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LEGO Dimensions – new game & sets coming!

LEGO has been really good at taking advantage of social-media in releasing some of their latest sets and themes by dropping little teasers, especially via Facebook and Twitter. Last week was a particularly exciting campaign in collaboration with Warner Bros. gradually revealing LEGO Dimensions – LEGO’s own take on the popular toys-to-life video games genre, so far dominated by Nintendo Amiibo, Skylanders, and Disney Infinity. Below is the official press-release with details about the game, the upcoming LEGO sets, and the announcement-trailer. 🙂

LEGO Dimensions Press-Release

The Creativity of LEGO Building Meets the Epic Story-Telling of LEGO Videogames for Multi-Dimensional Fun Fan-Favorite Worlds Converge in One Thrilling Adventure — A Dark Knight, a Wizard, and a Master Builder Travelling Down the Yellow Brick Road is Just the Beginning! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group today announced LEGO® Dimensions, 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 29th September, 2015, the game will fuse many fan-favorite universes together, including DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, The LEGO Movie, The Wizard of Oz, LEGO Ninjago, Back to the Future, and many more still to be announced.

LEGO Dimensions, developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, will be available for Xbox One, the all-in one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems and Nintendo´s Wii™ U system.

LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack

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 TM from DC Comics, LEGO Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings and Wyldstyle from The LEGO Movie, plus the LEGO BatmobileTM.

LEGO Dimensions Licenses

“When kids play with LEGO bricks, they build beyond the singular brands, intermixing all of their favorite characters and universes, and we have come up with a way for players to experience that in games,” said Jon Burton, Founder and Creative Director, TT Games. “Now for the first time in a videogame, LEGO fans can play in the virtual world and in the real world – combining everything without restrictions. Imagine putting LEGO Gollum from The Lord of the Rings behind the wheel of the LEGO Delorean in New Ninjago City – the creative play is endless.”

LEGO Dimensions Kit

“Building on TT Games’ track record for exceptionally popular, engaging games, LEGO Dimensions expands our LEGO videogame franchise with a breakthrough, immersive interactive entertainment experience that will redefine the toys to life games category,” said Jeff Junge, Senior Vice President, LEGO Franchise and TT Games, Warner Bros. Entertainment. “LEGO Dimensions will bring fans innovative and joyful gameplay with an amazing mash-up of huge brands in both the physical and digital worlds.”

LEGO Dimensions Sets

“LEGO Dimensions is unlike anything that we have ever done. It further extends the LEGO play experience into the digital world with all of the characters, humor and action of LEGO videogames now combined with the fun of LEGO minifigure and model building,” said Niels Jørgensen, Vice President, Digital Games for the LEGO Group. “We are thrilled to expand our partnership with TT Games to explore ways in which physical and digital LEGO play can merge in meaningful ways for children.”

LEGO Dimensions Team Pack

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.

LEGO Dimensions Packs

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 Back to the Future

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. No compatibility chart necessary.

LEGO Dimensions Gameplay

As you can see, from the press-release, LEGO Dimensions is an extensive expansion with a tremendous amount of new LEGO sets. And not to speak of the gaming experience itself! For further information before the official release, keep an eye on the official LEGO Dimensions website. Also, if you are interested, both the LEGO Dimensions video-game and the accompanying sets are already available for pre-order on Amazon. See here: PRE-ORDER LEGO DIMENSIONS ON AMAZON

LEGO Dimensions Website

What do you think? Does LEGO Dimensions sounds exciting to you? Are you interested in the new gaming experience and the new LEGO sets and characters? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below! Would love to hear your thoughts on this! 😉

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One of the most interesting LEGO themes that was released this year is LEGO Elves. We have talked about the LEGO Elves sets extensively (see links at the end of this post), so you probably know already that LEGO Elves is based on the story of a human girl (Emily Jones) being transported to the land of the Elves via an amulet she inherited from her grandmother. She makes friends with four Elves who try to help her get back home. While we got several teaser-videos previously to introduce us to the story, now the full 1st episode of LEGO Elves is available. This episode is titled LEGO Elves – Episode 1: Unite the Magic, and you can watch it in full below. 🙂

LEGO Elves Logo

In LEGO Elves – Episode 1: Unite the Magic, you will be introduced to Emily Jones, and follow her on her trip to the land of the Elves. While there, she will meet the four elves we were introduced previously through the teaser-trailers: Naida, the Water Elf, Farran the Earth Elf, Azari the Fire Elf, and Aira the Wind Elf. The five of them together start on an adventure to try to get Emily back home. The full episode below is 24 minutes long, so grab your popcorn and enjoy the show!

There are a couple of very interesting things about this LEGO Elves episode. First of all, notice that it is titled Episode 1, but it includes the entire story that the currently and summer LEGO Elves sets feature. Does this mean that LEGO Elves will continue with further adventures? And more LEGO sets? I would think so! This is really excellent news because so far LEGO Elves have been received very enthusiastically, with every review I have read or seen raving about the sets. The LEGO Elves sets have everything; beautiful designs, lots of interesting new parts, cute characters, and a non-violent fantasy adventure that can appeal to both children and adults. You can find all the currently available LEGO Elves sets at the Online LEGO Shop.

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The other interesting feature of the LEGO Elves episode is that it is done in a very different style than the LEGO Ninjago and LEGO Legends of Chima TV shows – both of which look very LEGO-ish, with characters that are obviously LEGO minifigures. The vehicles, animals and other creatures also appear to be built of LEGO, while the background usually have a simple cartoonish style that fits well with the general look and feel of LEGO. In contrast, LEGO Elves went into a different direction with characters that don’t look like LEGO minifigs (or even mini-dolls) at all, nor are any of the settings resemble LEGO. It just look like a standard animated cartoon.

LEGO Elves Tree House

Some people complain about this and miss the LEGO look. While others consider it an opportunity to open up creativity and free-building. I would say that both views have a point. The fun of LEGO cartoons is seeing your LEGO minifigs animated. The films give voice and personality to your favorite LEGO minifigures – they basically come alive right in front of your eyes. Also LEGO cartoons often incorporate the unique nature of LEGO; like vehicles falling to pieces then getting reassembled into something else. LEGO Elves is the opposite. It is the film that sets up the look of the characters and the setting of the story, and the LEGO Elves sets simply mimic them – kind of like what you would see with licensed LEGO sets that are based on a film. This can inspire LEGO fans to recreate larger scenes from the film itself. LEGO Elves especially has a very nice scenery that just wants you to build colorful forests and hidden coves out of your LEGO bricks!

Shop LEGO Elves

What do you think? How did you like the first episode of LEGO Elves? Did you like the animation, the story, the characters? Do you have any of the LEGO Elves sets already? Have you considered expanding them to build bigger scenes of magic and fantasy? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below! 😉

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