Rumor: Traveller's Tales working on Lego Rock Band

by Griffin McElroy on Jan 3rd 2009 5:00PM

We usually save our statements of incredulity for the end of our rumor posts, but we think this story warrants one up front -- we'd have an easier time believing that Lego Halo is in development, and we know that one's not true. Videogaming247 reports that one of their sources is "100 percent" certain that Traveller's Tales is working on a Lego-fied version of Rock Band for Electronic Arts.

Now, we know that Traveller's Tales is currently working on further Lego titles, but when last we heard, these unannounced games are being based off of Warner Bros. IPs -- it's a lot more likely that a Harry Potter game or follow-up to Lego Indiana Jones is in the works. As it stands now, we're fairly certain that VG247's source is either extremely confused, or they're jumping the April Fools' gun by a few months.

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Tags: lego, lego-rock-band, rock-band, rumor, travellers-tales

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will i need new lego instruments that i have to build? and will they be compatible with other music games?

That's actually a really cool idea. Something like Mindstorms, where you build your own peripheral to work best with the game. If it was combined with something like LittleBigPlanet but with it slightly easier to make the game anything you want it to be (I know that's not lego Rock Band but bear with me).

I can see it being a very niche market though.

i like it. sounds expensive tho. and i think the drums would break...

and props to Joystiq for using that picture from the video Fell in Love With a Girl by The White Stripes!

Um....why?

why indeed!

A question I have been asking since the inception of lego video games.

A question I have been asking since the inception of Rock Band.

The answer to lego video games is that they provide an interesting take on existing franchises, with their own brand of gameplay to boot.

The answer to Rock Band is that it's made of awesome.

A question I have been asking since your conception.

It'd be interesting if they were doing this for EA, since EA doesn't own or publish Rock Band, they just distribute it.

If they do, RB2 will soon be catching up to GHWT. Next up: Rock Band Underground, followed by Rock Band 2011. And then MTV's RockBand 2012 (release six month after the first one)

Technically, if you don't count DS games, they are pretty close in franchise whoring...

RB isn't even close.

Last year alone: GH:A, GHWT, GH:OT, GH:OTD.

Rock Band? RB2, AC/DC. The Track Packs don't count since they are simply packs of 20 songs readily available as DLC.

LEGO LoTR, nuff said

That'd be so awesome.

Lego TF2 FTW.

Spah sappin' mah bricks!

Imagine, defending lego helms deep, with a Lego army....

"Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you some blocks?"

Anything Lord of the Rings!

Lego LOTR would be amazing.

How about Lego Boom Blox...

Well Lord of the Rings conquest is going to be so much fun. yes it has flaws, and the trolls on the forums are whining and complaining, but who cares about the flaws when you're having so much fun with your friends kicking a hobbits ass with a balrog in the shire? :D

Not quite you wanted, but here's Lego UT3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSLpId6bvE

and lego Crysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLMKNTJK5sE&feature=related

WTF?!

Oh geez, I knew it would come to this eventually, but I never would have guessed so soon...

i'm just wating for a lego game where you play as a little lego boy who unlocks the secret of building legos and making them come to life and is hailed as a god until he commits suicide due to the realization that he is a child's play thing

No, after the Lego Emperor of the known Universe notice your existence he decides that he will not longer be a tool of your creation and he will work to a find a way to bring you down causing machines all round you to attack you.

Here is where you need to erase System 32 to stop him once and for all before he starts the Machine rebellion in our world.

Are you a Bad enough dude to save our world from the machine rebellion and the wrath or the Lego Emperor?

Give me The White Stripes first, then worry about legos.

As much as I like “The White Stripes” most of their songs are very meh especially the new ones but is nothing compared to the decadency of Linkin Park or the beat up that took Black Eyed Peas.

Elephunk was okay but man Monkey Business? Well what can I tell you is in the title already.

i think a proper lego BUILDING game is needed more than all these hackjob lego games... i wanna build my own cars and monsters

Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts -----> That way.

Agreed 100% I still enjoy Legos too bad I'm old and it looks funny when a grown up guy buys them.

"Is that Spongebob Lego set for your son sir?"

"Eh yeah why not".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Creator

They've already made it.. 10 years ago.

I never played it (indeed, only found out about its existence from playing Lego Loco), but I'd guess that aside from the mouse + keyboard controls it pales in comparison to LBP's creator.

It's called "Lego Builder", and you can download it for free from the Lego site.

Best of all - you can special order the models you design so you can make it in real life. Of course, just playing with virtual Lego is awesome.

The Lego Universe MMO is also supposedly going to allow you to freely create things. Allow why they've chosen to give a kids game a monthly subscription is beyond me.. The game won't last 6 months.

Charging for packs of bricks would make FAR more sense and would likely make them even more money.

Lego Ninja Gaiden and Lego GTA...It can happen right?

Lego GTA - blood = Lego Island.

so why can't we just have lego games based on.. legos? lego indiana jones, lego batman, star wars, they're all the same damn game anyway

I agree. Make like a LEGO MMO game or something. Everyone gets a space to build what they want and you can make huge a LEGO town with other LEGO people online. Graphics wouldn't be too demanding. Just a bunch of blue, yellow and red bricks.

They ARE making a Lego MMO. Game development isn't as simple as typing out a spreadsheet and having the computer MAKE your game for you. Something as ambitious as a Lego MMO is going to take more time than the TT Lego copy pasta projects.

He's right that a Lego MMO for PC's is scheduled to be released in 2009.

http://universe.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

Lego Leisure Suit Larry.

Perhaps a Lego-fied version of a Rock Band, but not the Rock Band.

Lego Doors, perhaps. An adventure through the twisted trips of Jim Morrison

White Stripes for teh win!
Music video is awesome.
Michel Gondry is awesome, got me into daft punk.!

Lego Vector Man

Lego Eternal Darkness

Lego Half Life (imagine the head crabs)

The only way I can see Lego Rock Band happening is as a DLC costume pack.

April Fools!

...

right?

Well, if that image is any indication of things to come, then I for one can't wait to experience Rock Band on my Atari 2600

I actually have a friend on the inside, and they are working on lego rock band. from casual conversations i've had with this friend, its basically going to be rock band for kinds, and two tracks i rememeber him telling me were Avril Lavinge - Boyfriend, and Europe - Final Countdown.

He also said theres going to be a "very easy" mode.

Edit - "from casual conversations i've had with this friend, its basically going to be rock band for KIDS"

Why the hell would The Final Countdown be in a kiddie Rock Band and not my Rock Band?

The Final Countdown is too epic to be stuck in a kids game!

I have no idea. Thats Just what he told me.

Apparantley Guiness World Records 2, and Lego Indiana Jones 2 are also in the pipeline.

While I doubt you have an actual 'source', this is my guess as well. Basically an E or E10+ rated version of Rock Band, plus Lego branding to make it obvious that it's for kids.

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