Magic Maze gift with purchase revealed
Posted by Huw,
A new gift with purchase that presumably will be available during October has been revealed at LEGO.com this morning.
The 332-piece 40596 Magic Maze builds a handheld game that is played by tilting the board from side-to-side to move a ball through obstacles to reach the end point.
Dates and spend thresholds are not yet known, but the latter is likely to be significant given the size of the set.
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Hmmm...Seeing this, I've got a sudden urge to go play mini-golf...problem is: nearest course is in the next city to mine...:(
It's Lego screwball scramble
Glad to see the Lego ball back. Nice idea although keeping within the parallel tiles at the start looks difficult and jumping the red bins impossible. So it's kept the frustration of the original.
I do like the idea, but the execution looks incomplete with the course being higher than the sides.
Am I supposed to want this?
Looks much more tempting than the Ideas Maze set. Very creative! Let's hope it works, too.
Whoa! I love this!
What an interesting contraption. This is a great GWP, it's unique, fun and doesn't rob people of a much desired figure or model.
Really makes me want to go watch the old ad "Screwball Scramble....from Tomy".
Something for the GBC fans perhaps?
I wonder how difficult it would be to modify this thing to fit on 21305's playing field.
I like this a lot, with several Lego exclusive sets that I've been waiting to get!
Maybe a precursor to a full size GBC set?
Nah, it's the "play once and forget about it" sets. Will wait for the pirate one.
Amazing.
Cute idea. I already kinda want this
I for one like it very much! Creative and looks like fun.
@ambr:
It’s not supposed to be easy, but the tile “rails” will funnel the ball into those two spurs, unless it’s possible to jump them and skip right to the end (if it is, that will require skill…or prodigious amounts of luck). The ball is the same width as the red boxes, so it won’t actually fall into them. The orientation of the spurs at the top will act like rails to help funnel the ball towards the next box, with the exception of the lone box that’s turned sideways. There, the white panel on the right and the black tower on the left will help keep it from going out to either side, but the flat surface of the spurs will require you to tip it further to jump them. Being on a downhill slope, you’ll need to be able to react very fast to prevent it from overshooting the next box and bouncing off the board.
@Rimefang:
That’s kinda the point. The goal of this style of marble maze is to navigate the course without falling off the sides.
@Ridgeheart:
Make one in mirror image, and do head-to-head races with an opponent.
Given it's size, I have an image of Dr Evil sitting in TLG boardroom setting the GWP threshold as "One Million Dollars!".
@Ridgeheart said:
"Honestly? Kind of cool. Not something you'd need multiples of - unless you want to make some sort of pinball-layout.
Hmm."
Has anyone made a Lego pinball machine for Ideas?? That would work, wouldn't it?
@lost_scotsman said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"Honestly? Kind of cool. Not something you'd need multiples of - unless you want to make some sort of pinball-layout.
Hmm."
Has anyone made a Lego pinball machine for Ideas?? That would work, wouldn't it?"
I don't know about Ideas, but if you want to see working examples YouTube is your friend. ;-)
Might look for this one to buy separately.
Looks cool and fun to modify.
What's the silver part on the right side?
I have a hard time believing this will actually work.
@iwybs said:
"What's the silver part on the right side?"
Pretty sure those are the headlights from the Ford GT. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/2022-ford-gt-42154
@lost_scotsman said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"Honestly? Kind of cool. Not something you'd need multiples of - unless you want to make some sort of pinball-layout.
Hmm."
Has anyone made a Lego pinball machine for Ideas?? That would work, wouldn't it?"
They had a really hard time building a stable foosball table, and it seems like they backed themselves into a corner and were forced to release a promised product that wasn't really working... so the resulting set was heavily miniaturized and surprisingly expensive.
Creating a compelling game of pinball that can be rigid enough to withstand aggressive play... might be a tough ask for a viable product.
If the house of the world threshold is £220, this one's gonna be outrageous!!
I actually really want this, it looks brilliant.
@BricksAhoy said:
"Creating a compelling game of pinball that can be rigid enough to withstand aggressive play... might be a tough ask for a viable product."
[TILT!]
[TILT!]
[TILT!]
[FRACTURE!]
I mean this is cool but what happened to the pirate gwp?
This reminds me of Fall Guys....
Dread to imagine the threshold for this … if it’s an extortionate £220 for the Houses Of The World jobbie, it feels like this will be more …
This reminds me a lot of the superior Working Mini Golf Course which was submitted, and, alas, rejected by Lego IDEAS on a couple of occasions (although is now included among the MOC Pop-Up Store digital instruction designs at BrickLink).
What a coincidence! I just finished MOC-ing a handheld Lego maze yesterday!
Given the cost threshold for the Houses of the World sets, I'm guessing this one will be $300+.
Got one :) $NZ 260 threshold for NZ.