By Jim Rossignol on February 16th, 2012 at 1:01 pm.
Yes, it’s real and it can be pre-ordered here for $34.99/£34.99. Lego Minecraft goes on sale in “selected” Lego shops in the summer, and gives you a chunk of the world to play with. The Minecraft range of Lego (and that’s just Lego, LEGO) will feature Steve and a creeper, as well your standard world building blocks from the game – stone, sand, wood, and even water and lava. It might be the cutest game/toy crossover the world has ever produced, and it was produced via the CUUSOO site, where Lego fans are asked to submit ideas.
A gallery of the Minecraft kit can be seen below.
16/02/2012 at 13:03 AmateurScience says:
I <3 Lego
16/02/2012 at 13:14 kregg says:
I love LEGO too, but £35 for 480 pieces is a bit expensive, considering you can get 650 for £20 from the LEGO store (albeit the £20 is plain pieces of LEGO, and not the ones upped another Notch)
16/02/2012 at 13:22 AmateurScience says:
Yowza!
The discrepancy between my desire for Lego and my ability (financially) to purchase Lego has been a matter of some consternation for a long time.
Although Mrs AmateurScience now knows it’s an easy out in the event of a gift emergency: this is a good thing.
17/02/2012 at 10:04 creiij says:
Preorderd this an hour ago, it might be excpensive but… come on! =)
16/02/2012 at 13:05 Hvr says:
Shits about to get real!
16/02/2012 at 14:40 SanguineAngel says:
How many, would you say?
16/02/2012 at 13:09 Nevard says:
I bet all the diamond pieces will have gone missing within a week
16/02/2012 at 13:11 porschecm2 says:
As one of the fans who collaborated with LEGO on this, and a long-time RPS reader, I’m thrilled at how excited everyone seems to be about this set. :D
16/02/2012 at 13:19 Ciber says:
Minecraft = virtual lego? So Lego copies minecraft which copied lego. This is a bit like a dog eating it’s own tail!
16/02/2012 at 13:23 Aninhumer says:
I prefer to think of it as Lego backporting the improvements in the Minecraft fork. :P
16/02/2012 at 13:37 Daniel Klein says:
The so called ouroboroffroff.
16/02/2012 at 13:39 Gnoupi says:
It’s a LEGO set about a game about a LEGO set about a game about a LEGO set…. Hop, limbo!
16/02/2012 at 13:52 JackShandy says:
Daniel Klein for commenter of the month.
16/02/2012 at 13:24 SiHy_ says:
It all looks so tiny. Plus it seems to be made primarily of half-blocks which seems a bit counter-intuative to me.
16/02/2012 at 13:34 Hvr says:
True dat!
16/02/2012 at 14:01 Koozer says:
Half? I assume you mean one-third good sir.
16/02/2012 at 13:34 kromhall says:
Really is it only me that thinks that the whole idea behind is stupid
16/02/2012 at 13:41 Ultra Superior says:
I am with you.
16/02/2012 at 14:01 Koozer says:
No it is not.
Whyyyyyyyyyyy
16/02/2012 at 14:55 UnravThreads says:
Nope, I think it is too.
What happened to JUST BUYING A BLOODY BOX OF BLOODY STANDARD LEGO?!
16/02/2012 at 15:31 Hoaxfish says:
It’d definitely worse than the game of the film of the game Battleships
16/02/2012 at 13:39 whexican says:
If you can;t have a piece of dirt floating in the air then this is pointless I say.
POINTLESS!
16/02/2012 at 13:41 caddyB says:
GOD Legos are so expensive these days, I remember when we were in Berlin we would go to the Lego store and buy lots of it for cheap.
16/02/2012 at 14:01 Koozer says:
LEGO
16/02/2012 at 14:02 kharnevil says:
The non GOD Lego is still fairly cheap.
16/02/2012 at 13:43 Ultra Superior says:
As a child I liked Lego because it fueled imagination. (Pirate cave!)
Blocks pretending to be other blocks?
It’s too dogma 95 for my tastes.
16/02/2012 at 20:21 sinister agent says:
The pirates and robin hood series were my favourites, too. I pretty much lost interest when they stopped doing them, and started doing generic dragons and castles instead.
16/02/2012 at 23:45 vivlo says:
hey no ! Dragons and knights were awwwsome !
16/02/2012 at 13:46 tmargul says:
Why doesn’t Steve have arms? I feel like he should be able to hold a pick axe…
16/02/2012 at 14:30 Vagrant says:
Since the original Steve looked like a lego man, I can’t tell if this is true artistic brilliance or not.
17/02/2012 at 12:39 Tams80 says:
Or a least a slot for a tool.
16/02/2012 at 13:48 Tom OBedlam says:
The creeper is lovely :)
16/02/2012 at 14:01 whexican says:
Why Thank You! I’ve been working out. :)
16/02/2012 at 14:15 killbilly says:
I see they removed Herobrine.
16/02/2012 at 14:16 Smashbox says:
Don’t they know that grass doesn’t grow on top of stone blocks?
16/02/2012 at 15:54 Asherie says:
That’s moss, it’s in the next minecraft update /nonsense comment
16/02/2012 at 15:57 Urthman says:
I hate the fact that contemporary LEGO has decided you need to put smooth, non-LEGO caps on top of everything you build to make it look like it’s not made of LEGO.
In this case, having those 1/3-size smooth pieces kind of ruins the whole effect. None of those examples look like Minecraft to me, because Minecraft doesn’t have thin layers of dirt or sand on top of the stone. Or dirt houses with thin roofs.
The creeper is pretty cute, though.
16/02/2012 at 15:56 Asherie says:
He really should have arms! if he can’t hold a tiny pickaxe or other tools how will my imagination cope!?!
16/02/2012 at 16:26 Thermal Ions says:
Maybe it’s just the lighting, but the lego in the pictures look like the cheap glossy soft plastic knock off stuff rather than the stuff I grew up with – strong blocks that will still lock together firmly after a generation or two of use.
It really reeks of gimmick rather than a decent set that’ll provide hours of fun. Whatever floats your boat though I guess.
16/02/2012 at 16:29 Inigo says:
What’s next – Halo Mega Bloks? Hah!
Oh.
16/02/2012 at 16:42 Telzis says:
Games Workshop will announce a boardgame based on Dawn of War?
16/02/2012 at 17:45 Davie says:
Tetzis: Wait, did that happen? Because that would be the funniest thing.
16/02/2012 at 18:31 Koozer says:
http://halo.megabloks.com/en
Jesus Christ. At least it’s only Mega Bloks. *spits*
16/02/2012 at 22:37 Telzis says:
Davie: Nope, just joking… I’ll try to word it clearer next time ;)
17/02/2012 at 15:51 Dances to Podcasts says:
http://kotaku.com/5852320/mega-bloks-brings-the-world-of-warcraft-to-tiny-geometrical-life/gallery/1
16/02/2012 at 17:10 hypercrisis says:
maximum levels of ‘meh’
this just feels lazy, especially given how elaborate other lego licensed pieces get.
16/02/2012 at 18:59 Stupoider says:
Just looking at all those flat tiles is giving my fingernails traumatic flashbacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33vL0zkT0s
WE SHOULD’VE LISTENED
16/02/2012 at 20:46 Fumarole says:
I’ll stop typing it as Legos when you stop typing it as GoG.
16/02/2012 at 21:18 smartalco says:
Because somehow, no one has linked to this yet. This pretty much sums up my opinion on this.
Penny Arcade’s thoughts
16/02/2012 at 22:20 mingnnn says:
http://ppt.cc/7mA7
17/02/2012 at 02:53 sdgsd says:
http://is。gd/ZblC2s
17/02/2012 at 08:24 Bobsy says:
Also in Lego, The Old Republic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fbtbnet/6865286547/in/set-72157629291541065/