Why Blockland is not a completely original creation

[A-master]

I would like to introduce you all to a bit of my childhood...



If any of you were around during the late 90s, and had any sort of interest or obsession with LEGO Media, a range of highly mediocre Lego themed computer games, then chances are that you might've heard of Lego Creator.

Similar to Blockland, lego Creator was a virtual sandbox lego building game that was actually endorsed by Lego(*gasp* Shock horror!). Back in 1998, this game was Blockland to me before Blockland even existed! It was Blockland played on an old 233MHz computer. Although it was only single player, while almost everthing about it is now done better in Blockland(Including the god awful minifigure and vehicle controls.), and looking back at it now, the game contained more than a fair share of bugs. There are however a few notable things the game still currently has over Blockland, such as being able to build your own working vehicles, and bricks that moved or rotated.

The purpose of this thread is to show many people among here who beleve Blockland to be a completely original creation that something similar has infact been done before by none other than Lego. Now perhaps knowledge of this will get anyone who has suggested that Badspot should sue Lego for 'stealing his idea' with the upcoming LEGO Universe to finaly shut up.

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[Monty]

I've got that installed on this computer. You can launch dynamite at stuff and blow stuff up.

[Space Guy]

That was great, but laggy at high brick counts.

I made some awesome 'challenges' where you had to find all the coloured bricks. I actually preferred the building system, but you weren't a minifigure blockhead and and Blockland costs less for more options.

Lego Alpha Team and Legoland were also classics and Alpha Team would have been great if you could make your own levels. That's a good idea for a mod actually.

[Tom]

Me and my freind had so much fun when we could run this. But now our computers are to new to play it.

[Wedge]

I loved that game, I found it in a cereal box.

[tapemaster21]

I bought it a LOONNGG time ago, if I'm not wrong, that one came with a black tricycle little set thing.

It may have been the first, but it still has its limits. I mean, it's Lego, they can't make a game where you can play with all your Legos on the computer, and never have to buy another set.

<3 Blockland more.

[Nitramtj]

Ah, I bought Lego Creator, the original, the harry potter, and the medieval versions. They were really nice but they always seemed to lag all the time and the controls were shaky. I still believe that building with blocks on a computer can be an original idea, it's so basic. Lego Creator could have encouraged that, but idea could just come from playing with blocks next to a computer, as I did since that's where my legos and megablocks(everyone doesn't care about them..) used to be located.

[tay104]

Ah, I bought Lego Creator, the original, the harry potter, and the medieval versions. They were really nice but they always seemed to lag all the time and the controls were shaky. I still believe that building with blocks on a computer can be an original idea, it's so basic. Lego Creator could have encouraged that, but idea could just come from playing with blocks next to a computer, as I did since that's where my legos and megablocks(everyone doesn't care about them..) used to be located.

megablocks were just as awsome as legos

[ChexGuy331]

Why Blockland is not a completely original creation

Did we ever say it was?

[frodo091]

Ah, I bought Lego Creator, the original, the harry potter, and the medieval versions. They were really nice but they always seemed to lag all the time and the controls were shaky. I still believe that building with blocks on a computer can be an original idea, it's so basic. Lego Creator could have encouraged that, but idea could just come from playing with blocks next to a computer, as I did since that's where my legos and megablocks(everyone doesn't care about them..) used to be located.

megablocks were just as awsome as legos

I didn't like them because they weren't as durable, and they also just felt cheaper.


They also got stuck together waaaay to easily. I broke quite a few by trying to pry them apart.

[General Nick]

Ah, I bought Lego Creator, the original, the harry potter, and the medieval versions. They were really nice but they always seemed to lag all the time and the controls were shaky. I still believe that building with blocks on a computer can be an original idea, it's so basic. Lego Creator could have encouraged that, but idea could just come from playing with blocks next to a computer, as I did since that's where my legos and megablocks(everyone doesn't care about them..) used to be located.

megablocks were just as awsome as legos

NO. forget YOU. MEGABLOKS SUCK ASS. They're cheap China-made plastics that just come in pieces with no instructions (you're supposed to build off a f#cking picture.). I only bought one Megabloks set, and after that I never touched it again.

BTW, is LEGO Creator playable online? Nope. So we're kinda adding on to it.

I remember launching dynamite at stuff too xD

[Space Guy]

Why Blockland is not a completely original creation

Did we ever say it was?

":O Thieving Lego Company"

[A-master]

Did we ever say it was?

Yes, a considerable fraction of this community has actually. Maybe not you, but quite a few people here have been calling against LEGO Universe ever since it's announcement while saying that a lego building game was Badspot's idea.

Why else would anyone have even made a thread titled "Thieving Lego Company"?

BTW, is LEGO Creator playable online? Nope. So we're kinda adding on to it.

Yes but that's besides the point. Dispite all of it's short commings, it still shows that a lego bulding game has been done long before Blockland, and so is not as orginal of an idea as some people here like to think it is. Bugs and lack of features are not a factor in this.

[Vanquish]

The controls were bad. And the game crashes alot on newer pc's :(

[Miga]

I had that game, it can still run on both of my computers, because they don't run vista. They run XP. And XP ftw.