LEGO - wotevs (blanket thread) - The Bear and Badger

MattyJ

This is sounding like something I need to pick up for me and the boy.

trippy

My five year old spends most of the time riding around on a dog or shooting cats into the sea. Lego Worlds is fun, too.

Dinostar77

Anyone bought lepin lego? Exactly the same bricks as lego and same models for a fraction of the lego price? get them before they get shutdown. lego are suing them for the nost blatant copyright ever.

FranticPea

@trippy

We haven't unlocked Dogs yet as we haven't discovered bones.

It's the constant discovery of new stuff that is amazing both me and Elliot. Every 15 mins or so one of us will exclaim "whoaaaaa look at this!" as we find new stuff.

As an example:

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Game runs a bit sluggish at times, but it doesn't really take anything away from how much fun we're having. Can't wait to get back and play an hour with him.

trippy

FranticPea wrote:

We haven't unlocked Dogs yet as we haven't discovered bones.

We saw bones for sale on the

Spoiler:

but you can ride the dogs before that, they're treated like fast, woofing off-road vehicles.

I'm really enjoying it, it's a lot of fun and surprisingly pretty. We just travelled to our first desert/western level, so I'm also looking forward to getting home so we can explore it.

FranticPea

Haven't seen a desert yet and we're on about our 10th 'planet'

Seeing the

Spoiler:

Are you on medium planets yet? They're a fair bit bigger, the large ones must be pretty huge.

trippy

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure. It's basically chaos! We have 15 Gold Bricks and the planets already feel pretty big with some cool cliffs and mountains.

I generated random planets until it was a colour palette I didn't recognise and it turned out to be desert. Looks pretty cool, Monument Valley in Lego.

FranticPea

I think the medium worlds are unlocked at 30 gold bricks. It's on the star map thingy.

I've no idea how many different biomes there are but we're still finding new ones.

FranticPea

Heh. I did not realise you could go into first person. Awesome!

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/FranticPea/video/28229810

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Thought I would give this a go again after only playing the beta.

It is a great game, I am very envious of kids having this at their age, I would have spent all waking hours on it.

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Dinostar77 wrote:

Anyone bought lepin lego? Exactly the same bricks as lego and same models for a fraction of the lego price? get them before they get shutdown. lego are suing them for the nost blatant copyright ever.

I'm probably an idiot, but I wouldn't. Lego may be expensive, but they make arguably the best quality toy on the market. I think they deserve to make their money.

FranticPea

LY9C8M – Lock & Roller – NEXO KNIGHTS

XP3BN2 – Lance’s Driller – NEXO KNIGHTS

P42FJ6 – Police Car – LEGO City

BG7DWK – Getaway Car – LEGO City

U98BR2 – Pizza Van – LEGO City

Codes for vehicle unlocks in Worlds. Apparently you get them on 2017 Lego sets but they're useable by everyone.

The Driller is awesome, you can tunnel through mountains in it!

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Andy wrote:

Dinostar77 wrote:

Anyone bought lepin lego? Exactly the same bricks as lego and same models for a fraction of the lego price? get them before they get shutdown. lego are suing them for the nost blatant copyright ever.

I'm probably an idiot, but I wouldn't. Lego may be expensive, but they make arguably the best quality toy on the market. I think they deserve to make their money.

I feel the same way Andy.
A lot of the cost comes from the design team putting the kit together. I know two guys who work for Lego. One designs sets, the other designs the graphics that get printed on bricks etc.
The guy who designs sets worked there for a long time before a set of his was published, their standards are very, very high.
The guy who does graphics is Tom from this video. One of the most genuinely lovely people I have met.

Vela

I got given the Porsche technic set for my birthday a few weeks ago. Genuinely shocked as I had resigned myself to not getting it when I first saw the listing price.

The people who design Lego sets have one of the best jobs in the world. Lepin are parasites.

FranticPea

Me and Elliot started to build a race track together

Why does he have to go to bed so early? Stupid school night.

trippy

That's awesome! Okami is still the number one game in our house, so no racing for me.

FranticPea

The constant discovery on this is just amazing. I'm pretty sure we haven't seen even 20% of the vehicles, creatures, characters or structures yet. Seems like every time we turn a corner there's something new.

Keep seeing Scuba divers but none have had a mission to unlock them yet.

Got to 50 gold bricks last night which i think means the next random world will be a large one, which also means more biomes in one world. Can't wait to get on it later. Still haven't seen a desert and I'm pretty sure there'll be snow too?

I hope they add vehicle construction in a future update. Seems like a really obvious thing to include, even if it's quite basic.

cockbeard

Probably should be the pictures fred but hey

mk64

i've started playing lego avengers. It's ok, not really played any lego games all the way through despite having played a bit of lego startwars on a wii?

WorKid

New Lego Dimensions packs announced - Teen Titans Go, Powerpuff Girls and Beetlejuice.

This is likely to be the final wave.

WorKid

Big ole Minecraft set out now. 21137 The Mountain Cave.

Costs £260 ie about as much as a Switch.

FranticPea

Cor!

Tempy

It seems like a lot of bang for yer buck, but whenever I see LEGO Minecraft it just hammers home the idea that Minecraft is essentially just Douglas Coupland's Oop! from Jpod

mistercrayon

Also, how interesting can a Lego be made from only cubes?!

I really like the new carousel tho'

WorKid

Aye the new Carousel is a beaut. Probably my next big Lego purchase.

I still haven't made my Falcon.

Nina

B needs something to decorate his new desk, so I was thinking of getting him this one:
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And this one:

for his birthday.

Does anyone have any experience with the pullback system that's advertised on the second box? Does that actually work? Seems like a fun little toy next to the big one.

Now I only need to decide if I just give the boxes and pieces, or build them myself, just to get a bit closer to his childhood memories... (His dad knew someone in a toy shop, so he could often buy the display models. Too bad they were already build and glued together, I wish I could have seen the faces of 3 little boys realizing they got loads of Lego but no way to actually build with it)

EvilRedEye

This review of the pull back one is only about 5 mins long and includes footage of the mechanism.

https://youtu.be/5YPebp_ibic

Seems like a nice set.

superflyninja

I got a couple of small Star Wars Lepin sets. Sitting in the display case alongside my real Lego SW(I have bought at least 10 microfighters) the Lepin looks like the real deal. But the quality isnt quite there. Its maybe 75%. The minifigs especially arent as good I think. The plastic just feels a little too light and the bricks dont fit as snuggly.
In saying that I'd consider getting another set or two for myself but I wouldnt get any for the kids to play with. I wouldnt like to mix it with the tonnes of their real Lego.

The Lego game is fun..not played it in a bit actually must dig it out....

WorKid

I was tempted by the STAR WNRS Nebulon-B, which isn't a set Lego do (I think it's a fan design they stole instead). But I'm worried about contamination with my real Lego

Nina

@ERE, thanks, I'll take a look. Didn't know there were reviews out there, could have expected that.

It's been so long since I've bought Lego, gave him mindstorms years ago but got the complaint there wasn't enough Lego in there to make fun things.

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