>A series decides to go for broader audience
>Loses all of its charm as a result
Name one game series that DIDNT fall into this

Do spinoffs count? Because DJ Hero was cool.

is this porn?

>>712624617
No, unironically an ad for manchildren who don't want to feel like manchildren for buying really expensive Lego sets. "Lego is totally for adults now!"

>>712624703
it has more to do with kids not playing with toys and just spending their time on smart phones. I'd imagine like 99% of legos revenue comes from millenials clinging to nostalgia.

>>712624617
No, this is a reason lego barely has any original themes and is all licenseslop and 3 Billion pieces titanic and Eiffel tower decor piece sets

>>712623609 (OP)
the last game they announced looks neat though

>>712623609 (OP)
The Disney Castle is pretty sick

>>712623609 (OP)
>broader audience
The people who use that kind of phraseology have a fundamentally incorrect way of looking at the market that's been propagated by the MBAs who don't play videogames and are destroying the western industry.

The way to get the widest possible audience for your game isn't to try to become a pile of corporate sludge. You need to focus on making the best possible game for the people who actually like the kind of game that you're making. Isometric RPG? Make a game for isometric RPG fans, and screw people who find the genre boring, tedious, or confusing. FPS? JRPG? Immersive sim? Third person action? 4X? Same thing all the way around.
>new players
If they're prone to liking the kind of game that you're making, they'll enjoy the game if it's good, and they won't be new players for long. If not, you were never going to hook them anyways, and that's just how it is.
>difficulty
The safest option is to have a level of difficulty and complexity that any semi-competent gamer could clear. That's the overwhelming majority of people who are potential buyers for your PC-style game.

>>712626268
Seconding this
I hate whenever games feel the need to "introduce new players to the series" as if people playing the original were already filled in

I'm pretty sure Lego has been aimed at the enthusiast adult demographic for a while with how expensive those sets can be. You literally have a show about epic lego building.

>>712623609 (OP)
I miss playing with a big tub of Lego and making houses in grade school (Lego at home is a middle class luxury)
Do big tubs of just generic Lego exist or is it all licensed stuff?

>>712623609 (OP)
Real adult enthusiasts don't buy cookie cutter sets, they create their own canon.

Danes are like animals

>>712626591
The movie pretty much opened the floodgate for that shit.

>>712623609 (OP)
>>712624703
>>712625041
Lego is just turning into a new type of model kit company because, as the third anon said, kids aren't as much into physical toys anymore.
It's a bit odd considering how ubiquitous lego used to be- I could never get into it as a kid. Partly because both my parents were lower class turned middle class (and thus, really cheap people, I honestly thought allowances and chores for money were a concept that only existed in TV until I was like 12), but I do recall going over to a friend's house and he showed us his basement which was filled with fucking Lego. His dad had built him tables and shelves just for building and storing lego, it was weird.

But now kids exercise creativity on Minecraft or Roblox.

does "appealing to a broader audience" EVER work?

>>712626854
Lego sells their adult oriented kits for like $200 or more and they always sell out, so yeah.

>/v/tards pretending lego hasn't been marketing sets to adults for 10+ years

>>712626854
monster hunter

Oh, great! Nu-/v/ Jack Thompson cultists have found a way to turn broadly appealing nerd brands liked by all ages into a crusade against a spiteful manchild stereotype! Yaaaaay!
Karzahni is going to rape you forever after you die.

afags ruined lego

>>712626854
Guilty Gear Strive

>>712626854
persona

>>712626854
The 00s gave the illusion of it working.

In reality, people were awed by graphical advancements, and dumbed down corporate slop was the only stuff that was allowed to have a budget. As soon as people started getting presented with alternatives, they pounced on them.

>>712626976
Monster Hunter has had the same level of difficulty since Tri, and FU was only difficult because of bad hit boxes. You just got better at Monster Hunter.

>>712623609 (OP)
Let's be real, if this is true is not going for a "broader audience" is literally aiming for them aiming directly at their true core audience, nowadays kids don't even play with toys anymore, and Lego gets sustained by selling overpriced thematic sets to adults/manchildren

>>712627106
He's talking about how World completely changed the target demo for MH and made it into a AAA console franchise.

>>712626683
Based lego fleet anon, your autism is an inspiration.

Lego has always had shit for adults, i mean look at this, do you think little timmy is meant to assemble a fully functioning gearbox and crane assembly?

>>712627173
And it basically did that by improving graphical fidelity.

It never tried to alter the core of what a Monster Hunter game is for people who might find Monster Hunter too difficult or complex.

>>712627457
>newfag who wasn't actually around when World was announced

>>712627475
I've been playing since FU's release.

>>712623609 (OP)
If I had couple grands of loose change, I would unironically consider buying a large collection of basic blocks of different colors and sizes.

HALT! This is now a Bionicle thread! By order of Turaga Dume, you are to post your element, loadout and desired mask power that will be bestowed to you upon conscription into Metru Nui’s forces in the war against the Dark Hunters.

The plant ones like the bamboo shoots and bonsai tree look alright, it's the same thing as buying any shitty fake plant and putting it in your house, only you get to have some extra investment with putting it together. Video games.

>>712627373
If you are a white kid, then sure

I had a desire for a Lego set a while ago but went for the fun whole (company name) cyberpunk set cause it was way cheaper. Gotta say offbrands nowadays are really good (it even has lights and shit). But one brick set was enough for me, I really don't enjoy sorting the parts and looking for missing ones.

>>712625326
That'll be $1000+tip

>small lego sets now cost $30
>minecraft is $9
>only manchildren now care about lego
>wow how could this happen

Lego stopped being good when they decided to make custom pieces for every minor thing, completely missing the point that it's cubes that give it charm and make it work.

That is, Lego hasn't been good in 20+ years.

>>712628096
>offbrands nowadays are really good
Funwhole/Lumibricks, Pantasy and the like are probably better than Lego these days.

>>712625326
Can I watch you build it while nude and then fuck your ass after? No homo..

The Lego video games were better when the characters were all mute before the cringe voice acting
There I said it

>>712627965
I hate those the most if anything. Get yourself a real bunch of flowers or trees, not some fake plastic crap. It'll look nicer too.

>>712628645
>just get this thing that requires constant maintenance

Nah I’m good

>>712627373
I mean its just following instructions
a 10 yo can assemble it but with minor mistakes

>>712627373
I hate that technic is all just licensed sports cars these days. If you're lucky it might be a construction vehicle that has a pretty good chance at at least having a fun play function, but even then that's hard to find.

>>712629401
Tell that to Phil Burnell

>>712628645
Some people are allergic

>>712627373
Building legos probably increased my IQ by 20 points. I can imagine the apple in full.

>slowly going through the Lego games
>they're pretty cozy, just typical square block in hole type puzzles while you run from left to right
>asked to play the Skywalker Saga
>it's a full blown over the shoulder AAA openworld with hit points and combos
The latest game chronologically I've played was the Hobbit. What happened?

>>712629487
give me some dsp lego clips anon

I still have my loose LEGO from being a kid, but I still like the "model kit" sets. Especially the weaboo ones. The "adults welcome" thing is funny though because Lego was always for all ages, it's a bunch of fucking pieces. It's as easy or complex as you make it. Kindergarteners who stick the little swords up their noses love Lego, mechanical engineers also love Lego.

>>712629827
they introduced voice acting instead of vague sounds

Fun fact: lego was often used to design and conceptualize levels for MGS.

>>712629974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMwXkbhTMYo

I couldn't find the one, but there's this

Gotta be honest, buying the entire Lego franchise on Steam might've been a mistake

>>712630462
>I have the same Hokusai mousemat as DPS
:(

Lego is too expensive for children, I remember the basic sets being 5 dollars and now they are 10.

>>712630703
>Finish Pirates on the 3DS
>part of rhe final cutscene for At World's End chapter is literally a recording of the PC version where Jack stabs the heart in the gameplay before it goes into the cinematic
>They didnt even bother hiding the HUD
This shit really got stuck in my mind for years lmao.

>>712630703
>lego Harry Potter above the three traditional great ones
For real? Is there anything particularly done different or is it just the best by coincidence?

>>712630703
Play lego battles.

>>712630703
LEGO Lotr was great tho

>>712630703
I feel like once you've played through 3 or so of them, every subsequent game wears very thin, despite the quality.

Good games, but the formula needs to be updated.

>>712627665
Bio chads in the house tonight
Everybody's gonna have a dead line

>>712630897
Hogwarts hub is kino and traversing between levels is like mini levels of themselves where you learn spells or feed hippogriphs. 1-4 has the perfect light hearted story while 5-8's gritty realistic political intrigue dystopia was just grey and miserable and the water spell takes forever to cast.

>>712630886
>tfw what was once the flagship set 30 years ago is now just a medium sized one in a wave

>>712627665
I got bullied for having a Bionicle backback on 5th grade.

>>712625326
how many pages is the step by step manual for this?

I built some Lego with my nephew the other week and my fingertips were sore after awhile. As a kid I could play hours with no effects. My fingertips must’ve been hard like steel back then.

Remember when Lego did their own stuff, sure it was inspired by licensed IPs but it had its own flair.

>Only one original theme every 2-3 years
grim

There was a push for lego wipeout but it never happened.

BRICK BY BRICK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_33ItUC9k

>>712625307
Which one? they announced like 5 at not-e3

>>712631996
i had this, my dad was buying me a lego set and this one was on a shelf where it cost like €30 which was about what he was willing to pay, but when we took it to the register it turns out it was on the wrong shelf and it actually costed €100, but they had to sell it to us for €30 due to some law against false advertising

>>712632412
I see your dad did the old switcheroo.

>>712625060
>barely has any original themes

Because the original themes outside of Ninjago and Friends sell like shit which is why they barely last more than a few waves. Even so there's like 7 original themes out right now so not sure how that can be considered "barely any".

>>712627004
Man I really want the two OOT Links but because of how expensive this set is those two go for like $40 each

>>712632202
What? When? Where? I don't even remember the few cusoo ones getting anywhere near the required votes
Plus sony fucking despises everything good in the world and both SL and TDR are dead and gone so it wouldn't happen anyways, and even if it did, it would be FUCKING STICKER HELL

>>712627665
I had these guys instead

>>712630703
Curious where you would rank Lego City Undercover I think its better than almost all the other Lego games

>>712630897
My man I love Lego Battles

>>712627665
>Bionicle
Kneel.

>>712623609 (OP)
rather than broader audience, their audience became adults and gen alpha doesn't give a shit about anything that's not a mobile game.
more lego sets are becoming adult lego sets because of that.

>>712627373
I could do that when I was nine, but I'm not a mutt or a nigger.

>>712633173

>>712626786
>because both my parents were lower class turned middle class
Scandinavians doing damage to their own company via price gouging as usual, all they had to do was make it a little more affordable so more people could buy it, but no, now they're advertising exclusively to 30 year olds

>>712627532
why anybody would play a monster hunter game other than Freedom Unite in the year of our lord and savior 2025 is beyond me

>>712632697
One Lego game I really wish wasn't lost media was the Knights Kingdom Flash game. I vividly remember getting the helmet upgrades and intentionally avoiding the third helmet on subsequent runs because it was ugly.

>>712630703
>LotR not SSSmokin' tier

nigger opinion

>>712625060
City and Technic

>>712626786
lego is great, but it's mostly nostalgia, if i had half as much brainrot instant gratification entertainment at my fingertips 24/7 as modern kids do i'd never have played with my legos.
i'm not sure how much longer lego can even continue as a brand given these trends.

>>712631996
I had a set based on this theme but smaller (since I was poor)
Distinctly remember it having evil moustache man, fedora hero and a skelly in it
Man how I miss this

>>712633240
so you're a faggot?

>>712633742
No? Are you jealous that I could understand children's toys when I was a kid, brownie?

>>712626683
>Bow before my legion of chip clips!

>>712633646
my 5y old kid likes Lego a lot, especially breaking and rebuilding stuff using instructions

>>712632697
Knights Kingdom felt like another episode of lego going "PLEASE PLEASE BUY AN ACTION FIGURE LIKE THAT ISN'T BIONICLE WE HATE BIONICLE SO MUCH FOR NO REASON PLEASE BUY SOMETHING ELSE SO WE CAN SHITCAN IT"

But at least it was cool in its own right unlike Galidor.

>>712627457
>And it basically did that by improving graphical fidelity.
And by changing the core of an MH game by making it more of a singleplayer, story focused experience rather than a multiplayer arcade style game.

>>712627373
I wish I had the autism to build functional technic MOCs

>>712633646
>born in 1999
>huge LEGO kid, got as much of it as I wanted, read all the magazines over and over and am still a Bionicle addict to this day
This graph makes me feel weird. I genuinely believe that LEGO was very popular with kids my age.

>>712634624
i think that chart is a bit old, i found a more recent statistic from the end of 2024, it's not much better, but zoomers are 9% now.

my older brother loves legos for some reason, his apartment is filled with them
ironically he ended up being a normal person and i'm a giga autist

>>712623609 (OP)
>Fortnite introduces Lego themed game modes
>most of the skins get a Lego version
>sudden flood of Fortnite Lego porn

>>712627457
>It never tried to alter the core of what a Monster Hunter game is for people who might find Monster Hunter too difficult or complex.
Okay worldabortion

Remember when Lego had an original set line for mechs that had pose-able knees?

>>712633821
so faggot, got it

>>712635581
i do now, i had this one.

>>712631996
I remember getting one of the Rock Raiders trucks, and a later release of that Johnny Thunder set with like a Tibet theme that was also a boardgame you could play.
I miss it.

>>712633646
this graph pissed me off, use distinct fucking colors damnit, not shades of the same shit

>>712635581
Man exoforce was the fucking shit, no wonder I got into gunpla when I got older

>>712626854
>does "appealing to a broader audience" EVER work?
World of Warcraft was essentially the product of Everquest players who wanted to make an MMO that appealed to a broader audience.

Aren't modern Legos less durable because they screwed with the recipe?

>>712626854
does it work for revenue? usually yes
does it work for other stuff like longevity or quality? usually no

>>712636204
>Millennial
>95

Nope.

>>712627373
>do you think little timmy is meant to assemble a fully functioning gearbox and crane assembly?
I was building big Technic sets like that when I was 10, and I even made robots with the Mindstorm system. Why do you assume kids are so stupid?

>>712628329
but they don't have branding for star wars and such

>>712626786
>kids aren't as much into physical toys anymore.

Can't blame them. If my first introduction to building games was Minecraft, Legos would look pretty tame and astronomically expensive by comparison

>>712636797
>t. Zoomer in denial

>>712636797
whatever you say, mr. "I bend all definitions to fit my specific (incorrect) view of the world"

>>712624617
lego baddies are untapped potential

>>712625041
>le millenials!!!
you do realize lego existed long before they were even born, right zoomie?

>>712636873
lego needs to make their own minecraft style game.

>>712623609 (OP)
It did change and there is stuff I really don't like about how it is now. But once I adjusted my expectations I started to appreciate what it is now more. There are some cool ideas.

>>712637045
It's not 50+ year olds buying Lego sets out of nostalgia, it's 35-45 year olds (millennials) who keep chasing nostalgia highs because the world went to shit during their formative years (9/11, 2008) and gave them a bad case of arrested development.

>>712637045
Well It’s not fuckin gen x buying $500 Star Wars Lego sets

>>712627078
>Appeals to normies
>Guilty Gear fans of the old games leave
>Turn Testament and Bridget into trannies
>Invites Twitter users which results in new fans to leave
Don't get me started how they started to remove sex appeal after Baiken and Jack O for women considering Elphelt and Dizzy's new designs. Even the leaked Jam.

>>712623609 (OP)
That DnD set was pretty cool. So are the architecture ones. Oh and I also bought LKC.

>>712626854
Fallout 3

>>712637369
Yeah it is. My dad just finished building an AT-AT that's like 2 feet tall.

>>712638256
How old is your dad? Keep in mind that 45 is Millennial these days, because Millennial birth years go from 1980 to 1996.

All I wanted since I was like 12 was a Lego Mortal Kombat set if WB and Lego can come to an agreement I will buy the most expensive sets they offer

>>712638349
He's over 50, so actual gen X.

Any Studio bros here?
Here's a Fantasy Zone set I worked on, I still want to make more weapons and other builds for it but I think it's neat.

>>712623609 (OP)
this is painfully autistic
and it makes me depressed for children

>>712638875
WELCOME TO THE FANTASY ZONE
GET READY!!!
wrong game

>>712636823
>Why do you assume kids are so stupid?
NTA. Since zoomers kids are fucking retarded. Lego printing one piece per instruction page does nothing but worsening their already rotten brains
I used to play with Rasti and its instructions catalogue since I was 2. Any non retarded kid would have no issues by 4 years old.

>>712623609 (OP)
I grew out of lego. I warhammer now.

>>712630703
>Lego City Undercover
>not being tier 0
Opinion discarded

>>712626976
Have you looked at the steam player counts the last few days? Wilds has started falling below World

>>712631009
Lego LOTR introduced using dialogue audio clips from the movies, which is gay as fuck. Voiced dialogue ruined TT Lego games forever.

>>712624703
>>712623609 (OP)
Lego was always for adults though, informally. It was a dadcore gift for quality father-son bonding.
I feel like this re-branding is a symptom of the erosion of classic family values.

>>712641368
Makes sense. My brother wouldn’t even read to his kids when I bought them storybooks as gifts. Just sat them in front of the iPad. Now they are iPad zombies. Lounging about playing Genshin or Roblox all day.

>>712641271
that was batman 2
It was even advertised as the first lego game with VA

>>712643938
Lego Batman is an original game with an original story, so I don't mind that. Original Lego games have had voice acting as far back as the original Lego Island on PC. What's so soulless about Lego LOTR is that they just play recorded audio clips from the movies over top of the Lego cutscenes, which completely ruins the charm. They add visual gags in the background, but having the literal movie audio playing over all of it just makes it feel so disjointed and poorly integrated. The movie adaptation games should never have done that.

>>712644757
Didnt the Rambo game do the same thing, thats fucking stupid, just hire soundalikes.

>>712636204
Re-do the 26% if you're gonna sperg about readibility

The problem is modern legos are too big/expensive/impressive. When you have some 500 dollar ultimate collector set, you're not inclined to ever take the set apart and use the pieces to make your own stuff, which was always the whole point of lego. So what once was a fun kids toy now just serves as overpriced model kits

Last year I bought some legos for the first time in about 20 years. When I was a young kid, like 5-10yo I was obsessed with legos, but of course they were expensive and I obviously couldn't afford to get the big impressive sets I dreamed of at the time like the star wars imperial walker or millennium falcon. So with that nostalgia in mind, I splurged on some star wars slop, Jabba's Sail Barge and Mos Eisley Cantina. I honestly did have fun building the sets. They're very impressive and I would've killed to own these back when I was 10 But afterwards it just felt empty. What was I gonna do with these? Just put them on my office shelf to collect dust? I was chasing after something that doesn't come back just because I decided to buy some toys that I was into when I was a kid.

>>712645801
Not everything Lego sells is $500 collector sets. They sell plenty of cheaper sets that encourage taking them apart and building them into other things. Look for the Lego Creator 3-in-1 sets for a great example. Here's a couple master builders playing around with one that's literally $20: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MmDhpm_uveI

for me its all the unique pieces they keep adding

Older lego moulded unique parts only when neccessary and tried to use them in other sets too when possible, and the rest was just repurposed, like the new lego harry potter sets having dedicated wand pieces molded just for it, which skyrockets the price of an already expensive licensed set, when normal lego sticks, like the ones they've used since 2000s, did the job more then well enough.

as an overgrown manchild that plays with legos I genuinely can't respect anybody that calls themselves an AFOL and only buys $500 "glup shitto's starship" sets

>>712646620
>AFOL
what

>>712646620
>AFOL

>>712646706
>>712646828
is askjeeves down

>>712646706
>>712646828
Adult Fan of Lego I’m guessing

>>712632278
Voyagers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYggKzKdg08

>>712626976
Not anymore.

>>712646964
Something about blood-borne diseases?

Sometimes I think about getting a lego or two but don't. My beef isn't even the price, I can afford it, my problem is I don't have anywhere to fucking put them, all the space is taken up by unbuilt gunpla

>>712631996
NinjaGOD is still going strong

>>712647191
>a 2-player co-op adventure
I'm out. This trend is such cancer.

>>712626854
Digimon
Going after a more teenage audience instead of trying to compete in the kodomo market has done wonders for the general appeal of the IP.

>>712627373
Considering Bionicle and its side of larger kits, a ten year-old would can certainly get there if he put his mind to it. Maybe during a weekend.

>>712638875
stud.io is based and lets me get out my occasional creative urges without actually investing in plastic crack again

>>712647583
Shifting focus to teenagers is literally the opposite of appealing to a broader audience, it's appealing to a different and more specific audience.

>>712625060
Legos most popular sets now and historically have been the realistic city sets. In fact their lowest points where when they tried doing more original, fanatical sets than realistic ones. This is why LEGO has been so popular lately because getting making accurate and detailed sets based off popular IPs is what the people have wanted the entire time.

>>712625060
it's also why lego is so overpriced now

>>712633624
Technic is a system, not a theme.

>>712626683
>just a bunch of Star Destroyers

>>712627665
Who are you people who are so obsessed with bionicles? Is it a zoomer thing, did you all grow up with them or what?

>>712637097

>>712631996
Yeah, I especially miss the Lego Space setting.

>>712635581
I had two of those, I left them back at my parent's house and I don't fucking know why my brother traded them for fucking storm trooper figurines

>>712631996
Who needs Johnny Thunder sets when you can have REAL Indiana Jones sets?

>>712648964
Who needs Space sets when you can have REAL Star Wars sets?

t. Retarded Lego Executive

>>712648964
Space police and Galaxy squad were so cool
Alien conquest is an honorable mention but that wasnt really space. I still want the mothership though

>>712647191
I'm dying of soi overdose from this.

>>712648964
this

>>712649112
Sadly it wasn't retarded, it worked. Most people just want to see things they're already familiar with.

>>712625326
I hate the expressive and detailed faces -- it's just like YouTube soiface thumbnails. Two dots and a line for the smile is all that is needed.

>>712625326
Yeah, it sickens me, too.

>>712636823
>Why do you assume kids are so stupid?
Why does Lego?

>>712628329
Now this one is sick-as-fuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=044wQRm_aLI

>alpha force
>Power miners
>Mars mission
>Aqua raiders
God take me back

>>712650264
>Power miners never had a proper ending save for the lava guy cop out
>Atlantis was a sequel to power miners
it hurts

>>712626786
>kids aren't as much into physical toys anymore.
it's perfectly understandable. the allure of digital games is much more exciting. visual images and sound will always win out over imagination. besides, video games have no limits. you can build statues larger than your entire neighborhood in minecraft without ordering any additional blocks

>>712650264
Made me sad to find out that the time period I grew up with lego, in the late 90s and early 2000s, was apparently when they were the least successful. I loved all the cool themes from UFOs to Johnny Thunder to Aqua Sharks to Rock Raiders, but apparently these all sold like dogshit or something and resulted in Lego switching focus entirely on more and more licensed IPs (not that I didn't enjoy those original lego star wars sets but still)

>>712649250
I hated the complaint about themes like Mars Missions being a “racial allegory” because Life on Mars had friendly aliens and any other appearance of aliens after that had them as the villains/bad guys.
people really need to stop looking deep into shit where it doesn’t matter

>>712650264

>>712634403
>arcade style game.
you wouldn't know what an arcade game is if it hit you over the head.
if MH were an arcade game
>you'd have 2 minutes to pick a mission and 3 or so minutes to pick your gear
>you'd have a clock ticking down and checkpoints. if you fail to pass 'em in time, you have to insert another quarter
>you'd have enemies in each zone to take care of. failure to dodge in time will result in enemies launching attacks that hit you regardless of whether they physically miss
>there would be no healing consumables only when you beat a miniboss or break some hidden destructible object
>all drops and materials would sparkle for a minute or so and then vanish forever in a poof of smoke
>boss fights would be scripted and feature break gauges. failure to empty the gauge will result in eating an unavoidable attack that will blow your HP bar to pieces
>you have 50 seconds after beating a boss to pick your spoils
>when you're back to the town the game asks for another credit
you don't know what an arcade game is

>>712650758
Aqua Sharks for life.

>>712650446
Even better
Alien conquest aliens are apparently in kahoots with the atlantis creatures and Pharaoh, and also might have been related to the Dino invasion
Just imagine if this wasnt a shit decade of sales for them and lego Lore iceberg was growing

>>712633646
>>712634820
>>712636204

I feel like this is just showing when people get older they have more disposable income

>>712650449
I think it depends on the kid, I babysit two, the first one I gave all of my toys and he never touched them, he'd rather draw stuff, but the second one likes them so much I even convinced her mother to buy her playmobil because lego is kinda lame, but likes lego too so she bought more sets.

>>712652489
I see more girls these days actually be interested in lego.
My little sister also likes it a lot, meanwhile all the boys in my family are on phones 24/7, except for my cousin who somehow got into 3d printers of all things.
The fuck is going on today?

>>712650864
>>you'd have 2 minutes to pick a mission and 3 or so minutes to pick your gear
Oh so MHW.

>>712623609 (OP)
Lego mortal kombat soon?

>>712655123
Traveller's Tales actually wanted to include it in the Midway pack for Dimensions.

Every time I think about getting back into lego I just get overwhelmed by how much of a logistical pain in the ass it would be. I'm not talking about buying glorified model kits, I'm talking about wanting to build stuff on my own. It's a pain in the ass to plot out in autocad or whatever to design what you want to make and then specifically order those pieces off third party sites. But the traditional route of just having a giant tub of old lego sets to cannibalize isn't really feasible either when even small sets nowadays cost like 100 bucks a pop, and that's not necessarily an efficient way of getting the pieces you need either.

>>712650864
Anon, when people say "arcade style" they aren't referring to a specific game, they're referring to the drop-in, drop-out low story style of game where you have something like 3 lives and then you're done unless you put in another quarter.
That's what MH used to be.
So much so that this
>>all drops and materials would sparkle for a minute or so and then vanish forever in a poof of smoke
Is basically shiny drops minus the smoke, until of course they removed the despawn in world.
And this
>you have 50 seconds after beating a boss to pick your spoils
Is every MH game since you have 60 seconds before you return to the hub.
Also,
>failure to dodge in time will result in enemies launching attacks that hit you regardless of whether they physically miss
>>boss fights would be scripted and feature break gauges. failure to empty the gauge will result in eating an unavoidable attack that will blow your HP bar to pieces
>when you're back to the town the game asks for another credit
These aren't arcade game things.

Zoomers and gen alphas don't play Legos anymore

Legos are a boomer to millennial thing

>>712655472
It's really not worth to get back into it.
Everything is overpriced, plastic quality is absolute dogshit and pieces develop hairline cracks after a few weeks, nearly everything is cheaply stickered instead of printed, the building experience is aimed at windowlickers and people who don't actually build their own stuff out of it, there's woke DEI shit everywhere and the company is doing some dubious shit in general.

>>712650758
>>712651096
If you had this and Blacktron as a kid, you were guaranteed to have cunny

>>712654296
When I was a kid other boys didn't like lego or playmobil either, it was girls that had polly pocket or doll houses, guess lego is more of a suburbia thing, I lived in the slums and everyone else just played outside.

>>712655472
Get into plamo, my guy

>>712626758
which I've always found hilarious, since the message of the lego movie was that legos are meant to be broken apart and reused to make stuff out of your imagination, and yet lego has shifted toward catering exclusively toward nostalgiatards who buy thousand dollar collector sets that do nothing and sit on a shelf unplayed.

>>712656101
looks cool

>>712631996
FUCK i had exactly that one + pic related and i rebuilt those things into so many structures and robots...

>>712648776
millenians are utterly broken spiritually, they have no imagination so LEGO had to sell them pseudo-action figures

>>712630703
lego games are actual kid's games. very little enjoyment to be had if you're an adult.

>>712656167
Those were the same people that didn't understand the meaning behind the "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME" song - hell, I doubt Lego itself actually understood it.

>>712634206
They couldve just made knightly bionicles and everyone would be happy.

>>712656185
one of her thighs crumbled for no discernible reason and I had to buy a replacement
She can wear the white rabbit like armor too.

The prices for anything coming out of this collaboration is going to be off the charts.

>>712656031
Yeah, the best I had was chinese bootleg of picrel.

>>712624703
there are only a few legit manchildren who buy legos to play with.
most are tards buying sealed+rare sets hoping they’ll become the next bitcoin.
lego knows this so they cut runs and raised the price

>>712625326
I don't care for that color but it does look cool

>>712651749
>adults have more disposable income to buy more luxuries vs kids who don’t have something like that
thank you captain obvious

4 years ago I got drunk and randomly ordered this online.

When it showed up I couldn't bring myself to open it up and it's sat on the top of a cupboard ever since.

I honestly don't understand why millenials are so obsessed with toys, I mean I had tons as a kid and I keep the ones that look cool for 3D modeling reference, but buying action figures just to keep them around seems so dumb, even worse when they have kids and poor little shits just have to stare at them while they get shitty toys.
>bbut muh investment
Then keep them sealed in boxes why are you displaying them.

>>712657764
I buy toys because toys are fun. same as video games, ain't it?
I don't really get people that buy an action figure and just stick it on a shelf. I personally prefer things like legos or nerf guns.

>>712657987
What do you mean fun?

>>712649662
What the fuck. Kids are too stupid for ball joints now? When I was a kid there was Bionicle, Xevoz, Stickfas etc. and the other kids I played with never had any problems with this shit

>>712657764
>bbut muh investment
Who cares about the investment? It's just fun.

>>712658058
>What the fuck. Kids are too stupid for ball joints now?
It's one of the reasons why they introduced one of the worst pieces in recent years a while ago.

>>712625060
the Optimus Prime was cool tho

>>712630703
I like Pirates but it should have been just the original trilogy.

>>712627004
>IS THAT LE HECKIN MASTERSWOOOOORD! :OOOO

>>712658260
>fun
I think I ran out of fun juice when I was like 12 then.

>>712658330
>Rotation piece but set to one permanent angle
Wow, amazing

>>712657987
>he has “fun” with video games
>>712658330
You have no idea how much I fucking hate that piece. Waste of plastic basically kill any interest in modern Lego mechs for me, as the lack of knee joints didn’t do that already.

>>712657764
>>712656941
>Investment
These people are at the very least 40% of the reason Lego has gone to shit in recent years.
>Want an old set? Uh oh its a valuable now, so not only we are going to price it as its discontinued, we're going to add an "investment" tax on it too!
>Want a new set? Nuh uh, that one's overpriced from the get go to be sold later for even more, get fucked.
I hope these niggers get painfully fucked for such perversion of what was once a great hobby.

>>712657764
>Then keep them sealed in boxes why are you displaying them.
loose toy market also went through the roof

lego is for kids

>>712626683
I had a box of at least 50 unique spaceships of similar size, all designed by me but inspired by this space game called Galaxy on Fire. I traded my legendary pic rel just for some fancy bricks to make more spaceships.

Then I just snapped and destroyed my whole collection, for no reason. I wouldn't be able to keep it anyway with how my life turned out but I still regret it

>>712659085
Why would anyone pay 250 for a Luke Skywalker, what's wrong with these people.

>>712659087
Essential oils are definitely not a scam, if used on your or others butts.

>>712635581
I was obsessed with the robot minifigs. Used to swap out their claws for weapons like blaster and chainsaws or put their arms on upside down with two more attached to their torsos to make a four armed killing machine.

>>712659258
star wars fags are insane

>>712637038
Male.

>>712659175
>Galaxy on Fire
MY FUCKING NIGGER
TOTAL VOSSK DEATH

>>712623609 (OP)
They lost their soul when they started to rely on license shit more.

>>712623609 (OP)
Kids just have their brains leak out over their ipads
Adults with too much money but no rose tinted glasses get plamo/warhams
Adults with sense get 3D printers
Leaving only manchildren

>>712623609 (OP)
>every worthwhile set costs almost 2-3 times as much as a video game
It's practically only for financially irresponsible adults at this point.

>>712659383
My big dream was to build my custom Kaamo station but at that point in life I was so fuckin poor I couldn't even afford cheap chinese lego knock offs

>>712658802
This never made any sense to me, it's plastic and some paint, they already have the molds and the masters yet they cream themselves over "special editions".

>>712659829
>and some paint
you wish

>>712659825
Shame. It would have been a great MOC
It does make me want to dig up my old collection i finally got from my hometown and build some cool ships now though . Just gotta make some space for the parts pile.
Also i just realized that Cryptor kind of looks like a void lmao >>712659175

>>712658615
And how old are you?

>>712633646
yes let's make a graph where the colors are only a few shades different

My bro is big into lego and magic the gathering, is there anything cool I could get him this christmas?

>>712661147
a bullet to cure his autism or if you would prefer to be cruel get him some soap and explain how to use it

>>712627106
It's been proven that monsters in Wilds do less damage as a percentage than they did in previous games. And not only that, but they're also less likely to do for attacks that would kill you based on your current health, leading to the player have more "OMG I SURVIVED :OOOO" moments.

>>712661147
>magic
A beating, especially if he is becoming a collectorfag

>>712661354
That wasn't very nice

>>712660249
3 times that -1

>>712661445
>especially if he is becoming a collectorfag
I think he is but he also actually plays the game

>>712661436
And don't forget about the inferior tracking.

>>712625326
>Licensed.
>Disney.
The epitome of soulless.

>>712661491
Eh, you're only five years older. Just try a new hobby.

>>712661147
A bottle of bleach and some drinking straws.

>>712661147
essential oil diffuser

>>712626786
>Kids don't like toys anymore
Was just at a birthday party for my little cousin and the kids were blowing bubbles and having fun on seesaws. Not a single device in sight.

>>712661530
Magic collecting is barely above gacha whaling in terms of burning money, you need to correct his behavior before he turns into a full blown gamblebrain. WOTC does not deserve anyone's money.

>>712630424
>Multicoloured bricks make the walls
Pure soul, Lego went wrong when they started to make specific-to-set pieces, which really started with the star wars lines.

>2 mentions of Rock Raiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wQCkwp-ztw

>>712662037
>make specific-to-set pieces, which really started with the star wars lines.

I sure loved all those sets that featured parts like those large doors and doorframes
>>712650758

>>712662246
I boot up a random map of it every few months

>>712662246
Didn't know this had a game
I had the loader dozer, good times

anyone got any good recs on not!lego these days? I really dig the lumibricks cyberpunk stuff

>>712623609 (OP)
are we getting sexy bionicles type figures?

>>712656167
Part of the reason I got the Sonic sets was to combine them with hypothetical future Mario minifig sets. If the "Nintendo doesn't want Mario to hold a lightsaber" speculation is true for why they want him to stand out from the traditional sets, that is depressingly ironic that both Nintendo and Lego are missing the point of the movie.

>>712663995
took long enough for you to show up

>>712661689
>birthday party
Duh

>>712664039
I have knex mario and he can hold lego stuff

>>712659307
Are you me?

Lego minifigs are garbage honestly. I know they're iconic or something but they're really just awful as posable figures, they can't do anything except sit and hold something. They're at a really awkward scale for building things too, like it doesn't surprise me that people fight over shit like how wide cars should be to accommodate mini-figs.

>>712623609 (OP)
>Be me manchild with cuck fetish playing lego game
>Tyrone enters my lego game and my lego wife gets BLOCKED

>>712624617
BLOCKED.COM IS NEXT

>>712624703
i was at best buy getting a headset and i saw a lego countach and i was like "huh, the countach is pretty cool"
then i saw the price tag, like 150 dollars. its not that much money to me (shit i spend around that at the bar every weekend or so) but a fucking medium sized lego set shouldn't be 150 bucks

>>712627004
>Zelda using a sword and shield
Nintendo, please stop pandering to redditrannies. Zelda is not for physical combat.

>>712656289
I am a millennial and bionicles were after my time, you're just obsessed with us as a cope for how cringe your generation is.

For me it was these mechs and these guys. I was given every set over a few years, and looking up their total cost adjusted for inflation floored me. Like over $300. Thanks mom and dad

>tfw a zoomer
>tfw never gave a single shit about bionicles other than "damn cool robots"
>meanwhile was heavily invested in baseline series lore like power miners or Atlantis or hero factory
I legit didnt even know bionicle had some kind of narrative universe until a few years back. I just thought they were cool robots for the sake of cool robots

>>712662037
>specific-to-set pieces
They started cutting back on those when they nearly went bankrupt in the 2010s because it turns out making molds that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each for a single set was a shit idea

>>712635581
Im pretty sure the last line of Hero Factory had mechs with poseable knees
Honestly a great line that was. Wish it continued or gave birth to a similar mech-based line instead of just being a dying cry of a knockoff bionicle.

>>712659175
At first glance, I thought that was a minifig of Gorm from Galidor.

>>712667572
Generations have birth periods of 15 years. I was born in 1989, am a Millennial, and was 12 when Bionicle first came out. I was the perfect age for it and become obsessed.

>>712667378
Sounds like some AFOL bait dust collector set. There's a minifig scale countach in the speed champions line that you can probably find for like $20.

I like Lego, but I liked KneX more

>>712663995
We doing robots girls now?
I have the Windblade and Arcee kits coming in next week and it's my week off

>>712625326
Imagine buying anything Disney related

>>712667731
Lego always made cool mech sets randomly. I had pic related as a kid and loved it.

>>712625326
If it didnt have retarded license pricing i would have thought to get it just for the amount of gold parts it has.
I fucking love gold parts. Disney figs though? idk probably will go into the parts bin.

>>712668423
I never liked how hollow K'Nex builds always felt. Everything just being made from connected rods kept anything from having real substance. Anything built from K'Nex just feels like a skeleton of whatever it's trying to be.

>>712668893
You could always paint

>>712667559
>Nintendo, please stop pandering to [Zelda's entire audience]

>>712669120
That's why you build lego around the frame

>>712669120
Maybe, but it allows for more constructive (and fun imo) ends

>>712623609 (OP)
Husbands need lego sets so they have something to do when their Woge's are with their boyfriends

>>712670063
This is the kind of dude that goes on the internet to call you a incel or chud btw

>told myself to stop buying expensive plastic dust collectors
>saw this
Fuck well I'll get when at least is on discount

>>712670063
>Happy Woge, happy life
That doesn't even rhyme.

>>712670063
>>712671138
Should be "Happy Woge, happy Loge"

>>712671082
is this a knock off aoe2 castle

>>712668649
>Far-Farina shield on the left
Show us your whole collection anon

>>712672220
Exactly

>>712672681
How much are these

>>712672861
average lego price per piece is 11 cents so 1400 for the castle, 880 for the monastery

>>712672861
Right now pretty expensive 800~ shit just released and has toons of pieces

>>712673585
>>712673609
These are clearly chinese slop not lego
Is the chink jew really charging premium?

I never looked into it, but surely there's some dirt cheap chinese knockoff brand with compatible parts?

>>712673669
they're just building instructions some dude made, you have to source the parts yourself.

>>712624703
Frankly speaking, LEGO's extreme greed and absurd prices have entirely priced it out of being a children's toy. Which is disgusting and shameful, but it is what it is at this point. The embarrassing redditors have ruined it for everyone and the company will probably go the same route as Gamestop for it at some point.

>>712673669
>>712673817
Yeah lego lost the patent and there are several quality chink clones

>>712673890
So then what the fuck is >>712671082 talking about

>>712667050
kek
I want to make AI Slop like that but it probably wouldn't work.

>>712673995
The parts and the instructions

>>712673890
>$23 for instructions
what the fug

>>712674104
no clue, but this moc builder is a genuine autist.

>>712673917
This. If your kid wants a the Thanos Infinity Gauntlet because he likes cape comics you better be willing to shell out hundreds since manchildren will gladly spend that much on their pop culture shit. Toys were meant to be cheap shit for kids not """"""collectors items""""" nerds display on their walls.

>>712625041
I think it has more to do with the fact a basic Lego set is close to 100-fucking-dollars, Anon.

>>712672672
Okay, give me a second

>>712623609 (OP)

>>712672672
That's most of it. I need to get something to cover the UV cables but I haven't had time to do it.

There is a free open source alternative for this?

>>712674617
A brain

>>712633494
Because FU has retroactively become shit.
>MH3U
>MH4U
>MHW: Iceborn
All better games. Being a contrarian faggot doesn't work anymore like it did in the 2010's, Gramps. Keep up or move on.

>>712640971
i wish i could get into warhammer. i bought the 10th edition launch box and assembled some marines and nids then realized i really have no where to store this shit let alone anyone to play with and just let the couple unprimed squads collect dust on the book shelf.

used to like lego, then I found other kits in japan that are probably just as or more expensive but I like better due to articulations

>>712674734
this, lol. people going full retard over ai scams is just pathetic

>>712674161
wait, i think i know what he's talking about now, i found a site that's selling the mocs as kits.

>>712675041
Gunpla

>>712637369
Gen X are hilariously quick to blame others for the shit they themselves are guilty of, "Millenial Writing" being one of the more recent trends of this.

>>712675041
eh, if you don't enjoy the assembling and painting process you're not missing out on much. the worldbuilding can be fun sometimes (though it's oftentimes shallow and tryhard), but tabletop is just yahtzee with extra steps

>>712646620
lol, my friend's a huge LEGO fan but he fucking despises "AFOLs"

>>712675238
holy autism, based

>>712668649
i have no idea what are these from but i love the designs
Whats the kit?

>>712668039
Reminder of the Kek Powerizer's existence.

Seeing as comfy threads like this are becoming increasingly rare, allow me to contribute with a piece I did back in December

The game this is from unfortunately wasn’t for me, but I really liked the character designs

>>712676185
It definitely powerized my kek in hindsight.

>>712676185
>"Thats probably hex powerizer and just a meme"
>Check it out
>Its actually fucking Kek Powerizer

>>712647330
I was never into gundam but this post got me to read about gunpla for like half an hour now, I want to build something, might order some model

>>712627004
I own this btw

>>712676190
Pokemon?

>>712676315
Whatever you do don't start out with an MG or RG. Work up to one from HGs.
Or better yet, try some cheap 30mm kits to see if you like buildan.

>>712676190
yo it's the sheep fucking piston

>Lego was always expensive as fuck in brazil
>mfw prices doubled in the last decade
The tiniest sets are like 100 monkeybux. I fucking hate it in here bros

>>712676549
>>712676315
cheap and smaller master grades are good entry points also, like the f91 or basic zakus. they're easier to work on too because they're bigger.

>>712668649
Sauce on these cuties?

>>712676858
>>712676117
30 Minutes Missions Acerby
A is pink
B is blue
C is white
D is orange
There's a purple one E that you can see in this picture too >>712674590

>>712676296
Beautiful, isn't it?

>>712677287
Bless you
Funnily enough yours look more appealing than the box art and all the promos lmao. Guess its the poses

>>712677627
Well that and my C, B and E have a few optional parts.
And I painted the ones on C and B.

>>712676771
Dude the worst part is that every hobby is expensive as fuck this days in this godforsaken place.

>>712641062
>PC Version runs great, but lacks the Nintendo shit
>Switch runs like shit
How does it run like on the 2?

>>712677956
Weird, i cant exactly spot the difference or see whats painted
Guess you did a good job with it

>>712678217
I mean, the clean paintjob is mostly because I airbrushed it. Even a cheap one with a cheap compressor goes a long way. That said I'm building a 30MF Liber Knight right now and I'm going to use it's armor to practice hand painting and washes. I was going to make it pure silver but looking at it in the picture I just took maybe I'll use some gunmetal to try and make it look tarnished.
Maybe I'll even cut some notches in it too.

>>712678790
>painting on the sprue

>>712679186
>practice
I'm not really going for something perfect right now plus I started it like about an hour before I went to work today.

>>712679186
Or wait, did you mean painting on the sprue itself rather than painting with the parts on the sprue?
Because that's just wiping off the excess.

>>712679324
>>712679425
The former, painting bits still attached to the sprue is not a good habit because you have to go over all the bits again once you cut them loose and trim/sand the nubs

>>712679773
Thing is, I have a clips and a base but I can't for the life of me find them. Like, I have the base and just one clip sitting by my PC.
I thought I had them in a pencil case with the rest of my non-nipper tools but no.

>>712655685
>These aren't arcade game things.
they are.
>miss the dodge qte, you take damage regardless of whether the attack was a whiff, period. on-rail shooters are extremely fond of this shit
>boss fights with scripted sequences that ensure that the boss's HP is whittled down in a fixed amount of time are a staple of on-rail shooters
>arcade games asking for more credits between quests to keep playing regardless of whether you succeeded is standard practice for arcade games with progression. they function similarly to life systems in gacha

>>712680243
We're talking toys now anon, get with the program.
And it's not my conversation but I've never played an arcade game that expected me to pay more between missions/stages. Usually it's only on death.

>>712626854
It works for changing up presentation and marketing, but not the core product itself. Every time this was pitched, they always ruin what makes it special, as if it was the product's fault that not everyone was into it. If you want to expand audiences, try marketing and optics first. Especially with something as broadly engaging as play.

>>712680243
>arcade games asking for more credits between quests to keep playing regardless of whether you succeeded
Name 5 games.

>>712626976
That only worked for sales.
The quality and heart of mon hun was killed with gens.
It's been a slow awakening for most since.

>>712627457
Damn nigger.
Go back and play FU.
You are full of shit.
Just allowing unlimited item restocks mid quest and weapon/armor changing destroys your whole point.

>>712680843
>with gens
With World*
Gens was the perfect send off and the fact that it ended with a party with everyone is just, for lack of a better word, soulful.

>>712680809
daytona USA (race ends, game is over, you don't proceed to the next race)
any game with a save and progression system. any carddas game basically
any rhythm game (ends after 3 or 4 2-minute songs)
a ton of multiplayer games like that gundam one and bombergirl (match ends, game is over for all players)
any battle royale game like that jojo last survivor one

I remember as a kid the first time I say fleshtone minifigs for like Star Wars Prequel sets was when I realized the brand was fucked.

>>712681484
>a ton of multiplayer games
NTA but that's a cop out.

>>712682062
Anon... Starwars prequel sets were yellow and the first LEGO SW sets

>>712681484
>reach the end of the game you paid for
>have to put in another quarter to play again
No, you described a hypothetical arcade game where you have to put in a quarter to continue. None of what you listed meets that criteria, what you described would be like having to put in a quarter in Daytona mid-race after successfully reaching a checkpoint, or having to put in a quarter after beating level 1 of a shmup to access level 2.

>>712623609 (OP)
These morons lost their charm the moment they turned on Bionicle. They were saved by them but then decided to kill them. Their flopping sales is a grave of their own making.

>>712623609 (OP)
I have a relative that spends thousands of dollars (maybe tens of thousands) on this shit and I can not respect him as a man as a result.
I can only blame this on his nonexistent marriage where his wife goes on extravagant trips without him rather than bearing his child.
What pitiful creatures LEGO tards are.

>>712636842
check out this shit: https://www.bluebrixx.com/en/sets/scifi

>>712682326
He has a point with Star Wars as a theme going hard on realistic skin tones, though.

Here's the distribution of minifig skin colors across all of Lego history...

>>712682326
I disagree. I had a yellow Luke in like 2000 and I was jealous of my friend's Boba Fett. Five years later they had white Anakin and it was bullshit.

>>712682326
...and here's the distribution of minifig skin colors over time specifically in the Star Wars theme alone.

>>712682954
>Lego has fallen
>Billions must be deconstructed

>>712683026
I don't really see the point of this. What exactly does this prove? Star Wars was the only major theme to switch from yellow to flesh so of course it looks like that. If you made a graph of Lego Marvel skin tones what do you think that would look like?

>>712683027
>Billions must be deconstructed

>>712683026
This.... This reminds me of...
GIGA PUDDI

>>712625326
>white snow white
based?

>>712683139
Star Wars was the testing ground that led to all licensed themes using natural skin tones.

>>712683395
I'm pretty sure if they were to completely erase the originals Walt would rise from his grave to bring about ten thousand years of darkness.

>>712682127
not really. fightan lets the winner play arcade mode
>>712682568
>hypothetical arcade game where you have to put in a quarter to continue
any game with a progression system will give you a limited amount of missions to play. it's not like mobileshit where you can play until you lose all your lives
if you really want one that really fucks you up, try left 4 dead survivors. your credits only buy you playtime

>>712641368
That's sad
My dad always threw the instructions in the box on our Legos and built whatever he wanted which was a weird car or robot
Pretty tight, actually

>>712626854
Yes. It actually works more often than not despite what people on /v/ claim when it 'ruins the core of the series/property' when suits look at income

>>712684172
>It actually works more often than not despite
No. No it doesn't.

>>712683026
Non yellow minifigs where a mistake

>>712623609 (OP)
I will be very honest:
If you buy legos to build the set, you're a cuckold.
You are given near-infinite freedom to make whatever you want, and you choose to follow the instructions.

>>712674336
Thats what marketing is. Its not just about ads, but also about the product and what costumer you can sell it to.

>>712684449
If you wanted to just freebuild why would you buy a set? I'm pretty sure they sell the individual bricks and parts on their site so you can just pick what you want.

>>712684247
happened to souls easily with open world slop

>>712674336
>a basic Lego set is close to 100-fucking-dollars
It's not, though. I just went to lego.com to confirm, across all themes, showing "in-stock only":
>513 sets under $25
>358 sets for $25 to $50
>127 sets for $50 to $75
>106 sets for $75 to $100
>166 sets for $100+
There are more sets in the $25 to $50 range ALONE than all the sets in the $75 to $100 and $100+ ranges COMBINED. The majority of what Lego sells is under $50, you just fixate on the expensive sets because they get the most hype and attention.

>>712684449
Following instructions to build sets teaches building techniques that can improve your free-building significantly.

>>712685168
Are you really trying to say that:
1) open world on its own means "appealing to a larger audience" if the core gameplay is the same?
2) souls games while not necessarily open world weren't incredibly open in where you can go? Especially in Demon's where you can choose which archstone you tackle and 1 where the master key just basically lets you go anywhere from the start?
3) that souls wasn't popular before Elden Ring?

Can you name a game series that wasn't popular before they tried to appeal to a larger audience?

>>712684449
You build the set, play with it, smash it and then free build with the pieces that did not get lost

>>712626647
Yes but they dump so many colors in them it's impossible to make anything coherent. And it's not just the classic situation where you only had 6 colors but dozens of bricks, now the amount of piece variation has increased significantly too so you're lucky to get enough of a certain shape.

Lego sucks. There. I said it.

>>712633094
i wish for a lego battles 2...

>>712689574
There was one in 2011.

>>712689738
NTA but this game is really bad and not even close to an actual sequel.

>>712689194
>t. grew up with Mega Bloks

>>712623609 (OP)
Used to work in a toy store a bunch of years ago. And it's pretty much the Redditor manchildren you're looking for in there that are buying Lego. Outside of parents with too much money to spend.

No one actually thinks children give a fuck some Seinfeld set Lego set. It's just there. For those other people.

>>712690510
>muh boogeyman
Nah, I built actual functional things instead of being a basedlet.

>only want licensed sets as a kid
>now wish i wouldve gotten some of the unique lego sets
sad...

>>712627665

>>712637562
Guilty gear "fans" never played the game to begin with

>>712656881
I had like 4 of these because I got one every time I saved up enough money. They were cool as fuck, but that slightly edgy reboot of the underwater stuff had a really cool bad guy sub.

>>712644917
>just hire soundalikes
That's what they did for The Skywalker Saga. Funnily enough, the Lego Force Awakens game had all the original movie actors return to voice new lines.

>>712626854
Warcraft 3 into World of Warcraft was one of the best money printers of all time.

>>712683026
That recent increase in those tan heads are because they started randomly hiding those heads under the Stormtrooper helmets.

>>712637562
>Guilty Gear fans of the old games leave
Heh

>not playing roblox
lego is dead, gramps

>>712685363
Yeah, Minecraft builders do it all the time. There's nothing wrong with copying.

>>712693819
>zoomers don't understand the joy of interacting with physical objects and engaging the tactile parts of their brain
I can only describe a child that ends up this way as a victim of outright abuse. The level of neglect it must take for someone to think that digital things can literally replace physical things with nothing lost points to them being literally brain damaged by a lack of interaction with the real world.

>>712694147
He says as he talks to people on the internet instead of going outside.

>>712626976
Wilds pretty much killed the IP. Game sold well but nobody's playing it anymore. Even World still has a higher player count than Wilds, despite being nearly a decade old.

>>712694335
It's 11pm and I already spent all day outside and interacting with people, I'm not using 4chan to replace real world interaction. I never said digital things have no place in the world, only that the digital can never fully replace the physical. You're acting like I said no one should ever build with digital Legos in Roblox, probably because of that childhood brain damage I was talking about.

>>712657694
Resell it on Bricklink or eBay.

>>712658330
What the fuck is that, why does it exist?

>>712696062
It's like a knee joint that's locked at a specific angle. It's to give the illusion of a joint with a dynamic pose without actually allowing for dynamically posing it.

>>712657694
that is truly a soul vacuum

EDF
it is still by retards, for retards

>replaying Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga on DS
>The fucking Multipliers don't stack
>mfw

>>712696735
Looks like something one of those "robot building toy" knockoffs from the 2000's would do because their plastic was too shit to do joints.

>>712636873
Minecraft came out in like 2011 and took the world by storm, yet i distinctly remember my zoomer ass playing with other zoomers using the ninjago not-beyblades in school and discussing several waves of Hero Factory
The whole "Games replaced lego" happened way too fast out of nowhere when you think about it.

>>712667731
>no visible mouth
>captivating eyes
>Martian
Just like Queen Tyr'ahnee.

>>712693819
>game breaks your level every update
no thanks.

>>712702325
What the FUCK were they thinking

>>712626854
It actually works quite often, the problem is and the examples given is that the people behind those choices never know when to stop. You can always appeal to “more”. That’s when the implosion happens.

>>712670063
bumass didnt even bother getting into interior design, im sure he could've found something that works with that look. The room's aesthetics look like "recently bought condo with white everything accents" anyways
regardless no marriage should look like this one way or the other

>>712704876
Is there a more bland and disgusting interior color than white?

>>712693819
i stopped back when they took tix away

>>712706158
nope, even beige has its charm

>>712636873
The biggest problem with Lego videogames is Lego being so afraid of Time To Penis that they completely cripple the building.

I would love a Lego game like a simplified version of Space Engineers but never gonna happen because they either lock down building entirely or go full "creative mode" and nothing you build actually matters.

>>712630703
Needs Marvel Superheroes and Batman 3 in S, Batman 2 in Cromulent, and Marvel Superheros 2 in So bad.

Lego MSH2 was such a fucking disappointment. Go from a massive open world with hundreds of comicbook heroes to a linear campaign that's almost exclusively MCU.

>>712704327
The best example of this is Bethesda. Skyrim was a massive fucking hit, yet they still decided Fallout 4 needed dumbing down, and Starfield needed dumbing down even more.

>>712623609 (OP)
Yeah but those botanical collection sets are pretty nice.

>>712623609 (OP)
justiffication for 500 dll per brick

>>712708886
the main clown writer said their retarded philosophy ,i get it dumbing down morrowind rpg dnd autism and the attributes even tho attributes should stay as proven with oblivion remastered removing the minmaxing leveling stats

>>712708834
I thought the open world in MSH2 was great. How is having all those completely different areas all in one not fun

>>712629458

Try out CADA then. Chinkslop brand but they make solid quality, functionally sound sets. I got their gray crane truck the other day and that shit slaps lego hard both in price and in complexity.

>>712713987
it's possible he's confusing MSH2 with the Avengers game (which was ASS)

>>712716676
that makes sense. I agree the avengers one sucked

>>712656670
Is there an ETA for this?

>>712694147
this nigga having a breakdown because some zoomanon likes roblox

>>712626854
Baldurs Gate 3

I was that kid who built a lego race car then smashed it against a wall (Like a badass car chase) then built it again only to crash it again.
Am I autistic?

how this thing even constructed?

>>712657694
I got the Seinfeld one

>>712638256
>feet
fucking footfags

>>712656941
the millennial falcon

>>712659372
wrong

>>712627004
I thought it was 50+ gamer tree

>>712648776
We grew up with them and they were a good way of making "your guy" that wasn't a minifig. The designs were also mostly good and robots are cool. It was almost like having warframe before warframe.

>>712627004
I unironically wish Zelda legos were more like the Mario legos, in that you could create little dungeon scenarios with different rooms and enemies and make like a board game or tabletop scenario out of it. Would have been so much better than "$500 tree that gets covered in dust with minifigs you pawn off for $50 on bricklink".

>>712724913
that would imply that they're primarily designed as toys for kids rather than display pieces for adults

>>712674734
Botnet.

>>712702325
>>712704125
Cassiopeia... my freckled Martian love...

>>712726185
theres a niche collection of porn of this minifigure isnt there?

>>712727682
I hope not, that would be upsetting. I just think her freckles are cute.

>>712694839
He said frantically defending his actions

>>712627004
If you are over 25, you MUST own this set

>>712627004
I don't like that all the Deku Tree's roots come to a point. It makes them look like tentacles that set on the ground instead of like roots that go down into the ground. He seems like a brown squid monster walking around on tentacles instead of being a tree.

>>712702325
she looks like she fucks lego men

>>712658058
There were fewer non-whites in your country of residence back then.

>>712676296

I don’t know why it seems to be such a rare opinion that the older sets were better by virtue of being more charming. I have literally never seen anyone express this opinion outside 4chan.

>>712658606

legos are fun but they take up way too much space, and the boxes are fuckhuge too
I just order stuff and keep it in storage nowadays

>>712733534
There are some discord servers and youtube channels focused on classic lego where you’ll find people with this opinion

>>712662246
>A LANDSLIDE HAS OCCURRED

>>712733534
>old sets
>tried to be semi-original if not legally distinct from existing IPs (johnny thunder, those space sets, etc)
>newer sets
>actual license IPs and shit like model cars but lego
You nailed it on the head saying they're more charming

>>712736068
Pretty much nothing is really "iconic" anymore these days.
The yellow castle? iconic
Galaxy Explorer? iconic
Fort Legoredo? iconic
Original six Toa? iconic
the Technic Super Car? iconic
Will Farrell's spaceship, the Nike shoe, RuPaul's Drag Race, Cruella DeVille's dress, Ninjago mech or dragon 78641, the typewriter, the Queer Eye set, the Cyclops visor, the Home Alone house or the Fender Stratocaster? No one gives a shit about those to the point where you probably didn't even notice that I made some of them up.
You will never hear someone go "aw YEAH, that one..." and the most memorable ones were those that were infamous like that shitty soccer table, the Everyone is Awesome faggotry or the Technic Osprey.

>>712736068
His goddamn minifig is apparently so rare and expensive. He's the only missing member from my Rock Raiders crew collection.

>>712736068
>>712737486
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=rck006#T=S&O=%7B%22iconly%22:0%7D
Even the individual parts goddamn.
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626pb0101&idColor=3#T=S&C=3&O=%7B%22color%22:3,%22iconly%22:0%7D
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=973pb0012c01&idColor=10#T=S&C=10&O=%7B%22color%22:10,%22iconly%22:0%7D

>>712737143
Speaking of which, shit like Lego Island is well remembered for being iconic. The first game was a fever dream while the second was more of an exploring collectathon game with minigames interspersed. Are you ready to le

>>712737794
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626pb0030&idColor=3#T=S&C=3&O=%7B%22color%22:3,%22iconly%22:0%7D

>>712737718
>440 bucks for a complete chief minifig
Turning hobbies into artificial scarcity speculative investment bullshit is cancer

Zoomers don't buy Legos or Pokemon cards, it's all millennials who now have disposable income.

>>712738547
Look on the bright side, at least you won't have to suffer the generations that came before you for much longer.

>>712738605
Millennials were the last generation who played physical toys, zoomers grew up on Ipadslop and meme console games

In 20 years Legos will be like model railroading, only bought by boomers

>>712738714
I meant that you wouldn't have to suffer for long because you will die long before any of them will. Have fun!

>>712737143
>Will Farrell's spaceship
Fucking hell, I meant Pharrell Williams - did anyone even remember that a Lego movie about him came out last year?!
And who the fuck even IS that...

>>712623609 (OP)
Gotta be honest, as someone who grew up with Lego games, they're all super mid and made for literal toddlers and have only gotten more handholdey as time went on.

>>712738779
Oh? And what do you think will cause that to occur?

>>712742451
>he doesn't know
fool

>>712626854
mario is designed around appealing to literally everyone and ended up getting an amusement park.

>>712690616
I dunno, giving a kid a Seinfeld LEGO set would be funny for a meme

>>712721635
brick by brick

>>712669171
That's heresy. And tough to get right.