Hello to the Eurobricks community, my name is Roberto Samuel Oliveira, and I am 44 years old. I am a former school teacher and writer, I retired from school teaching in 2003. I developed a interest in LEGO in late 2004. My favorite movie is Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was born in Brazil and travelled to England in 2005 after Lego Star Wars: The Video Game success.
What I am going to post here is a thing that I believe that was a injustice that happened to me, but I have no intention to sue anyone, but i will break the silence. For 15 years, I was been a creative writer, and my writer's soul increased when I discovered LEGO. LEGO games were my favorite. After the huge success Lego Star Wars: The Video Game made in 2005, I moved to England. I contacted Traveller's Tales in a phone call to a executive, suggesting a LEGO game like "Indiana Jones". I said in the phone call creative suggestions for a LEGO Indiana Jones game, saying this would be a "huge success, just as Lego Star Wars was" If I remember, the call lasted for at least thirty minutes. I said my writer's experiences, but it looked like it was in vain. After like twenty minutes, Traveller's Tales denied any of my suggestions. After a little some time, I contacted TT Fusion, saying the same suggestions, but got declined as well. After seeing that I got no success at all, I decided to abandon my idea of suggesting Traveller's Tales and TT Fusion a LEGO Indiana Jones game.
But I got a big surprise in 2008, when Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures was released. In December 2008 I contacted Traveller's Tales again in a phone call, asking if they made the game in out of my idea, but they didn't answered any of my questions, leaving me confused. I contacted TT Fusion as well, asking the same thing. The only thing I got on that phone call I made to TT Fusion was that "they began making the game after some ideas" and I don't know if this was in fact, my idea.
I enjoy Traveller's Tales and TT Fusion's games as everyone else, but I decided to publish in this forum what happened to me. I don't know if they considered my idea years later, or just made it on their own.
If you have a question, just ask me.
Sincerely,
Roberto