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.
- 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