HAHAHA it's funny because lego is just like minecraft already.
Pay 35 pounds for something that is infinitely worse and less fun that something that costs $15 but it better in every conceivable way.
[QUOTE=Uncle Bourbon;34725324]why is it so goddamn tiny[/QUOTE]
To maximize the profits in several orders of magnitude, as a side effect of course. Notch did this as a selfless and loving effort to please the fans and in no way was he thinking about the money when he created it.
To verify that this statement is correct you should call Minecraft's marketing division.
It's "LEGO" where do you idiots get the extra 's' from?
And stop moaning about the price, you don't HAVE to buy it.
35$ for that thing? Holy shit whoever buys that needs help.
[QUOTE=Garbor 0.1;34725587]35$ for that thing? Holy shit whoever buys that needs help.[/QUOTE]
Say whatever you want but this shit is going to be sold like crazy
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Look at the ridiculous expansive Razer Blade
10,000 sold already and sold out all the times
[QUOTE=hegrec;34724958]Somebody taking advantage of something they created to increase their wealth?!?! Oh lord no, he must give it all to the poor![/QUOTE]
Don't fucking start.
Something like magnetic blocks would be cooler. Not sure how well it would work.
I'm pretty disappoint. I'm going to buy one anyway because I'm a Lego collector but I'm definitely not going to pre-order it. Why would I? I'm not super excited for it, with the exception of the Steve and Creeper pieces I could order the parts and make something like that myself.
Why does the word Lego[b]s[/b] drive me nuts? I can't think of any other stupid pedantic things that get to me like that does.
Whenever I see somebody say it, I want to shout "IT'S LEGO! THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS LEGOS!". But I don't, because I'm not entirely insane. I just silently seethe.
So if these are legos:
[img]http://www.kotancode.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/lego_bricks.jpg[/img]
Is this a lego?
[img]http://www.buildingtoy.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/lego_brick.jpg[/img]
I thought it was a lego brick.
Where did the word legos come from?
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;34725548]It should be like this, except cubes:
[IMG]http://cuusoo.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/bf70f/2bdb7/517c4/5af5b/19958/38743/7d08e/62fc3/thumb640x360.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Kinda hard to make them like that, since LEGO blocks are made by injection molding
[video=youtube;y1Zhpdx-XtA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Zhpdx-XtA&t=38s[/video]
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[QUOTE=st0rmforce;34725727]Where did the word legos come from?[/QUOTE]
It's a acronym for [I][B]le[/B]g [B]go[/B]dt[/I]
Roughly translated to English it means "play well"
Doesn't this seem, well, kind of redundant?
[QUOTE=PulpedFiction;34725767]Doesn't this seem, well, kind of redundant?[/QUOTE]
Supply & demand.
There is (or atleast WAS) a strong demand for this.
[QUOTE=Van-man;34725763]Kinda hard to make them like that, since LEGO blocks are made by injection molding
[video=youtube;y1Zhpdx-XtA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Zhpdx-XtA&t=38s[/video]
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It's a acronym for [I][B]le[/B]g [B]go[/B]dt[/I]
Roughly translated to English it means "play well"[/QUOTE]
It's entirely possible for them to make them like that. They have the ability to put decals on them after they've made that actual brick and I don't see any reason why they couldn't do it for Minecraft textures.
[QUOTE=nightlord;34725319]They are just smaller pieces of lego, they don't even have Minecraft textures on. Pathetic.[/QUOTE]
You understand that if they're printed textures onto each individual brick it would've cost a [I]fortune[/I], right?
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;34725879]You understand that if they're printed textures onto each individual brick it would've cost a [I]fortune[/I], right?[/QUOTE]
Hardly, I've been building and playing with Legos for years and I know they have made custom bricks for custom sets in the past and I'm pretty sure such a high grossing company can afford ink.
Even if they just used stickers that would have been better, although incredibly tedious.
They use essentially the same process for Mini-Figs to put clothes on them. I can't be that hard if they're mass producing collectable 'new' ones every few months.
I think they're on set 5 or 6.
[img]http://static2.slamxhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lego-mini-figures-1.jpg[/img]
And as an example the Maersk Sealand Container Ship's decals were done EXCLUSIVELY with stickers. Each Cargo container had two stickers and it meant there were like six or seven sheets of Stickers.
[img]http://bp0.blogger.com/_hGcT2AIJg4k/SJNsxvVtxKI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/VRArUDNAs1I/s1600/10152-2c.jpg[/img]
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And why micro-scale? I've only seen MEGA sets like the London Bridge and Retro Town sets made in that size because they are, well, you know. GIANT. No reason for Minecraft to be made in Micro scale.
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[img]http://ziprage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/london-tower-bridge-lego-set-gear-patrol1.jpg[/img]
That's an acceptable micro set because using sizes a Mini-Fig could use would be impossible. That bridge would be MASSIVE.
[QUOTE=MrFlashcat;34725864][B]Minecraft itself:[/B] 20 EUR
[B]Tiny Minecraft Lego Pack:[/B] 35 EUR
ok notch[/QUOTE]
I like how you believe it's Mojang who decides the price when it's really Lego who decides the price
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;34725984]I like how you believe it's Mojang who decides the price when it's really Lego who decides the price[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure Notch would have something to say about the price of his concept too.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;34725907]They use essentially the same process for Mini-Figs to put clothes on them. I can't be that hard if they're mass producing collectable 'new' ones every few months.
I think they're on set 5 or 6.
[img]http://static2.slamxhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lego-mini-figures-1.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
And they're sold one figure for ~£3 with an average part count of six.
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;34726010]And they're sold one figure for ~£3 with an average part count of six.[/QUOTE]
And your point? I actually collect them myself.
They're $3 or so in the US. Everytime I buy something at the store I get one.
The point I was trying to make is it doesn't take a ton of effort on their part to produce special pieces and decals on bricks if they can release 16 new ones every two-three months. The reason they're $3 is so they can make something called a [i]profit[/i]. It doesn't pay to ship these things overseas for ten cents a piece and sell them for as much.
What a douche. Notch I had negative respect points for you before, but this is just a new kind of low.
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;34725966]I've seen loads of LEGOs with shit printed on them, I even had some when I was a kid
Like this:
[img]http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/1/9/3/9/7/webimg/2937774.jpg[/img]
[img]http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/1/9/3/9/7/webimg/2937728.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Not the same as minecraft blocks, there they'll have to paint the whole block, not just one or two sides of it.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;34726048]The reason they're $3 is so they can make something called a [i]profit[/i]. It doesn't pay to ship these things overseas for ten cents a piece and sell them for as much.[/QUOTE]
Well no [I]shit[/I]. That was my point. Seriously, compare:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/tiles13.png[/img]
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If they put a print on each block, this set would cost more than twice as much.
Well, you can buy up to 100 at a time, so if any of you have $3500 lying around waiting to waste...
[QUOTE=Van-man;34725763]
It's a acronym for [I][B]le[/B]g [B]go[/B]dt[/I]
Roughly translated to English it means "play well"[/QUOTE]
Yeah I know that, I meant the letter 's'.
I had a google around and it looks like Americans just decided that a lego brick is called a lego at some point in the last few decades and it stuck. So in the US, a pile of bricks are legos. Everybody else uses lego as a mass noun, so a pile of bricks is lego.
To us, "playing with legos" sounds as weird as "playing with sands" and to an American "playing with lego" is like saying "playing with brick". Weird thing, language
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