Greetings, earthlings… or some other greeting that has an out-of-this-world feel! Arthur Parsons here, from TT Games working on LEGO Dimensions to deliver a message of importance — direct from Krypton! It is with superhuman excitement that the team here at TT Games, as well co-Game Director Jimmy McLoughlin and I, announce the arrival of Supergirl in LEGO Dimensions. Superman’s cousin is arriving as an exclusive available with LEGO Dimensions PS4 Starter Packs starting this September. Not only will that mean you can get a collectable Supergirl LEGO minifigure, you’ll also be able to play as Kara Zor-El, with all of the incredible powers that you would associate with her — like flight, superhuman strength, x-ray powers, and beam attacks. But that’s not all. What we’re most excited about is her ability to use her Red Lantern ring and transform. While in her Red Lantern form, she can fire red energy bolts and beams from her ring, and use Lantern Constructs — an ability unique to her.
The arrival of Supergirl, in addition to being able to choose from 16 amazing new brands that are coming to LEGO Dimensions, should hopefully have you all as excited to play the game as the team here at TT Games is making it. So many amazing entertainment franchises are coming, including Adventure Time, Harry Potter, Ghostbusters, The Goonies, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Gremlins, The A-Team, Sonic the Hedgehog, and much, much more. All of this is in addition to the Starter Pack and first year content. All of the various brands and toys are completely compatible with each other — you just need the one Starter Pack to be able to begin your incredible adventure. For those of you that are already playing the adrenaline thrill ride that is LEGO Dimensions, Supergirl will be available next year with the “Hire-a-Hero” feature in the game. For now, we need to get back into the office and get the fantastic new content ready for you all. Just posted by the LEGO Dimensions Twitter account.
It looks like we won’t just be seeing Sonic and Eggman in the new LEGO Dimensions pack, but also Shadow, Tails, Big, and Knuckles. No gameplay footage was given, but fans will be overjoyed at Big the Cat in Lego form. The Sonic Level pack is released on November 18th.If it sounds hard enough to get two brands to peacefully coexist, try 14. Lego Dimensions has gone where no other video game has gone before, incorporating 45 characters, plus multiple vehicles, from 14 disparate, sometimes competing, brands cohesively into one universe. These brands range from The Wizard of Oz, Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings, and Doctor Who to DC Comics, Scooby-Doo, and Portal. It's a synergistic avalanche of copyrights. "Nobody’s done anything like this before. There’s no game—really, no medium—out there that’s tried to mash so many brands together," says Doug Heder, a producer with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. "The closest thing was The Lego Movie, but a lot of those were nods, and cameos, and fun little winks.
This is where we’re bringing really true representations of all these different IPs into one setting." "There’s also been mash-ups of characters from their own stable, like Nintendo’s Mario and Yoshi," adds associate producer Mark Warburton. "But this is the first time a game has taken brands from across pop culture and put them all together." Lego Dimensions—a local console multiplayer that launched September 27 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Wii U—enables characters like Gandalf, Batman, and the Twelfth Doctor to go on adventures together in a broader universe. Each level reflects a different intellectual property, with its own unique artistic style, and voice-overs from several stars from the original franchises, but the characters can move around the levels together. The idea came eight years ago from Jon Burton, founder and creative director of TT Games, which developed Dimensions for Warner Bros. Preproduction began about three years ago.
Doctor Who's Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi at the Lego Dimensions press conference at San Diego Comic-Con "It stemmed from, if you have a toy box, you don’t necessarily have one set of toys, they all mash together and mix up," says Warburton. "If you’re doing a game, why can’t you do the exact same thing? The Lego Movie opened doors because it was the first such mash-up on screen. On the back of that, we were able to have conversations with license holders." "Getting everyone to play nicely was not as difficult a task as it might look like from the outside," he adds. "People wanted to be a part of this, they got the concept very quickly. Lego’s humor allows you to bend the rules with each IP in ways you couldn’t in traditional video games." A technological overhaul was integral to the storytelling. Lego Dimensions features new hardware and software, called Toy Pad, developed for Lego by Performance Designed Products. Earlier Lego gaming technology had memory constraints.
Dimensions’ overhaul enables seven characters in the game concurrently and multiple combinations of characters and vehicles. "Before, you had to set parameters of what you wanted," says Warburton. "Here, we don’t know what people are going to buy or characters they’re going to use, so we have to make sure whatever they want to do is constantly available in memory." Image courtesy of Warner Bros; Photo by Susan Karlin; Never miss a story. I'd also like to receive special Fast Company offersLEGO Dimensions enters into a very crowded Toys-to-Life market. Not only do we have a playset for perhaps every genre available at the moment ranging from Superheroes (Disney Infinity), IP specific (Nintendo amiibos), Star Wars (Disney Infinity again) and the IP resurrecting (Skylanders), Warner Bros and LEGO deemed fit that the space allows for another player for that piece of the pie.In an extremely bold statement, Warner and LEGO have revealed a release schedule that stretches to last till May 2016.
And this is but only wave 1 of their release. They have entered the arena with a solid game plan and are looking to achieve top dog status.LEGO is no stranger to Toys-to-Life games as they have already experimented with the concept through their regular LEGO Collectible Minifigure releases. In the recent releases, each minifig pack comes with a redeemable code that allows you to play as your minifig online. They probably felt the time was right to turn up the dial and ensure that every one would love to get their hands on the new LEGO Dimension.If you’re totally new to the concept of Toys-to-Life games, we hope that by the end of this article, you’d be well versed if LEGO Dimensions is worth plunging into.Depending on where you live, Amazon might be able to provide free shipping to your country. For me, at least, Singapore is one of the eligible countries for free shipping!This is where it all starts – to kick things off you’d first need any of the current gen console gaming systems (PS3, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 or Wii U).
Next, you would need to pick up the LEGO Dimensions starter pack.Staying true to LEGO form, the entire gateway as seen above would need to be assembled before even the game starts. The fun literally starts way before the game disc is even popped into the console.Accompanying within the starter set would be Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle which covers across 3 hugely popular IPs in their own right ensuring that right out of the box there’s definitely a character that would easily appeal to any age range.In all sense of the word, the LEGO gateway is truly the start of an extremely long ride with even more characters and packs to purchase. This is where we see how far that rabbit hole goes…Warner Brothers and LEGO have conveniently released 7 packs to accompany the release of the game. Each pack is broken down into 3 types to help make things a bit more affordable depending on what you are looking to get out of the game –Unlike other toys-to-life games, LEGO Dimensions reminds itself what made it appealing in the first place.
LEGO Minifigs are pretty much the hottest commodity in any regular set which is why the ability to remove the toys from their bases the biggest draw of LEGO Dimensions.@BenRelics Minifigures can be removed from their bases and can travel at speeds of up to 88mph! #BreakTheRules— LEGO Dimensions (@LEGODimensions) April 14, 2015 While it remains to be seen if the bases can function without the figs or vehicles on top, the fact that there will be exclusive figures only available via LEGO Dimensions sets that will make it a sure hit with LEGO fans.For the love of me, this Slimer fun pack would go perfectly with my LEGO IDEAS Ghostbuster ECTO-1 but it will only be releasing in May 2016!I’m thinking there will be a great secondary market created from all these as fans might simply sell away parts of each pack that they do not need.To kick things off you would need to purchase the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack which sets you back by USD$99.99 –Then at release, depending on which IP appeals to you the most, we’ve broken down on how much possibly you would need to invest right from the start.
Back to the Future fans will enjoy a grabbing a level pack that comes with Marty McFly.And if that does not appeal to you, the Simpsons Level Pack will have their own fair share of fans as well.Lastly, we have the Portal 2 Level Pack also standing as well, which I feel could be replaced with a much juicer IP from the start.For team packs, we have Jurassic World and Scooby Doo to kick things off.This is where is gets all confusing. The release of each fun pack will be coming out in waves all the way til May 2016. So there, is a good possibility that the pack you are looking out for might be months down the road. But, from the get go itself, you would be able to purchase 15 assorted packs ranging from Ninjago to The LEGO Movie.Out of the 15, only two IP releases that will see their entire announced range being sold from the start would be Lord of the Rings and the Chima series. For the most synergy, I’d say that grabbing the Lord of the Rings fun packs may make the most sense considering that the start comes with Gandalf.A mech??
This is the one we want. In addition, another fun pack featuring Jay is a timed exclusive with Toys’R’Us so sit tight in the meantime. From pretty out of no where, LEGO spawned another amazing line of products with the LEGO Movie. And, it’s pretty amazing that the appeal goes this far after the movie has been released. There will be 3 fun packs for this series. Combining together with Gandalf, the Lord of the Rings packs are complete right from the start. No enemies yet from this pack until the subsequent Joker team pack in 2016. We’ll just have to do with the good guys first! Once again, Toys’R’Us has snagged another timed exclusive in the form of Laval. Pretty sure this would be the top seller for them. Depending on how much a completionist you are, there is no real need to further every pack out there. However, you do need to purchase at least one of each IP in order to unlock the corresponding world. At launch, this is what you might want to grab –In total, this would set you back by about US$315 and gives you access to all the Adventure Worlds right out of the box.