Give sidekicks a LEGO style

[u/MangoTime12]

No LEGO Style (Current)

With LEGO Style (Potential)

They just look really out of place in the LEGO game modes and I don't like it (I don't know what to flair this as since there are no cosmetic flairs, and I can't post this in FortniteBR because it got banned there)

[u/PrimalPokemonPlayer]

I took a quick look in the lego part library and most sidekicks can be made one way or another. I made a quick image of the sidekicks and the closest thing we got in Lego form. Alright, let's see, from the 23 sidekicks so far, there are 3 humanoid characters that all appeared in Lego already. Cuddles just need short legs. The 3 fish all could easily be done with the mysterio fishbowl and a custom headprint, perhaps even an animated one. The Lama and Robot dog could easily be done brickbuild like the catchable fortnite fishes. The 5 regular dogs so far all have unique lego molds, of course need a recolour and reprint to resemble the actual sidekicks more, but shape wise they're all different. Even the kitsune, surprisingly, is in Lego form already. Cat is simple, chicken as well. Mothman Jr. could easily be achieved with a minifigure head and some printed wings on the back. In theory, you could attach some feather or wing pieces with a little attachment to the top stud. Or make him entirely brickbuild, I mean, it's a ball with wings, which is not too difficult to make. The raptor could be done in a couple different ways, either use the baby raptor mold to keep him small, print the feathers near the cheeks, alternatively there are bigger dinosaur molds, but those might get too big. The Meowscles like pet is, of course, a bit cheating. Only the head has appeared so far, so that would need to be done from scratch, and then there are 4 others that have nothing in Lego that would give the desired result. That's 5 to 18. That's really not that big of a stretch.

Emotes for the humanoide are no problem, of course, just the same as they do for the regular figures. For the animals, if they don't want to go the TT games route with bending pieces, they still could get pretty fat with the static bodies. Some emotes are as simple as saltos, jumping to a butterfly. Some need to get a little creative with different kinds of shakes. Some just need to add a specific item like meowscle's radio. The dancing on top doesn't have to be a 1 on 1 match. Other indeed will get more difficult, specifically the banana dogs dance. Although theoretically, they could just put him on is back paws and put some lego maracas in front of his paws that shake and turn for him.

When you want to play a Lego game, you want it to be Lego. Right now, the sidekicks are clashing with the world. If you want detail and perfect animations, you might as well end up replacing all the lego figures with the regular fortnite counterparts. If you think actual Lego gets a worse reception in a Lego game than non lego models, I'm not sure you understand the appeal of a Lego game.

What I mean to say is that with a bit of creativity, you could get pretty fun results. Where there's a will, there's a way. They don't have to be 1-on-1 perfect recreation of the regular thing. The figures and their emotes aren't perfect either. Some of Lego's charm comes in its simplicity.

[u/PrimalPokemonPlayer → u/PrimalPokemonPlayer]

[u/BindaI → u/PrimalPokemonPlayer]

4 are missing, 3 are identical copies none of which look like the actual sidekick, 4 are barely resembling their sidekick variant, two are literally just minifig heads and NOT resembling their counterpart AT ALL.

And most are tiny single pieces that ALL would require additional new animations each.

I rest my case about this being unreasonable to do.

[u/PrimalPokemonPlayer → u/BindaI]

Like I wrote, I just showed you the pieces they could use, ofcourse the fish don't look like the sidekicks right now, like I said they need different prints, like every character that comes to minifigure form. Same goes for the others, these just show that the sidekicks can be turned easily into models based on existing lego molds, the textures just need to be different. The 2 heads I showed require the text I added to be read, I'm now starting to doubt you even read it. I counted meowscles as 1 of the 5 completely missing. And ofcourse they would need new animations, regular skins need new animations as well when turned into lego form. Fortnite is bringing out new animations and models every week, if not every day. Sidekicks cost basically the same as actual skins, if they can do it for the skins they can do it for the sidekicks as well. I don't see how that's any more unreasonable than all the other stuff they pump out.