When people look back at this generation of video games, most will think of rhythm games. The genre brought in a slew of new gamers who before; who probably only played a video game on occasion over a friends house. Now, everyone seems to have played Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Heck, even friends of mine who would’ve never picked up a controller, has rocked out with either of the two games and they have done it more than once.

Obviously with the successes of the Guitar Hero franchise, Activision has produced crap loads of sequels and spinoffs. The amount of cash the series has made, it may as well be mistaken as a giant money maker.

However, EA and Harmonix have come out with one sequel to their highly popular Rock Band game. They have not milked the series as much as Activision has done over the last few years. But according to VG247, that just might change.

The site is reporting from a source inside either EA or the company behind Lego Batman, Traveller’s Tales — is working on a Lego version of Rock Band. Could this be real? Sure — I can definitely see a couple big suits sitting in a room: liking the combination of Lego and Rhythm games. But are they really that stupid? I hope not.

The point of the Lego and Batman or Star Wars was it was cute. The games had their own charm and they were more than just a gimmick — the lego actually made the game quite fun. There was something about running around in the Star Wars‘ universe blowing Storm Troopers and watching them explode into tiny lego — to say the least; it was certainly amusing. But what would the point of a Lego Rock Band be? Think about it; we don’t even control the band members. They are just there as a background…nothing more. Hell, I even forget about them. So how would Legos add anything new to the genre…I do not think EA or anyone else could ever give us a real answer on that one.

When it comes to to EA working with Traveller’s Tales — that could be somewhat tricky. Traveller’s Tales are not an independent company, they are owned by Warner Bros. That is not really the ‘tricky’ part. In fact, EA and Traveller’s Tales have already worked together in the past with the Harry Potter games (which is also owned by Warner Bros.) The problem lies with EA’s willingness to have a third-party benefit from one of their own franchises. It’s a different story with Harry Potter — EA doesn’t own the rights to the films, they just publish the game and take a portion of the sales. Sure they must invest in the games, but the name itself sells. It’s an easy way for the company to get some cash flow.

This is different from Rock Band. The game is already an established name and including Legos probably will not sell enough copies for EA to justify giving Warner Brothers a cut. Of course, the big guys running the show might have a different opinion. But we believe if they do, it could be a mistake on their part.