PA comic: Monday January 30, 2012 - Plurality

Bogey

RMS Oceanic

I have seen the lego in question, and fail to see how it couldn't have been done with existing lego.

Quid

For context:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6349162.html

Last month, Minecraft studio Mojang launched a campaign through Lego's Cuussoo label to have a set based on the game enter production. The project gathered the required 10,000 supporters, and was sent to review in late December. Now, the Lego jury has reached a decision, voting to green-light the initiative.


Lego Minecraft sets are soon to be spilled all over the floor.
Though the Minecraft Lego set has been approved, it's not ready to be released just yet. Next up in the process is creating a concept for the project. Writing on the Cuusoo blog, Lego said, "We are now developing a concept that celebrates the best aspects of building with the Lego system and in Minecraft."

According to Lego, "These things take time, so we appreciate your patience." The company said more details about the Lego Minecraft sets will be shared at a later date.

It is pretty weird.

HappylilElf

Minecraft based Lego?

Huh, I suddenly have the urge to slap someone across the back of the head.

RMS Oceanic

That said, an enLegoed Creeper might be a great way to terrify someone.

Muse_

=.=

Kagera

Let's talk about the real issue.

Legos is a perfectly valid plural of lego.

Snicketysnick

Kagera wrote:

Let's talk about the real issue.

Legos is a perfectly valid plural of lego.

Get out

Lego is already plural!

Kagera

So what's the singular form Legu?

Tleilaxu

You know that point where you've used a word so many times that it loses meaning in your head? Lego hits it pretty fast.

Peewi

While brown and green Lego bricks exist, they aren't exactly common. At least all the brown ones I've had were weird shapes so they resemble wood and I barely had any green.

Undead Scottsman

Snicketysnick wrote:

Kagera wrote:

Let's talk about the real issue.

Legos is a perfectly valid plural of lego.

Get out

Lego is already plural!

Lego is the name of the company, the items in question are construction bricks, not Legos and not Lego.

But because only a terrorist would give a rats ass, just call them whatever you want.

Quid

Who the fuck says construction bricks?

Ashoka

I can't wait for the Lego Minecraft video game.

Undead Scottsman

Quid wrote:

Who the fuck says construction bricks?

Lego. Though they usually just call them "bricks"

belligerent

It's a made up word, and I will call them legos, just like I call them lincoln logs, and k-mart ass cheap knockoff legos (aka megabricks or some bullshit).

Dark Raven X

Omar called em Legos, so it's OK in my book.

So this is weird. Any photos of the Minecraft Lego bricks floating about yet? I'm wondering if it's just gonna be a yearly theme or if it's like a whole new range or something.

ThreeCubed

Ashoka wrote: »

I can't wait for the Lego Minecraft video game.

I love you. Marry me.

rockmonkey

So basically paint the lego set to match the default minecraft theme and remove the little -C hands from all the people. Make all the bricks the same size/dimension. Make special lego items like forge/box/etc.
Doesn't seem like it should take very long at all.

It would be cool to have a creeper painted lego guy though.

ronzo

I would love some creepers and endermen in Lego form

TheOtherHorseman

All I needed was th first panel. The first panel sings to my soul.

DietarySupplement

So, in reading today's story to go along with the comic, it has become clear that they do read the forums.

GreasyKidsStuff

DietarySupplement wrote:

So, in reading today's story to go along with the comic, it has become clear that they do read the forums.

I was gonna say, I hope @Ashoka enjoys being immortalized in a Tycho news post.

dmautz

I don't get why people don't get this. It's a simple business decision based on branding and makes perfect sense for both companies. It's exactly the same as branding bricks for Star Wars. You can build the Millennium Falcon with regular Lego bricks too.

KalTorak

DietarySupplement wrote:

So, in reading today's story to go along with the comic, it has become clear that they do read the forums.

They probably read the Hub, and I think Gabe said he reads the comic edit thread.

Geraden22

This also reminds me of a relevant PvP Online strip, the one from October 8, 2008 re: Lego Batman: The Video Game.

Aurich

dmautz wrote:

I don't get why people don't get this. It's a simple business decision based on branding and makes perfect sense for both companies. It's exactly the same as branding bricks for Star Wars. You can build the Millennium Falcon with regular Lego bricks too.

It's not really like Star Wars though, 'cause with SW you're adding something to your Lego experience. Tiny storm troopers and driods and Skywalkers and whatnot, and special bricks needed to make that Millennium Falcon. Minecraft already IS legos. One wonders how Minecraft Legos will be distinct from the ordignary kind. If they decided to make a game about Minecraft and Legos didn't already exist, they would have invented Legos! It.... makes too much sense...

dmautz

Aurich wrote:

dmautz wrote:

I don't get why people don't get this. It's a simple business decision based on branding and makes perfect sense for both companies. It's exactly the same as branding bricks for Star Wars. You can build the Millennium Falcon with regular Lego bricks too.

It's not really like Star Wars though, 'cause with SW you're adding something to your Lego experience. Tiny storm troopers and driods and Skywalkers and whatnot, and special bricks needed to make that Millennium Falcon. Minecraft already IS legos. One wonders how Minecraft Legos will be distinct from the ordignary kind. If they decided to make a game about Minecraft and Legos didn't already exist, they would have invented Legos! It.... makes too much sense...

Tiny creepers and endermen and zombies and whatnot
Special bricks like crafting table, enchantment table, and furnace.

m3nace

Undead Scottsman wrote:

Snicketysnick wrote:

Kagera wrote:

Let's talk about the real issue.

Legos is a perfectly valid plural of lego.

Get out

Lego is already plural!

Lego is the name of the company, the items in question are construction bricks, not Legos and not Lego.

But because only a terrorist would give a rats ass, just call them whatever you want.

Lego is a contraction of "Leg" and "Godt" which means "Play" and "Well/good". We Danes call them Legoklodser=Legobricks. Only idiots and ignorant suburban mothers in our country say "Legoer"="Legos"

Gabriel

I am always watching.

Enc

M3enace got put on notice!

D:

Gaslight

Is it true that Lego is also Latin for "I put together"?

But I grew up calling them Legos, and so did everyone I knew. It wasn't until the past couple of years on the internet I realized that this was considered "wrong" and that there were people who actually cared enough to argue about it.

DietarySupplement

Lego is latin for "fuckawesome toy."

Local H Jay

i too feel exactly as gabe does, the whole thing is super silly. aside from characters from the game, you could already make anything you can make in minecraft. it's a dumb idea if you ask me but there will be people who buy it so whatever!

Vyolynce

GreasyKidsStuff wrote:

DietarySupplement wrote:

So, in reading today's story to go along with the comic, it has become clear that they do read the forums.

I was gonna say, I hope @Ashoka enjoys being immortalized in a Tycho news post.

Although this does raise the subtle question of when the News post is written on a given day.

m3nace

Enc wrote:

M3enace got put on notice!

D:

That's... a good thing right? Also, your smiley seems to be upside down Enc, you must be Australian... or a tourist in Australia with a dandy sun visor.
edit:@Gaslight
Yes that is true. It means either "I put together" or "I read/study".

Fandeathis

I love it when the comic takes place in an arcade. Some of my favorite strips use that location.

Banzai5150

Urm... isn't Lego sort of an Open World building block device? And Minecraft uses blocks in an open world to build? So yeah really? Other than giving another source of income, I'm a bit puzzled myself at why the need, but in a way I do see it. So yeah.. I'm damning them and praising them all in one.

jackal

Didn't they make a game based on Street Fighter the movie, or did I imagine it?

KalTorak

I guess they could make the LEGO Brand Construction Bricks all pixely or something.

TheOtherHorseman

I expect tiny Lego creepers preequipped with miniature explosive charges to be sold separately to the friends and relatives of kids that get the minecraft set.

Remember the old days when you'd build something amazing and then some douchenozzle sibling comes and smashes it?

A hiss and a boom are all that separate that memory from the bold new world of tomorrow.