lukassprehn.bsky.social
Danish geeky product design engineer and fantasy and science fiction writer
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For that set*
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Plus, you can keep buying Lego from private sellers :)
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Anything counts.
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Which is really ironic seeing as they are supposedly a company that advocates for creativity. But ofc, they are really just as morally corrupt as any other capitalistic corporation.
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I'm wishing Unmasked Games a bright future and good luck with Project Rustbound.
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And to those few who celebrate this outcome because the game allows a bit more colors in its settings:
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Still, I'd ask anyone reading this to be civil and not to harass anyone involved in this situation about this.
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In general I noticed the tendency that more and more Lego fan content gets into conflict with Lego's legal department, which is sad to see.
The Lego community thrives like no other on creativity and community activity. This backwards trend is thus even more upsetting.
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What I have also seen, are a wide range of reactions, from petitions, to announcements of boycots and some folks cussing violently at The Lego Group.
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The relationship between TLG and the Bionicle fandom has been rough for years now. And it looks like it only goes worse from here.
TLG as a rights owner is allowed to act the way they did. Still, it is irriating to see this change of attitude after almost a decade of the project's existence.
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There's been some errant speculation that Lego is planning to do something with Bionicle and they didn't want MoP stealing any of their oxygen. I personally think that's extremely unlikely but I can understand why someone would come to that conclusion because it makes more surface-level sense...
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feeling a lot of things rn about all of this, confusion is def the top one. all this was so sudden, just outta nowhere Lego of ALL COMPANIES pulls of a Nintendo. Like, why the sudden shift in tone???
So much for a company that once breathed creativity among it's fans
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Personally I don't believe that to be the case either, but even if they were to make a bionicle reboot or whatever it could be, I feel like this is just self sabotaging.
I mean having the first act of such a reboot be "kill off the most popular love letter" immediately sours the mood.
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Regardless of use. 20 years is long enough for them to have exclusive rights. After that it should be open season IMO
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Honestly I think it should be like, 20 years after the copyright was first issued. Whatever Lego did later, 2020 is plenty late enough for Bionicle to become PD
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Because barely any of the fans then talked about it or promoted it. In fact, TTV didn’t do a video about the crowd funding thing for that said until it was almost too late!
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“bionicle fans, please don't abandon the team.”
The sad thing is, I think this request will fall on deaf ears. I can’t help but remember Sokoda’s project which got 10k supporters on Ideas, but couldn’t get 3k people to buy the thing.
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This is outrageous, how dare Lego change their minds about this. I was super excited for this game, sometimes I feel like how are we supposed to keep this Bionicle community alive lately? It feels almost impossible.
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Definitely an underwhelming presence and support from Lego for Bionicle and Bionicle fans. The theme was revived in 2016 but no support after that.
I feel as if Lego is changing their public appearance more recently. They have employees posting videos on YouTube, and changing announcements online.
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What do you mean buy? There weren't any BMoP shirts for sale, were there???????????
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Please consider joining in boycotting them. If you want LEGO, there are private sellers on sites anyway!
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What a shame... making games in today's landscape is becoming more expensive, gettign them out and getting out there and having investors is harder than ever. Massive layoffs, publishers going down under or close to it. Awful landscape, awful, awful, awful... The best games cannot be made :(