We had a few teasers earlier in the week, but now we have official details of the new LEGO game and toy hybrid – LEGO Dimensions.
The concept is ‘inspired by’ other toy-to-life games such as Skylanders and Disney Infinity. For those not familiar with the concept it involves placing certain objects on a special “portal”, and then the vehicle or character in question will appear in the game.
Here is the launch trailer
The starter pack includes the portal, 3 minifigures (Batman, Wyldstyle and Gandalf) as well as a small Batmobile. The portal and Batmobile are both built elements; you’ll get to put them together yourself.
It appears that most of the work is done by the special base piece, so everything else should be regular LEGO.
The LEGO Dimensions website also gives us a look at the expansions that will be available
There appears to be three different types of packs; Team Packs (with 2 minifigures), Level Packs (which include a new game level) and smaller Fun Packs (these appear to be a single minifigure, and a vehicle).
The game is going to be full of Warner Bros IP. This is a bit of a mixed blessing; Warner Bros own a lot of great properties, but there are plenty that they don’t own. For example Marvel characters are extremely unlikely here.
The inclusion of The Wizard of Oz is intriguing.
We suspect that AFOL reaction is going to be mixed, but the target market will probably love this. The biggest question that we have is how well the game works when a child mixes the parts for their LEGO Dimensions Batmobile in with the rest of their LEGO.
Let us know in the comments what you think of this.
LEGO Dimensions will be available for Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4 on September 28th 2015. (That should be the Australian release date).
Yeah – I’d imagine these would be similar to the Skylanders/Infinity figures, where they have an RFID chip in the base for each minifig/vehicle. This way it doesn’t matter what lego pieces you use, it will still use whatever character/vehicle that is identified by the chip.
I think my boys are going to want this one!
EB Games has RRP pricing up already, $170 for the starter packs and $25-$50 for the expansion packs…I understand the cost involved as it is technology + game + LEGO + licensing, so essentially you are getting a $90 game + 724 pieces of LEGO (at least that’s what I saw was in the base pack). But I look at that and go, for similar money I can get an incredible LEGO set, or more wallet friendly the upcoming LEGO Jurassic Park game and LEGO avengers game.
As I am a uni student and not a parent I guess it’s easier to say no to this product than most. Best of luck to all the parents out there you’ll need it! Other than that though i am really glad that LEGO still have the LOTR license it means potential sets are still possible in the future and also The Wizard of Oz sets are a nice surprise.
My $0.02 at least.
Just an FYI; the picture of the starter pack in this article shows it has 269 pieces, not 724.
Its also only available for consoles, no PC version. Not sure I can warrant the expense of both buying a new console, as well as the starter pack and some other packs. Still, I think its a great extension of Lego with the digital world, and I think it will do well.
Think the only one I’ll be getting so far is the BTTF set for that sweet hoverboard, unless the Cyborg and Wonder Woman minifigs are unique