History VideoGame / LegoCityUndercover

** A very notable example comes from Frank when he's playing video games before you wake up Dunby near the start of the game, where he'll make several LeaningOnTheFourthWall references to the ''VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame'' series, specifically the early ones compared to this one, including a MythologyGag about how the older games had SpeakingSimlish. In contrast, the movies had actual talking, finding a "special" brick, complaining about there being "free play" when he spent money to play, being excited about unlocking a character before getting sad that he lacks studs for the DoubleUnlock part, messing around with the Character Customizer to create himself as closely as possible out of different parts, being surprised how they kept the games fresh despite having little innovation over the years, wondering what'll happen when they run out of movies to adapt, and stating his belief that setting the game in a WideOpenSandbox city would make it even better.

[[caption-width-right:300:Chase... Chase [=McCain=].]]

* BraggingRightsReward: Upon collecting all 450 Gold Bricks, a commemorative gold statue of Chase McCain is erected upon an empty fountain out the front of City Hall in Kings Court. This fountain from henceforth, sprays an endless shower of blue studs around itself; it's a pretty display, though it'd be a miracle for the player to not have enough studs to buy out every disguise, vehicle and red brick by this point, even with avoiding the stud multipliers.

** Completing LEGO City's 249 Character Challenges[[labelnote:*]]arresting 17 gangs & 12 vehicle robbers as a Policeman, smashing 18 [=ATMs=] & stealing 13 vehicles as a Robber, destroying 22 precious boulders & 17 silver statues as a Miner, catching 17 aliens & conquering 20 districts as an Astronaut, watering 20 flowers & returning 22 pigs to Farmer Hayes as a Farmer, rescuing 17 cats & extinguishing 17 BBQ fires as a Fireman, taking 20 coffee breaks & completing 17 Drill Thrills as a Construction Worker[[/labelnote]] & 131 City Challenges[[labelnote:*]]Constructing 65 Super Builds, activating 14 train stations, completing 19 Free Runs & 16 Vehicle Time Trials, activating 17 Disguise Booths[[/labelnote]].

*** "Super Fast Travel": allows the player to fast travel to activated train stations by selecting them from the map screen, without needing to interact with a station's ticket booth.

*** "Super Fast Travel" & "Instant Vehicles" can greatly reduce the hassle of navigating the city: the former allows the player to travel to activated train stations from the map screen, affording the player a more traditional fast travel that doesn't require interacting with a ticket booth; the latter enables a unique button that allows the player to call in any vehicle on the spot, instead of being restricted to doing so from constructed Vehicle Call-In Points only.

* BorderPatrol: Swimming out past the seaweed in the ocean is liable to get you eaten by a shark. Riding a boat is fair game for avoiding this.

** The most notable new feature added is dedicated splitscreen co-op, which the 2013 release lacked due to a portion of the game's features being tied to the Wii U GamePad. Player 2 can drop in at any time to take control of a second Chase [=McCain=], sharing all the same disguises, abilities, Police Communicator features & activated Red Brick cheats as Player 1.

** The most notable change has to be Chase McCain's default Policeman disguise, which gives him a full dark-blue uniform with grey hands, mirroring his minifig's appearance in the LEGO City Police set ''60138: High-speed Chase''. The disguise's torso features a new decal with different equipment & an updated police badge design; this decal is also applied to his ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' minifig, which has been included as the Player 2 default disguise. Players can still use Chase McCain's original Policeman outfit as it appeared in the Wii U release since its parts are still used in the default appearance for the custom Policeman disguise (Custom B).

** The most notable new feature added is dedicated splitscreen co-op, which the 2013 release lacked due to a portion of the game's features being tied to the Wii U GamePad. Player 2 can drop in at any time to take control of a second Chase McCain, sharing all the disguises, abilities, Police Communicator features & activated Red Brick cheats as Player 1.
** Fifteen new disguises are added, bringing the total from 290 to 305. Ten of these are alternate appearances for Chase McCain's default disguises, including the Undercover & Suit variants of his Policeman disguise, all of which are assigned as Player 2's default disguises. Another three are of Grace Makepiece, Chase's DistaffCounterpart included as an alternate player character (albeit one with no effect on the story), and comprises Civilian, Policeman & Undercover Policeman variants.

** Exaggerated with the Nitrous For All Red Brick activated, which enables nitro for all ground vehicles and some boats. This even applies to certain vehicles that lack engines completely, like the Groundhog (a skateboard) and the Revolver (a wheelchair).

*** The Stud & Brick Magnets increase the player's collection radius for both currencies, allowing the easier gathering of both.
*** "Super Fast Travel" allows the player to fast travel to activated train stations by selecting them from the map screen, without needing to interact with a station's ticket booth.

*** "Super Safe Crack" & "Super Astro" bypass the minigames associated with each container, opening them as soon as they're interacted with.
*** The "Unlimited Dynamite" and "Super Color Gun" extras really help with removing the annoyance of looking for dynamite vendors and color swappers, though in an understandable ObviousRulePatch the infinite dynamite is disabled for special assignments to prevent things from getting ''too'' easy.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Parodied by much of [[TheMafia Vinnie Pappalardo's]] dialogue via BaitAndSwitch. Like the guy who [[YouHaveFailedMe disappointed him]] who "sleeps with the fishes" (he works as night watchman at the aquarium) or the other who "bought the farm" (even after Vinnie told him it was a bad investment.)

** The [=LCPD=] is practically staffed with them, including undercover specialists [[Series/StarskyAndHutch Studski and Clutch]], femme duo [[Series/CagneyAndLacey Lagney and Cacey]], posh and proper [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Doorluck Homes & Dr Whatsit]], eternally high-strung gravelly-voiced [[Film/DirtyHarry Shaky Harry]], and final-say-haver [[Series/{{Columbo}} DaMumbo]].
** The Sentinels, [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell's]] personal security detail, are dead ringers for The Agents from ''Franchise/TheMatrix''. Their introductory cutscene particularly brings Agent Smith to mind, given their identical appearances and ZergRush tactics.
** Chase's training session with Barry Smith during "Special Assignment 4 - Kung Fool" is basically one giant send-up to the "I Know Kung-Fu" scene from [[Film/TheMatrix the first Matrix film]]. Once you complete the level that follows it, most of Chase's moves (especially his finishing moves) heavily resemble those in fight scenes from across the franchise.

The game made use of the Wii U [=GamePad=] in order to mimic using Chase's Police Communicator. The [=GamePad=] would function as the game's map and when using the Communicator's scanning function, the player would hold the [=GamePad=] up to the TV and physically move it around. This feature was removed from the subsequent re-release since they all lacked a [=GamePad=] and all of the features were moved on-screen.

** Completing LEGO City's 249 Character Challenges[[labelnote:*]]arresting 17 gangs & 12 vehicle robbers as a Policeman, smashing 18 [=ATMs=] & stealing 13 vehicles as a Robber, destroying 22 precious boulders & 17 silver statues as a Miner, catching 17 aliens & conquering 20 districts as an Astronaut, watering 20 flowers & returning 22 pigs to Farmer Hayes as a Farmer, rescuing 17 cats & extinguishing 17 BBQ fires as a Fireman, taking 20 coffee breaks & completing 17 Drill Thrills as a Construction Worker[[/labelnote]] & 131 City Challenges[[labelnote:*]]Constructing 65 Super Builds, activate 14 train stations, complete 19 Free Runs & 16 Vehicle Time Trials, activating 17 Disguise Booths[[/labelnote]].

** Pete Peterson, the [[LazyAlias fake name]] that Chase comes up with in order to join the fire department.

*** Five of the Red Bricks are Data Scan Upgrades, which upgrades the respective Police Communicator function to find & tag City/Character Challenges, Clues, Tokens & additional Red Bricks. As a bonus, these upgrades are activated by default in the Extras menu.

* BadGuyBar: Vinnie Pappalardo's ice cream parlor is portrayed as a kid-friendly version of this trope in one cutscene.

* BubblegumPopping: One type the interactable objects are gumball machines, from which Chase purchases a gumball & blows a big gum bubble before loudly popping it.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Sheriff Huckleberry is an eccentric who writes dramatic plays for squirrels, but seems to be competent policeman nonetheless.

* CatUpATree: One of the Fireman Missions involves Chase rescuing cats up trees. And billboards. And really anywhere, as long as it's very high up.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Parodied by much of [[TheMafia Vinnie Pappalardo's]] dialogue via BaitAndSwitch. Like the guy who [[YouHaveFailedMe disappointed him]] who "sleeps with the fishes" (he works as night-watchman at the aquarium) or the other who "bought the farm" (even after Vinnie told him it was a bad investment.)

* DoubleUnlock: New disguises, vehicles and red bricks are obtained by finding and collecting them or accomplishing certain tasks. To actually use them, you need to buy them in the basement of the police station.

** The Robber disguise has the Colour Gun, which is a utility tool for recolouring LEGO objects as opposed to a true offensive weapon.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Rex Fury's cell on Albatross Island has a jukebox that plays a recording of "Sull'Aria" from ''The Marriage of Figaro.'' Most people would simply pass this off as a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' (which it is), but the same opera piece showing up in [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell's penthouse]] is a subtle hint that [[spoiler:Rex is actually working for Blackwell.]]
* FriendlyLocalChinatown: The Pagoda district, featuring tightly-pack high-rises & tranquil parks with clear East-Asian influences. Ironically not where Kung-Fu Dojo is located.

* GrapplingHookPistol: The grapple gun, which can be used to ascend, pull things towards you, or tie up enemies. They were apparently police-issue-ordered in the past until enough cops fell off buildings that they were banned.

* GroinAttack: Barry Smith uses one against Chase when he's testing out his kung-fu skills.
* GuideDangIt: While most of the suit abilities get an explanation or at least some hint about how they work, nowhere in the game does it actually explain that the Robber disguise is needed for the ATM destruction sidequest, with the player most likely finding that out on sheer accident by messing around. This was apparently such a common problem that one AntiFrustrationFeature for the remastered version was a loading screen that explicitly mentions this.

* LowSpeedChase: Rex Fury's most recent arrest prior to the game starting was ridiculously easy because he had the "bright idea" to use a ''lawn mower'' as an escape vehicle.

* MoodWhiplash: The game gets considerably darker when [[spoiler:it is revealed that Blackwell Tower is actually a rocket ship and that if it launches, the heat and exhaust fumes would incinerate everyone in ten blocks]].
* MustacheVandalism: Committed by Rex Fury's gang to Vinnie Poppalardo's family paintings [[spoiler:when they raid his base.]] Vinnie reacts with horror at the painting of his mother with a moustache, considering how much he had to pay the artist [[GirlsWithMoustaches to leave off the moustache]] in the first place.
* MythologyGag: The game that Frank Honey plays very early in the game causes him to comment that "they talked more in the movie", referencing the pre-''LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes'' LEGO Game adaptations by Traveller's Tales prior to proper voice-acting implemented, which replaced dialogue with signing and grunts (with a few exceptions though).

* NeverSayDie: Zigzagged. Death is mentioned occasionally in non-lethal contexts but when actually dealing with possible actual deaths, such as [[spoiler: the ramifications of Forrest Blackwell's plan]], they'll use lines like "This is a matter of life or... um... the other thing", although the game does directly state that [[spoiler:the emissions from Blackwell's construction project]] would be lethal to the nearby animals.

** A very notable example comes from Frank when he's playing video games before you wake up Dunby near the start of the game, where he'll make several LeaningOnTheFourthWall references to the ''VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame'' series, specifically the early ones compared to this one, including a MythologyGag about how the older games had SpeakingSimlish while the movies had actual talking, finding a "special" brick, complaining about there being "free play" when he spent money to play, being excited about unlocking a character before getting sad that he lacks studs for the DoubleUnlock part, messing around with the Character Customizer to create himself as closely as possible out of different parts, being surprised how they kept the games fresh despite having little innovation over the years, wondering what'll happen when they run out of movies to adapt, and stating his belief that setting the game in a WideOpenSandbox city would make it even better.

** Not even 15 minutes into the game. The following is paraphrased.
-->'''Unnamed Guy''' ''(referring to the computer)'': ...but it didn't blow up until Frank tried repairing it.
-->'''Frank''': With a hammer!
** As a construction worker, Chase can fix fuse boxes by hitting them a few times with a hammer. Unlike Frank's aforementioned shenanigans, this actually works.

* RealJokeName: While chasing down a group of criminals, one of them claims his boss is "George Fartarbensonbury", which doesn't amuse Chase by how fake it sounds and he admits it's Rex Fury. After they leave, two pedestrians in the background meet and one recognises the other as George Fartarbensonbury.

** The above-mentioned cutscene also ends with a ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' style K.O. sound effect & graphic.

** Albert Spindlerouter takes TheAhnold trope to a whole new level by incorporating the name of a Schwarzenegger movie into just about everything he says. It's even lampshaded when a nearby construction worker on the same level notes that he reminds him of someone.
** Two major side characters are cousins Moe and Vinnie Poppalardo. Naturally, Moe occasionally refers to the other as "[[Film/MyCousinVinny my cousin Vinnie]]".

** The centrepiece of Blackwell's vault is Film/TheMalteseFalcon.

*** Completing the fifteen Special Assignments, as well as earning each of their Police Shields & "LEGO City Hero" commendations.
*** Completing LEGO City's 249 Character Challenges[[labelnote:*]]arresting 17 gangs & 12 vehicle robbers as a Policeman, smashing 18 [=ATMs=] & stealing 13 vehicles as a Robber, destroying 22 precious boulders & 17 silver statues as a Miner, catching 17 aliens & conquering 20 districts as an Astronaut, watering 20 flowers & returning 22 pigs to Farmer Hayes as a Farmer, rescuing 17 cats & extinguishing 17 BBQ fires as a Fireman, taking 20 coffee breaks & completing 17 Drill Thrills as a Construction Worker[[/labelnote]] & 131 City Challenges[[labelnote:*]]Constructing 65 Super Builds, activate 14 train stations, complete 19 Free Runs & 16 Vehicle Time Trials, activating 17 Disguise Booths[[/labelnote]].

** Completing the fifteen Special Assignments, as well as earning each of their Police Shields & "LEGO City Hero" commendations.
** Completing LEGO City's 249 Character Challenges[[labelnote:*]]arresting 17 gangs & 12 vehicle robbers as a Policeman, smashing 18 [=ATMs=] & stealing 13 vehicles as a Robber, destroying 22 precious boulders & 17 silver statues as a Miner, catching 17 aliens & conquering 20 districts as an Astronaut, watering 20 flowers & returning 22 pigs to Farmer Hayes as a Farmer, rescuing 17 cats & extinguishing 17 BBQ fires as a Fireman, taking 20 coffee breaks & completing 17 Drill Thrills as a Construction Worker[[/labelnote]] & 131 City Challenges[[labelnote:*]]Constructing 65 Super Builds, activate 14 train stations, complete 19 Free Runs & 16 Vehicle Time Trials, activating 17 Disguise Booths[[/labelnote]].

* AbilityRequiredToProceed: Chase requires several disguises to solve puzzles. Of particular note are [[spoiler:the Rex Fury variants of the Criminal disguise, which enable Chase to destroy orange handle obstacles. You only unlock this via the space suit variant at the final level's free-fall, and Rex's normal variant is locked behind an orange handle obstacle.]]

* BrokenBridge: There are three bridges in Lego City, all of which are blocked off at first for various reasons. As you progress through the game, the bridges will open up, allowing you to access more parts of the city.
* BubblegumPopping: One of the stud-giving minor diversions is using gumball machines and blowing a big and loudly popping gum bubble.
* BuiltWithLEGO: Just about everything that isn't the land or the water is this. You can even break apart certain objects and then use their pieces to build things yourself.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Sheriff Huckleberry is an eccentric who writes dramatic plays for squirrels, but seems to be good at his job.

* CatUpATree: One of the fireman sidequests involves Chase rescuing cats up trees. And billboards. And really anywhere, as long as it's very high up.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At the end of the story, when Chase says that there are more important things than your job (clearly referring to pursuing a romantic relationship), Frank Honey asks him if he means playing video games.
* CompanyCameo: In the Special Assignment "High Steal", one of the Police Shield fragments is earned by building three builds in one of the areas. One of the builds is the current Traveller's Tales logo.
* CompressedAdaptation: Due to the lack of a handheld screen in the Playstation 4, [=XBox=], PC, and Switch ports of the game, all the features on the [=GamePad=] were moved onscreen.
* ConsoleCameo: The police communicator tablets are very obviously patterned after the Wii U's [=GamePad=] since the communicator's scanning function was used by holding up the [=GamePad=] to the TV screen. These were recoloured black in the non-Nintendo ports, but it still doesn't help that said [=GamePad=] also had a black colouration and to a lesser extent, resembles the Nintendo Switch in handheld mode.

** During the first part of the game, for no apparent reason, a gardener just so happens to come along and water some plants that are in front of a fence too high for Chase to surmount. These plants grow large enough that Chase is able to climb them and get over the fence. The gardener lampshades this himself, stating that he came a long way just to water some stranger's plants.
** Upon starting the investigation of the optional crimes via Audio transmissions, Chase will always hear the perpetrators at the beginning of the conversation about the crime they're about to commit.

* DeadlyEuphemism: Parodied by much of [[TheMafia Vinnie Pappalardo's]] dialogue via BaitAndSwitch. Like the guy who [[YouHaveFailedMe disappointed him]] who "sleeps with the fishes" (he works the night shift at an aquarium) or the other who "bought the farm" (even after Vinnie told him it was a bad investment.)

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Just like in all of the Traveller's Tales Lego games, players restart right at the point they die.

** At one point, Natalia calls to chew Chase out over having police keep an eye on her, [[spoiler: which he knows nothing about. She describes them as smartly dressed for cops, with a black van and an unmarked limo, and... they aren't cops, are they?]]

** When Chase and Heinrich find [[spoiler:Blackwell's moonbase model in his mansion]], Chase wonders how [[spoiler:Blackwell can pull this off since the shuttle on Apollo Island isn't big enough for his cronies. He then looks at the uniquely-shaped rocket in the model and wonders where Blackwell could've hidden it]]. This kicks in when he remembers that [[spoiler:there's a countdown at Blackwell Tower, and that ''he realises that he's seen the rocket before'' as it's nearly the same shape as the tower. This poses a serious problem, since Blackwell Tower is right in the middle of the city and there's a huge crowd around it, all of which will get fried by the rocket exhaust unless Chase and Frank deploy some prototype forcefields to shield the blast.]]

** The Police disguise utilises a Grapple Gun, which can tangle and ensnare opponents for easy arrests.
** The Robber disguise has the Colour Gun, which is a utility tool for recolouring environmental objects as opposed to a true offensive weapon.

** The Farmer disguise has Chase pull out... a chicken to rapid-fire eggs at his enemies.

* FriendlyLocalChinatown: Makes up a district of the city. Oddly enough, not where the karate monastery is located.

* Completing the fifteen Special Assignments, as well as earning each of their Police Shields & "LEGO City Hero" commendations.
* Completing LEGO City's 249 Character Challenges[[labelnote:*]]arresting 17 gangs & 12 vehicle robbers as a Policeman, smashing 18 [=ATMs=] & stealing 13 vehicles as a Robber, destroying 22 precious boulders & 17 silver statues as a Miner, catching 17 aliens & conquering 20 districts as an Astronaut, watering 20 flowers & returning 22 pigs to Farmer Hayes as a Farmer, rescuing 17 cats & extinguishing 17 BBQ fires as a Fireman, taking 20 coffee breaks & completing 17 Drill Thrills as a Construction Worker[[/labelnote]] & 131 City Challenges[[labelnote:*]]Constructing 65 Super Builds, activate 14 train stations, complete 19 Free Runs & 16 Vehicle Time Trials, activating 17 Disguise Booths[[/labelnote]].

* ShockwaveStomp: The special attack for the Miner suit is slamming the ground with tremendous force and sending out strong shockwaves from the point of impact, whether from a jump-slam or swinging when not next to anything. It helps with smashing several objects quickly before you get the drill and can provide some breathing room against a group of swarming enemies

* NoOSHACompliance: Several fuse boxes throughout the city have gone faulty, electrocuting anyone not equipped with a hammer to repair them. These faulty boxes can be causing all types of problems, from preventing certain devices from working or electrifying whole areas. Lampshaded by Chase in while in "Special Assignment 14 - Breaking and Reentering".

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Being a LEGO game, there is a ''lot'' to collect on the road to 100% completion. There's 450 Gold Bricks, 305 character disguises [[labelnote:*]]290 in the Wii U version[[/labelnote]], 120 vehicles, and 39 Red Bricks [[labelnote:*]]40 in the Wii U version[[/labelnote]]. To get every Gold Brick, you'll need to complete all fifteen story missions, as well as collect a sufficient amount of studs and all four Police Shields in each one. In the overworld, you'll need to arrest 17 gangs, smash 18 [=ATMs=], destroy 22 precious boulders, catch 17 aliens, rescue 17 cats, take 20 coffee breaks, arrest 12 vehicle robbers, steal 13 vehicles, destroy 17 silver statues, conquer 20 districts, return 22 pigs to Farmer Hayes, extinguish 17 BBQ fires, complete 17 Drill Thrills, construct 65 Super Builds, activate 14 train stations, complete 19 Free Runs, complete 16 Vehicle Time Trials and activate 17 Disguise Booths. There are also 10 Gold Bricks hidden inside the Police Station, plus 16 that need to be purchased with studs.

*** Five of the Red Bricks are Data Scan Upgrades, which upgrade the respective Police Communicator function to find City/Character Challenges, Clues, Tokens and additional Red Bricks. As a bonus, these upgrades are activated by default in the Extras menu.

** The Herbert Hotel.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: A great deal of the unlockables are new costumes for Chase, with only one of them being vital to buy while the rest are just cosmetic. The costume in question, which grants the SuperStrength necessary for orange handles, is [[spoiler:Rex Fury, found near the end of the space dive portion of the final level, in one of the stud-rings close to the finish]].

** As usual for LEGO games, the Red Brick Extras that aren't silly EasterEggs exist to make things a whole lot simpler and easier for getting collectibles and completing sidequests, like the stud multipliers, currency magnets, and "super" ability upgrades. In particular, the "Unlimited Dynamite" and "Super Color Gun" extras really help with removing the annoyance of looking for dynamite vendors and color switches, though in an understandable ObviousRulePatch the infinite dynamite is disabled for special assignments to prevent things from getting ''too'' easy.
** Due to all the comedic RedHerring conversations being PermanentlyMissableContent, the conversation you need to listen to in order to continue the story will always be scrambled, allowing you to check all the other ones at your leisure first.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: PlayedForLaughs in "Special Assignment 8 - The Colossal Fossil Hustle", where all the exhibits have the audio tour guide give explanations that are massively incorrect. Most notably, the guide says that the Pterodactyl has [[{{Pun}} a silent pee]] which it uses to blind its prey before attacking.

** In the level "Scrapyard Scrap", Chase teams up with Studski and Clutch to rescue [[spoiler: Natalia]] from [[spoiler: Chan]]. When Chase says that he could be doing anything to get info out of her, Studski first assumes he's force-feeding her ice cream, which Clutch dismisses. Sure enough, that is exactly what [[spoiler:Chan]] did to [[spoiler:Natalia]].

** One of [[spoiler:Blackwell's]] guards starts chasing Chase on a bicycle (while the latter darts away on a motorcycle). During the epilogue, [[spoiler:he's finally almost reached him. Only to get caught in the IrisOut and fall into the black void.]]

* BringMyBrownPants:

* DontTryThisAtHome: After Chase almost gets hit by a falling car in "Scrapyard Scrap", he reminds the audience that scrapyards are dangerous places that shouldn't be played in.

* EarlyBirdCameo: If you poke around early around in the story at Auburn, you can see the workplace of Heinrich Kowalski, although all you can see is his face as the logo with his initials.
* EerilyOutOfPlaceObject: There is an ATM in the prison yard. Perhaps Blue had it smuggled in?
* EnergyWeapon: The astronaut disguise has a blaster that fires a non-lethal version of these.
* EvilBrit: Barry Smith seems like one, being a Cockney Kung Fu master... but it's subverted as he's a friendly plumber who teaches Chase martial arts.

* MoodWhiplash: The game gets considerably darker when [[spoiler:it is revealed that Blackwell Tower is actually a rocket ship and that if it launches, the heat and exhaust fumes would likely kill everyone nearby]].

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Chase gets various costumes that grant him new powers and access to new areas as the player progresses through the story mode. In order of appearance: Civilian (Default), Police, Robber, Miner, Astronaut, Farmer, Firefighter, Construction Worker. He also unlocks several abilities as the story goes on such as parkour, advanced combat, boat driving and upgrades to previous powers. The sudden mastery is lampshaded in the first special assignment where Chase is as stunned as the player that he can do all these crazy parkour stunts.

* NoOSHACompliance: Fuse boxes throughout the city are electrified, causing a zap to all characters except construction workers, who may repair them. Sometimes these boxes just stop certain devices from working, and sometimes they electrify floors, preventing entry. Lampshaded by Chase in while in Forrest Blackwell's Mansion.
-->'''Chase''': Did Forrest hire [[TheDitz Frank]] to wire this place?

** The Sentinels, personal security detail of [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell]], are dead ringers for The Agents from ''Franchise/TheMatrix''.

** "Special Assignment 2 - Trouble in Stir" is essentially wholesale send-up to ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'', complete with the character "Blue" being a nod to Red and a cutscene where opera music played from a record player is broadcasted throughout the prison.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Being a LEGO game, there is a ''lot'' to collect on the road to 100% completion. There's 450 Gold Bricks, 305 character disguises [[labelnote:*]]290 in the Wii U version[[/labelnote]], 120 vehicles, and 39 Red Bricks [[labelnote:*]]40 in the Wii U version[[/labelnote]]. To get every Gold Brick, you'll to complete all fifteen story missions, as well as collect a sufficient amount of studs and all four Police Shields in each one. In the overworld, you'll need to arrest 17 gangs, smash 18 [=ATMs=], destroy 22 precious boulders, catch 17 aliens, rescue 17 cats, take 20 coffee breaks, arrest 12 vehicle robbers, steal 13 vehicles, destroy 17 silver statues, conquer 20 districts, return 22 pigs to Farmer Hayes, extinguish 17 BBQ fires, complete 17 Drill Thrills, construct 65 Super Builds, activate 14 train stations, complete 19 Free Runs, complete 16 Time Trials and activate 17 Disguise Booths. There's also 10 Gold Bricks hidden inside the Police Station, plus 16 that need to be purchased with studs.
* AdaptedOut: Obviously, all major Nintendo references were removed in the non-Nintendo ports of the game, with only a few subtle and stray ones left in such as Chase's quip about a giant ape being on top of a familiar structure. The one Nintendo-related EasterEgg which didn't even return for the Switch re-release was the Mario Hat Red Brick.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: A great deal of the unlockables are new costumes for Chase, with only one of them vital to buy while the rest are just cosmetic. The costume in question, which grants SuperStrength necessary for orange handles, is [[spoiler:Rex Fury]], and is found near the end of [[spoiler:the space dive portion of the final level, in one of the stud rings close to the finish]].

** After enough players experienced GuideDangIt towards the ATM destruction sidequest on the Wii U, the remastered version for all systems added a loading screen explanation that states how the Criminal suit is required to break them.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: PlayedForLaughs in the museum level, where all the exhibits have the audio tour guide give explanations that are massively incorrect. Most notably, the guide says that the Pterodactyl has [[{{Pun}} a silent pee]] which it uses to blind its prey before attacking.

** Also implied to have happened to Frank when he mentions trying to imitate [[Series/StarskyAndHutch Studski and Clutch's]] signature move of sliding across their cars hood on a loading screen. When he tried it, his car lost its hood ornament and now he sets off the metal detectors at airports.
** One RedHerring conversation has a patron at the Library ask an employee help them get a book unstuck from his butt after he accidentally sat on it.

* AxeBeforeEntering: Due to lethal combat being disallowed since Chase is a cop upholding the law, the sole purpose of the firefighter disguise's axe is breaking through boarded up doors to get past them.

* BlatantBurglar: The regular Criminal disguise for Chase has him wearing a black beanie, a DominoMask, a black-and-grey striped shirt, two [[ChainedByFashion chains]] across his torso, black gloves, a UtilityBelt, and the a crowbar, all of which combined to make it ''extra'' blatant how that is the primary "robber" disguise.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: After helping out a gas-stop owner, he asks Chase if he wants ice cream, a hot dog, or an ice-cream hot-dog, particularly since he has a lot of that combo to spare.

** In the level "Scrapyard Scrap", Chase teams up with Studski and Clutch to rescue [[spoiler: Natalia]] from [[spoiler: Chan]]. When Chase says that he could be doing anything to get info out of her, Studski first assumes he's force feeding her ice cream, to which Clutch dismisses. Sure enough, that is exactly what [[spoiler:Chan]] did to [[spoiler:Natalia]].

** Also later on, Chase and Vinnie interrogate one of [[spoiler: Rex's men]] by force feeding him ice cream to learn of his boss's whereabouts.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: At the end of the story, when Chase says that there's more important things than your job (clearly referring to pursuing a romantic relationship), Frank Honey asks him if he means playing videogames.

** During the first part of the game, for no apparent reason, a gardener just so happens to come along and water some plants that are in front of fence that is too high for Chase to surmount. One of the plants grows large enough that Chase is able to climb it and get over the fence. The gardener lampshades this himself, stating that he came a long way just to water some stranger's plants.

* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] [[RuleOfFunny for laughs]]. Chase has an incredibly short trip to [[spoiler:the Moon]], which Professor Kowalski explains as [[spoiler:the Moon]] actually being really small and very close to Earth. Apparently this is a secret that only scientists know.

* DaChief: Like Dunby, the Fire Chief Cornelius Burns is aggressive, easy to anger, and having a prominent mustache, as shown when Chase meets him in a foul mood from his crew messing up on a few things for his birthday party like the cake flavor.

** Chase will correctly comment of the state of the slide if you destroy it before he finishes his comment on the fact that [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell]] has a private playground.

* DontTryThisAtHome: After Chase almost gets hit by a falling car in "Scrapyard Scrap", he reminds the audience that scrapyards are dangerous places which shouldn't be played in.

* EarlyBirdCameo: If you poke around early around in the story at Aurburn, you can see the workplace of Heinrich Kowalski, although all you can see is his face as the logo with his initials.

** When Chase and Heinrich find [[spoiler:Blackwell's moonbase model in his mansion]], Chase wonders how [[spoiler:Blackwell can pull this off since the shuttle on Apollo Island isn't big enough for his cronies. He then looks at the uniquely-shaped rocket in the model and wonders where Blackwell could've hidden it]]. This kicks in when he remembers that [[spoiler:there's a countdown at Blackwell Tower, and that ''he realises that he's seen the rocket before'' as it's nearly the same shape as the tower. This poses as a serious problem since Blackwell Tower is right in the middle of the city and there's a huge crowd around it, all of which will get fried by the rocket exhaust unless Chase and Frank deploy some prototype forcefields to shield the blast.]]

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: No one uses bullet based firearms but most of Chase's disguises get a projectile weapon of some kind. His normal police gettup has a grapple gun that can tangle and snare opponents making for an easy arrest.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Rex Fury's cell on Albatross Island has a jukebox which plays a recording of "Sull'Aria" from ''The Marriage of Figaro.'' Most people would simply pass this off as a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' (which it is), but the same opera piece showing up in [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell's penthouse]] is a subtle hint that [[spoiler:Rex is actually working for Blackwell.]]

* GlobalCurrencyException: In every other Traveler's Tales LEGO game, everything that can be purchased always used studs, whether it's characters, special bricks, or even buildings. While most things still use studs, this game has a unique "brick" currency, which broken objects produce instead of studs in this game, that is used exclusively for constructing Super Builds.

* GottaCatchEmAll: There is tons to do in this game ranging from putting out barbecue fires, coffee breaks, growing flowers, launching pigs out of cannons, etc. By doing this, you gain Gold Bricks and getting all ''450'' snags you the ability to [[spoiler:grow twenty times your size!]]

* TheGreys: Can be seen walking around the city. May just be party goers in costume.
* GroinAttack: Barry Smith uses one against Chase when he's testing out his kung fu skills.
* GuideDangIt: While most of the suit abilities get an explanation or at least some hint about how they work, nowhere in the game does it actually explain that the Criminal disguise is needed for the ATM destruction sidequest, with the player most likely finding that out on sheer accident by messing around. This was apparently such a common problem that one AntiFrustrationFeature for the remastered version was a loading screen that explicitly mentions this.

** Several minor characters are this as seen in the shout-outs section below, such as "Blue" being a stand-in for Red from ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'', or [[Series/StarskyandHutch "Studski and Clutch"]], a character named "Harry" who looks exactly like Film/DirtyHarry and a nameless minifigure (listed as [=DaMumbo=] when you unlock it) who looks just like Series/{{Columbo}}. Vinnie Pappalardo is basically Joe Pesci's character from ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'', including being introduced with with a "do you think I'm funny" exchange.

** Near the end of the game, Chase asks Natalia's father on how to describe his [[spoiler:force field generator]] so that "little kids" could understand it.
** The Wii U [=GamePad=] ''is'' the [[MagicTool communicator]].

** This happens InUniverse as well, since Chase at the beginning of the game has to wait for a few minutes for his Police tracker to update, complaining about progress bars.

* TheMafia: Vinnie Pappalardo is in charge of an Italian-style crime syndicate that dabbles in genuine ice-cream production.

* MoodWhiplash: The game gets considerably darker when [[spoiler:it is revealed that Blackwell Tower is actually a rocket ship, and that if it launches, the heat and exhaust fumes would likely kill everyone nearby]].

* NonchalantDodge: One of Chase's counters is simply stepping out of the way of an enemy's attack while sarcastically "welcoming" them to fall face first onto the ground.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Played with. During the Bluebell Mines level Chase performs a very impressive free fall for quite some time. A soft collision into wood only lightly harms him at best but he ''will'' die if he collides with something more solid. Lampshaded by Chase in-game.

** A very notable example comes from Frank when he's playing video games before you wake up Dunby near the start of the game, where he'll make several LeaningOnTheFourthWall references to the ''VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame'' series, specifically the early ones compared to this one, including: a MythologyGag about how the older games had SpeakingSimlish while the movies had actual talking, finding a "special" brick, complaining about there being "free play" when he spent money to play, being excited about unlocking a character before getting sad that he lacks studs for the DoubleUnlock part, messing around with the Character Customizer to create himself as closely as possible out of different parts, being surprised how they kept the games fresh despite having little innovation over the years, wondering what'll happen when they run out of movies to adapt, and stating his belief that setting the game in a WideOpenSandbox city would make it even better.

** To ensure that no one knows he's bringing the crane to the observatory, Chase pulls out a box and draws a smiley face in sharpie and ''puts it on his head''. Not only that, but he also scribbles two other faces (anger and surprise) onto the other sides of the box and it's not even commented on! [[spoiler:However, the trope is ultimately subverted as the person he was trying to fool couldn't make out Chase's appearance anyway; he forgot to bring his glasses.]]

* PokeThePoodle: The gangs that Chase must arrest as part of a sidequest all seem to want to be bad, but never really do anything worse than vandalism. One group seemed horrified when their leader [[EvenEvilHasStandards only paid ten percent tip at a restaurant.]] Chase is eager to stop their crimes, but really, he's probably [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential destroyed more]] [[RewardingVandalism random objects]] than all of the vandals he puts away ''combined''.

* {{Retirony}}: One of the guards at the courthouse takes pride on his last day of work that his thirty-six-year-long career ended without a single mistake or mishap. [[spoiler:[[OhCrap He immediately realizes that he let a prisoner who was to be transferred to jail get in the wrong vehicle]]. [[FromBadToWorse Then a bird poops on his head]].]]
* RewardingVandalism: Takes it even further than the VideoGame/{{Lego Adaptation Game}}s in that driving over things rewards you bricks to build with, and driving over several consecutive things rewards you with a multiplier, encouraging you to destroy even more things with your vehicles. Maxing out the multiplier even makes you invincible for a short while. Your car starts glowing in many different colors, too. This is actually required, in that Chase has to break certain things so he can use the parts to build other things.
* RightHandCat: The story has a few gags using this trope: Chan Chuang has a Right Hand ''Bunny'' that is used not to signify his villainy but to act as a stress pet when his HairTriggerTemper goes on the fritz (it also barks like a guard dog for whatever reason), and Ellie comes to realize [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell]] really is evil like Chase told her because during a public speech he had a cat on his lap that he tenderly stroked while talking.

* ShockwaveStomp: The special attack for the Miner suit is slamming the ground with tremendous force and sending out strong shockwaves from the point of impact, whether from a jump-slam or swinging when not next to anything. It helps with smashing several objects quickly before you get the drill, and can provide some breathing room from a group of swarming enemies

** Literature/SherlockHolmes appears under the name of "Doorluck Homes". He's also apparently friends with "[[Series/DoctorWho Dr. Whatsit]]".
** The [=LCPD=] is practically staffed with them, including undercover specialists [[Series/StarskyAndHutch Studski and Clutch]], and the eternally high-strung gravelly-voiced [[Film/DirtyHarry Shaky Harry]].

** Another ''Matrix'' reference is the Kung-Fu training cutscene which is a dead ringer for the "I Know Kung-Fu" scene from the first movie. Once you complete the level that follows it, most of Chase's moves (especially his finishing moves) heavily resemble one's from ''The Matrix''.
** The above mentioned cutscene also ends with a ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' style K.O. sound effect.
** A whole mission based off ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'', complete with a nod to "Free Man" (not now, his lawyers might be watching)
** Several Shoutouts to the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' franchise are included as the result of Nintendo being publisher. Look out for coin boxes, a Starman, and Cheep-cheeps.[[note]]Many of which were removed in the non-Nintendo ports.[[/note]]

** One of the symbols at the space center resembles the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' logo.
** Albert Spindlerouter takes TheAhnold trope to a whole new level by incorporating the name of a Schwarzenegger movie into just about everything he says. It's even lampshaded when a nearby construction worker in the same level notes that he reminds him of someone.

** The centerpiece of Blackwell's vault is Film/TheMalteseFalcon.

* SimonSaysMiniGame: Special boxes scattered around the city have colored lights which flash in a certain order, requiring the astronaut's special pad to repeat the pattern, [[{{Teleportation}} beaming down]] objects and [[LittleGreenMen aliens]] when successful. This can be averted with a Red Brick which skips the minigame and just opens the box for you.

** When Chase teams up with Studski and Clutch to rescue Natalia, the two speculate on how she might be getting tortured, with ridiculous ideas like giving her brain freeze from ice cream and using TickleTorture. When Natalia's rescued, she's in pain and says they fed her ice cream. Later, Chase and Vinnie interrogate one of Rex's crooks by force-feeding him ice cream, and Rex Fury tortures Professor Kowalski by using a giant machine that tickles him.

* {{Teleportation}}: As an astronaut, Chase can utilize teleporters to travel between two points, although they're usually never that far apart.

** At the end of the game, [[spoiler:Rex Fury]] crashes through the roof of a house, and lands headfirst into a toilet bowl. It's still stuck on his head during his arrest.

* TheUnreveal: Dunby's advice for the cops is muted out by someone activating a vacuum while he speaks.
%%* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:Blackwell's Moonbase]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: "Stinky" Fletcher, who is supposed to have information on the theft in Bluebell Mine, is [[spoiler:kidnapped by Rex's men]], but after [=McCain=] gets a newer lead in the form of Chan, Fletcher is never seen or heard from again. Also, [[spoiler:Chan himself is mentioned to have gone missing after his disappearance following the elimination of his gang's key members and the rescue of Natalia, and is never seen again.]]

* WitnessProtection: A big part of the backstory is that Natalia Kowalski was in witness protection, until Chase blew her cover, which is why Chase was kicked out of LEGO City. She's back in witness protection when he returns, albeit as a paramedic rather than a journalist.
* WorldOfWeirdness: A lot of the LEGO City world falls under this. There are rare Mountain pigs which are intelligent enough to pick locks and scale buildings, and according to the RedHerring conversations, [[TalkingAnimal animals can secretly talk]] and mermaids exist, as well as you being able to legally marry one.

** When Chase and Heinrich find [[spoiler:Blackwell's moonbase model in his mansion]], Chase wonders how [[spoiler:Blackwell can pull this off since the shuttle on Apollo Island isn't big enough for his cronies. He then looks at the uniquely-shaped rocket in the model and wonders where Blackwell could've hidden it]]. This kicks in when he remembers that [[spoiler:there's a countdown at Blackwell Tower, and that ''he realises that he's seen the rocket before'' as it's nearly the same shape as the tower.]]

* MythologyGag: The game that Frank Honey plays very early in the game causes him to comment that "they talked more in the movie", referencing the pre-''LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes'' LEGO Game adaptations by Traveller's Tales, which replaced dialogue with signing and grunts (with a few exceptions though).

** In the level "Scrapyard Scrap", Chase teams up with Studski and Clutch to rescue [[spoiler: Natalia]] from [[spoiler: Chan]]. When Chase says that he could be doing anything to get info out of her, Studski first assumes he's force feeding her ice cream to which Clutch dismisses. Sure enough that is exactly what [[spoiler:Chan]] did to [[spoiler:Natalia.]]

** Also Later on, Chase and Vinnie interrogate one of [[spoiler: Rex's men]] by force feeding him Ice Cream to learn of his Boss's whereabouts

** One of [[spoiler:Blackwell's]] guards starts chasing Chase on a bicycle (while the latter darts away on a motorcycle). During the epilogue, [[spoiler:he's finally almost reached him.]]

* AlwaysClose: [[spoiler:No matter how fast you deliver and set up the phased polarity shield prototypes around Blackwell Tower[[labelnote:*]]which was revealed previously to be a rocket about to launch and incinerate the city with its exhaust[[/labelnote]], when Chase asks Natalia's dad how much time they have left it will always be T-minus three seconds. Good thing the prototypes work!]]
* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Ellie Phillips and Sheriff Huckleberry both have the Dixie variety.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: PlayedForLaughs in the museum level, where all the exhibits have the audio tour guide give explanations that are massively incorrect. Most notably, the guide says that the Pterodactyl has a silent pee which it uses to blind it's prey before attacking.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, when everyone is in space, no one seems to have trouble breathing. Chase even has the visor up on his helmet. Then again, LEGO people don't have noses in the first place]].

** In one of the cutscenes on Albatross Island (Lego City's Alcatraz stand-in), a prisoner is seen trying to escape the prison by floating on balloons. By the end of the game [[spoiler:the man has reached the moon]].

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, when Chase says that there's more important things than your job, Frank Honey asks him if he means playing videogames.]]

* CutsceneBoss: [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell. He appears in a small craft, ready to take on Chase... and then a cow inexplicably flies in from nowhere and knocks him away]]. To be fair, [[spoiler:considering you just fought Rex Fury in two consecutive fights immediately before]], it isn't all bad.
* DaChief: Like Dunby, the Fire Chief is aggressive, easy to anger, and having a prominent mustache, as shown when Chase meets him in a foul mood from his crew messing up on a few things for his birthday party like the cake flavor.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[spoiler:Rideable robot T-Rex.]]

** At one point, Natalia calls to chew Chase out over having police keep an eye on her, [[spoiler: which he knows nothing about. She describes them as smartly dressed for cops, with a black van and an unmarked limo, and... they aren't cops, are they.]]
** Done again when [[spoiler:halfway through explaining how Forrest Blackwell is petting a cat, Ellie realizes he has to be evil based on that fact.]]
** When Chase and Heinrich find [[spoiler:Blackwell's moonbase model in his mansion, Chase wonders how Blackwell can pull this off since the shuttle on Apollo Island isn't big enough for his cronies. He then looks at the uniquely-shaped rocket in the model and wonders where Blackwell could've hidden it. This kicks in when he remembers that there's a countdown at Blackwell Tower, and that ''he realises that he's seen the rocket before'' as it's nearly the same shape as the tower.]]

* HumongousMecha: The Megafig is one of these, and [[spoiler:Chase uses it on the Moon to battle Rex Fury's mechanical T-Rex.]]

* LittleGreenMen: Can be called down using the [[spoiler:astronaut boxes]]. One of the open-world missions is to [[GottaCatchEmAll find and arrest all of them]].

* MaybeEverAfter: [[spoiler:The ending cutscene of the game suggests that Chase plans to spend more time with Natalia.]]

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Chase gets various costumes that grant him new powers and access to new areas as the player progresses through the story mode. In order of appearance: [[spoiler:Civilian (Default), Policeman, Robber, Miner, Astronaut, Farmer, Firefighter, Construction Worker]]. He also unlocks several abilities as the story goes on such as parkour, advanced combat, boat driving and upgrades to previous powers. The sudden mastery is lampshaded in the first special assignment where Chase is as stunned as the player that he can do all these crazy parkour stunts.

* NoOSHACompliance: Fuse boxes throughout the city are electrified, causing a zap to all characters except construction workers, who may repair them. Sometimes these boxes just stop certain devices from working, and sometimes they electrify floors, preventing entry. Lampshaded by Chase in [[spoiler:Forrest Blackwell's Mansion: Escape]].
-->'''Chase''': Did [[spoiler:Forrest]] hire [[TheDitz Frank]] to wire this place?

* PaperThinDisguise: To ensure that no one knows he's bringing the crane to the observatory, Chase pulls out a box and draws a smiley face in sharpie and ''puts it on his head''. Not only that, but he also scribbles two other faces (anger and surprise) onto the other sides of the box and it's not even commented on! [[spoiler:However, the trope is ultimately subverted as the person he was trying to fool couldn't make out Chase's appearance anyway; he forgot to bring his glasses.]]

* PungeonMaster: In classic LEGO game style, especially from Traveller's Tales, most of the humor is based on puns. But unlike the ''VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame'' franchise, the story is completely original, so the puns are even more prominent, including theme puns, situational puns, LawyerFriendlyCameo characters that SpeakInShoutouts, and more.

* SequentialBoss: [[spoiler:Rex Fury is fought in two consecutive battles, the first against him piloting a T-Rex, and the second against him and his minions]].

* TalkingAnimal: The punchline of one of the RedHerring Audio Scanner conversations reveals that the "people" Chase was listening to were, in fact, animals the entire time.

** [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Rex Fury crashes through the roof of a house, and lands headfirst into a toilet bowl. It's still stuck on his head during his arrest.]]

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: [[spoiler:Blackwell's Moonbase]].

* WalkingSpoiler: Played for laughs with Mikey Spoilers, who tells you [[spoiler:that you can get a secret item by knocking down a planet from the ceiling in the space center.]]

* WitnessProtection: A big part of the backstory is that Natalia Kowalski was in witness protection, until Chase blew her cover, which is why Chase was kicked out of Lego City. She's back in witness protection when he returns, albeit as a paramedic rather than a journalist.

** The tones used for the Space Boxes are "Daisy Daisy," from ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey''. Furthermore, one of the astronauts in ''The Chase Begins'' is named Hal Bowman.

*** During the final level, [[spoiler:Rex's T-Rex is defeated in a manner similar to Bowser in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', by grabbing its tail and then throwing it at the explosive energy tanks around the room]].
** The tones used for the Space Boxes are "Daisy Daisy," from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When Chase teams up with Studski and Clutch to rescue Natalia, [[spoiler:the two speculate on how she might be getting tortured, with ridiculous ideas like giving her brain freeze from ice cream and using TickleTorture. When Natalia's rescued, she's in pain and says they fed her ice cream.]]

* GlobalCurrencyException: In every other Traveler's Tales LEGO game, everything that can be purchased always uses studs, whether it's characters, special bricks, or even buildings. While most things still use studs, this game has a unique "brick" currency, which comes out of broken objects instead of studs, that is used exclusively for constructing Super Builds.