Lost Media Busters has released a detailed video uncovering a treasure trove of never-before-seen scrapped content from Lego Dimensions, the 2015 "toys-to-life" video game that continues to enjoy a dedicated fanbase. Among the many unrealized ideas and characters revealed in a series of documents is the surprising revelation that Mega Man was once planned to be both a playable character and the recipient of his very own official Lego minifigure.
According to materials from the canceled expansion called Lego Opus, Mega Man was planned to debut as part of the Wave 3 lineup in March 2017 as a "fun pack," which would include one vehicle (possibly Rush). Scanning the figure through the Lego Gateway would have made Mega Man playable in the game and unlocked an Adventure World hub called "Gaming Icons." While the hub wasn't intended to focus solely on the Blue Bomber, it likely would have featured characters from other video game IPs.
Interestingly, Mega Man’s inclusion in Lego Dimensions would have come just a few years after the Worlds Collide saga—a 12-part crossover with Archie Comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog. It’s easy to imagine these two characters crossing paths once more in the game, perhaps through special cutscenes or events. While the leaked documents offer no evidence that such interactions were planned, the thought is a bittersweet possability.
With so much licensed merchandise under its belt, the Mega Man IP has been practically begging for the Lego treatment—and this discovery proves it came close! Perhaps one day, they'll finally make it happen.
That’s a shame, I would have bought a Lego Mega Man figure because the game did look like a good time.
ReplyDeleteThat's kinda funny but also unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteTHAT would have been something big enough to actually help push the brand a bit.
Another item to add to the long list of things Mega Man almost had
ReplyDeleteWe're in the bad timeline where we got funko fusion instead
ReplyDeleteOn the flipside, MM being in that shows Capcom's very accepting of ideas.
DeleteThat would've been really cool to see! Maybe one day... I'll see a Mega Man minifig...
ReplyDeleteAnybody want to baselessly blame Capcom for this one?
ReplyDeleteI was gonna say the same thing that Mr. Buzzcut was saying after he got fired for his actions. We can’t blame them anymore. Can you please let this blame die down?
DeleteReally?
DeleteCapcom are the ones who have the final say in if something Mega Man related gets released or not so this “my precious Capcom is innocent” crap is ridiculous.
DeleteDamn, Capcom is the one that made the final call to cancel all of LEGO Dimensions just to spite Mega Man fans?
DeleteAll powerful Capcom even has WB under their control. Truly an evil company.
@11:54 PM Flawless logic, except it wasn't Capcom that cancelled this one. The entire expansion the effort was part of what was got cancelled. In fact, blaming Capcom is dumb in this instance because they'd already approved Mega Man being featured here.
DeleteY'all bite on bait too easy.
DeleteGotta defend the almighty Capcom because they can do no wrong. 2:11 pm started this whole thing when no one said anything about Capcom before that, you guys overreact about anything.
Delete@11:32 AM New anon to the discussion here, you are correct. I'm really tired of the two sides of this whole debate in these comment sections talking past each other and arguing against strawmen instead of actually discussing things properly like grown adults. For both sides, anything that doesn't support their narrative gets shrugged off and anyone who doesn't agree with their narrative is a bad person who believes in ridiculous things. I see this behavior a lot more in the anti-capcom side, but the other side is absolutely not innocent of it. It's as though hardly anyone around here can conceptualize that finger pointing and name calling is inherently bad faith arguing and never amounts to anything. All I end up seeing is two tribalist factions pointlessly warring against each other over petty disagreements, neither side actually taking anything the other side has to say into proper consideration and using any convenient logical fallacy they can to avoid doing so, as if winning debates in the eyes of their peers is more important than being honest.
DeleteYeah, amd I am sick of "Anonymous". Making every discussion frustrating to follow and free of any and all responsibility or traceability for what they say. We have to assume who is who. How many are talking. And your not just one fool with to much free time.
DeleteAs if their "righteous criticism" means a hill of beans if they cant even bother to take credit for what what they say. You dont have to dox yourself but if you cant so much as use basic username when it is free to type in, your opinion dont mean jack to me. Your just noise in an anonymous ocean.
Sonic: Hey Lego, can I be in your game?
ReplyDeleteLego: Great idea! We should invite Mega Man too.
Sonic: NO! IT HAS TO BE JUST ME!
A LEGO Mega Man set would be nice, but it would most likely absurdly expensive given the price points of the Zelda and Sonic sets.
ReplyDeleteTrue. But they would exist IRL and it would be awesome!
DeleteIf Lego Mega Man did happen in Lego Dimensions, I hope we would get a full line of sets after the game. Or maybe it would have been stuck in Lego Dimensions limbo and never spin off into full sets like with A-Team, Beeltejuice, E.T. or Adventure Time. But maybe one day we will get Lego Mega Man, as a full theme or even just a Lego Ideas set.
ReplyDeleteThis has been known by the Lego community for a while now, I thought you guys would have covered it already.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding was, there were strings left in the retail build to suggest Mega Man was planned. But this is the first time- or so I've been told- that these documents in particular have been shared publicly.
DeleteAh, ok. That makes sense then, sorry if I came off rude.
DeleteI honestly always wrote off the possibility of Mega Man sets, but knowing we got so close with this I now need Mega sets.
ReplyDeleteSimilar to Mega Man 10 originally having co-op play, I remember we actually heard about this information years ago, its nice that in both cases we actually have hard proof they were a thing now.
ReplyDeleteWhile it would’ve been neat to have Mega Man and a tiny vehicle, I couldn’t imagine much else coming from this. Even when Sonic was added, he got an actual themed level, but this just sounds like Captain N 2.0. And even if they tried with actual sets, I can’t imagine Mega Man breaking out of the “black box” market.
ReplyDeleteDidn't all of the sets released get their own tiny levels? I'm not all that familiar with the Dimensions game.
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DeleteI had to look this up, because it’s really convoluted and from almost a decade ago, but in short: sorta. All sets, even the cheapest (fun packs), included a small open world level (not exclusive to the fun pack, so say, two Ninjago fun packs would give the same area), but only level/story packs had actual levels with plot (one for level packs, 6 for story packs). Moreover, I was referring to the open world area planned for the Mega Man fun pack not even being specific to Mega Man, but “gaming icons.”
I'd just like to comment I was part of those that voted against the console ports of X Dive back when that survey came out, so much for "Capcom is not going to listen to you!" paraphrased like some anon replied, hah.
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