Yes Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group has today officially announced LEGO Dimensions, with an all-new entertainment experience that breaks the rules of traditional gaming to merge physical LEGO brick building with interactive console gameplay in a manner only imaginable in the world of LEGO games.
Launching on the 29th September for the UK with 27th September for North America for the PS3, PS4 and the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One and the Wii U.
For the first time in any LEGO videogame, characters from iconic entertainment franchises join forces and battle in worlds outside of their own. In addition to the game, the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack will include the LEGO Toy Pad, which allows players to transport special LEGO minifigures and other LEGO objects into the game, bricks to build the LEGO Gateway, three LEGO Minifigures, including LEGO Batman from DC Comics, LEGO Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings and Wyldstyle from The LEGO Movie, plus the LEGO Batmobile.
“When a mysterious and powerful vortex suddenly appears in various LEGO worlds, different characters from DC Comics, Lord of the Rings and the LEGO Movie are swept away. To save their friends, Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle bravely jump into the vortex to rescue their friends and fight to save all of LEGO humanity.
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Let your creativity be your guide as you build the LEGO Gateway to adventure, journeying through unexpected worlds and teaming-up with unlikely allies on the quest to defeat the evil Lord Vortech. Play with characters you never thought you could see in a LEGO game together, using vehicles and weapons you never thought possible. LEGO Bad Cop driving the DeLorean Time Machineâ why not?! The Ninjago Masters of Spinjitsu fighting alongside Wonder Woman…yes, please! Get ready to break the rules, because the only rule with LEGO Dimensions is that there are no rules.”
The LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack is all you need to begin – build your base and embark on a fantastic quest. Included in the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack:
- Lego Dimensions videogame
- Lego Toy Pad
- Lego Gateway Building bricks
- 3 Lego Minifigures (Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle)
- Lego Batmobile vehicle
PS4 and Xbox One are priced at £99.99 with the Wii U and PS3 and the Xbox 360 priced at £89.99.
In addition to the three minifigure heroes used to start the experience, LEGO Dimensions will allow gamers to customize their experience with additional expansion packs. Highly collectible Level Packs, Team Packs and Fun Packs will provide new buildable characters, vehicles, tools and gadgets, as well as compelling game content with new mission-based levels and unique in-game abilities. All expansion packs will feature well-known properties and provide gamers the opportunity to use everything interchangeably, anywhere throughout the game – with no limitations.
– The Lord of the Rings (£14.99)
– The LEGO Movie
– LEGO Ninjago
– Back to the Future
– The Wizard of Oz
– And more still to be announced…
– Marty McFly (Back to the Future)Team Pack (£29.99)
– Cyborg (DC Comics)
– Gollum (The Lord of the Rings)
– Gimli (The Lord of the Rings)
– Legolas (The Lord of the Rings)
– Emmet (The LEGO Movie)
– Bad Cop (The LEGO Movie)
– Benny (The LEGO Movie)
– Unikitty (The LEGO Movie)
– Wicked Witch (The Wizard of Oz)
– Jay (LEGO Ninjago)
– Nya (LEGO Ninjago)
– Zane (LEGO Ninjago)
A small sample of packs available in 2015 include the Back to the Future Level Pack with a LEGO Marty McFly minifigure, a LEGO Ninjago Team Pack with Kai and Cole minifigures, three Ninjago Fun Packs with Jay, Nya and Zane minifigures, two DC Comics Fun Packs with Wonder Woman and Cyborg minifigures, three The Lord of the Rings Fun Packs with LEGO Gollum, LEGO Gimli and LEGO Legolas minifigures, four The LEGO Movie Fun packs with Emmet, Bad Cop, Benny and Unikitty characters, and a The Wizard of Oz Fun Pack with a LEGO Wicked Witch of the West minifigure.
Additional packs to round out the 2015 assortment will be announced in the months leading to launch. Further waves of expansion packs will be released regularly following the launch of the game and into 2016.
LEGO Dimensions not only offers a bridge between digital and physical LEGO play, but also introduces a digital system of play with great long-term value for LEGO gaming. One LEGO Toy Pad, LEGO Gateway and the videogame found in the initial Starter Pack will offer endless opportunities to customize a player’s experience for years to come. Future expansion pack purchases will continue to work with the Starter Pack, even in the fall of next year.
I am SUPER SUPER excited that the figures are staying ‘lego sized’ and aren’t becoming large pieces as it would ruin the effect.
