LEGO Dimensions Video Game Toys Sets Announced!

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LEGO has been counting down toward something really big happening with multiple teases over the course of the last week, and now we know exactly what it is–a brand-new video game franchise: LEGO Dimensions! LEGO must have figured, “Why should Nintendo Amiibo, Skylanders and Disney Infinity make all the money in this genre?”, because a full assortment of LEGO Dimensions toys-to-life video game sets has now been announced for release in fall 2015!

LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack Wii U Batman Gandalf WyldstyleI’ll be adding my thoughts on this development throughout the morning, but for the moment, here’s the official press release on the 71174 LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack and the new theme as a whole…

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.

You can check out the official reveal trailer for the new theme above!

To summarize, LEGO is getting into the buy-toys-to-activate-in-game-content video game model, with what looks to be a huge variety of sets. The Starter Pack 71174 will be released on September 29th, 2015 for the Wii U, XBox One, XBox 360, PS3 and PS4. I guess the original Wii just isn’t quite powerful enough to get the job done this time!

As tends to be the case with this sort of video game/toy mash-up, it appears that players will have to buy toy sets in order to “activate” characters within LEGO Dimensions. Wanting to unlock every character could get real expensive, real fast, especially with the sets that are already lined up just for fall 2015…
LEGO Dimensions Sets LEGO Movie Back to the Future NinjagoThe complete list of announced sets for LEGO Dimensions video game theme is as follows:

LEGO Dimensions Video Game Starter Pack Gandalf Batman Wyldstyle MinifiguresThat’s sixteen sets to kick off the theme! Crazy!! It’s a shame that there’s only one new character across sixteen sets, but you can bet the Wicked Witch LEGO Minifigure is going to be on my day-one “buy” list!

What do you think about this new LEGO Dimensions theme? Does the concept of crossing over minifigures into other dimensions and universes appeal to you, or does the idea of having to buy figures you already own again in order to use them in a video game a big turn-off to you?

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LEGO Dimensions Video Game Toys Sets Announced! — 10 Comments

    • Wii U, XBox 360, XBox One, PS3 and PS4. I’m a little surprised to see no 3DS version, what with the New 3DS being able to read figures like Amiibo, honestly.

    • If so, this is the very first I’ve heard of it. It’s possible they just want to release a few figures for Wizard of Oz without having to create actual sets for it. I guess we’ll have to wait and see!

  3. Oh yeah, way to go LEGO. Just forget about star wars, the one theme that rescued lego.

    • Bear in mind that Star Wars is now owned by Disney, who would probably rather go bankrupt than have Darth Vader and Iron Man chillin’ with the competition’s LEGO Batman and Superman in a video game.

      • More likely then that, we might not see Star Wars because its going to be the next big Infinity launch. Lucas Arts would have never let it happen, but Disney lately is more open and pushing it’s IPs. Already pressured the WB with the Marvel IP, pushed its princess line into Legos, I really could see Disney pushing game figures on two fronts as Lego does have a market they don’t and Disney has the characters everyone wants.

    • Unknown so far! If I had to make a guess, I would say that the minifigures will be removable, but that’s solely my guess and definitely not official yet.

      • They better NOT be stuck 2 dat bas eor im gona ho crazy! This is would be such a cheaper way to get these cool minifigs!!!