It’s officially happening. Lego Dimensions, the rumored toys-to-life concept from Lego, has been confirmed. The game will be set in a world where rifts have been created by an evil force, connecting the various Lego worlds. This cheeky approach allows TT Games to pick and choose which franchises from Lego’s massive selection of licenses to include in Dimensions, and to smush them all together in one single game.
Warner Bros. has of course given their own statement about the new Lego franchise, which will be heading to the Wii U among other systems:
“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.
Future expansion pack purchases will continue to work with the Starter Pack, even in the fall of next year. No compatibility chart necessary.”
The Starter Pack for the game will contain the Lego Toy Pad (ie. the NFC portal for getting the toys “inside” the game), three mini-figures (Batman, Wyldstyle from The Lego Movie and Gandalf from Lord of the Rings), some Lego bricks, a Lego Batmobile, and the game itself.
We’ll see this cash-sucking entry into the toys-to-life concepts already on shelves later this year, on September 27th.
