Brickipedia News:Lots of Stuff Coming to LEGO Dimensions

by Berrybrick
June 9, 2016

Indeed folks, you have read that correctly! More stuff is coming to LEGO Dimensions; more even than was previously linked from a list of leaked acronyms a long, long time ago.... Trailers, fun packs, level packs, team packs, story packs, mortal enemy packs, proton packs, and more! Eighties nostalgia for everyone! Unless, of course, you aren't old enough for eighties nostalgia, but eh.

So, that means joining the 14 franchises of The LEGO Movie, DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The Simpsons, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Ninjago, Legends of Chima, Scooby-Doo, Doctor Who, Jurassic World, The Wizard of Oz, Portal 2, and Midway Arcade we've got:

Ghostbusters 2016
Harry Potter
The LEGO Batman Movie
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Teen Titans Go!
LEGO City Undercover
Adventure Time
Sonic the Hedgehog
The Goonies
Mission Impossible
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Gremlins
Beetlejuice
The A-Team
Powerpuff Girls
Knight Rider

Until now, most of these franchises haven't been represented in LEGO. Here's the trailer, press release, and some images from Amazon.

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In addition to the slew of new franchises, the press release also details more about the game's continuing story, new features, and just what these Story Packs Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the Ghostbusters reboot are getting are.

This is a description taken from TT Games. Please do not modify it. 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 customize their experience by mixing and matching favorite 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 27, 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 DIMENSIONS 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.

Developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, LEGO DIMENSIONS is now available for PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and the Wii U™ system.

Follow LEGO Dimensions at:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LEGODimensions Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/LEGODimensions (@LEGODimensions) Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/LEGODimensions (@LEGODimensions) Tumblr: http://LEGODimensions.tumblr.com

Follow the LEGO Dimensions YouTube series at: http://www.youtube.com/LEGODimensions

These packs are, as far as I am aware, not part of the announcement (at least not yet) but here they be....

What do you think of this? What do you think your friends think of this? What about your mortal enemies? Tell us below!

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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

103 months ago

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I just wish there was another way to buy these figures- I don't have any interest in the game, and at least half of what I'd be paying for in level/fun packs are bases and game compatability. I'd love to build up a Dalek and Cyber army and pick up some of the more iconic characters like Sonic, ET, BA Baracus, and the 12 Doctor in his proper clothes, but I'm not going to when 75% of the set is useless to me (the mini models are ok I guess, but they do nothing for me). If only they made a Dimensions collectable minifigures series...

Still, I think it's pretty cool that LEGO is branching out into these franchises they normally wouldn't do, either because they couldn't make any viable/decent sets because of the content of the franchise, or because the franchise (eg, M:I) is normally aimed at an older audience or whatever.

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

103 months ago

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That's an issue I also have with the game, even though I do own it. I guess it's one thing if they wouldn't release Mr. T or the Wicked Witch otherwise or that Dimensions allows new molds for Ideas characters, but the Doctor Who set looks suspiciously like they only included the Doctor in that purple suit because they had another way to squeeze $30 out of super fans. However, I guess that on the other side, if you do have the game, it makes the packs a better value than just getting another Superman with a stupid vehicle....

I do think that not being able to make decent sets is still an issue, because each one of these franchises unlocks a world in game (or I assume they do; they did this past year and Harry Potter has been reported as having one), and that can't be much more interesting than any sets they can introduce. I can sort of see E.T., but M:I, Knight Rider, Gremlins, and the A-Team? Even their DC world is pretty boring, and they should have had a lot to work with there.

The variety of stuff is good for nerd culture though, and maybe some of them will get something more substantial in the future. \_O_/

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Soupperson1Legendary Brickipedian

103 months ago

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It seems bizarre that out of thirteen franchises none seem to be able to sell sets.

Surly a Wizard of Oz DTC would sell or a few cheaper Adventure Time sets?

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CJCBricktastic

103 months ago

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Perhaps an issue with pre-existing toy rights? Perhaps the rights to make sets cost more? Perhaps this is cheaper from a design/manufacturing view?

I doubt its just as simple as "they can't make sets".

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

103 months ago

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Adventire Time is getting an Ideas set, though I think it is one with buildable characters. It could easily spin-off like Minecraft though I'm sure, since those started with weird niche sets.

CJC is probably right. Dimensions might even be the reason why this past year didn't have a whole lot of new themes, because of inward competition and all of that. It might also be because of other already large nostalgic sets like the 60s Batcave and Ghostbusters HQ. It might be fitter to capatalize off of those with anniversaries and reboots this year, whereas they could always do something like the Wizard of Oz any other time because that's a classic. I think that they are doing a bit of experimentation with those larger sets and now with these Dimensions sets to see how much nostalgic adults are willing to buy.

There was a Goonies set that made it to Ideas review once though. I wonder why that was rejected.

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LegoFan4000Legendary Brickipedian

103 months ago

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Cool :P

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Clone gunner commander jediThinking With Bricks

103 months ago

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Wow, so still Dimensions has nothing to it to actually interest me other-than Doctor Who and Gremlins. I just simply cannot understand why all the 80's(?) stuff has been added... kids will have no idea what they are and probably not care for them. When watching the new trailer I just simply didn't recognize anything other-than Gizmo, ET and Beast Boy that were new. I still can't tell what most it was looking at that list. We got those new "Ghostbusters", a generic looking secret agent, some strange version of Superman, these two things that 'fist-pump' each other, Mr T!? (a guy from some Snickers adverts a few years ago?), what I think was a wizard that caught Beast Boy in a suitcase and Sonic. It was all very weird.

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CJCBricktastic

103 months ago

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Kids aren't meant to care for them. They aren't the target audience for those ones - the people in their late 20s/early 30s who got all excited about (read: spent money on) the Back to the Future and Ghostbusters sets and Simpsons sets are.

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CJCBricktastic

103 months ago

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(Really could have used an edit button): In a way, its an interesting way of making being an "AFOL" cool, because they are releasing things aimed solely at adults that kids would have no interest in - no one can claim a Beatles' Yellow Submarine or a A-Team Set is aimed at kids, so there goes the fear of it being seen as childish.

Also a good way of getting "cult" audiences to buy stuff - you are hitting outside of your usual audience with this stuff. A lot of Beatles fans will buy any old Beatles tat, all these films and tv shows (Gremlins, A-Team, Adventure Time) have cult followings. I mean, it looks completely haphazard, and no one will want all of it, but that is the point - there is probably something for everyone in the lineup right now.

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

103 months ago

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I'm honestly a bit bothered by how many of these franchises just seem to be out of the blue...I wouldn't really call Dimensions a LEGO game (at least the way it is advertised; as a LEGO multiverse) as much as I would an inner child game which just happens to be in LEGO...complete with that annoying "only Bart Simpson can jump at just the right height for purplish blue cameras to spontaneously combust" functionality of LEGO games which I wish Dimensions had been more creative about.

There's more here for me than I thought there would be though: Harry Potter, LEGO Batman (after seeing the two Batmen interact, I've realized that the LEGO version really is better), and LEGO City. Maybe Fantastic Beasts, and then perhaps something like E.T. will nab me in the end, but being in the generation between Adventure Time and all of this 80s stuff, it's a meh from me.

It's good that there is something for everyone though, and I'm not going to complain about not spending money.

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CJCBricktastic

103 months ago

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What's interesting is that everything is either aimed at both kids and adults (franchises like Scooby-Doo in the past, and Sonic now) or aimed solely at nostalgic adults (A-Team, Mission: Impossible, Gremlins, Beetlejuice). Aiming at those with larger disposable income is perhaps the only way LEGO Dimensions can stay financially viable, as ones aimed at kids is both a competitive market and one that seems hard to profit in (I think Disney Infinity has just announced its ending)

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