Bits N' Bricks
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| LEGO Bits N' Bricks | |
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 LEGO Bits N' Bricks Icon | |
| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Ethan Vincent, Brian Crecent |
| Genre | Video games |
| Written by | Brian Crecente |
| Length | 30–85 minutes |
| Production | |
| Production | Ronny Schere |
| Composed by | Peter Prieme |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 55 |
| Publication | |
| Original release | November 25, 2020 |
| Related | |
| Website | Archived official web page |
LEGO Bits N' Bricks is an official LEGO podcast about the history of its video games, PC games, and digital play experiences. It launched on the 25th anniversary of the LEGO Group's first video game, LEGO Fun to Build.[1]
History
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Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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| First released | Last released | |||
| 1 | 20 | November 25, 2020 | April 14, 2021 | |
| 2 | 9 | May 4, 2021 | July 14, 2021 | |
| 3 | 9 | August 18, 2021 | October 13, 2021 | |
| 4 | 9 | November 3, 2021 | December 29, 2021 | |
| 5 | 4 | January 31, 2022 | October 23, 2022 | |
| 6 | 5 | June 13, 2023 | ||
Season 1
| No. | Title | Runtime | Original air date | Transcript | |
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| 0 | "Introduction" | 10:36 | November 25, 2020 | ||
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Brian Crecente and Ethan Vincent introduce Bits N' Bricks. | |||||
| 1 | "Minecraft" | 1:00:20 | December 8, 2020 | ||
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Summary Participants: Danny Bergmann, Daniel Kaplan, Daniel Mathiasen, Paal Smith-Meyer, Ronny Scherer | |||||
| 2 | "Fluid Play" | 59:48 | December 16, 2020 | ||
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Participants: Sam Coates, Cephas Howard, Paal Smith-Meyer, John Sokolowski, Michael Vanting | |||||
| 3 | "Holiday Special" | 33:04 | December 23, 2020 | ||
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Ken Cunningham, director of the 2020 Christmas special LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, talks about its development at Atomic Cartoons. Participant: Ken Cunningham | |||||
| 4 | "LEGO Island" | 55:33 | December 30, 2020 | ||
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Participants: Scott Anderson, Tormod Askildsen, Jim Brown, Ben Davies, Katie O'Neill, Michael Thompsen, Floris Thoonen | |||||
| 5 | "Unity" | 53:19 | January 6, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Tormod Askildsen, Naomi Clark, Jesper Erstvang, Vip Gupta, Anders Tankred Holm, Ronny Scherer, Tara Wike | |||||
| 6 | "LEGO Builder's Journey" | 1:11:38 | January 13, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Kristian Reimer Hauge, Jonas Haugesen, Henrik Lindstrand, Karsten Lund, Mads Prahm, Michael Stahl | |||||
| 7 | "LEGO Friends: A Conversation" | 36:47 | January 20, 2021 | ||
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Elena Catón discusses her research into developing software for girls and how it led to the 1999 LEGO Friends game. Participant: Elena Catón | |||||
| 8 | "LEGO Minifigures: A Conversation" | 43:01 | January 27, 2021 | ||
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Tara Wike discusses the history of the LEGO Minifigures collectibles product line and the 2015 LEGO Minifigures Online video game. Participant: Tara Wike | |||||
| 9 | "TT Games" | 1:08:04 | February 3, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Philip James, Darryl Kelley, Arthur Parsons, Tom Stone, Jonathan Smith, Martin Tremblay | |||||
| 10 | "LEGO Sonic Mania: A Conversation" | 44:25 | February 10, 2021 | ||
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Participants: John Choon, Samuel Johnson | |||||
| 11 | "LEGO Universe: Birth of an Idea" | 1:08:30 | February 17, 2021 | ||
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C and V look into the history of LEGO Universe. Participants: Scott Brown, Mark Hansen, Peter Grundy, Ryan Seabury, Ronny Scherer, Lisbeth Valther (Additional voices: Brian Johnson, Nathan Gray, Chris Sherland, Erik Urdang) | |||||
| 12 | "LEGO Universe Soundtrack: A Conversation" | 43:37 | February 24, 2021 | ||
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Composer Brian Tyler and producer Richard Dekkard discuss the music of LEGO Universe. This episode uses music from the LEGO Universe soundtrack, which released on Bandcamp the same day this episode premiered. Participants: Richard Dekkard, Brian Tyler | |||||
| 13 | "LEGO Universe: Death of an Dream" | 1:26:11 | March 3, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Scott Brown, Richard Dekkard, Randall Furino, Peter Grundy, Mark Hansen, Brian Johnson, Ronny Scherer, Ryan Seabury, Chris Sherland, Brian Tyler, Lisbeth Valther | |||||
| 14 | "LEGO VIDIYO: A Conversation" | 40:30 | March 10, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Julia Goldin, William Thorogood | |||||
| 15 | "LEGO Overwatch: A Conversation" | 44:45 | March 17, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Mike Hummel, Sten Funder Lysdahl | |||||
| 16 | "Darwin" | 1:10:44 | March 24, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Claude Aebersold, Alex Furer, Julian Gómez, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, Bjarne Tveskov (Additional voices: Adriana Eyzaguirre, Dent-de-Lion du Midi) | |||||
| 17 | "LEGO Video Games and Digital Play" | 46:36 | March 31, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Niels B. Christiansen, Julia Goldin, Sean McEvoy | |||||
| 18 | "A Fabled History" | 1:01:13 | April 7, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen | |||||
| 19 | "To Be Continued" | 55:29 | April 14, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Nannan Li, Ronny Scherer, Dave Tach, Ben Unguren | |||||
Season 2
| No. | Title | Runtime | Original air date | Transcript | |
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| 20 | "May the Fourth Be With You" | 1:02:14 | May 4, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Matt Fillbrandt, Matt Shell, Jonathan Smith | |||||
| 21 | "Birth of a LEGO Brawls-er" | 52:18 | May 26, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Jared Kroff, Jenirae Reynolds | |||||
| 22 | "LEGO Marvel and the Missing Spider-Stan Song" | 47:34 | June 2, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Chris Baker, Andrew Dolan, Arthur Parsons | |||||
| 23 | "LEGO Loco: The LEGO Group’s Take on SimCity" | 35:07 | June 9, 2021 | ||
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Rob Smith describes the formation of LEGO Media International in 1996, and several LEGO Loco developers discuss the game's creation and the history of Intelligent Games. Participants: Suzanne Maddison, Kevin Shrapnell, Rob Smith, Matthew Stibbe | |||||
| 24 | "Inside LEGO City Undercover: From Segway to Zombie Hordes" | 49:26 | June 16, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Ste Bate, Darryl Kelley, Matt Palmer | |||||
| 25 | "Myth, Maori, and a Brain Tumor: The BIONICLE Saga" | 1:14:04 | June 23, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Christian Faber, Darvell Hunt, Jeff James, Liam Scott, Maui Solomon, Alastair Swinnerton | |||||
| 26 | "Rocket Racer, Veronica Voltage and the Legend of LEGO Racers" | 47:05 | June 30, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Keith Morton, Eric Nofsinger, Cary Penczek | |||||
| 27 | "Roblox Meets Minecraft in China’s LEGO Cube" | 53:44 | July 7, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Long Cao, Micki Fjeldgaard, Nannan Li, Sean McEvoy, Ronny Scherer | |||||
| 28 | "The Fans, Devs, and Remake of Real-Time Strategy Classic LEGO Rock Raiders" | 46:29 | July 14, 2021 | ||
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Karl White describes his experience as a programmer for the 1999 LEGO Rock Raiders video game. Crecente and Vincent then discuss the game's fan community, interviewing Alan Sokol, then the owner of the LEGO game modding forum Rock Raiders United, and Simon Eriksson, developer of the Rock Raiders remake Manic Miners. Participants: Simon Eriksson, Ferdinand Köstler, Alan Sokol, Karl White | |||||
Season 3
| No. | Title | Runtime | Original air date | Transcript | |
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| 29 | "Junkbot: The Lovable LEGO Garbage Game" | 40:42 | August 18, 2021 | ||
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Participants: Ranjit Bhatnagar, Naomi Clark, Frank Lantz, Eric Zimmerman | |||||
| 30 | "The Legacy of LEGO Legacy: Heroes Unboxed" | 37:19 | August 25, 2021 | ||
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| 31 | "Prototype, Playtest, Repeat: Inside Light Brick Studio" | 42:34 | September 1, 2021 | ||
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| 32 | "The Life (and Legacy) of George" | 39:22 | September 8, 2021 | ||
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| 33 | "Nexo Knights and the Big Bang Theory" | 43:59 | September 15, 2021 | ||
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| 34 | "Holy Game Development, LEGO Batman" | 42:59 | September 22, 2021 | ||
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| 35 | "Return of the LEGO Star Wars Battles" | 44:27 | September 29, 2021 | ||
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| 36 | "DUPLO World, Create & Cruise, and LEGO Games for Pre-K" | 42:23 | October 6, 2021 | ||
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| 37 | "The Surreal History of the LEGO Galidor TV Show, Game Console, and Action Figure" | 1:12:47 | October 13, 2021 | ||
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Season 4
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| 38 | "Tiny LEGO Brick Towers, Big LEGO Brick Ideas" | 37:38 | November 3, 2021 | ||
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| 39 | "LEGO Harry Potter – A Journey Through All Eight Films" | 54:44 | November 10, 2021 | ||
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| 40 | "Alligators, Buckaroo Banzai, and LEGO Studios Backlot" | 46:59 | November 17, 2021 | ||
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| 41 | "When Forza Cars Met LEGO Bricks" | 37:27 | November 24, 2021 | ||
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| 42 | "How a Soccer Net Almost Killed Football Mania" | 31:05 | December 1, 2021 | ||
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| 43 | "The LEGO Game That Unlocked True Digital Creation" | 44:21 | December 8, 2021 | ||
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| 44 | "Creating Worlds with LEGO Bricks" | 44:16 | December 15, 2021 | ||
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| 45 | "25 Years of LEGO Lessons" | 55:17 | December 22, 2021 | ||
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| 46 | "Postscript" | 3:15 | December 29, 2021 | None | |
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Season 5
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| 47 | "The Rise of BrickLink" | 1:10:21 | January 31, 2022 | ||
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| 48 | "The LEGO Group’s Playful 90th" | 1:12:04 | August 10, 2022 | ||
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| 49 | "A Journey Into the Real LEGO City" | 59:34 | August 31, 2022 | ||
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| 50 | "The Tale of LEGO Bricktales" | 58:24 | October 23, 2022 | ||
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Season 6
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| – | "Season 06 Trailer" | 4:34 | June 13, 2023 | |
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| 51 | "Demogorgons, Frogs, and Car Parts: Inside the Creation of LEGO Botanicals" | 48:42 | June 13, 2023 | |
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| 52 | "Creating beehives, stunning art, and a prosthetic limb with LEGO toys" | 58:15 | June 13, 2023 | |
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| 53 | "Sustainability and the Everlasting LEGO Brick" | 41:48 | June 13, 2023 | |
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| 54 | "Why LEGO Bricks Stick" | 28:26 | June 13, 2023 | |
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| 55 | "Conspiracies, Fans, and LEGO Designers: Inside the Disappearance of the LEGO Goat" | 27:12 | June 13, 2023 | |
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References
- ↑ "From Bricks to Bits: The LEGO Group Celebrates 25 Years of LEGO Video Games". LEGO.com (Press release). Billund: The LEGO Group. December 2, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
