Rumor: No Lego Harry Potter in '09

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jan 5th 2009 at 5:20PM }

A Eurogamer source claims that Traveller's Tales isn't making a Lego Harry Potter game this year. This follows rumors that a brickitized Potter title was in the works, courtesy of the folks behind Lego Star Wars and Lego Indy. Said rumor has been floating around ever since Warner Bros., which holds the wizard's movie rights, bought TT in 2007.

The Eurogamer source also claims a new installment of Lego Indiana Jones is likely to arrive this year. At this point, we're willing to believe almost any franchise can be turned into a TT Lego game. Well, that Lego Rock Band rumor is still a bit weird.

Tags: eurogamer, harry-potter, lego-harry-potter, travellers-tales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ice~ @ Jan 5th 2009 5:25PM

Which means LEGO LoTR IS possible!!!!!!!

DEEZNUTZ @ Jan 5th 2009 5:30PM

That would be awesome. Just scrap Harry Potter and work on Lego LOTR I say.

thesimplicity @ Jan 5th 2009 6:34PM

I still say we're going to see a Lego Watchmen game to coincide with the movie. It is Warner Bros, after all.

ice~ @ Jan 5th 2009 6:41PM

Well what game would you rather have? lol, I for one, have never read the watchmen and have no idea what the heak its all about -_-

Snowblind @ Jan 5th 2009 8:01PM

New Line own the LoTR liscene, so it can't happen. Lego also has to approve everything, the brick versions of all the characters, equipment and everything.

Even if it could happen, I don't think Lego would go for it.

ice~ @ Jan 5th 2009 8:07PM

However...New Line Cinema is a division of Warner Brothers....therefore it is a possibility. Maybe around the time of the Hobbit movie. Ya never know

Snowblind @ Jan 5th 2009 8:37PM

I guess it could.

I'm more annoyed with the news about Indy 2. I guess we knew it would happen, but I was hoping they'd simply release new content for Indy with DLC.

If they are actually making a sequel then we know there's no point in buying any of these games, may as well wait for the "complete saga" versions.

ice~ @ Jan 5th 2009 8:51PM

That's most likely what I'll do. I absolutely loved Lego Indy, it was one of my favorite games in 2008. I had a lot of fun playing, but hopefully, they put in online co-op...that is all I can really ask for.

Moptimus Slime @ Jan 5th 2009 5:30PM

The 1 thing LEGO Harry Potter needs for me to buy it: I picture of Emma Watson in skimpy clothing on the front. Day one confirmed.

J-Link @ Jan 5th 2009 5:41PM

What if it was a picture of the Lego version of her, would you still buy it?

Haggard @ Jan 5th 2009 5:31PM

I used to quite like the potter games on the PS1. Having said that, I was a very stupid child.

Fernando Rocker @ Jan 5th 2009 5:35PM

Well... Lego series are good games to play with the family, girlfriend, wife, etc... mostly because the easy learning curve, cute graphics and local co-op.

And Harry Potter is a very good series, well, at least the books (don't know about the games, never played them). Too bad that most people like to bash the series, but I really find the books to be very good, good writing and an excellent story, with very appealing and interesting characters.

Moptimus Slime @ Jan 5th 2009 5:59PM

The series died after Order of the Phoenix. I had to push myself to finish Half Blood Prince and I skipped Deathly Hollows completely.

Fernando Rocker @ Jan 5th 2009 6:10PM

Really?

Half Blood Prince is definitely my favorite book in the series, and I really liked Deathly Hallows... I could feel the desperation and isolation that the main characters experienced while searching the Deathly Hallows.

Haggard @ Jan 5th 2009 6:16PM

Deathly Hallows was amazing. She finally broke out of the formula she'd locked herself into with the 'one book = one year in school' structure of the series.

I hate it when people bash Harry Potter. I mean, for starters she's writing for kids. What do you expect, War and Peace? And the plot is incredibly complex yet well executed, as well as her having a fairly competent writing style. 99% of the people who say Harry Potter is rubbish are pretentious faux-intellectual snobs who couldn't string together a personality or character for themselves, let alone a novel.

Haggard @ Jan 5th 2009 6:17PM

btw the flames there weren't directed at anyone here, just speaking generally

J-Link @ Jan 5th 2009 5:42PM

Who actually remembers those Lego Harry Potter sets from their childhood?

baby sea tuna @ Jan 5th 2009 5:53PM

To be fair, Batman, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars LEGO sets weren't around when I was a child either.

NvM @ Jan 5th 2009 5:48PM

I remember the Harry Potter RPGs they made for the Gameboy Color, those were sweet.

Moptimus Slime @ Jan 5th 2009 5:52PM

I remember CoS on GBA. Every other game in the series (up to PoA) I played on my PC. They had a primitive open-world mechanic (especially the 3), but the best parts of all of the was Quidditch

FSK405K @ Jan 5th 2009 5:50PM

Good. That means they've got more time for Lego Grand Theft Auto and Lego World of Warcraft.

Esat Dedezade @ Jan 5th 2009 5:54PM

My life now has no meaning.

InFaMoUs1- @ Jan 5th 2009 6:02PM

LEGO games are getting sooo old now.

Ethan @ Jan 5th 2009 6:03PM

Surely they're making the Harry Potter one for when the Deathly Hallows hits cinemas to coincide with the marketothon?

(01) @ Jan 5th 2009 6:45PM

A rumor that a game only RUMORED to be thought about is canceled? We are a sad bunch.....

Nofriendo @ Jan 5th 2009 7:01PM

when are they gonna make lincoln log versions of movies like, "mr smith goes to washington"

GundamWingEW @ Jan 5th 2009 7:06PM

They've raped the books enough with those God awful movies that WB keeps churning out....so I'm glad that they won't make this.

scissors125 @ Jan 5th 2009 9:27PM

To me, the lego series is being milked beyond belief.

I liked the first Lego Starwars. I thought it was a clever idea, and it was a lot of fun. Whenever Lego Starwars 2 came out, I was happy that they decided to continue the series with the classic Starwars movies instead of the newer ones. Then the Complete Saga came out, and I didn't buy it. There seemed like there was almost no point to making the game at all.

Then Lego Indiana Jones was released... Ugh, I'm getting sick of it now... Then Lego BATMAN was released.

I stopped right there, because I was really getting bored of the Lego formula.

It's like Guitar Hero. It was clever and fun to play at first, then it just gets old after the 100th game has been released.

I mean, I don't hate the lego games, but they should have stopped with the complete saga, or changed the mechanics to keep it from being boring.