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Hands-on: Lego Minifigures Online might just bankrupt every parent on Earth

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It's a scary time to be a parent. First, Activision's Skylanders franchise created this wallet-murdering nightmare confluence of collectible toys tied to video game characters where each physical toy you bought unlocked a new part of the game. Then Disney looked at its vast holdings and said, "Well hey, we can do that," releasing Disney Infinity unto the world.

Now it's Lego's turn.

Yes, Lego Minifigures Online adapts the same buy-toys-use-in-games model to those adorable yellow Lego people. Call it insidious. Call it genius. Either way, Lego is coming.

The game is being developed by Funcom (makers of The Secret World) and is an action MMO that plays more than a bit like Diablo; you have one standard attack mapped to Left Mouse, one special attack mapped to Right Mouse. This is an MMO-lite clickfest, where you just kind of mash on those buttons until everything is dead, but in a deliciously fun way.

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