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Was There A Better Way To Pitch A Lego: Transformers Game?

Failure was my middle name when I recently spoke to head of Traveller's Tales, Jonathan Smith.

There I am chatting with him about the upcoming Lego: Batman game and suggesting that a Lego: Transformers game would be fun. He asks me, essentially, for an on-the-spot verbal pitch. As chronicled on my Multiplayer blog, I say

I said, you’d take advantage of the wide cast of Transformers characters and put them in the format started by “Lego: Star Wars.” There are plenty of Transformers for gamers to control and swap, certainly more characters in the pantheon than there were for “Lego: Indiana Jones.”

I said TT coul have all sorts of fun letting the characters transform to get through the levels. You have the existing good mix of character and vehicle stuff in the Lego games, so there’s a blueprint there.

“Sounds like you just want a good Transformers game,” Smith replied

I tried more. He didn't bite. Where did I go wrong? Bad concept?

How I Failed To Successfully Pitch ‘Lego: Transformers - The Game’ [MTV Multiplayer blog] [Pic]

1:00 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By StephenTotilo
5,890 views, 83 comments

lego indiana jones

Hold Onto Your Potatoes, Lego Indy Has 60 Playable Characters

A new fact sheet for the upcoming Lego Indiana Jones has been released today. Anything of note? Let's see here..."Tongue-in-cheek humor presents The Original Adventures in a manner only LEGO can whip up"....no. "Explore the globe and solve puzzles that encourage creative thinking through the use of teamwork and unique building situations only possible in a LEGO world". No, no no. "Cooperative gameplay encourages parents to share the legacy of Indiana Jones with their children in a fun and humorous way". Boring. AH. Here we are! "Unlock more than 60 playable characters, including villains and supporting characters (Marion Ravenwood, Short Round, Rene Belloq, Willie Scott, Marcus Brody, Jones Senior and Mola Ram)". Sixty characters, eh? Not super-surprising, since the Star Wars games had a big playable cast as well, but then Short Round was never in Star Wars, either, so this is much more exciting.
Lego Indiana Jones: more than 60 playable characters [VG247]

9:40 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Luke Plunkett
3,843 views, 44 comments

Latest by n/a: WOW, I actually knew something before kotaku did!!!!! I heard about this when the game was first announced!!!!!!!!!!!! more »

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No Nazis For Lego Indiana Jones

The upcoming Lego Indiana Jones will, of course, feature cute, adorable little Indiana Jones. And - fingers crossed - a cute, adorable little Sallah, with a clicky little red fez. What won't be featured in the game are Nazis. While the characters themselves will still feature (yes, Toht is still in it, and yes, he's still going to melt), all references to Nazism have been scrubbed, Traveller's Tales telling Edge:
Lego [have] already replaced them with an anonymous genocidal, occultist, trenchcoat-wearing master-race.
On the one hand, understandable. Lego's for kids. But on the other...how many five year-olds know who the fuck Indiana Jones is? Surely the target demographic for this game is the 20+ market.
Lego Indy: First concrete details [Edge, via CVG]

9:20 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Luke Plunkett
12,504 views, 153 comments

Latest by coktoe: Hard to believe but,the usually on-point Kotaku update machine was beaten to the punch,by about a month,by a PRINT source,on this story.Game Informer broke this first.Sorry big K. more »

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GameCity Hosts Wii Lightsaber Premier

England's second GameCity festival is happening in Nottingham from October 24th to the 28th, and attendees will be the first to try out the Nintendo Wiimote used as a lightsaber in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Not only that, but October 26th is Star Wars day at the festival, featuring Jonathan Smith of Travellers Tales discussing the Lego Star Wars series' creation and success, a Physics of the Force demonstration featuring Natural Motion's Euphoria engine, and a special discussion on What Makes a Brilliant Star Wars game, featuring sci-fi expert Jonathan Hamblin and our own occasional contributor, Wonderland scribe Alice Taylor, who kicks several different varieties of ass. For tickets to the festival, visit GameCity.org. Hit the jump for full details on all of the Star Wars gaming goodness. More »

2:20 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Mike Fahey
8,237 views, 23 comments

Latest by theboywil: "on the Wii® lightsaber, in LucasArts' Lego® Star Wars™: The Complete Saga re-mastered and shown in glorious HD." Have I missed something..? Is the Wii now HD..? more »

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Transformers 360 Impressions

The Transformers saga in all of its different forms has always been a story of conflict, so it stands to reason that the Transformers movie video game developed by Travellers Tales would follow suit. I just hoped it be a conflict between Autobots and Decepticons on my television screen instead of the conflict between critical gamer and drooling TF fan inside of me. Unfortunately that is what it comes to. As I come down off of my initial "OMG is Optimus Prime," high I am left feeling strangely unfulfilled. More »

1:20 PM on Thu Jun 28 2007
By Mike Fahey
10,094 views, 49 comments

Latest by system11: Next 360 update needs an option for 'reduce bloom effects put in by over enthusiastic devs'. DIRT was ridiculous for them. Don't they know how absolutely hideous it looks on a CRT? Excess bloom + contrast = more »

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LEGO Batman, Fanboys Coming

Traveller's Tales knows when they've got a goldmine on their hands. After the successful double licensing cash cow that was LEGO Star Wars, they're moving onto the next LEGO block fanboy love-in, Batman. More »

12:33 PM on Sat Sep 9 2006
By Michael McWhertor
1,247 views, 16 comments