This article is about the Lego-based board game franchise. For Lego-based video games, see List of Lego video games. Lego Games was a product range of the construction toy Lego, which focuses on a series of playable games of different types, all of which use Lego bricks, and use the Lego concept of building to encourage players to change and adapt the rules of the games. The Lego Games sets are board games created by designer Cephas Howard, with consultants Bernie DeKoven and Reiner Knizia, that incorporate Lego pieces as components for the game.[1] Most use original themes and settings, though a small number have been based on existing Lego themes, such as Harry Potter Hogwarts which is based on the Lego Harry Potter theme, and Ninjago: The Board Game, based on Ninjago. The Ramses characters represent a mini-theme within the Games line, comprising three of the sets so far: Ramses Pyramid, Orient Bazaar, and Ramses Return. A more promoted subtheme is the Role-playing game based Heroica, with boards that can be connected to one another.
All of the sets make use of the distinctive Lego Dice - a solid plastic, Lego-compatible iomji with soft rubber rimming on each edge to give the die a particularly strong bounce. Depending on the game, the die can be built with different Lego tiles on its faces which will affect gameplay in different ways. The age recommendations range from five and up to eight and up. The first Lego Games sets were released on July 2, 2009 in the United Kingdom. These ten sets varied in size from around 100 to 350 pieces.[2] Four of the sets - Lava Dragon, Pirate Code, Minotarus, and Creationary - were later released in the United States in March 2010. In March 2010 four new sets were released in the United Kingdom, ranging in size from around 90 pieces to 120. In the United States five of the original ten games were released in June 2010, with only Lunar Command not getting released.[2] This delay between European and American releases has repeated with each subsequent wave of new games. As part of a promotion for the American release, a tour of 13 different parts of the United States was undertaken from July 2 to September 19, 2010.
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to report an issue. Last month Mayfair Games announced that they would be introducing at Gen Con to be sold exclusively at Target. Then, as Dave Banks told you on this site last week, Geek & Sundry announced that they had signed a marketing deal that will put little green “As seen on Geek & Sundry” stickers on all the games which have been featured on and sell them at … My instant response to these two announcements was to put on my best Skywalker twisted pouty face and scream “Noooooooooo!” So do these two announcements mean the sky is falling for quality board games and in particular for local game stores? Let’s look at each announcement separately and see whether or not it is time to run for the bunker. Boldly Going Where No Brick and Sheep Have Gone Before Is it just me or is beginning to resemble that athlete which just doesn’t know when to retire? The game itself hasn’t been substantially updated since , and that was years ago. Honestly, Mayfair, do we really need themed versions of ?
I know that has been compared to , but that was because is arguably the most influential game in American table-top gaming culture since . This was not because any of your legions of fans wanted you to start behaving like Hasbro and creating theme versions of the greatest board game of all time. It’s like watching a formerly great star finish their career by failing on or . I mean if you were a kind of middle-of-the-road card game that was originally intended simply to mock RPGs, and you unexpectedly became an outrageously popular hit (which I enjoy) largely because of your humor and not as a result of your somewhat broken game play, then maybe I could understand producing a pirate version, a zombie version, and a space version. But you’re not that game. You are arguably the single greatest game to come along in a generation. Have some dignity, please! And how is it that Mayfair, of all game companies, signs a deal to cut out the little guy? An exclusive deal with Target?
After everything that the local game store has contributed to your success? Don’t get me wrong, I love Mayfair games, and I will continue to support them if for no other reason than that taught me to love board games again. I understand they are a for-profit company, but cutting out the small business owners who made them everything they are today seems a bit uncool. Geek & Sundry and Target So the question arises: What do we make of Geek & Sundry’s exclusive marketing deal with Target? There is a distinct difference between what Felicia Day and Geek & Sundry have done and what Mayfair did. The marketing deal which Geek & Sundry has with Target does not stop the little guy from selling the games featured on . I really doubt that many people who were already customers of their local game store are going to transfer their business to Target simply because some round green stickers got added to certain games there. Frankly, I kind of think that any serious gamer walking down the game aisle in Target tarnishes a bit of their geek cred, unless they go as a tourist and take pictures by the Catan box.
It’s like a kind of pilgrimage to see that band which you once saw in a dive bar back in the ’90s and is now playing stadiums. Rather than a loss of business for the local game store, a different scenario seems much more likely to develop through this partnership between Day and producer Wil Wheaton on one side and Target on the other. Picture the casual gamer wandering down the aisles at Target, looking for Lego sets. They have seen an episode or two of TableTop but are still stuck playing . Suddenly they come across a familiar green logo, and, rather than buying the Lego set, they purchase a game instead and fall in love with great games. These new gamers are then much more likely to go and explore games not available at Target, at their local game store. (Before I move on, I cannot resist a quick mention of how Felicia Day has done so much to help geek culture become more widely appreciated. Geek &Sundry is wonderful. What great business moxie to pull off a Target marketing deal only four months after launch.
It seems important to say after the recent misogyny thrown her way by some willfully ill-informed folks.) Time for the Local Game Store to Level Up None of this is to say that the local game store doesn’t face a real threat, at least in the short term. Let me put this in terms most gamers understand. The game store owners’ level one party of a thief, an elf, and a bard just ran into the Goblin King, a dragon, and a cave troll. It isn’t fair, but that is the fight local game store owners face. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Target now want a piece of the board game pie, and it is not in the nature of giant corporations to be forgiving. If they can work out volume-based wholesale pricing and undercut the local stores, they will. If they can get exclusive agreements like they signed with Mayfair, they will. If they can get Geek & Sundry to put stickers on the games in their store, they will. In the short term, the threat to local game stores is real. But I think there is reason to believe this is Episode VI for game store owners and not Episode III.
Quality game stores have always been about more than price. Good game stores are all about building community among gamers. No matter what else Target does, they won’t be throwing down a table in the middle of the and letting customers try before they buy it. Nor will they host a game tournament on a Saturday. I doubt that quality games will ever displace the mass market crap like and on their shelves. Real games will always be a hobby to Target and thus remain a very small part of their shelf space. I live near Portland, Oregon and there was a time 25 years ago in which Portland had an indie coffee scene separate but equal to the corporate-driven coffee scene in Seattle. Then Starbucks figured out how to imitate McDonalds and many Portlanders rightly worried that it was the end of the local neighborhood coffee shop. Their fears were confirmed when our very own Coffee People, Jim and Patty, sold out their local chain to Starbucks. It felt like there was no stopping the Borg of coffee assimilation.
“You will like your coffee beans astringent and burnt! But somewhere along the way to Starbucks world domination, something happened. Starbucks changed America and, in doing so, unwittingly did more to create a vibrant coffee culture in the United State than any other force before or since. Today, Portland has far more independent and local coffee shops and small regional chains than it did before Starbucks taught Americans the value of the coffee shop as a meeting place and social hub. Where are Jim and Patty today? They own a single location in North. (Try the coffee cake.) To me, this is the most likely scenario in the confrontation between corporations and local game stores. Target and other corporations have the potential to radically expand the pool of game buyers available to all venues. For a while, their clout may truly threaten game stores as the casual gamer drifts away. But while places like Target might dabble in quality games, and they may throw their weight around, they will never be committed to game culture like the local store.