Lego Fortnite, the latest spin-off of the classic Battle Royale, has not even been live for a week and fans are already hard at work fine-tuning their building skills, using Lego pieces to create some really cool stuff. It is the dominant game mode in Fortnite Currently, Lego Fortnite already has 2.45 million concurrent players, a wild number. And these players are using Lego's inventive new building options to create extremely cool cars and planes, among many other creations.
Part of what's impressive is the way players have found workarounds for the controls. Making cars and planes was certainly a conscious choice; the official trailer shows players flying into the sky in constructions with balloons and thrusters. But players haven't found steering wheels in the game, at least at the time of writing – although steering wheels do appear in physical Lego sets. However, there are lever switches that allow you to turn the thrusters on or off. And so players have placed these thrusters on either side of a car and turned them on or off to control their vehicles.
Fans have also discovered how to create airships using thrusters and balloons, and control them in a similar way.
Lego Fortnite is a delightful addition to the core game. Survival mode is bad Minecraft-coded, with similar block-based building and survival gameplay – with crafting, building, farming and more. But if you put the game in creative mode, you have more flexibility to simply build incredible machines that look a lot like the creations you can make with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Zonai devices.
There is a lot of pieces to sort through as you build, which is both creatively exciting and a little terrifying. Fans have already started sharing their work on the Lego Fortnite subredditjokingly comparing themselves to Hyrule Engineers (the subreddit dedicated to complicated TOTK builds). It's still early days and it's exciting to imagine what constructions are yet to come.