Traveller's Tales assembling more Warner Bros. LEGO titles

by Randy Nelson { Aug 6th 2008 at 8:00PM }

Speaking with Variety, Traveller's Tales president Jon Burton revealed that his company – which created LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indiana Jones, and the upcoming LEGO Batman – is working on more block-tastic titles based on Warner Bros. IPs. "We've gotten started doing some LEGO games on the Warner IP," Burton confirms, stating that they are "down the line." That's games plural.

In the piece, Burton is also quoted as saying: "To be able to dabble around in CG and film would be interesting," and that, "Warner allows me to push in those directions without 'quitting the day job,' so to speak." We reckon that games based on movies are definitely one way to fulfill that interest, but which WB properties (other than the Caped Crusader) could be LEGO-worthy? We'd be interested in seeing how Traveller's Tales would tackle such anticipated Warner projects as Watchmen, Terminator Salvation, and Superman: Man of Steel. Let's just hope it passes on The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2. Which Warner flicks would you like to see LEGO-fied?

Tags: lego, travellers-tales, warner-bros, warner-bros-interactive

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Obie @ Aug 6th 2008 8:06PM

Lego Terminator? Haha sure why not.
I hope they just base it on the first two, Terminator 3 sucked monkey ass.

Henry @ Aug 6th 2008 8:11PM

I wish people would understand that the plural of Lego is Lego!

anonymous @ Aug 9th 2008 8:59PM

legos

spoo @ Aug 6th 2008 8:12PM

They sure know how to drive a series into the ground by making the same exact game over and over and over and over again.

Batzarro @ Aug 6th 2008 8:16PM

My money's on that annoying wizard boy...Harry Porter?

Gronk @ Aug 7th 2008 8:02AM

Lego Snape kills Lego Dumbledore!

xGeneral DEATHx @ Aug 7th 2008 8:07AM

Spoiler alert!!!1!!!one!

Xoviet chiK @ Aug 6th 2008 8:17PM

LEGO The Fountain.

Yes!

Mog @ Aug 6th 2008 8:25PM

LEGO Harry Potter would seem to be the obvious choice, considering that's a A) kid-friendly B) Warner Bros. property with C) a large cast of playable characters that D) LEGO already makes toys for. Alas, EA owns the rights.

Xoviet chiK @ Aug 6th 2008 8:30PM

Warner Bros. Interactive has a history of working with other publishers. I don't see why they couldn't work with EA to do LEGO Harry Potter.

Averna @ Aug 6th 2008 8:52PM

Indiana isnt kid friendly. They made it kid friendly in a way that would amuse he adults as well. Theoretically they could do anything.

belden @ Aug 6th 2008 8:27PM

If done right, they could come up with some amazing concepts. Just off the top of my head, three classic Warner properties I could see myself playing: Lego Looney Tunes, Lego Wizard Of Oz, and Lego Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.

VOID Munashii @ Aug 6th 2008 8:38PM

Well, Lego "Matrix" seems like a bit of a natural, although it would play exactly like Lego Star Wars as far as using the force goes.

It's too bad WB doesn't have any goodd zombie films, as a Lego "Shaun of the Dead", "Night of the Living Dead", or "Army of Darkness" would be a lot of fun, if a bit mature for the typical Lego audience.

anonymous @ Aug 9th 2008 8:59PM

Shaun of the Dead sucked

belden @ Aug 6th 2008 8:45PM

Also, outside the kiddie realm:
- Lego Matrix Trilogy
- Lego Kubrick (2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket)
- Lego Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Lego Gremlins
- Lego Lethal Weapon
- Lego Mars Attacks!
- Lego Little Shop Of Horrors

BPM [MSN: BPMdotEXE @ hotmail.com] @ Aug 6th 2008 9:30PM

FUND IT.

Doug @ Aug 6th 2008 8:46PM

Isn't this $49.99-a-pop worth of playable advertising? Pass.

belden @ Aug 6th 2008 8:53PM

I take it you've never played any of the Lego games? People like to write them off, but they are fun and well made, especially for fans of the movies.

As to your comment about "playable advertising", every movie that comes out now has a game to go along with it. You act as if this is something new and they weren't making E.T. games for the Atari 2600 or TMNT games for the NES. It's part of buying a property and basing a game around it and it happens all the time. At least Traveller's Tales has a very good track rating when it comes to their games in terms of not only sales but critical reception and variety of IPs chosen.

Xoviet chiK @ Aug 6th 2008 8:47PM

New Line Cinema is also a division of Warner Bros. LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy is certainly possible.

belden @ Aug 6th 2008 8:57PM

I thought so too, but didn't EA pretty much buy exclusive rights to make games based on the film versions at least? I know someone else said that it could be published by EA, but EA has been churning LOTR games out pretty consistently and I doubt they would let someone else touch it.

Gregpong @ Aug 6th 2008 8:49PM

Lego Star Trek!

Crazylink @ Aug 6th 2008 8:48PM

Oh, that's a Terminator? I thought it was Metallo.

xGeneral DEATHx @ Aug 7th 2008 8:13AM

"Metallo! Stand down!"

Ian @ Aug 6th 2008 9:46PM

Lego Matrix
Lego Lord of the Rings
Lego Goonies
Lego Harry Potter

Andrew @ Aug 6th 2008 10:02PM

Lego Watchmen would be pretty badass, although completely not in the spirit of the comic...

I'd have to say that Lego LOTR would be the most likely.

Sith Draven @ Aug 7th 2008 7:14AM

The Matrix for me. Doesn't Warner also do Harry Potter? That would be huge.

MadWritter @ Aug 7th 2008 4:47AM

Harry Potter. That should be the next logical Lego game.

djbuhhda @ Aug 6th 2008 9:50PM

if i remeber correctly there was already harry potter lego games on the PC for the first 3 movies i believe. but im goin to say lets bring on lego Juno.

dark_inchworm @ Aug 6th 2008 9:50PM

LEGO Animaniacs and Freakazoid, bitch.

Sheppy, get your ass over here and back me up.

Joe @ Aug 6th 2008 9:51PM

Lego Terminator would so rock. I could see this being a big hit. I know I would buy it I love Lego toys. I can never be to only to like them.

belden @ Aug 6th 2008 9:52PM

"Remember ALF? He's back, in LEGO form."

Saria the Cat @ Aug 6th 2008 9:55PM

I was never a big fan of the Lego series. Sure, LEGOs are awesome. And sure, the stuff they turn into LEGOs are also pretty cool. But the gameplay mechanics always turn me off. I felt like I could stick my controller under one of those robot water drinking birds and beat the game in an hour.

xGeneral DEATHx @ Aug 7th 2008 8:15AM

Putting the controller under a running lawnmower will input the 99 Lives code.

Cancerboy @ Aug 6th 2008 10:04PM

Once again... the plural of LEGO is LEGO... no s.

j.howlett @ Aug 6th 2008 10:21PM

yes and you technically don't photoshop images but we don't all follow corporate rules when discussing a brand or how we describe using it.

Saria the Cat @ Aug 7th 2008 1:30AM

Sorry, I don't know anyone that says "I like to build stuff out of LEGO." I think "All your LEGO are belong to me" would work, though. Not adding an "s" to LEGOs is...wrong.

Cancerboy @ Aug 7th 2008 3:07AM

Adding s to LEGO is almost exclusively a product of the USA.

Goblin @ Aug 7th 2008 3:10AM

I guess this LEGOs thing is an American tradition? I've never heard anyone in the UK add an s to it. Do you also refer to playing with Meccanos? (Do you even have Meccano?)

LEGO is the name of the company that makes a particular type of construction bricks. The singular is a LEGO brick and the plural is LEGO bricks. You play with LEGO.