21128 - The Village

[inversion]

Rumored LEGO Minecraft exclusive coming in the summer for $200. Credits: Just2Good, thebrickfan.

What do you think? Is the theme selling strong enough to warrant an exclusive?

Personally, this might be the first exclusive I am 100% uninterested in. LEGO can always wrong me tho.

 

 

 

[TheOrcKing]

I was hoping the villager would get their due in minifigure form and it looks like the horse also receives the LEGO treatment as well. Well if you are not into Minecraft in all its blocky glory then doubtful this would be up your alley. The size & scope of the end product should be huge though between all the things making up a regular village in the game such as a well, blacksmith, chapel, library, farm, and couple random houses. In the image of the minifigure display, I can spot two villagers with one being a Librarian (white robe) and the other a Farmer (brown robe) unless that one is also sporting a white apron making it a Butcher instead or a black apron meaning a Blacksmith. I imagine a Farmer would make the most sense overall with all the 'farming' one does in Minecraft.

[Quacs]

44 minutes ago, TheOrcKing said:

I was hoping the villager would get their due in minifigure form and it looks like the horse also receives the LEGO treatment as well. Well if you are not into Minecraft in all its blocky glory then doubtful this would be up your alley. The size & scope of the end product should be huge though between all the things making up a regular village in the game such as a well, blacksmith, chapel, library, farm, and couple random houses. In the image of the minifigure display, I can spot two villagers with one being a Librarian (white robe) and the other a Farmer (brown robe) unless that one is also sporting a white apron making it a Butcher instead or a black apron meaning a Blacksmith. I imagine a Farmer would make the most sense overall with all the 'farming' one does in Minecraft.

Great call on all the mobs, TOK.  I think you hit them dead on. 

I'm pretty stoked about this set - looking forward to its release.  The Village is always a really cool part of the Minecraft world.  I wonder if there will be more than two Villager types included in the set?

 

[dinner41]

I agree with the OP - another set I won't spend any cent on. Well, I should be glad: they can't all be great, or I would be broke.

[TheOrcKing]

5 hours ago, Quacs said:

I'm pretty stoked about this set - looking forward to its release.  The Village is always a really cool part of the Minecraft world.  I wonder if there will be more than two Villager types included in the set?

Yeah, the Villages are fun especially ones you have started from the ground up.  Back to the set I would like to see a bare minimum of one for all five professions although I can somewhat understand if there won't be a Priest for reasons outside of the game or the LEGO company. I imagine a handful of the brown robes for being the most universal and versatile of the Villagers due to having the most careers including Fletcher which still is one of the weirdest sounding words I have heard. Hopefully a couple of black aprons and white aprons are included in the mix besides the so far solitary Librarian.

[fantomas007]

Minecraft exclusive would be the most stupid exclusive set ever... Who will buy it? It would be absolutelly worthless for AFOLs, minecraft is just children issue, and I think that a temporary interest in minecraft is not enough to generate a lot of buyers for an expensive set.

[Crustybeaver]

4 minutes ago, mesje said:

Minecraft exclusive would be the most stupid exclusive set ever... Who will buy it?

1 - Children
2 - Teenagers
2 - Parents of Children and teenagers
4 - Investers

While Lego do cater for the AFOL, their primary market is children and teenagers. This will be the third wave of Minecraft sets (4th if you include Microworld), Minecraft is clearly a lucrative line for Lego with the game having a huge worldwide fanbase. Amazon's Best selling building toys consistently show Minecraft alongside City, Star Wars, Super Heroes and Friends. It makes sense for Lego to release a large exclusive set for the theme and follows off the back of Super Heroes and Ninjago. Whether Minecraft transcends well into Lego bricks is debatable and doesn't represent a true reflection of what's a good seller and which will be profitable. As adults we view Lego in a different light to that of a child. It's no surprise that the most heavily hoarded sets are the ones that are most aesthetically pleasing on the eye. We tend to look at sets based on strength of theme and their displayability, a child views a toy as a way that allows them to engage their creative imagination as an extension of what they see in cartoons, movies and games.

[Seal Cutter]

Unfortunately a case of "just because you don't like it, doesn't mean nobody will"

[Mos_Eisley]

It is a rumor no more:

Probably the May release. 

[Phil B]

Details on 21128 - The Village are out now. Got this from Forbes.com of all places:

 

Forbes article is here

Edited April 14, 2016 by Phil B
DANG - Ninja'd by Mos_Eisley :)

[Phil B]

Here is a walkthrough video:

 

[inversion]

It is a big play set. I see little AFOL appeal. Too pricey for a general kids set, although I know quite a few kids for whom this would be pocket money.

[Pedilego]

1 minute ago, inversion said:

It is a big play set. I see little AFOL appeal. Too pricey for a general kids set, although I know quite a few kids for whom this would be pocket money.

Yeah, this is no Temple of Airjitsu.

[Fenix_2k1]

18 minutes ago, Phil B said:

Details on 21128 - The Village are out now. Got this from Forbes.com of all places:

 

Forbes article is here

I don't know why you're surprised this is being featured by forbes. This set is definitely a better investment than gold. 

Edited April 14, 2016 by Fenix_2k1

[Phil B]

2 minutes ago, inversion said:

It is a big play set. I see little AFOL appeal. Too pricey for a general kids set, although I know quite a few kids for whom this would be pocket money.

I'd like to see the set inventory. 1600 mostly very common, very well-selling bricks. With a bit of a discount this might be a good BL store filler - though having said that, Crafting box has >500 pieces and costs $50, so 4x Crafting box = 2000 common pieces and this set is only 1600 .....

[redghostx]

It doesn't appeal to me personally, but I'm not the target market.  I appreciate the layout and it looks well thought out and easy to expand upon and would like to see future AFOL sets in this manner.  Think of sets like the "town plan" but with actual  walkways.

[Phil B]

How many 21118 The Mine sets would you need to support 21128 on top? 4? Time to list them as a bundle ;-)

[TheOrcKing]

Good grief, this is incredibly spot-on to the game material. I mean all the other Minecraft sets matched the source very well but this, holy cow. A Library, a small house (some reason called watchtower in the video), a larger house, a Blacksmith's forge, a well, and something unique to the set not from the game with a trading post. This offers essentially everything in the realm of Minecraft just as The Mine does but now at the ground level of it all. A Zombie, Zombie Villager, Enderman, and Creeper cover most of the mobs, a Farmer and Librarian are two essential Villagers for trade & whatnot, Steve and Alex being the two players should be here, and of course every Village need an Iron Golem (although technically there should be a lot more Villagers before he would natively spawn). I knew LEGO molded the heads for the Villagers however did not expect for them to sport unique torsos as well but they really came through on the design with flying color. Now considering they released a smaller single set simply revolving around the Iron Golem, I imagine there shall be a few future sets to include different Villagers.

[Darth_Raichu]

4 hours ago, Mos_Eisley said:

Probably the May release.

Per Brickset:

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21128 The Village, 1,600 pieces.
US $199.99 - CA $249.99 - DE 199.99€ - UK £169.99 - DK 1899.00 DKK
Released June 1st, May 18th for VIPs.

This is the VIP early release set for May

[Val-E]

So I was right about the release date. Big Ben will therefore be a Autumn release and probably coincide with retirement of SOH.

Bit expensive, this village, isn´t it?

[pete411]

19 minutes ago, Val-E said:

So I was right about the release date. Big Ben will therefore be a Autumn release and probably coincide with retirement of SOH.

Bit expensive, this village, isn´t it?

Yes. Pretty audacious to charge $200 for 1600 common bricks. TLG is on a roll.

[gregpj]

1 hour ago, TheOrcKing said:

Good grief, this is incredibly spot-on to the game material. I mean all the other Minecraft sets matched the source very well but this, holy cow. A Library, a small house (some reason called watchtower in the video), a larger house, a Blacksmith's forge, a well, and something unique to the set not from the game with a trading post. This offers essentially everything in the realm of Minecraft just as The Mine does but now at the ground level of it all. A Zombie, Zombie Villager, Enderman, and Creeper cover most of the mobs, a Farmer and Librarian are two essential Villagers for trade & whatnot, Steve and Alex being the two players should be here, and of course every Village need an Iron Golem (although technically there should be a lot more Villagers before he would natively spawn). I knew LEGO molded the heads for the Villagers however did not expect for them to sport unique torsos as well but they really came through on the design with flying color. Now considering they released a smaller single set simply revolving around the Iron Golem, I imagine there shall be a few future sets to include different Villagers.

 

[Val-E]

1 hour ago, pete411 said:

Yes. Pretty audacious to charge $200 for 1600 common bricks. TLG is on a roll.

I guess we now know why they pullled The Mine so soon. No need to have a similar sized set selling for half the price. Seeing as it is targetted at kids, I wonder how exclusive an exclsive it will actually be.

[Frank Brickowski]

And so TLG's series of weird releases continues.

[Quacs]

On ‎4‎/‎14‎/‎2016 at 2:56 PM, TheOrcKing said:

Good grief, this is incredibly spot-on to the game material. I mean all the other Minecraft sets matched the source very well but this, holy cow. A Library, a small house (some reason called watchtower in the video), a larger house, a Blacksmith's forge, a well, and something unique to the set not from the game with a trading post. This offers essentially everything in the realm of Minecraft just as The Mine does but now at the ground level of it all. A Zombie, Zombie Villager, Enderman, and Creeper cover most of the mobs, a Farmer and Librarian are two essential Villagers for trade & whatnot, Steve and Alex being the two players should be here, and of course every Village need an Iron Golem (although technically there should be a lot more Villagers before he would natively spawn). I knew LEGO molded the heads for the Villagers however did not expect for them to sport unique torsos as well but they really came through on the design with flying color. Now considering they released a smaller single set simply revolving around the Iron Golem, I imagine there shall be a few future sets to include different Villagers.

Agreed, TOK.  This set is remarkably similar to an actual Minecraft village.  Finally, we get some villagers and I think they turned out really well.   I'm really happy to see the Zombie Villager too - nice touch.  The buildings are spot on too.  Great effort.