September 2015 has turned out to be a surprisingly busy (and expensive!) month for LEGO fans, with the Force Awakens Star Wars sets hitting stores along with a variety of holiday seasonal sets. And if you’re a gamer, things are about to get a whole lot more expensive! Tomorrow is the official launch for the LEGO Dimensions toys and video game, so I headed out to stores today to see them setting up their displays…

We’ve been waiting for the launch of the LEGO Dimensions video game for so long now that seeing news, images and details emerging has become almost like background noise in my daily life.

That’s why I almost–almost–forgot that the game was officially coming out in stores as of tomorrow, Sunday September 27th 2015. But remembering that the momentous occasion was tomorrow, I just couldn’t resist going out to stores to see what was up today…

My first stop was everyone’s favorite toy-exclusive retailer chain (because they’re basically the only one left), Toys R Us!

Toys R Us stores have a humongous display all set to be filled in with LEGO Dimensions Starter Kits, Team Packs, Level Packs and Fun Packs overnight!

Just how much space is TRU allocating for the LEGO Dimensions games? My store had over seventy pegs barcoded and ready to be stocked! That is an insane amount of space for one video game and its accessories!

Unfortunately, the prices at Toys R Us are whack (as usual). TRU typically doesn’t mark up video games beyond MSRP, but they’ve already added their typical LEGO price bloat and inflated the cost of Level Packs to $31.99 and Fun Packs to $16.99. I am not amused.

And so, as gloriously large as the future display at Toys R Us is sure to be, I decided to check out other retailers to see what they had in the works at non-inflated prices.

Walmart and GameStop seemingly haven’t even begun to set up their displays, but I struck paydirt at Target, who have their demo unit already running and the empty pegs ready for tomorrow! Even so, Target only has around three dozen total pegs ready for the sets (there are more pegs than what’s shown above on the perpendicular display unit), so they’re likely to only have half the stock that Toys R Us ends up getting tomorrow.

The display unit has three different demo videos to run (“Play”, “Build” and “Connect”), and prominently displays the Dimensions Portal and the Wyldstyle, Gandalf and Batman minifigures from the Starter Kit.

And thankfully, Target is not trying to gouge consumers by charging prices above MSRP for any of the LEGO Dimensions packs. Thanks, Target!

I wasn’t near a local LEGO Store today, so I didn’t have a chance to see what kind of a display (if any) is being set up for Dimensions toys in the official stores, but if anyone else has been to a local store and wants to chime in, feel free to do so!

I’ll be heading out to take photos again tomorrow once the new products are actually on store shelves, and I’ll be sure to post all of my impressions and photos to the Bricks and Bloks Facebook Page.

Have your local stores started setting up for tomorrow’s big launch yet, brick fans? And are you planning on picking up a Starter Kit or any expansion packs tomorrow, or is LEGO Dimensions just not on your radar (yet)?