David Bowie invites us all to dance in latest Lego Rock Band trailer

by Ben Gilbert on Oct 6th 2009 11:58PM

No, really, that's David Bowie. Click for a higher-resolution peak

Warner Bros. today announced the inclusion of David Bowie as a second playable character in upcoming music/rhythm game, Lego Rock Band, and also handed over a mess of new media seen above and below. Coupled with last month's Iggy Pop announcement , the game's playable-musician-who-probably-shouldn't-be-in-a kids-game quotient has officially been doubled. One major plus for Bowie: Lego character gender ambiguity is all the more fitting. Bravo, MTV Games! Now that's synergy.

Lego Rock Band (David Bowie)

Tags: david-bowie, harmonix, lego, lego-rock-band, Microsoft, mtv-games, Nintendo, rock-band, Travellers-Tales, warner-bros-interactive-entertainment, wbie, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (62)

Do you think they made the notes square back in RB1 knowing this will be released?

No.

Mr Moore, can you get them to put Huey Lewis and the News in Lego Rock Band?
I think 'Hip To Be A Square' would be a great song for Lego Huey Lewis to perform.

Did I mention I totally think you could beat up Bobby Kotick?

Stinky pants Activision would have sued if they had been circlular.

The song is 'Hip to Be Square." And 'I Want a New Drug' is better.

Ah yes, you're right Tom; my bad.

I just kept on thinking about the Sesame Street episode with some squares singing their version of the song.

I thought American Psycho, but I guess that's just me.

But is he IN SPACE?

He is in Dead Space!

Yes. He's really far out.

(That's really far out, man.)

David Bowie is in every video game.

As he should be.

uh? where my comment?

I just said David Bowie is a cool dude anyways...

Only a matter of time until they announce that Lego Freddie Mercury's playable.

No.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No.

There is no reasonable purpose for Rock Band do turn into a Lego spinoff. No. It had a credible concept with those silly movie spinoffs, but no. This is just retarded. This is "Gamer Chow."

Oh boy! I love Gamer Chow! Especially after an appetizer of Gamer Snax
Then I love to wash it down with some Gamer Fuel.

After which, I have really nasty poops.

This is for little kids, the music is oriented towards them, and you can import the songs into RB2. Have you looked at the setlist by the way? Some pretty good songs.

the songs are importable. it is awesome.

Looks more like Billy Idol to me.

They're "Legos"* what do you expect?

*Quotes, because are digital Legos still Legos? I don't know.

Will it cut to another Lego Bowie in space from time to time?

How far out are you, man?
I'm pretty far out!
That's pretty far out, man!

Can I play this on my LSD screen?

Buddy, I'm sure you can play anything you want to on your LSD screen. You wouldn't need to buy anything to do it except for copious amounts of LSD. Good luck to ya.

My LSD screen gives me High Definition.

No, Harmonix CAN'T go the way of Activision. Maybe you meant to say that MTV Games is going the way of Activision, or possibly EA or WB Interactive. Or maybe you meant that Harmonix is going the way of Neversoft. But Harmonix can't go the way of Activision.

they need some lego rock band peripherals

Oh yeah, and it would totally rawk if they came in a plastic container and you totally had to build it your self from scratch!!!!!! I'll stick to my RB2 set thank you.

I wonder if you can use his telescopic antennae to transmit DATA BACK TO EARTH!

Don't you mean YOUR telescopic antennae, Mr. Bowie?

With my pointy nipples?

Bowie do you have one really funky sequined space suit, Bowie? Or do you have several ch-ch-ch-ch- changes?

Poor David Bowie. Decades of fame, hit albums, and various alter egos - all squashed and suppressed into a flight of the conchords episode/song... If they weren't so damn funny doing it, it might have been a total shame.

Since it's owned by MTV does that mean eventually the Rock Band games will only play reality shows?

Lego Games Rock
when is Lego halo 2 coming out? I've been psyched ever since seeing the trailer on youtube

I'm not sure if that's sarcasm, but they're not doing Lego Halo. Lego would *never* allow their product to be used to advertise an M rated franchise. And again for those complaining that this is a seperate game and not DLC, it's intended for kids. It wouldn't work at all as DLC because then it would be combined with all the other songs, and even if there was a way to lock them off, how many parents would know of its existance?

As for the Lego games, the next one after the updated Indiana Jones is Harry Potter and then Clone Wars later in the year.

Even now I sense the good in them. It's not too late!

Dance Lego Dance
Dance Lego Dance
Put that plastic spell on me
Make this sh*t instead of Rock Band 3

This game is not being developed by Harmonix. It's a Traveller's Tales. Harmonix is only in charge of charting and license integrity.

Well if TT is doing it, someone needs to tell them to f*ck LBR and make a new Sonic 3D Blast! THAT GAME WAS AWESOME!

That should be RBL, I think I have lysdexia.

did anyone else notice that the drums activated overdrive without a fill?

It appears that one of the guitars activated it for everyone. Nice catch.

They should have used Lego guitar necks on screen with colored bricks for the notes. Come on, if I could think of that they should be able to.

The notes *are* Lego blocks.

Oh you're right. I couldn't tell from the video, it looks like normal Rock Band at that resolution. But still, Lego guitar necks would've looked sweet.

Man, I love David Bowie more than anyone and I think this looks way dumb. I love Iggy Pop too but his Lego dude at least looked like him in a bizarre way. Width of a Circle would be badass by the way.

I challenge you to a 'who loves David Bowie the most' contest.
-dog named Dorsey (after Gail Ann Dorsey [most recent bass player]) has two different colored eyes
-promotional cardboard cut out from Reality
-over 20 CDs (including both Tim Machine albums and the labyrinth soundtrack)
-Own all dvds (concert and film except Basquiot (sp?) and Absolute Beginners

it's on... ;)

You know how I know Rock Band is gay? They Teamed up with Lego!

You know how I know you're gay? You have a rainbow bumper sticker on your car that says, "I like it when balls are in my face."

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David Bowie invites us all to dance in latest Lego Rock Band trailer

Lego Rock Band (David Bowie)

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