LEGO Dimensions

[detective392]

Official LEGO Dimensions Announce Trailer: Extended Cut w/ Joel McHale - YouTube

Following this morning's leak, Warner Bros. Interactive today confirmed Lego Dimensions, a toys-to-life console game that hits Sept. 27 and will blend a variety of universes together including DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The Lego Movie, The Wizard of Oz, Lego Ninjago and Back to the Future.

More properties will be announced in the future, according to the press release. The game is in development by Travelers Tales Games and is coming to the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Wii U. The starter bundle will cost $99.99, according to Toys R Us.

In addition to the game, the Lego Dimensions Starter Pack will include the Lego Toy Pad, which allows players to transport special LEGO minifigures and other LEGO objects into the game, bricks to build the LEGO Gateway, three LEGO Minifigures, including LEGO Batman from DC Comics, Lego Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings and Wyldstyle from The Lego Movie, plus the LEGO Batmobile.

"When kids play with Lego bricks, they build beyond the singular brands, intermixing all of their favorite characters and universes, and we have come up with a way for players to experience that in games," said Jon Burton, Founder and Creative Director, TT Games. "Now for the first time in a videogame, Lego fans can play in the virtual world and in the real world — combining everything without restrictions. Imagine putting LEGO Gollum from The Lord of the Rings behind the wheel of the Lego DeLorean Time Machine in New Ninjago City — the creative play is endless."

Packs planned for release in 2015 include:

A Back to the Future Level Pack with a Lego Marty McFly minifigure
A Lego Ninjago Team Pack with Kai and Cole minifigures
Three Ninjago Fun Packs with Jay, Nya and Zane minifigures
Two DC Comics Fun Packs with Wonder Woman and Cyborg minifigures
Three The Lord of the Rings Fun Packs with Lego Gollum, Lego Gimli and Lego Legolas minifigures
Four The Lego Movie Fun packs with Emmet, Bad Cop, Benny and Unikitty characters
A The Wizard of Oz Fun Pack with a Lego Wicked Witch of the West minifigure

Additional packs to round out the 2015 assortment will be announced in the months leading to launch. Further waves of expansion packs will be released regularly following the launch of the game and into 2016.

Future expansion packs will work with the starter pack "even in the fall of next year," according to the press release.

[detective392]

Once they announce Scooby-Doo and Harry Potter, I am so getting this.

[Goodintentions]

already preordered mine .. this is right up my alley ....love that you actually build the portal ... have always loved building legos and still do with my grandaughter to this day

[Kurri]

I would be curious to hear more about this. Kind of sounds like this might be more like a disney infinity game (game missions / open world building) rather than skylanders?

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Kurri

I would be curious to hear more about this. Kind of sounds like this might be more like a disney infinity game (game missions / open world building) rather than skylanders?

I got more of a Skylanders impression with there being a main boss and you having to travel through different LEGO worlds to save them.

[Blu-Kyle]

Looks pretty cool. Preordered mine from Amazon, for now. Will wait and see to hear more news about it too see if I will keep it or not.

I just wonder how those LEGO packs will be. Are they going to be like some of the Ambiios for Nintendo? People buying them up just to resell for profit driving up the demand?

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Blu-Kyle

Looks pretty cool. Preordered mine from Amazon, for now. Will wait and see to hear more news about it too see if I will keep it or not.

I just wonder how those LEGO packs will be. Are they going to be like some of the Ambiios for Nintendo? People buying them up just to resell for profit driving up the demand?

I don't see that happening. Amiibo's were always going to be in limited supply Nintendo said which made it easier to buy and sell for a higher price. I'm sure these LEGO packs will be like Disney Infinity figures. Tons of them to go around.

We may get a rare one or exclusive once in awhile.

[Blu-Kyle]

Originally Posted by detective392

I don't see that happening. Amiibo's were always going to be in limited supply Nintendo said which made it easier to buy and sell for a higher price. I'm sure these LEGO packs will be like Disney Infinity figures. Tons of them to go around.

We may get a rare one or exclusive once in awhile.

I'm hoping that doesn't happen either. Nintendo seems to like to drive up the demand for their products. Debating whether to show this to my kids or not.

Nice Jack Harkness avatar BTW.

[detective392]

Originally Posted by Blu-Kyle

I'm hoping that doesn't happen either. Nintendo seems to like to drive up the demand for their products. Debating whether to show this to my kids or not.

Nice Jack Harkness avatar BTW.

Yeah, Nintendo knows how to drive up prices on things. Especially the whole Amiibo thing.

Thanks, Torchwood is an awesome show.

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Ugh.... I really don't need to start another figure based game, but I'll probably get into this anyway.

I saw something about this game on a BTTF group that I'm part of on Facebook, with characters crossing over including BTTF, which I thought is cool, but didn't realize it was going to be a Skylanders / Disney Infinity kind of thing.

My poor wallet!

[Dxtra30]

If you have GCU (Gamers Club Unlimited) thru Best Buy it saves even more.
Starter Pack $100 - ($20) = $80
Level Pack $30 - ($6) = $24
Team Pack $25 - ($5) = $20
Any dollar saved always helps IMO

[Kurri]

Originally Posted by Dxtra30

If you have GCU (Gamers Club Unlimited) thru Best Buy it saves even more.
Starter Pack $100 - ($20) = $80
Level Pack $30 - ($6) = $24
Team Pack $25 - ($5) = $20
Any dollar saved always helps IMO

thanks for the heads up. going to pre-order now through best buy the game and level pack

[Derb]

[Kurri]

Originally Posted by detective392

I got more of a Skylanders impression with there being a main boss and you having to travel through different LEGO worlds to save them.

if it is more like skylanders, school me on it real quick

Any re-playability with skylanders? i mean lets say you beat a level with a character, any reason to go back? I have played Disney Infinity but never skylanders

[Blu Bull]

Even with GCU its going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $280 for all of the launch items. That's going to hurt, but once my kids see this stuff I'm going to be a push over.

[Grim Reaper]

ide like to know when they will give us online co-op...

[Blu-Kyle]

Originally Posted by Grim Reaper

ide like to know when they will give us online co-op...

Wouldn't you need to use a mic for that?

[Grim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Blu-Kyle

Wouldn't you need to use a mic for that?

this is why i stopped posting in the destiny thread...

*edit*
i do have mic. i used it a few weeks ago in destiny. i used the one that my s5 came with.

[Trace17]

Going to be so expensive though...

[Kurri]

Originally Posted by Blu Bull

Even with GCU its going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $280 for all of the launch items. That's going to hurt, but once my kids see this stuff I'm going to be a push over.

yeah but who knows, might be like disney infinity. buy 1 get 1 or buy 2 get 1.