Dimensions Wave 8 revealed
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Warner Bros. has officially announced the highly anticipated eighth wave of LEGO Dimensions expansion packs.
You can read more of the press release after the break. Also, check out the sets themselves in the database.
“Hey, you guuuys!”
LEGO Dimensions Expansion Packs Based on The Goonies, Harry Potter and LEGO City Announced for May Release
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today revealed details around three highly collectable new expansion packs for LEGO Dimensions, the LEGO toy and videogame hybrid, that will be available on May 9, 2017. The Goonies Level Pack, the Harry Potter Fun Pack and LEGO City Fun Pack will broaden the selection of the world’s most popular entertainment brands available for the game, allowing players to customize their experience by mixing and matching favorite characters and universes with full compatibility. In addition, LEGO minifigures included within each of these expansion packs come with special golden Toy Tags which unlock a free play Adventure World of the corresponding entertainment brand, as well as a Battle Arena that can be reached through Vorton. Each Battle Arena is unique to the world of the character used to unlock it and features competitive split-screen local gameplay for up to four players, with four exciting gameplay modes including Capture the Flag, Objective, Base Bash, and Tick, Tag, Boom!.
The Goonies Level Pack includes a complete level of The Goonies gameplay where players can help Sloth and Chunk escape the Fratelli hideout and join the rest of the Goonies on their search for One Eyed Willy’s treasure. Players can use Sloth’s Super Strength to smash through walls or play as Chunk and use his infamous Truffle Shuffle. The rebuildable One-Eyed Willy’s Pirate Ship will sail on water and can also be built into the Fanged Fortune and the Inferno Cannon; while the rebuildable Skeleton Organ has Sonar Smash abilities and can also be built into the Skeleton Jukebox and Skele-Turkey for added game play capabilities. Sloth provides access to a new The Goonies Battle Arena, and also the Adventure World where players can explore Mikey’s House, Inferno Cove and the Goon Docks. Once the level is complete, players will be able to replay through the game and other levels as any of the seven other Goonies characters to solve additional puzzles and access more collectibles in their journey through the LEGO multiverse.
Players can extend their wizarding adventures in LEGO Dimensions with the Harry Potter Fun Pack which includes a Hermione Granger LEGO minifigure. She can cast magical spells such as Wingardium Leviosa to levitate objects and Lumos to light up dark places. She also allows players to unlock the Harry Potter Battle Arena for a competitive match, along with the Adventure World where they can explore locations in Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley. Players can build the 3-in-1 rideable Buckbeak the Hippogriff and use its Stomp Attack to smash Silver LEGO bricks, then rebuild it into the Giant Owl and the Fierce Falcon for additional in-game abilities.
Players can help stop crime in the LEGO Dimensions multiverse with the LEGO City Fun Pack featuring a Chase McCain LEGO minifigure. Chase can become a Miner to break Silver LEGO bricks or a Fireman to use his Water Beam to put out fires. Gamers can use his LEGO City Detective Scanner to track down bad guys and change his disguise to unlock more abilities. In the LEGO City Adventure World, there are new areas to explore like Blackwell’s moon base and the LEGO City Police Department. Players can also compete with up to three of their friends in the LEGO City Battle Arena. Additionally, Chase’s 3-in-1 Police Helicopter can be built to fire off bolts, then rebuild it into the Police Hovercraft and Police Plane for additional in-game abilities.
Developed by TT Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, LEGO Dimensions is now available for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment systems, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and the Wii U system.
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Chase McCain? No WAY! That is AWESOME.
Awesome! I'm hyped for these! :)
Watch out for them in the 99c store in a few months...
Sloth - Best minifigure EVER!
Lego is just taking every popular Lego Ideas theme and stealing them. Probably giving nothing to submitter...
^I suspect as much but hey may have seen the interest for these characters and decided to include them in their official products (deals can take years to properly develop).
I just can't wait for the Goonies pack! Now if only Lego could make more Goonies sets, or at least create a minifigure for each of the main cast. Hear's to hoping! And anyone not familiar with the movie let me just say it is a classic; both a great kid friendly adventure movie and fun for adults as well. Goonies never say die!
That little sailing ship looks great
I can imagine building loads of those and pushing them around a giant map on a table with a stick to deploy my fleet
YES! Finally after months of no news...
I would check the news column for LEGO Dimensions every morning. Now there is only beetlejuice, teen titans go, and powerpuff girls.
Someone in Dimensions development is clearly going through some serious '80s nostalgia. Or perhaps its the entire department.
I think I forgot these weren't already officially revealed. The ship in the Goonies set looks really cool for the scale. K.I.T.T., unfortunately, less cool.
a)TLG just ruined the possibility of making ANY Goonies set ever at the LEGO Ideas plus with that money asking for the set, I wish Sloth had a molded head instead of a "hat".
Still, as if I would ever buy these overpriced hybrids of pc game/minifigure... I am by no means an expert but I AM curious though how well Dimensions sales go for TLG.
Toys to Life remains a weakening market (along with console gaming overall), but the good trend for both Dimensions and consoles in general is that game play density still has some hope. Dimensions helps encourage more brand immersion for those customers it is reaching—though no doubt its conversion percentage numbers are still a big challenge given console and general TTL trends.
It has great margins and IPs that make it fair as a TLG-Warner profit center and especially valuable for strengthening partnerships, user experiences, retail relationships, shelf facings and digital share. But some aspects of the mix (Story Packs) I think are in price and positioning strategy more off than others.
@Mars Needs LEGO — the 80s nostalgia IPs is not merely internal whims of Lego product management teams. Customers like it—both kids and their parents. Just wait till they get Stranger Things. ;-)
Am I the only person who when reading "Hey, you guuuys!" thought about The Electric Company instead of The Goonies, even while looking at the picture of The Goonies pack?
I guess I won't be learning how The Electric Company translates into Dimensions then? Disappointed.
Did you guys hear about the lego dimensions for 99 cents?
These sound cool. The ship in The Goonies pack is terrific.
Ooh, I love that ship in the Goonies pack! Could take or leave the rest of the non-Hermione things.
I don't even know who/what the Goonies is. Something else my childhood missed out on, I suppose.
Can't wait for Knight Rider or Chase McCain, though.
Really looking forward to adding these to my dimensions collection. I thought Lego city undercover would be a level pack.
@Derp Riot: Why should the Goonies project creator on LEGO Ideas get credit? This doesn't in any way resemble the set they proposed other than sharing an IP, and they are not the owner of that IP. Remember, LEGO Ideas is not for proposing themes, it's for proposing sets, and the rules are clear about this. If a set you propose is not viable enough to pass review, you don't somehow get credit or royalties for any subsequent set related to that IP.
@Zordboy: Don't worry, it's not just you. I've seen snippets of The Goonies on TV and also heard about it plenty online as a teen/adult, but I've never actually seen it and wasn't really aware of it as a kid. Then again, I was completely unaware of Knight Rider prior to hearing about it online.
I'm excited for the LEGO City Undercover pack, since that is by far one of the best LEGO games, though I am a bit disappointed it's just a fun pack. Still holding out hope for other LEGO City Undercover packs in future waves with characters we haven't seen in sets before, but it's probably unlikely. :/
As much as I would like some of these snow sets I don't really know what I'm going to do with them. I mean I've so many characters already and I've done so much in the game that there's very little left for them and their abilities to do.
I find year two of Dimensions rather lackluster compared to the sheer amount of items available with most product releases during Series 1. Obviously after a time it got down to the last few items, however with each wave of Series 2 aside from the first we have been seeing a lot less product and a lot less to do in the game.
It has also suffered from lacking a strong coherent ongoing narrative. The Story Packs are self-contained TT LEGO Games that would never have worked for the full treatment at 40-50$ a title and yet they still charge that much, and make up for it by giving us buildable elements. The Level Packs have improved greatly, but continue to remain disconnected from the main story. The entire adventure of Year 1 is basically over, events in these new levels and story packs are simply adventures of the characters with nothing to tie them together aside from a few visual gags.
With the LEGO City Undercover being revealed as a Fun Pack that leaves three IPs unaccounted for and two empty level slots still unknown, either Beetlejuice and TTG or Beetlejuice and PPG because I would like to think that Beetlejuice would make for a better Level Pack than TTG and PPG themselves. Also I really want to play through a Tim Burton masterpiece in LEGO form, even if the story would have to be severely altered with Beetlejuice being the main character.
However they could still surprise us, I'd love to see a monster final level pack with Lord Vortex as the playable character combining everything from Series 2 into one massive adventure that spans the heights and depths of all the possible IPs. Sadly I doubt we'll be seeing that. All I can say is I hope that Series 3 gives us a better more cohesive story plan, because while I have enjoyed the Level and Story Pack expansions to date they do nothing to enhance the original narrative or expand upon it, and the idea of all these Dimensions colliding, at least with this Series, feels as if its not living up to its proper potential this go round.
I also don't quite understand the hysteria around Goonies, though I have seen the film. It's a serviceable family adventure film but I couldn't remember much beyond the ever quoted Sloth line. However, I do have to admit the minifigure and mini models in the dimensions pack are very well designed.
Committed players will understand me when I say that I'm still waiting on the TTG character so I can access purple portals in the game!
First disfigured and intellectually disabled minifig?
+Greendale
Not at all.
Are they going to do Bill & Ted and Ferris Beuller's Day Off packs next?
Does Mega Bloks have the Power Rangers license? They could jump on that IP.
Personally, I'd like to see Voltron: Legendary Defender.
What kid in this day and age will even know of The Goonies or Knight Rider, let alone want toys based on them?
The Hoff!
Reading these comments, I am totally perplexed, that someone actually plays the game?! I have seen the Goonies as a kid and I wasn't really into it. Maybe it's an american thing. Soon the 80's craze will cease... But, well, perhaps we will see some Poltergeist-Figures? Or some cuddly cats from Stephen Kings Pet-Cemetary? Gremlins is not that far from these...
A Sloth mining?!?!?! My life is now complete
@Trigger
Wasn't trying to be offensive, just asking, is this the first Lego minifigure based on such a person?
Finally Hermione isn't a Ginny clone! And what the hell?! No Baby Ruth 1x2 with Sloth...tsk tsk
@ Derp Riot & Lordmoral Lego is simply taking advantage of the fact they already have the licensing in place to use these themes. As a matter of fact it is the other way around. The Lego Ideas submitters should be happy Lego was able to secure a license that allowed them to further profit from otherwise their set would have never hit the shelves...........