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Oh, certainly. I wasn't thinking of such a pack necessarily being in Wave 6 or anything like that. But I do think there might be room for it somewhere down the road, in the 3+ years anticipated for the game. It's still very early, of course, and the "Connectables" tease indicates there are still whole aspects to this game and everything we can do with it that we don't know about yet. That would be PERFECT. Oh, except I'd also like to get the other two as well (perhaps in a Team Pack?) My main hope for the game with with regards to this franchise is just getting Marge and Lisa as playable characters. I was thinking a Marge and Maggie Team Pack and a Lisa Fun Pack, but if they do multiple Level Packs for individual franchises, I think maybe one of the Lisa-centered episodes might be a good way to go for her. Yikes! Already?! I imagine you can obtain a replacement disc, though you might have to pay a fee for it or something. How does a player device even scratch a disc in this day and age?! Unlike the "accessory" builds (vehicles, gadgets, etc.), the gateway portal should actually have printed instructions in a physical booklet. Did your copy not come with one? The Starter Pack instruction booklet should have instructions for the three characters plus the portal - everything except the Batmobile.

Yep. I don't know why the game isn't in S@H here. I do know brick-&-mortar LEGO Stores are carrying the game. I just called S@H's 1-800 number and spoke to a friendly LEGO Customer Service Rep, and after asking a colleague she got back to me and said the website team was working on it and it should be available on the site soon. It's still a mystery to me why it didn't just pop up there Sunday morning at 12:01 am EST, and she didn't explain. Part of me almost half-wonders whether it was just a giant mistake that few people seem to have noticed - like maybe somebody just plain forgot to tell the store website team that this huge new product rollout was officially happening on the 27th, and they needed to effect a major store update on that date, as though nobody remembered to put it on the schedule so they just took the weekend off. But it sounds like it should pop up there at any time now. i wonder whether future updates might expand the existing areas, so that they incorporate more from the various fictional universes they draw from. I also wonder whether they might release additional Level Packs for worlds that already have them - say, another The Simpsons Level Pack that draws upon a different episode, for example. I could easily see a different Doctor Who one that offers a new level different from what's coming in November, and let's us play as one of the Doctor's companions. I certainly would love to see Sarah Jane Smith become an official minifigure, whether it's as a LEGO Dimensions add-on, a "CMF", part of a regular set, or whatever (just so long as she's not an SDCC exclusive!).

I'm confident it'll be a fast seller, but I'm pretty sure it won't permanently sell out in mere days of availability like the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover or the Research Institute, if that's what you're worried about. They know there'll be great demand for all the pop-culture licensed Ideas sets, and all those CUUSOO / Ideas sets - the Minecraft micro world, the Back to the Future DeLorean time machine, the Ghostbusters Ectomobile, etc. - have always been kept available for over a year (excepting the two which came out less than a year ago, of course). I think the Ideas Doctor Who set will be around a pretty good while.

I'd definitely count her as Doctor Who, but then I'd also count The Sarah Jane Adventures (and Torchwood, etc.) as part of the larger Doctor Who universe. This is just the sort of problem I'm concerned about... although with that particular example I'm not too worried, since I doubt they'd have dedicated Adventure Worlds for any of the Doctor Who spinoffs. But im not so sure about some of the others...

Well, them, and Indiana Jones, Toy Story, Cars / Planes, WALL•E, Brave, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Tangled, Frozen, The Lone Ranger, Pirates of the Caribbean, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Peter Pan / Jake and the Pirates, Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse & friends, etc. All of those have had LEGO sets or even whole themes, and all of them are owned by Disney (most of them even appearing in Disney Infinity already), making them off-limits for LEGO Dimensions. Granted that some of them would never have appeared in LEGO Dimensions anyway (and a few might never appear in Disney Infinity either), but still... Bear in mind it's also not just whether it appears in another toys-to-life game, but also whether it (currently) appears in another company's construction toys, whether the toys-to-life rights are available or not. For example, nobody's doing anything in toys-to-life games with Star Trek, as far as I'm aware, but Mega Bloks' recent acquisition of the construction toy rights means LEGO won't be doing anything with that property anytime soon (unfortunately), whether for this game or for just plain regular LEGO sets. Mega Bloks also now has both SpongeBob SquarePants and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so even though they were LEGO themes for a while (and an especially long-lived one in the case of SpongeBob), they won't be in LEGO Dimensions anytime soon, either.

I'm curious about that last list we got. Assuming "HP" is Harry Potter, "FB" is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and "TTG" is Teen Titans Go!, those separate designations suggest certain "superfranchises" like DC Comics and Harry Potter will be split up into discrete, smaller worlds - there'd be, say, separate Adventure Worlds for DC and Teen Titans Go!, for example, and a Robin minifigure from a Teen Titans Go! Fun Pack wouldn't unlock the DC Adventure World, or vice versa; we could similarly see The Hobbit eventually brought in but treated as a different property from The Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park brought in as a different world from Jurassic World, and so on. But I really hope that's not the case. :/ Also, still no sign of LEGO Dimensions at Shop@Home. What's up with that?

I wouldn't say the picture is "bad" so much as just that part of it being out of focus since it's not where our attention is being directed. But now that you mention it, I have to say it looks more like Ray than Egon. Whoever it is, though, it undeniably looks like another Ghostbuster. I suspect we can fill in the "GB" on that list of post-Wave 5 set numbers.

I just realized that Forbes article is by our own wideawakewesley, if I'm not mistaken. For those who just saw my post about it without actually clicking ion the link and reading his article, here's the screenshot from the game's release trailer that apparently reveals a forthcoming playable Egon:

Forbes notes the launch trailer suggests Peter Venkman isn't the only Ghostbuster who'll get a playable character minifigure for this game. Fingers crossed! The reviews so far are almost entirely strongly positive. Yay!

Understood, but it's par for the course for toys-to-life games in general. The only one I know of that was on PCs was the first one, something called U. B. Funkeys, and that's the one that's no longer around, while Skylanders, Disney Infinity, and the Amiibo stuff are all thriving, and doing so purely on consoles and portables. It's therefore abundantly clear a toys-to-life game just doesn't need a PC version to do well. Additionally, there seems to be a feeling on the part of game makers that PC games are more susceptible to hacks and cracks that would nullify the necessity for buying the expansion toys. Moreover, they're generally targeted first and foremost at kids, who are far likelier to play on consoles anyway.

Mine would be "Journey's End", as then we could get a single set with two versions of Ten, Rose, Jackie, Mickey, Jack, Sarah Jane, Martha, and Donna. That's a lot of Who awesomeness for one scene.

No news, and it's highly unlikely. Consider the game console-only. Oh, I'm sure of it. I don't know what they'll go for, but I'm sure it'll happen.

Heck, I can still get Series 13 around here, and 14, and The Simpsons Series 2.

The City ones always have at least one Santa (one year it had two - !), and the Star Wars ones always Star Wars characters dressed as Santa. I believe all the Friends ones are Santa-free.

Nope, she's not one of the official Disney Princesses. When they first created the Disney Princess franchise as its own brand, they briefly counted Tinker Bell as a Disney Princess, but soon decided she didn't really fit the parameters, and took her out of the line. That's as close as Tiger Lily will probably ever get (since they're originally from the same movie).

Though I very much doubt this would be the case, I was hoping that since there are multiple time machines in this game - the TARDIS, the DeLorean time machine, the time train - that it would be possible to travel in time in multiple worlds. Like, in the Back to the Future Adventure World, one could freely go to pretty much any time in the history of Hill Valley, or at the very least from 1885 to 2015. But beyond that, one could do it even in worlds without time travel of their own - so, for example, one could go to Middle-Earth to anytime from when Sauron forged the One Ring, to the end of The Return of the King, and everything in between, including stuff from The Hobbit. Imagine being able to do that sort of thing in all the worlds, from DC Comics to Jurassic World to Ghostbusters. But I guess that would be more than a bit much to hope for...

The Starter Pack is $100 (actually $99.99), not $300.

Man, I have to say this is doubly disappointing - AlexJ didn't care for the set after having had it built up by its reputation, and a copy of one of the more desired sets that some of us would dearly love to have but that's no longer available got wasted on someone who didn't appreciate it. Frustrating all around. Oh, well. AlexJ, if you really are interested in Castle-type themes but didn't care for this set, I'm not sure how many (if any) official sets would be satisfactory. Since you do say you want to give it another try, though, I have two suggestions. First, I suggest you check out building instructions for various official sets you're considering. Virtually all sets from the last several years on have their instructions freely downloadable from LEGO's site, and this will of course be the case with future sets, including castle-related sets. That way you can get a better idea of whether a set will be to your liking before you plunk down your money on it. Alternately, you could forgo official sets altogether and just try MOCing your own castle(s). If the Joust was an unsatisfying build for you, I'm respectfully uncertain whether there are any official castle sets you'd like, but of course your own creations can be more sophisticated and complex than any official set in any theme, if you want.

The trailer looks decidedly unremarkable and forgettable to me, and I get the impression that's the best I could hope for from the movie. I feel like LEGO should be above this sort of thing, but I guess it'll at least get us some new parts, though most of them I'd guess would be theme-specific.

As of now, Shop at Home doesn't seem to have the game yet. Huh. I know the brick-and-mortar LEGO Stores are carrying it; is the online one not going to?

Indeed; I'd say if anything, Tiger Lily rules out the inclusion of Tiger Lily. :p That said, I don't think what figures appear in a regular Minifigures line will have much impact upon what characters appear in a Disney Minifigures line, or vice versa, as they're so different and appeal to different market segments (with overlap, granted). I think the main way one might influence another is in simply making certain accessory items and such available.

Holy smokes, there's some awesome stuff in this thread and on the pages it links to. I'm agog.

The Grail Temple project on LEGO Ideas just hit the 1000 mark a few minutes ago, and has earned some additional time! Now for the really hard part...

My collection of LEGO train sets, most of which is still unbuilt (I've been waiting until I can get the proper space set up for them): 2x 10194 Emerald Night 2x 10219 Maersk Train 3x 7596 Western Train Chase (Toy Story) 1x 4841 Hogwarts Express (Harry Potter) 1x 4855 Spider-Man's Train Rescue (Spider-Man) ... and one that's not a "train", per se, but does have a rail vehicle intended for standard L-gauge track: 1x 7936 Level Crossing And if we also count narrow gauge mine carts, there are also: 4x 7199 The Temple of Doom (Indiana Jones)

What do you mean?