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Lego Harry Potter building a magical May release

by Alexander Sliwinski on Feb 1st 2010 4:29PM

The boy who lived will make his brick-tacular debut when Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 rides a broomstick to every major gaming platform this May. It'll be interesting to see if the retail magic is there with the Hogwarts pupil, as it was for other mega-franchises like Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman.

Lego Harry Potter will apply the standard TT Games treatment to the series, dividing the first four movies (and rectangular objects known as books) into levels. If the idea of playing Quidditch with a flying plastic cube interests you, congratulations! You're the target audience for this game. Speaking of which, where's our Lego Dune?

Tags: harry-potter, lego-harry-potter, Microsoft, Nintendo, travellers-tales, tt-games, Warner-Bros-Interactive, wbie, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (34)

You know, I almost hate when companies strike gold with these kinds of franchises. It's like, OK. Lego Star Wars was a great idea and it was a lot of fun to play and laugh at. And yes, it sold really well, but come on. Let's have some dignity. Do we really need to convert every movie or video game ever made into a LEGO game franchise?

C-C-C-C-C-CASH IN!

more like crash stupid damn lego
thank god for borderlands
my wife will play something other than lego now

Don't ruin my dreams of Lego Back to the Future and Lego God of War.

Still waiting for Lego: Cathouse

I'm still waiting for Lego: Grand Theft Auto and Lego Wolfenstein 3D (Best FPS ever)

Has anyone been to Lego Land? Place is a rip off and wouldn't let my two year old ride a shitty boat ride because she was 1/4 inch short of the requirement. Bunch of bitches that Lego franchise is.

Why didn't you build her some lego shoes to make her taller? I guess you didn't have any Mentos.

Lego Dune?

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/RebelRock/Weirdness/Dune/img_3093.jpg

Hell yes. That would be so awesome.

...yes.

DAMMIT!

What is it with the reply system today????

It's the apostrophe's in Storm Eagle's handle. He's changed it, but the fix only applies to new posts.

It happened to me twice back to back. I thought I wasn't clicking the reply button.

Wait. Are you also telling me that the (now abolished) apostrophe's in my name were breaking the ENTIRE reply system? Not just my own replies?

I didn't know ending the World was so.....easy >:)

EXPECTO PATRONUM!!

Ew...

No way I'm cleaning that up...

More like.....

EXPECTO TO FAILUM

I'm very excited for this!!!!

As am I.

I haven't bought any other lego games besides the star wars games, mainly because I wasn't interested in them (batman and indiana jones are cool and have good comics and/or movies, but I'm not a big fan of either franchise), but I really enjoy Harry Potter.

One question... can we horribly kill Lego Robert Pattinson?

At least the Lego games are fun,unlike some modern games. It's not soul-crushingly difficult, but it is enjoyable.

Lego Batman & Lego Indiana Jones 1 were probably some of the better 360/PS3 games in the last couple of years.

I'm still waiting for Microsoft to realize they can print money with a Lego Halo game....just release it a couple of months before Halo: Reach and the fanboys will buy it. I know it was an April Fool's Joke in EGM but it's right there!

Will it be as magical as turning a portable device sideways and watching it rotate your pictures? As magical as connecting it to your computer and having it "sync"?

You know it's going to happen.

Lego HP Years 1-4 this summer.
Next year, Lego HP Years 5-7.
Six months later, Lego HP: The Complete Saga, with all 7 years plus a few extra bonus bits to try to make you feel like you're not just re-buying the last two games in one package.

As long as I can keep my kids from seeing this, I'll wait for that last game to come out before I pick it up. TT already got a fair chunk of change from me from getting all three Lego Star Wars games.

I hope they come up with a better name before the game launches.

I still think that a Lego Ghost Busters game would be a perfect match.

Am I the only one who finds all the Lego games unnecessarily hard? I usually can't make it past the 2nd level before I come across some annoying puzzle that I can't get past.

Lego Dune FTW!
Lego Aliens would be bad-ass, but those movies are not for kids. :(

I'm surprised they haven't come out with Lego LOTR.
And in a few years, I'm sure they'll start working on Lego Narnia.

Lego Saw?

Actually, I'd really love to see Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, but since that's a disney thing and disney have their own games division, it's almost certainly never gonna happen.

As far as this game goes, I've bought every Lego game except Lego Rock Band up until now. Harry Potter is of no interest to me at all, in fact it annoys me somewhat, so I'll be skipping this one.

C'mon let's be serious we all want to see LEGO:Battletoads

crash city don't buy it!!!!!!!!!

"Books"? Are those like bigger, vinyl versions of text files?

With the exception of Indy 2, the LEGO games are a lot of clever fun. And being a Potter geek myself, well, buying this one is a no-brainer.

My kids will beg me for this one, but I refuse to buy any more of these games until they fix Online Multiplayer in Lego Indy 2.

My kids don't live in the same house (or even the same state), and I'm tired of finding out after it's too late that the games don't do what they say on the box they will do!

Yes, actually we do need to convert every major trilogy/series into a Lego game. I can't believe you had to ask...

Seriously, they can do it with every series and I'd buy them. LOTR? Spider-man? X-men? Really, the possibilities are endless... and I'm first in line whenever one of those becomes a reality.

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