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'The challenge comes mainly in the form of the differences between a small nimble digital company and a large established company creating physical products,' Winters said. Those production delays reflect what Mojang director of fun Lydia Winters told CNET was the biggest challenge in collaborating with Lego. She explained that Lego worked closely with Minecraft's publisher, Sweden's Mojang, and that Lego is hoping to expand availability of the new sets as quickly as possible. When the sets launch in September, there will be limited availability due to what Wilson called an 'expedited timeline' of about six months for design and production.

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Plus 'plenty of Netherrack,' Wilson said. The Nether features the Obsidian Nether Portal, flowing lava, gravel, and bedrock, and includes two Ghast and one zombie Pigman Micromob figures. It can be split into four sections and be reconfigured in multiple ways.Ī product image for The Nether, the second of two new Lego Minecraft sets that will be announced today. The set includes constructible villager, pig, and zombie Micromob fitures. In The Village, Minecraft fans can build a personalized village, constructing houses and cultivating crops, and developing their own narratives around the central storyline of villagers watching out for dangerous and menacing zombies, and trying to avoid dynamite in the below-ground mines with removable walls. 'The genius of the Lego Minecraft alliance is that it links the virtual experience of videogaming with an equally creative toy,' Crupnick said, 'a link that will appeal to young kids who play online or on a console, and their parents, who might sneak in a game too.' Lego and Minecraft are a natural marriage, according to Russ Crupnick, an analyst with the NPD Group. 'New characters and environments will allow even greater creative potential for fans to physically portray their digital Minecraft passion.' 'Expanding the playtheme will offer builders (of all ages) the opportunity to enhance how they build and rebuild their Lego Minecraft micro-worlds,' said Michelle Wilson, Lego's Minecraft brand manager. The sets each measure 3 inches by 3 inches by 3 inches and include a number of Micromobs, the characters known and loved by more than 40 million Minecraft players around the world.Ī collaboration that blends two of the biggest play brands in the world, Lego's existing model already allows a unique way to translate Miecraft's virtual 3D block world into the decades-old pastime of building with plastic bricks. Both will be available September 1 for $35 and are being officially unveiled at Comic-Con in San Diego today.

Lego has told CNET exclusively that it is expanding its Minecraft playtheme with two new models centering on the popular biomes, The Village and The Nether. Fresh off the success of its 2012 Minecraft kit, Lego is diving deep with two brand-new sets that let fans of that mega-hit virtual world continue to build with physical bricks instead of digital blocks.