Lego Stuff

[McJob]

A lot of the Lego media games were mostly PC when the average kid only had a gameboy.

I'm sorry, but that sounds like complete b/s. There were over 70 million PCs sold in 1997 (the year of LEGO Island's release), and many, many millions before that.  LEGO Island 2 and all games afterwards included ports to handheld consoles, regular consoles and the PC.

The Game Boy had only sold about 65 million units by the end of 1997's fiscal year, and the Colour/Advance wouldn't ship until other LEGO games with portable ports were on the market.

I personally knew only one kid with a Game Boy, but every kid I knew had a PC their parents let them use and one or two consoles.

Lego Island seems to be the most memorable game out there as a lot of people still talk about it. I wouldn't mind seeing a remake as long as TT weren't making it.

They need to make anoter Lego Creator or Lego Loco. Can you imagine a fully 3d Lego Loco that would allow you first person more for pedestrians? Travel from your city to a city online made by someone else.

I've wanted a much better Racers and a new LEGOLAND for a long time. It won't happen until LEGO knows that they'll be financially secure investing in something beyond the regular formula.

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[Lord Tony®]

They are investing a lot of money in their Lego TV shows out of blind faith.

[McJob]

They are investing a lot of money in their Lego TV shows out of blind faith.

Now that's completely incorrect.

The TV market model is different to the game market model. TV Stations and Networks buy the rights to show the program on their station; the station then receives profit via advertisers. Each station knows what the best and worst time-slots are, and so the best shows go to the best-time slots and also receive the highest-paying advertisers, which makes everybody happy in the end.

LEGO is consistently getting their shows in the top rated slots for the children networks, which in turn means a stable amount of profit. Even if you discount the fact the TV shows are giant commercials for their LEGO toy lines and help sell those, when you add on additional profit from DVD distribution and other unrelated merch sales, LEGO is making a killing on some low budget 3D animation.

It was blind faith when LEGO attempted a TV show that involved live CGI way back in the 90s, but since then their work with companies like Tt (who do a lot of their animation as well as their games) is really starting to pay off.

[Camera]

How's their "Universe" game going? Is is as successful as skylanders?

[McJob]

How's their "Universe" game going? Is is as successful as skylanders?

Universe? You mean the MMO that crashed and burned in a giant fireball that's left hordes of little children crying all over the internet?

The one you want is "Dimensions". It's apparently doing well, but it probably helps that the sets and the base are forgetin' expensive.

[Lord Tony®]

How's their "Universe" game going? Is is as successful as skylanders?

You mean lego dimensions?

It's basically the same thing as Lego Starwars, same concept, same gameplay. Just more expensive.

[Lord Tony®]

Someone said something about how lego doesn't reboot their old sets or something.

Well if anyone who is familiar with Lego Minifigures on multiple occasions they display the classic old space logo.

They even made references to like fright knights, black-tron, knights kingdom, tribal islanders, johnny thunder, etc. Kids wouldn't understand these references though.


http://www.lego.com/en-gb/minifigures/characters/frightening-knight-4b72f6f960664d3ca24f2ee13ed39cf9

This was a knight kicked out of the "fright knights" group which is an incredibly old lego theme.

[Drydess]

yea but they don't actively make and sell the sets themselves, they're stuff expensive on Amazon last I checked

[Lord Tony®]

They update them but that's about it.

They also discontinued those lego gold coins which pisses me off because I use to collect those. The new ones look worse.

[Lord Tony®]

yea but they don't actively make and sell the sets themselves, they're stuff expensive on Amazon last I checked

Lego figures or like subtle references are good enough I think. Like I understand that lego is trying to be more modern but they do a good job at making their classic sets look like ancient relics.


For example there is a new recent space set that has a statue of "the first man in space" and it's a statue of a classic 1980s space figure.

The Scooby Doo mummy set has a picture of Johnny Thunder on it. Under the picture says "1922" which is the time period the Johnny Thunder sets were in so in the current lego time period he is long dead.

[kanew2000]

i do enjoy the reference to johnny thunder down there, it's a nice touch

[Lego lad]

i do enjoy the reference to johnny thunder down there, it's a nice touch

this

[BluetoothBoy]

Universe? You mean the MMO that crashed and burned in a giant fireball that's left hordes of little children crying all over the internet?

The one you want is "Dimensions". It's apparently doing well, but it probably helps that the sets and the base are forgetin' expensive.

It was a pretty freakin' good game too, sad it died. :(

[Camera]

The one you want is "Dimensions". It's apparently doing well, but it probably helps that the sets and the base are forgetin' expensive.

Oops yeah.

Someone said something about how lego doesn't reboot their old sets or something.

Well they did reboot rock raiders. (Which I got banned on their forums for suggesting lol) Even then, I despised the new rock monster designs and the lime green just didn't have the same... military feel

[Lego lad]

we need more dino sets