JANGBRiCKS – New canon?! LEGO Minecraft Dungeons The Redstone Battle review! 21163

Hey everybody this is not a review of a lego minecraft set it’s a review of a lego minecraft dungeon set if you’re not familiar with the difference notice the different uh branding up there they don’t use the green like they did for the regular minecraft stuff minecraft dungeons is a recently released game

That is based in a minecraft universe not necessarily the minecraft universe but a minecraft universe it’s an isometric so almost top-down dungeon crawler like a hack and slash game you don’t build anything you just go around killing monsters and finding loot and upgrading your stuff and then doing it

Again it’s kind of like a very lightweight diablo of sorts but with really low res textures it’s actually kind of fun but again fairly lightweight let’s take a look at this set though it comes with four brand new minecraft minifigures down here

No steve no alex so we’ll take a closer look at those it comes with a pig with a treasure chest on the back we’ll talk about that a little bit later as well a little bit of side build over here but the main thing is called a redstone

Monstrosity and he has a little friend which is a redstone golem the little one is kind of like a i want to say more like a champion than a mini boss once you dispatch your very first one then from then on it’s it’s relatively routine they can do some serious damage

To you and they do require some tactics depending upon what difficulty level you’re at but yeah you know not not that big of a deal but lego has done a pretty nice job of rendering this one here and this set has no stickers so anything that looks like

A decoration is a print and i appreciate that very much so the face there is a printed two by three tile and then there are two identical two by three printed tiles used for the body the quality of print there is actually pretty good the brightest color here is a light

Yellow or cool yellow i think they they call it and it’s printed with plenty of opacity the build for this was very nice for something that is so blocky it’s i don’t know it’s again it’s just kind of appropriate not much to see around the back though

That is very rather plain looks pretty good from the top you see a little extra detail there because it’s supposed to be like made from different types of materials in universe including a series of redstone ore pieces and cracked stone and stuff a bunch of stuff but look at this

The head is able to move around there’s a good amount of articulation there you can like twist side to side and this is not upside down like you may look at this and say hey well that looks more like a

Proper face with the it looks like there’s a nose and a mouth there but no it actually goes like this strangely enough um but they did a good job the designer did a good job of embedding or partially embedding the ball and socket combination in there and then you also have ball joints

With the sockets embedded for the shoulders so that’s good stuff well done there ball joint for the elbow same thing over here so you can you know really swing those arms make it look like it’s getting ready to do either a run or a knock back attack at you

And then you also have the ball and socket joints for the legs down here so you can really put this thing into a dynamic action pose and i think i can get it to actually stand up yeah it’s it’s kind of balancing right now but with a little a little extra effort

You can get that to balance pretty properly so that’s just it’s just nice for what it is the big one again called a redstone monstrosity was rendered just about as well with just as many good features in my opinion by lego as the other so here once again we have no stickers

Just prints fairly well embedded ball and socket joint combinations in some places and a fair amount of articulation and it looks pretty accurate to what you’ll see in game now in game these are actual bosses like proper proper bosses end of level

Kind of boss so this is a very dangerous thing depending upon your difficulty level it can be very very difficult uh indeed even if you have help even if you’re not going solo at it sorry about the little bit of wiggle there as we rotate them around but

Again you know not great looking from the back not at all but from all other angles uh it’s it’s very effective including from the top where you get to see a bunch of those beautiful transparent red pieces they’re one by twos and two by twos both

So you can see quite far down into the structure this build actually uses a fair number of coral colored pieces to back some of the things to bring extra brightness in there rather than just using a regular red so coral is much brighter it gives you a lot more light back

As for articulation for this one well it’s got the head that’s able to move up and down and this one actually has some length to the neck so that gives it a slightly different effect man this head really looks proper for a little lego model of course

It’s always going to be easier to do things in lego that are intended to be blocky in the first place but this is especially good there we go so you got the jaw that opens and closes you got the neck that moves once again ball joints for the shoulders

We’re able to move around here a little bit it doesn’t need a lot of motion there side to side but it’s got the up and down which is important this time they went with the ratcheted joints for the elbows so there is a little bit of limitation it’s just not as smooth

You know they even have fingers that can be individually open and closed they’re not supposed to really grab anything uh which is just fine but i guess you could probably pinch something in there let me let me actually just test that right now with a completely random

Minifigure i don’t even have a proper minifigure handy to to grab right now but yeah that’s i mean i can kind of do that that kind of works but what i want to do is turn them sideways

Put the hands up and grab them in there just yeah that yeah it kind of works it’s not it’s not the best but it works well enough the ball joints by the way that are used for the shoulders on this one are a full-sized large action figure size

A little bit of yellow behind there as well that’s just part of the the builds to make it easier to identify the pieces along along the way and then down here they use those printed pieces again that two by three and look at this waist articulation

Yeah that’s good and it has a proper amount of friction behind it it’s not just free spinning and then you’ve got the ability to move the legs as well so you can do the little potato dance from charlie chaplin if you want you know if you know what

I’m talking about nah nobody nobody watching this knows what i’m talking about anybody who does doesn’t want to let their their age be known but yeah i mean you can put this into some some action poses so i mean this thing is as dynamic as i could ask

For it to be and it was fun to put together looks proper looks interesting on display yeah i’m happy with it so this thing now i’ll tell you the very first time i encountered one of these in-game i was playing with a friend and we both

Immediately knew what it was having not looked up any information about the game in advance and this thing having not existed previously in the minecraft universe officially we both immediately knew what it was we both and just instinctually called it a treasure pig and we knew what we needed to do with it

Namely chase it down block it off and kill the heck out of it to get whatever was inside the chest now we didn’t get great stuff out of that particular chest but you will continue to find these throughout the game and they’re exciting because they move very quickly

They are very defensive they are very evasive they try to get away from you they typically spawn around other baddies so you have to stay alive while you try to chase this thing down and they have loot upon them so lego has just given us a little pig here

With what almost looks like a saddle underneath and then there’s just a gold chest on top it’s just a molded pearl gold chest and inside there is stuff now there are new things i’ll show you a shot from when i was building this of all of the new things in this weapon

Parts pack which is new for dungeons in particular includes items that are not included in the regular minecraft that you may be familiar with i must admit i don’t recognize this item here it looks to me most like a lightning rod or some sort of wand which would be an

Artifact and not a a weapon per se but it it’s missing all the colors that you would expect for an artifact like that if you canonically know precisely exactly and for a fact beyond a shadow of a doubt exactly what that’s intended to be uh

Check the comments to see if anyone else has already said something to the same effect but from my playing of the game thus far i i know it looks like an artifact to me that’s missing its color so this may just be a little bit of divergence between when lego

Last got game assets and uh and today this is obviously just our plane axe and then the other things in the chest here are intended to represent emeralds the primary trading currency of the game and then this is a quintessential budget filler side build it’s just

A thing that’s made up of pieces for which the designer had parts budget remaining after doing all the important stuff and so they got a little cauldron crafting table which you don’t actually use in this game their map piece which is another nice printed part there and then we got a

Couple more weapons this is a cutlass and this is a side two-handed weapon there some of the the the sizes are a little bit funky in that weapons pack that they came up with with the the new molds so they don’t all

Completely line up and you just got a potion of healing there uh those are just well you basically end up having just one and it recharges itself doesn’t quite work like you would expect in well in minecraft in general the only

Potions that you pick up that are red like that are potions of strength and they’re not round the figures are all named characters on the left is hex on the right is valerie hex on the left has a pair of daggers which again with just the the sizes and proportions of weapons

From that weapons pack they are not right they’re too big same with the pair of sickles being held by valerie over on the right they’re just way too big in game they’re actually tiny little things and you have very very very little range with them

But they attack very quickly and they feel pretty good for what they are the prints are pretty good on these i’m especially happy with the opacity for the whites on the heads um maybe it’s not as good it’s a little bit difficult to tell on the on the the torsos

Which color they were going for if they were going for a sand blue for small details there on on valerie like around the the base of the neck there underneath the bit of metallic or if they’re going for gray then

That works but if they’re going for white then no they messed up but at least the faces are pretty good so i have to have to call that out appreciate that and around the back they have some prints as well a little bit of registration issue

Especially for the one on the left but i should just be happy to get new minecraft skins at all and these are very usable ones and it’s very easy to swap the parts between all four of the characters in this set the other two here are hal on the left

H-a-l and on the right is hedwig or hedvig just like harry potter’s owl h-e-d-w-i-g and once again i am proud of lego for doing good with the opacity for the prints for the faces especially for hal there now some of the registration is once

Again off just so slightly you know not lined up completely perfectly from one color to the next but at least you can see these from a distance and they’re they’re not faded thank goodness so i have to celebrate that i shouldn’t

Have to celebrate that but i i do because we’ve gotten so many recently uh in the past couple years few years or so maybe a little longer than that that have not had good prints at all we’re starting to just especially against the darker color

Like this head here you know they just start to to fade and it almost looks like they have a different skin tone for the face than for the rest of the body or for any other exposed areas so yeah production work here is improved still not perfect

And you know only one print for the torso nothing else for the body but overall i’m happy with these each one comes with just a basic crossbow finally looking at the spare parts the leftovers well there’s not much to see

Here and also there is no spent sticker sheet because there are no stickers in this set whatsoever all right it’s time to talk about price and value this comes with 504 pieces and the price is 40 u.s for zero the price support ratio looks

Very very nice especially when you consider that this has four new minifigures in it it also has a little animal has no stickers it has a good number of prints including a couple of new exclusive ones i think the the leg ones can be used for other things in the future hopefully

But uh yeah i think the value here is actually pretty good for what you get the volume of stuff um the price to volume of stuff ratio is is okay it’s not great um just looking at this at first glance i would

Say yeah maybe 35 but then when i consider the the number of parts and i think back to the experience putting this together and i look at the weapon parts the again the figures it’s there the values is definitely there and as for this as an entire set just my

Personal thoughts i think i should probably lead with some personal thoughts about the game itself not in terms of the gameplay i’m not going to review the game here but i do want to share with you the fact that this game and playing it and then by extension

Getting this official set based on the game has inspired me quite a bit as someone who has and has had for quite some time a rather large lego minecraft display a diorama it has inspired me to broaden my horizons and to start doing things more creative there

You know up to this point i’ve i’ve always worried about the canon the you know the official things that you’re supposed to do in minecraft to make it look to make it look proper to make it look real quote unquote real yeah i’m worried about that stuff and a lot of viewers

Have as well and have called out things in my my layout like jang you cannot do that you change that right now that is not official that would not ever happen in a real lego mine or a real minecraft server

Which which is fine you know it’s all from a from a a place of fandom and caring about the canon you know caring about what is right according to that universe as it’s been designed but you get into minecraft dungeons and i mean the there’s a bunch of stuff here

That doesn’t exist in the real regular minecraft world and yet it’s very minecrafty and it’s now canonically part of the minecraft experience officially so that has totally inspired me and really opened me up so that the next time i work on my

Minecraft layout space i’m going to be able to be much more creative with it i’m going to reject anti-creative rhetoric saying giant you cannot do that i’m going to do whatever i want to while making it still look like it’s minecraft

So big thanks to minecraft dungeons for that it’s not the most fantastic game it’s especially its initial release is much smaller quicker to get through than i expected though you can go back and start doing the the replay loop on higher difficulties and they start to

Add in different things you can get you know i’m gonna continue playing it playing it for some time i’m sure but overall this has been a very positive experience for me i’m glad that lego at least did one set if there was any one thing that i would ask to be

Improved in this set right here it’s right here the chest because the chest is just all gold and i mean look at that right there see all that dark red that’s supposed to be on there like even if you don’t get the little creeper head

All that dark red all that dark red should be there should be approximated in some way it’s iconic once you play this enough especially if you’ve played diablo in in the past and you’re aware of like treasure goblins and it’s you know it’s always this

Excitement and you got to go there you got to get it real quick that instantly becomes an iconic thing and uh this just isn’t iconic enough it does a good job of approximating it in lego form but i would have been okay with a sticker sheet a small little sticker sheet

Just to give me some dark red to put a few little panels of it on this front and back but especially on the front otherwise it’s being a front and back the backs of these these monsters are very plain but it doesn’t bother me that much so

That’s it for basically criticism from me you can check out the real-time pure build of this and check out the speed build if you want to see what’s inside of these in particular and i’ll talk to you again soon thank you very much for watching you