I thought it would be fun to see, via our new poll, which LEGO Deku Tree set is more popular, Ocarina of Time or Breath of the Wild. Make sure to vote and then let us know your thoughts!

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While I have no interest in actual LEGO set, this gives me hope that age old idea of LEGO Zelda game might come to fruition (Link in OoT LEGO set has almost the same face as in this fan-made image from 2012)

The Lego set is pretty awesome, quite the surprise. I suspect more sets will come, I’m hoping for a Hyrule Castle one.

Also; OoT Deku Tree always.

I am getting flashbacks from the Skyward Sword discussions that happened a decade ago with this "second game on the same console is bound to sell much less", the kind of selective logic where Pokémon and Splatoon must be ignored.

Nintendo cannot be happy with how TotK has played out either. The game launched with massive hype and the whole thing deflated quickly. That's not what Nintendo is aiming for; what they want are evergreens that keep selling the hardware itself for years. If Nintendo gets complacent like the Zelda fans defending the sales of TotK, then the IP will regress and fail to sell 20m+ in the future.

The most obvious flaw of TotK is its world. The overworld is the same with changes here and there while the underworld is a disappointment; the sky is interesting, but its areas are only a tiny fraction of the whole world. While the next Zelda game will have a new world, Nintendo shouldn't just stop there and instead take the next step. BotW fixed the overworld of Zelda, but dungeons weren't even good enough to be called a work in progress. There are a lot of smaller things that should be done better too, but overworld and dungeons are really the meat of the IP and need to be done right.

The Zelda IP cannot be taken lightly by Nintendo. Since Ocarina of Time it's Nintendo's most expensive to develop IP, so all the effort has to pay off.

I figured you'd go with Ocarina  

As for me, I gotta go Breath of the Wild. I love the Ocarina set, but the inclusion of Zelda in BotW pushes it over the top for me. That, plus Hestu

Looks like pre-orders for the LEGO Deku Tree set are sold out on the US store, but still open at LEGO UK: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/great-deku-tree-2-in-1-77092

Ocarina of Time set of course. Breath of the Wild is awsome too but I would have to go with the classic lego set for sure.

Lots of Zelda news from the Nintendo Direct yesterday!

#1 - Nintendo announced a brand new top-down TLOZ game, coming September 26. In this adventure, you play as Princess Zelda as she investigates strange rifts throughout the kingdom that have swallowed up people, including Link. The central mechanic involves Zelda reproducing items, weapons, and enemies with a magic wand in order to overcome obstacles and monsters. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94RTrH2erPE

#2 - A Link to the Past Four Swords comes to NSO! It supports four players simultaneously, either locally or online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXxYVifwlQA

#3 - Nintendo announced a new "Hyrule Edition" Switch Lite to coincide with the launch of Echoes of Wisdom.