The "LEGO (X)" games are the most prominent use of pantomime in popular culture since movies got sound It helps for pantomime...
The “LEGO (X)” games are the most prominent use of pantomime in popular culture since movies got sound
It helps for pantomime and puppetry to use stories and idioms people know already, or at least some well of meaning lying outside the performance itself
Jolly Ship the Whiz-Bang had music and plus even if the plots were novel pirates are a familiar idiom
Or you can take the alienation effect and just run with it

Oh man LEGO Utena would be AMAZING