Footage from a Lego James Bond sport has discovered its method on-line, which was apparently deemed unsuitable by The Lego Group.
Lego has tailored virtually each main popular culture franchise in online game kind, from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Marvel, DC, Harry Potter to The Lord Of The Rings – however provided that they’re not too violent or horny.
There is one apparent field workplace juggernaut nonetheless left on the desk, however James Bond sits in a barely awkward center floor between being Lego pleasant however not essentially household pleasant.
It seems, developer TT Games has really experimented with the thought, with footage from the now cancelled challenge making its method on-line.
The teaser trailer first popped up on Linterni Gamer’s Discord server, but it surely has since been shared throughout numerous websites. At the time of writing, an early model of the trailer remains to be accessible on the Lego Gaming subreddit, whereas a last model is on YouTube here.
Some uploads have since been scrubbed, so it appears respectable. A disclaimer throughout the clip reads: ‘Confidential (TT Games Studio) – Not for distribution. R&D content material solely – not consultant of any last merchandise.’
While clearly within the early phases, the trailer reveals numerous riffs on traditional scenes from a number of James Bond motion pictures, together with Live And Let Die and The Living Daylights.
A good mod on the Reddit submit, named LegoGameMuseum, has since supplied additional data on the challenge, after talking with a ‘pal’ who labored on Lego Dimensions.
‘This wasn’t really for Lego Dimensions 12 months 3 [as described on Reddit],’ they wrote. ‘It was produced as a pitch for the Lego Group to persuade them to offer the OK for a full sport, it was made over the past 12 months Dimensions was being labored on when [TT Games] knew Dimensions wouldn’t get a 3rd 12 months of content material.
‘Once once more, [The Lego Group] determined Bond wasn’t appropriate, and vetoed the challenge. I believe this has been discovered within the information of a Dimensions construct, which is the place the confusion is coming from.’
Lego Dimensions, launched in 2015, was a crossover Lego sport that includes ranges based mostly on numerous totally different IP, together with Batman, Doctor Who, Mission: Impossible, and Sonic The Hedgehog.
This Lego James Bond trailer is claimed to have been made round 2016, and in keeping with LegoGameMuseum, was shelved as a result of ‘Lego particularly weren’t pleased with the violence and sexual innuendo’.
While James Bond looks as if an ideal match for the Lego parody model, the choice to cancel it’s comprehensible contemplating the franchise does embody characters like Pussy Galore, which aren’t precisely appropriate for Lego’s younger target market.
That stated there have been two Lego units based mostly on the franchise, with a giant-sized, gadget-filled model of the Aston Martin DB5 in 2018 and a smaller model, with a Daniel Craig minifigure, in 2022.
Both are actually retired merchandise and there’s no indication that there’ll be anymore, which is an actual disgrace as we’d like to see a reworking Lotus Esprit.
A Lego James Bond sport is perhaps out of the query, however a sport based mostly on 007 is underway at Hitman developer IO Interactive.
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