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[greeny]

I love Minecraft, but I wasn't so sure about this when I heard about it.
But I have been thinking and they could do alot of sets! I personaly think the Minifigures should be just like normal ones, but with a face just like Steves. They could make a Steve figure, the Women with blonde hair and a green shirt (forgot her name   ) , Notch and maybe even the mythical Herobrine . The mobs will probably be a new Creeper mold, zombies, skeletons, spiders... and the End dragon    
I hope they make a new cart piece which is flat like a tile, and is 4x4 with the Minecraft texures. Then they could make a Minecart so it feels like proper Minecraft.
However, this theme would probably just have four or five sets, since this is the first attempt using the new 'fans vote for their sets' idea  

Bring on Blocks meeting Bricks!

Edited by greeny, 25 January 2012 - 05:12 PM.

[Aanchir]

 Scubacarrot, on 25 January 2012 - 12:51 AM, said:

Although I am interested to see what is actually coming from this, I still think this is not going to make a good set (sets?). I think what happened during the approval process is that TLG just saw the huge minecraft fanbase and decided that that crowd was large enough to justify approval .

I can see TLG going one of two ways with this, either a sculpture (A pickaxe, a diamond, a block?) or a large bin with (printed?) 2x2 bricks. Either way, I am not too excited about this, and I doubt I will be buying any sets that come out of this. But then again, I am not a huge fan of Minecraft.

I doubt the approval process had anything to do with the size of the fanbase. TLG already knows the size of the fanbase, since that's the only reason Minecraft made it all the way to the approval process so quickly (it accumulated the required 10,000 supporters needed to reach that stage in a matter of days). I think the approval process depended more on making sure that the license could be negotiated with the owners of Minecraft and determining what types of Minecraft products could be made as sets that would meet supporters' expectations.

I'm not a Minecraft fan myself, and only know a bit more than the basics of the game. But I still look forward to this license, not because I want the sets myself but rather because it will essentially be the "testing ground" for whether the LEGO Cuusoo system is effective for producing marketable sets on a global scale. I am curious whether the sets made through this will be D2C (only available in LEGO stores, catalogs, and the LEGO Shop website), or whether they'll be made available to a wider range of international retailers. I'm expecting D2C personally, because the Cuusoo system has not yet been tested on this scale so I am not sure major retailers would be willing to invest in what they might perceive as a "niche" product.

[King of Nynrah]

Glad that this is going to happen! Looking forward to seeing what they do with the sets and minifigures.

[LMB10]

Just started playing Minecraft recently, so this is great news.

...Please Lego, make Zombie Pigmen.  

[TheKingOfBuilding]

A big issue (apart from the playability, price, small-ish target market...) with a Minecraft set would be the stability. How are stacks of 2x2 bricks every going to make it through the stability testing process of designing a Lego set?

[Legocrazy81]

Speaking of the originally posted model...who in their right mind would want that? If you put it together, I'd think long and hard on if you'd ever want to take it apart...

But, the other one, isn't too bad. Although, upon further inspection, my next point is kind of moot. That bunch of bricks would be good for landscape builders, particularly Medeival builders. But then, I noticed the "river" wasn't plates, kind of ruined that for me. This would be a pass for me, unless it was pretty cheap.

[Jedi master Brick]

In my opinion the mine craft review process is rush a massive PR disaster completely underminnig the cusp project or get a pointless theme.  I like mine craft but this is silly, Lego is already building bricks.  I might get one set to pick up a creeper if they do monsters.

[freakwave]

I am still thinking hard on what the possible difference is between a Creator bucket (e.g. the 1600 bricks box) and this Minecraft idea. As mentioned before the idea behind the two seems similar. Basic bricks, build something. It looks to me like fast forward to the past. i.e. sets of the early '70s, where there was only a very limited set of bricks available.

Minecraft has an advantage of building stability (although I never played it, so this is an assumption) One can stack bricks and they construction does not break. Or is there some physical model behind it? like balance, weight, etc. Please educate me...

What it could be would be in my opinion an add-on to the Creator/Basic Bricks Buckest in "fancier" colors.

... and, why should there be a license fee from LEGO to MC? Didn't lego build first with bricks?

[Yatkuu]

I’m not exactly a supporter of the MC idea but I’m glad LEGO is going ahead with this one. To be honest I don’t think they really had a choice – I know the site is still in Beta but giving a negative answer to the first project that reaches the 10k supporters would have been a very negative signal.
As most of you probably know I submitted my Winchester/Shaun of the Dead build on the site. Despite the extraordinary support of the movie Director and of the Main Character (not to mention all the sites that have relayed the info – including EB) the project is “only” closing in on 1000 supporters. If anything, this shows how difficult it is to get the necessary amount of supporters. If you want your project to pass you either need to be ready for a very long campaign or your story needs to become viral just like the Minecraft thing.
One number tells you all you need to know – the MC project had 800k views when they made it to the 10k supporters, this means that despite the interest people had in the game or the project only 1 out of 80 people who visited the page went ahead, registered and supported. Seriously, no matter how good your idea or your MOC is you need to be aware that this is a long road.
One good thing though, as more and more people register on CUUSOO we could hope that future projects are going to be more easily supported, assuming of course they come up with a better project browsing system.

[mrklaw]

 freakwave, on 26 January 2012 - 09:12 AM, said:

I am still thinking hard on what the possible difference is between a Creator bucket (e.g. the 1600 bricks box) and this Minecraft idea. As mentioned before the idea behind the two seems similar. Basic bricks, build something. It looks to me like fast forward to the past. i.e. sets of the early '70s, where there was only a very limited set of bricks available.

Minecraft has an advantage of building stability (although I never played it, so this is an assumption) One can stack bricks and they construction does not break. Or is there some physical model behind it? like balance, weight, etc. Please educate me...

What it could be would be in my opinion an add-on to the Creator/Basic Bricks Buckest in "fancier" colors.

... and, why should there be a license fee from LEGO to MC? Didn't lego build first with bricks?

Aren't most sets just bags of bricks when you boil them down to basics?

Just because minecraft has a blocky look, doesn't mean its any less valid as a lego set. If you look at some of the example dioramas using small plates to recreate coal deposits etc, and add in some custom minifigs, it could be a really nice set.

[Legocrazy81]

It looks to me like many people here are getting ahead of themselves. Im seeing words like, theme, new parts/minifigures, sets, etc... Now, I may be behind on this concept, because I didn't read the blog announcement and am not overly familiar with CUUSOO. Isn't CUUSOO just a one and done set? People are talking like this is the next great License theme to come out of Lego.

[Cutty]

While I welcome Minecraft becoming a Lego-license to no end, after some thinking there's that tiny tingle in the back of my head signifiying: "This really isn't that much of a backdrop for good playsets!"
And then it really hit me: TLC's design process is as of yet unspecified! What if they pull a huge stunt on all of us* and releases a type of cooperative boardgame with a strong emphasis on resource collection and building with said resources. This would strike two birds with the same stone, as both the original game's premise would be kept and you'd have a goal where in the game there's really none other than whatever you see fit.
That way you'd even avoid stability issues in building and the obvious "bucket of bricks"-approach a sandbox concept would naturally lend itself to.

Think of it: Harry Potter had his "Games" tie-in and Star Wars is soon to follow with that "Battle of Hoth" game, so licensed material isn't out of the question for a boardgame.
Heck, MC could even be made into a series of games analogous to TLC's in-house Heroica-line: Some overworld themed games, set in different "biomes" (different environments: mountains, plains, forests, even jungles in the latest update ^^), a "Nether" expansion (flaming underworld/hell) and of course: "The End" featuring the games' boss, an enormous black dragon (the "Enderdragon")

Yeah, I'd like that!

*"us" being the combined numbers of both AFOLs/TFOLs and MC'ers

Be well!
Cutty

Edited by Cutty, 26 January 2012 - 10:59 PM.

[Aanchir]

 Legocrazy81, on 26 January 2012 - 07:57 PM, said:

It looks to me like many people here are getting ahead of themselves. Im seeing words like, theme, new parts/minifigures, sets, etc... Now, I may be behind on this concept, because I didn't read the blog announcement and am not overly familiar with CUUSOO. Isn't CUUSOO just a one and done set? People are talking like this is the next great License theme to come out of Lego.

It's hard to say. I'm expecting two sets at the very most. It's certainly not going to be a huge licensed theme.

A single set is probably a more realistic expectation than some of what I've been hearing. But I guess that's natural. This is the first Cuusoo proposal to make it internationally, so people really have very little idea what they can expect different between this set and those that got approved on the Japan-only Cuusoo.

[CM4S]

I made a few custom MC figures a while back. I wonder if the final models will look similar to them.

[Phred]

I think the Minecraft figs will probably be basically Miniland figs.
Might be a way for Lego to introduce Miniland sets.

[Squelch]

The online comic strip Penny Arcade has a comic today about Minecraft Lego:



The text isn't up yet, but it will be interesting to see their take on it, (outside of the comic strip).

[just2good]

LEGO Minecraft will be revealed at  LEGO World Copenhagen next week! The name of the Minecraft set is '21102 LEGO Minecraft Micro World'.

[greeny]

 just2good, on 09 February 2012 - 02:41 PM, said:

LEGO Minecraft will be revealed at  LEGO World Copenhagen next week! The name of the Minecraft set is '21102 LEGO Minecraft Micro World'.

Yay! And Nay
I was hoping for one or two sets showing maybe Steves house or a Mine. But, there is a chance that this is a small part of the minecraft world, and it's minifigure scale   Also, does anyone know what price the set(s?) will be?

[Legocrazy81]

 greeny, on 09 February 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

Yay! And Nay
I was hoping for one or two sets showing maybe Steves house or a Mine. But, there is a chance that this is a small part of the minecraft world, and it's minifigure scale   Also, does anyone know what price the set(s?) will be?

I don't mean to get your hopes up, but I doubt we'll be seeing sets, just one...

Since it hasn't been revealed yet, there is no price info.

[SilvaShado]

 just2good, on 09 February 2012 - 02:41 PM, said:

LEGO Minecraft will be revealed at LEGO World Copenhagen next week! The name of the Minecraft set is '21102 LEGO Minecraft Micro World'.

Micro World.... sounds intriguing. I've really been interested in mini/micro building since building the Mini Modulars. I'd like to see more mini/micro sets.

[Lordofdragonss]

I new this will be only one set, but I am really curious how it will look!

[TheKingOfBuilding]

I've found what could possibly be the Minecraft set:

[Ceroknight]

Cannot wait to see what LEGO has come up with!

[deskp]

I think it will jsut be a little landscape or soemthing that can be displayed similarly to the arcitechture range.

[IAmWillGibson]

I can't help but wonder what percentage of the 10,000+ people who supported this will actually buy it. That's gotta be a tough ratio for LEGO to have to straddle.

Sorta makes me question the entire CUUSOO platform, really. Although I don't think I like crowdsourcing as a product idea generating mechanism in general. It just seems so rife with potential badness. I mean, I can see why LEGO set the consideration threshold at 10,000, if only to keep them from having to review much of anything anything [because what will ever get that high?], but the real danger starts if and when they actually do. Because in order for anything to get close to that, it needs major saturation or exposure or whatever, people who will see and support, but those have to be people from outside of LEGO communities. I feel like such an absolutely tiny percentage of supporters will spend any money when something comes to fruition. I've seen this before where a creator becomes aware of some vote among fans about what license for a company to get, and the creator gets people mobilized and gets the vote pushed through, but those voting, while fans of said property, were not fans of the platform, so the produced product despite however many votes ended up being a flop.

But then, LEGO doesn't guarantee they'll make whatever gets to 10,000, so maybe I'm just wasting my time pondering nothing.

Edited by IAmWillGibson, 10 February 2012 - 11:46 PM.