nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Finished up my S1 stuff except for 4 fun packs: Jay, Cyberman, Doc Brown, and Lloyd. Should be able to do them via Target. And I don't know how I'll snag Jay yet.
LEGO Dimensions |OT| Not Lost Dimensions
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Really late to this party but I just bought the Doctor Who and Slimer packs and have the PS4 Starter, Wicked Witch and Portal 2 packs coming in the mail tomorrow. Frankly I think that this will be a lot more satisfying to me than my Amiibo collection has been, mainly because Lego's great and also because around 70% of my Amiibo are completely useless for gameplay purposes outside of Smash. The Wave 2 announcements just make things that bit better.
EDIT: I did just realize that with Wave 2 I'm going to be wanting to get pretty much every single IP at the very least. There's no equivalent to Chima or Ninjago as far as I can tell.
EDIT: I did just realize that with Wave 2 I'm going to be wanting to get pretty much every single IP at the very least. There's no equivalent to Chima or Ninjago as far as I can tell.
CosmicQueso
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If you're in the US, Jay is free with any $30 Dimensions purchase at Toys R Us this week.
Steve Youngblood
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The only hub world I'm missing out on at this point is Chima. Might try to snag a Chima character next week, and maybe a few more from whatever Target has next week. I'm not looking to collect every possible figure, and I've got most everything one would need. I think the only abilities I'm missing at this point are Pole Vault and CHI. So I don't know, I guess a Chima character, Legolas, and any other random stuff my kid might want that I can find like Slimer and Stay Puft.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
The nearest TRU is like 40 minutes from me. I may just suck it up and order off the LEGO store's website.
bulletbill10
Member
FYI: A healthy smattering of the upcoming season 2 sets are 40% off on Amazon. It doesn't look like any prime discount is being applied, but I sent an email asking about it and will report back what I hear on that.
HamsterExAstris
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Prime isn't an automatic 20% off like GCU, it's "you get the lower of 20% off list and the current price". In this case, current price is lower.
I already had them all pre-ordered on amazon, so the price match applied automatically. Really nice for a Day 1 buy.
unfortunately amazon's site hasn't matched the Adventure Time Level Pack (only the Team Pack), for whatever reason... but, that one will still be 20% off so it's still a good deal. I prefer it this way than dealing with Target on these. I don't want to leave the house that day as it's one of my off days and I'll probably just want to be home playing games while I wait for the delivery.
What I'm worried about are the Wave 2 sets (Fantastic Beasts Story Pack, etc.), when you add them to cart on amazon it doesn't even apply the 20% that should be there. I'm gonna have to get those from Best Buy if they don't fix it.
unfortunately amazon's site hasn't matched the Adventure Time Level Pack (only the Team Pack), for whatever reason... but, that one will still be 20% off so it's still a good deal. I prefer it this way than dealing with Target on these. I don't want to leave the house that day as it's one of my off days and I'll probably just want to be home playing games while I wait for the delivery.
What I'm worried about are the Wave 2 sets (Fantastic Beasts Story Pack, etc.), when you add them to cart on amazon it doesn't even apply the 20% that should be there. I'm gonna have to get those from Best Buy if they don't fix it.
After playing for about 10 hours or so the past few days I've decided not to go for 100% completion and just buy the Level/Fun packs I actually want. Just seems like a waste of money when you don't actually get anything for 100% completion other than bragging rights. I care more about content than I do ticking off every single gold brick and minikit on the map.
Anyone else feel this way?
Anyone else feel this way?
HamsterExAstris
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You do get the fifteenth Red Brick. Not necessarily substantial, but it is something.
bumpkin
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I took advantage of the Target sale to get the remaining sets I wanted from year 1. The only one they don't have that I wanted to snag was the Jurassic World Team Pack, but I still see that online elsewhere including Best Buy (with GCU), so no big.
My 40% off take:
Joker & Harley Quinn Team Pack
Superman Fun Pack
Chima Eris Fun Pack
Ninjago Sensei Fun Pack
LOTR Gimli Fun Pack
LOTR Legolas Fun Pack
LOTR Gollum Fun Pack
I only got Chima and Ninjago ones so I had at least one character in each series. I didn't bother with a few of the other DC characters (Cyborg or Aquaman).
My 40% off take:
Joker & Harley Quinn Team Pack
Superman Fun Pack
Chima Eris Fun Pack
Ninjago Sensei Fun Pack
LOTR Gimli Fun Pack
LOTR Legolas Fun Pack
LOTR Gollum Fun Pack
I only got Chima and Ninjago ones so I had at least one character in each series. I didn't bother with a few of the other DC characters (Cyborg or Aquaman).
Aren't there items that only Aquaman can access? Or am I missing something?
I went overboard during the Meijer 50% off sale and got all the level packs and team packs I didn't already have. I am relatively late to the game but enjoying it - my kids love it. Now I'm having trouble not telling them I bought a ton of stuff and am sitting on it until birthdays and holidays roll around.
I was a little surprised that before purchasing the game, I hadn't heard anyone griping about the need to physically move things around on the portal. Maybe I just wasn't looking in the right places. I don't consider myself a lazy person, but the mini games involving the changing colors are kind of a pain when you sit on the other side of the room. My kids love them, though, so I chalk it up to me being old-minded.
I do agree, the flashing color puzzles (moving the characters around on the portal) are a bit of a pain, would rather just do puzzles in the actual game. But fortunately I do keep the portal relatively close to me, so its not too much of an issue.
I do find the game overall is very fun to play and most of the packs (that I've played) they did a good job on, so it makes up for it.
I do find the game overall is very fun to play and most of the packs (that I've played) they did a good job on, so it makes up for it.
mediapulp_wes
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Yep, I pretty much hate having to interact with the portal, but the kids love it.
bumpkin
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It's possible you're right. I just think Aquaman and Cyborg (as characters) suck, so I have no interest in getting 'em.
Especially the hacking puzzles. I had to Google how to successfully complete a hack because I wasn't looking at the blinking red dot on my portal.
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Steve Youngblood
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Yeah. I don't know how conducive it is to your layout, but I honestly think something like a USB extension cable is necessary if you're not sitting right beside the TV. The puzzles become much less annoying when the portal is within arm's length. But when it's not it quickly becomes tedious.
The Adventure Time level pack was $17.99 on Amazon, si you should get it for that price. If they don't autocorrect it for you when it ships, contact customer service.
I ordered that, the Ghostbusters set, and the Harry Potter team pack because of the discount. Sensei Wu was also $4.31, so I got him to unlock the Ninjago world just for the heck of it.
Thanks for the heads up - first I have seen this price mentioned anywhere so I bought one.
Just FYI, Dimensions stuff is on sale at Best Buy until Saturday. With GCU, I just picked up two level packs and they were $11.99 each. I saw a lot of figures on sale, as well.
Try this linkhttp://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/save-on-toys-to-life-20160818?cp=1&searchType=promo&st=save-on-toys-to-life-20160818&qp=brand_facet%3DBrand~WB%20Games
Try this linkhttp://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/save-on-toys-to-life-20160818?cp=1&searchType=promo&st=save-on-toys-to-life-20160818&qp=brand_facet%3DBrand~WB%20Games
robomatrono
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How, how is it fair that you guys keep getting great sales like this in America and we've had practically zero in the UKCan't believe these things are still full price after nearly a year of release.
Yep, I've been shopping around but there's barely any deals. Level packs are around £25 everywhere
HamsterExAstris
Member
At this point they're all replicated; for a while Cragger was more useful than the others because of the underwater, though.
Darth Smurf X
Member
Oh, man! Which ones do I buy?!?!?!?!
I'm eying up the Simpsons level pack and Scooby Doo.
Annnnnnnd bought.
All of them. You buy all of them.
SiegfriedFM
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Good sales are hard to find around here, but... I already have a ton of the figures from regular Lego sets, so I bought a bunch of loose NFC tags off Bricklink like any other brick, for about $3 each. Considering they all unlock stuff, that's a pretty good deal.
Steve Youngblood
Member
I wish a sale like this had been around about a month or two back. I missed most of the holiday sales despite buying the starter pack at launch because I was waiting for my son to show both an interest and ability to play this (or just controller-based games in general) before I resumed buying packs. But since he got really into this a couple of months ago I had been acquiring stuff gradually despite the lack of any great sales. And now that I'm pretty much done with season one stuff the killer sales are here. Oh well, at least I'm ahead of the curve on season two stuff after that Amazon pre-order sale.
bulletbill10
Member
If you're still looking for some older ones, Target has a cartwheel offers for 70% off of Chima, Lego Movie, and Lord of the Rings sets. I grabbed all three LotR characters, and paid less then the cost of one!
Hey Lego Dimensions thread!
The Best Buy sale made me grab a bunch of stuff that should be arriving tomorrow:
- Starter Pack
- Simpsons Level Pack
- Dr Who Level Pack
- Portal Level Pack
- Midway Arcade Level Pack
- Doc Brown Fun Pack
- Slimer Fun Pack
So from my understanding, this will give me access to:
- Simpsons open world and level
- Dr Who open world and level
- Portal open world and level
- Midway Arcade... area and games, whatever that is
- BttF open world -- but NOT the level
- Ghostbusters open world (is there a level?)
Given this, what do you guys suggest I get to get as many of the needed abilities as possible, and as many of the open world bits as possible?
Amazon still has some pretty cheap fun packs. Should I get Superman for $6, for example, to be able to fly? Does Slimer fly?
Is the Dr Who Cyberman Fun Pack worth getting for any particular ability? Also $3.50 on Amazon.
There's also the "Ninjago Sensei Wu Fun Pack" for just $4 and change, does Ninjago also have an open world area to open?
Lots of questions, I know, I'm still trying to figure out this game
The Best Buy sale made me grab a bunch of stuff that should be arriving tomorrow:
- Starter Pack
- Simpsons Level Pack
- Dr Who Level Pack
- Portal Level Pack
- Midway Arcade Level Pack
- Doc Brown Fun Pack
- Slimer Fun Pack
So from my understanding, this will give me access to:
- Simpsons open world and level
- Dr Who open world and level
- Portal open world and level
- Midway Arcade... area and games, whatever that is
- BttF open world -- but NOT the level
- Ghostbusters open world (is there a level?)
Given this, what do you guys suggest I get to get as many of the needed abilities as possible, and as many of the open world bits as possible?
Amazon still has some pretty cheap fun packs. Should I get Superman for $6, for example, to be able to fly? Does Slimer fly?
Is the Dr Who Cyberman Fun Pack worth getting for any particular ability? Also $3.50 on Amazon.
There's also the "Ninjago Sensei Wu Fun Pack" for just $4 and change, does Ninjago also have an open world area to open?
Lots of questions, I know, I'm still trying to figure out this game
Steve Youngblood
Member
Slimer flies, so you got that covered. Superman is still useful though. Invulnerable, can melt gold pieces, can melt ice, can cool off fires.
Cyberman is fairly useful. There's some overlap with the Wicked Witch in the form of breaking silver pieces and mind control while she has flight and magic. But Cyberman also has computer hacking and diving ability. Can't remember if the Doctor has diving off the top of my head.
Ninjago has an open world. Don't know much about those characters. I know Wu has pole vault. I'm assuming he has spinjitsu but could be wrong on that one.
Oh, and there is a Ghostbusters level pack. It has Peter Venkman, the Ecto-1, and a ghost trap. If you start trying to get all the gold bricks, Venkman and the ghost trap are useful to have.
Cyberman is fairly useful. There's some overlap with the Wicked Witch in the form of breaking silver pieces and mind control while she has flight and magic. But Cyberman also has computer hacking and diving ability. Can't remember if the Doctor has diving off the top of my head.
Ninjago has an open world. Don't know much about those characters. I know Wu has pole vault. I'm assuming he has spinjitsu but could be wrong on that one.
Oh, and there is a Ghostbusters level pack. It has Peter Venkman, the Ecto-1, and a ghost trap. If you start trying to get all the gold bricks, Venkman and the ghost trap are useful to have.
Awesome, I think I'll pick up Cyberman, Superman, and Aquaman from Amazon.
This... this is becoming expensive.
And now I really want a bunch of the upcoming releases, too. The Ghostbusters level pack seems to be sold out or expensive everywhere
So far every IP has had their own adventure world.
Cool, thanks.
Last question: Is "DC" considered one world, or does say, Aquaman open up Atlantis?
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One world.
I've only been down to Atlantis once. I opened the DC world with Batman and swam down there with Scooby Doo.
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HamsterExAstris
Member
Each story pack comes with a new baseplate. (Or at least Ghostbusters definitely does, as it's tan. Can't tell if Fantastic Beasts is a new color or not, but I'd expect it to be the same.) "Taking it down" is a matter of just lifting the old baseplate off the old portal, takes maybe five seconds to do.
I see, this changes things...
I regret not buying more Fun Packs and Team Packs when they were on fire sale these past couple of weeks Should have gotten into the game earlier!
There's an odd and quiet satisfaction in building the vehicles, moving the characters in the portal, and exploring the different worlds while looking for gold bricks and switching characters as needed.
The campaign levels (so far, at least) are also a step above every other Lego game out there, save for maybe Lego City Undercover.
This is the real deal. 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?
Anyways, I placed a pre-order for every single expansion already, so they got me good with this.
Should have gotten into the game earlier!There's an odd and quiet satisfaction in building the vehicles, moving the characters in the portal, and exploring the different worlds while looking for gold bricks and switching characters as needed.
The campaign levels (so far, at least) are also a step above every other Lego game out there, save for maybe Lego City Undercover.
This is the real deal. 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?
Anyways, I placed a pre-order for every single expansion already, so they got me good with this.
Steve Youngblood
Member
I bolded vehicles here just as a springboard into my only real complaint about the entire game: I feel like most of the fun/team pack stuff that isn't the characters is just needlessly tacked on. Like when Back to the Future has the DeLorean or Dr. Who has the Tardis, it makes perfect sense. Not only are they iconic, but the vehicles have unique gameplay mechanics justified in the lore. These are great. 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.
True, this is a good point.
It's great that Batman has the Batmobile, Simpsons has the iconic car, Scooby-Doo has the van, etc.
But needing at least one vehicle per pack really constrained their pricing and made it seem unreasonable from afar and nonsensical for plenty of the characters. The Superman one as you mentioned is particularly ridiculous. From where I was at, looking at regular Lego games with 100+ characters and thinking about buying Lego Dimensions and needing to pay up 10+ for each additional character looked like terrible value.
Maybe it's just me, but the actual content of the game wasn't clear at ALL to me since release. You see these on the shelf and only some are called "Level Packs", so I don't think it's unreasonable at all to think that all other packs would have literally zero additional content. They should have:
- Made it MUCH more clear that characters unlock hub worlds.
- Made pricing more flexible by selling solo characters on top of the three range of packs.
tim_pkmn89
Member
I thought it was cool to give Superman the pod he was sent to Earth in
Steve Youngblood
Member
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.
Contrast that with the level pack stuff where I do think the package makes sense. The Ecto-1 and Ghost Trap make sense for Venkmen. The DeLorean and Hover Skateboard make sense for Marty. The TARDIS makes sense for the Doctor (though I'd argue K9 was kind of lame). And most of those also have unique mechanics that absolutely make sense. Needing the DeLorean to time travel around Hill Valley justifies the DeLorean's inclusion. Points for the TARDIS to time/space travel justify its inclusion. Krusty's Clown Bike is just there to be there.