Lego Harry Potter

I was in Toys R Us a few weeks back, and noticed this is already up for pre-sale, albeit without a specific date. It says end of March/Early April. Amazon UK originally listed it on March 31st, but Amazon doesn't have a release date.

It will cover Years 1-4, which suggests that the other half won't be out until 2011 or maybe even 2012, after the 2nd part of Deathly Hallows is released.

Hopefully this will add something new to the series. The newest Indiana Jones one was a bit different, but didn't seem to hold my son's interest like the other games did. However, he did say he finished all the stuff in the game, so maybe that's why he's moved on.

So who bought it? My wife and I are about 93% through the game. We've 100%'d all the stories, so now we're searching through Hogwarts trying to find all the secrets, etc. The angles are still frustrating sometimes, and the way they lay out the different versions of the characters is a little weird, but I think it's your usual, fun Lego game. Finding a wizard that knows dark magic is a pain in the ass, though. But once you do, then it seems like every other wizard you get knows dark magic.

Just beware if you try to get Moody. You find him in the classroom with the "?" on the floor to the left of the classroom. You fall through the trap door, and in the basement you find Moody. But to get back up, you're "blown" back up through the trap door, and if you don't hit the "A" button just right, you'll continue to keep falling back through the floor. And if you can't get out, you can't just quit or drop out, because the game will take you right back there when you return to Hogwarts. It took my wife and I 20 minutes to get out. When my son did it (after I warned him not to), he got out on the 2nd try, the little shit.

FINALLY 100%'d the game yesterday. We had lost the disc for about 2 months, and happened to find it on Christmas...as we called it, "A Christmas miracle!"

Had to find 4 last characters we were missing that were spread out through Hogwarts, then finished Voldemort's level. We were pissed at first because even though we completed everything, it said we were still at 99.7%. We then realized we had never finished buying all of our red bricks, even though we had found them all.