LEGO Skywalker Saga Devs Cancel Games Over Harry Potter (Leak)
TT Games is still in trouble after the turbulent development of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. According to rumors, the studio has canceled several projects, including Disney's crossover with the Danish blocks.
Harry Potter's popularity 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 supposed to be a title combining numerous 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 clear them of the sinister purple energy that tainted the locations known from Disney films.
Thus, it would be something similar to the recently released Disney Dreamlight Valley. Unfortunately, this is also rumored to be one of the reasons why the project was supposedly scrapped back in 2022, after four years of work.
The same fate was to have befallen the LEGO game with Guardians of the Galaxy (Project Cosmos), a mobile port of LEGO Worlds and a shooter featuring Warner Bros. characters (Project Rainbow Road). The latter was de facto buried as soon as TT Games lost the Funko license used in the title.
In addition, sources report that work on an unannounced LEGO game featuring Batman has been halted, and the announced story DLC for Skywalker Saga featuring characters from The Mandalorian may also never see the light of day.
Leaving aside the aforementioned LEGO and Disney crossover, Nintendo Life insiders claim that the reason for the abandonment of these projects is the huge Harry Potter game on which the studio's attention is focused. The title is expected to be similar in scale and overall execution to the aforementioned Skywalker Saga, and its development has not gone smoothly, if reports by Polygon from a year ago are to be believed.
Perhaps this time TT Games does not have to agonize over its own engine. According to Nintendo Life, all canceled game were created using Unreal Engine technology. If the above information is true, then also new LEGO Harry Potter may be powered by Epic Games' engine.
