ago

giancarlostoro 11y ago

My whole childhood whenever I would play Lego games, I envisioned something like Lego Worlds, hopefully it becomes competitive in it's own right. I hate that Minecraft has become the center point of all sandbox games. I wonder what kids would say about Garry's Mod? Heh.

creshal 11y ago

I grew up with Lego when it started the franchising, so I've collected a large amount of generic 80s and franchised 90s/early 00s sets, and I'd mostly disagree. Yeah, it made it (sometimes painfully) obvious what franchise a particular brick came from. But mix&match was still fun (because honestly, who wouldn't want Harry Potter with laser swords battling Martians and giant squid?) and most sets I owned were never once assembled according to their manual. Creativity is what you make of it.

rquirk 11y ago

I dunno... anecdata here, but my kids have quite a few sets - Batman, Ninja Turtles, Star Wars as well as some brick boxes and Lego City stuff - and they mixed them all together and now build whatever they fancy all the time. I was horrified actually, they don't care. In fact when I tried to build up a mini Millenium Falcon that's hidden in there I was told to clear off. The new sets do have a few weird "only for that set" bricks, like batman helicopter blades or weird rubber Jedi hair pieces, but generally everything still fits together with everything else. I will say that there does seem to be a high percentage of small round 1x1 transparent studs. Every set seems to come with loads of 'em.

colomon 11y ago
My problem is my son looks at the sets and says, "Dad! Dad! There's a brick I don't have in that set! You need to buy me the set!" But yeah, he builds a set by the instructions once, lets it stay together maybe a month, and then it's just parts going into the bins of bricks, to be endlessly remade into whatever catches his fancy.
lsaferite 11y ago
They LOVE those things in the Star Wars sets. Every one uses them as ammunition for blasters or every shape/size. And they are SO easy to lose. I find the dang things all over my house.

wvenable 11y ago

I played with Lego massively as a kid and the generic blocks always sucked. It was way more fun to get something like a space set, build it, and then use all those cool pieces in new ways. And that hasn't changed now. My son has tons of Star wars, police, etc, and other sets. And just like I did as a kid; the set gets built once and then broken down in a mass of pieces used to build completely new creations.

a_bonobo 11y ago

If you read through the history of LEGO [1], you'll see that these branded sets (together with massive manufacturing outsourcing) saved LEGO from bankruptcy [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lego https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lego

mcphage 11y ago

> The joy of LEGO used to be to build what you had in mind with mainly generic bricks It still is—they have more of that style of set out than ever.