Thanks to Warner Bros. we have a new press release about the Harry Potter and LEGO. You can read the full press release here!
Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) announced today an extension of its successful partnership with leading toy manufacturer, The LEGO Group, to bring the magical world of Harry Potter to fans everywhere. Under the agreement, The LEGO Group is creatively tapping into the Harry Potter magic to develop spell-binding construction sets and a board game inspired by the property in anticipation of the November 19 theatrical release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, as well the upcoming release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011.
Additionally, as the LEGO brand rolls into the board game category for the first time in 2010, it brings the Harry Potter property with it in a premium, constructible board game called Hogwarts, launching in August. Players build and then move throughout the iconic castle to be the first to collect various objects to win the game – but even the most skilled players can be foiled by an ability to move classrooms around the board.
Eurogamer has posted up a preview of the LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Video Game which will be released in May!
It’s been created with typical class: sunlight slants through windows, beds in the dorm rooms are ripe for bouncing on, and everywhere you look there are pots of LEGO flowers to destroy for studs, or promising stacks of bricks gently spasming on the floor, calling out for investigation. The latest LEGO game may be unusually focused on a single location, but it’s the series’ biggest area yet, and its busiest too, filled with endless distractions and little gags.
Far more than a simple interactive menu, the school is the place where Harry and friends will attend lessons, learning new kinds of spells, which will in turn open up more of the story. Starting the game – which, as the title suggests, charts the narratives of the first four books – with no knowledge of magic whatsoever, by the end of the adventure, Harry will have filled up a reassuringly spacious selection wheel of powers.
With four books’ worth of plot to wade through, over a hundred characters to unlock and thousands of colourful things to investigate, smash, and generally mess around with, Traveller’s Tales is clearly onto another huge hit. Its template might be a little too familiar to pass as genuine magic any more, but at its heart this looks like another competent and witty outing: a near-bottomless pit of collectables for OCD children, and a pitch-perfect exercise in global branding.
A new trailer for the LEGO Harry Potter Year 1-4 video game (the Playstation 3 format) has been released and can be viewed below. The video announces that the game will be released this May!
Warner Brothers have officially announced that a Harry Potter Lego video game, incorporating Philosopher’s Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire, will be released next year. You can play as Harry, Ron, Hermione and more, attending lessons, making potions, flying on broomsticks and earning house points. Locations include Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest and Hogsmeade.
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