http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56718
http://www.casualgaming.biz/news/28089/LazyTown-sprinting-into-games-sector

The makers of the show are shopping around for a buyer to make a game based off of the show.  I'm not very familiar with Lazy Town but would it be something similar to Animal Crossing?  Or is there enough from the show to warrant a more linear game?

Expect a horrible and buggy 3D game where you run about doing minigames or some qually horrible game.

This is a terrible idea and defeats the purpose of Lazytown.  It says the "rights owner" is the one trying to get this done, so my guess is Magnus Scheving has nothing to do with this.  He made the dang show to get kids to be more active and healthy and play outside so basically this is a shitty idea.

There is enough content to make a more point-and-click style adventure game based around the town but even still Magnus would rather kids NOT play video games all day (this comes up in the show more than once) so there is no reason for this.

By watching TV? Yea that makes sense

Hi this actually works.  You'd be surprised at the parents who, from letting their kids watch Lazytown for the half hour it's on, could get their kids to go out and play for several hours.  It's a trade off.  Little kids dance along to the show and then go outside and play and then go to bed at 8:08 to be just like Sportacus.  It sounds ridiculous when you're an adult but I personally know little kids (and their parents) who have had this work for them.  You don't want to eat your vegetables?  Sportacus does.  Now suddenly you do want to eat them.  You don't want to play outside?  Sportacus thinks you should.  Now you go outside.  Sometimes you have to trick kids into doing things that are good for them, and this just helps that.  It seriously works, man.  Also it started off as a series of books, the TV show just helped it to become international.  The original idea wasn't 'watch TV' at all, it just sort of happened and it works really well.

you're meant to get up and start dancing and shit. Sporticus promotes healthy eating. Whenever the nerd character does anything in the show it all goes wrong and sporticus has to save them all with sports and healthy eating. It makes plenty of sense.

damn you velfarre, but also I am happy your post about lazy town is much longer than mine. Ya freakin nerd.

EDIT: my two month competition game was going to be Lazy Town:2099(props for those who get the reference), but now I don't know, this has... stolen my thunder.

A lot of parents were really pissed off that Lazytown isn't on Nick Jr. anymore because now their kids just go back to sitting in front of the TV having Dora treat them like idiots and have Yo Gabba Gabba do who knows what.

WHERE IS BOOTS?  SIT IN FRONT OF THE TV AND TELL ME WHERE BOOTS IS.

edit: Also I'm not as big of a Lazytown nerd as I sort of make myself out to be.  I have both of the soundtracks but I only ever listen to like two songs from it (both of which are pretty much as good as any other techno music), I only watch it when nothing else is on and it comes on Noggin.  I do have a Lazytown shirt that I got from a thrift shop in Iceland but that's just because why wouldn't I.

If this was a expansion for Wii fit then yeah I can see Magnus (what an awesome fucking name)  supporting it but anything that doesn't include physical exertion is pretty contrary to the premise.

but that girl who played stephanie or whatever is now 17 hehehehehehehehe *rubs hands*

Yo Gabba Gabba do who knows what.

hey yo gabba gabba promotes dancing too!

it's just really trippy and made by some musician who probably smokes a lot of pot and he invites his other pot smoking friends on there like trippier artist mark motherbaugh and biz markie.  it's like a stoner show but there's lots of music and "get up and go" moments and it's great

The big problem with it even if it was on Wii fit is that Magnus always intended it to encourage kids to play outside as much as possible, whereas this would just keep them inside longer than an episode of the show would.

Yeah, I was figuring it'd be a Wiimote/WiiFit tie in of some sort.

By watching TV? Yea that makes sense

have you ever seen public television for kids. 90% of every program is "go outside and have fun, explore".

Nowadays most of the shows are "stay right here and watch this show, you have to participate so you can't leave because I'm talking to you"

key word public television. lazytown has more in common with the shit on PBS than the rest of Nick Jr if I remember right. whatever it was still a piece of shit SORRY VELFARRE.

hey yo gabba gabba promotes dancing too!

it's just really trippy and made by some musician who probably smokes a lot of pot and he invites his other pot smoking friends on there like trippier artist mark motherbaugh and biz markie.  it's like a stoner show but there's lots of music and "get up and go" moments and it's great

fun fact I secretly wrote the entire soundtrack to yo gabba gabba

it took about 10 minutes too


also japs gotta start making games based on popular franchises again and not their own shit ones either. Weren't like all the TMNT games the shit and it didn't just seem that way at the time

Edit: And like every Disney game that Capcom did. Who did the Lion King game?

Edit: And like every Disney game that Capcom did. Who did the Lion King game?

virgin software or something but yes disney games used to be the shit (duck tales, castle of illusion, mickey's madness or whatever it was called) and all the franchise games were great.

then they discovered they could use anime as an inspiration for video games and thus the Tales of _______ series was born.

Tales of _______

Games?

a beatles song Noterday?

key word public television. lazytown has more in common with the shit on PBS than the rest of Nick Jr if I remember right. whatever it was still a piece of shit SORRY VELFARRE.

it's cool dude it's not like i'm going to be pissed SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE A CHILDRENS SHOW I LIKE...OH..OH GOD....

Games?

a beatles song Noterday?

the sad thing is you can place anything in the blank and it'll sound better than whatever namco puts out.  i laughed for a good 10 minutes when i heard they released a game called tales of innocence.  i'm waiting for the inevitable TALES OF TALES where it's a story within a story.