I liked Skylanders, but not enough to buy it. I bought Infinity, got bored, sold it. I went back to playing my favorite LEGO games. Now comes a new announcement from the good peops over at LEGO..
It’s time to open up The Toy Chest!
LEGO Dimensions, a new collectibles based video game is set to take on Skylanders and Disney Infinity, and will hit consoles this fall. It will be available on PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U. Are you really all that surprised, as the world of collectible video games has only been growing and growing. Hopefully LEGO can do one better unlike Infinity, a game I gladly sold off and bought a ton of regular LEGO sets with the monies. If LEGO and Tt can make the games as charming as their usual titles then there shouldn’t be a problem with its success.
Developed by Tt Games, Dimensions looks to merge physical LEGO brick building with console gameplay in a manner only imaginable in the world of LEGO games. Fan-favorite universes, including DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The LEGO Movie, The Wizard of Oz, LEGO Ninjago, Back to the Future, and many more still to be announced, will come together in one title.
Available at launch will be the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack which 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, LEGO Gandalf and Wyldstyle from The LEGO Movie, plus the LEGO Batmobile.
I can meet up with Marty McFly from Back to the Future?! COUNT ME IN!!
and here’s the Official Trailer:
Official Press Release:
For the first time in any LEGO videogame, characters from iconic entertainment franchises join forces and battle in worlds outside of their own. 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 BatmanTM from DC Comics, LEGO Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings and Wyldstyle from The LEGO Movie, plus the LEGO BatmobileTM.
In addition to the three minifigure heroes used to start the experience, LEGO Dimensions will allow gamers to customize their experience with additional expansion packs. Highly collectible Level Packs, Team Packs and Fun Packs will provide new buildable characters, vehicles, tools and gadgets, as well as compelling game content with new mission-based levels and unique in-game abilities. All expansion packs will feature well-known properties and provide gamers the opportunity to use everything interchangeably, anywhere throughout the game – with no limitations.
A small sample of packs available in 2015 include the 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, and 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.
