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At least the existing sets are microscale (midiscale?), and people tend to like that.
The Mine looks cool but the rest are just bare, I'm repeating myself here but they feel they were produced before the vintage Lego sets. No offence the designers have done a good job its just they are so plain; the parts could be found in any Lego buckets, Lego would have a chest full of money off the minifigures and the other licenced parts.
Let's see what they do with the The Ender Dragon set. I do like the sound of the Creative Box; It sounds like a Lego bucket with parts to build your own Minecraft scenes as well as a small assortment of the licence parts which I am happy about. I hope the bucket/box is designed like a Minecraft chest.
Below was some ideas I shared with LEGO Minecraft to them; one is happening :)
But the minecart tracks in #21118 The Mine look BEAUTIFUL, and help me appreciate some of the advantages this scale might offer over the micro-worlds. I can fully see why some Minecraft fans might prefer these sets. They definitely have an advantage as far as play value is concerned, and the use of basic bricks should make it nearly as easy for kids to interact with the environments (adding, removing, or relocating blocks) as it is in the game.
I don't really have an opinion on these quite yet, will have to wait until pictures of the whole set comes out.
If you've not been to a toy store recently you'll probably have missed the masses of Minecraft tat that is everywhere precisely because it's an IP that sells.
Available from Autumn
Lego Minecraft world in minifigure scale
With Steve, creepers and all known figures
Hours of minecraft fun with LEGO bricks
Six new sets - available from autumn
This a better idea rather than Minifigure scale sets; Minecraft makes more sense for LEGO Duplo not regular Lego System sets. If they are Lego Duplo they have no excuse to be simple, unlike with System sets they are expected to have more details. I cannot believe that Lego didn't see this coming.
How old are kids that play with duplo.
Plus the cost would be very high compared to system Lego.
Yes, agreed that didn't cross my mind at first; it is indeed a video game and Lego Duplo is for 2-4. My bad :/
I have no words...
My son loves mine craft, but would not want Duplo. Yes, to make anything interesting one would need many bricks and it would be too pricey.
I can see it does look pretty cool, though.
And as others have said, Duplo is a preschool toy and I don't think the preschool audience for Minecraft is very large.
I've yet to tell my nearly 8 year old anything about the Minecraft sets, we shall wait and see.
Imo I like the look of these sets so far. :-D
LEGO Minecraft The Cave 21113:
http://www.hamleys.com/lego-minecraft-the-cave-21113.ir
LEGO Minecraft The Farm 21114:
http://www.hamleys.com/lego-minecraft-the-farm-21114.ir
LEGO Minecraft The Farm 21114
£25.00
Yield renewable resources with The Farm! Youll need food to survive, so fence in the livestock and channel the flowing water to nurture the crops. Harvest pumpkins, wheat, sugar cane and carrots. Use the crafting table to create a pumpkin helmet or jack-o-lantern. But watch out for the skeleton with his bow and arrow after nightfall! Rebuild the set for more LEGO Minecraft creations or combine with 21115 The First Night and other sets in the series for an even bigger Minecraft adventure! Includes a Steve minifigure with an accessory, plus a skeleton, cow and a sheep.
LEGO Minecraft The Cave 21113
£20.00
Venture into The Cave on a dangerous quest for vital resources! Wield the iron pickaxe to dig and battle against hostile zombie and spider mobs. Blast out valuable ores and minerals with the TNT and combine the flowing water and lava to create precious obsidian! When youre done battling and mining, restore your energy levels with the chest of bread. Proceed with caution! Rebuild the set for more LEGO Minecraft creations! Includes 2 minifigures with assorted accessories: Steve and a zombie, plus a spider.
The fact that the description mentions to rebuild or combine the sets for a bigger adventure comes as no surprise to me. :-D
Not only do they look like they were put together by a 4 year old, the minifigs are horibble. But I can't say I'm surprised, they will be a hit with minecraft fans nonetheless (and probably ignored by everyone else), so why bother making them appealing.
I guess who will really decide how good this are are kids (yknow, the target audience) and from what I have heard my nephews want it bad and from what others here said their kids want it. So I would say if people want a super detailed Minecraft (which sounds like a bit of an oxymoron to me) then buy a couple of Mods and make your own. But I believe that the mini-scale models will still be around and these are just for those that wanted minifig scale models (yknow the kids).
Why people, who were not likely going to buy it anyway, are spewing so much hate on it is beyond me.
Will I buy them? No, Minecraft is not for me, (maybe will buy for Christmas for my nephews) but I'm not going to trash the designers on something that is meant to be 'basic' looking.
Plus you can always stick a couple together and make larger scenes as well. My guess is this will be a hard to find toy, like the RI and Exo suit are now, for Christmas.
But let's picture it this way for a second: let's assume this is not a minecraft set, but a regular set. Would children still want it? Would anyone still want it? 99% I'd say no.
I would still get the micro ones if they were not minecraft. I would still get star wars sets if they were not sw. And so on. So I don't see what's wrong with complaining about it if I don't care about minecraft.... I care about Lego, this is a Lego set, hence my intent to complain.
I do actually think a lot of thought has been placed in these sets. The parts used are simple, which is a GOOD thing because this allows one to expand on the play sets without having to use specialized bricks. Take existing Lego sets and expand the Minecraft word as you please.
FYI. I didn't start playing Minecraft until 3 months ago because my 6 yo kept asking me to. I didn't particularly find the graphics all that appealing, but after playing I really enjoyed the game because of the game concept. I used to like playing games like Sim City and Civilization which was popular because of its play. Also I don't have time to play video games much, so I have only played Minecraft Pocket Edition on my smart phone, so I put in 10 minutes here and there to develope my world and character. The game is also evolving so I keep coming back to it. Great multiplayer game that my son and I can play together.