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_xeno_ writes "LEGO, everyone's favorite plastic building block company, is creating a Star Wars video game. Yes, that's right. A video game based on the LEGO Star Wars sets, which are of course based on Star Wars. GameSpot has a preview of the game. It covers the three prequel movies, allowing you to play through levels containing LEGO friends and allies. At first you can only play with characters appropriate for the level, but you can unlock other characters to swap in as you play through the game. Because the world is based on LEGO blocks, there are puzzles that involve the creation of LEGO structures to bridge gaps. It's scheduled for an April release, just before "Revenge of the Sith" opens." I guess this would be an...ahem...puzzle game.
The screencaps are pretty impressive--the in-game characters look every bit as emotive and engaging as the actors in the movies!
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they foster so much creativity. not the ones with the detailed plans but the random parts you construct monsterous cities out of.
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by far one of the best toys to come out. the lego stores they have now would have made my parents go broke
its the Barbie Half-Life2 edition..?
LEGO, everyone's favorite plastic building block company, is creating a Star Wars video game. Yes, that's right. A video game based on the LEGO Star Wars sets, which are of course based on Star Wars.
Thanks for that concise summary. I was having trouble trying to figure out what this Star Wars LEGO video game was based on.
Can I make Han to shoot Greebo first?
erm... these weren't sanctioned by LEGO....
You know, they have made a couple of these before and they don't turn out well. I remember a lego game based on Harry Potter a couple years ago.
It just dosen't translate well. It's really difficult to work with 3-D shapes on a 2-D computer screen.
Of course, I'm sure that some of the engineers and CAD users out there won't have much problem, but kids don't seem to grasp the idea to well. At least my nephews didn't.
Didn't Lego make an announcement about a year ago saying that they weren't going to license movies anymore?
They are fake, or at least not produced by the Lego Corporation. Some guy produced these as "a work of art." Go back and read the page. Excerpt: "The "Lego Concentration Camp Set" by the Polish artist Zbigniew Libera, Berenbaum argues, "may be saying that the same type of creative construction that little boys do with Lego also took place at concentration camps."
What do you have to do to get Luke's to light up, hmm?
Okay, unless I'm mistaken, there's no KOTOR for PS2...
So, provided this isn't a shitty game, your telling me that the only non-shitty game for the PS2 is going to be a SW game that's totally based on using Lego models.
The utter wierdness and coolness of this hasn't even begun to set in...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Yah, that's some "Artist" doing weird things. Lego didn't make those.
The thing with both Lego games and Star Wars games is that they have been hit or miss (mostly miss). I wondering if combining the two very popular pastimes will magnify the effect making either a really great or really awful game. The preview says it looks good but I never trust that. The proof is in the final pudding.
Or is that a viscous circle? My brain! So, a toy company is promoting a game based on a toy based on movies which were designed to promote toys and games. Wow. I bow to their capitalistic genius. Seriously.
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Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
The preview is actually from GameSpot and not GameStop, which happens to be a completely different gaming site.
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except he didn't.
And what if they really were ok with this? What exactly is the problem with portraying the horrors of concentration camps? Obviously it isn't for children but it isn't like the guy has everybody singing and holding hands. Why is it that the world wants to stuff the atrocities of WW2 into the closet to be forgotten? Doesn't that go against the whole "doomed to repeat it" thing?
Are you joking? As far as can make out those "lego sets" featuring concentration camps were created by some polish artist. Its not like LEGO have mass produced them and sold them in shops.
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Nobody trying to forget the horrors of WW2, but it is a fact that these things are not suitable for 4+ year old children who still believe in Santa Claus!
Of course, WW2 was terrible and it should be taught to young adults lest they repeat our mistakes, but like a wise man once said: All things in moderation, moderation in all things.
They are fake. *YOU* should look again at the website, some of us really did and it should have been intuitively obvious to the casual observer that they were some crazy artist's works.
Finally, someone's making a franchise game based on a movie AND a toy at the SAME TIME! I think we all know this is going to turn out fantastic! *rolls eyes*
I seem to remember seeing a homemade leg-built trailer for Revenge of the Sith (Rise of the Empire) a year or two ago (I'm sure someone has a link to it). Some guy actually went through the trouble of building and animating (using the same animation style as the old school claymation movies) it all by himself. I wonder how many Lucasarts and Lego execs saw this before they jumped on the idea of turning it into a game themselves.
"Libera maintains that donated supplies amount to sponsorship, but the company says it never gave him the authority to use its name or logo as an implied endorsement. Ambeck-Madsen, the Lego executive, said the faux packaging is so realistic that a Jewish organization in Sweden threatened to organize a boycott of Lego because offended members believed the company had manufactured the boxes."
But they aren't selling them to children (or anybody for that matter). They didn't even make them in the first place. Wouldn't be a bad idea to sell it to high school history classes though.
No, he said he was making a hospital and a prison, which later turned into a concentration camp, without LEGO's knowledge. Read the Fucking Article.
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quotesWhen Libera requested the LEGOs from the company's Warsaw representative, he planned to create sets for a prison and a hospital, but the project evolved into a concentration camp. According to a press release issued by the LEGO Group, "If the had described his ultimate project to us in advance, he naturally would not have received a single LEGO element from us!" The sets were on display in March at the Galleri Faurschou in Copenhagen.
andThe display is so unsettling in its playful simplicity that the Lego Group, which sponsors Lego art contests and donates thousands of plastic pieces to artists around the world, tried to persuade Libera to withdraw it from public view. Only when lawyers became involved did the company give up.
"It is a theme that is so sensitive to so many people in so many countries," said Peter Ambeck-Madsen, Lego's director of public relations at the company headquarters in Billund, Denmark. "If we had known before what he was going to do, we never would have given him the bricks. But we talked about it and decided [that] to make a big thing about it now would only draw more attention."
andHe acknowledges that Lego officials were left in the dark about his intentions, but he said company representatives in Poland rebuffed his early efforts to let them review sketches of his ideas. In a bid to avoid any possible legal entanglements, Libera said, he has sold the seven-piece concentration camp set--plus two copies of the works--to the Galleri Faurschou and an agent in Chicago for about $7,500 each.
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I didn't know that funcoland actually did game previews. Maybe the poster meant Gamespot. Of course, that is what editors are for..
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Well, now we know why Lucas Arts didn't have the confidence to produce the new Sam and Max.
"We wanted to focus more on our existing properties... like uh... Star Wars sequels... and um... Star Wars product tie ins." -Elder Jedi Profet Mar Gin
I can't wait to play that Hoth sequence one more time or buy those re-re-re-mixed-mastered H -DVDs in sexology format.
That's the best part about having a nephew. I am about ready to graduate him from Duplo to Lego this Christmas. I had bought a regular truck kit but it was mostly preformed pieces which he doesn't seem to like so I donated it to charity and stuck with a huge box of regular blocks.
I see the advance listed. Is it possible they would release something to the other major platforms and the advance, but not the cube?
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They need to make a film of the game.
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Thank you for being the only one here to present a rational and sane argument. I'm tired of hearing all of this regurgitated "Think about the children!" crap. What is the value of denying the history of the world we live in, just because we think it's unsuitable for a certain group of people?
Apparently it's ok to promote LEGO blocks depicting violent fantasy situations such as thralldom and high-seas piracy, but it's not ok to depict a real historical event. Are we too afraid of offending everyone?
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Here in denmark there has been a lot of media rush about bad times for lego lately. IMHO they should stop making all those weird spinoff products like harry potter lego, starwars, etc. They must pay a fortune for all those royalties!? and a video game with starwars!?! this is way out of proportions! But maybe it's just me being old fashioned :p
start making some mindstorms again, that would get me back as a customer!
It's LEGO bricks not "legos".
Bah!
And no, this isn't some foreign language affectation - I'm speaking as one from a country where we actually speak English (note the lack of adjective before "English").
Does it show that this annoys me, just a tad? Honestly... "Legos"?
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I agree, the special pieces have been crap. But, Lego says they are going back to to the basics.
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what happened to this theory?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/12/1255 215&tid=159
" Kristiansen goes on to blame the company's financial woes on its attempt to follow trends rather than focusing on its more traditional products. In turn, the company's plan for 2004 will include a renewed marketing push for Lego bricks as opposed to licensed products like the Harry Potter and Star Wars lines.
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You make an excellent point that I didn't even think of. We love to glorify pirates and knights in games and movies but the truth about them is often much harsher than what we portray. Does anybody really believe that all knights were chivalrous dogooders riding from town to town saving damsels in distress? It is all a matter of how far separated you are from the event and who is telling the history.
You will be derided for creating a 'Concentration Camp' LEGO set, but will likely be loved and adored for creating a 'The Passion of the Christ' LEGO set with switchable Jesus parts depicting various states of being tortured.
It's not 'Think of the Children' at all. Most of those people that are yapping about 'Thinking about the Children' are only yapping about what they are told to yap about.
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
We went through a lot of the same comments a month or two ago for an Ask Slashdot about best construction toys. the lameness of Lego [and the lameness of their cash flow] when they branched out from providing blocks [and letting us provide the imagination] and tried to "go hollywood" with movie tie-ins was a general theme of the commenting.
For my money [and I have the boxes of "Technics" to prove my checks go where my chat does] they could just stick to blocks and maybe some other robot enabling componentry.
I for one do not welcome our new Star Wares overloads!
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They'll actually end up putting out a really low-res POS game instead, and claim that the "big blocks" on the screen are "LEGO's" and not just game pixels.
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Just think of how much more efficient it will be converted into MPEG since the source material will already be in nice wee blocks of a discrete colour already.
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My three favorite things growing up Lego, Star Wars, and Video Games - all rolled into one! Of course, that was before Lucas killed Star Wars, Lego started selling model kits in preference to the basic buckets of blocks, and video games got some complicated that I stopped playing.
They allowed it and so did you. Well you didn't cvut his hands off either, did you?
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Hey, give him some time. He might decide that he wants more money again in 20 years.
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Idiot. You really are sad. Sad and stupid to totally miss the point - the point being, for the hard of understanding, "what the fuck could they have done to stop him?". Idiot idiot idiot. You give ACs a bad name, and did I mention that you're an idiot?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
For my money [...] they could just stick to blocks and maybe some other robot enabling componentry.
Maybe the problem is their stuff is built to last.
Parents give their old sets to their kids (and buy them some new ones, of course, but only a few). After some generations, families are saturated with the 'classic' LEGO stuff. Maybe they make all these theme packs, games etc to revive interest in an otherwise saturated market.
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...give the developers a lego kit. They seem to have failed to grasp the basic mechanics of "Lego legs". They do NOT allow for any sort of twisting motion whatsoever. Furthermore, their feet are not flexible since they are made of hard plastic. What is the point in making a "Lego game" if you don't follow the rules of Lego? http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/legostarwars/sc reens_6114511.html?page=2
what ever else you have to say about Starwars, it's not a marketing vehicle.
Proof #1: When the first movie hit they gave out cardboard 'early bird' action figure stands because the real figures weren't ready. The real figures weren't ready because nobody had really planned/intended merchandise.
Proof #2: All of Ep2. What marketing department in it's right mind would let that slip. Ignoring the quality of the movie (which is subjective), you can't ignore one simple fact: It wasn't a children's movie! That's fine, but EPI _was_. I don't give a rat's behind about Lucas' vision at that point, I just know he wasn't a very good director anymore. He can't even keep the tone of an immediate sequal simular. Everything else I could forgive (even Natile Portman's soul searingly bad acting), but not this.
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Where the walls are covered with tubs of the rectangular blocks in different colors and sizes. You can buy just a few at a time, too.
When I was a kid, I would have loved to have this - I was always frustrated when I'd created something really cool that had one or two blocks of the "wrong" color... like a grey battleship that wound up with three red blocks in the hull because I ran out of blue 1x8 blocks. If I could have gone to the Lego store and bought just those three blocks, I would have spent a lot of my allowance on Legos.
Having the ability to just grab a couple handfuls of the rectangular blocks is pretty cool. Maybe it will help?
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Anyhoo, again, Maybe this game was inspired by this? "SW Project":
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/sw_proje ct
Yes SOMEONE already DID try making a Star Wars "Fan Film" MOVIE out of using Lego products ... it failed miserably as you will no doubt have an endless laugh at the poor guy who attempted it, by watching that above video lollllll
but man i was the Lego master when I was a kid .... I always combined all the sets I had and I made huge sea/space-freighters and guns and "computers" and stuff outta em ... I never could get any of them to work tho ... lol Much less able to blow up a planet ... lol
Somehow I suspect that Weird Al must have a part in this ... LOL
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Excellent... so then there'll be plenty of this then? And hanging around in bars?
Ooooh, you mean that type of stud...
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some constructive news regarding star wars !
It's even illegal to have memorabilia in Germany, and you think that's the one country that should remember it most. The videogame mod Day of Defeat is technically illegal there as well, because it contains Nazi symbols...
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