I’m a huge video game fan, and this week is full of big news for me. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3, if you want to sound cool) is happening in LA, and this when we ludo-philes get some previews of interesting new hardware and upcoming games from all the big companies.
There is a tiny bit of Harry Potter news from E3, too. Below is a trailer for Lego Harry Potter.
Three other major story properties have gotten the Lego treatment in a videogame setting: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Batman. And all of them have been super fun for the whole family! If you have kids into videogames, or if you’re a big kid like me, this will certainly provide for some goofy fun!
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My 8 year old and his friends love Lego Star Wars. He’s got all the characters, including the ghosts. He’ll be thrilled to hear Lego Harry Potter is coming out. Lots of fun.
Red, yeah… The Lego stuff is pretty awesome. Still my favorite toy from my childhood. And the games are way cool.
When my closest friend and I were college roommates, we decorated our dorm room with Star Wars Lego toys. We hung the X-Wing and TIE Fighter in a simulated dog fight from our smoke detector.
The Lego video games by Travelers’ Tales tend to get better reviews than the more versions created as movie tie-ins.
Dave, I was actually talking about the videogames – the part where you buy characters with your credits or tokens or whatever you have from the Mos Eisley cantina. I that the most expensive is either the ghost of the Emperor or Anakin Skywalker, at 1,000,000 Lego tokens – I think they’re called studs. My only problem with the game is the way the Emperor laughs: heh, heh, heh, It’s very annoying.
He’s over that phase right now, but at the point of peak interest I’d have to scan the Internet to get the cheat sheets to help him defeat particularly frustrating levels; there’d be emergency phone calls to friends, indicipherable to all but the Lego Star Wars cognoscenti.
Red, sorry… I knew that and didn’t make it clear. I was just waxing nostalgic about Legos…
I still want a Lego Imperial Walker. Never could find one when I was in college.
His cousins got it for him X-Mas 2007. It’s still intact. He doesn’t play with it because it’s too fragile. But it looks good sitting on the computer next to him while he plays Club Penguin, and Webkins, and less benignly, Mini Clips.
I swear, this generation is going to be so different than previous ones. We went to see Up last week and he was telling me the punch lines before they were showed up on the screen. He knew Wolverine was too violent for him to watch from the trailers.
Did I ever share the You Tube clip with Darth Vader conducting the Storm Troopers playing the Star Wars theme?
RR, oh please share that clip!
My eight-year-old is all about Lego Star Wars (and is officiously “teaching” me to play — I trade it for piano practice, you teach me and I’ll teach you). So I’m very tickled about Lego HP!
Here you are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTc6IzEBWDY
BTW, Dave, one of his things to do when he grows up is to buy all the Lego sets he can’t have right now because they’re too expensive.
Red, you are raising a fine, upstanding citizen! It’s nice to kids that have their priorities figured out…
lol…this looks fun but why are they only basing it on years 1-4?? What about 5-7?