All 12 LEGO Video Game Crossovers Every Franchise Explained

All 12 LEGO Video Game Crossovers – Every Franchise Explained

LEGO has a long history in video games, especially when it comes to crossing over with entertainment properties, from Star Wars to The Incredibles.

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LEGO is one of the most recognizable toy brands in the world, and its history dates all the way back to 1934. Countless entertainment properties have been adapted into LEGO sets, but the blocks also have a lengthy history in video games.

LEGO has plenty of original experiences, from the open-world cop game LEGO City Undercover to the cult classic action-adventure title LEGO Bionicle: Quest For Toa. Outside of original properties, however, LEGO games have become best known for a wealth of crossovers, including Star Wars and Batman.

Developer Traveler’s Tales has become synonymous with the LEGO experience, and some of the biggest entertainment properties in the world have received their own adorable LEGO versions. Here’s every LEGO video game crossover ever made.

LEGO Harry Potter

Harry Potter was the first series to receive a LEGO video game, with LEGO Creator: Harry Potter on PC in 2001. LEGO Creator is a much different experience from later games as it’s a relatively freeform experience that gives players a whole toolset of LEGOs to build from. Chamber of Secrets also had a LEGO Builder game, but it’d be eight years before the franchise returned to LEGO again. The series is split up into two separate games with LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 and LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7. Both games were later put into one collection that released on PS4 and Xbox One.

Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension

Probably the least well-known LEGO property is a Canadian/American TV series called Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension. The show only ran for two seasons and featured a hero named Nick Bluetooth (yes really). Strangely, the show also had a licensed toy line from LEGO, but the toys weren’t actually LEGOs. The line featured action figures with swappable body parts, but nothing about them resembled the typical idea of LEGOs. The series received a video game of the same name, specifically based on the LEGO toy line and not the live-action style. The Galidor video game didn’t help improve the series’ longevity, due in part to middling reviews and repetitive gameplay.

LEGO Star Wars

Easily the best-known LEGO crossover out there, Star Wars has also received more LEGO video game adaptions than any other property. The first LEGO Star Wars game was released in 2005 and covered the prequel films along with an extra level from A New Hope. LEGO Star Wars was the first game developed by Traveler’s Tales, and it created the formula that LEGO games still use to this day. The core difference at this point, however, was the lack of voice acting. Characters instead used wildly overdramatic gestures, gibberish, and a lot of slapstick humor. It wasn’t until 2012 that LEGO games would start featuring full voice acting.

One year after the first game LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy released, and since then more games have covered The Clone Wars and The Force Awakens. Star Wars will also be the first series to get a LEGO game on PS5 and Xbox Series X, with The Skywalker Saga chronicling the entire 9-film series in one game.

LEGO Indiana Jones

LEGO continued its partnership with Lucasfilm by adapting Indiana Jones into both LEGO sets and a video game. The first game LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, released in 2008 and followed the plots of the first three films; Raider of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. A second game released in 2009 called LEGO Indiana Jones: The Adventure Continues. Interestingly, the second game covered all four films but featured completely remade levels for the first three. One of the more interesting aspects of LEGO Indiana Jones was how the game featured characters phobias. For example, if Indy sees a snake he’ll be frozen in place and have severely limited movement until the snake is defeated. These were also the first LEGO crossover games that let players create their own characters, levels, and objects.

LEGO Batman and DC

The first DC LEGO game was LEGO Batman in 2008 which, of course, focused exclusively on Batman and his stable of villains. This was the first Traveler’s Tales LEGO game to feature an original story, as Batman and Robin have to fight all of the villains that have escaped from Arkham Asylum. There were two more LEGO Batman games with the second one bringing in more heroes and villains, as Batman and Robin join the Justice League. The third game, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, didn’t do much to innovate but explored the larger DC universe, even traveling to other planets. The most recent DC game switched things up by focusing on supervillains, letting players create their own character to work alongside iconic villains like Joker, Deathstroke, Darkseid, and more. LEGO has continued to work closely with DC over the years, resulting in the creation of The Lego Batman Movie.

LEGO Rock Band

One of the stranger crossovers is LEGO Rock Band, which is literally just Rock Band, with LEGOs. There were, of course, some LEGO inspirations, especially in terms of the story mode and cutscenes. There’s also a brick collecting mechanic that plays into songs, but overall it’s mostly just window dressing for another Rock Band game. Strangely, LEGO Rock Band only featured about half the songs as other games with songs, and there’s no unifying theme. The tracklist feels like a mish-mash of genres and music types with things like the Ghostbusters theme thrown in with songs like “Let’s Dance” from David Bowie. The game did, however, introduce a super easy mode to make it more family-friendly.

LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean

LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean is one of the few crossovers that only received one video game, releasing in 2011 on PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii. The game was put out to coincide with the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, but it featured the first four films. Each character in LEGO Pirates featured their own unique skill, like Davy Jones being able to walk underwater or Jack Sparrow’s compass leading him to hidden treasure. Unlike other LEGO games, however, Pirates of the Caribbean didn’t do much to innovate on the formula.

LEGO Lord of the Rings

LEGO Lord of the Rings, released in 2012, was the very first game in the series to feature voice acting, using voice lines from the trilogy of films. The game toned down a little bit of the slapstick humor but still served as an overall parody of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. LEGO Lord of the Rings also let players choose a free-roam mode where they could explore the entire open world of Middle Earth. Two years later Traveler’s Tales released LEGO The Hobbit, featuring the first two films. Unfortunately, a Battle of the Three Armies DLC was later canceled.

LEGO Marvel and Avengers

After years of DC LEGOs, the company finally brought Marvel into the fold, with a video game adaption and everything. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes features an original story, with various characters teaming up to stop the machinations of Doctor Doom and Loki. Comparisons can easily be drawn to Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and players visit various areas from the Marvel universe, like the SHIELD Hellicarier, Asgard, and New York. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 would eventually expand on the first game’s roster and featured, but between the two released LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. Where Marvel Super Heroes tells original stories, Avengers was based on the MCU and primarily followed the plots of Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

LEGO Jurassic World

Despite being named LEGO Jurassic World, the game adapts all three Jurassic Park films as well as the first Jurassic World. One of the more interesting tidbits here, of course, is the LEGO dinosaurs, many of which are playable characters. There are even some unique unlockable characters including Colin Trevorrow, director of Jurassic World, and even the legendary director Steven Spielberg, making his playable debut in the world of video games. LEGO Jurassic World released on iOS and Android, as well as consoles and Nintendo 3DS

LEGO Dimensions

LEGO Dimensions is one of the most interesting experiments the company has ever had, and its effort to break into the toys-to-life market. Dimensions was a game that interacted with real-life LEGO sets through a portal device that plugged into consoles. These sets would grant players new characters and worlds based on various properties including Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Wizard of Oz, Lord of the Rings, The Simpsons, Batman, and much more. Dimensions featured the trademark gameplay of the LEGO series, although vehicles and items can be introduced to the game world through the portal. The game also told an original story that brought all its disparate universes together, looping in plenty of slapstick humor along the way. LEGO continued to release new sets for Dimensions for two years after its launch in 2015. Unfortunately, the game was canceled in October 2017, stopping the planned third year of content packs from ever releasing.

LEGO The Incredibles

One of the more surprising LEGO crossovers, The Incredibles is the first Pixar property to receive the LEGO treatment. LEGO The Incredibles is based on both films, but it lets players take control of a wealth of different characters including ones not featured in the films. Some of the playable heroes were introduced in the National Supers Database, which was in the special features of The Incredibles DVD release. The game also features other Pixar characters like Woody from Toy Story and Merida from Brave. Because LEGO The Incredible released around the same time as The Incredibles 2, players have to get through the story of Incredibles 2 before gaining access to the section from the first movie.

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