We've come to the end of another theme month. So far, I've shown you an official set and its bootleg counterpart, a whole bunch of bootleg figures in all shapes and sizes and transparencies, and an original set that actually outdoes the official thing in many areas. So what can we do to finish off this month of craft? ...Well, we haven't looked at Nanoblocks in a while, so let's end MonthCraft with some LOZ Diamond Block Minecraft figures!
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Name: Minecraft Diamond Blocks
Distributor: LOZ
Model: 9467-9474
Pcs: Various
Alright, if you want to be pedantic, it hasn't been THAT long since I featured Nanoblocks on this blog. You could argue I featured some with the Dr Star Halloween Mini Blocks last month.
Which were a continuation from the Dr Star Christmas Mini Blocks from last December.
But in terms of Nanoblock sets that stand on their own and don't need a gimmick to sell them, it actually has been a year since I featured the Nanoblocks from the LAST theme month.
Well, let's rectify that with some Minecraft Nanoblocks!
Once again, these are actually "Diamond Blocks" from GuangDong ZhenFeng Science and Educational Toys Co., LTD's LOZ line, which seems to be the source of about 75% of all Nanoblocks.
There are other companies besides LOZ and Dr Star, and we'll get to them in due time, calm down...
I already went into depth with this company back when I did my look at their "Mini Block Pikachu" last theme month, and the site seems to be the same since I left it, so just check out that review for a reminder of what this company is about.
Something I did forget to mention last time, however, is that they have a video section for several of their products and lines, which could be potentially interesting.
I say "potentially", because none of the videos load for me! Their in-browser player does load and I get audio from the videos(mostly lifted music from other sources[notably the Pirates of the Caribbean movies]), but no picture. No matter what I click on, even with Flash enabled, these videos will not work for me. ...Maybe if I swear allegiance to the Socialist party?
Luckily, I WAS able to find compilations of some of their commercials on YouTube, so if you want to see their flashy logo intro and demonstrations of their K'Nex knockoff sets, now you can!
Unlike the last two weeks of stuff, these sets do come with boxes. ...But since they're the standard LOZ boxes I already went over in my general Nanoblocks review a while back, we're going to skip another look at them.
Something I CAN add about these sets is that, unlike the Pokémon Nanoblocks from last year, these are actually original designs. As far as I can tell, official Nanoblock companies like Kawada Co. don't own the rights to produce these, so this is a purely original UNofficial product. ...Of course, if I'm wrong, don't hesitate to scream major profanities at me while calling my mother many nasty names and not actually giving me any helpful information*.
*Please don't actually do that.
So I've already talked about the company and the box designs, and I've already assembled the sets as is traditional with Nanoblock reviews. ...Might as well just jump in and talk about the figures!
Since the model numbers actually have a sequence this time, let's start at the beginning. Starting with Jaundice Minecraft Steve! ...Seriously, yellow?
This is the standard Minecraft Steve design we've come to be familiar with this month: A square body and head with two eyes they decided to make blue, a nose they decided should be orange, and a smile that's made with brown bricks. ...So they got the shirt and pants right, but then decided everything else should be a random color?
That's not even the weirdest coloring for this model, as the areas below the ears and at the bottom of the hair are orange! ...There's literally no reason for this. Steve just decided to start washing his neck and behind his ears with powdered Tang!
And no, I didn't misread the instructions and glued the wrong bricks on and didn't realize until it was too late to change anything*. That actually IS what they told me to do! Maybe it's a printing error, someone couldn't make out if some bricks were supposed to be yellow or orange**, so they made them orange by mistake and never noticed.
*Guilty
**Because I've had trouble differentiating the colors for a good number of Nanoblock sets as well...
But if that's the case, it would have had to have happened very early in the production cycle, since the orange highlights are on the box's model as well.
And that still doesn't explain the orange streak near Steve's neckline. ...I think we'll have to file this mystery with half the plot lines from Lost...
But hey, look at that! His head's not just a solid brown brick like the minifigures! He actually has a visible hairline and haircut, so it doesn't look like they just plastered his face in the middle of a brick like a stupid sticker! So despite the weird discoloration, this is technically the most accurate Steve model we've gotten this month!
His limbs are actually blocky, with sleeves that end halfway down his arms, and even shoes on his feet! There's even a little bit of the shirt dangling over the pants, instead of it all being a single color! ...I don't know if it's fair to compare a Nanoblock model with a minifigure, but I'd be more inclined to believe this was an official Minecraft product than most of the other things we looked at this month! ...If the colors were accurate, that is.
Also, that's not an accident that the legs and arms are positioned that way.
Again, that was part of the instructions. Some cheap way to give him a pose without actually giving him joints.
Unfortunately, this means that the model can't stand on any flat surface without great difficulty and without looking ridiculous. ...Not that I'd normally pose them without the base plate, so I guess this doesn't affect that much.
Speaking of which, each base plate doubles as a landscape for each model, giving us sort-of Minecraftian territory for the models to fit in with.
I say "sort-of", because the models and the landscape have a bit of a size issue. The figures are absolutely giant in comparison to what they put on the base plate, so all the models don't gel that well. It's like packaging a regular-sized minifigure with one of the Micro Worlds, they just don't fit together!
However, I get the feeling that the Micro World design was intentional. The little models are made mostly with 1-or-2-studded pieces, like they wanted as much variety with them as they could, while still being small enough to fit several on one base plate. So the designs are much more cosmetic than practical, not having much interaction with the figures. ...And seeing as how these are Nanoblocks that are meant more for decorative purpose than toys, that's acceptable.
Still, I would like to know what these even are. I'm guessing it's an aerial view of grassland terrain, with trees and grass dotting the landscape and dirt underneath everything. ...But then what's the yellow? Or, in keeping with the color scheme of the figure, is the yellow supposed to stand for a lighter color and it's just their interpretation of sand? ...I think we've asked enough rhetorical questions for one model. Let's move on.
Next, we have... Steve 2.0. ...Seriously, they included TWO different versions of Steve in this line, just to make it an 8 figure set! And while the color scheme is a lot better, it sadly destroys most of the praise I gave to the last one...
First of all, the face. ...Talk about the cheapest way to fake a Minecraft face there is! Two little blue dots for eyes, a red nose, and again brown bricks for the smile! And not only are the eyes positioned too high, but the whole thing's much squarer than rectangular, looking like someone in a cheap Minecraft mask than the more convincing head the last one had!
Did they really need to base this figure on MineClown Steve from that tour of bootleg figures?
Speaking of which, it's right back to having the face plastered solely in the middle on the front of the head, while the rest is solid brown... And since this is a model made from multiple small bricks, that makes it look even more fake than the minifigures. It sort of looks like a giant idol a bunch of other video game characters built to worship how superior Minecraft is to their games financially, technically, and popularity-wise.
WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY!
Come to think of it, most of the rest of the body is done in a more minifigure-like style as well. Thinner arms, a neck, more boot-like legs, the patch of skin at the shirt opening. ...This is a Nanoblock interpretation of a Lego minifigure!
They even tried to recreate the waist that holds the legs in place! ...Except since the legs aren't actually connected to this part, it instead resembles something you probably don't want a kid's toy to be adorned with...
Did they start producing this line, then Lego released their minifigures after they finished designing the first one, so they just scrapped everything else and made a whole new line based on the minifigs, but kept the first design just so they could make more money off their inconsistency? ...Well, I guess we get to thank Lego for influencing ANOTHER inaccurate design of the in-game characters...
And this is the design they apparently liked the most, since all the other figures have the exact same body build. You came so close, LOZ...
Alright, enough whining about what could have been. Most of the figures of this design come with tools and weapons, all supposedly placed in their hands, but from this perspective, it looks like they're holding them under their armpits... Still, this guy's carrying a hoe, one of the most useless tools in the game, so I don't blame him for not having it immediately in hand.
The little Micro World that comes with this figure is a lot more recognizable than the last, and quite cute at that.
First you have this little river seemingly popping out of the middle of the landscape, with what I assume is a little boat floating down the stream
Then you have this house across the way, with dirt/wood walls and an iron/stone roof. It's a pretty good representation of a house either built by novices or someone not interested in the creative side of the game who just wants a quick place to crash while s/he looks for what's needed to open the Ender Portal. I like it, and I like the windows on either side as well.
Though I think even Micro World Steve would have a bit of trouble residing in this residence...
Next up, we have Pumpkin Head Steve! ...It's literally the same design as the last, but with a square pumpkin for the head.
I know I made him up, but I miss Evets...
As with the minifigure heads, the mask is just a square pumpkin with a face and no details to offset the solid color. ...The pumpkin is WAY too light a color, as well. You had enough orange blocks to give the first Steve highlights. Couldn't you have spared some to make this pumpkin orange?
Take a bit of fashion advice from ol' Jack Pumpkin Head, is what I'm saying.
And I know that the eyes are made of only four bricks, so centering the pupils would be impossible, but was the cross-eyed derp position really the best option? Position the pupils down a layer to make it look more like he's facing straight, or make him look left or right or in some direction that doesn't make Steve look like he's getting high off fresh squash vapors...
The shovel they gave him isn't a terrible design, at least. Personally, I think it would have looked better if they made the shovel flat, but maybe they included studs so you could actually position bricks he supposedly dug up on it. Not a bad idea, I guess.
But seeing as how I glued everything down, this pile of Nanoblocks I found will have to serve as a visual aid.
If the design for the figure was uninspired, the landscape for this baseplate is even more so. It's a collection of random bricks and a tree. ...That's it. Barely anything looks like anything...
The tree's not a bad design, but it took me a while to realize it WAS a tree with the mess of other bricks scattered around the plate. And in terms of the game's biomes, where is this? I'm not aware of a brown wasteland with occasional trees and green and gray blocks. It's REALLY ugly to look at. ...So much so, that I'm not going to put any more thought into this and I'm just going to move onto the next one.
Next is yet ANOTHER Steve! This time, in Diamond Armor.
And look at that! It's an outfit with a bit of texture to it! ...It's nonsensical texture, since I don't quite get what we're looking at and what the darker blue pixels are meant to be, but it's there, so I can give them props for trying.
It's even continued on the back. Not much of it, but it's there. They've automatically done more than Lego's done with their version of diamond armor.
The helmet is... weird. As in, it's built strangely around the head. You'd think that, being a helmet, they would have made something that slides over the head. ...But instead, they built it AS the top of the head.
It's literally Steve's skullcap! Meaning that even if I didn't traditionally glue this together, I wouldn't be able to take it off without lobotomizing Steve. I shouldn't be this shocked, since it's a Nanoblock statuette after all, but to have such an obvious piece of headgear actually part of the head and not a separate piece is just strange to look at...
They also slipped up a few times with the brick colors, since even in areas that are technically not part of the helmet, they placed blue bricks where Steve's hair should be. ...Guess the helmet's literally gone to his head?
Even the noseguard is protruding out of his face! ...Are we sure this is a helmet and not a medieval torture device? The "Diamond Steven", we could call it? ...Also, that would make for a cool glam metal tribute band name.
And it gets me a bit. They made a figure whose face couldn't possibly be uncentered, so the noseguard would have no trouble lining up with the nose. ...And they don't include a nose! Where the nose brick SHOULD be is just one of the white bricks. ...How did they even manage that? I assume they just had to modify the original head's building instructions to replace a few layers with blue bricks, so everything up to that point should have stayed the same! They had to intentionally go in and change it to not include a nose. ...The minds of these knockoff artists, I ask you...
Despite the helmet taking up the same number of layers the blocks take up on the other Steve, Diamond Armor Steve stands at least two layers taller than regular Steve. I guess they needed to stretch the body a little to put a design on the armor.
The shoulder pads are also noticeably larger on Diamond Armor Steve and jut out more. ...Guess it's true that wearing a uniform makes you look like a bigger man.
Unfortunately, despite Steve being decked out in head-to-toe diamonds, the best weapon he wields is a wooden sword. ...Well, I'm glad he thought far enough ahead to prepare for major attacks from Creepers and the like, but with just a wooden sword, all that defense is very quickly going to be whittled down to nothing...
The baseplate for this one is also pretty plain, but I can at least make out what I'm looking at. I can believe this is the desert biome and the lighter green blocks are cacti or sugarcane, while the darker greens are bushes or something similar. Admittedly, I'm stretching here, but it at least doesn't make me ill to comprehend.
And it even comes with a Creeper! ...A very odd Creeper, with multiple shades of green and a face that looks more like it belongs on a Minecraft sheep or pig. ...A dark, possessed sheep or pig, but you get the comparison. ...But trying to make a micro model with a set size of Nanoblock, whatcha gonna do?
Oddly, this guy only has ONE pair of legs on the right side. Again, I didn't misread the instructions, that's how it looks on the box as well. ...Well, I guess it's the best kind of Creeper. Stay out of the small radius it walks around in, and your 50-foot-tall statue of Mario is safe!
Halfway through and finally moving away from the Steves, we have... This guy. ...I have NO idea who this guy is...
I'm pretty sure a guy with full facial hair, flowing sideburns, and a black suit with an open jacket and bare chest ISN'T one of the default skins in Minecraft. ...Though could it be?
The only guy I can think of that looks anything like him is Alice Cooper from the Sgt. Pepper movie. ...And I wouldn't be surprised if the creators were on the same stuff the people in the movie were to come up with this design.
My only other idea of who this could be is Minecraft creator Notch, but I'm just getting that idea from the beard. That might have been who they were going for, but they chickened out at the last minute and gave him hair and a suit to make him a totally different character. ...Or maybe they based him off a bum living in the gutter outside their office, I don't know...
Upon closer inspection, he might be wearing a robe, since he's clearly wearing open-heel shoes or slippers. ...Maybe this IS an accurate depiction of Notch after selling Minecraft for $2.5 billion. With that kind of money, the only reason to do anything afterwards is boredom.
Though he might want to get those facial parasites checked out since he's wealthy enough to build his own hospital. ...Or maybe it's a defective brick they included without giving me one to replace it with. Take your pick. Whatever story's more entertaining.
The landscape with this model is the most obvious of the lot, as anyone who's played Minecraft to "The End" will recognize this as the Ender Dragon's lair. The little purple blocks on top of the spires are the Ender Crystals that must be destroyed to keep the dragon from regenerating.
However, this base plate comes with the Ender Dragon already slain for your convenience, as the Dragon Egg is on its own spire right in the middle of the portal to send you back to the Overworld. ...And this just made the entire set of models worth it! The attention to detail and knowledge of how the game works is quite clear. Just throw in some Endermen and the base plate alone would be worth full price!
But if it's confirmed this really is giant Notch who's squashed the Ender Dragon with his size and majesty, then this is the greatest brick set ever! Just shut down the factories, tell Lego to go back to making wooden toys, NOTHING can top this!
Sadly, we can't stare at this majestic set forever and we must move on to this Zombie. ...Who's again in the regular Steve body build, so there's not as many jokes we could make here as with lazy-day Notch...
It's the standard Zombie head mold. Even more standard than the Steve faces we've seen so far, since it's an exact replica of the minifigure Zombie heads. Not that that was too hard to replicate, since it's just three black bricks positioned sideways. I still would have preferred it to look more like the game version, but points for being consistent.
They also remembered to change the skin tone to the Zombie's green for the rest of the body. I wish I didn't always have to point these things out, but, as I've come to learn since I started looking at brick sets, you gotta be thankful for the little things...
Interestingly, the Zombie's shirt color is a much lighter blue than the regular Steve shirt. Since the Zombie, again, is supposed to be an undead previous player character, it would make sense for the shirt to look washed out and worn, so I like that (possibly unintentional)touch.
The head is also the same size and shape as Classic Steve, again making me question when they decided to switch the designs of these figures to the more Lego-accurate versions. But it's a good Zombie design, so having more comparisons to the more accurate Steve portrayal is an additional plus.
And if Steve's lucky, maybe he can get his Stone Axe back that the Zombie stole. ...At least, I assume it's an axe. Could be another shovel, just with a different design than the last one, but with blocks that produce even lower-res objects than the game built around being pixelly, who can say?
The landscape here is clearly an arctic biome. ...And one of these things just doesn't belong here...
We have a nice rendition of an igloo in the corner. Still much too small for even Micro World Steve to reside in, but it's the thought that counts.
And then we have a pig. ...I THINK it's a pig, anyway. If it's a pig, it's one they've tried to stuff in a Spam can without actually preparing it first*! They've reduced an entire pig down to a cube, sliced half of its head off so it only has one nostril and one of its eyes can look 90° left through what should be the side of its head, and crumpled up its entire body to fit on the back and bottom! ...I REALLY hope this thing hasn't survived that particular process. ...Or maybe it's what's produced if you feed hay to a pig and a slime in too close a proximity...
*Imagine opening a can only to find an entire pig stuffed in there! ...Well, they already have whole canned chicken. This is just the next logical step.
Next in our monster's gallery is the Skeleton. ...A very disinterested Skeleton at that...
Just look at that face. This guy couldn't look any more bored and apathetic if Russell Crowe, Kevin Costner, and Liam Neeson united to read The Scarlet Letter!
"Yeah, I'm dead and death was the final thing anyone promised would happen to me, so I've fulfilled my part. If I do anything else, it's just because JonTron's on another hiatus..."
Unfortunately, the Skeleton's bow covers up most of its body, so it's a little harder to show you the pattern underneath. ...But yes, this is another Skeleton where they resorted to a pattern for some faux-gaps instead of actually forming a ribcage... But since this is a Nanoblock figure and that would make the structure very flimsy without a lot of superglue, I guess they have a good excuse in this case.
I just wish they could have continued the pattern on the back.
The bow's easily the best looking and most detailed tool out of the figures. It's absolutely MASSIVE, nearly as tall as the figure itself! I just wish they included an arrow with it. ...And that I didn't superglue it onto the figure and I could remove it...
The landscape with this one is much plainer than most of the others. If I had to guess, it looks like the entrance to a cave, where pillars of dirt and stone blocks are common, but that's granted the creators themselves knew what they were aiming for.
The Spider's pretty neat, though. It's a design that works just fine with minimal bricks, with red eyes, a square head, a long body, and 8 legs being present with the low number of bricks they put into this design. ...Though, given how close to the ground this is to the point where the ends of its legs are just single blocks glued onto the base plate, I think this is one that's been squashed.
And finally, we have the Enderman. ...Why he's here and not in "The End" is only known by the deranged minds of the creators...
There! Accuracy!
As expected, this is the minifigurized version of the Enderman, similar to what we saw during our tour of bootleg figures. There's really no reason in this case why they decided to use this design and not the real thing, other than it might have saved them a bit of money by reusing the same build for the body and head.
Heck, it might have been cheaper to design a more accurate Enderman, seeing as how the real thing's just a collection of rectangles!
The head's minimalist with just a pair of eyes on a solid-black head. But that's how the actual thing is, so they did fine here.
However, while using the design for the body, they made one slightly unfortunate change to the Enderman and... Gave him a loincloth. ...I fully expect this guy to either start swinging from the trees or start belting out "Sexy And I Know It." Or both.
And, like the bootleg minifigures we looked at, he uncharacteristically carries a tool, which is either a Diamond Shovel or Axe here. Again, REALLY hard to tell with how blocky everything is. But seeing as how Endermen can teleport, I don't know what use he'll get out of either one...
The landscape the Enderman ACTUALLY comes with appears to be a bare bones Enchantment room. Something a new player would build before learning that they need to place bookshelves around the table to strengthen the enchantments.
I ASSUME that's what this is, anyway. It could also be their version of a lava source before it's started flowing. ...Though it's probably giving them too much credit that they know about that certain mechanic.
The torches they included are strangely not built to scale compared with all the other models we've seen. You'd expect these things to just be one transparent-yellow brick on top of a brown brick, but they're instead built large enough for a figure to hold.
But since it's glued in place, and it couldn't be held by any of the figures anyway due to how their hands are built, we'll just have to settle for the Steves using it as a spit roast.
And that's the entire LOZ Minecraft line! ...Or rather, LOZ's entire take on the Lego Minecraft line! ...Or maybe LOZ's attempt to start making its own Nanoblock line, but eventual giving up and instead doing a take on the Lego Minecraft minifigure line. ...Or simply weird Minecraft stuff made by LOZ. ...Yeah, that last one sounds the most appropriate.
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Quality: It's standard Nanoblock quality, with relatively soft-feeling plastic that's still firm enough to hold a shape and connection. Still, I recommend supergluing these bricks together since the bottoms are hollow and don't make stable connections. I'm also a little upset that there was a problem brick and no piece to replace it with this time, but I guess the cosmetic hiccup adds to the unofficialness of this set. I should probably be more upset with the quality, but with these cheap knockoffs, you take what you can get.
Design: Despite the miscoloring and slight build hiccups with the first Steve, I liked how it was built, and I wish the rest of the set was made in a similar style. However, for some reason, they decided to base all the other designs on the Lego minifigures, or possibly bootlegs of them given the strange choices and odd patterns for figures. It's REALLY weird seeing a minifigure represented in this way, built out of regular bricks instead of being, well, a figure! That said, they work alright as little statuettes. The proportions match the actual minifigures relatively well given what they had to work with and the fact they had to build each one with mostly rectangular bricks. Obviously, things like the arms and legs aren't going to match perfectly with the minifigure variants due to how they're built, but they still resemble Lego arms and legs to an extent. I can tell what each model is based on and they include all the facial features and other details from the figures they're copying. There's a slight issue with the colors, but nothing distractingly out of the norm(besides the first figure.) And I think they did a good job designing each accessory. ...Even if I don't recognize half of them. The base plates actually resembling Minecraft terrain and locations was a bonus touch, and with some(like "The End"), they're masterful and show a good amount of familiarity with the source material, while others(like what came with Pumpkin Head Steve)... They just didn't care... Overall, I think they did a great job of replicating bootleg Lego Minecraft minifigures using standard Nanoblocks. ...But why did they decide that was what they wanted to copy?
Creativity: Normally, I don't give Nanoblocks that high a Creativity score(unless they have a gimmick like the Dr Star Light & Sound sets), but since they decided to create Nanoblock figures based off of Lego figures... Yeah, that's pretty creative. The designs are obviously not 1:1, with areas like the arms and legs altered enough to look like regular arms and legs, but it looks JUST enough like a minifigure to make the connection. The rectangular body, the patch of skin on the shirt, the boot-like feet attached to a Lego-esque waist, the colors and facial designs, it's obvious what they were going for. It's also creative how they interpreted terrain, creatures, and other items from Minecraft as sort of their own Micro World to fit on each baseplate, with "The End" being the most elaborate and accurate to the real thing. ...And then there's Notch. I don't care if he's NOT Notch, the fact that they made a character as rock 'n roll and similar to Notch as this guy still deserves praise. With his long, flowing, greasy black hair, full beard, and robe that can double as a metal band outfit, I want MY player character to look like this guy! And if he's not based on something else, that just gives them more Creativity points for including an original design that still matches the Minecraft aesthetic! So even though I wish they continued with the design they started with, to create a line of Nanoblock models based on Lego Minifigures really took a lot of thought and creativity, if not pure randomness.
Readability: The instructions are on the basic LOZ sheet that reads more top-to-bottom than left-to-right. I'm much more a fan of the latter, but, as is also the case with LOZ instructions, they include a manageable number of bricks in each image, so they can cram a lot into each step without the thing looking too crowded, so I can still follow along alright. I'm also happy that they gray out the previous steps so you don't get confused with what you've already placed. I prefer the left-to-right method, but for a single sheet with a huge number of bricks in the model, they make following along manageable.
Packaging: They're the standard LOZ boxes, just with Minecraft characters as the images. They do their job and there's nothing more to add.
Compatibility: Being Nanoblocks, they are completely incompatible with the Lego bricks and such I compare this category to.
Overall:
Yeah, you might have noticed a pattern. These models are creative, pretty well designed, and with some good quality bricks, but there's not enough to them to get me to actually love them. I'm glad I have them, and that they exist, but they're not as well detailed as some of the other Nanoblocks featured here and they lack any sort of gimmick like what the Dr Star Mini Blocks had. Still, if you're a fan of Minecraft and you'd like to try your hand at some Nanoblock sets, this is a pretty good place to start. At least get them for the baseplate designs, then you can throw out the figures, make your own little Nano Steve figure, and accompany him on his many adventures in Microscopic Minecraft!
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And that concludes another theme month for the blog. And look at that, I got everything out on time this time around! ...Though seeing as how I cut down my workload for the month, that's not as impressive... Still, I'm glad that I FINALLY got to show you some of the first bootlegs and knockoffs I ever picked up, and that I got to express my thoughts and feelings on the global phenomenon that is Minecraft. It's truly revolutionized how we see and play games today, with its open-ended gameplay, limitless creation and modding opportunities, and unique art style that blends retro and modern-bit gaming into one glorious package! This is a game series that's been going strong for more than 6 years now, and I wouldn't be surprised if it continues on well into the far future, especially with its leap into VR and how well it works as a virtual reality game. Maybe it'll get updates, expansions, sequels, etc. that build on or replace many of its mechanics and textures, but as long as the spirit is there, this is a game I can see continuing for a LOOOOOOOOOONG time! Even longer than the Pokémon franchise! So thank you everyone for following along with my rambles for this month! Be creative, craft away, and, above all
Watch out for Creepers.
So, what's next year's theme month going to be? ...Well, I'm hoping I'll have enough fans to vote on it, so the next theme will either be Star Wars, Religious Bricks, or Pokémonth 2. I'll see you in a year's time with the results!
