8 Franchises We Want To See A Lego Game Adaptation Of

8. Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters: Afterlife will release later this year, directed by Jason Reitman (son of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II director Ivan Reitman) and starring both new cast members and the three surviving members of the original quartet.

Sony/Columbia will be hoping that it will reignite the franchise after Paul Feig’s 2016 reimagining quickly faded from people’s memories. A renewed partnership with Lego, who have released just a handful of sets (including the firehouse headquarters and Ecto-1 car) based on it to date, would almost certainly be a step in the right direction given its iconic status within popular culture.

Each Lego game to date has had around twenty levels, with those based on quadrilogies (such as Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and Pirates Of The Caribbean as they were at the time of release) devoting five levels to each film. A Ghostbusters game could take the same approach, dedicating 25% of its space apiece to the 1984, 1989, 2016 and 2021 films, potentially even incorporating content from the 2009 game that was previously thought to be the closest we’d ever get to Ghostbusters III.

From Ecto-1 car chases to fleeing from the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, many key moments from the films would be hilariously replicable in brick form, with the capture of ghosts simple to implement as a collectible mechanic. There isn’t a huge amount of character depth, but more than enough for considerable fun and avoidance of crossing the streams.