The Lego games developed by Traveller's Tales—Lego Star Wars, Lego Marvel, all of those—are held up as some of the best examples of family-friendly licensed games.
Now the former heads of that studio are trying to repeat those years of Lego success, but with a toy that isn't quite as universally beloved: the big-headed, vacant-eyed vinyl figures sometimes seen lining shelves of YouTubers and Twitch streamers.
Coming to PC and consoles this September, Funko Fusion is a co-op action-puzzle game much in the same vein as the Lego games, except the characters are all Funko Pop figures, mostly based on movies and series owned by NBC Universal.
The roster includes «over 60 characters» from Jurassic World, Back to the Future, The Umbrella Academy, Jaws, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Megan (that 2022 horror movie about a doll that I refuse to call M3GAN), Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Invincible, Battlestar Galactica, and other film and TV worlds.
Funko Fusion developer 10:10 Games was formed in 2021 by Traveller's Tales co-founder Jon Burton with former TT head of design Arthur Parsons, former TT studio diretor Paul Flanagan, and other former members of TT's senior leadership team.