Celebrating 10 Years of LEGO Minecraft
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- 2014 celebrates 10 years since LEGO first released minifigure-scale Minecraft sets. Today we'll be taking a look back at the theme's first wave of six sets:
- 21113: The Cave
- 21114: The Farm
- 21115: The First Night
- 21116: Crafting Box
- 21117: The Ender Dragon
- 21118: The Mine
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8 year old me was extremely excited when I first saw Lego Minecraft in Walmart’s Lego section back in 2014! 10 years later I can’t believe it’s still going strong, and it’s one of my favorite Lego themes
So glad it's still here all these years later! Who would have thought? Things have come a long way.
How are you the only replie
Same I was a bit younger than you but I got one of the og Minecraft sets (the cave and the dungeon). Still one of my favorite themes too!
Hearing that LEGO Minecraft is 10 years old is like a punch to the stomach
And minecraft is 15...
Right
So true…
God it makes me feel so old
aint no way 2014 was 10 years ago 😭 making this video made me feel old
The old Lego Minecraft will always have a special place in my heart… something about building those cave and plains sets were just awesome.
Right? Ah, I wish we'd get more like this again. That's why I loved the Sword Outpost so much last year! It takes me back to this wave.
Exactly. So simple ans Just beautiful
Everything is awesome!
This very first End set was on shelves when my family visited Legoland. Me and my brother could not leave without it. I still remember building it in the hotel room. Good old carefree times...
Love that :,) It's such a cool dragon, even outside of the world of Minecraft!
The block-accurate builds of the OG sets look soooooo good, I'm glad Lego supported a great builder like you to create those Mocs. Keep these high quality videos coming! 👍
Thank you! I'm so glad I was able to use the bricks for this too. Remaking these sets was a ton of fun!
Lego Minecraft is a theme very near and dear to my heart. I remember as a kid splitting my allowance with my brothers to buy the first skin pack set. We had hours of fun with those 4 minifigures, and when we slowly got more sets and more player skins, it started to feel like an in house original theme like Ninjago rather than a licensed theme. I’ll always have a soft spot for this theme, can’t wait to see what it’s got in store for the future
Man, I'd LOVE another skin pack! Those were so much fun.
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I miss when the sets were plain and classic. None of these weird animal houses, just plain survival minecraft.
The upcoming Badlands Adventure set reminds me a lot of the good old days. There's lots of great sets coming this summer!
I was gonna go write my essay, but this is more important
Lego Minecraft Steve thanks you for your priorities
lego Minecraft Steve knows what's up
Welcome to the Prcocrastination Club, fellow !
When I see videos of this guy, everything else fades away and I just become a little child, once more.
The Minecraft theme will forever be one of my favorites.
Same here. :)
i remember when i was little at a lego convention i saw The First Night and had to have it and that memory has stuck with me ever since.
That one seems to be very popular. I wish I had gotten it when I was younger! But alas, I had no money lol
These sets are the definition of simple done right.
100%
Lego Minecraft was always meant to be!
One is about building things with plastic bricks
The other is about building things with digital blocks
The Lego Minecraft crossover theme was inevitable from the start!
14:58 This brought a tear to my eye 🥲
15:54 My favorite Ender Dragon is from the End Battle set with the Dragon-Slayer minifigure (set 21151), the scale just feels right somehow
18:41 Imaginex was one of the GOATs of the childhood toys
19:40 I'll do you one better: if The Cave ate an Enchated Golden Apple
21:32 I don't need it, I don't need it
21:14 *_*I NEEEED IT!!!!!!*_*
yooooo fellow imaginext enjoyer
Hello there fellow seperatist 2.0
I remember when I was 7 years old and I bought my first Lego Minecraft set: the wither
That's a great one!
black iridescent sounds like a dream color variation!!! loved getting to learn about the origin of the LEGO theme that now takes up half our basement
I remember being at the Lego World convention in Copenhagen back in the day and seeing the official unveiling of the very first Lego Minecraft cuuso set. That will always be a core memory for me, the excitement I felt was just something else
That's so cool!
Yet another look into a theme I completely missed, although this one is clearly in production to this day. I've been playing minecraft on and off when it was still in early beta and the Lego minecraft does indeed convey this 'early style' minecraft very well. I can imagine the blocky layer style of building being extremely fun for a minecraft enhusiast.
This is also the first time I got to see the Minecraft custom moc buildings. This smooth blocky style might be a bit over the top, but it does look even better, the colors and layers just pop a lot more.
Thanks again for taking us along a journey into Lego history, which is insanely valuable to someone that has only somewhat recently rediscovered Lego as a hobby.
Really glad you enjoyed! ❤️
I’m neither a Lego Minecraft collector, nor a player of the game, but we started buying sets for my son last year, and I must say - I’ve been blown away by the theme. I really think it’s the best current Lego theme - insanely good value, great play value and easy to MOC. It’s just great.
Right? It just feeds creativity like no other theme on the market right now. There's such a beauty in its simplicity!
Seeing this brought back the nostalgia of 2014, with all of my favorite TH-camrs, movies, and everything
Simpler times. Peak Minecraft honestly
Exactly Peak life
I remember having the 4 smallest sets, they were so much fun connecting up, too. When I learned the farm and first night could connect, I was so excited!
I do wish they'd lean into the modularity more! It just makes so much sense for LEGO Minecraft
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I love having the Minecraft theme around. I haven't collected a ton of it, but I've bought some small sets, polybags, and magazines over the years and gathered some players and what I consider the classic Minecraft monsters (Skeleton, Creeper, Zombie, Spider, Enderman, Slime). It's such a delight having those guys sitting in a little display in Lego form!
Really liked seeing the sets reimagined in your style too! A nice tribute to the theme's beginning, and cool to have the direct comparison to the simpler but effective style of the official sets.
More than anything else I do love the mobs and figures from the theme. That's what got me into LEGO Minecraft too - collecting those little guys! Glad you enjoyed this :)
Having something physical on a display that you can touch, like the collection of minecraft figures, has a ton of value. While it doesn't offer the play features of the game, having it around in physical form does something a virtual game can never do.
I remember buying the first lego sets for Minecraft and enjoying them so much, they had such a charm. I believe I got the Jungle one (which was one of the earlier sets?) for my birthday as a kiddo, and of course I collected some of the other ones, the farm, the little starter house, etc. Loved it.
I've also recently acquired a bunch more of the old ones including the end set!
anyway yaps aside, this theme is great, especially collecting the figs and special prints.
The new figures and prints they always release are the best - collecting all those is definitely what got me into it!
I had the original crafting box we probably mixed all the pieces in with our old legos that got sold, but I remember having so much fun just trying to make Minecraft builds in real life with the bricks. The anniversary of the game and theme makes me feel so old!
Right? It does not feel like ten years lol!
About the dragon play feature! The Lego Hero Factory Brain Attack Dragonbolt also has the flapping wing feature using a rubber band. I would know as I own one myself. Idk about Ninjago dragons though.
Good callback! I have this one too and it’s pretty cool. The Ninjago Firstbourne Dragon from a few years back has similar flapping wings in case you were curious, that’s the only other one coming to mind
I watched Jang's review on it! What an interesting set
don't know if it counts but Skull Basher from Bionicle G2 has a similar feature to bang it's axes together (not a dragon but similar design as Dragonbolt, might be the exact same mechanism if memory serves correct)
The only thing I can say is chills and trying not to tear up. I’ve always always always have loved that original Minecraft wave. The Mine is still to this day my number wanted Lego Minecraft set of all time. Minecraft has such a special place in my heart because it’s what I did when I started my channel last year. Thank you for making this video and bringing me back 10 years!!!
It's my pleasure! So glad you enjoyed
i have all of them bisides the mineshaft and i rember me and my sister playing minecraft lego and fighting out characters and building out houses and cities, and convincing everything to cover an entire table, and we would play minecraft in lego and uses game accurate crafting, with a brick built table and arguing about ur weather the silver pickaxe was a stone or iron, on my god this brings me back to childhood. thank you so much cheesy you made my month!
Ha! I love to hear it. Glad I could bring back some good memories :)
I've been waiting for this one! Lego Minecraft is one of my favourite licensed themes! I'll watch this in full once I've gotten some sleep though, it's like 11PM down here in Australia rn...
Well, hope you sleep well! It'll be waiting for ya in the morning
Kudos to LEGO for sending the parts! It's a nice deviation from just set reviews, and I hope they do this more with LAN members!
I honestly much prefer this too! Hopefully you'll be seeing similar projects in the future. :D
Lego minecraft has rightful become a staple of lego,
for ten years has beautifully flourished into one of the largest licensed theme amongst the lego group (possibly going head to head with star wars dare I say). Lego minecraft will always be one of my favorite themes capturing the wonderful whimsy and all the that is minecraft. Great video Cheesey it totally had that classic Lego Minecraft vibe ❤
Glad you enjoyed. :) Let's take over Star Wars lol!
lego minecraft is certainly a license i feel nostalgic about. not as much nostalgia as i feel for lego spongebob or lego indiana jones, and i no longer have my lego minecraft sets built, but it holds a special place in my heart because it connects me with my past and reminds me of those days i used to spend playing minecraft wii u edition with my friends, a handful of which turned out to be life-time friends that i still share memories with to this day.
in fact, lego minecraft is one of the reasons i got more into minecraft in 2015 and 2016 and even got minecraft on the wii u. so it's crazy to think of how long it's been.
man, this video reminded me that the cave was the first minecraft lego set i ever got. i should probably rebuild it one of these days lol
That 2014-2017 was a golden age for Minecraft in general. I've got a lot of good memories from that time, and it was awesome to have been working for Hypixel all the way back then too.
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While not identical, yes, there is a Ninjago Dragon who has flappable wings:
71766 Lloyd’s Legendary Dragon
That said, that dragon's wings don't flap up and down, but forward and backward, but it is also oddles of fun.
There's also the 71754 Water Dragon whose wings kinda undulates
I'll have to check those both out!
you forgot the firstbourne that has actual flapping like this one
As much as I loved Minecraft and Lego, I regret not getting any of the older sets back then due to me being into Hero Factory and Bionicle at the time but I finally got my first Lego Minecraft set: The Fox Lodge and I really enjoy it! And after seeing the new sets we will get in June, I can't wait to see what the future has in store for this theme.
This summer has some really awesome sets. The Badlands one reminds me a lot of these early sets!
that first wave will always have an amount of nostalgia that any other minecraft wave could ever replicate for me.
Agreed. I love its simplicity!
My 2 favorites of the more recent times have got to be "The Zombie Cave" & "The Abandoned Mine" They give me huge nostalgia for this original wave and capture the game so well while being so fun to play with
I just got the Abandoned Mine a few days ago! I'm glad it's still available. Such a great set
The Cave was my first Minecraft set. A lot of nostalgia for that one. I remember playing with it for hours
It doesn't get better than the Cave. It's so simple but so well executed!
The cave was also my first Minecraft set, my brother got The farm as his first one too. My sis got The crafting box after the 2016 sets were around though
Been looking forward to this one since i saw your short of it. I love your versions of the original models so much, ive been making my own minecraft remakes in studio of some of the newer models but i never thought of going back to these classic builds. I particularly like the explosion with the display stands you added, might be the best use of those pieces ive seen! Really awesome look back and remakes for a great first 10 years!
Thank you so much! Really glad you like the builds. I definitely will do more in the future - they were a ton of fun
A LOT of those sets were my first ever lego sets that I remember. They bring back so much nostalgia
Glad to bring back some good memories!
Brings back memories. I was only 30 back when the first sets came out.
I can't get over how it's been 10 years. Doesn't feel like it's been that long!
The Ninjago dragons 70653 Firstbourne and 71754 Water Dragon both have a gravity-powered flapping feature. I personally love the Water Dragon's function, the wings ripple like that of a manta ray or sting ray. Similar in function is 71766 Lloyd's Legendary Dragon, which has a lever that moves the wings forward and backish, it's not a straight flap but it gets the job done (I don't own it so can't speak to it like I can the Water Dragon). On a related note, 71721 Skull Sorcerer's Dragon doesn't flap, but it has a button in the same place as Firstbourne's wing-flapper that opens its ribcage to drop a boulder, just like the Makuta Phantoka, which I think is another top-tier play feature.
Love your videos, keep up the phenomenal work!
Thank you so much! I'll definitely have to watch some reviews on those dragons
18:37 there are few ninjago dragons, with the same play feature. First dragon, witch had that play feature was First bourne from 2018. Last dragon, witch had similar function might been Lloyds legendary dragon from 2022, and since then most of the dragons have switched for more poseable wings.
Very nice! I'll have to check those out!
I think Lego micro scale will always be my fav, just love the scale, and the printing on the sides of the 1x1 plates are awesome
I'm so glad that they print on 1x1s now! I still use a lot of those
The amount of nostalgia for me in this video is crazy.
We've got the classic Minecraft sets that I had when I was a kid. We've got the feeling of playing classic Minecraft. And funnily enough the mention of imaginex was also nostalgic.
Yo! Glad you remember Imaginext too
Yes, the Firstbourne, from Ninjago´s 2018 Hunted season had that flaping wing feature, a simple, yet, great action feature!
I'll have to check that out!
Lego x Minecraft might be one of the best collabs made in human history. They were made for eachother.
Right? It's crazy to think there was a time when they *weren't* collaborating 🤣
There are a couple of ninjago sets that have the flapping wing function, a few that come to mind are Firstbourne and Lloyd’s Legendary Dragon. Great Stuff!
Very nice! I'll be checking those out!
18:33 Ninjago actually does have a few dragons with a flap play feature such as Firstbourne from the Hunted wave and I think the Nya water dragon from the Seabound wave also had one
Oh nice! I'll have to check those out
The amount of nostalgia I'm getting from this video is insane. The rebuilds are SOOO cool. (I need a part two with the end set rebuild)
Also, the crafting box being your first set really explains a lot...
A gift from my mom for my birthday :,) Good stuff
you have no idea what I would've given for these sets back in the day XD I love to see a retrospective on them. You're videos are just so chill, and even inspired me to transform by Minecraft sets into a new, block-accurate creation just like I've always wanted! Keep up the good work
Thank you so much! ❤️
Amazing video Caleb! I love these old sets, and this video reminded me of a bunch of old memories, like watching the official stop motion and designer videos. I got the mine set back in the day for my 9th birthday I think, a friend came over and we built it together, after which we played some Minecraft of course :P
I also remember building the smaller cave set from the pieces in the mine a few times, apart from this having water bricks instead of lava, the parts in the cave set are pretty much all also in the mine! Thanks for the great video!
No problem! I'm glad I could bring back some good memories :)
I had every one of these sets except the Crafting Box set when they came out. I absolutely love them and they forever hold a special place in my heart.
Really glad you got to experience so many of them in person! They are so much fun
Lego Minecraft will forever hold a special place in my heart, from simply overlooking some of their sets while buying other sets, to becoming my absolute favourite modern Lego Theme,
You have only strengthened that "bond" I have with the theme by inspiring me to create my own "realistic" versions of some Minecraft Mobs
I love to hear that! It's so funny how it's slowly become my favorite modern LEGO theme as well. I look forward to the Minecraft set reveals more than anything else lol!
You mentioning the Imaginext Singe The Dragon brought back some memories. I totally forgot about that toy, and I loved it as a kid. The wing function was so awesome. I loved how they folded out.
I'm so glad you remember him! Ah, he's the best. I know my Grandmother still had the guy at her house a few years ago. I hope she hasn't sold him
I have a lot of nostalgia for these sets. I especially loved watching the old stop motion shorts, and the designer reviews on repeat. Thanks for making this video.
It's my pleasure! Glad you enjoyed. I miss the fun slew of Minecraft TH-cam content we used to get from LEGO.
I remember way before these came out, I made my own mobs out of blocks and painted them in the blocky Minecraft style
Its funny how minecraft is having 15th anniversary this year, and Lego minecraft is having a 10th anniversary.
Big epic year indeed xD
Was waiting for this vid
It was inevitable xD
so awesome to see ur takes on such classic sets! amazing video
Appreciate it!
I loved the first night set so much, I found my old instruction booklet, took 4 hours sorting out legos out of my old bucket, and rebuild it. It is still in my room about 2 years later and 10 after I first built it. It is my favorite lego Minecraft set.
That's a good one! A lot of people seem to remember that set particularly fondly
My brother and i both collected lego Minecraft when we were little. Crazy its been 10 years now. I still remember seeing the sets for the first time. Like a dream come true
Right? A match made in heaven. So glad we've had so many years of this great theme!
Incredible to see a retrospective of one of my childhood themes! Crazy to think it's been around for so long now, and it was great to see your takes on it given your unique position- loved the video, and loved your recreations! I feel like I should take a crack at one too!
Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it. I'd definitely encourage you to give your own thoughts on the theme!
What a throwback ! I still have the cave set and regulary rebuild it cause it's just so charming ! Thank you for this dive into these sets :)
My pleasure! So glad you enjoyed. The Cave is just so good. Love that set, and I'm glad I finally got to build it for this video!
I still remember when the minifig scale lego minecraft theme started. Watched pretty much every video on it i could find.
I was obsessed with minecraft at that time played the old pocket edition all the time back then.
Got the farm set from the first wave as a gift that december.
And to this day the farm is center stage of my lego minecraft display.
That's such a great set. I loved the Pocket Edition too.
Love this video and the style of this video. The close ups of the product then the parts that feature you talking about the product are masterfully created. Great piece of work here. It likely took considerable amount of effort that I cannot comprehend.
Really appreciate it, Jordan, and I'm glad you enjoyed! I've been looking forward to making a video like this for a couple years at this point, and it's awesome to have that vision finally realized.
I own a few of these and especially the mine is so nostalgic for me. Was so fun as an 8 year old to play around with the minecart going down the railway! So many good simple sets to look back at. ☺️
I would have loved these as a kid! The mine cart system is so fun. Really glad to see it making a return in the new summer sets!
My first Lego Minecraft set I got from my half sister was The Farm when I was like 6 or 7. I absolutely loved it so I ended up also getting The Mine and now I have over 30 sets from this theme over the past 10 years.
A very impressive collection indeed! I'm glad that the theme still produces new and interesting sets all these years later. The designers do great work
Great video!! I love the attention to detail in your MOCs, these set recreations look amazing!!
I had fun a few years ago connecting the Mine set to the Nether Portal to the Nether Railway for a loop of track! The sets lend themselves to integration so easily and it's been fun trying different combinations old and new.
That's awesome! The Nether Railway is such an awesome set. I do wish I had gotten the portal to go with it!
when i was five me and my brothers would take them apart and build our own houses out of them and also used parts from other sets and we had so much fun the sets i remember the most was the cave. crafting box. and the farm and thinking that this was 10 years ago! it just makes me feel alot older than i was then and i cant wait to find my old lego box back in usa and build those sets up!
Glad I could bring back some good memories! Hope you get a chance to build the sets again soon :)
This was a very fun video, I have also had a go at making some Lego Minecraft Sets block accurate like the skull arena, the nether bastion, as well as the swamp adventure set and all of those mocs used at least three times the amount of pieces that came in the actual sets lol
Yeah, it gets so expensive so fast lol. 🤣 They sure are fun to build though!
Would be awesome to see the set recreations incorperated somehow into the big minecraft world as little references to the start of the theme, great work as always man! 👌
I'll see if I can hide little bits and pieces of them in!
The farm was my first lego minecraft set, and from there i started getting more sets and stuff. eventually i saw your channel, thought it was really cool. after a while i got inspired and made a minecraft on my windowsill, although not block accurate its something to be proud of. overall, lego minecraft is a good theme.
I'm glad you've been inspired through the channel! That's fantastic
Omg the nostalgia is hitting me like a freight train,
Ima go rebuild my own mine set now
Yesssss! Enjoy!
The Hero Factory dragon set from the second Brain Attack wave also had flapping (and tilting) wings, but yeah, other than that, I can't really think of any others with that feature.
I did watch a review on that one yesterday! Really interesting set
This was really fun to look back on. I really hope we get to see you make a custom end area and or end city build soon.
Hoping to do at least a custom dragon at some point :)
When the first sets were revealed, I thought they were so stupid, with the big blocky heads. Now, it's one of my favorite Lego IPs
Honestly, it took me awhile to warm up to it too, but now, I'm obsessed 😂
I remember when I got my first set when I was like 5 or 6 and I got the 2020 set , the Cave ( or the mine , I don’t remember the name ) . I really love this theme, so much I’ve made some custom builds , like a village , an end area , a small cave , and even a dirt house.
That's awesome! The custom building is definitely my favorite part of LEGO Minecraft too
This is such an amazing lego revisit, definitely the best one. You dont know how much i love those sets
I'm glad you enjoyed! Thank you!
New LEGO Minecraft summer 2024 sets are here launching June 1st
I'm so excited to review them all for you guys!
Man, I didn't realize how old the Minecraft theme was. Wow. Great video!
It's so wild, right? Doesn't feel like that long to me either lol! And thank you!
So awesome to see these great sets translated into your 1:1 style, would love to see more of this sometime! Maybe with a cost breakdown? Would be great to know how much it would be for someone to make their own little block accurate environment.
Since LEGO did send me the bricks through LAN, I'm honestly not completely sure of the cost breakdown. xD It was $500ish worth of bricks, but I didn't use all of the pieces for the builds, probably about 80%. I'd say on average though it does about quadruple the parts usage
What a great idea! Remaking the sets in your own block accurate style
Really glad you like them!
I remember getting the first night for Christmas, so many great memories with that set
That set seems to have been quite popular! Wish I had had it as a kid. It was a lot of fun to build for this video, and I totally underestimated it
I loved the Minecraft theme as a kid, but I've kinda grown out of it but the sets I have are such good part packs. Brought back some memories.
All the pieces included in these are so useful, even for stuff outside of Minecraft! Love that about this theme
Idk if anyone else has mentioned it, but 70653 Firstbourne from Ninjago had flapping wings! That set was awesome, I remember getting it back in 2018.
Yeah! I did watch a review on that one. That's a great dragon!
Ooh yeah one of my fav texture in minecraft is the ender portal space thing, I think pieces with those metallic flakes would be awesome for them
That would be so epic
Oh man seeing these sets (especially the house) gives me so much nostalgia.....
Good times :,)
Whenever you showed that poster, I almost started crying, I'm 16 now, but I remember whenever I was much younger I had that poster on my wall, and I had forgotten about it until I saw it, this video brought back a lot of good memories
It's such a good poster and set - certainly takes me back, too :)
It's great to revisit the 2014 sets! I remember that my 2 siblings and I got the cave, the farm, and the crafting box way back then when it was still new
Those were the days! Sure takes me back. Glad you got to experience some of these sets for yourself!
@@CheeseyStudios Thank ya so much!
I remember having the lego ninjago firstbourne dragon from wave 9; it was super fun because it had a similar feature to the ender dragon but it had larger technic wings w/ a plastic membrane. the wings were foldable too
It's my birthday today and this is my favourite theme, this is a great birthday gift from you!
Happy birthday!
I just recently got my legos back out, and im feeling inspired by this.
I agree! LEGO sets these days don't encourage creativity nearly as much. These older sets were just asking to be torn apart and combined.
Has become one of my favorite themes to collect for
Same honestly 😂
Seeing these sets makes me realize how diverse the theme’s gotten in the past few years. It also reminds me of how much I’m looking forward to the End Boat set with the new Dragon!
The amount of new players we get these days is so awesome! Regular old Steve and Alex aren't even included in any 2024 sets lol!
Very happy that LEGO sent you a multitude of bricks. Hope they will send you more.
You did a great job on this video & adding your own touch to the originals.
Really appreciate it! So glad LEGO was able to help me out with this.
I can't believe it's been 10 years since Lego Minecraft was released. I remember scouring toy stores with my aunt looking for the original 6. To this day, it's the only wave of a Lego theme I fully collected. Such fun times.
It's a great wave to have the complete collection of. You can't go wrong with any of these - they're such great parts packs!
It will always be funny to me how I started collecting Minecraft sets even though I had never actually played the game as a kid. now that I‘m older and do actually play the game I can enjoy and appreciate these sets even more than I already did!
That's so cool honestly, ha! The theme just has charm all by itself.
I am so nostalgic for these sets, I still have the first night on my shelf
That's a great one!
This was an amazing video - time to rebuild my minecraft sets!
Also, Lloyds legendary dragon has a brilliant wing flapping feature!
Thank you! Really appreciate it
man, for some reason I forgot how nostalgic I am towards these sets... the first few LEGO MC waves were actually something I completely obsessed over. Anyone else remember those hours you spent simply looking at the small images in the iconic square catalog? The Minecraft pages were definitely some of the most appealing ones to me then. Maybe because during that time I played a ton of Minecraft Pocket Edition too (Gosh, Samsung still made tablets then...). Don't know if LEGO fueled my MC obsession or the other way around... Anyways, I fondly remember really wanting the desert fortress and the Jungle Treehouse (along with many others, but mainly those 2). And I also had the Crafting Box! I spent so many hours making my own combinations between the modules and when that got boring I started to build my own things with all the pieces like the inspirational models encouraged. I feel like the crafting boxes did get worse over time, there's less customization in each new one they make. Or maybe the original just can't be topped. Or both. Oh crap, now I'm rambling too.
I do feel this is the best crafting box too. It's the simplest with tons of useful parts. The newer ones are just a bit too colorful and specialized to be useful
Im not sure if anyone has said this but the lego Ninjago firstbourne dragon from the hunted wave has flappable wings and is pretty cool
I just watched a review on it yesterday! That's a neat set