LEGO Fortnite announced!

Dang. LEGO's actually doing this.

I only played Fortnite once. I didn’t like it that much. But Metal Gear and LEGO in the same day? I might break.

Anyway super excited for figbarf potential when we get the inevitable sets.

Finger crossed we get sets too.
We could get Peter "Holy crap Lois, this is worse than the time I was a lego minifigure" Griffin, or Jason Vorhees
Edit: Also aren't freddy fazbear and walter white in the game, or was that memes? I genuinely can't remember.

Hoping for some minifigure skins in the Fortnite shop!

December 7, 2023. A date which will live... in infamy.

Lego, we said “fort”, just… never mind.

I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite.

@Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

I don’t think it’s lack of faith. They launched Lego Dreamzzz this year, continuing into next year.

It’s just a way to expand the brand and bring in more new Lego fans, which I am all for. More fans = successful company = more new sets and pieces.

I guess LEGO somehow got past the massive amount of killing and use of guns in fortnight. Which kind of confuses me since LEGO has said they’ll never make a tank or any modern weapon. Fortnite uses a lot of modern weapons.

@Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

Dont blame Lego for that.

Lego 2KDrive - failure no one purchased.

There was alao bricktales and that battle royale game i dont remember the name of… 3 original video games that all failed in what a year?

Dreamzzzzzz sets - i see this whole line discounted 50% and they are still shelf warmers.

People aren’t opening their wallets when Lego try.

@Captainfives1514 said:
"I guess LEGO somehow got past the massive amount of killing and use of guns in fortnight. Which kind of confuses me since LEGO has said they’ll never make a tank or any modern weapon. Fortnite uses a lot of modern weapons."

This is a seperate LEGO mode, not LEGO Battle Royale, and it's still not LEGO Battle Royale if it ends up having some skins.

@beige2 said:
"Finger crossed we get sets too.
We could get Peter "Holy crap Lois, this is worse than the time I was a lego minifigure" Griffin, or Jason Vorhees
Edit: Also aren't freddy fazbear and walter white in the game, or was that memes? I genuinely can't remember. "

We'll probably only get original Fortnite skins. Its VERY unlikely to get Peter Griffin, Jason, Freddy or Walter as minifigures due to their IP's being more mature and violent than Fortnite is, not to mention Lego would have to get the Licenses for all of them, just being in Fortnite doesn't matter.

Finally! Been waiting awhile for this. I've followed the leaks and behind the scenes development of this mode and it's shaping up to be pretty promising. It's going to be a Lego Survival/Crafting/Adventure game (think Minecraft), open procedural generated worlds with quests and lots of building. It sounds very promising, but the main thing that appeals to me (and one of the main reasons why Lego partnered with Epic) is that the UEFN framework they're building this game in will be sustained for a long time.

Think about how Lego Universe or Minifigures Online shut down pretty quickly due to investment costs and other overhead with maintaining a live service. Like them or not, Epic Games has proved themselves as king of the live service model by continuing to evolve Fortnite as a platform over the last 5 years. Using their framework, I think Lego will stick with and evolve this mode for a long time. The future looks bright! This is basically the dream Lego game I've always wanted.

Don't play fortnite so this news isn't interesting!

@chrisaw said:
" @Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

I don’t think it’s lack of faith. They launched Lego Dreamzzz this year, continuing into next year.

It’s just a way to expand the brand and bring in more new Lego fans, which I am all for. More fans = successful company = more new sets and pieces. "

The amount of cope here is ridiculous. They're not trying to get new Lego fans, they are trying to make as much money as possible by exploiting any and every market opportunity that exists - this company lost it's wholesome "play well" ideology years ago . I doubt many of the Fortnite players who buy Lego Fortnite sets will expand into buying Creator. If anything, this is targeting existing Lego fans who play Fortnite, because of the toxic collector "I HAVE TO HAVE IT" mentality.

This company sold it's soul to the devil

Yuck.

@Sandinista said:
" @chrisaw said:
" @Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

I don’t think it’s lack of faith. They launched Lego Dreamzzz this year, continuing into next year.

It’s just a way to expand the brand and bring in more new Lego fans, which I am all for. More fans = successful company = more new sets and pieces. "

The amount of cope here is ridiculous. They're not trying to get new Lego fans, they are trying to make as much money as possible by exploiting any and every market opportunity that exists - this company lost it's wholesome "play well" ideology years ago . I doubt many of the Fortnite players who buy Lego Fortnite sets will expand into buying Creator. If anything, this is targeting existing Lego fans who play Fortnite, because of the toxic collector "I HAVE TO HAVE IT" mentality.

This company sold it's soul to the devil"

Yeah. And they dishonoured one of the core tenets of the Technic theme by axing B-models. "Less effort, more money" seems to be TLG's mantra now.

I would imagine that this is trying to be a competitor to Roblox more than anything. Roblox has like 60-70 MILLION daily users, mostly kids. LEGO doesn't have anything to compete with that, and (regular) Fortnite isn't for kids. If they can steal even just a portion of Roblox's pie, that's potentially a huge source of income.

@Sandinista said:
" @chrisaw said:
" @Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

I don’t think it’s lack of faith. They launched Lego Dreamzzz this year, continuing into next year.

It’s just a way to expand the brand and bring in more new Lego fans, which I am all for. More fans = successful company = more new sets and pieces. "

The amount of cope here is ridiculous. They're not trying to get new Lego fans, they are trying to make as much money as possible by exploiting any and every market opportunity that exists - this company lost it's wholesome "play well" ideology years ago . I doubt many of the Fortnite players who buy Lego Fortnite sets will expand into buying Creator. If anything, this is targeting existing Lego fans who play Fortnite, because of the toxic collector "I HAVE TO HAVE IT" mentality.

This company sold it's soul to the devil"

Friends, City, Creator, Advanced Models, Technic, Ninjago, Monkie Kid, etc, still exist and are thriving, with themes like City having higher quality models than the previous couple years. The existence of licensed themes shouldn’t impact your enjoyment of those themes, and if it does I don’t know what to say.

I am really excited for this! A Fortnite theme has alot of potential, especially for a CMF series.

"Only the best is good enough"

Yeah, right.

With this, the city misspellings / wrong color stickers on the Orient Express, general print quality issues across the board, and a myriad of the other things, Ole Kirk is spinning in his grave so fast you could put magnets on him to generate electricity.

Fortnite has some truly terrible monetization practices that I wish Lego was above feeding into. Even if it’s technically still supporting the business, I would have much preferred Fortnite sets than a Lego mode in Fortnite

@Sandinista said:
" @chrisaw said:
" @Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

I don’t think it’s lack of faith. They launched Lego Dreamzzz this year, continuing into next year.

It’s just a way to expand the brand and bring in more new Lego fans, which I am all for. More fans = successful company = more new sets and pieces. "

This company sold it's soul to the devil"

So fornite is the devil? You play with plastic bricks… is there many worse material for the environmental than plastic… lego themselves are probably closer to the devil than epic games.

This is Lego's way of bridging that gap between when the kids drift out of interest in Lego to video games, and hopefully keeping them relevant to the brand until come out the other side and re-invigorate interest in the brand with the other themes geared towards an older segment.

@Human1229 said:
" @Sandinista said:
" @chrisaw said:
" @Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

I don’t think it’s lack of faith. They launched Lego Dreamzzz this year, continuing into next year.

It’s just a way to expand the brand and bring in more new Lego fans, which I am all for. More fans = successful company = more new sets and pieces. "

The amount of cope here is ridiculous. They're not trying to get new Lego fans, they are trying to make as much money as possible by exploiting any and every market opportunity that exists - this company lost it's wholesome "play well" ideology years ago . I doubt many of the Fortnite players who buy Lego Fortnite sets will expand into buying Creator. If anything, this is targeting existing Lego fans who play Fortnite, because of the toxic collector "I HAVE TO HAVE IT" mentality.

This company sold it's soul to the devil"

Friends, City, Creator, Advanced Models, Technic, Ninjago, Monkie Kid, etc, still exist and are thriving, with themes like City having higher quality models than the previous couple years. The existence of licensed themes shouldn’t impact your enjoyment of those themes, and if it does I don’t know what to say. "

City is basically the same as Friends, there's so much overlap in all areas (aside from law enforcement) that I count them as the same theme. Creator is boxes of basic bricks, not much of a "theme", and Creator Expert/18+/Icons/whatever is mostly giant dust collectors. Technic was 77% licensed/real world sets in 2023 (14 out of 18 sets). Ninjago and Monkie Kid are practically the same, lot of overlap, the latter only exists because Lego needed to come up with southings to appease China. Ideas is mostly licensed too. So aside from Dreams, there were no new original themes.

Lego is basically cannibalizing their own market. Like another comment said, someone who becomes a fan of Lego via Lego Minecraft is not likely to suddenly jump into another theme like Friends. So while it may not directly impact my ability to but a City set, it diverts resources away from original themes.

This honestly looks like what they wanted to do with LEGO Worlds. You’ve got a pretty good sandbox element from what I can tell, but it seems to actually be designed around quests and adventuring.

Uh oh, one more licensed tie-in to direct your rage at instead of buying the half a dozen unlicensed nostalgia pandering sets we get about every year now!

They come up with ever more creative ways to collect your children’s user data to be shipped off via Tencent to the Chinese government.

@shannon2611 said:
" @Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

Dont blame Lego for that.

Lego 2KDrive - failure no one purchased.

There was alao bricktales and that battle royale game i dont remember the name of… 3 original video games that all failed in what a year?

Dreamzzzzzz sets - i see this whole line discounted 50% and they are still shelf warmers.

People aren’t opening their wallets when Lego try.

"

I propose that Lego try this: redo every single space sets that have been announced in the last 24 hours but with all minifig as classic spacemen (they can be spacewomen if you want - they all have the same face) but keep all the new colour you chose for them (light blue, green, dark green, orange flamish yellow, etc.).

Lego can also try this: redo 'everyone is awesome' 40516 but with classic spacemen

Lego can also try this: redo the large minifig 40649 as a classic spaceman.

All these involve Lego using their own IP. When people are using the term 'classic' there is a reason for that. Classic does not mean 'former or old'. Classic means it has its own everlasting charm and timeless beauty.

That being said. I am also certainly not against Lego trying new things but usually when you have a winning formula you don't really need to reinvent the wheel.

I can expect to see many people saying: "10497 was not popular, it is already retired". I would admit I don't understand why (most plausible explanation is to not cannibalise the sales of their new 'space' range coming in 2024) but Brickset people alone own 11425 of it - hardly an unpopular set.

We cry and cry to Lego for them to do some stuff - they hardly ever do them. It took them forever to do some castle. 10305 is very expensive and yet 7571 Bricksetters own it and luckily this sets has one more year one the shelf.

The goat. we finally get the goat back. Where? in a cmf. Hopefully it will also be in other sets. In the past, it took a very long time to get a cmf animal is a regular set. Anyone has seen a skunk or a flamingo in any regular set yet?

The same could be said for Pirates and Trains. 2 trains sets are not enough, there has to be single wagons set(s) and accessories sets. Lego does not have to do a whole range like Dreamz. Just a new theme: 'Legacy' with 3-4 sets per year: they can create 3-4 price ranges and choose between: space, castle, pirates, adventurers, aquanauts, paradisa and many others I might forget)

How's that for trying something. That may seem like a rant but it is not - it is just a suggestion - if Lego were to redo classic themes I prefer the way of 10497 than the way of 40601.

@Hitscan said:
"I am so sick of Lego's focus on licensed IPs. For the producers of a creative building toy, they sure seem to have little faith in their own original ideas. I say this with zero ill will against Fortnite."

There are more unlicensed sets per year now than there were in the 1980s and 90s.

Guys it's not that deep, don't feel like you're life is ruined because a kids toy company announced a new,exiting theme.
Never played fortnite and yet I'm still excited.

Also real talk,can we get a dislike button for comments? Some people just say stupid,dumb, and idiotic stuff sometimes that needs to be treated like that.

@Sandinista said:
"This company sold it's soul to the devil"

I'd have disappointed if this thread didn't contain at least one massive overreaction.

Well done.