D&D General D&D Legos: Why don't we have them?

Xeviat · Jan 28, 2020

You know what? While D&D is at the highest levels of popularity then it's ever been, while they're working on making a movie and have multiple high profile video games coming out ... why haven't we gotten a D&D Lego (or megablocks, or whatever) deal? It seems like the products would simply design themselves:

Bucket of Player Characters - 5-10 mini fig bodies, two or three heads for each of the races (more for human and elf, since they can be used for other things), with parts for helmets, armor, weapons, wings ...
Bucket of Orcs - mini figs for your orc horde needs.
Bucket of Goblins - mini figs for your goblin horde needs.
Monster Manual Packs - sets for building 3 or so smaller classic monsters, like rust monsters, displacer beasts.
Iconic Monsters - big sets for making big iconic monsters and villains, like Orcus or Gargantuan Dragons
Dungeon Terrain - for making dungeon rooms
Wilderness Terrain - for making wilderness maps
Urban Terrain - etc.

Just seems like it would be fun and useful, plus many would be useful for other lego aficionados.

What are other product tie-ins you'd like to see?

Azzy · Jan 28, 2020

We kinda did, Hasbro put out some D&D Kreos a while back.

Sacrosanct · Jan 28, 2020

If you get a chance, watch the Netflix series The Toys That Made Us. The Lego episode. You might have your answer. Legos are quite expensive to make and the fads/interest is often too short lived. The company almost went under a few times due to bad licensing predictions. Most of their money makers are in house things, like Ninjago. Others are huge IP, like star wars or marvel. D&D just isn't big enough to justify the costs of design and manufacture.

Enevhar Aldarion · Jan 28, 2020

Azzy said:
We kinda did, Hasbro put out some D&D Kreos a while back.

These are still available in the US. I saw a set just last week at a local Dollar General store. The box had a copyright year of 2015 and I think it was brought in from Canada.

Leatherhead · Jan 28, 2020

Azzy said:
We kinda did, Hasbro put out some D&D Kreos a while back.

I have the Kreo Drizzt. I picked him up for giggles from a Toys-R-us back before they closed down in the US.

Undrave · Jan 28, 2020

I got a few blind bags of D&D Kreons.

They came with a round base that fit perfectly in the usual grid. They had pieces for Tieflings and Dragonborns. You could put on armor on your Kreon, or give them a staff or a mace...

Great potential for building your own character to your specification, but for some reason they didn't bother to market this stuff to ACTUAL DnD player (or anybody really). And it was back during 4e's waning days.

Eventually some of the pieces (plus GI Joe pieces) went and got reused for the Transformers Kreon Warriors line.

Knight Soundwave was pretty neat. He came with a wooden Laserbeak.