Lego Dimensions

LostInTranslation

Gah! Unlucky number 13! (I included it twice, thanks @bandit778 for pointing it out to me).

Down to 5 or 3 gaps... And do people think the Ghostbusters reboot is considered a separate property to the original or all the same?

cheshirecat

I would say new, and ninjago/chima would count as well.

VorpalRyu

@LostInTranslation, it's not Ghostbusters as far as I'm concerned, it's lame ass parody that isn't funny...

Legopassion8

^hey...you can't pass judgement without viewing the final product !

CCC

If Hobbit and LOTR are separate, then GB is different to GB rebooted.

Xefan

Ninjago, Chima, and The Lego Movie will all almost certainly count in the list of IPs, especially the latter as I believe it's an IP part owned by Warner (?) and not just TLG.

bricktuary

Is HP just a team pack not a level pack? Shame if so.

LostInTranslation

OK, update to the list then:

Already released:

1.  DC Comics 
2.  The Lego Movie 
3.  The Lord of the Rings 
4.  The Hobbit 
5.  Dr Who 
6.  Ghostbusters
7.  The Simpsons 
8.  Scooby Doo
9.  The Wizard of Oz 
10. Back to the Future 
11. Portal 2
12. Jurassic World 
13. Midway Arcade 

14. Legends of Chima

15. Ninjago

Newly announced/rumoured:

16. Adventure Time 
17. Mission Impossible 
18. A Team 
19. Harry Potter 
20. Fantastic Beasts 
21. Gremlins 
22. The Goonies 
23. Sonic the Hedgehog 
24. Teen Titans Go! 
25. Powerpuff Girls 
26. E. T.
27. Knight Rider
28. Ghostbusters Reboot

So 2 gaps to fill if all the rumours are true! Nexo Knights as one, maybe? And presumably The LEGO Batman Movie, I guess. That makes 30... only time will tell!

(gah what is up with the stupid line spacing??)

Legopassion8

I thought the 4 figures were from Lord of the Rings not Hobbit so Hobbit isn't one of the franchises represented which leaves 7....right? 

Where's Bilbo...?

LostInTranslation

^Oooh you're right! I thought Gollum was The Hobbit for some reason but in that case there's another IP gap to fill.

Shib

Flintstones and Jetsons locations feature in game even if there are no characters or physical LEGO yet they probably still count

VorpalRyu

Legopassion8 said:

^hey...you can't pass judgement without viewing the final product !

I can & I have, there's no law on the books that says I have abide by that statement. The trailer says it all to me... Crass, uninspired & completely misses the mark, it's meant to be Ghostbusters not a parody of Ghostbusters & Repossessed.

dannyrww

here it is https://www.facebook.com/LegoVideoGames/videos/1195158170506282/

CCC

LostInTranslation said:

and am really really hoping for a Wizard of Oz one with an Emerald City build .. but it would only come with one figure :-(

It is driving me crazy that Lego has seemingly acquired the licence for Oz only to pretty much ignore it. They rejected the Ideas project which led me to think a set was in the pipeline but still nothing!

This is what bothers me about many of the Dimensions minifigures. If they give us one figure, then nothing else, then is there really much point in getting the figure. I can understand the gamers wanting the game and the figure being a token of the game, but to do anything building-wise with the minifigure often requires the other (missing) minifigures in the franchise. So if they did a Fred Flintstone, I'd probably want at least a Barney or Wilma to go with him. And you need quite specific parts for those.

I'd love an ET one (if it is ET). The other characters there are generic enough to make out of normal parts.

Shib

Oh boy....there is a lot I want there....Sonic, Gremlins and ET a must. Harry Potter and FB high priority too....so much want...

dragon114

Trailer up on doctor who Facebook page with goonies and sonic

dannyrww

Wish there was more Oz...maybe a connectable like the ghostbuster one.

Pumpkin_3CK5

Dang Adventure Time and Sonic surprised me the most, and for a moment I couldn't believe that was Mission Impossible I was seeing.

Here's the YT link :https://youtu.be/LGT9PrwRHdY

LostInTranslation

Legopassion8 said:

If Gizmo makes the cut.... Beetlejuice should, too. 

*Filler argument*

Press release says you get your wish!

dannyrww

where is the press release?

CCC

That ET looks good.

Shib

dannyrww said:

where is the press release?

Look on the main site (Brickset main site that is)

Ayliffe

dannyrww said:

where is the press release?

On the frontpage!

"Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO® Group today announced the expansion of LEGO® DIMENSIONS™, the LEGO® toy and videogame hybrid, with more blockbuster franchises and even bigger gameplay possibilities. New expansion packs broaden the complete selection to 30 of the world’s most popular entertainment brands allowing players to customise their experience by mixing and matching favourite characters and universes with full compatibility. Game features adding to the fun are all-new, four-player competitive Battle Arenas, a first for LEGO® videogames, as well as Story Packs, which provide deep, story-driven gameplay around the biggest theatrical releases and include a fresh LEGO® brick building experience.

LEGO® Dimensions™ packs based on 16 new entertainment properties will begin launching on September 30, 2016 with the Ghostbusters Story Pack, Adventure Time and Mission: Impossible Level Packs, Harry Potter and Adventure Time Team Packs, and The A-Team Fun Pack. Additional expansion packs based on other highly anticipated films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The LEGO® Batman Movie and wildly popular properties The Goonies, Sonic The Hedgehog, Teen Titans Go!, LEGO® City Undercover, Knight Rider, The Powerpuff Girls, Gremlins, Beetlejuice and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial will be released in product waves stretching into summer of next year. All expansion packs provide players with continued compatibility to use everything from waves 1-9 interchangeably, anywhere throughout the game. And no new starter pack is required, as all new packs will simply enhance the LEGO® Dimensions™ Starter Pack game and work with the existing LEGO® Toy Pad.“We’ve built upon the existing LEGO® DIMENSIONS™ Starter Pack to expand the gameplay possibilities with entirely new LEGO® experiences that can’t be found anywhere else,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games. “We can now provide players with even more customization and mash-up opportunities, and all are compatible with the existing game and packs. Battle Arenas also introduce a fun new way for friends and family to join the action together and battle as favorite characters, which is an exciting innovation for LEGO® videogames.”

“LEGO® DIMENSION™S is a significant part of our LEGO® videogames portfolio, and we are excited to offer fans many more iconic entertainment franchises combined with new, enhanced ways to play,” said David Haddad, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “TT Games continues to innovate and expand the game experience, which gives players breakthrough digital and physical gameplay with an amazing amount of world-class entertainment properties connected together.”

“We are excited to continue our partnership with TT Games and WBIE and bring even more characters to life through LEGO® DIMENSIONS™,” said Niels Jørgensen, Vice President, Digital Games for the LEGO® Group. “The videogame has allowed our fans to extend their LEGO® play experience in a whole new way and the new expansion packs will create even more play possibilities through exciting properties.”

All-new Battle Arenas will offer first-to-LEGO® videogames competitive split-screen local gameplay for up to four players. LEGO® minifigures included in the wave 6 through 9 expansion packs will come with special, golden Toy Tags which unlock a Battle Arena within the Free Play Adventure World of the corresponding entertainment brand. Each Battle Arena has four different gameplay modes and comes with its own traps, special powers and interactive environments that make every battle arena unique.

The Ghostbusters Story Pack, based on the upcoming film, will provide a complete movie-based gameplay experience with six puzzle-packed levels and new LEGO® Gateway bricks that allow players to build Zhu’s Chinese Restaurant atop the LEGO® Toy Pad. It will also come with a buildable Abby Yates LEGO® minifigure with Proton Blaster and 3-in-1 buildable Ecto-1 which can be rebuilt into the Ectozer and The PerfEcto. The pack unlocks “Rip,” a new Toy Pad mode allowing players to tear open an alternate universe. In this mirror world, players have the ability to solve puzzles and affect objects and other items in the primary universe. And like all gold-tag minifigures purchased, Abby Yates provides access to a new themed Adventure World with its own unique Battle Arena. The Ghostbusters Story Pack is just the first of this new exciting pack type, with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, based on the highly anticipated theatrical release, still to come later this year. The LEGO®DIMENSIONS™ packs will be the exclusive construction toy offering this holiday for the exciting expansion of J.K Rowling’s Wizarding World.

Story Packs also expand the Starter Pack story with deeper gameplay. In the game’s storyline, the evil Lord Vortech has hidden portions of his powers around the LEGO® Multiverse. As players progress through Story Pack levels, they can unearth and tap into Keystone Runes to use Lord Vortech’s powers against him through all-new Toy Pad modes."

:D

dannyrww

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/06/new_lego_dimensions_packs_confirmed_beetlejuice_and_the_a-team_make_the_cut Nevermind its here and yes Beetlejuice is official

richl

Legopassion8 said:

^hey...you can't pass judgement without viewing the final product !

You must be new to the internet...

dannyrww

Shib said:

dannyrww said:

where is the press release?

Look on the main site (Brickset main site that is)

oops...I usually just go to the forum....thanks

Gooker1

I am seriously stoked for the nostalgia based ones.  A-Team, MI, Goonies, E-T and Knight Rider!?!?!?  KITT and the Hoff is a surefire win!!  Just shows y'all how old I am. :( :)

CCC

They really do appear to be aiming a lot of them at adults. They should have made the console look like an atari 2600.

dannyrww

I think they do a decent mix of properties....I do think there is a drive to have kids and parents play together....which is how we play at my house

Xefan

Quite happy with the final tally, glad that there only ended up being two 00s IPs I know nothing about and that they have in fact largely decided to continue targeting the existing demographic after all!

Aanchir

Thrilled to see that LEGO City Undercover is among the new brands being added to the game! There's a lot of 80s nostalgia here, but enough newer brands (Harry Potter, Powerpuff Girls, Teen Titans Go!, Fantastic Beasts, Adventure Time, and the Ghostbusters reboot) that it isn't purely a nostalgia-fest for 30-somethings.

Plus, while some of the 80s franchises here like the A-Team might not be well-known to kids these days (I was born in 1991 and don't think I knew about the A-Team until around 2006 when I saw it referenced by Homestar Runner), others like E.T., The Goonies, and Sonic seem fairly timeless.

The new gameplay expansions (story packs and battle arenas) sound like a lot of fun, and show that the creators of LEGO Dimensions are still innovating rather than just cashing in on new franchises. I wonder if there'll be any new "gold tag" characters for existing franchises like Ninjago or The LEGO Movie so that battle arenas can be added to those characters' adventure worlds… the presence of "gold tag" characters for DC Super Heroes shows that LEGO isn't afraid to add battle arenas to the existing adventure worlds.

chrisalddin

well.
this is interesting.
it looks more like a expansion pack,
then a new game with new main plot.
trying to think of the bests way to explain this.
ok, Everquest and World of Warcraft are MMORPG's,
the base games came out, and sold well. some time later a expansion packs come out adding new zones to the games.

this looks to be the format TT are using for Dimensions.
i was expecting there to be a main story part 2 picking up from the end of the main story we had in the game so far.
but it looks more like this will add new content to the main story levels.
as well as super sized level packs, with 6 levels and not the 1 level like the level packs have.
not to say what is being added here is bad. no this is good content.
just i think there missing the boat a little.
the main story end's with a "i lost this round but i not lost the war" teaser. hinting at more to come and that the bad guy is not been killed. and he will try again.

yet with wave 6 to 9 there is no hint that the main story is going to get extra levels.
i am a little disappointed about that. as i found the main story to be grate original content. with good options for more to come.

we will just have to wait and see what the end product looks like.
still i think i going to end up buying more  Dimensions.

Shib

Did you read the press release? Definitely implies more storyline being added, presumably the connectables

chrisalddin

Shib said:

Did you read the press release? Definitely implies more storyline being added, presumably the connectables

i did and it reads more like stuff being added in to the levels that are in the game now. and not new levels being added.

maniac

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the new colour sausages on BMO? in #71246.

Xefan

chrisalddin said:

trying to think of the bests way to explain this.

No need, I'm sure we'll figure this complex matter out by ourselves.

Shib

chrisalddin said:

Shib said:

Did you read the press release? Definitely implies more storyline being added, presumably the connectables

i did and it reads more like stuff being added in to the levels that are in the game now. and not new levels being added.

I guess it depends how you read it.

overall I'm happy with what's been shown, as ever just curious to see more

TheLoneTensor

Well, I'm sold now.  The sheer variety of characters and the leaps they are taking with licenses that might have some people scratching their heads is just very, very cool.  Too bad we had put our eggs into the Infinity basket.  Oh well, at least the figures were well done.

chrisalddin

Xefan said:

chrisalddin said:

trying to think of the bests way to explain this.

No need, I'm sure we'll figure this complex matter out by ourselves.

i am use to others not understanding me. so i tend to try extremely hard to explain my self. so there are no misunderstandings. this dose not work all the time.

Steve_J_OM

This statement stood out to me:

The Ghostbusters Story Pack is just the first of this new exciting pack type, with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, based on the highly anticipated theatrical release, still to come later this year. The LEGO®DIMENSIONS™ packs will be the exclusive construction toy offering this holiday for the exciting expansion of J.K Rowling’s Wizarding World.

I take that to mean that there will be no 'regular' Fantastic Beasts LEGO theme, which surprises me. 

Steve_J_OM

Also, I'm a bit disappointed that the core story is being expanded through 'story packs'. I hoped that we'd get a sequel base game, not that you'd need to spend £100s more on DLC to get more story.

Legopassion8

Odd....could have swore I saw a Scarecrow(Oz not DC) fun pack off some Korean forum website. I don't remember the circumstances of how I got there

Legopassion8

Well before lunch is up...I really like the cartoon version of Starfire over the comic version.  It's the skirt. I hope she gets the call up...or Raven. 

Pumpkin_3CK5

Still hoping they'd make Lord Vortech.

dannyrww

Legopassion8 said:

Well before lunch is up...I really like the cartoon version of Starfire over the comic version.  It's the skirt. I hope she gets the call up...or Raven. 

Raven is in the preview picture

Xefan

Legopassion8 said:

Odd....could have swore I saw a Scarecrow(Oz not DC) fun pack off some Korean forum website. I don't remember the circumstances of how I got there

Bare in mind that we've only seen the first wave of September set pics leaked. Lego have now said that it covers 30 IPs, I've not seen anything to suggest that this means previous IPs are finished.

As such it's possible that existing IPs will see further packs like character packs. My previous concerns about DC not being mentioned may therefore be unfounded.

So don't discount Scarecrow from Oz as a possibility.

dannyrww

Xefan said:

Legopassion8 said:

Odd....could have swore I saw a Scarecrow(Oz not DC) fun pack off some Korean forum website. I don't remember the circumstances of how I got there

Bare in mind that we've only seen the first wave of September set pics leaked. Lego have now said that it covers 30 IPs, I've not seen anything to suggest that this means previous IPs are finished.

As such it's possible that existing IPs will see further packs like character packs. My previous concerns about DC not being mentioned may therefore be unfounded.

So don't discount Scarecrow from Oz as a possibility.

Can't go by the packing list either as there is no place for goonies, BeetleJuice, or Powerpuff girls (unless they are connectables). The cool part about the game loading content instead of buying a new one is they can plan some characters on the fly. They have said they worked on content after the release of the starter set.

Aanchir

Xefan said:

Legopassion8 said:

Odd....could have swore I saw a Scarecrow(Oz not DC) fun pack off some Korean forum website. I don't remember the circumstances of how I got there

Bare in mind that we've only seen the first wave of September set pics leaked. Lego have now said that it covers 30 IPs, I've not seen anything to suggest that this means previous IPs are finished.

As such it's possible that existing IPs will see further packs like character packs. My previous concerns about DC not being mentioned may therefore be unfounded.

So don't discount Scarecrow from Oz as a possibility.

Well, considering the new Green Arrow and Supergirl figures come with gold Toy Tags, meaning they unlock a battle arena in the DC Super Heroes Adventure World, TT Games clearly isn't afraid of adding new in-game content to the existing franchises. I honestly hope to see the same for many of the other Wave 1–5 IPs. Green Arrow and Supergirl also demonstrate that LEGO isn't afraid to release new figures without corresponding vehicles.

77ncaachamps

Ghostbusters hunting down Gremlins, E.T., and Sonic?

Sure!

dragon114

hoping some of these themes see lego set's