Nintendo Labo: a thread made of cardboard and tape - The Bear and Badger

Kernowgaz

Got the all clear from the Mrs to get it for sons birthday present in June .

She was impressed which I was surprised at and didn't think £60 Was too expensive .

[Deleted User]

I was thinking earlier that Mums will be all over this compared to normal games.

[Deleted User]

And that's why it's going to do well. Sarah thinks it's brilliant.

[Deleted User]

I bet you can't get it anywhere on release. I'm sure they do this on purpose.

yourfavouriteuncle

We buy lego in our house so this seems a practical steal. I think it’ll go bananas tbh and is a pretty great match to the existing market and then beyond.
They should also send a couple of thousand units out to primary schools as ‘educational’ gifts. Watch em fly from there.

yourfavouriteuncle

Pre-ordered. And the stickers at £9.00

Kernowgaz

I've pre ordered mine ( my son's) from Amazon .

Hopefully for most other Toy-cons you don't need any extra parts and just cardboard.

EvilRedEye

PRE-ORDERED I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS CARDBOARD

[Deleted User]

The big robot pack seems at odds with the general vibe of the concept, although I suppose it's distinguishing between big and small screen. The assorted pack should fly though. If they can put some thought into making the games fun I'd be into this. I like building stuff, especially clever stuff, and I can see why they also have an exploration part where it teaches you how it works.

Kernowgaz

All my son cared for was the keyboard

EvilRedEye

SpaceGazelle wrote:

The big robot pack seems at odds with the general vibe of the concept, although I suppose it's distinguishing between big and small screen.

I feel like compared to the Variety pack, the Robot pack will live or die on the quality of the actual game.

WorKid

Do you put the Switch in the cardboard glasses holder thing. ie strap the console to your face?

EvilRedEye

Earlier on Twitter I was joking that I broke the news about the UK pricing (true, I got there 20 minutes before Nintendo Life) and that I'd posted Shopto's 20p cheaper pre-order price so keep following me for Lado stuff and this one guy tweeted me saying 'Done!' and followed me and now I'm scared off going back to Twitter because if I don't keep posting world-beating Lado content then I'm going to disappoint this one random guy.

Nina

Wait, April ehh? Think my nephew is coming over end of April / start of May, pretty sure he needs to try this.

I like the motorcycle.

EvilRedEye

WorKid wrote:

Do you put the Switch in the cardboard glasses holder thing. ie strap the console to your face?

Looking at the picture I don't think the tablet will go in the face thing. I think having the face thing up or down must have some kind of impact on gameplay.

WorKid

EvilRedEye wrote:

WorKid wrote:

Do you put the Switch in the cardboard glasses holder thing. ie strap the console to your face?

Looking at the picture I don't think the tablet will go in the face thing. I think having the face thing up or down must have some kind of impact on gameplay.

Thank fuck for that!

I knew you were a Labo expert. Some bloke on Twitter recommended you to me.

[Deleted User]

https://www.ft.com/content/74950b1a-fc31-11e7-9b32-d7d59aace167

Might paywall.

[Deleted User]

Yup

yourfavouriteuncle

WorKid wrote:

EvilRedEye wrote:

WorKid wrote:

Do you put the Switch in the cardboard glasses holder thing. ie strap the console to your face?

Looking at the picture I don't think the tablet will go in the face thing. I think having the face thing up or down must have some kind of impact on gameplay.

Thank fuck for that! I knew you were a Labo expert. Some bloke on Twitter recommended you to me.

It shows the game on a big screen on the video. If it’s on the tv then that means the switch has to be docked. I guess.

[Deleted User]

Liveinadive wrote:

Yup

It's the FT link...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nintendo+labo&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB766GB766&oq=nin&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60l2j69i61j0l2.1707j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Minkymu

This has added $1.3 billion to Nintendos company value overnight! Fuck me.

The investors like it then.

In other news do Amazon uk rake full payment at time of preorder???

Kernowgaz

Minkymu wrote:

This has added $1.3 billion to Nintendos company value overnight! Fuck me.

The investors like it then.

In other news do Amazon uk rake full payment at time of preorder???

No

Escape

legaldinho wrote:

shovelware plus cardboard.

Or in other words, DS' tea.

Roujin

Tempy wrote:

Represent the Big Body Meta on the World Stage

Not owning a Switch, I was unconsciously drawn to this thred for some reason.

When I read that post I knew why.

Papa bless Tempy, this forum's most precious boi.

Escape

By the by, modern LEGO sucks royally compared to the stuff I had in the '80s. There's a tub full of single-coloured bricks in my parents' loft. They came from sets, yeah (yer police and fire stations), but about two-thirds of their pieces were interchangeably generic.

yourfavouriteuncle

Escape wrote:

By the by, modern LEGO sucks royally compared to the stuff I had in the '80s. There's a tub full of single-coloured bricks in my parents' loft. They came from sets, yeah (yer police and fire stations), but about two-thirds of their pieces were interchangeably generic.

Ffs! Everything is worse now than when escape was young. I’m sacking it all in and giving up if we can’t even be better than the 80’s.

RamSteelwood

i showed the labo vid to my kids and they were all over it, especially the youngest. went straight on the birthday wishlist (then straight on amazon pre-order as only nintendo could end up with stock shortage of cardboard!).
my mother was there at the time, and she also thought it looked really interesting. not in a way that she'd rush out to buy a switch for herself, but she thought it looked much better than a 'normal' game...basically if i'd still been a nipper, it's something she would have been interested in joining in with too.
which is the whole point and magic of this to me. it's not about getting kids to play labo instead of super mario, it's about getting the kids and their parents playing together on switch where maybe one isn't normally that interested in games. plus once they're into labo, then they can sell them on mario too!

[Deleted User]

Escape wrote:

By the by, modern LEGO sucks royally compared to the stuff I had in the '80s. There's a tub full of single-coloured bricks in my parents' loft. They came from sets, yeah (yer police and fire stations), but about two-thirds of their pieces were interchangeably generic.

Lego do a Classic range which is exactly that.

[Deleted User]

Escape wrote:

By the by, modern LEGO sucks royally compared to the stuff I had in the '80s. There's a tub full of single-coloured bricks in my parents' loft. They came from sets, yeah (yer police and fire stations), but about two-thirds of their pieces were interchangeably generic.

Is this one of those posts where you give us your in-depth analysis of something you don’t own or use?

There's still a high proportion of interchangeably generic pieces. There’s a greater variety of them now, yes, but that’s not a bad thing. Sure, there are more model-specific pieces, but they’re still in the minority. Even the sets furthest from what you’re used to - things like the Elves and Friends series - have plenty of bog-standard bricks at their core. Things like the Creator series are pretty much what you were used to as a kid (three designed models out of the box, pretty much all standard pieces) and there are a variety of sizes of boxes of just bricks.

There are issues. The Lego Movie featured vehicles which were supposedly hybrids of existing models. The sets released of those vehicles included model-specific pieces, which flew a little in the face of the idea of them.

Anyway, thread is for cardboard, not plastic.

Minkymu

Nintendo have backtracked on offering templates for free, so best look after your cardboard filks

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