LEGO Dimensions |OT| Not Lost Dimensions

hawk2025 said:
I really hope the year 2 expansions actually keeps the platform afloat. I'm a little concerned that there two major expansions are Ghostbusters and Fantastic Beasts. Wouldn't it make more sense to have Harry Potter and something else as the foundation?
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At about six levels, you'd have to pick one or maybe two of the movies to focus on in a Harry Potter story pack. And that doesn't even get into the consideration that you've already got all the movies in the earlier standalone games.

No, I think going with Fantastics Beasts instead was a good choice. As is the upcoming LEGO Batman Movie story pack in February.

I liked the new Ghostbusters, but I agree with you that it may not necessarily appeal to the target audience. Then again, it doesn't seem like The A-Team will either. So maybe they're not expecting it to sell to kids?

Steve Youngblood said:
But Superman's Hover Pod and Aquaman's Aqua Watercraft are needlessly added in just to justify the theme of one vehicle per character. And this isn't meant to be a serious complaint where I feel that they have shot themselves in the foot or anything. I just look at my collection of figures and vehicles and all these stupid vehicles really annoy me. And to some extent, I think character packs that didn't include a vehicle might have facilitated a lower MSRP.
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My understanding is that "character only" packs could potentially run afoul of licensing issues - if another company has the license for action figures for a franchise, releasing figure-only packs could be seen as infringing.

I don't know if that's ever been said by an official source, though, or if that's just been a theory I've seen around.
 
HamsterExAstris said:
I liked the new Ghostbusters, but I agree with you that it may not necessarily appeal to the target audience. Then again, it doesn't seem like The A-Team will either. So maybe they're not expecting it to sell to kids?
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Not sure if this video has been linked here yet, but the developers talk about intentionally appealing to both kids and adults. It's also got previews of some of the new levels - not necessarily spoilers but there is in-game video.

https://youtu.be/mxpqPEL72Uw
 
HamsterExAstris said:
My understanding is that "character only" packs could potentially run afoul of licensing issues - if another company has the license for action figures for a franchise, releasing figure-only packs could be seen as infringing.

I don't know if that's ever been said by an official source, though, or if that's just been a theory I've seen around.
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This is correct. It's 100% a licensing thing - Lego cannot sell Minifigures based on licensed IPs alone because then they would be classified as "action figures" and they would get in huge legal trouble. So they must include something to make it a "buildable set" and not just the Minifig.

It's the same reason their Minifigure magnets went from Minifigs standing on top of a brick to Minifigs literally bolted onto a giant magnetic disc. People were able to remove the figures too easily and that broke licensing agreements, so Lego had to change them to make absolutely sure the Minifigures couldn't be removed.

Even the upcoming Minecraft figure packs have to include a seemingly worthlessly small amount of bricks to prevent them from being purely an "action figure" pack.
 
WordAssassin said:
This is correct. It's 100% a licensing thing - Lego cannot sell Minifigures based on licensed IPs alone because then they would be classified as "action figures" and they would get in huge legal trouble. So they must include something to make it a "buildable set" and not just the Minifig.

It's the same reason their Minifigure magnets went from Minifigs standing on top of a brick to Minifigs literally bolted onto a giant magnetic disc. People were able to remove the figures too easily and that broke licensing agreements, so Lego had to change them to make absolutely sure the Minifigures couldn't be removed.

Even the upcoming Minecraft figure packs have to include a seemingly worthlessly small amount of bricks to prevent them from being purely an "action figure" pack.
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But what about the two Simpsons minifigures series and the incoming Batman one?
 
Chiaroscuro said:
But what about the two Simpsons minifigures series and the incomuns Batman one?
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I can only assume they have special, very specific licensing deals for those. Lego have a lot of weird rules that they waffle on (no alcohol, but the Parisian Restaurant has a wine cellar) but from my time working for Lego the official line we gave people when they asked about buying just Minifigures was that it was 100% licensing and Minifigures alone were counted as "action figures" so legally Lego could not sell them by themselves.

Maybe the fact that they are "blind bags" puts them into some other category? I don't know. I think it's weird and stupid but that's what we were told the reason was.
 
hawk2025 said:
That 70% Target Cartwheel did me good.

Picked up a Chima character for its world, Unikitty, and Bad Cop for about $10 total.
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Just came here to post about this. Picked up Emmett, Unikitty, Bad Cop, Legolas, and Gollum for around $30 i think. I also got Benny before at Five Below.

Could someone explain real quick about this game with the different characters. They unlock worlds no matter what but do they have different "abilities" like the traditional Lego games? I'm...thinking about picking Dimensions up finally if I can find it on sale somewhere lmao. Even though I own like 7 of the figure sets now.
 
After that really good Best Buy sale, I now have all of the Season 1 sets.

Bring on Season 2!

Oh... now I have to actually build them all. Haha. When you have a stack of them it really can take a while. Whew.
 
spyroflame0487 said:
Just came here to post about this. Picked up Emmett, Unikitty, Bad Cop, Legolas, and Gollum for around $30 i think. I also got Benny before at Five Below.

Could someone explain real quick about this game with the different characters. They unlock worlds no matter what but do they have different "abilities" like the traditional Lego games? I'm...thinking about picking Dimensions up finally if I can find it on sale somewhere lmao. Even though I own like 7 of the figure sets now.
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Yeah, different characters have different abilities. For example, Emmet can use his drill on certain tiles and Master Build, Unikitty is capable of smashing/building rainbow pieces - and is in fact an exclusive ability, Legolas can shoot targets, etc.
 
spyroflame0487 said:
Could someone explain real quick about this game with the different characters. They unlock worlds no matter what but do they have different "abilities" like the traditional Lego games?
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Exactly. Superman and Wonder Woman can fly, Aquaman can use Atlantis pools and spray water, Scooby-Doo and Owen Grady from Jurassic World can track trails, Slimer and Gimli can fit through "small person" doors...

You can finish the game - and get all the achievements/trophies that don't belong to a level pack - with just what's in the starter pack. But if you want to do everything, you'll need additional characters. (Or use Hire-a-Hero, but that gets expensive.)
 
By the way, is the Midway Arcade world amazing or what?


Marble Madness course, Super Sprint track, a Rampage area, literally dozens upon dozens of little details all over the place.

AND 20 extra games to boot.
 
Steve Youngblood said:
I mean, those I kind of get. Likewise for Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet. My problem is just that they're superfluous. They don't really do anything you need and are thus just there to satisfy a requirement that packs have to contain enough stuff for the MSRP. And I absolutely get it. It's not something that I'm calling for someone's head over. It's just that I'd much preferred to have an option to just buy minifig collections. Because you buy Superman for Superman's abilities. He can already fly. What do you need the hoverpod for? You don't, except that minifigs HAVE to come with vehicles or accessories.
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Maybe they're for co-op purposes. The Aqua Man vehicle is of no use to Aqua Man himself, but to the 2nd player playing as Batman it's a different story.
 
hawk2025 said:
By the way, is the Midway Arcade world amazing or what?


Marble Madness course, Super Sprint track, a Rampage area, literally dozens upon dozens of little details all over the place.

AND 20 extra games to boot.
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I loved the Midway arcade pack. I started playing through the story again with my girlfriend and every time we would hit an arcade dock we would play the game till we got gold. Add that onto the extra 7 or so hours we spent in the hub world and then the actual level on top; for me it was the most value I got from any of the packs, and it was just pure fun the whole way.
 
Can you remember which level in the main game you unlocked Marble Madness from? I'd like to play that, but I don't have the time to blast through the whole campaign again to try find it.
 
Ready to say this beats Lego City Undercover as the best Lego game yet.

The puzzles are a notch above every other entry, and so are the main story levels. Some of the expansion levels themselves are somewhat weak, but most of the open worlds are also great and varied. The only one I have so far that is underwhelming is Back to the Future, since they just didn't pack enough variety into the three time periods. It's still a novel idea, but you look at the Midway Arcade or Lego Movie worlds and there is so much densely packed into the open areas.
 
The Portal 2 levels were delightful. I wanted many, many more.

The more of these characters I use, the more I see how overpowered Wonder Woman is. She's on the base almost all the time. Haven't even opened Superman yet but I assume he's exactly the same. Having trouble not just busting open everything at the same time when I find something I don't have access to yet. Keeping some packs back for the kids for Christmas.

I need to invest in a USB extender too.
 
DonShula said:
The Portal 2 levels were delightful. I wanted many, many more.

The more of these characters I use, the more I see how overpowered Wonder Woman is. She's on the base almost all the time. Haven't even opened Superman yet but I assume he's exactly the same. Having trouble not just busting open everything at the same time when I find something I don't have access to yet. Keeping some packs back for the kids for Christmas.

I need to invest in a USB extender too.
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For me it's the Wicked Witch. Poor Gandalf has hasn't been on the base since I got her.
 
DonShula said:
The more of these characters I use, the more I see how overpowered Wonder Woman is. She's on the base almost all the time. Haven't even opened Superman yet but I assume he's exactly the same.
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Superman is arguably worse. He doesn't have her lasso (grapple) power, but he makes up for it by adding freeze breath (for putting out fires) and laser vision (for destroying gold bricks).
 
DonShula said:
This has got to be adding the new content right? Has the new hunk of rock with the added portals appeared yet?
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The patches are cumulative - you have to download 8+ GB of stuff but it doesn't take up that much more space on your hard drive. The actual patch size is maybe 1 GB, which simply doesn't seem like enough for the 10+ levels that are coming in wave 6.
 
Early 2017

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Novel idea that the Lego Batman Movie level pack does not actually include Batman. Maybe this is a lesson learned from selling minor characters as fun packs and watching them languish on shelves.

I also haven't seen anything stating who does the voices for Knight Rider...
 
DonShula said:
Novel idea that the Lego Batman Movie level pack does not actually include Batman. Maybe this is a lesson learned from selling minor characters as fun packs and watching them languish on shelves.
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Or alternately, it'a because they know everyone with the game has a Batman figure already, and players might have looked askance at being "required" to pick up a repaint.
 
I've been thinking of getting into the game lately, so I've been waiting for the Supergirl bundle... unless I see a better deal than what I would get at Best Buy with my 20% off.
 
I think the biggest bummer to me about that Supergirl figure being PS4 exclusive is that while I would be willing to consider buying the game again, I'm not going to rebuy it for PS4. Just to be able to consolidate games my son plays to one system, I've actually considered buying an Xbox One starter set. An extra character starting next week might have just tipped me over the edge at the first sale price I saw.

Edit: Oh, and sweet. Just got email confirmation about release date delivery on the Season 2 stuff I ordered:

"Ghostbusters Story Pack - LEGO Dimensions"
Estimated arrival date: September 27, 2016
"Warner Home Video - Games LEGO Dimensions, Adventure Time Level Pack"
Estimated arrival date: September 27, 2016
"Warner Home Video - Games LEGO Dimensions, Harry Potter Team Pack"
Estimated arrival date: September 27, 2016
"Warner Home Video - Games LEGO Dimensions, Mission Impossible Level Pack"
Estimated arrival date: September 27, 2016
"Warner Home Video - Games LEGO Dimensions, A Team Fun Pack - Not Machine Specific"
Estimated arrival date: September 27, 2016
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Total price: $88.15. Not bad.
 
Once I'm clear of current commitments money wise I plan on buying all the stuff I can for Lego dimensions.

I take it it's better to have it on PS4 for the exclusive stuff or does Xbox have exclusive stuff aswell?
 
Podge293 said:
Once I'm clear of current commitments money wise I plan on buying all the stuff I can for Lego dimensions.

I take it it's better to have it on PS4 for the exclusive stuff or does Xbox have exclusive stuff aswell?
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Well, the Supergirl figure is the first and only exclusive thing that I know of.
 
As far as I'm aware, Green Arrow isn't a system exclusive, but exclusive to conventions, which is still really irritating.

And I just found out how they are handling Supergirl. Not happy at all. I was an early adopter and have all wave 1 figures and my reward, if I want to continue to collect all of them, is I have to purchase another starter pack?

Really a crappy thing to do. And no, Hire-a-Hero is not a good alternative, I want to own the mini-figure. I really hope Supergirl is a timed exclusive to only the starter pack and we can pick her up later on.

Same applies to Green Arrow.
 
It shouldn't be that much of a challenge for them to get The Hoff in to do the Michael Knight lines, so I expect him to have some choice things to say when you put him in the seat of the DeLorean or the Batmobile. The only challenge should be in getting him not to overact with that high-pitched voice some screen actors use when they're doing voice overs.

William Daniels is 90-something but he's still acting (he was on Girl Meets World recently), so I really hope they get him in to do something for KITT. The only problem is that KITT is a vehicle, so they can have him say something when you summon or dismiss him from the field of play, but he won't have random bits of dialogue while you're driving around.
 
So what's the cheapest option to pick up the first wave of year 2? I've got the best buy GCU thing which cuts it down a decent amount but I'm considering holding off for a sale or something if there's no real good stuff going on/coming up soon

I think I like the year 2 lineup more overall than year 1 though, even if there's nothing as big for me this time around as Back To The Future (which is my favorite IP ever). Harry Potter and Sonic and Adventure Time and Powerpuff Girls and Beetlejuice and man the list just keeps going. Cool stuff. Can't wait for that Beetlejuice figure, hope he comes with a Sand Worm
 
KelpPlankton said:
So what's the cheapest option to pick up the first wave of year 2? I've got the best buy GCU thing which cuts it down a decent amount but I'm considering holding off for a sale or something if there's no real good stuff going on/coming up soon

I think I like the year 2 lineup more overall than year 1 though, even if there's nothing as big for me this time around as Back To The Future (which is my favorite IP ever). Harry Potter and Sonic and Adventure Time and Powerpuff Girls and Beetlejuice and man the list just keeps going. Cool stuff. Can't wait for that Beetlejuice figure, hope he comes with a Sand Worm
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Don't know what Best Buy is doing, but it looks like Target is doing $40 off Starter packs next week. So $39.99 for 360/PS3/Wii U versions and $49.99 for PS4/Xbox One. Also buy one get one free on all Fun Packs.
 
Year 2 is going to abuse my poor, poor wallet.

  • Gremlins
  • ET
  • Goonies
  • Beetlejuice
  • Sonic
  • Powerpuff Girls
  • Batgirl and Robin
  • and possibly A-Team and Knight Rider
 
Steve Youngblood said:
Don't know what Best Buy is doing, but it looks like Target is doing $40 off Starter packs next week. So $39.99 for 360/PS3/Wii U versions and $49.99 for PS4/Xbox One. Also buy one get one free on all Fun Packs.
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Yeah I've already got the game so the starter discount doesn't do much for me (though it is really nice)

But that BOGO, if it applies to the new stuff, would be nice for getting the A-Team funpack at least.

Thanks
 
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