LEGO D&D could change everything for LEGO and Hasbro
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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Today the LEGO Group unveils the LEGO® Ideas DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Red Dragon’s Tale set, a fan-designed brick representation of the iconic table-top game. Released in the year DUNGEONS & DRAGONS turns 50, this is the first time the LEGO Group has developed a DUNGEONS & DRAGONS set and to do so they turned to their fans to create the design, via a challenge on the LEGO Ideas platform.
Based on a brief co-developed by the Wizards of the Coast team, over 600 LEGO fans submitted DUNGEONS & DRAGONS inspired designs, but the winner was 23-year-old Lucas Bolt (known as BoltBuilds) from Amsterdam who created his version of the game in LEGO bricks. Lucas then worked closely with LEGO Design team, to develop the unique setting represented in the final set. In addition, the Wizards of the Coast team developed a bespoke adventure for the set.
The 3,745-piece set is incredibly detailed featuring a tavern with a removable roof, so you can see inside to the upper level. The set also features a dungeon and a tower. Also included are six LEGO minifigures - Orc Rogue, Gnome Fighter, Elf Wizard and Dwarf Cleric, plus brick-built monsters, such as a beholder, an owlbear and a displacer beast. Also featured is the giant Cinderhowl red dragon that builders can wrap around the tower.
The LEGO Group also turned to their fan community on the LEGO Ideas platform, giving them a chance to design the cover of the set’s building instructions. The winning design by Chris Yu features an epic battle using techniques to create depth in the image while showcasing good against evil centered around the iconic 20-sided die that’s set to determine the outcome. Chris’ design was a celebration of the game's core values of collaboration, creativity, and adventure.
Well this aged like milk. Turns out we're getting a D&D collectable minifigure series later this year!
Don't sell yourself short. Milk lasts about a week. This aged like sliced avocado.
In September yeah. You've also forgotten that Lego does suggest you can swap heads/hair/weapons between figs to make new characters. That's one of the biggest draws for D&D players & fans of Lego :)
Also, the set is easy to take apart and use in sessions
I think you also missed that the set can be broken up into pieces and used the with the small adventure module that goes with it.
@@robbywings why i am getting a full box of them so i get 3 of each
What I'd REALLY like to see is a Lego+D&D style video game...like what we got with Lego Island or the famous Lego parodies of famous movie and comic characters.
Imagine the character creation possibilities
lego dnd video game would be so good
They are creating a CMF series for DND that will be out in September. Some of the characters will be interchangeable male and female as the heads will have both a female and male face and possibly come with different hair pieces. Making it customizable
You didn't mention that the D&D set splits into different sections, and will be released alongside a gamebook with a campaign.
Yeah weird take overall. He’s arguing the exact opposite of what this is. Yes it IS a play set and not just a display set.
There will be a full D&D LEGO minifigure series coming out later this year
I love this set so much - I’m not a D&D player, but I play small fantasy themed skirmish battle games with Lego, both for the minifigures & terrain. The CMF series will be amazing for this I’m planning on picking up 3 full boxes of those. Hope we see a lot more D&D sets in future, as it feels like a return to Fantasy era.
I’m interested which game are you playing with the lego?
Let me guess. You loved the rings of power
I did. 🤚
😂 lolol.
For the past 2 years my friends and I have been using Lego as our dnd minis. It’s so much easier to build a character than finding a mini that matches your character and painting it yourself. I’m super excited for Lego dnd especially the CMF series coming in September
It would seem that Lego have gone out of their way in both this set & the upcoming CMF to keep flesh tones off of the torsos & legs, making them more interchangeable than usual.
Yep!, they also didn’t add any feminine features, making everything 100% interchangeable
In my opinion, this is going to be a big success for both Lego and Wizard of the coast. Just because of this set i suddenly want to play D&D after 20 years!!! I guess they are on something! They just need more mini figures and affordable set with simple adaptable scenarios (a cave, a room with treasure, a hall with monsters, a room with traps…). With this type of set Lego will make a lot of money!!! And D&D could do on their side very simple rules for kids to play too will adults use more complex gameplay and rules! I am pretty sure both are going to make lots of money out of this! The first set is already sold out, so i guess it mean something!
Honestly, this set should have been a large tavern with a ton of minifigs you could mix and match parts for. I'm still buying it...
I'm as excited for the rumored CMF line as the actual set
I miss Forgotten Realms.
At 2:35 what do you mean with that LOTR characters are awkwardly colonialist? I don’t understand what you mean, otherwise great video.
Yeah that took me out of the video too. I have no idea what that was even supposed to mean.
in lotr the humans, elves and dwarf are all white and their quest is to clean the land from natives orcs. So having a black elf and a friendly orc is why this set is not colonialist.
Tolkien himself begun writing a book about native humans of middlearth being victims of brutal numenorian colonialism but lotr trilogy itself has no colonial themes.
A huge leverage for Lego would be the modularity. And it is shocking that Lego doesn’t understand it til this day. Well, the new Lego City Space sets are going in that direction. But especially for its IP licences like Star Wars, Lego doesn’t cultivate it.
I detest that LoTR slander. its not colonial. And we arabians know a thing or two about colonization. Tolkein's work is untouchable art.
It was such a weird comment to make. Totally took me out of the video
@Minifigz ya, it was totally unnecessary to make. LOTR is its own thing, and D&D is too. Both are great. There's no need to put one down in favour of the other in this ridiculous way. Virtue signalling at its worse. I'll unsubscribe because of this.
@KingTiger2000, I completely agree. That was a cheap and nasty shot at Tolkien. It was also inaccurate. Tolkien explicitly denied that the LotR was allegorical. If anyone sees colonialism in LotR, that's on them. I suspect that anyone who does is seeking very hard to be offended, most likely for political reasons.
@@drzander3378 you read my mind dude. Nothing but virtue signaling nonsense
Tis satirical British humor, I guess. His whole video seemed tongue in cheek to me. Why take it so personally?
Curious what others think. Personally I wish the skin tone for the human/elvish characters was yellow so it matched my other castle figs for my fantasy Mocs
LEGO did it back with the Ninjago line where they tried to make the sets into their own board game. There was the skull dungeons featuring a spinning top for a dice piece and individual spaces. The characters had armor, hidden loot and even little health bar stands with inventories. A cool concept that the just needed to slap onto a New IP like D&D.
You don't need D&D sets, you can just build them.
You brought up that people want to creat there own characters. 1 thing to note is that almost none of them have skin showing on ther torso so you can mix and match any of these characters to create new ones. Also series 26 i believe is going to be all D&D characters that once again will have great pieces to mix and match and create an almost endless variety of toons
It's good to see fan designs gain traction like that. It perhaps empowers anybody building with Lego. You know, if he/she can do it, so can I! I think these toy giants look closely to the data: Do we stick to old management ways and carry on, or, do we need change? Partnerships come and go, but this looks like a win for DD fans if you ask me. Thank you for making these in-depth analysis videos.
Im excited to see what they have planned for the lego series in total.
All the minifigs have a second head to make them feminine or masculine except the innkeeper and the dragonperson. Also the set has an adventure using the set included and downloadable. For what it's worth oneshots with premade characters have been a staple for D&D and other roleplaying games just as much as is making your personal character so I really don't see how this is a bad set in this frame.
But yeah D&D is being handled awfully as a money maker while despising the people spending those money.
im not a dnd guy but i like it.
my cousin ADORES dnd. and he wants it
The DnD set looks amazing, the price however is too much. I'd prefer the lego company to gradually make some smaller affordable sets with more mini figure variety. I would prefer just pure DnD mini figure variety in the future, like more Dragoborn and Tiefling head color variations.
I do not want to give Hasbro money but... hmmm Lego Kobolds...
Roll for luck that you don’t go bankrupt after buying this
Well half of the new dnd races are just anthro characters and lego has had an entire anthro line which didn't do well enough to continue on it's own. But they also have a ton of similar characters in other lines including the cmf line which would include a bunch new classes and weapons and some new races. And I don't even just mean the dnd specific cmf I mean just the regular cmf line.
As for dungeon terain if you buy two of the same space ship you should have an even number of wedge plates so you can 69 the identical ones to make a rectangle. And starwars will give you a ton of grey peices.
As for realistic terain I really wish they would make a brick box that comes with lots of dark green, sand green, aswell as various shades of brown, beige and grey. Also a modified brick box with a removable trans-clear panel in the side so you can display something inside of a it would be stellar. 2x2 round depressions in the studs on the lid of the brick box to facilitate building ontop of the lid using the round 2x2 brick as an anchor.
But until that happens bricklink or buying some used terain from megas retiered orcs, dragons and plasma dragons lines would probably be your best bet. Seriously mega had everything at one point now its mostly pokemon and halo which is a little sad.
What me and my gf were planning on doing is even though they have the four characters we were just gonna go to the Lego store and build our own minifigs and character sheets for them and use custom characters anyways since that's what you do for normal DND. There's nothing saying you have to use the four that come with it. You could use a stormtrooper minifig if you really wanted too and just make up your own backstory and charater stats for it.
lego could look back on heroica and improve on that line's concept for a line of dnd sets
I loved Playing Heroica. It definitely had a D&D vibe to it, but wasn't as customizable because you have set characters and what their class is. Of course they had no names, but set characters nonetheless.
This is gonna be set of the year I can already tell, this has been my most anticipated set since it got announced as the winner of the Ideas contest. What a gorgeous set!!
Lego already did a D and D style dungeon crawl game about ten years ago, Heroica. They could do a more elaborate version of that.
I can’t justify the price on this one. Also I liked the green dragon in the original creator’s set better. It looks fantastic though, if you have the money.
I never understood the rivalry between Hasbro and Lego when their toys have parallel themes. Transformers Lego Optimus Prime was a good step in the right direction of collaborative effort and I'm glad to see it continue with Bumblebee and Dungeons & Dragons!
And also without compensating the actual people that make the actual product unlike Lego which by the way the creator program also double s as sort of a hunting ground for new employees is for Lego so Hasbro don't like that!
i played dnd for near 2 years now and i still cant summon a devil, what am i doing wrong?
Very excited for this set I hope they include molded figures and animals if it's going to be a new Lego theme!
Given the ability to easily order use lego's pick a brick, and after market sites such as bricklink, brick owl . There is already plenty of lego items to customize your character from castle, LOTR, Pirate, etc. You can also order from a ton of 3rd party dealers on custom items. I don't think that Minifig factory is needed for D&D,.
Great vid. I’m gonna wait for the D+D CMFs.🐉
wait WHAT!?!?!?! Did I hear that LOTR dig right??
Yeah. Lotr is not 'colonial'. If anything, Sauron was the only colonialist with his 'binding against the will' of the southern peoples. They fought against that.
@@michaelnurse9089 yeah. I would also say Saruman though too.
to be honest, I also expect that we will not get bodies of figures and bricks, but some simplified game system, as was the case in the "board games" series. 😌
Best thing about it is the mimic chest which I might look for on the aftermarket
Straight up, if lego made a full on playset line of dnd things it would be perfect for lego and dnd fans alike. Keep what they're doing with the Dragon Tales and CMF figs (that being they're not explicitly one particular character and can be mismatched into other characters) and scale them down in ways like the castle themes of yore.
Hell, that's how I played dnd back then and now, I just use a lot of my castle things and build smaller set pieces. A proper dnd playset line would do wonders, especially since I probably won't get the big set
Edit: Of course, and hopefully, without the meddling of Hasbro who seemingly seek to ruin dnd. We've all seen how they messed up before
This set is awesome, especially for castle fans
The minifigure designs are great as medieval and fantasy castle minifigures
There needs to be cheaper castle sets
There are dice in one of the images
7:40 😅
11:12 I hope Lego makes Ticket to Ride and Catan, they recently got the license of the company that makes them
Now I want to start playing D&D
2:35 - That's a grudgin'.
Indeed. *intense scribbling in the Dammaz Kron*.
D&d would be perfect for a bunch of cmf series
Rumor has it (and I saw pic leak last night, so not so rumor?) of DND CMF series due out in Sept
For the record, D&D does something a bit like what youre talking about through DMsGuild, where amateur writers create content based on the 5e material and Wizards takes a cut. It's not quite the same as Ideas, but it's not far off.
honestly while a lego dnd theme would be nice, i doubt it would end up happening since dnd is owned by hasbro. sure they allow for their ips to be made into lego sets, but not full themes.
course i could always end up being wrong
Lego needs to partner with Warhammer.
It makes model kits, so you could use Lego sets to play the game.
8:59 I've been trying to find someone's opinion on this in relation to this set. I myself am torn on buying this set for the reasons stated. Wizards hasn't been great lately and what they hear most is what you say with your wallet, apparently. I haven't seen a huge overlap in D&D creators and LEGO creators giving their opinions on this, so I'd be curious what others think. I would say regular LEGO fans and very casual D&D fans would not be aware of any of this.
You asked why parent are so detach from reality. From I seen from watching two adults bringing up twins. I would say their just to tired and bogged down with paying bills.
I played d&d with out books, your make up your own campain.
“Like LoTR but less awkwardly colonialist” What were you saying about being detached from reality?
Yeah this video deserves down votes for this ridiculous statement.
Lego is behind on the D&D thing. 3rd party building block parties have been doing many midevil style part designs for years that could be used for lego D&D check out Brickwarrior for example.
I disagree slightly with your main premise here. These figures are extremely customizable, and are setting a new standard for customization with Lego figures that we will see continue into the CMF figure line (images leaked, product announced). How are they customizable, you may ask? Well, for instance every torso is gender and skin-tone neutral and all the hands are wearing gloves. This means you can swap heads around without anything mismatching. You can for example take the halflings head and put it on the sorcerers body, give it a book, and you got yourself an elven wizard. Sure, it isn't as insane as the football stadium when it comes to minifigure parts, but we still got to give it some credit for doing customizable minifigures right, with a variety of great costumes and heads.
Not to forget large amount of minifigure accessories, tons of swords, shields, and tools to customize your characters.
The terrain as well is very much designed for a DnD campaign. In fact, there is a DLC one-shot that comes with the set (I mean Downloadable Content in the literal sense) that seemingly uses the board. It's not just a display piece, if it was, the dragon would be static and still crawling around the spire. This is a playset, and a DND encounter as well, complete with secret doors, traps, a variety of potential encounters and paths. I can already tell that the innkeeper is actually a cultist of Tiamat, raising skeletons to protect him while he preforms a ritual to summon a red dragon. This set was designed to be a playable one-shot.
Now maybe you are one of those who think you need a 5x5ft grid to play DnD, and for that I'd like to remind you that in 5th edition grid combat is an optional rule. For Lego, it makes much more sense to use the natural 1ft = 1stud grid that makes any Lego terrain into a playable DnD arena.
Lego don't need dnd it can make generic fantasy minis end terren...
On the other hand Dnd need lego
The fuselballe tableu set is shite and you know it
LEGO botched it. The fan design was way better. 😥
I don’t think so, I agree the original fan design is superior but Lego had to bring the piece count down. It’s expensive but the original would have been way more expensive.
I would have rather paid more for the original design. Not sure if I’m going to buy this one not really fancying a castle with a blue and purple roof taken from my daughter Lego friends set 😂😂😂
@@brandondavis3431 fair enough, they do this with every lego set. Color swaps have little to do with piece count.
Lego didn’t botch it, it’s pretty great! They have to lower the piece count too, so maybe
like Lord of the Rings but less awkwardly colonialist? WTF.
“Less awkwardly colonialist”?
What on earth are you on about 🙄
first time i hear about lotr being colonialist. turns out there are a lot of articles about that. the main reason is because the humans, elves and dwarf are all white. And their quest is to clean the land from natives orcs. So having a black elf and a friendly orc is why this set is not colonialist.
The promo short was pretty cool. 🍻🎻🪗⚔️🛡🐲