Artwork for Fortnite's new Chapter Seven era has seemingly teased a crossover with LEGO Ninjago, and confirmed a return for the game's dreaded Cube.
While LEGO already has a deep integration with Fortnite, the addition of Ninjago characters into the game will prove interesting — as it remains to be seen whether the characters will appear as non-LEGO versions. Indeed, this teaser simply shows a set of golden nunchuks belonging to Ninjago hero Jay, without the character himself being present.
Lego Ninjago's characters are, obviously, LEGO minifigures — but in Fortnite, playable characters always have a regular (non-LEGO) skin version as well. Perhaps we'll see a full, human-like version of Jay make its debut? Or perhaps fans will be allowed to run around Fortnite's battle royale as over-sized LEGO figurines (this seems less likely).
Numerous other clues to Fortnite's future are included within the image, which prominently features a new helmeted character apparently called The Traveler (no, not the one from Destiny). Shockingly, the character's helmet appears to contain a small version of the golden Cube last seen within Fortnite back in 2021, when it was defeated alongside the Cube Queen in the game's Chapter 2 finale.
Fortnite's Cube villains were a major part of the game's original storyline, and served as part of The Last Reality, an alien race that invaded the Island until its overseers, the Imagined Order (IO), intervened. Squint closely at the computer console surrouding The Traveller and the IO's logo can be seen, alongside various logos for the heroic Seven — the faction that then went on to eventually overthrow the IO and liberate the Island during Chapter 3.
The fact that all three of these factions (The Last Reality, IO and The Seven) are now being referenced — and perhaps fully reintroduced — is a huge U-turn for Fortnite's storyline, which largely abandoned their stories from the start of Chapter 4 onwards, following the departure of Fortnite's previous creative boss Donald Mustard.
Other things obviously referenced in the image include previously-confirmed collaborations with Back to the Future and Kill Bill, and what looks like Tilted Towers' clock tower.
Fortnite's current era, which is being capped off by an enjoyable Simpsons mini-season, will conclude this Saturday in a highly-anticipated live event that looks set to feature every major collab from the past 12 months, all teaming up to defeat Chapter 6's big bad.
So, yes, that means Fortnite's latest villain will square off against characters from Star Wars, The Simpsons' supersized Homer Simpson, Godzilla, Kong, James Gunn's Superman, the Might Morphin Power Rangers' Dino Megazord, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the KPop Demon Hunters, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, Hatsune Miku, The Bride from Kill Bill and Marty McFly, if not more.
Fortnite Chapter Seven will then begin shortly afterwards, following an expected period of downtime.
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