If I had to guess, it’s probably one of three reasons a retro game doesn’t get a digital re-release. The console maker can’t get the rights, it’s too hard to emulate or it’s simply not profitable enough to do so. I don’t know anything about Radiant Dawn, but I’m betting it’s one of these reasons.

How easy would it be to emulate Gamecube games on today’s hardware? The Gamecube’s analogue triggers in particular would be hard to replicate, and they’re a vital part of games like Super Mario Sunshine.

The Banjo games are owned by Microsoft now and have appeared on Xbox, so we’ll never see them on a Nintendo system again. They DID keep Banjo playing the Game Boy in one of the options screens, however.

Yes, I’d say it’s a harsh mistress but really the exact opposite of that is true.

Your name isn’t Sid Phillips by any chance, is it?

It operates under MCU logic, which is essentially ‘if it looks cool, it works.’

I almost entirely limit my pop culture merchandising intake to Lego nowadays, but if I were an action figure fan I’d be sorely tempted by this.

I wouldn’t say that the Mondasian outfit is ridiculous, per se; it’s just kind of primitive when you compare it to the Cybermen designs that followed it. It’s also driven by practicality and the needs of its immediate environment. Where later Cybermen acted as a kind of interplanetary invasion force, the early…

Yeah, Bing Bong’s death is sad but an entirely understandable part of the film. People set aside childish things as they grow up; we leave things behind. It entirely makes sense for Bing Bong to vanish from Riley’s inner landscape... well, entirely.

If I’m honest I think that the designs are all the scarier because they look retro; the retro-ness elevates the horror rather than diminishing it. There’s something about anachronistic technology that I find especially unsettling- like Ted’s 1950s bunker in Buffy or the Big Daddy conversions in BioShock. There’s an…

You’re creating a false equivalency here, because Star Wars carries far more kudos than Ninjago does, and Luke and Vader are far more essential to that set. We have no idea what role if- any- all the ninjas would play in this set without seeing the movie. It makes sense that this set contains as-yet unidentified new…

If you’re willing to spend £260 on this it’s not out of the question you’ll be getting at least some of the other sets. I’d rather have some unique figures in this set rather than getting duplicates of ones I’m getting anyway.

There’s references to Lego Island and Lego Racers on the upper levels as well!

In Mario Kart Wii I’ve gone through a weird process of loving karts (Turbo Blooper 4 lyfe) then easing ever so gently into bikes to the point that I can’t imagine using anything else. Then I had to unlearn everything I’d learned for Mario Kart 7. If I ever get a Switch, Mario Kart 8 is going to be an interesting…

How does a drumming gorilla relate to chocolate? The point of an advert isn’t just to sell a product; it’s to create something that sticks in the mind long after you see it.

It’s very good, and I’m flabbergasted they actually made it. That said I guess it’s a little easier to make a few mini builds than create a full blown Lego set that would be riddled with compromise.

I’m not entirely sure how the model in Lego Dimensions even goes together by looking at it. It’s insanely complex even by Lego’s standards, and I guess that having something that big suspended from some kind of ceiling would be pushing the tolerances of the pieces something fierce. It’d be the Ghostbusters firehouse,…

Much as I’d love a Portal set (or even, say, a range of modular sets) I’m not surprised Lego never pursued the idea. Outside of the fact it’s fairly niche compared to the other properties they license, you can’t really replicate the mechanics of the game in a Lego set. Still, a man can dream.

I’m pretty sure millennials didn’t invent semantic shift, dude.

I quite like how The Lego Movie uses the idea of prophecy, i.e. as something entirely arbitrary and made-up that serves to give people confidence in their abilities rather than lead a single individual to their destiny.