When he's not podcasting, playing board games or building LEGO with his kids then he's LEGO gaming boardcasts in his pod.
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Maniac4Bricks
I’m returning from the Epic Gumdrop podcast about LEGO Dimensions, and likewise I’ll give my thoughts on the toy and building experience of the game, after completing the main story mode.
I was happy to build the models WITH the game, instead of before it starts and leaving it on the side. The portal build was cool with new colors and some new elements (Wyldstyle’s printed tile “Detecting Relic” and printed keystones, new 12×24 plate with hole, azure colored a-frame plates, 1×2 modified axle plate). I also have other packs, and the builds were cool for their miniature scale and fun as physically removable toys. It was also neat that the portal changes over time, and I told people my progress in the game by how many keystones I collected (before getting to the foundation elements, which begs the question – where can I get LEGO ruby slippers?). Creating X-PO the robot was interesting from the portal bits, but there was nowhere to place him after the assembly, so I stuck him on Gandalf’s staff while I played.
There’s such a wide variety of characters to play with in the packs, I hope to discover whether or not you need every last one to complete the game 100% (with all the collectibles such as Minikits, Gold Bricks, etc.), in hopes of the latter. True, most of the figures are the same as in normal sets, which leaves others more popular like Chell, The Doctor, Unikitty (new face), Scooby (new face), Wicked Witch (one of my favorites in game too), Cyberman, Midway Arcade Player, Stay Puft and new versions of Doc Brown and Venkman.
The after-market will profit well from the people not interested in the game (even if they’re missing out on a great game). Inside of a few days, I already saw entries on BrickLink for parts from BTTF pack, Portal 2 pack and the starter pack. For the non-gamers, the packs aren’t quite worth it for parts or builds. Figs, maybe, but not at that price. Honestly, the most you’re paying for in the packs are the character bases, and to the non-gamer LEGO fans, it’ll be another element hardly used.
One thing I looked forward to most in LEGO Dimensions, outside of gameplay and levels, was the story of it. Having completed the story mode, I’ll try to keep as few spoilers as possible. Lord Vortech is an interesting design of a character, not seeming to hail from any one LEGO theme but somehow gaining the ultimate power of travelling in dimensions. It makes me more intrigued in the science of multiple dimensions and multi-universes, but I know in advance quantum mechanics is not easy to comprehend. However, Lord Vortech in the end still keeps me questioning more about Lord Vortech’s background (or at least I enjoy overthinking to keep a franchise going). Speaking of story, I’m not aware of how integrated this game can be in the intellectual properties’ storylines, but I digress.
Overall, as a physically toy only, LEGO Dimensions doesn’t have much new to offer or worthwhile. As a game, totally fun to integrate building and playing.
Thanks for posting these, by the way (I realize this is quite late but when we switched over our comment system for some reason my original comment didn’t stick!).
I’m returning from the Epic Gumdrop podcast about LEGO Dimensions, and likewise I’ll give my thoughts on the toy and building experience of the game, after completing the main story mode.
I was happy to build the models WITH the game, instead of before it starts and leaving it on the side. The portal build was cool with new colors and some new elements (Wyldstyle’s printed tile “Detecting Relic” and printed keystones, new 12×24 plate with hole, azure colored a-frame plates, 1×2 modified axle plate). I also have other packs, and the builds were cool for their miniature scale and fun as physically removable toys. It was also neat that the portal changes over time, and I told people my progress in the game by how many keystones I collected (before getting to the foundation elements, which begs the question – where can I get LEGO ruby slippers?). Creating X-PO the robot was interesting from the portal bits, but there was nowhere to place him after the assembly, so I stuck him on Gandalf’s staff while I played.
There’s such a wide variety of characters to play with in the packs, I hope to discover whether or not you need every last one to complete the game 100% (with all the collectibles such as Minikits, Gold Bricks, etc.), in hopes of the latter. True, most of the figures are the same as in normal sets, which leaves others more popular like Chell, The Doctor, Unikitty (new face), Scooby (new face), Wicked Witch (one of my favorites in game too), Cyberman, Midway Arcade Player, Stay Puft and new versions of Doc Brown and Venkman.
The after-market will profit well from the people not interested in the game (even if they’re missing out on a great game). Inside of a few days, I already saw entries on BrickLink for parts from BTTF pack, Portal 2 pack and the starter pack. For the non-gamers, the packs aren’t quite worth it for parts or builds. Figs, maybe, but not at that price. Honestly, the most you’re paying for in the packs are the character bases, and to the non-gamer LEGO fans, it’ll be another element hardly used.
One thing I looked forward to most in LEGO Dimensions, outside of gameplay and levels, was the story of it. Having completed the story mode, I’ll try to keep as few spoilers as possible. Lord Vortech is an interesting design of a character, not seeming to hail from any one LEGO theme but somehow gaining the ultimate power of travelling in dimensions. It makes me more intrigued in the science of multiple dimensions and multi-universes, but I know in advance quantum mechanics is not easy to comprehend. However, Lord Vortech in the end still keeps me questioning more about Lord Vortech’s background (or at least I enjoy overthinking to keep a franchise going). Speaking of story, I’m not aware of how integrated this game can be in the intellectual properties’ storylines, but I digress.
Overall, as a physically toy only, LEGO Dimensions doesn’t have much new to offer or worthwhile. As a game, totally fun to integrate building and playing.
Thanks for posting these, by the way (I realize this is quite late but when we switched over our comment system for some reason my original comment didn’t stick!).