Chronicler06

Ah, yes, I remember the Kanoka Club. I know I entered all the codes from every set I obtained that came with one, but I don't remember if I ever spent any points on anything (and even if I did, the computer that I probably would've saved it on is now long gone, not to mention my original Lego account from back then has also been lost). I did at least keep all the cards from which I got those codes, and still have them stored away in a drawer in my room to this day.

We finally have an official announcement of what the next MLP series will be like: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2026/07/my-little-pony-forever-friendship-full.html My first impression is that I probably won't find it interesting, but since it'll be available on YouTube, I'll at least take a look when it comes out next year.

A good amount of progress towards collecting gold bricks, enough to unlock one more character with only one more left to go (which will require all 250 gold bricks to unlock). Quite unfortunate that the bonus level glitched out when you got someone stuck under the built bridge, probably a result of trying to jump ahead somewhere too quickly (you're not supposed to jump the gap to build that second bridge, you're supposed to ride the metro to arrive on the opposite side, so maybe that might have something to do with the technical issue you encountered). Hopefully, by starting the bonus level from the beginning of next week's stream, you'll have enough time to not rush through things and successfully complete it.

Not bad, this week. Got almost everything on the north island (except for purchasing any vehicles), with just enough gold bricks to purchase another character. The last two gold gate characters (as well as the bonus level) are all on the central island, so I guess it doesn't matter where you decide to go to collect more gold bricks. The next character requires 175, which is also the same amount you need to access the bonus level, so that's 25 more you'll need to find next time.

Finally got all of the minikits collected, so that's every level fully completed. Now all that's left to do to reach 100% completion is collect all the gold bricks all over Gotham City (as well as purchase a bunch of vehicles scattered all over the city). In addition to the amount needed to unlock the bonus level, don't forget about the last three characters to purchase from those gold gates. The next one requires 150 gold bricks and can be found on the north island, so for the next stream, I would recommend focusing your efforts on completing everything you can find on the north island. If you have some time to spare, it might be a good idea to read through the section of the guide about gold bricks to collect in Gotham City so you might have an idea of what kind of tasks are necessary to obtain some of them.

Good effort on finally fully completing the two longest levels of the game, which included the last of the citizens in peril. Just four more minikits across three other levels left to go, then it'll be time to go after gold bricks and other things throughout the massive hub world.

Wow, I guess focusing on just rescuing all the citizens in peril across Gotham City was a rather quick and easy way to collect enough gold bricks to purchase that one hero character you needed. Really wish I had remembered that to begin with. But I do remember Lego Batman 3 being much more of a confusing hassle trying to figure out which characters need to be unlocked and which characters need to be unlocked to unlock those other characters you need. So convoluted that free playing the levels in numerical order was practically impossible. Probably for the best that you decided to do only the first two Lego Batman games before moving on to the new Lego Batman game. Anyway, good to see you got enough gold bricks to obtain all but four of the gold gate hero characters (and finally got that last remaining goon character as well), and even had enough time to fully complete one of the levels from that week of horrible struggle. By the way, I forgot to mention that I'll be out of town next weekend, so if you want my assistance in next week's stream, it needs to be on Thursday, because I definitely won't be available on Friday and then probably won't get a chance to check on anything until the following Sunday night.

Significant progress on the last four levels. One of them required a few quick repeats, but eventually everything was collected in that level. Pity many of the levels are not quite complete due to needing Aquaman, but hopefully you're now familiar with the suits used by Batman and Robin that you can start collecting some gold bricks throughout the hub world without too much struggle. Good news is that regardless of whether the next stream will be on Thursday or Friday, I'll be able to watch live. I guess the month of May was much more busy for me than June is turning out to be so far.

I finally caught a break this week to be (partially) available this Friday. Now that I'm (completely) available again (and rewatched the second half of the stream for anything I might've missed while distracted the first time), I can finally get this comment in. Three levels replayed, though a few things missed due to needing Aquaman (believe me, if I had remembered how much that one character was necessary, I would've initially recommended collecting some more gold bricks in the hub world until you could get him). I just glanced through the guide again for reminders, and it seems to last four levels are relatively quick enough that I'm sure you could get through them all in a single stream (though again one or two thing would require Aquaman). Hopefully things will go well next week.

I did a bit of searching on Steam's page for this game, looking through comments and discussions, and the impression I've gotten is that if you happen to already own the game, then it should continue to remain fully playable, at least for its story mode. What will be lost after the servers get shut down next year will be the multiplayer feature, which apparently was the only aspect of this game for which you actually needed a 2K account to access. Truth be told, the one thing that had kept me hesitant about actually playing LEGO 2K Drive was whether a 2K account was necessary to be able to play this game. It seems I may have finally got the answer, that it was needed only for multiplayer, and for me personally who is more of a single player type of gamer, that shouldn't be much of a problem for me. In fact, I believe that all but one of the achievements should still be possible to unlock even after the servers shut down. Pretty much the only real issue I must now consider is if I really want to go through the hassle of creating a 2K account just so I can have the ability to unlock one relatively simple achievement for playing ten rounds (races, minigames, etc.) in the multiplayer's "play with everyone" feature. I guess my final decision might depend on if Black Six wants to spend one of his Twitch streams sometime in the next few months trying to get that multiplayer achievement in LEGO 2K Drive, in which case I'd be more than happy to play along with him.

Would LEGO 2K Drive remain at least somewhat playable after those multiplayer servers get shut down next year? Would it still be possible to do things like complete the story missions or unlock achievements? While I do already have this game on my Steam account, I have not yet gotten around to playing it, so I just want to be sure whether or not I'd miss out on anything significant if I wait too long.

Glad I could help you out with a few things this time (especially the reminder about Superman's freeze breath yet again). Levels 6, 7, and 8 are fully completed, though I suspect the message you ignored upon starting a new level was that all of your save progress was lost on one of those other levels from last week. If that's the case, then do yourself a favor and wait until a day when I'm available to help out with that particular level. You should already have everything you need to complete Level 5. It's just a very long level, so you might as well dedicate an entire stream to that one level. Unfortunately, Friday is once again a no-go for me, so you'll be practically on your own again next week (unless of course if you decide to go back to Thursday, for which I'm likely to be available).

I finished watching the recording of yesterday's stream and... well... I'll just go ahead and say it. That was kind of painful to watch. Heck, I'm convinced that you wasted so much time practically banging your head against the wall that it would've taken less time for you to simply search though the entire guide for all of the relevant information. First of all, I'm pretty sure I mentioned in my previous post right here that you do not yet have enough gold bricks to purchase any of the gold gate characters on the central island. I'll admit that it's been such a long time since I completed this game that I don't remember if I actually did need to use Aquaman for that particular minikit in Level 4. (If you're too lazy to actually check that guide I had linked for you, Aquaman is located on the northwestern part of the central island and requires 70 gold bricks to be able to purchase, so you might as well either move on to the rest of the levels or do some exploring of the hub world until you've found enough gold bricks.) While I'll admit that I had forgotten just how long it takes to complete Level 5 (much longer than a typical level, but at least there's some rather quick ones later on), I will say that I did not forget that Superman has the freeze ability. To spell out what you couldn't figure out at the end of the stream, you had to freeze the waterfall in the back so that Batman can grab the electricity suit down on that lower level, then climb up the frozen waterfall and continue on through that electrical barrier. For next week, I will once again not be available on Friday, so hopefully you'll actually read all of this or at least stream on Thursday (ideally both).

Unfortunately, this Friday looks just as unlikely as the previous Friday stream for me to be able to watch, so chances are I'll probably miss this week and have to watch the recording sometime later in the weekend. Hopefully you won't encounter too many difficulties, now that you're aware of that guide I typically check.

The package just arrived today. Of the twelve packs within those two boxes, I found the Bionicle Cosplayer in the fourth pack of the first box, so I'm very thankful to actually have the one minifigure I was actually interested in. Now I just need to figure out what to do with the 11 other minifigures that I have no desire to keep for myself... EDIT: I decided out of curiosity to open the rest of the packs I got. Turns out that half of the packs in the second box (three out of six) are duplicates of ones I got in the first box, which means my collection of Series 29 minifigures is actually incomplete with three missing. This makes me even more grateful that I was able to actually get the Bionicle Cosplayer (but also kind of disappointed that it was not one of the duplicates that I ended up with). Well, good thing I had used some of my Insider points to cover most of the cost for those two boxes so that the amount I actually payed was enough for only the one minifigure that I really wanted. But since I don't like incomplete collections, I now definitely have no desire to keep those 11 other minifigures, so hopefully I can find some friends or relatives who might be interested in them.