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Rock Band seemed a lock to own fake-guitar-gamer discourse with their Beatles installment, but they didn’t count on Guitar Hero‘s classy Cobain maneuvering. Still, the battle for most ridiculous mock-musician timesuck springs eternal: Meet Lego Rock Band, the video game that finally allows you to pretend-play songs as lego versions of rock icons. You may be wondering how this makes sense in any way, but think about it: legos hands are perfectly shaped to hold fake mics. It’s hand science. Here’s a video-report on the game, and the trailer trumpeting Bowie’s participation. Points for varying Bowie’s iris hues, at least.

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Comments (12)
  1. cory  |   Posted on Oct 7th, 2009

    “More musicians on the way”?
    They BETTER have a Lego Stephen Malkmus in that game singing Cut Your Hair

  2. This actually looks cool.

  3. fiachrahackett  |   Posted on Oct 7th, 2009

    LEGO PEOPLE ARE YELLOW
    ughh they always mess stuff up!!
    other than that new mash the button to the chord game
    big whoop

  4. kego  |   Posted on Oct 7th, 2009

    i like the looks of this compared to the other guitar games because this one seems to understand how stupid it is

  5. Relax baby be cool  |   Posted on Oct 7th, 2009

    I can’t wait for the Beth Ditto Lego…comes with breakaway pants.

  6. this sh*t just got real.

  7. Some luke steele headdresses would be cool on lego people. mix and match and what not

  8. Relax baby be cool   |   Posted on Oct 7th, 2009

    I thought I saw a Luke Steele Lego figure? Oh wait, no… It was Queen Amidala.

  9. AttentionAllExploiters  |   Posted on Oct 8th, 2009

    Pay attention Nirvana…at least this would have been cute, rather than the GH disaster…

  10. I laughed when I saw how they made Iggy’s lego self look like he has love handles. If they make Flight of the Conchords lego people, I’m in.

  11. James  |   Posted on Oct 8th, 2009

    Not that i think rock band needs more of your money, but this is really cute…

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