Mojang making Minecraft Lego sets

By Robert Purchese Published 5 December, 2011

Block party.

Mojang is collaborating with Lego to make official Minecraft Lego sets.

"We are working directly with Lego to make this happen," tweeted Mojang spokesperson Daniel Kaplan.

The official announcement was made on the Lego Cuusoo website, which has faltered due to "experiencing unusually high traffic". There, users can suggest, and vote for, new Lego set ideas.

"We're happy to share that Mojang has caught Lego Minecraft fever," said the Lego Cuusoo people, reported by Gamastura.

Mojang apparently commented that, "Seeing Lego Minecraft sets is also our dream."

Minecraft is an open world game about building things with blocks- a premise that fits snugly with Lego's ideals.

Mojang has pledged to donate royalties received from Lego Cuusoo to charity.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • wizlon #1 6 months ago

    I don't get this. Lego is traditionally plastic blocks that you stack on top of each other to make things, it's been around for donkeys years, surely they should be creating Lego Minecraft!

  • ZuluHero #2 6 months ago

    Creeper Minifigs! \o/

  • Jon1292 #3 6 months ago

    And so Minceraft gradually becomes the monumental sellout that Angry Birds is...

  • kangarootoo #4 6 months ago

    @Jon1292

    "Mojang has pledged to donate royalties received from Lego Cuusoo to charity"

    Redemption (but also, eventually, you are probably right ;)).

    Edit: but now I think on it, at what point did Angry Birds become a sellout? I must have missed the early years when it was a freedom fighting voice in a coporate forest, before its heart was eventually chilled by cold hard cash.

    Or is this one of those moments where we use the word "sellout" to mean "has become successful"?

    Ah, now I get it. Angry Birds became a sellout when they decided to charge you more than 69p to provide gaming fun for the rest of your natural life. Yeah, the bastards!
    Edited by kangarootoo at 05/12/11 @ 14:36

  • Dizzy #5 6 months ago

    The circle is complete.

    Lego inspired game actually becomes Lego.

    >And so Minceraft gradually becomes the monumental sellout that Angry Birds is...

    Except that it is actually a great game.
    Edited by Dizzy at 05/12/11 @ 14:41

  • Neil__ #6 6 months ago

    What more proof do you need that Minecraft is a kiddies game.

  • kangarootoo #7 6 months ago

    @Dizzy

    I like Angry Birds. There, I said it. Its not an amazing game, but its competent enough, and for the situation in which I play it (on the train) its fun and does the job.

    In total I think I have spent a bit less than £3 on Angry Birds. I spent 10 times that on the last two "normal" games I bought. One of them (Skyrim) will likely get the same number of hours put into it, but the other likely won't.

    I don't want to get too into defending Angry Birds, but it really feels like people bag on it not for what it is but for what it represents. Its become the poster child for "the hated mainstream messing with our games". And surely everyone can agree that shouting "milking it" when a game costing 59p for 150 levels charges another 59p for a larger sequel (instead of just releasing another 300 levels for free) is nothing short of INSANITY :)


    /breathes
    /hugs imaginary bird friend

  • Neil__ #8 6 months ago

    @kangarootoo
    Only a gibbering retard could be entertained by angry birds for more than 30 minutes.

  • kangarootoo #9 6 months ago

    "What more proof do you need that Minecraft is a kiddies game."

    Childish comments from people that don't play it?

    Oh.

  • thedaveeyres #10 6 months ago

    The video (though almost entirely unrelated to the story) is very cool.

  • kangarootoo #11 6 months ago

    @Neil__

    Dude, you are on fire.

    Problem is, comparing your posts and mine, gibbering and retarded points are pretty low on my side.

    You win!

  • kangarootoo #12 6 months ago

    @gotyourmoney

    Well you got me on the £10 release. And I was being sup[er sarcastic when I said rst of your natural life. I reckon "until you don't care anymore" is a safe bet though.

  • Spekingur #13 6 months ago

    @Neil__ I still play Lego. Does that make me a kid?

  • ZuluHero #14 6 months ago

    Lego (and Minecraft) is for the young and the young at heart. I feel sorry for those jaded and bitter enough to not see the fun in either of them.

  • kangarootoo #15 6 months ago

    @gotyourmoney

    In truth, it wasn't sarcasm, it was lying. Lets name and shame me. I'm a bare faced liar, ruining the good name of sarcasm for everyone else ;)

    And I'm a gibbering retard. Neil__ is clearly a man of insight (rather than a nob, as he may first appear).

  • FogHeart #16 6 months ago

    Say what you like about the callous corporate greed (or lack thereof) of these companies, at least they don't tell you 'the new season is approaching' or to 'facelift bar'.

  • Timotei #17 6 months ago

    @Spekingur

    Ummm...

  • Kanselier #18 6 months ago

    My desk at work is ready for this!

  • KennyD1221 #19 6 months ago

    But I bought Minecraft to save money on buying a shit ton of Lego.

  • FarbrorBaku #20 6 months ago

    @kangarootoo Wait did you just say that you will get as much playtime out of skyrim as angry birds? How? Angry birds i fun for the first hour, then it gets really old really fast.

    Also : Yay lego minecraf! :-)

  • Freakachuu #21 6 months ago

    @Neil__

    You're a cunt. A cunty cunt. If you were were breathmints you would be cunt flavoured. We get it, you don't like Minecraft.

    Now stop being a cunt about it.

  • Mister-Wario #22 6 months ago

    @Neil__ I got a copy of Lego Island 2 for PS1 a month back. The age label says 6-99.

    What's wrong with liking Lego? Up until recently I was a massive fan of the stuff. It's a brilliant creative toy that you can do wonderful things with.

    Also, are you familiar with AFOL?

  • Bander #23 6 months ago

    I think everyone should buy Minecraft Lego, build something with it, buy some Angry Birds plushies, and throw them at the Lego constructions to destroy them. With this unlimited fun, there would be no need to play videogames any longer!

  • uknortherner2000 #24 6 months ago

    Hmm, it must be a Minecraft article because out of the blue, Neil__ turns up to show off his unique talent of talking out of his arse.

  • Bander #25 6 months ago

    @kangarootoo Rovio became a sell-out when they abandoned development of Bounce Evolution on Nokia phones (Maemo and Symbian^3) to concentrate on Angry Birds on iOS.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6JfxdWg0HI

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #26 6 months ago

    @kangarootoo
    And I'm a gibbering retard. Neil__ is clearly a man of insight (rather than a nob, as he may first appear).
    No....he's definitely a nob.

  • darkmorgado #27 6 months ago

    @Bander

    You can actually pinpoint the exact moment when Rovio became sellouts - when they announced Angry Birds cuddly toys.

    In fact, that's pretty much the watershed for any company selling out.

    Except perhaps cuddly toy manufacturers.

  • Subdominator #28 6 months ago

    @darkmorgado Does it start with toys or with tshirts? Because those are available for almost every game.

  • drhickman1983 #29 6 months ago

    Have to agree with Kangarootoo in most ways with this. Angry Birds, whatever you think of it, good or bad, is not a "sell out". Selling out means defying your personal ethics and changing your produce (be it music, literature, or in this case, a game) in order to sell more units and grab more cash.

    As far as I'm aware, Angry Birds has always had the same format, it's at no point been dumbed down, and the creators have never stated that they're in this to promote socialist ideals. So it's not "sold out".

    I'm not saying it's a good or bad game here, but the worse you can say is that it appeals to the common denominator, and that the creators, for understandable reasons want to market it and make money off it. But this seems to have been the goal all along, I doubt many developers make games thinking "oh god, I hope this game remains obscure and doesn't sell so I can remain on some cool guys cool list"

    And oh, cool, Minecraft and Lego seem like a pretty good fit.

    Wonder if we'll get a Lego Minecraft game. Could get confusing.
    Edited by drhickman1983 at 05/12/11 @ 23:43

  • drhickman1983 #30 6 months ago

    I think everyone should buy Minecraft Lego, build something with it, buy some Angry Birds plushies, and throw them at the Lego constructions to destroy them. With this unlimited fun, there would be no need to play videogames any longer!
    Whilst this seems like a fool proof plan, seemingly offering the highest graphical detail and the greatest sense of 3D depts, those afflicted with Myopia would complain about the poor resolution, and might be unwilling to upgrade to a new spectacle-vision system.

  • SvennoJ #31 6 months ago

    You can't make much with lego if you only have square 1x1 blocks, unless it comes with a tube of superglue.

  • Bander #32 6 months ago

    @drhickman1983 On Eurogamer, people are also likely to complain that they don't want to play anything that involves 'motion controls', because getting up out of a chair and moving your arms in any manner is just a fad that doesn't work.

    Anyone care to explain why my comment above about Bounce Evolution got negged? After that point in time, I'm inclined to agree with drhickman and Kangarootoo. But before the end of 2009 Rovio were one of the few mobile devs that used to put a lot of effort into graphics and controls with new technology, and they dropped their other projects when Angry Birds became a hit with Chillingo publishing it.

  • DwarfyP #33 6 months ago

    Surely LEGO don't need to make anything different?
    Just put a whole random selection of LEGO bricks in a box and stamp Minecraft on the front.