This move comes after retail sales of the game failed to live up to the success of the wide array of LEGO video games from WBIE (LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4), DisneyInteractiveStudios (LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean), and LucasArts (LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars).
Rather than trying to take an interactive story and jam it into a film formula, he and his team at Walt Disney Animation Studios crafted an original story about video game characters set within the world of an arcade.