LEGO Videogame Tie-Ins - Rumors & Discussion

[Space Coyote]

On 5/17/2024 at 9:21 PM, cosmic said:

The way I would eat up a Legend of Zelda CMF series! Honestly recently became obsessed with the franchise after beating Ocarina of Time, starting Majora's mask (maybe 25% through), and just starting Breath of the Wild. Don't know how I slept on this franchise until my adulthood but wow I am hooked. Beyond excited for the Deku tree release. Really hoping we get dual molded legs, leg printing, arm printing, new hair moulds, new accessories. I want to see the budget given to Vidiyo going to this, no exceptions. So excited.

Glad you are enjoying the franchise. The NES original was a formative experience for me and I've grown up alongside the series so Oot was a weirdly meta experience for me since I was right on the cusp of adolescence when it released and was thinking a lot about what kind of person I'd grow up to be.

Have you tried Link to the Past? That's my favorite, I used a forest man as a Link stand in and would give him new dungeons to explore with my Lego once I finished the game, it was very fertile ground for my imagination to frolic in.

A Zelda cmf would be cool but my ideal situation would be a wave of smaller sets and polybags. Lon Lon racetrack,  Hyrule Castle Town, Mido's kokiri house, there are tons of locales from Oot alone that could make great, affordable sets.

[Alexandrina]

On 5/16/2024 at 3:05 PM, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Very interesting. Sony and LEGO are collaborating to make a video game, which is described as essentially 'Horizon Forbidden West but LEGO'.

'Lego Horizon' was not the Lego video game I was expecting to get but it's one I'll absolutely eat up. I think Horizon is my favourite 'new' gaming franchise (I mean, most of the contenders go back to the 90s so 2017 is new by that standard!) so I would absolutely play it.

And if we get more sets? Wonderful!

[Karalora]

On 5/17/2024 at 7:21 PM, cosmic said:

The way I would eat up a Legend of Zelda CMF series! Honestly recently became obsessed with the franchise after beating Ocarina of Time, starting Majora's mask (maybe 25% through), and just starting Breath of the Wild. Don't know how I slept on this franchise until my adulthood but wow I am hooked. Beyond excited for the Deku tree release. Really hoping we get dual molded legs, leg printing, arm printing, new hair moulds, new accessories. I want to see the budget given to Vidiyo going to this, no exceptions. So excited.

Welcome to the madhouse! Just ignore anything Nintendo (or anyone else) says about "the official timeline" and you should be fine.

I've been replaying Ocarina myself. It holds up surprisingly well for a 26-year-old game. I'm debating getting the Switch-compatible N64 controller to make the controls a little easier to deal with though.

[Meaf]

8 hours ago, Karalora said:

Welcome to the madhouse! Just ignore anything Nintendo (or anyone else) says about "the official timeline" and you should be fine.

I for one think they should make a Zelda Icons set kind of like the World Map but it's just the Zelda timeline. I guess we'd have to wait a bit for that though since apparently we're getting an updated timeline on the Tears of the Kingdom art book.

Not sure if I have commented on the recent updates to the leak but I'm glad we're getting Young Link too. It's definitely weird to not get Ganondorf but it would have been weird to not include Young Link given that he's the one who actually goes inside the Deku Tree.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

16 hours ago, Alexandrina said:

'Lego Horizon' was not the Lego video game I was expecting to get but it's one I'll absolutely eat up. I think Horizon is my favourite 'new' gaming franchise (I mean, most of the contenders go back to the 90s so 2017 is new by that standard!) so I would absolutely play it.

And if we get more sets? Wonderful!

While it's definitely surprising that we're getting our first LEGO video game based on an existing video game (I extremely hope they just use the world tho, not the story as it'd be too repetitive), Horizon is quite possibly the most perfect choice they could make. 

I can already imagine fighting a Thunderjaw with all of its pieces falling off one by one. Not to mention the possibility of more LEGO sets, which would be most excellent. 

[Karalora]

9 hours ago, Meaf said:

I for one think they should make a Zelda Icons set kind of like the World Map but it's just the Zelda timeline. I guess we'd have to wait a bit for that though since apparently we're getting an updated timeline on the Tears of the Kingdom art book.

Just make a logo for each game and let people create their own timeline! It would make as much sense as the "real" one.

(I get why there's an official timeline. I just think people make too much of it. Nintendo mostly seems to develop games first and then assign them to a point in the timeline, so it's not like it really matters when they take place relative to each other. It's a cyclical narrative, not a sequential one.)

[Meaf]

2 hours ago, Karalora said:

Just make a logo for each game and let people create their own timeline! It would make as much sense as the "real" one.

(I get why there's an official timeline. I just think people make too much of it. Nintendo mostly seems to develop games first and then assign them to a point in the timeline, so it's not like it really matters when they take place relative to each other. It's a cyclical narrative, not a sequential one.)

Oh I know, I just meant in tongue-in-cheek . That actually is a pretty fun idea though! I doubt Nintendo and Lego's priority will ever be to make a set of something that the former seems to largely not care about anyway, but I'd buy it in a heartbeat if they did (unfortunately I am far too deep into Zelda lore and theorizing not to).

[Karalora]

48 minutes ago, Meaf said:

Oh I know, I just meant in tongue-in-cheek . That actually is a pretty fun idea though! I doubt Nintendo and Lego's priority will ever be to make a set of something that the former seems to largely not care about anyway, but I'd buy it in a heartbeat if they did (unfortunately I am far too deep into Zelda lore and theorizing not to).

I'd buy it just to support any and all LoZ stuff we get from LEGO.

I often enjoy the lore and theorizing too, but I'm weirdly specific about the way I do it. I keep in mind at all times that these are video games, and the top priority in making them was to be fun to play, with any compelling story secondary, and inter-game continuity below that. The fact is that there are a lot of things that don't make sense if you try to treat it as one long interconnected narrative. I'm more interested in potential symbolism and storytelling themes than I am in the supposed cosmology of the LoZ universe. They retcon it every few years anyway!

[Alexandrina]

10 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

While it's definitely surprising that we're getting our first LEGO video game based on an existing video game (I extremely hope they just use the world tho, not the story as it'd be too repetitive), Horizon is quite possibly the most perfect choice they could make. 

I can already imagine fighting a Thunderjaw with all of its pieces falling off one by one. Not to mention the possibility of more LEGO sets, which would be most excellent. 

More sets is definitely an intoxicating prospect. Especially because some of them are aesthetically pretty unique. I'm imagining a Plainsong set being unlike anything else Lego has ever made.

[cosmic]

On 5/18/2024 at 10:57 PM, Space Coyote said:

Glad you are enjoying the franchise. The NES original was a formative experience for me and I've grown up alongside the series so Oot was a weirdly meta experience for me since I was right on the cusp of adolescence when it released and was thinking a lot about what kind of person I'd grow up to be.

Have you tried Link to the Past? That's my favorite, I used a forest man as a Link stand in and would give him new dungeons to explore with my Lego once I finished the game, it was very fertile ground for my imagination to frolic in.

A Zelda cmf would be cool but my ideal situation would be a wave of smaller sets and polybags. Lon Lon racetrack,  Hyrule Castle Town, Mido's kokiri house, there are tons of locales from Oot alone that could make great, affordable sets.

I have not yet tried A Link to the Past, but have heard great things. Unsure if they have a version available for the Switch, but if they do I'll pick it up eventually. Twilight Princess is another one I really wish I was around to play. 

I agree there is so much set potential, but I struggle to see how some could be affordable. Kakariko Village, the Fire, Water, Spirit, Shadow temples, Hyrule Castle, so much of this would feel awkward at a $20-$30 dollar range. But with all the potential, I'm really hoping they make this a full on theme.

[Karalora]

47 minutes ago, cosmic said:

I agree there is so much set potential, but I struggle to see how some could be affordable. Kakariko Village, the Fire, Water, Spirit, Shadow temples, Hyrule Castle, so much of this would feel awkward at a $20-$30 dollar range. But with all the potential, I'm really hoping they make this a full on theme.

I'm going to recommend YouTuber octane thermoplastic again. The guy does marvelously at condensing iconic Zelda scenes and scenarios into...well, not usually $20-30, but often $60-70 set concepts.

Incidentally, this is another reason I think a more generalized version might be the way to go for playsets (as opposed to display sets). Creating a set of the OoT Water Temple might result in pressure or expectations to have the exact style elements from that setting, some way to mimic the water-lowering and -raising mechanism, etc. Inventing a unique "water dungeon" concept would avoid that pressure whilst still allowing the designers to draw on the OoT Water Temple for inspiration if it served the needs of the set. (Zelda games crib off each other all the time!)

Even better might be "modular dungeon designer" sets with setups for different types of puzzles, but alternate pieces to change the "set dressing" for different dungeon themes. Say the puzzle is pushing a block onto a switch in order to lower a barrier. In a fire dungeon, the block might be reddish or black stone and the barrier made of fire jets. But an ice dungeon would instead use an ice block and a smooth sheet of ice, a forest dungeon would have a wooden block and thorny vines, etc. I'm envisioning a set where the basic structure is neutral gray but the details have several alternate forms and colors. Then multiply that over several different sets featuring different puzzle types and provide ways to link them up into sequences.

[JohnTPT17]

2 hours ago, cosmic said:

I have not yet tried A Link to the Past, but have heard great things. Unsure if they have a version available for the Switch, but if they do I'll pick it up eventually.

It's available with the basic Nintendo Switch Online subscription. You can even probably get through it during one of the free trials they give out every so often.

2 hours ago, cosmic said:

Twilight Princess is another one I really wish I was around to play.

This was my childhood Zelda, and I absolutely love the game. It's honestly one of the main reasons I got my Wii U, so I could play it again. 

[Agent Kallus]

On 5/16/2024 at 2:04 AM, Karalora said:

 

 

On 5/16/2024 at 2:04 AM, Karalora said:

Anyway, if you're jonesing for TotK LEGO, might I recommend the YouTube channel octane thermoplastic? He's a LEGO channel who specializes in LoZ theme content, and he has been creating a staggering variety of superbly well designed playsets based on TotK.

I meaning I'm jonesing for Lego Zelda in general, ToTK ( BotW too since they've got a lot overlap) just makes the most sense as the most recent and relevant installment and it is a favourite.

Octane thermoplastic does have some cool stuff, thanks for pointing me in that direction.

[OttoRiver]

The Master Sword looks sick. Also looks like the blade is translucent

[Agent Kallus]

It looks amazing but it doesn't look £260. Glad it's not changed too much from the leak.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7g1b2DytkN/?igsh=bmg0YTRneTNxam41

Edited May 28, 2024 by Agent Kallus

[Khargeust]

No way it's a 300€ set.

Looks cool and with prints only by the way.

[BrickBob Studpants]

Absolutely stunning!  So many cool pieces and prints!! They even included an ocarina!

Just pre-ordered two copies

Edited May 28, 2024 by BrickBob Studpants

[Karalora]

PRE-ORDER IN LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!!!

[Meaf]

Looks awesome! Honestly I think it seems a bit overpriced for what it is, but I am also a lifelong Zelda fan so like. The only way I'm not getting it is if they were to announce another Zelda set that interested me more before this one releases (which seems rather unlikely). I hope we get more pictures soon!

[Lyichir]

1 hour ago, Agent Kallus said:

It looks amazing but it doesn't look £260. Glad it's not changed too much from the leak.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7g1b2DytkN/?igsh=bmg0YTRneTNxam41

I've seen that sentiment a lot. I wonder if a part of why it "feels" relatively small is because of how many parts aren't used between both models—in other words, I wonder how much is left over when you build one model or the other. There also seems to be a small build on a separate base when you build the Ocarina of Time version, depicting Link's house in Kokiri Village. Of course, I don't doubt that the number of new molds for this set alone is also a factor—BotW Link's hair, Zelda's hair, OoT Link's hair/hat, the Master Sword, the Hylian Shield, and the ocarina are all new molds, which is a lot more than you'd typically see in a single set, even an expensive D2C set. Lots of printed parts too, though that's tended to be the case most of the time with these videogame-inspired themes.

I'm both impressed and unsurprised that this is a Wes Talbott set design, he's one of my favorite designers when it comes to fantasy builds.

[JohnTPT17]

Dang... That is a nice looking set. Great looking minifigures. Tons of new molds for the Master Sword/Shield and Occarina. A bunch of new prints (I can't even see any stickers anywhere, which is a huge plus). In principle, it's almost the perfect set. But, man, that price... 

If this was an ultimate $300 Castle, even with 2500 parts, and maybe switched out a Link for a Ganondorf, then I would get it. But I don't really want a $300 tree. Maybe $200, maybe even $250, since it's a new license/molds/prints... But I don't care enough about the tree to spend $300 on it. So, either the subject or the price would need to change for me to be fully onboard with this project.

I also shudder to think what the prices for all of the minifigs/Zelda parts will be on Bricklink...

[Space Coyote]

The figs look great but I'd rather be able to pay my light bill this month, this set costs 2 months of electricity for me, no can do :(

Edited May 28, 2024 by Space Coyote

[JohnTPT17]

I also noticed this little blurb on brickset:

"It's worth mentioning that regardless of which version you choose to build, you will have the ability to construct both the Master Sword pedestal and Link’s House as smaller models."

That does feel like a nice consolation, so no matter which build you go with, there's somewhere for the other minifigures to hang out. It really does help the set feel very premium - it's just the less interesting subject/high price that are holding me back.

[Karalora]

I think it's darling (if you couldn't tell by all my heart eyes above). I know a lot of people have been hoping for a Hyrule Castle model...but how iconic is the castle, really? It doesn't even have a consistent design from game to game, and there's nothing especially distinctive about any of the designs vs. a generic fantasy/fairytale castle. If we can only have one set, I'd rather have something that screams Zelda, and this certainly does that. Even without the minifigures, the Great Deku Tree is instantly recognizable in both the forms presented.

[Yoggington]

300 smackers!

Why I could buy two and a half X-jets for that!