Who right here remembers Lego Island? Whereas trendy Lego video games have discovered success by adapting different established IPs, with Lego Horizon Adventures being the latest instance, 1997’s Lego Island stays one thing of a cult traditional, even when The Lego Group doesn’t keep in mind it. Or so we thought till the discharge of one other Fortnite/Lego collaboration, which options Lego Island‘s important character in a cameo function.

Just lately, The Lego Group added a brand new Fortnite Island for gamers to obtain known as Lego Tycoon: Tilted Towers. As you may collect from the identify, it has you rebuilding the enduring Fortnite locale, albeit in Lego kind, whereas additionally farming assets, establishing new companies, and defending the town from all method of disasters, like floods and zombie invasions. It looks as if some innocent enjoyable and a neat diversion from the principle Lego Fortnite mode, however followers shortly caught on to a cameo look by Lego Island‘s Pepper Roni (sure, that’s his actual identify) within the announcement trailer on Twitter.

At one level within the trailer, we go within a pizzeria, the place we see Pepper manning the sales space, recognized by his ginger hair, crimson cap, and the very same shirt he wore in Lego Island. This deep lower of a cameo has been greater than sufficient to make older Lego followers joyful as evidenced by a number of the Twitter replies. “Blast from the previous! What an AWESOME Easter Egg reference. Mama and Papa Brick can be proud!” wrote one fan, whereas a pair others hope this can result in Pepper getting his personal Fortnite pores and skin. Unsurprisingly, this has additionally sparked some calls for for a re-release of Lego Island, which might be neat contemplating it’s not available anyplace (at the very least legally).

For context, the unique Lego Island launched on PC in 1997, and was a first-person open world journey sport the place Pepper needed to save the island from the evil Brickster (the place’s his Fortnite cameo?). It noticed a extra fleshed out sequel in 2001, adopted by a 3rd title in 2002 known as Island Xtreme Stunts all about Pepper being a stuntman for an motion film. Guess the profession change didn’t pan out if he’s again to creating and delivering pizzas. Except he’s made different appearances elsewhere that I’m not conscious of, this implies Pepper hasn’t been seen in over 20 years. No surprise Lego Island followers are thrilled to see him pop up in Fortnite.

The percentages of any of the Lego Island video games seeing a remake or re-release are in all probability very low. Nevertheless, a group of followers are placing collectively the following smartest thing: their very own sequel dubbed Venture Island. It nonetheless sounds prefer it’s a good distance away from releasing, with the group presently engaged on a playable demo that, on the time of writing, lacks any type of launch window.