By John Walker on February 8th, 2010 at 6:39 pm.
You thought they’d run out of Star Wars films to make Lego games about, right? Wrong. Now the TV series, Clone Wars, is to receive the plastic man treatment. I think it’s tempting to start rolling eyes at the prospect of another Lego game. The Lego Indies have been a bit disappointing, and the prospect of Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4 may not fill everyone’s hearts with glee. But the Star Wars games were genuinely fantastic, and yet another could be fun. It will feature all the characters from the two seasons of the show, and apparently “brand new battle modes”. There’s also a new version of the level builder, and of course lightsaber fighting. The game site’s here. So, as is obligatory, below you must suggest which other film series merit the Lego treatment. And everyone’s already said Godfather. Go!
08/02/2010 at 18:45 LeFishy says:
I’d like to see lego District 9.
This is probably my secret desire to arm small plastic men with alien weaponry manifesting itself though.
08/02/2010 at 20:36 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:
@ lego district 9 , that would be brilliant!
08/02/2010 at 18:46 Dinger says:
obligatory Simpsons ref: Lego My Dinner with André.
Memento, Birth of a Nation, The Big Sleep
08/02/2010 at 18:46 Jaxtrasi says:
John Carpenter’s The Lego Thing.
08/02/2010 at 18:48 Arathain says:
The African Queen. Lego Bogart and Hepburn! Hippos!
Edit: My wife wins the thread. Hudson Hawk, she says.
08/02/2010 at 18:50 Zaphid says:
Lego Fight Club!
Wait, you can do that already with some hair spray and a few bricks you won’t need anymore.
08/02/2010 at 18:51 Sobric says:
Can I get meta and suggest Lego versions of current games as well?
I’d like to see Lego Dragon Age, if only for the sex scenes.
08/02/2010 at 19:03 Vinraith says:
@Sobric
I’m not sure they could really make DA’s sex scenes any stiffer or more plastic than they already are. I love the hell out of that game, but those were awful.
08/02/2010 at 18:52 TenjouUtena says:
Lord of the Rings would sort of be the obvious choice.
Lego Eyes Wide Shut? :D
08/02/2010 at 18:53 TCM says:
Lego Star Wars Holiday Special
08/02/2010 at 18:54 Daveface says:
Lego Inseminator or Lego Baise Moi
08/02/2010 at 19:07 Iain says:
@Daveface:
I’ll see your Lego Baise Moi and raise you a Lego Debbie Does Dallas.
08/02/2010 at 18:56 jsutcliffe says:
Obvious choices:
Aliens
Star Trek
Less obvious but clearly better choice:
A Fistful of Dollars (and sequels)
08/02/2010 at 18:59 James G says:
Serious choice: Lego Back to the Future
Never actually played any of the Lego Film games, mainly because I’ve never really had a suitable player two and playing them solo seems to miss half the point.
08/02/2010 at 19:01 mujadaddy says:
May I recommend a haircut?
08/02/2010 at 19:19 Pod says:
@mujadaddy
May I recommend you get the cock on your head sawn off?
08/02/2010 at 19:20 James G says:
Are you accustomed to giving out unsolicited fashion advice? Although I suppose technically you are asking permission. (Incidentally, I suppose the answer is, no you may not.)
But the hair has been cut a bit since the avatar photo was taken. Its still longish though, but I happen to like it that way.
08/02/2010 at 19:04 andreadst says:
goonies?
08/02/2010 at 19:07 invisiblejesus says:
Lego Clerks. You’d just walk around talking to people.
08/02/2010 at 19:09 Auspex says:
Lego: Mysterious Skin
08/02/2010 at 19:17 Rock Tumbler says:
Lego 007, in which Bond and an assortment of Bond girls go up against a rogues’ gallery of Bond villains.
09/02/2010 at 09:00 Stew says:
See, this right here is a fantastic idea.
08/02/2010 at 19:31 Polysynchronicity says:
Is it just me, or have the characters in that picture ceased to look like Lego men and graduated to bizarre Uncanny Valley dwellers who will haunt my dreams?
08/02/2010 at 20:57 RogB says:
blame LEGO. whatever rules they come up with with their own properties (yellow skin, no whites of the eyes) seem to get conveniently cast aside when a lucrative IP comes along. (witness the first ever body limb proportion change in the Toy Story line too… ugh)
08/02/2010 at 19:57 Heliocentric says:
Seeing lego toy story toys in the disney store(my 2 year old demands we enter it whenever we go near) made me reflect that a great number of disney properties would be bloody awesome lego games. Lego nightmare before christmas anyone?
08/02/2010 at 20:10 DesolationJones says:
Surely Jurassic Park.
08/02/2010 at 20:10 Bennie says:
Lego Irreversible / Lego Salo
or on a slightly more serious note Lego Aliens kind of makes sense!!
08/02/2010 at 20:13 Baf says:
Amusingly unlikely suggestion: Lego Reservoir Dogs.
Suggestion that I think could actually be awesome: Lego Godzilla.
08/02/2010 at 20:20 Clovis says:
Lego Terry Gilliam Super Pack FTW
also
Lego Labrynth
Lego Neverending Story
Lego Annie Hall (which should be terrible and short)
08/02/2010 at 20:21 Jubaal says:
Lego Salute of the Jugger
08/02/2010 at 20:23 Jubaal says:
Also Lego The Vikings, Lego Black Shield of Falworth and Lego Spartacus
08/02/2010 at 20:29 terry says:
Please for the love of all that is sane leave out the goddamn vehicle sections.
Edit: Ferris Bueller! Back to the Future! Gremlins! The Third Man!
08/02/2010 at 20:29 Binni says:
Lego Twilight….it will happen and we will all shake our fists at the sky in anger!
08/02/2010 at 20:35 aDelicateBalance says:
My wife actually wanted to know why they hadn’t done a Lego Star Trek. I had to explain about Lego not having the rights to make ST Lego and as such not being able to make a Lego ST game.
Lego Rock Band is damn surreal.
I would second a Lego Aliens or Lego Terminator (2). Even Lego Avatar. As long as there’s never a Lego Titanic.
Or for more “classic” film – Lego Judgement at Nuremberg, Lego Citizen Kane or Lego The Sound of Music.
Perhaps Lego À bout de souffle would be interesting…
08/02/2010 at 20:37 Corporate Dog says:
Lego Transmetropolitan.
08/02/2010 at 20:56 Vadermath says:
I love Star Wars. I love Lego. I hate Lego games. I hate the prequel trilogy. I hate the Clone Wars cartoon.
The hate wins this one.
08/02/2010 at 20:58 RogB says:
Ive always wanted to do Lego Thundercats
08/02/2010 at 21:07 Igor Hardy says:
Lego Dracula series. The Hammer Studios one.
08/02/2010 at 21:18 Tei says:
Lego Picaso… cubism.
08/02/2010 at 22:02 Calabi says:
Lego Requiem for a dream
08/02/2010 at 22:13 Nerd Rage says:
Clearly it must be The Lego Princess Bride, or perhaps The Good, The Bad, The Lego.
WaaAAAaaaAAAaaaahhhh
08/02/2010 at 22:14 Heliocentric says:
I’m a genius! “Lego 300″.
09/02/2010 at 08:28 RogB says:
TT are owned by warner, warner own 300 .. ;-)
08/02/2010 at 22:19 Snuffy (the Evil) says:
Dr. Strangebrick or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Vacuum Cleaner.
08/02/2010 at 22:23 Niel J says:
Comic Book game idea: Lego Marvel, if only for the chance they’d make a lego Deadpool for the sets.
Lego Bill and Ted, Lego Discworld, Lego Snow Crash
08/02/2010 at 22:24 MarkSide says:
Lego X-Men!
But the Claremont era comic, not the films. Colourful characters! Great powers! Yay!
08/02/2010 at 22:36 DanPryce says:
Lego Saw is all I ask. IMAGINE THE DISMEMBERMENTS.
Although someone mentioned Lego 007 and that probably isn’t too far outside the realm of possibility.
09/02/2010 at 00:20 Hodge says:
Surely the obvious one is MacGyver?
(The central theme of the show being that he solves problems by creating useful objects out of random crap lying around)
09/02/2010 at 01:55 Sonicgoo says:
Which leads us to: LEGO A-TEAM. To coincide with the movie, of course.
09/02/2010 at 01:29 Pidesco says:
Lego Scenes from a Marriage
09/02/2010 at 01:31 Angel Dust says:
Lego Hitchcock is the only answer. You’d maybe want to avoid the more weightier films like Vertigo but I can’t see how a Lego North By Northwest would be anything other than fantastic and Cary Grant looked like a Lego man anyway!
09/02/2010 at 01:34 Eternal_newbie says:
LegoHead (Lego EraserHead)?
09/02/2010 at 02:35 Paradukes says:
Lego Twelve Angry Men
Just because it’d be the most boring game ever conceived, considering the lego characters never actually talk
09/02/2010 at 03:15 Spacewalk says:
H.P. Legocraft.
09/02/2010 at 03:21 bill says:
Debbie does Legoland
09/02/2010 at 03:25 Gabbo says:
Lego Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The different types of minigames would be ridiculous.
09/02/2010 at 04:52 washington says:
Lego Gummo
09/02/2010 at 04:59 bhlaab says:
Okay guys. The lego thing was cute for a while but you’ve got to stop.
09/02/2010 at 05:00 bhlaab says:
i mean the games not the comments
im talking to an imaginary developer person who is in front of me imaginarily
09/02/2010 at 08:30 RogB says:
imagine that you werent imagining things. why would they have to stop? because every lego game is a game that could have been made that -you- might have liked?
09/02/2010 at 05:37 Frosty says:
Lego: Left 4 Dead?
09/02/2010 at 06:32 TCM says:
I will give you all my worldly possessions to make this.
09/02/2010 at 06:02 Dave L. says:
The Seven Lego Samurai and/or The Magnificent Lego Seven.
OR: Lego Dirty Harry.
OR: Lego Death Wish.
09/02/2010 at 07:29 Daversan says:
Surely it should be Lego Fifth Element.
Or Lego The Running Man.
09/02/2010 at 07:32 scundoo says:
Lego Schindler’s List
…….. what?……
ok, Lego Saving Private Ryan, happy now?
09/02/2010 at 15:08 Kommissar Nicko says:
Lego Schindler’s List has been done.
I can’t remember where I got this link from, it might even have been RPS, but here it is.
Konzentrationslager, the Lego Death Camp. It’s several Lego sets Polish artist Zbigniew Libera made up using Lego’s endorsements (without them knowing what exactly it was for). Needless to say, when they found out, bricks were shat.
09/02/2010 at 08:07 Brulleks says:
Lego Dogma – imagine the cute little lego Azrael. ahhhhhh.
or Lego Being John Malkovich. Particularly looking forward to the level where lego John Malkovich enters his own brain to find himself surrounded by a menagerie of other lego John Malkovichs.
09/02/2010 at 08:19 Riesenmaulhai says:
Lego A Clockwork Orange!
Lego Sex And The City!
Lego Hot Shots!
Lego Xena!
09/02/2010 at 08:20 Riesenmaulhai says:
I’m not sure this was supposed to be a reply, but who knows what I’ve been thinking a minute ago.
09/02/2010 at 08:37 MinisterofDOOM says:
Lego Dune: The Classic Saga (books 1-6).
Tons of brilliant and varied characters to play as and (in later books) lots of varied settings, too. Lots of room for epic battles. Imagine Lego renditions of the Lord Leto in his metamorphosed form. Play as Miles Teg with his hyper-human reflexes. Play as a whole lot of Duncan Idahos. Bash people over the head with Gurney Halleck’s baliset. Drive spice miners and fly ornithopters. Throw in some more off-the-wall playable characters like in the Star Wars games, too, like Edric the Navigator.
09/02/2010 at 08:51 Taillefer says:
I would like a Lego Settlers, please.
Think about it.
09/02/2010 at 09:47 Richard Beer says:
LEGO Starship Troopers
09/02/2010 at 12:11 mcwizardry says:
LEGO Casablanca … why not !
09/02/2010 at 12:45 Nemolom says:
I think it’s time for Lego to move forward and make Lego games out of other games instead. Lego Fallout would be interesting (only grey bricks allowed of course). I guess Halo Lego is obvious, and Lego Warcraft, and Lego 4 Dead.
09/02/2010 at 12:47 Nemolom says:
Edit: I realise Lego games out of games was suggested already.
09/02/2010 at 12:46 Subject 706 says:
LEGO : Apocalypse Now. Get some! Get some!
09/02/2010 at 14:48 Collic says:
Lego :Requiem For a Dream. A chilling lego-based exploration of drugs and their role in today’s plastic, modular society.
09/02/2010 at 15:54 Bennie says:
brick to brick instead of ass to ass?
09/02/2010 at 19:32 Collic says:
haha yes, they’ll need a double ended piece, too…