TT Games is still struggling following the tumultuous development of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The studio is rumored to have canceled several projects, including Disney’s crossover with the Danish Blocks.
The popularity of Harry Potter does not benefit everyone. According to Nintendo Life, multiple sources confirm that TT Games has canceled a handful of LEGO-licensed projects, including a major crossover of Disney brands.
Project Marley was meant to be a title combining many worlds from the label’s catalog, including The Jungle Book, The Muppets, Toy Story, Pirates of the Caribbean and Winnie the Pooh. These would take the form of themed dungeons: players would have to rid them of the sinister purple energy that has contaminated familiar locations from Disney films.
Thus, it would be something similar to the recently released Disney Dreamlight Valley. Unfortunately, this is also said to be one of the reasons why the project would have been abandoned in 2022, after four years of work.
Dreamlight Valley’s debut was supposed to be the final nail in the coffin for TT Games’ ambitious project. Source: Gameloft.
The same fate would have met the LEGO game with Guardians of the Galaxy (Project Cosmos), a mobile port of LEGO Worlds and a shooter featuring characters from Warner Bros. (Project Rainbow Road). The latter was de facto buried as soon as TT Games lost the Funko license used in the title.
Additionally, sources report that work on an unannounced LEGO game with Batman has been halted, and the announced DLC story for the Skywalker Saga featuring characters from The Mandalorian may also never see the light of day.
Aside from the aforementioned LEGO and Disney crossover, Nintendo Life experts claim that the reason for abandoning these projects is the huge Harry Potter game that the studio’s attention is focused on. The title is expected to be similar in scale and overall execution to the aforementioned Skywalker saga, and its development hasn’t gone well, if Polygon’s reports from a year ago are to be believed.
Maybe this time TT Games won’t have to worry about its own engine. According to Nintendo Life, all of the canceled games were created using Unreal Engine technology. If the above information is true, then also new lego harry potter can work with Epic Games engine.
Passionate about video games (and others) for years, he completed an MBA in linguistics, defending a thesis on games. He started his adventure with GlobeLiveMedia in 2015, writing in the editorial department, then also covering movies and oh, horror! – technology (also a contributor to the Games Encyclopedia). He started with platform games, which he still loves (including metroidvania), but he also likes card games (including “analog” games), fighting games, soul games and virtually any other kind of game. Don’t ask about the graphics: after a few hours of exposure, you can revel in pixelated game characters reminiscent of the days of the Game Boy era (if not older).
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