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Franchises That Should Become Traveller's Tales LEGO Games

by mento

Nothing like a straightforward title like that to make this text box completely unnecessary. But what can I say? I can't pass a text box without writing something in there. I'm taking the therapy sessions.

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Back to the Future

1. Back to the Future

Really, what's needed for a good Lego adaptation is a movie franchise at least a trilogy long with a goofy sense of humour that could be easily mimed out by Lego people. The BTTF franchise is currently content to be a point and click, but I can't imagine it'll stay unblockified for too long.

The Lord of the Rings

2. The Lord of the Rings

Completely doable. Maybe if they polished the war stuff from the Clone Wars Lego game, that would be a good way to split up the levels where everyone's walking.

The Chronicles of Narnia

3. The Chronicles of Narnia

Traveller's Tales actually makes the official games of the Narnia movies, so this seems practically a given.

Spider-Man

4. Spider-Man

I could fill this whole list with comic adaptations after they did Batman, so I'll just stick with the super popular Spiderman, currently languishing in a generic beat-em-up series. But then maybe the Avengers or X-Men would be a better fit, with all the different powers the game could use to solve puzzles. Comic books, am I right?

The Mummy

5. The Mummy

As a series that takes great pains to out-goofy Indiana Jones in the period adventure serial stakes, it seems natural to follow that revered series into the world of Lego.

Asterix

6. Asterix

There'd be a lot of satirical subtext lost with a Lego game of this French comic, but since that's already the case with the movies I don't think it'll be missed by many. There are so many Asterix stories to draw from to fit the Lego games' episodic formats. And it's not like Lego isn't from continental Europe either.

The Matrix

7. The Matrix

Just so Neo can be awoken from his Lego paradise prison and discover the "real world" is actually cold, hard Meccano.

James Bond

8. James Bond

Possibly only the Roger Moore ones. I can definitely see those corny adventures becoming Lego games. I mean, c'mon, Blocktopussy!

Beverly Hills Cop

9. Beverly Hills Cop

Like you aren't picturing a Lego Axel Foley sticking a banana up that undercover cop car's tailpipe.

Terminator

10. Terminator

Ever melt a Lego? Smells appalling and slightly toxic. Which means the T1000 just got even more deadly.

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