Those block-obsessed Danish folks aren't content with lucrative film licenses, and Legends of Chima follows Ninjago (stupid name...) in its currently tiny list of original-series ideas.

And it pushes the Ninjago series' face into the dirt for storyline potential in pitting eight animal races on the sides of good and evil in fiction's seldom-answered question of who's the fanciest. Of course, they once all lived together peacefully, but peacetime gaming is horribly dull indeed.

Laval is the precocious son of the lion king (not that one) and it's to his dismay that he discovers a few species really aren't being very agreeable, so the usual battles with resulting stud-collecting routine follow.

We really haven't moved on from your typical Lego adventure. Baddies and background objects spawn multicoloured studs, and there are some lost bits and bobs to deliver to clumsy Chima pals around the universe. Of course, each species has its strength and Chima is littered with specific challenges.

There's not enough here to challenge its older Star Wars or Marvel-inspired brothers for action-packed excitement, but Chima has far more appeal in its lower appendages than that two-dimensional Ninjago grot.