your jumpy and a whole humpy
That's not the part of the fandom we're here to celebrate.
This one's for the unintentional comedy the LEGO fanbase so often affords. The quirky, offensive, uneducated or otherwise unintentionally funny comments on forums and news sites alike. The fan art and writing of questionable calibre. The hastily slapped together MOCs. The senseless loldrama. And above all else, the people who take it all far, far too seriously. Ladies and gentlemen, here's to the very bottom of the barrel that is the LEGO fandom.
Now, if you're here looking for the really great stuff from the LEGO fandom, then you're probably looking for our other blog, the Solace of LEGOman Values. Alternatively, you're actually looking for any number of high-quality LEGO blogs, but hey, more doesn't hurt.
A side note: we (probably) don't hate you. We actually don't hate anything at all! We just find your words or actions really funny, and we're sharing the incredible mirth with the world.
So according to an AFOL’s user review on Brickset, one of the 2010 Furno set’s “negatives” is that it doesn’t come with minifigs
a constraction model
does not contain minifigs
because everyone would so much rather pay over four thousand dollars on an ACTUAL GOLD minifigure than pay three dollars to take a chance at finding a gold spraypainted one
well since the rocket Jor-El launched actually made it to Earth…
“HI I’M HUW HILL AND I SELL BRICKSET AND BRICKSET ACCESSORIES”
speaking of Brickset, in which Brickset readers react to news that LEGO’s planning to set up a factory in China
any vaguely reasonable points the commenters may have had about the news have been drowned out in how hilariously ragey and panicky they’re being
Brickset.com
So, Brickset.com can join EuroBricks as an awful, awful Lego site.
so this is an actual advertisement currently on brickset
casually adds to the list of LEGO characters which look unsettlingly like creepy sex offenders (population: furno 2.0)
yes, you’re right. you’re Brickset, not Brickvideogame… or Brickbrandstore, Bricksales, Brickcuusoo, Brickmagazine, Brickdatamine, Brickfacebook, Bricksurvey, Brickshop, Bricktraffic, Brickarticles… that’s a lot of stuff you have no business reporting on since you’re obviously only about sets!
seriously, if you’re gonna style yourself as a general LEGO news site, you cannot pick and choose which parts you like. whining about the parts you don’t enjoy while you’re reporting on said parts is extremely unprofessional. come on, it’s not like I’m asking for hard hitting fresh investigative journalism on how LEGO is killing the elephant population of Antarctica or the evil LEGO cult which has infiltrated the parliament of Switzerland or something - this is just common fucking sense and decency
I was also going to start the article by saying that it would have been more newsworthy if LEGO was not producing a Marvel video game given there’s one made for every theme these days
okay not only is that objectively false as the number of themes per year still vastly outweighs the number of games, but that’s like a news bulletin about how “in other news, there are no bushfires here today”
come on, Brickset. I want to like you, I really do, but you’re not really making it easy. this is pretty minor, yeah, but shitty journalism like this really pisses me off as a student of the field
this might just be the best burn I’ve ever heard from the LEGO fandom, and a very well-deserved one at that! a tip of the hat to mr. CCC
There are several immutable facts of the way the world is, but the most important and relevant ones are:
- LEGO’s Cuusoo service will inevitably attract a torrent of submissions for licenced products based on popular media
- As has been proven lately, licenced products gaining popularity on Cuusoo will never go down well with the LEGO fandom
Mudkip is the best Pokémon
The power of fandom is an inevitable force of nature on the internet. Hell, this blog itself is a product of that fact; if fandom wasn’t this influential a thing, would I feel the need to be a dick to little children? (yes I would, I’m a monster, I know) When LEGO opened the doors on the international version of its Cuusoo service last year, then, it was inevitable that Cuusoo would be flooded with proposals for most everyone’s favourite fictional works, with Sturgeon’s Law applying across the board. As it turns out, though, there are some people who just can’t handle even the good ones.
ah, the wonders of what can only be either bubble-wrap parenting or religious fanaticism (though in a loose sense, the latter does entail the former)
So apparently, people addressing legitimate concerns about the substandard quality of LEGO’s outsourced products - namely those produced in China - is based solely on racism.
Hmm.
Keep in mind, these are the sets to which he refers, and this is commenting on a piece about an upcoming LEGO City garage. Not about Space of any kind, never mind remakes of thirty-year-old sets, something for which incidentally there is no precedent.
I can sort of dig stating that one would’ve preferred different things to be made into sets, but saying so for things of a different theme entirely to what’s being discussed are just… huh?
So apparently the fandom is reacting very badly to the announcement that LEGO does intend to press ahead with designing a LEGO Minecraft line… I admit I’m unfamiliar with Minecraft beyond my brother’s addiction to it, and I do have my reservations about how effectively Minecraft will translate to a unique LEGO product (though I’m confident Mojang and LEGO can come up with something). Most of these comments, however, are something else entirely and show a devastating, sometimes outright offensive, lack of knowledge of what they’re talking about. Normally I think of Brickset as one of the better bastions for intelligent LEGO discussion and debate, so this is really quite sad.
