Lego Thread - Because KF wasn't already autistic enough.

[Space Police]

Mattel Brick Shop has been revealed and the first wave is going to be Hot Wheels, with three oversized cars and two minifig-scale cars. Every set will have metal bricks, and most impressively, the Maserati has a special hinge piece:

The Cadillac also has an interesting door and golden hubcaps:

Sadly these will be locked to Matty Collector, it seems, but there were two others found on Target's website:

I daresay these look better than Speed Champions! They definitely have lots of interesting pieces, and you can't even tell most of these are brick built on first glance.

 

[Space Police]

Very gemmy sets for this summer!

At first I thought there was a dragon or mech involved in this, but it splits into a plane with two motorcycles.

Finally, a Lego plane Transformer!

I'm not a trainfag, but this is a great building.

I was worried that this would be a lazy set, but the interior makes it worthwhile.

>mogs (You)r Marvelslop

The alt build is Chima-esque, but the transparent clock piece is the best thing in here.

I'm not into the shark build, but the manta ray submarine looks really cool.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

 

[Purple Francis]

Been a good few years since I purchased any LEGO, picked this up on a whim because it was on sale. I'd heard about the increased scale for Speed Champions- but wow. 2018s Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0 next to 2024s Mercedes SL63 and G Wagon. The extra 2 studs of width allows for more interior detail on the SL63 but it looks really off compared to all my pre-scale change cars. The G Wagon doesn't even feel like a Speed Champion, much larger and more involved build than any other set. Even compared to the SL63 it comes with the scale feels totally off.

I'm incredibly autistic about cars and cohesion in LEGO themes so this will annoy me whenever I look at it. I kind of wish they kept Speed Champions at the same scale and price point and just made a sub theme for larger scaled models.

 

[Lizard Machine Bugs]

Ultimately this is what has led to his decline, taking on costs of buying the sets himself has led to sparse reviews rather than covering whole waves, ambassadors also receive sets early so their videos come out on day one, whereas Jang's would come out weeks or months later after the hype and interest had already been fulfilled.

Honestly, as someone who watched Jang when I was younger, its a bit disappointing to see him years later, still at it but without any of the heart and bitter. The stuff that I liked the most from him were his Hero Factory Mocs, they really got me into ccbs and moc making when I was younger, he hasn't even updated his Lego City in 9 months. Now Jangbricks is mostly news and his review channel as you said, can hardly keep up with the rest.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Hot take: The website Lego Ideas (Formerly Lego Cuusoo) ruined Lego. Before Lego Ideas, Lego would occasionally pander to their adult fanbase (or AFOLs )in promotional stuff. When people thought of the AFOLs 15 years ago or so they think of people who bought bins of legos to build impressive MOCs and some genuine works of art. After when Lego Ideas became popular, Lego realized that the adult childless demographic was the new whales they can pander too even more so then the children they were originally made for. And the AFOL community was transformed into not people who used the plastic bricks as tools of genuine creation but to rather people who became absolute consumers of pre designed sets with no creative backbone.

It has caused the Lego master builders to wake up one day and say "you know let's have a lego typewriter set cause kids are totally into those these day and how about a globe with no geographical value."


If you showed a kid from the 1980s what Lego has become, they might be impressed with some of the pieces and scale of the sets but would be incredibly disappointed by the lack of fun and loss of the original identity lego once had.

 

[Space Police]

Hot take: The website Lego Ideas (Formerly Lego Cuusoo) ruined Lego. Before Lego Ideas, Lego would occasionally pander to their adult fanbase (or AFOLs )in promotional stuff. When people thought of the AFOLs 15 years ago or so they think of people who bought bins of legos to build impressive MOCs and some genuine works of art. After when Lego Ideas became popular, Lego realized that the adult childless demographic was the new whales they can pander too even more so then the children they were originally made for. And the AFOL community was transformed into not people who used the plastic bricks as tools of genuine creation but to rather people who became absolute consumers of pre designed sets with no creative backbone.

It has caused the Lego master builders to wake up one day and say "you know let's have a lego typewriter set cause kids are totally into those these day and how about a globe with no geographical value."

I wouldn't say Ideas ruined Lego. Ideas used to have lots of gems before it became yet another factory for objects and boring licenses. I was consistently impressed by the Ideas sets up until ~2020. I'd laugh if the maze or the bird set or Wall-E or the Beatles submarine came out nowadays, but back then, I was amazed to see such deep cuts and building techniques like the Lowell sphere used in official sets. Lego is being ruined by the Star Wars/Marvel minifig enthusiasts on social media (seriously, they turned themes that consistently had semi-decent sets into overpriced dust collecting slop) and the death of action themes outside Ninjago (Monkie Kid hasn't been cancelled, but it's still sad to see it go from Chima/Nexo Knights on steroids to a few mechs and dragons, and maybe a thrown-together vehicle and playset, per year). It's also sad Dreamzzz is being cancelled right when it's starting to get really good (the gimmick could have been pulled off much more effectively if they didn't focus on rebuildable animals but vehicles that can be rebuilt into flyers like the Lego Movie 2014 sets).
Also relevant to your post, I've been building a bunch of original spaceships lately -- they're micro because my ideas are easier to execute in that scale, but I love how I can make original designs that look better than many things in video games/anime just in my free time. It is disappointing, however, that most space MOCs aren't original designs anymore but always themed to old Lego waves (that was done in the old days too, but as a special treat rather than the substance of the build) or ships from media.

 

[Ananias47]

Has anyone else played Lego City undercover? I played it when I was a kid. It might be the best Lego game hands down. I loved committing Lego police brutality.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[Nymph Enthusiast]

If you showed a kid from the 1980s what Lego has become, they might be impressed with some of the pieces and scale of the sets but would be incredibly disappointed by the lack of fun and loss of the original identity lego once had.

Thing, but LEGO®! There's also so much nostalgia bait, in the past it seemed like a rare occurrence that held its weight but now every 10 sets are LOOK CONSUMER HERE IS A THING FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD BUY IT

Unrelated but I saved this back when I saw it because it's so sad... can we get a welfare check on Henry.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Speaking of BIONICLE, I regret to inform you all that the Masks of Power fan game ist vorbei.

Spoiler: Document

TL;DR the project got unexpectedly shutdown at the request of LEGO and they're rebranding with a new game and company as a result.

 

[Danann]

LEGO probably saw the Steam page and went "OH HELL NAW".

 

[Hiphopopotamus]

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Speaking of BIONICLE, I regret to inform you all that the Masks of Power fan game ist vorbei.
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TL;DR the project got unexpectedly shutdown at the request of LEGO and they're rebranding with a new game and company as a result.

Oh no.

lol, lmao even

 

[Sigmund Freud]

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Speaking of BIONICLE, I regret to inform you all that the Masks of Power fan game ist vorbei.
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Spoiler: Document

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TL;DR the project got unexpectedly shutdown at the request of LEGO and they're rebranding with a new game and company as a result.

Total Dencuck Death

 

[SNEED.EXE]

What's the point of owning an IP that you don't even do anything with? Copyright law belongs in the dustbin of history.

 

[Strawb3rry]

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Speaking of BIONICLE, I regret to inform you all that the Masks of Power fan game ist vorbei.
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Spoiler: Document

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TL;DR the project got unexpectedly shutdown at the request of LEGO and they're rebranding with a new game and company as a result.

This is an assault on White culture.

 

[Sugriva]

What?! Fuck. This game actually looked really cool.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

The game was being made by creepy overbearing communist troons.
Fuck em and the horse they raped in on.

 

[Fenrir Ratatoskr]

Fan projects are something you do out of pure passion and a willingness to make something guerrilla style even if the original company is hostile to it. The moment you try to make a paid project, you almost certainly doom it to hell, unless you explicitly get rights agreements nailed down with the owners before hand.
I am not suprised in the slightest that Lego would not want a troon written game associated with their brand.

30 secs in and I am already getting visual overstimulation from the sheer level of Lego autism.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

The moment you try to make a paid project, you almost certainly doom it to hell, unless you explicitly get rights agreements nailed down with the owners before hand.