Characters are a central point in the LEGO game series. There are usually around fifty or so characters. There are several types of characters: Characters that you play as in Story Mode, characters that you must purchase, characters that require an extra, custom characters, and even Vehicles. Store Parks & Travel Games Video Blogs TV Movies Music Family Style Live Shows Books Login My Account Account Settings My Creations Logout This site does not work on your browser. Please upgrade your browser to experience the site. Modular Dungeon Master Lego Set Is a Blast From Your Gaming Past 02.16.2017 :: 3:00PM EST BMW Turns LEGO Toy Into IRL Hover BikeThe Best Lego Star Wars Sets You Can Buy Right Now If you grew up in the late 80s or early 90s and enjoyed hacking and slashing your way through treacherous digital dungeons, you probably played — nay, obsessed over — Dungeon Master. Now you can relive the good old days with an amazing Lego set! Quick refresher: Dungeon Master was the best-selling game of all time for the Atari ST.
It was hugely popular on other platforms, too, and was ported to DOS, TurboGrafx, FM Towns, X68000… as well as the Apple II GS, Amiga, SNES (which were all bestowed with glorious stereo sound). It also received the first ever Special Award for Artistic Achievement from Computer Gaming Magazine. In 1988 and 1989 it hauled in a bunch of other awards. This retro-tacular Lego Ideas pitch was put together by user Ymarilego, and it’s got just as much replay value as the classic game that inspired it. The set is completely modular, so you can build your dungeon map any which way you choose! As pitched, the Dungeon Master set includes 9 minifig reproductions of characters from the game. Choose your character from the warrior, magic user, or archer, gear up, and then take on a half-dozen baddies in your customized, brick-built map. Got a couple extra green bases laying around? The map looks even better when you assemble the rooms on them: There’s a very good chance this site will hit the 10,000 votes it needs to head to review before the week is finished.
It’s picked up more than a thousand today already, and I’m quite certain some of you are going to head over and vote for it… now! All images courtesy Ymarilego/Flickr subscribe to our newsletter: Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Gayle King insists that Oprah is not running for president, and she should know Amazon introduces button that sends you mystery candyLEGO Doctor Who - Madame Vastra and JennyThis marvelous new ‘Doctor Who’ Lego set is bigger on the inside The Weeping Angel is terrifying, even in Lego form. Growing up as a child in the 1980s, Doctor Who used to terrify me. If it wasn’t the robot Daleks screaming “Exterminate! Exterminate!” in their metallic drone, it was the spacey, voluminous theme song that seemed to explode out of the TV speakers at the end of every episode’s cliffhanger. I used to dread the final minutes of the show, knowing the frightening music was coming.
Truth be told, that childhood trauma has kept me away from Doctor Who and its renaissance over the past few years. I think I’ve always kind of been scared of it, and probably still am. Kudos to Lego, then, for putting a friendlier face on the storied BBC franchise of late, first through the recently released Lego Dimensions video game in which the Doctor and his associated villains play a prominent role, and now through a new toy set. It’s hard to be afraid of anything once it comes in mini-figure form. The 623-piece Tardis set originated in Lego’s Ideas program, which accepts fan creations for crowd-sourced judging. Projects that garner at least 10,000 votes from the public are reviewed by company designers, with a lucky few chosen to become final products. The original creators then get a small slice of the sales. Lego Doctor Who, originally conceived a few years ago by video game artist and TV show fan Andrew Clark, joins a list of one-shot Ideas sets based on pop-culture phenomenons, including Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and The Big Bang Theory.
This set has a better pedigree than most of those, however. Samuel Johnson, one of the Lego product designers who worked on the final product, is the nephew of Paul McGann, who appeared briefly as the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who film. The set itself smartly captures the feel of the Tardis, an unassuming British police phone booth on the outside that is actually much larger on the inside thanks to some intricate space-time bending technology. The Lego police box itself, which comes last in the build, can function as its own fun, standalone paperweight—I’ve got it proudly displayed on my desk. But its rear also swings open to connect to its bigger interior: a circular, instrument- and monitor-laden console that surrounds a cylindrical power core platform. You can almost imagine the blue core pulsating with the “whirr-whirr” sound that signifies the Tardis is moving through space and time. The two most recent Doctors—Eleven and Twelve, portrayed by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, respectively—are the stars of the set, and it’s evident they’re a study in contrasts even to anyone who hasn’t watched the show.
The Eleventh Doctor is younger and more cheery, dressed in a tan suit and red bow tie. His successor is stern and older, decked out in more serious purple. And yes, each comes with a sonic screwdriver, the device that the Doctor uses to unlock doors, scan bodies and track alien life, according to the handy factoids in the instruction booklet. Clara Oswald, portrayed by Jenna Coleman in the show, is the Doctor’s requisite companion. Personally, I’d loved to have seen the Fourth Doctor included, as would Clark doubtlessly. The longest-serving Doctor, portrayed by Tom Baker in the 1970s and 1980s, was part of his original design. I’d also liked to have seen K-9, the Doctor’s robot dog who eventually got his own spin-off series, but he’s evidently been held over for a separate Lego Dimensions toy pack. Fortunately, there are a pair of Daleks, and they’re expertly built from about 40 pieces each. Their flamethrower weapons almost look like the tiny toilet plungers they wave fiercely in the show.