For Just $10 You Can Explore London In Minecraft… By Bike?

Hello i’m fbx toy cat and welcome back to store sas days so when i saw this trailer for this brand new map by shapescape it’s called immersion london and honestly i just immediately felt like yeah i needed to check this out but then i saw it on the

Store this week and it has the cost of 1510 mine coins that’s seven pounds 49 or just over nine dollars if i’m not mistaken it’s an incredibly expensive map how can any map be worth that amount i know for one i’m never gonna purchase it and uh you know this is how these

Videos go isn’t it i spend a lot of money on a map and i let you know if it’s worth the huge price tag that comes along with it and honestly i find it hard to believe that it will be but i want to believe

Because london is a city i feel such a close connection to and being able to explore in minecraft just sounds fun enough to me that i had to give it a whirl but as the world loads up i feel the need to re-clarify this individual minecraft world will

Cost more than many games do by themselves and my god is that an intimidating thing but let’s see if it’s worth it because here is a map that explains how there’s 25 collectibles that’s fun also there’s food and mini games apartments transportations compass and uh oh look at that they’ve got a little

Little image on the first page so yeah basically uh there you can go explore london you can do mini games there are apartments you can even buy such as in westminster in the tower of london and you know there’s lots of cool things i’m sure i can do

But i want to go see if i can see my house inside of minecraft i want to see if they built that and i don’t imagine they did because of how far away i live but let’s let’s find out anyway how much of london they built for this

Because this is of course uh big ben and the houses of parliament i always get the two houses mixed up but like you know it’s where the people go when you vote for them or if it’s from the other house of parliament where you don’t vote for them

And they inherit it from someone who was a member of the house that sounds ridiculous but that really is how the house of lords works in the uk which is kind of like our senate i guess so there you go some fun facts also look at this police officer

But like an actual one not like the hilarious movie stereotypes like look at that it’s a woman they’ve got the the modern police hat you know what and just like real police officers you can harass them as much as you like that’s not true by the way also you know i

I’m going to choose not to question that one too much but here is our first mini game it seems oh look see okay they really have got the uk lock down because look at this they got police on horses this is this is something that seems ridiculous

And every time i see it i’m like nah this is this is too much but our police do ride horses here’s a picture i have of me spotting them in liverpool when i was there at the start of this year and then here’s a picture of me seeing a hearse walking around london

But it was a horse horse again things are confusing over here let’s do a time trial though let’s see how this works use the quest vehicle to collect all the pink circles before time runs out okay let’s go oh this is cool oh no it’s not i thought that was music

It’s just a very buggy car noise also the camera is not great for a car but sure so yeah yeah i really don’t like that and again i have to use this car it’s the quest car it just oh i don’t like that noise at all but yeah the

Detail in all of this actually is pretty impressive you know i was expecting like you know just minecraft locks but they built their little textures to facilitate actually building london and then with those uh textures they’ve done some actually impressive interesting things in my opinion like you know what they built

Pretty accurate road signs i mean they’re they’re wrong yeah look at these bus stops for instance like those are you know someone took a decent look at london they didn’t just go oh yeah jolio let’s look at some some images shall we you know someone so

On someone at the very least looked at pictures which is more than you can say for a lot of city builds where they just very selectively build things terribly in minecraft i feel like this is the right blend of using minecraft default textures with adding some extra stuff in there

Again i don’t know if the cars are a great example like besides the police cars that you’ll feel out of place um in london like you’re not is are there already that many vespers lying around are there really many whatever that car is but like i’m sure there’s like copyright concerns they had

Or trademark concerns of using a car uh they’re not meant to but otherwise you can see that like yeah they’ve done a pretty nice job building some parts of london and i’m just time trialling it instead of actually doing important things oh see like look at this they got pigeons

Oh and the pigeons fly away see that that is the sort of detail that’s that’s why people really come to london they don’t come to look at the houses of parliament or you know hyde park or whatever else they come to see pigeons and to see the pigeons fly away from them

You’re not you’re not flying away from me anymore pigeon are you okay so my goal today is not only to have some fun and see if this map is worth it but it’s also to see just how much of london they built and just how accurately they did so i mean

I uh i’ll be honest i don’t i don’t go near uh westminster um abby etc all that often uh except yeah i i think i’ve been there like three times including most recently in a third channel video but i i don’t come here all that often but i i still feel like i

Should be able to spot my way around the city from here so let’s go find trafalgar square that’s a classic oh see this is okay actually so i’ve been going the wrong way however this is something really impressive i remember this in real life the kind of barricade they had outside

This thing i never i never bothered to look up what this thing was but i do remember like these barricades and the way they built on the road this is like modern day accurate like either they looked at street view and they saw it there or you know they went in person but

Again it’s it’s nice details in my opinion even the little buttons on the road to to give the tech you know like this this this is how it really was but let’s let’s explain how to navigate this city because it’s probably a bit confusing for anyone

Even myself included so let’s get in a car actually wait can we drive a bus i bet we can drive a bus right yeah we can drive a bus it is a nightmare to do unless you’re driving from this perspective but you can in fact drive a bus

In minecraft if you want to and that is glorious so yeah i want to go to the river because the river is the best way to navigate any city usually modern cities are built around rivers and such and so the river is a great source of navigation

Do you think my boss can make it through this alleyway i mean i reckon it will just about fit i reckon we can if we believe in ourselves we can do this right okay okay i’m gonna have to you have to really thread the needle here and oh yep there we go

Perfect oh no it actually did get trapped oh god oh my god okay we’re fine we’re out there man the fact that all of these interiors are designed as well that is something that most city builds don’t do because like people are either interested on the inside of a building

Or they’re interested to build a whole city you can’t usually do both but they’ve done it here also i got a collectible that’s fun oh there’s a secret location if you get more of them see that that i i like that there actually is a purpose to exploring this besides oh yeah isn’t

It cool that it’s london but i need to get to the underground because there are big barriers stopping you from going places oh looks even like they’ve got a semi-accurate like map to throw on there i i am really loving what i’m seeing so

Far but we need to go back to big ben so something super interesting they did is rather than having like you know just a point where the city stops generating they built these red walls you can vaguely see over there that just stop you exploring a certain direction so i can’t go

Up to the london eye because there’s a big red wall in front of it and uh but we can still use this the river thames on which london is built as our navigation point see it’s crazy i i’m here so often in real life like i walk along the river a bunch

Because it’s a good place to walk it’s an easy way to see the city and uh i can give you a little guided tour of london from here or based on this metro compass thing i have i can take the tube instead i don’t know

If that will work but i feel like i have to try because there is um this is westminster station right here on london underground i wonder how the underground is built into this also can you ride a bike hey you can okay so let’s ride my bike into the tube station

Oh wow yeah they actually did more effort here than i was expecting this there’s something so ridiculous about this i wasn’t gonna collectible that’s nice but like what am what am i doing here i you know this is a lot of effort to design a working bike

And i guess i’m glad someone did it okay no way i wanna i wanna go down to the trains where are the train’s at someone needs to still needs to point me in the correct direction here friends oh look they even have the little ticket barriers you know

Like you have to go through them so we can go to buckingham which is actually a town in buckinghamshire but sure we’ll give it a pass or we can go to the tower of london let’s go to the tower of london i guess how do they not let my bike on the tube

Ah they didn’t let anything on the tube you know sometimes the tube takes you to uh outer space it’s a big problem with the uh public transportation in london like you’re like oh yeah if i was going one stop down to green park but instead i ended up going to space

And we have broken the map so i guess we’ll read the book well that’s not too much use for this situation is it we might have to reload the map aha it worked and also we got a collectible i kind of want to go around and get all of the collectibles honestly

I think i’d enjoy that a lot so um yeah let’s look around the station let’s let’s try and get a collectible i bet there’s one in here i mean this is like a starbucks or a cafe nero or something not sure what it’s meant to be i i’m

Sure they can’t go for branding for any of the copy chains but it clearly has that vibe to it no food in the chest though you know again when it comes to if you’re gonna have chests in your map this is my note to any minecraft map

Maker just put stuff in it you know like i know i know it gets lost when you convert from java but like have someone go around and just fill your chests did she just say cheerio well i guess we really are in london i thought we weren’t but then a woman

Who looks like a tourist said cheerio to me so i guess guess i guess that must be a lie also a police officer walk there horse hair well that’s that’s fun isn’t it she gonna get on the tube i don’t you’re not ma’am ma’am man ma’am you can’t bring your horse

On the underground uh the is strictly for humans okay don’t arrest me don’t arrest me i know you saw me riding that e-scooter and i know that’s illegal ooh there’s an access card thing here oh so this is this is the secret entrance to mi5 they it showed up in the trailer briefly

I don’t know where i’d get an access card though oh that’s the secret location if you get 20 collectibles like that also the policewoman did in fact get through there along with the tourists so what we’re going to do is we’re going to rent a bike and by that i mean jump

On a stranger’s bike and ride it around and we’re gonna go see tower bridge this is the tower of london it is uh it’s not a very big tower by monday standards it’s i it’s arguably like more costly than towery but this is tower bridge which is

The bridge that most people are familiar with because you know even though it’s called tower bridge people picture it when they pitch a london bridge because they’re wrong and they picture wrong things so let’s ride along here honestly we should go for a bike ride around london try and find the

Collectibles because they’re all going to be around monuments of things like also oh that was a dicey instant huh but um yeah we’re going to go to the top of the tower of london because that’s that’s like the instinct right oh going for some more road barriers don’t

Know how long i can do this for without coming into problems but uh oh i’m guessing it’s raised so that you can only go yeah i won’t be able to go up the thing because there’ll be a barrier stopping me a bit so let’s ride our bike up here never

Mind oh you know some would say this is impossible to do i would i would love to ride like a bike running scooter over this and then like land on the other side i think that’d be so satisfying you know i’m just saying if if people from tower bridge want to help me

Do cool stunts that’d be nice right so yeah this is uh the tower of london oh sorry this is the tower bridge in london uh the reason that it has to like go up and down is to let boats go past because some boats want to go over there including

Oh they didn’t they didn’t build hms belfast so disappointed i thought this was london but there should be a giant ship over there and it’s not and i’m disappointed in you but otherwise this this actually is a very faithful recreation of london they put a lot more

Detail in places i wasn’t expecting to i was expecting like a a half job in a lot of places and although they did although arguably the whole like oh yeah we only have some of the city available is a bit of a half job let’s be honest london’s such a big city

You couldn’t do everything in one place so yeah that’s a that’s a much better way of doing things so that i never feel like i’m running out of terrain it’s just there are you know the invisible walls suck but maybe the alternative sucks more as i’m saying

Here anyway so we’re gonna go find an apartment to buy uh because i’ve got 64 coins now which is the max anything can cost because of limitations and i would really love to go to sleep also i want to find some more of those coins but or what some of those

Collectibles i wish the city was this empty all the time i would enjoy running my bike around so much more if i didn’t fear my life basically constantly is this a nice apartment building oh we can go inside no we can’t it looks like we can oh we can okay

So i bet there’s a collectible in here i mean it’s a little art gallery of some form an art gallery of no collectibles though what a waste what a waste ah across the street there’s a house for sale perfect so we buy it oh no that’s 64 times two they can cost more

Damn can i get in any way maybe i bet i can you know maybe if i drive a bus into the side of the building i get an apartment for free that that’s how it works in real life so if it doesn’t work here then that’s just unrealistic right okay

Let’s let’s do this we got a bus we got an apartment can we have a bus in the oh lord there we go damn it you know what i thought it would work and it just didn’t and that’s very sad so yeah we’re gonna we’re gonna try and find some collectibles around here

Up here is the the dlr station but it’s it’s closed off sadly again i think i think that’s better than just not building something closing it off but making it look like there is something there so that way you can at least pretend uh that’s nice enough i guess

Oh actually this looks like a dead end on all sides it’s a very small area of london they’ve built here so i need to sleep and i need food and if that is not the classic london experience i don’t know what is so i’m gonna maybe

Break into one of these guys houses and just sleep there i swear if you somehow have a whole apartment here with no bed i’m gonna question if it’s even a you know is it even a house slash apartment thing if you don’t own a bed i’m going to

Wager that it’s not but yeah i guess i’m i’m going to drive my taxi around which i now own until i find somewhere to sleep oh look a little alleyway let’s get the taxi down here shout okay we can’t do that either why is the policeman going down an

Alleyway is he gonna kill me please mr officer mr officer no okay so the sleeping problem solved itself as indeed it always does and our second little solution oh look they have they actually have rentable bikes the centennial bikes whatever they’re called like you know the bikes that go in the

Docks they’re cool and also i can get myself some builders tea which famously is always bought from food stalls so let’s let’s drink a nice cuppa am i right that should give me a lot more okay you know it gives me speed apparently and then let’s also buy some fruit i’m

Gonna guess the apple is the best value now the berry’s gonna be best right we buy some berries that was a bad investment you know should we just buy some biscuits maybe a latte as well i i don’t know what i’m doing at this point i just want to

Whatever you know i got night vision now oh i’ll get lattes for next night ah there we go look at that me being clever and then i’ll buy some biscuits for today and then we’ll ride our little rentable bike around oh look how great this is yeah oh we

Could even buy ice cream if we want heck yeah i think it’s a bit sad that i have to do all these tasks to earn money and then i spend the money on food but then i realized again accurate explanation of real life at capitalism am i right it’d

Be bad because food costs money the system really when you get charged for ice cream that’s this that’s the system out to get you there so here’s one of my favorite things about london we have this thing called cycle super highways where they’re like segregated from the rest of road traffic

It’s really cool it’s very safe feeling i don’t know how safe it is in actual practice like i’m sure the numbers are out there but it feels safe and feelings are important when it comes to not dying some people say at least okay so they had two of those tokens in one tube

Station but all around here i haven’t found a single one in so long there is a capo over here this is a fancy coffee shop and or alcohol place uh but i just can’t find any coins oh we’ve got our bike in the river now this is an accurate explanation of what

It’s like to try and ride a bike underwater why is a water so much harder to ride a bike through does anyone know i guess it’s like thicker mass would riding a bike in space be easy you’re not chat i need to know up internet i’m sorry for calling you chat

I need to know the answer to all of these questions please can someone let me know okay i’m gonna get on this boat there’s gotta be a coin on this boat somewhere oh no never mind so the good news is the thames is accurate the bad news is i might die

As a result so you know a little bit of wind a little bit loss it is pretty cool that we can go and explore the tower of london i’ve never been here in person it’s one of those things i’ve just always assumed is like four tourists

But that i should secretly love to do anyway and oh there’s pigeons in here you’re not accurate i bet so yeah the uh the plan is to go and explore it and be able to see something like don’t even get to do my own city because it’s closed right now i don’t

Know why if anyone could tell me let me know okay i’ve concluded these collectibles are just too hard to find i don’t want them anyway wait there’s a cannon here can i ride the cannon i cannot that’s sad i mean it wouldn’t make any sense but

This is minecraft no one can tell you what ecanna cannot do except when it comes to riding cannons apparently anyway with that said um i i think it’s cool they built london in case curious it doesn’t cover my house of course in case you’re curious as to the house situation uh

Sadly uh because of the barriers i i need to go about 20 miles north here about you know 30 000 minecraft blocks or so and sadly there is a barrier that stops me from doing stuff it actually totally makes sense that’s the case so my house isn’t here

Uh all things i care about here honestly some of the cool spots of london you know like seeing tower bridge kind of cool seeing this this roundabout i don’t know why i end up crossing it so often it’s not a roundabout it’s an intersection but like

This junction this i i just remember it so vividly having to cross the road and stuff it’s cool to see individual places like that that’s kind of nice um but as far as like uh you know is this like everything you expect from london no but do you need that

Or do you just want the london vibe i mean truthfully is this map for people who live in london like me and want to see some of their favorite spots in minecraft maybe a little bit i mean seeing pigeons is is cute and stuff and this might be a great video

For background gameplay uh for various other things i might be able to use it for that uh and that that’s that’s cool uh to me however in terms of actual fun you’re gonna have and in terms of like who is this for i’m gonna say this is if you like want

To have the london experience but for whatever reason you know who knows why not they can’t go right now or maybe they couldn’t go anywhere because you know it’s expensive to cross oceans or whatever but like i i feel like this is more like yeah do you wanna

You wanna have a fun experience you wanna re you wanna see what it’s like to be in london you drive giant pink cars around through circles into residential neighborhoods right through cars [Laughter] right through the cars and then down crowded little alleyways i know we’re just going in circles

Are we well you know what they it wasn’t even a mistake they figured yep we’re gonna keep keep putting you inside is this is this like a weird joke did they mess up am i just driving in circles is that is it is it some grand point about how all of our lives

Are big circles oh no it this this actually is the most boring time trial i drove somewhere i went in three circles and i’m just going straight back to where i came yep that’s that’s exciting if you ask me that’s what i call content but no yeah like um i feel like

The actual maps engagement itself isn’t that high i like the idea of the collectibles being a fun little side thing that that’s fun enough i like the idea of the coins and the currency uh and i like the i i think honestly the city they put

Yeah they built here very fun very cool nice nice job on that is this a different time trial or is this the same one oh it’s a different one um you know i i like that sure fun enough wait where are we going oh that way i

I think there’s some fun elements to it and you know maybe oh wait what huh is this the wrong quest vehicle well you know i tried no one can say i didn’t oh we can’t start another time trial until that one finishes either but overall as far as like

Everything else here is concerned i would say maybe a bit of an issue also look at this um i’d say there’s at least a little bit of like a content issue are you gonna get your ten dollars worth it depends how much you love london i guess and i i would like to

Believe i love london a lot but do i love it you know almost a full ten dollars and it’s hard to say because here’s the thing about maps right when you when you spend that amount on a map you know you it’s not actually i got jump boost from this damn it

That’s like the worst effect okay so let’s let’s do a time trial around buckingham palace next oh this it’s said to buckingham but it’s like to buckingham palace you’re not this is this even buckingham palace i feel like buckingham palace is the one that’s uh

I know the one act the queen lives in is the one that’s way to the west anyway so yeah it’s fun being able to go to another area of london driving more cars that definitely exist along london seeing more parts of it by the way they messed up on these speed limit signs

They all say 50 but i think that’s like kilometers because most of london has a 30 mile per hour speed limit which is equivalent to 50 kmh i’m just saying you know lots of just a tiny ton a tiny fun little inconsistency maybe also how does hide and seek work but

Like yeah the fact is i don’t think you’re gonna get the most riveting time in the world unless you really love london and want to explore in minecraft and if so is this the worst way to do that i mean it’s hard to answer a question like that

With no but is it the best way to do that it’s hard to answer a question like that with yes but you know that’s that’s my take as always these store saturdays are fun reviews where i say that yeah actually and end result is not something that i feel

Great spending money on but you know i don’t feel great when i spend money on what really is the downfall of this whole map pineapple pizza the best food in the entire game the most expensive one is pineapple pizza why did you do that i

I was just getting ready to like it and then i realized no i can’t do that i can’t do any of this i can’t in good conscience support a map that has pineapple pizza as a real feature so thank you for watching this video and i’ll see you all next time

Unless i don’t in which case i won’t Goodbye You