Disney Infinity Toy Box Summit Day 1 Live Blog

Disney Infinity is kicking off their Toy Box Summit in Disneyland and on day 1 here is a run down of what was included in the show:

You can watch the show below:

Live Notes-

Disney Creative Minds Panel

• Show goes live with Allison, JV and John Blackburn
• 20 Artists – Will be a new community once a quarter on a conference call to discuss the game. First meeting is tomorrow to decide something for 2016
• Trailer is shown.
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• No Marvel details yet – Coming soon
• Toy Box Artist Intro video is shown.
• MightyGitis Townsperson revealed, this will be happening with 2015’s summit

Joining Forces for 3.0 Panel

• Jeff Bunker and Marvel team (Matt Fillbrandt, Bill Rosemann) are brought onto the show

• Star Wars/Lucasfilm Executive Matt Fillbrandt and Inside Out Art Director Albert Lozano on the stream with the guys at Marvel.

• A PS4 and a Darth Vader suitcase are given away to the audience
• Team members from Avalanche, Sumo, and Ninja Theory are brought onto stage to discuss building Disney Infinity 3.0.
• Studio Gobo are doing a presentation at another event.
• Over 50 toys from Twilight of the Republic will go into the Toy Box.
• Bosses from Rise of the Empire can be set up within the Toy Box including General Grievous.
• King Candy in Villain form and Marshmallow from Frozen can be used within a Toy Box
• Combat and Racing have been given major overhauls
• Can replay missions within playsets.
• R2 D2 Luggage give away and Evilos won a PS4!

Spotlight on Toy Box 3.0 Presentation

• Bob Lowe (Senior Game Director), Troy Johnson (Game Designer), Patrick Efird (Associate Level Designer)
• The hub is the new start of the toy box
• Flynn’s does auto match up against other players
• El Captaine theater will have all the top toy boxes and Toy Box TV in

• Spine toy is going to make the toy boxes much more interesting as so many new options, can build traffic, different race tracks, cameras, cut scenes, moving platforms, moving vehicles.
• Metronome Toy – can be used to create music and also a new music toy to create notes.
• New fireworks cannon
• Calendar Configuration – Can change a toy box to be different in October or Christmas.
• Theme Changer – Can change a theme within the toy box
• Context Text Configure –
• Radar Marker – Sets up a ! or ? above a item
• Dynamic Marker – Sets up a area to interact
• Distance Checker – Tell the distance between two items.
• Boss Battle – Create a boss battle
• Logic – & – The use of an & option for logic
• Vehicle Trick – Registers all tricks in vehicles
• Player counter – Change options for players.
• Sidekick Manager – control sidekicks
• Radio Disney – Listen to Radio Disney live within the toy box
• Power sphere – physical ball causes damage.
• Gate, Wall, Cage and key – Boxes that drop or open when connected to logic
• Tons more collectibles
• Many of the existing toys have been improved including sounds, effects.
• Text options have been changed, 10 lines and will auto go to the next line
• Camera will now allow keep things on the screen at the same time, ie like Inside Out.
• Mounts can now be made to stay in, can’t get out.
• Power Disc items can now be linked to logic toys and used.
• Visual links show where logic options are going.
• 2D option has been added

 

Toy Box Showdown LIVE with the Toy Box Mentors

• Toy Box Mentors start a challenge with words throwing in from the audience to make a toy box based on Cheese!

Becoming a Toy Box Artist Panel

• Mighty Gitis, Sonic Photo and Pirate Steve join Papa Echo on the stage.
• The toy box artists explain how they got into toy boxes and what they are looking forward to.

Starting Your Own Channel Panel

•  Stacy Hinojosa. Jon Carnage and Will from DisneyInfinity TV join the stage, explain how they started.

• Show ends with JV and John Blackburn