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Re: Lego Island Rebuilder

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Post by jerf »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #58
Ueland wrote: post #41

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> The idea of 'free bricks' such as were available in software was a thing that horrified Lego managemen It seems that 'free bricks' in general horrifies them. I went to visit one of the biggest sellers of Lego in Norway and they had been told that Lego no longer wants stores to sell plain lego bricks, but only Lego sets. Which for me seems rather strange.

Given that the Lego patent has expired and there's plenty of "off-brand" sets out there now, the market is free to fill this gap; it just needs a quality producer, because most of the knockoff stuff is just crap in comparison. A big one could be Minecraft, if they were to produce bricks and brick sets. They'd have to stop charging the merchandise premium though.

I'm sure the Minecraft licensing deal that already exists with Lego forbids that for some extended period of time.

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Post by Akronymus »

herbstein wrote: post #10
josephg wrote: post #5

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I had the same feeling. It’s so weird how companies can miss such an obvious thing. The core fantasy of lego is engineering - “you can make anything you can imagine”. Even if you aren’t good at designing things, that’s still the core aspiration. Minecraft fulfils that fantasy far better than most (all?) of the video games lego has made. I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of lego’s core compet…

> I wonder if it’s just that, like banks, software is outside of LEGO’s core competencies. When it comes to software, their leadership has no taste. I work as a developer @ LEGO in Denmark, but I'm speaking purely for myself here. My only knowledge is of internal software, and I assume you're speaking about consumer facing software. LEGO did do video game publishing where e.g. the LEGO Island sequels were released th…

For mindstorms, I always found NXC more intuitive than using the blocks. And that was even before I properly learned how to program.

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Post by app4soft »

sumtechguy wrote: post #60
jacquesm wrote: post #33

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Free Bricks are anathema to a company selling bricks.

There are a few programs out there that let you build sets using the ldraw spec. A good place to start is https://www.ldraw.org/ https://www.ldraw.org/downloads-2/third-party-software.html They had plugins for awhile that exported to 3d programs (blender, pov, etc) for awhile if I remember correctly. There are also links to semi reasonable CAD style programs. There is another editor someone recently came out with (th…

Has you heard about *"Datsville RPG" project — a free 3D game based on LDraw?

[0] https://isometricland.net/blog/2021/03/datsville-rpg-synopsi...

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