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Lego Fortnite takes the original skins from battle royale and smushes them into adorable, block-shaped caricatures of themselves. Unfortunately, not every battle royale skin has a Lego version yet (poor Deku). Thankfully, there are quite a few already available. Here are the best Lego Fortnite skins, including both original and licensed characters alike.

Best Lego Fortnite Skins: The Mandalorian 2j6w3v

If you’ve read any of my Lego Fortnite coverage here, there is a strong chance you’ve seen me wearing The Mandalorian skin. Besides being super biased about this one, I appreciate the customizable nature of this crossover skin. If you unlocked this skin during Chapter 2, you can swap the different armor sections for Mando. This gives a lot of possible variation for using this skin. Plus, he looks super adorable rather than menacing in Lego form.

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Raven is one of the most iconic skins of all time. This Chapter 1 skin takes a few liberties in its Lego version. I would argue that it opts for a darker color scheme than its usual purple style, but it works. This makes Raven one of the more mysterious and detailed skins in Lego form. I really appreciate the glowing eyes, which stand out well in this survival game.

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There aren’t a ton of crossover skins that have made the switch to Lego Fortnite thus far. This is possibly due to the licensing issues. Spider-Man, thankfully, is one of the few available right now. He is one of the best superheroes for a reason and the Lego skin version looks fantastic. The blue and red suit is sharp and bright, while the spider emblem in the middle is large and noticeable as it should be.

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Galaxia takes on a quite different style in her Lego version. While not quite as magnificent as her original skin, which I would argue is one of the best in all of Fortnite, it still retains some of its signature effects. You can see the sparkly stars across her outfit, plus her colorful hairstyle. Then there are her feet, which shine brightly in a way no other Lego skin does.

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This is one of the spookier Lego Fortnite skins players can use. It is the prime example of a Lego skin taking the original and making it much better. I would argue the original Plague Doctor is pretty forgettable. But his downsize into blocky form turns out quite well, with the memorable gray hat, detailed overall outfit, and neat accents throughout like the glowing green eyes.

Lego Fortnite is available on Android, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC entirely for free.

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Lego Fortnite is gaining a massive new feature for fans of local multiplayer, as official splitscreen is coming soon. The new splitscreen mode option was announced during the PlayStation State of Play event on September 24, 2024.

For now, we know splitscreen will be available for both PS4 and PS5 in the near future. No exact release date has been announced at this time. The feature will allow two players to play on the same console and TV screen in the same world simultaneously. The feature has an intriguing split perspective where it shows each player’s avatar next to their horizontally-centric screen.

Some details are still unknown about the Lego Fortnite splitscreen mode, such as whether or not the second player will be able to use their existing Epic Games . This would allow them to play on the same console as friends or family and still earn levels towards the Battle . Furthermore, it is uncertain if this splitscreen feature will be available for other consoles like Xbox and Nintendo Switch.

In addition to the splitscreen option, there is also a new limited-time Fortnite-themed DualSense controller. It has a light baby blue color scheme with various graffiti-like stickers of various Fortnite characters like Fishstick all over it. It will arrive later this year in 2024. Pre-orders will begin for the new PS5 Fortnite DualSense controller on October 3, 2024 at various retailers.

Lego Fortnite is available for free for Android, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Splitscreen will arrive for PS4 and PS5 in the near future.

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Epic Games announced that Star Wars content is coming to all Fortnite modes, including Lego Fortnite. The update will apparently arrive on May 3, 2024. 

Epic didn’t note which Star Wars properties will appear in the game. There are no images teasing specific characters. It only shared clips of the Star Wars logo alongside the names of Fortnite and the modes Lego Fortnite, Fortnite Festival, and Fortnite Battle Royale. 

Star Wars cosmetics already appeared in the game prior to this announcement. For example, people could get cosmetics and equipment based on characters like Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader, Pe Amidala, the Mandalorian, Ahsoka Tano, and Storm or Clone Troopers. 

The last major crossover involved the Avatar series. Characters like Aang, Zuko, and Korra showed up in the main mode of the game.

Another Lego Star Wars announcement is coming in May 2024 too. To celebrate May the Fourth, there will be a TIE Interceptor kit released on May 4, 2024. It will cost $229.99.

Fortnite is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, Windows PC, and mobile devices, and Star Wars content is coming to the main game and modes like Lego Fortnite on May 3, 2024.

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LEGO Fortnite feels like one of the best surprises in gaming in a long time. Epic Games and LEGO came together to offer a survival experience that feels like an amalgamation of multiple titles into one monumental offering. It may not be perfect, but it lays the foundation for something special.

LEGO Fortnite feels like a mix of games like Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Story of Seasons, and Animal Crossing. It takes the standard survival and building mechanics of Minecraft, tosses in farming and relationships from Story of Seasons, and has the idea of building houses and recruiting lovable villagers, like in Animal Crossing.

This makes for a massive and beautiful adventure where players make their LEGO worlds and survive or build within them. The aesthetic is fantastic, as classic characters and creatures from Fortnite have a glossy new blocky look. This works well, giving LEGO Fortnite an appearance that looks better than the main game, in my opinion.

The overall survival experience feels like the heart of the game right now. It carefully guides players through their custom world with tutorials on how to build villages, create houses, upgrade their town, gain new villagers, and more. The various biomes, ranging from the grasslands to the snowy areas, offer various materials and monsters to tackle.

But LEGO Fortnite feels, in many ways, like the original Minecraft did near its alpha launch. There is a clear game here, even with a final boss-like monster at the end, but the overall experience is a bit shallow. Even the various custom worlds you can create all feel a bit too samey at times in their design and style.

Sure, there are lots of buildings and materials to gather, but I will it that LEGO Fortnite loses its luster over time, especially if you don’t have people to play it with. It becomes a quick and repetitive chore to go into that cave, farm some materials, return and craft your desired upgrade, and repeat the cycle.

Smart elements like villagers being able to go out and gather resources help with this, but it only goes so far. Within a dozen hours, you’ll probably see everything the game pretty much has to offer. What holds it back is the lack of features to keep the experience going past this point. After all, the actual building in this game feels a bit clunky and odd.

There are blueprints for houses and certain items you can follow, which makes it accessible for newcomers. But you can also use custom parts to make your creations. Unfortunately, these planks, platforms and the like still feel like they are forcing you into a box of what you can and can’t do. This isn’t like Minecraft in the way that every item is essentially a similar block, so it feels a bit too restrictive at times.

Fortunately, there is room for some creativity, such as creating a flying car Tears of the Kingdom-style. That said, it all gets pretty boring quite fast, and it comes down to the closed-off nature of the game and only 10 levels for villages. It doesn’t help that the game isn’t too forgiving (at least in survival) when it comes to moving structures.

If you build your village up with a dozen houses and structures and then want to move it to a different biome, it doesn’t let you easily do that. You have to destroy every single piece and rebuild them again elsewhere. Sure, games like Minecraft also have a similar idea, but the building in this game is already so cumbersome that it would be nice to have some quality-of-life features here.

Then there is the combat, which also feels somewhat awkward to control. Oddly, the combat in this game doesn’t take after Fortnite completely, so don’t expect your shotty to be here. Instead, it has some slow hack-and-slash moves and a dodge. I like the dodge but everything feels slower than it should, which led to me getting hit more than I would like.

LEGO Fortnite could be truly special with more villagers, better quality-of-life features, and a general sense of direction. For now, it remains a solid but incomplete foundation. It is great fun for a time, but it will need some improvements and additions before it becomes a more permanent video game home for me to live in.

LEGO Fortnite is available for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Android devices.

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As well as having reached a concurrent player count of over two million and being a major argument for Fortnite as a media platform, Lego Fortnite also returns to the game's roots as a building game with survival elements. But despite the game's explosive success and charming appearance, there are a few issues with that mar its accessibility focused appeal.

Like its peers Valheim, Ark, The Forest, etc., building is a major part of Lego Fortnite, and to be fair to the game its 'Builds' system serves as a pretty great tutorial. Simply gather your materials, place down a schematic for your building design of choice and snap the components into place. But as useful as it is, many players will want to move on from these ready-made blueprints to deg their own structures and towers, and unfortunately that's where Lego Fortnite falls into a bit of a snare.

See, in say Minecraft nearly everything fitting into that same size of block means most objects are functionally 1x1. You have doors and other things that might be 2x1 or even 3x1 but generally most things work on that framework and it's simple enough you barely have to think about it.

But in Lego Fortnite, you're working with several different dimensions, for example your average wall being 2 Lego studs wide, 16 long, and 12 high. That means all of a sudden you've going to have to be paying attention to these individual little studs because if you get it wrong your house's roof isn't going to meet in the middle. And because everything is in these set dimensions, you can't always just fill it in with smaller roofing pieces because you're stuck working with the sizes given to you. You can't fill a 1x4 gap with only 2x4 blocks, to say nothing of the way many particular dimensions are weirdly progress-gated in Survival mode. Sometimes you'll unlock a new piece of a particular style, only for the half-sized version to be locked behind several more village upgrades.

To top it off are a number of other small annoyances. Once placed down, your structures and equipment must be broken down again if you decide they'd be better situated elsewhere. While you get all the resources back, breaking them requires slowly punching them or using durability from tools that could have been spent gathering new resources. Not to mention, if you were trying to fill in some gap with smaller pieces, you'd have to punch each tiny piece several times individually to clear them up.

So what could Epic do to solve these problems? Well, making placed items easier to break is just as likely to result in accidentally damaging your builds, but a dedicated dismantling tool would work, especially with a wide-range option. Then, a way to measure out lengths would go a long way, since counting Minecraft blocks is a fair bit easier than tiny Lego studs. The dimensions thing is a little trickier, you could simply add more variations, but that would lead to bloat of an already large catalogue and there'll always be some minor style missing. A way to create custom sized pieces or simply click-and-drag to fill a selected space would work, but I've no idea on the implementation feasability. It may just be something that players have to learn to live with, but it's an unfortunate design oversight that goes against the game's greatest strengths: accessibility and simplicity.

Lego Fortnite is available now for the PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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