He was also pleased with his thin physique in Lego form. Smith talked about video games giving us an opportunity to run toward danger no matter our bravery in real life and he’s drawn to that. He and Smith garnered much of the attention from the audience questions also. “I don’t want anyone else voicing Green Arrow,” he said. When a fan asked who the panel’s favorite character not in the game is, Johns and Parsons both said that they couldn’t answer because almost every character a fan would think of is in “Lego Batman 3.” of reveals, in addition to the three DLC packs already announced centered around “The Dark Knight,” “Man of Steel” and Batman’s 75th Anniversary, the Comic Con crowd was the first to learn of a fourth featuring levels and characters from the CW series, “Arrow.” After some extended game footage was shown featuring Green Arrow, the star of the series, Stephen Ammel was introduced surprising the crowd. So these are the type of obscure characters popping up in the game. The Green Loontern is a reference to an episode of “Duck Dodgers,” where Daffy accidentally gets the Green Lantern suit and ring back from the dry cleaners.

The panel revealed a number of new faces including Conan O’Brien, the Mad Hatter, Man-Bat and the Green Loontern. Plus there are pop culture figures on top of that.

Virtually the entire DC Comics roster seems to be present. Johns discussed the want to outdo the size of Lego Marvel‘s roster. DC Comics CCO Geoff Johns and director Kevin Smith are two of those characters and the real life non-Lego versions of them were on hand to talk about the experience. It also helped that at every turn there was new footage and commentary on the game.įirst and foremost there is the almost excessive list of playable characters. Both gave plenty of insight into the game as Miller playfully poked fun at Sharples and keeping the room laughing. TT Games game director Arthur Parsons and assistant game director Stephen Sharples were introduced first by IGN’s Greg Miller who moderated the panel. But the Lego Batman panel turned out to be a big hit with plenty of sneak peeks of the upcoming game. After all, a few hours later the cast of “The Walking Dead” would be on the same stage. Even with the popularity of the Lego video games, the panel for “Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham” seemed like it might be out of place on the main stage at New York Comic Con.

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