Lair of Rockwhales

You mean back when there were no Lego movies whatsoever? THOSE 90's?Yeah. At least there weren't licensed themes being crammed into back then. Except Star Wars at the turn, but that was okay-ish at first.What was OK-ish about the early Star Wars theme? Certainly not the sets, which tended to have quite a bit of juniorization much like many LEGO themes of the late 90s. The more recent Star Wars sets are light-years ahead of those sets in terms of complexity, and have kept pretty much the same in terms of scale in many cases. Plus, we have the brilliant LEGO Star Wars video games, the (from what I've seen and heard) hilariousness of The Padawan Menace, and perhaps most importantly, The LEGO Group's continued success and familiarity as a brand. Not to mention BIONICLE, which might never have come about if it weren't for the success of LEGO Star Wars.Of course Star Wars now is better. What I meant was, I don't like the sheer numbers of licensed themes out there, and while Star Wars is good (certainly the best licensed theme) it's at fault for causing this fad. But oh well, I think the Batman stuff is doing okay too since it's not trying to base itself off of a movie.

You mean back when there were no Lego movies whatsoever? THOSE 90's?Yeah. At least there weren't licensed themes being crammed into back then. Except Star Wars at the turn, but that was okay-ish at first.

I see what they were going for, and it could have been good - by the sound of it, the written version is - but the show was incredibly cheap and kind of annoying in parts. Maybe it was just me.Anyway, The Savages. This is actually a really good story. Unfortunately, all the episodes are missing so it's just a slideshow of blurry pictures. But I thought it was pretty good, considering how mediocre many of the serials had been before this.The War Machines is next, followed by the final two Hartnell serials. While I like him as the Doctor, I can say I won't miss his episodes that much (they were mostly pretty good at first, but...)

That Space Shuttle from the spaceport thing. The new one, not the 1999 one.

I still haven't finished it...

I use LDD a lot again. I've made some pretty big models, and am working on a remake of the LMS Explorer right now.

I liked it the first time I played through. The second time, I couldn't get past Reidak's world. More blah than I remember.

Hope you aren't including the like ten Lego games TT madeErm, what are you talking about? Why wouldn't I talk about Lego games when I'm talking about Lego games? Lego Universe doesn't count to me due to its nature of being online and being able to be shut down. As for the other two, they weren't major games like this, but I did wish they would be on other things even though I have a DS.As for hating it because of one exclusive game... I'm probably just making a fuss.But I really don't like the screen in the controller. It just looks really awkward.

For a moment I thought this just meant any theme. Then I realized it was talking about real products being turned into LEGO. Since I hate all licensed themes and think LEGO should kill all of them and make 100% original themes...yeah. The minifigures would be a mess. Plus, people would complain about his eyes being green and how Eggman isn't called Robotnik.seriously how can you make skinny sonic into a fat minifig

Is this about general LEGO opinions, since it's in LEGO discussion, or just Bionicle?

So we have two Lego movies that have licensed products in them :|I want the 90s back

But LDD can't let you go to a "play" mode like Creator and have your people and vehicles run around. The game was poor, but that little element was what gave it charm. LDD is obviously better, but I miss that little life feature (Creator won't run on this machine, some graphics issue). I worded that poorly. What I meant was, I heard in an interview about Batman 2 that TT tries to put their games on every console and take advantage of its strengths and weaknesses. This can be seen in most of their past games. And then, only a short time after that, they release a game that is only on one console and one handheld. Both Nintendo. Both new. I'm not spending three hundred dollars on a new console just for one or two games. Oh Loco...suddenly gibberish everywhere

I have a strong dislike towards the Wii U. 99% because that Lego City game, the first original (non-Bionicle/Technic) major LEGO game since Island Xtreme Stunts in 2002, is only on the Wii U and not on any other console, even though TT has many times said they try to publish their things on every console.Yes, I'm incredibly biased and this is a stupid reason. But until LCU comes out on something else I'm sticking to it.

I feel quite the opposite of this article, to be honest. The future of LEGO games seems troublesome with their past history for the last seven years. Ever since 2005, they've stopped making original games that all were different and just been churning out movie games that feel the same as LEGO Star Wars. The new LEGO City game looks okay, but it still looks a bit like LSW, plus it's only on the Wii U, unlike everything else TT has made which tries to be original.As someone in the comments of that article said, "How about Lego <not> a franchise?"

MORE OLD EPISODE REVIEWSThe Gunfighters is kind of weird. While the story itself is okay, it doesn't feel like Doctor Who sometimes. Primarily because of the singing narrator.Still better than The Celestial Toymaker.

Indeed I am. Of course, I've already seen most of 3 and 4, but I might as well go through it all again since I've forgotten a lot of 3. What I've seen of the first four are from old worn-down VHS recordings that only had serials not missing any episodes, but now I'm able to see the reconstructions so I'm attempting to go through the whole thing in order. That rainbow outfitI already have a bad impression of the 6th Doctor and I've not even seen one second of his show.So anyway, Celestial Toymaker is... not that great. With a name like that, I was sort of expecting something magnificent. Instead I got some derp who wants to play games, musical death chairs, and these two stupid clown dolls that cheat on an obsticle course and annoying music everywhere. The second episode was better, but the first one. The first one. The music. The clown's voice.Even worse, the next serial once I finish this one is The Gunfighters. What's so bad about this? It apparently has a SINGING NARRATOR (which honestly isn't that bad, but it's just really weird). Yeah, I'm starting to see another reason why people liked the 4th Doctor so much (I'll never forget that time Hartnell broke the fourth wall).

So, um...how about that Hartnell?I'm only up to The Celestial Toymaker, so I'm about... 14% through the show

You like Lego Island? Rock Raiders? Racers? even Star Wars?Those games have nothing on this.legos legos legos

there's...already a lego island 3... they made it in 2002...

Johnny Thunder. Jake Raines not needed. Nuff said.I think the main reason I miss themes these days is that they all feel so flat. Johnny Thunder had how many books and comics, was featured in how many games, etc. and Jake Raines is just some guy looking for a pyramid and then we never hear of him again. Same with Rock Raiders: the sets are poorly designed, Power Miners is better in that (except the color scheme), but the story in RR was so deep (although contradictory) and the characters all had depth (which is why I hate the Power Miner Rock Goblins, they're so derpy and stupid and all they do is FART FART FART).If Lego could make themes with the same magic they used to have I'd not be as sad to see old themes go.

Thank you, Black Six. The game is tile-based, which makes maps easy. However, if you saved a level, it would have to write off the location and angle of objects, what level and upgrades they are at (which you can't even program into maps, the only way anything is pre-upgraded is through the mission objective file), and if you saved while strip-mining, that's a ton of crystals and ore to code its locations. DDI was rushed enough, which is why it's so buggy, so such a thing was never planned with this engine, and would have taken a lot of work (even though it's tile-based, the layout of the stuff in the maps is more complex than it looks).Of course, every level can be beaten in under twenty minutes, but honestly who doesn't want to explore and build?

You should, it's worth it. Although the last mission is embarassingly dull: I talked to the level designer once, he said he made it easy because originally it was both too strenuous on processors and too hard for kids. Of course, now that both have aged, I spam it to be as hard as I want, as you can see in one of the above links. Well, it would be very hard to do this. The save file would be very large. Just pause the game and come back later is all I can say to that.

Oh yeah, so the Rock Raiders PC game. Did anyone here play it? It's really one of Lego's more interesting games.I just wish Data Design Interactive hadn't made it, as they are, well... Rock Raiders is known as DDI's only good game. Like how Run the Gauntlet has a glitch preventing you from normally seeing the "good" ending. But oh well.Just watch out for random swarms of Rock Monsters.Really, it's quite fun to mess around with. As well as terrifying.(whoops, wrong category, can this be moved)

Not really. I only come here to see if the Rock Raiders topic has had any updates, so I'm not really part of this community.

Before I say anything is this Lego stories in general or Bionicle only?