TT Games had made multiple LEGO Star Wars games prior to releasing The Skywalker Saga to huge sales success last year, and it looks like it’s plotting a similar release for the LEGO Harry Potter series. A meaty report from our friends at Nintendo Life reveals that the bulk of the UK studio’s resources are currently being poured into the enormous project, which has affected its project pipeline a bit.
Crucially, sources tell our sister site that a number of in-development titles have been cancelled, including a LEGO Disney release which would have married franchises like The Jungle Book, Nightmare Before Christmas, Toy Story, and more. It seems that the release of Disney Dreamlight Valley – itself a huge hit – was the final nail in the coffin for this game.
But other projects have been binned, including a LEGO Guardians of the Galaxy game, which was in development for a full 18 months before being scrapped. And, according to the report, a new LEGO Batman game has been put on the backburner to make room for the aforementioned Harry Potter project.
Of course, all of this follows previous reports regarding the working culture at the Maidenhead-based studio. Fanbyte reported last year that employees felt the firm had “started to turn a corner” with regards to the mismanagement issues which surfaced during The Skywalker Saga’s troubled development. We’re certainly interested in an expanded version of LEGO Harry Potter, but let’s hope TT Games has learned its lessons, and development goes a little more smoothly this time.
[source nintendolife.com]
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What would this even be? We already have the Lego Harry Potter movie games.
Fantastic Beasts? Doubt an original story would work.
Get ready for another (failed) boycott!
After recently finishing guardians of the galaxy on ps5 I'm disappointed that they cancelled the Lego game I would have played that 😏🤔
@StrawberryWave it's recently popular now, with the recent hogwarts game, it makes sense, the question is what are they going to make with their plans? They already have the Harry potter collection for Lego games already?
@Fight_Teza_Fight the Lego Star Wars series existed before the Lego Skywalker Saga. They re-wrote the story to more closely match the important beats of the movies, reworked and modernized the gameplay, and added voice acting. So probably something along the same lines, basically a full remake of all the existing games all packaged together into one product.
Can't wait to see people boycott a Lego game lol
@StrawberryWave The whole thing is much too amusing to do that. 😀
But we’ve already had them for all years?
The Lego games are some of my favorite games to play. I never want them to stop making them. I dont want them to make another Lego Dimensions game though. I only like the ones like they are famous for. Story driven where you go to a hub world and then do missions from there. So much fun collecting all the red bricks and character tokens and gold bricks and having to use different characters based on the challenge!
@Shstrick The Lego Harry Potter collection is the only Lego game I’ve played, but I thought they were excellent.
Don’t know if that really needs the remake treatment being a Lego game.
Shame about the Batman lego getting put on hold.
@UnusedBabyWipes 🤣
All over this, they did a great job with Star Wars. Gimme that sweet sweet LOTR action next
I'm still waiting for my lego dead rising
Hogwarts Lego-cy?
I hope they bring some book material in like Winky and Hermione's Free the Elves as a background reference to stuff the movies didn't do due to run time.
@Fight_Teza_Fight I think they can do it if they make it a more open world game like their modern titles and add things from the books here and there they couldn't in the movie or fit on the PS3 and XBox 360
A remake of the Lego Harry Potter games in the Skywalker Saga format would work considerably well actually. It would probably be better than Skywalker Saga, I was a bit disappointed how much of that game was just walking through little hub areas and talking to NPCs with not a lot of traditional levels, but a game centered primarily around that one central location of Hogwarts, with detours to other settings for each film would work with that gameplay format.
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit would be another candidate I can see working excellently and with WB going all in on Middle Earth again it's probably being considered too. It could be our way to finally get that third Hobbit flick in a Lego game after they blew that opportunity the first go around.
@UnusedBabyWipes You won with this comment.
@NarutosBiggestFan Man, I loved Lego Dimensions. I wish they would do a digital-only rerelease, no toys or portal needed. Gameplay would need a bit of reworking, but I'd even shell out for DLC characters and packs.
@UltimateOtaku91 Very good!
@Shstrick Finally somebody with a brain
@Orpheus79V We need that. We can even have DLC based on the upcoming New Line Cinema spinoff films like the anime The War of the Rohirrim, which will take place in the Peter Jackson Middle-earth.
And maybe even DLC based on The Rings of Power, which is ambiguous on whether it is part of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth.
Removed - off-topic
Yes please, I'm all in for that. Unlike Star Wars, I actually like all the Harry Potter films. I do hope they sort out the dreadful mismanagement first, though ...They're a talented bunch and deserve so much better than the hell they went through recently.
You know what i might bite on this because hogwarts took me back to a time when games were just pure fun to play. Yeah i love my dooms and anything souls like but hogwarts just makes me smile an awful lot so if its as fun as hogwarts i'm all in. @StrawberryWave he has a point unfortunatley whereas we have all shown that we can move on and leave all that crap behind us those who feel a certain person and all works by that person should be cancelled will never move on because they cant and i feel sorry for them.
@doctommaso 100% agree as i've said pretty much the same thing in a previous post about keeping push square about the games and keeping politics and other off topic opinions out of the comments section..impartiality would have gone a long way too..👍
I can't wait for the outrage. It's gonna be another hit for WB.
Yup, just as I predicted. Removed my comment when I said nothing political and simply made a very valid point. lol I am sure you will be equally fair and remove post #2 above for also being "off-topic".
@Fight_Teza_Fight There already was a Fantastic Beasts LEGO game based on the first movie, released as a story pack DLC for LEGO Dimensions, even with physical portal designed as Ministry Of Magic.
"Perfect" timing as I'm working on platinuming the LEGO Harry Potter Collection lol XD.
I'll buy this supposed re-imagine collection when it's on sale for $20 New.
Mmm that’s what you get for putting all 9 Star Wars movies in at once, meh to Harry Potter
@Hydra_Spectre RoP is completely seperate. Amazon wants people to think it's connected, I'm sure though.
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