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LEGO has posted a video to their Facebook page showing the General Grievous set from more angles! Looks pretty cool! And it definitely captures his unique posture.

 

I still think his chest plate should be bigger, but overall I'm quite impressed.

I was a bit unsure of how I felt about Grevious's legs earlier, but it looks pretty good now that I've seen it from more than one angle.

 

 

Is this overpriced?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-Lego-Bionicle-Black-Movie-Mask-for-TAKUTANUVA-/181711373936?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a4ed78670

Overpriced. I got mine for less than 20 EUR in bricklink.

 

£10,000 for a brick ? 

 

The title states that you are buying Lego. With a price like that maybe the actual company? Either way, I'm gonna make an enquiry, I'm dead curious.

 

£10,000 is an incredibly good deal for the largest toy company in the world.

I wanna slap a Vorox head on Grievous and see how it looks. Definately looking forward to the other sets, and will get them, if not for pieces alone.

Ooh... that could look interesting. What about a Vorox with Grevious' head?

 

Grievous is sick. 

 

Actually that cough is just part of his character arc.

 

Wow, this is pretty cool! You've done a good job at making her look very realistic, and the clownfish Skull Spider is a very nice touch.

Doctor Who with K-9 or a mini-TARDIS. Bionicle minifigures would be cool as well, as would Hero Factory.

This seems to take inspiration from "On Ebay Today" and the free shipping joke is the reason for that. I've only seen the first episode, but it was pretty funny, I can't wait for episode 6 and I can only hope you don't run out of good material. 

Yeah, this show was quite heavily inspired by "On Ebay Today". I felt that something needed to replace it, so I made this series. As for running out of good material, I've decided from now on to only make episodes when I have enough of that stuff, because otherwise I'll end up with mediocre episodes or just boring episodes. Luckily the show also features genuinely good deals, so even if I fail to make any good jokes, viewers will at least be able to find some cheap Legos.

Episode 5 has gone live! This episode is entitled "Headless Lhikan", and is so far my least favorite episode, because I didn't make enough jokes in this one.  There's still some interesting listings in there though, so go check it out!

Is the project dead ?

That's what I'd like to know. I'd hate to see a project like this die, because it had lots of potential.

 

It doesn't surprise me that these teasers were about a Lego video game, but I wasn't expecting it to be in the toy meets game style.

 

Honestly, I haven't been too interested in these kind of games. I'm not saying they're bad, since I've never played a game like Skylander or Disney Infinity. But I just never got the appeal of getting a toy for a new character or power in a game. I'd much rather just get DLC for a game online, if a game were to have it at all.

 

But again, I've never played one of these games. So I'll definitely keep an open mind for Lego Dimensions. The footage I saw from the trailer looks interesting, but I would like to learn more about it before making any final judgments on it.

 

I would also have to get a console that supports the game to play it if I did get one day.

Generally the appeal of these sorts of games (beyond just owning a nice model or figurine) is that the figures actually can store game information on them like a memory card. Skylanders or Amiibo can "level up" in certain games, boosting their stats or changing their performance, and that will carry over to when they're next scanned in—even if that's on a friend's console with no connection to that figure's "home" console. It allows a special sort of immersion—"your" figure can grow to be different from those of other players, even if the characters were functionally the same when they were initially bought.

 

I've speculated that the "vehicle" figures in Lego Dimensions might be able to be "reprogrammed" in this way—rebuilding the vehicle in real life and in-game, and scanning it to "save" your custom model, so that it can be reloaded on a friend's device without having to build it from scratch. That would explain why, while the "figure" stands have identifying information printed on them so they don't get mixed up, the "vehicle" stands seem to be interchangeable. But if they're solely for saving completed models, they wouldn't need information on them, because the information on them would be subject to change in the first place. This would be similar to the recent Skylanders: Trap Team, which in addition to the traditional Skylanders figurines has generic crystal "traps" that can "capture" defeated enemies, with the intention of using them for assistance later on like a captured Pokémon.

 

I was wondering about the unprinted vehicle stands, and I think you're probably right.

Another part of the appeal of Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures is the idea of "two ways to play" — a physical toy and a digital experience. Thus you're not paying JUST for the digital experience like you would be with DLC — you're buying the toy in part because it's a toy.

 

But of course, on a practical level, most Skylanders and Disney Infinity figures are static figurines, without a whole lot of physical play value. LEGO Dimensions sets will have even more justification for the "toys-to-life" platform because the expansion sets are about as playable as an impulse-priced LEGO set. The micro-vehicles are fully buildable, the minifigures are fully posable, and the parts are compatible with regular LEGO. So you are literally getting both an in-game experience AND a LEGO toy, not just an in-game experience on a toy-shaped memory card.

The fact that the figurines in Lego Dimensions are actual Lego minifigs that you can play with, and the fact that the vehicles are actual mini-models makes this game have a pretty big advantage over the others. I can already see people using all the mini-model vehicles in some microscale scene.

That's one of the things I like about Lego. They take something that's already pretty cool and make it even better.

 

 

 

100 bucks?

 

It can't be worth that much.

Actually it works out to be about that much. $60 for a new video game, $30 for a 300 piece Lego set, and I guess the extra $10 would be the electronic parts. What is overpriced is the booster packs. $15 is way too much for what is essentially a minifig and some accessories.

 

Also $100 is about what a Skylanders starter set goes for.

 

That is a fair point! One thing that's often underestimated when trying to figure out Lego pricing is the cost of comparable products. That's a big part of what drives Lego pricing globally.

 

Also, another thing that will make that price a bit easier to swallow is that Lego has pledged that the current "starter set" will be the standard for several years. They're not going to release a new version that needs new software and a new scanner, like Skylanders has sometimes done—they'll simply continue to patch new figure recognition into the current game, and your year one starter set will remain compatible even with figures released several years down the line.

 

Infinity released 2.0 (with mostly Marvel characters to promote it) only a year after the original, and 3.0 is probably going to be a thing (almost definitely with Star Wars characters) this Christmas. I'm glad Lego isn't going down that route.

 

 

It's sort of a shame that you have to buy these packs despite the minifigures being already available, but I guess that's how these things work. Hopefully there's nothing special about the figs themselves (like glue) that make them hard to integrate with standard figures.

 

But even though I don't have much interest in the game I'll definitely be buying up those Wizard of Oz packs if we don't end up getting regular sets.

 

True, true. As for the possible tampering of the minifigures to make them unusable, that would be unlikely. They managed to compress the AppBrick into a 1x1 brick, and it's still compatible with any other brick. Given the similar nature of the AppBrick to the system that Dimensions will be using, I think the minifigure's legs will be the only part that will be changed noticeably or at all.

 

No, no, no. The minifigures will be the same as regular minifigures, by all indications—the stands themselves are the parts that interact with the game. And those stands are a heck of a lot more complex than the app bricks.

 

The app bricks are just molded in a special conductive blend of plastic and carbon fiber—every "app brick" is the same, and the only thing that changes how the Ultra Agents app responds to them is their position relative to one another on a multitouch screen.

 

The bases for these "Lego Dimensions" figures, on the other hand, are most likely more like Skylanders, Amiibo, or Disney Infinity figures: They actually have an RFID chip inside them which the portal scanner can "read" to determine which figure is which. And it's possible that like Amiibo, the scanner can actually write new information to the internal chip of those bases—allowing characters to "level up" or store customized information like a memory card.

 

I believe Disney Infinity (I own it) stores information on the characters as well, because using the same character on separate accounts (and even going from Infinity to Infinity 2.0) keeps the level stats.

I look forward to the day when they combine Fusion technology with this game so you can scan in creations. Not entirely sure how it would be implemented, but that would be awesome. I'm also hoping that the game has free-build worlds (like Lego Universe properties or Infinity Toy Boxes), because that would make this game even more "Lego".

And they just announced the pricing of these booster packs on different video game news sites. And with the prices, I have lost most of my hope for this game. They are bad by both Lego and Skylander prices. $15 for just the smallest pack, which is barely more than a minifigure. I was expecting a bit of a price increase for the figure stands that work with the game, but that is about a $10 increase. I was hoping this would be a cheap way for me to round out some of my minifigure collections, but that was too much to hope for.

 

That is just too bad, because I have been waiting for games like these to get actually good toy components instead of just mini-statues for a while now.

$15 for Benny? I can see spending $10 but that extra 5 dollars is just too much. I think I'll wait for a sale or something...

YOU SHALL NOT EAT!!!

I was not expecting The Wizard of Oz to be in this game, but I'm glad it is. Also, I just discovered the official website with more pictures of the game:

http://www.lego.com/en-us/dimensions/

EDIT: And now I just realized there was a link in the trailer. How did I miss that?

This looks interesting.Also,after getting the starter pack,could you theoretically use any of your own minifigures in the game(unless the figures can't be taken off their stands)?

I would assume that the stands are what activate the character in the game, and the minifigures themselves don't do anything. I certainly hope the minifig legs aren't glued to the stands. It is possible, though, that the minifigure's legs have some sort of electrical/magnetic stuff going on that the stands detect, which would make the stands interchangeable between the figures. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

YESSS!!!      

THIS IS BETTER THAN LEGO UNIVERSE!!!

Also, here's a quick reference of confirmed characters who will be in Fun Packs, Level Packs, Team Packs, or the Starter Pack.

• Batman
• Wonder Woman
• Cyborg

• Marty McFly

• Kai
• Jay
• Cole
• Zane
• Nya

• Gandalf
• Gollum
• Gimli
• Lego Legolas. (Or Legless Lego Legolas if you take off his legs. )

• Emmet
• Wyldstyle
• Bad Cop/Good Cop
• Benny
• Unikitty

The Wizard of Oz

• Wicked Witch of the West

I wonder if there will be free-build worlds, like the properties in Lego Universe. Because that would make this game perfect. And the best part is, if Lego stops making additions to this game and stops selling it, unlike Lego Universe, you will still be able to play the game!!!

Well I believe it's going to be revealed today, considering the amount of universes involved I wonder if they'll get some of lego's own themes involved (such as ninjago and bionicle)? 

I can more than definitely see Ninjago happening, especially since it happens to be getting a Lego Movie and is one of Lego's most popular themes. As for Bionicle, if they go the route of minifigures-plugging-into-the-game, I don't think Bionicle will be able to be in this game. At least not until minifig-scale Bionicle sets are a thing again.

 

And then there were three.

Lego Dimensions CONFIRMED!!!

To those who have no idea what I'm talking about, Lego Dimensions (possibly working-title) is said to be the upcoming Infinity/Skylanders-style video-game that Lego is releasing, and is apparently going to announce tomorrow.

It makes sense, doesn't it? Batman, Gandalf, & Wyldstyle all together can only mean one of 10 things:

1. Something Lego Movie-related.
2. Crossover Lego video-game involving Skylanders/Infinity-style characters and stuff, hence the transparent blue portal made of Legos and the recent rumors.
3. Both, meaning it's a crossover Lego Inifinity-style video game that takes place in The Lego Movie universe.

(When I said 10 things I was referring to 3 in trinary, which is 10.)

Well it's a good thing I don't eat Legos.

Wow, this is really COOL.   I really like the use of the Witch Doctor masks and the Kakama, and the whole model has a very nice crystal feel to it. Kopaka looks very nicely armored, and the transparent light blue sections make the model look icy and frozen. Great job!

This was already reported.

Here we go again... I wonder if it 's going to be another building competition or if it will be something like a story or drawing competition.

Sneak peek?

All the episodes have been out for a while, have they not?

Not on TV they haven't.

Huh. That's interesting. I never noticed that before. Nice find!

I bet this movie is going to be about a big race with a massive prize that everyone is after, and that the racers will be various Lego characters from various Lego themes. This could turn out really good if they do it right. (And I really hope so!) At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they announced that a Bionicle movie was coming out as well.

 

 

Fun Fact: The Vahi was originally going to be Tahu's mask, but they replaced it with the mask you see now and made the Vahi something totally different. There's actually some concept art somewhere showing Tahu awakening wearing the prototype Vahi. It was the first mask LEGO ever designed.

Get it? The mask has a "T" for tahu

I always thought it looked like cheese.

 

Tahu: Master of Cheese.