<p>I wouldn’t call my affinity for Travellers’ Tales’ series of movie-based Lego games anything more than mild appreciation&period; Regardless&comma; I still hold a level of respect towards the developer for its ability to transition silver screen masterpieces to mild-mannered&comma; quirky video games&period; With successes like the three different iterations of the Star Wars franchise&comma; <em>Lego Pirates of the Caribbean<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Lego Harry Potter<&sol;em> &lpar;all years&rpar; under their belt&comma; I couldn’t help but let my mind wander onto the various other series and franchises that Traveller’s Tales could transform into digital incarnations of their blocky forms&period; Of the many that popped into my head&comma; the following were the two most notable titles that I had no problem fleshing out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad135805 " id&equals;"quads-ad135805" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; large&semi;"><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;explosion&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;JP-Logo1&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignleft size-full wp-image-4230" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;explosion&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;JP-Logo1&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"150" height&equals;"117" &sol;><&sol;a>Traveller’s Tales Lego series depends on pushing forward through force and action segments with a healthy dose of puzzles thrown into the mix&period; What if the developer tweaked its methods a bit and made a game that relied just as much on survival tactics then as controlling the guy with the biggest gun&period; With a game based off of the Jurassic Park trilogy &lpar;or even the book series&rpar;&comma; the developer could take on a project that stretches beyond simply pressing a button repeatedly to destroy foes and takes into account the fact that these Lego games are being eaten up by a more adult crowd&comma; as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Action segments throughout the game can be presented in the form of playing as either the park’s game warden&comma; Robert Muldoon&comma; or as The Lost World’s infamous game hunter&comma; Roland Tembo&period; Throwing in a few levels that revert back to <em>Lego’s<&sol;em> staple action will help pace out the games remaining levels&comma; whose focus lay solely on staying out of the way of some of the island’s prehistoric baddies&period; The opening level could pit gamers in the shoes &lpar;or hat&rpar; of Jurassic Park’s game warden as they accomplish and solve various puzzles to try and keep a ferocious velociraptor at bay within its crate&period; Later levels can pit a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lego’d” Alan Grant escaping through the treetops&comma; utilizing broken Lego pieces to slow down a pursuing Tyrannosaurs Rex&period; Due to the popularity of both the books and the movies&comma; Traveller’s Tales could also pull scenarios from both and mesh them together&comma; just as BlueSky Software did in their Sega Genesis adaptation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad135804 " id&equals;"quads-ad135804" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;explosion&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;GBLogo2&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignleft size-full wp-image-4229" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;explosion&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;GBLogo2&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"150" height&equals;"116" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If the constant flood of merchandise over 25 years after the films release is any indication&comma; it’s that people still cheer for the boys in tan&period; In 2009&comma; Terminal Reality released <em>Ghostbusters&colon; The Video Game <&sol;em>which proved that even a franchise that sat stagnant for nearly two decades can be brought back to life&period; The Ghostbusters line of minimates action figures are a solid indication that New York City&&num;8217&semi;s supernatural exterminators translate well into miniature block form&comma; showing that Traveller’s Tales can easily pull the quartet into the developers constructible world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A Ghostbusters Lego game can feasibly span across the first and second Ghostbusters movies while integrated some of the canon material from The Real Ghostbusters cartoon series&period; Starting off in the basement of the New York City Public Library&comma; players will get a feel for such equipment as the PKE meter &&num;8211&semi; which could point out special Lego blocks &&num;8211&semi; and Ecto goggles &&num;8211&semi; which could help show hidden ghosts&period; This brief introduction to the basic controls would culminate in the trio’s faithful meeting with Eleanor Twitty&comma; the Librarian ghost&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the game progresses&comma; players will be able to once again strap on their proton packs and rid New York City from the overly abundant paranormal presence&period; From Slimer to the Scoleri Brothers and even the zombie taxi driver from the first film&comma; gamers will control their proton stream much like any other weapon in the Lego universe&period; Rather than having the enemies explode into a shower of Lego Studs&comma; the ghosts will be weakened to a point where another player &lpar;or a computer AI&rpar; will need to toss out a trap for proper capturing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;99 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad135804 " id&equals;"quads-ad135804" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;padding&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;" data-lazydelay&equals;"3000">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Coming off of your Lego Batman 2 high&comma; 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  1. LEGO: Prometheus.

    LEGO: Melancholia.

    LEGO: A Cabin in the Woods.

    Actually, if The Hobbit does well, i wouldn’t be suprised to a lego tie-in of the Lord of the Rings world. I’m actually surprised I haven’t seen LEGO: Avengers on the shelves yet.

  2. Lego Star Trek!
    From the original to current, they’d have oodles of content n characters to choose from.

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