Mojang hoping to build official Minecraft LEGOs

by Richard Mitchell on Dec 5th 2011 3:00PM

Mojang has officially begun courting a relationship with LEGO, with the ultimate goal of creating an official Minecraft set of the popular building blocks. The company announced the initiative on Cuusoo, a site devoted to helping amateur (plastic) bricklayers make a connection with the LEGO company.

The concept is simple, builders propose an idea for a LEGO set and, should said idea gain 10,000 supporters, it will be reviewed officially by LEGO. If LEGO decides to produce the set, the project's creator will receive a royalty. Should the Minecraft set reach production, Mojang has promised to donate its royalty to charity. The project is well on its way to an official review, with nearly 1,000 supporters, though Mojang's Daniel Kaplan tweeted that the company is also "working directly with LEGO" to make the project a reality.

Far be it from us to point out the obvious, but wouldn't Minecraft LEGOs just be ... LEGOs?

Via: Gamasutra
Source: Cuusoo, @Kappische

Tags: lego, mac, Minecraft, mojang, Mojang-Specifications, pc

Reader Comments (51)

Introducing Minecraft LEGOs!

Aka normal LEGOs!

@King Johngie the Fourth

Well shoot. I guess it's usually a good idea to read the entire article before posting, hm?

And anything beside "LEGOs" is blasphemy

@King Johngie the Fourth

They'll be legos, but only available in one size: cube. Well and the doors.
Not sure yet how the lava and water will work yet.....

@Dizazter
You have to use real water and real lava.

If they make an Enderdragon Lego Set I will buy that in an instant.

There is no need to pluralise "LEGO". Really rubs non-Americans up the wrong way. It's either LEGO, or LEGO blocks, never "LEGOs".

@sortius

Always said LEGOs, always will. Saying "I'm going to grab my box of LEGO from the attic." just sounds wrong.

@sortius

LEGOS my EGGOS

@sortius

A big deal is always made about the LEGO brand and adding an "S". Yet, if you were to ask someone what kind of cars they had and they responded, "We have two Hondas" no one would say a thing. But it's the exact same situation. The obsession over pluralizing The LEGO brand has always irked me.

@Vidikron Surely you mean Hondii?

@Vidikron

Saying Legos is as annoying as saying sheeps. And English speaking people are the only ones who do it.

@Azurist
Two Hyundai.
...Wait.

@Azurist

Actually, it would more likely be "Hondae," (Ae being pronounced "eye.") as the A ending is typical of first-declension nouns.

Hyundai probably being second-declension, which sometimes has irregular endings, it could easily be Hyundaii.

Wow I've been in grad school too long.

@Vidikron Because Honda is a singular noun and Lego is a collective noun.

It's more like saying "I have a bucket of sands" or "would you like some pastas?"

You don't need to pluralise it because it is already being used to describe more than one unit. If you want to refer to a single element you need to talk about a grain of sand, a piece of pasta or a lego block.

@bm111 If English-speaking people are the only ones who do it, then stop speaking English.

Well, they'd actually just be LEGO. There's no 's'.

One of the example pictures is a scale model of a dirt block made of 1x1 and 1x2 flat bricks.

A cube of dirt.

That'll be a huge Christmas hit for the kids.

@Colin yet i would buy a cobble stone one, or possibly a work bench in an instant would be a very cool paper weight for my desk

Lets see how many comments we can go without someone getting mad and pointing out that LEGO is plural for LEGO.

@Joshua Przygocki
You're a little late.

@Joshua Przygocki And it seems it happened before I even commented...

theres a voting going on right now on a user who made a Minecraft scenerao with Lego's. I'd link you all but teh faceboouks 505'd the site.

I wonder if any of the shameless minecraft knock-offs have approached megabloks?

@SmashZilla
Coming soon! Mega Block's FortressCraft! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!

Seems ... completely unnecessary?

@(Unverified)

Something for the fans, I guess. Does seem completely pointless, but if the proceeds are going to a charity, WHATEVS.

Honestly this would be AMAZING. I can have a LEGO Minecraft castle right next to my 3 foot tall paper mâché creeper!...

This actually makes me wonder if there is a LEGO texture pack for Minecraft.

@Ryuk

Eyup:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/103118-16x14-legopak-lego-look-alike-aka-allpack/

Here's a thought. Maybe try working harder on your unfinished game instead of reaching horizontally to cash in on your indie game fad.

Who do they think they are, Rovio?

@Marshillboy

ummm

They finished it.

@Marshillboy
Haters gonna hate.

@Marshillboy
You did see the part about where they're going to donate their royalties to charity, right?

I'd honestly buy some just for the LEGO creepers. Not even to play with, just to keep on my desk or something.

IT'S LEGO! NOT LEGOS!

@liquidsoap89

We're all sorry and we'll all be sure to remember that the next time we talk about Legos

@liquidsoap89

"LEGO blocks"?

That sounds to English/European.

"Mummsy, I shall traipse to yon attic and grab mine LEGO blocks and partake of them. Please feed me my sup of Sheperd's Pie on the Noon."

;P

Obviously they're just going to style the LEGO blocks after Minecraft blocks. I don't know what else they can do to make it more Minecraft-like.

@Marco le Polo

Make a rectangular Steve minifugure?

Oh, man, someone DO IT.

I wanna give my son a lump of Minecraft Lego coal for Christmas. Think the irony would be lost?

My 6 year old nephew loves Minecraft AND Lego. He will go insane when he hears this.

Hmm...

Coming next Christmas from Traveller's Tales..

LEGO: Minecraft

@(Unverified)
So, just regular Minecraft with the LEGO Texture Pack, then.

It would be totally ridiculous, but it'd be awesome if they shipped you an 800 brick x 800 brick x 800 brick cube of of Minecraft blocks, already assembled into a random landscape (with inner caverns, of course) and let you deconstruct or "mine" it with your kids. Then, just like in the game, you could use the mined resources to build other structures.

@(Unverified)
This is actually a freaking amazing idea. They could sell the individual Biomes as playsets. Never gonna happen, though. Way too many things standing in the way (for instance, the fact that it would fall apart in the box).

@(Unverified)
I think it should be a huge cube with grassy dirt and sand on the top, then normal dirt, cobble, a bit of planks etc.

Oh! and some endermen and creepers so you have someone to blame when someone house is suddenly missing a wall.

I'm really (hint: not really) hoping this comes full circle and they add Minecraft themed Lego sets into Minecraft.

As a big fan of LEGO...LEGOs *twitch*

blockception

I've always thought the idea of Minecraft was born from LEGOs.
So it would be like LEGO: The Game: The LEGO.

Minecraft isnt precisely LEGO
a Minecraft themed LEGO set would be composed only of perfect cubic pieces, and of course these would have the game counterpart texture

The thing is that you'd need a LOT of these pieces

And the LEGO man could have squared head and prism arms and every corner with rect angles.

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