Minecraft has been compared to LEGO since the start. Nearly everyone who sees it says “This is like adventuring in a world made of LEGOs!”, and the comparison is easy to see. The entire game is based on stacking, unstacking, exploring, shooting, and manufacturing cubic elements in a sandbox world.
Markus “Notch” Persson has been expressing interest in partnering with LEGO in some way for a while now, but reported a few times on his Twitter feed that LEGO was not intersted in a partnership with his games development studio, Mojang.
Mojang presented this image on CUUSOO to illustrate their idea.
This has changed with a review of the project through LEGO’s customer idea submission system, called CUUSOO. With this system, anyone can submit an idea for a new LEGO toy, and if it recieves 10,000 votes of support, LEGO will consider the idea and make a decision if they should go forward. So, Persson submitted a Minecraft LEGO set idea to the CUUSOO engine.
The idea received the 10,000 votes in less than 48 hours, a record for the system. Then, after LEGO execs reviewed the idea, it was approved.
“Minecraft is about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine in the virtual world,” says Persson in a press statement regarding the project, “You can build anything you imagine with LEGO bricks in the physical world. Minecraft and LEGO were meant to be together.”
“We’re happy to announce that the Minecraft project on LEGO CUUSOO has passed the LEGO review,” said a statement on the CUUSOO site, “and we are now developing a concept that celebrates the best aspects of building with the LEGO system and in Minecraft and we can’t wait to show it to you—but we aren’t ready just yet.”
Mojang will receive a 1% cut of the sales of any Minecraft LEGO sets which are released, which the company says it will donate to charity.
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