Constructor "Minecraft", similar to LEGO: features, types

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Every family has children. These are his own, and younger brothers, sisters, nephews. And it's not a secret for anyone that their own kids grow intensively, and strangers even faster. It seems that the child was just crawling, very little time passes and a respectable person is already meeting you for serious business. And, importantly, this “boss” always has a busy schedule: food, sleep, classes. After that, looking at adult life from the outside, comes the realization that your own schedule is not a regime at all, but self-indulgence.

Best gift

Sooner or later there comes a moment when you have to go to the "big man" with a present. And, as a rule, by the age of 6, a child has everything - from a radio-controlled car to all kinds of balls or dolls and combs. Don't break your head. The ingenious invention of mankind - the designer will come to the rescue.

This is not only an occasion to unite and talk on a common topic, but also to create a collective masterpiece: a castle, a robot, a dragon. Next, consider several manufacturers - Lego and Minecraft, as well as their budget counterparts.

Types of constructor

The market is full of a variety of plastic bricks and blocks. The price varies no worse than in a car dealership: premium or business class, Mercedes or Toyota. Since the Minecraft constructor is an analogue of Lego, the first version of the Lego Duplo brand, Lego Baby, is specially designed for young children. The blocks are painted in bright colors, ideal for building the first pyramids, turrets, houses, cars.

The second option is appropriate for children of senior kindergarten, junior school years and older.

There are also wooden building blocks, but none of the claimed brands produce them.

A bit of history

The creation of Lego is rooted in the distant 40s of the last century, and the designers based on the game "Minecraft" saw the world in the recent 2012. The version of "Minecraft" is produced by Mojang AB.

She also makes Lego sets for little girls. For example Lego Disney Princess and Lego Friends, or earlier versions: Lego Belvilly, Lego Clikits. Constructors are made up of small interconnected parts. Parts of these collections can be combined with ordinary Lego bricks, as well as among themselves, to act as decorative elements.

In fact, this is one ruler. But the Lego Group would not agree with such a statement. The manufacturer has repeatedly filed lawsuits against companies that borrowed the technique of the designer's connecting mechanism from them.

Minecraft

So, what is the children's designer "Minecraft"? First of all, this is a real analogue of a computer game. It transfers from the virtual world to the real three-dimensional graphics, which the child is now able to create not with mouse clicks, but with his own hands.

Accordingly, all released sets and parts in them are named after a computer game. At the moment, the world saw the following releases: Micro World - The Forest, The village, The nether, The end, The cave, The farm, The first night, Crafting box, The ender dragon, The mine, The dungeon, The snow hideout, The desert outpost, The nether fortress, The iron golem, The end portal, The jungle tree house, The wither, The fortress, The village, The mushroom island, The nether railway. Most of the characters in the Minecraft world are zombies, skeletons, men, dragons.

What's worth knowing is the number of pieces in each series. Have you seen a funny video when a father rakes a designer with a shovel and scatters it into boxes? So, on average, each of these sets contains about 400 parts. It includes both prefabricated (collapsible) blocks, and figures, household items, animals, trees. Therefore, get ready when entering the room, you should look under your feet.

And yet the main advantage is that all parts from the sets are complementary. Therefore, even if you lose bricks or figures, you can easily borrow them from any other part of the designer. Or intentionally mix them up and create a new figurine world.

From what age

Not soIt has long been believed that small parts are only for children of the age of "3+". But modern manufacturers have expanded the age limits. Now they produce a designer for babies from 9 months. Its difference, first of all, is in the size, and, accordingly, in the color scheme, configuration. For the little ones, this is a wooden, plastic constructor, and even with a scent. Accordingly, the age limit has been significantly expanded.

This line will not become an analogue or competitor to the Minecraft constructor. After all, it's like in a computer game "0" level for beginners. Its purpose is to develop basic construction skills, interest, and promote fine motor skills.

At an older age, such a hobby can already enter a new stage of development. For example, in America, Germany, Poland, there are even Lego and Minecraft clubs.

How to choose

Children 1-1, 5 years old should be given a designer with large building blocks. 3-5 years old - thematic, where the child is already able to make a figure himself, following the instructions, or in any order, the declared model of the aircraft, cars. Accordingly, the older the child, the more difficult the kits are offered.

Here the well-known Lego manufacturer comes to the rescue, or, as mentioned, its analogue Minecraft. However, the child cannot do without the help of adults. Because even basic thematic constructors contain diagrams and assembly instructions. For novice designers, such a scheme may be difficult to implement. In particular, this applies to Minecraft.

FirstIn turn, we pay attention to the size of the details: the younger the baby, the larger the building blocks should be. The rest is a matter of taste of the most giving or small builder.

Price-quality

The harsh realities are such that not everyone can afford to purchase such a large-scale constructor as Lego or Minecraft. Therefore, there is an analogue of "Minecraft", produced by the company "Lepin" (Lepin).

It is made in China. Since the production technology is similar, the materials are used like in Lego. Actually, like all Chinese products, this constructor, an analogue of Lego Minecraft, duplicates some of its releases, in some places even repeats them exactly. For example, Lego City, Lego Ninjago, Creator releases are sets from an exclusive series. The main difference is cost. Instead of one Lego set, you can buy about five Lepin collections.

The company also specializes in the release of collections that are no longer produced by the Lego Group: Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, 4x4 Crawler Exclusive Edition, Imperial Flagship, Death Star and others.

"Star wars" by Lepin

It will not be possible to discuss the many analogues of Minecraft, since only one well-known manufacturer is engaged in them - Lepin, as mentioned earlier. Yes, and they are sets that are more focused on Lego collections.

His Star wars set is a prime example. In the consumer market, you simply will not find a more worthy analogue. This is evidenced by numeroususer reviews. The number of parts duplicates the original, and the build quality is not enough, in which it is inferior. In the box, as in other kits, detailed instructions for assembling the spaceship are included. The quality of the plastic is as close as possible to the original, which is also stated on the manufacturer's website. The fastening of parts is also at a decent level. The kit includes additional figures that duplicate the original.

Therefore, if we talk about analogues of Minecraft, it is more appropriate to consider not design, but computer versions.

Girls

As mentioned earlier, the female part of the young population is also not deprived of collections. The designer based on the famous "Lego" was embodied as its analogue "Minecraft".

These are the collections of the Bela Friends Central Confectionery, City Park Cafe, Sports Camp, Olivia and Campervan, City Pool, Supermarket, Animal Clinic and many others also take us to the world of three-dimensional figures.

Zombies and dragons are not found here, but there is also a storyline.

Instead of completion

In general, there are constructors based on the Minecraft game, but there are very few worthy analogues. For the most part, these are Chinese models that imitate or completely repeat collections.

Developer Mikhail Fogelman created a brainchild called Craft - a free analogue of Minecraft. In other words, this is the same computer game, but freely available and somewhat modernized.to the tastes of the domestic consumer. As gamers like to say, it contains interesting Easter eggs and additions. With regards to the selection of games similar to Minecraft, the same developer company Mojang presented a great variety of them to the public. The so-called "cube games" in narrow circles of experts: Creativerse, Portal Knights, Trove, Eco, Unturned, Terraria/Starbound, Block n load, Lego Worlds and some others.

Of course, I want to be "in the know" of the interests of the younger generation, but it's also impossible to know everything. Therefore, we prefer the game in the designer of the computer version. After all, creating something new will unite children and adults of all ages, will contribute to the development of communication skills, help develop imagination and a logical train of thought.

From all of the above, it follows that the most important analogue of Minecraft is any constructor, or a cube game! It doesn't matter what you decide to give your child. What is the main thing in a gift? Attention! But it’s better to show children how to create a world outside of monitors, because gadgets in life already take up the lion’s share of time. After all, creating a creation with your own hands is wonderful. Let not yet a work of art, and following the scheme, but maybe this will mark the beginning of something more. Isn't this the first small achievement in your child's long life journey?