The Waiting – Dispatches From Infini-Dad

I feel a great disturbance as millions of voices cry out “Hey Star Wars Celebration, are we going to get an announcement about Disney Infinity 3.0 or what?!”

Unfortunately, I fear the answer will be “what.”

Yes, it’s a dark time for the rebellion.. errr, community as we wait with bated breath for ANY sort of official word about 3.0.

It’s limbo folks. No more figures on the horizon to look forward to. The frothing at the mouth for the Falcon and Ms. Marvel power discs has subsided. Collections are being completed.

As for myself, I am inexorably drawn to the Infinity product aisles even though I own practically everything there, and I know that there won’t be anything new. But, I still go. And when I begin to think purchasing one of those lame power disc Loot Bags would be a sound investment, I know I’m way deep into DI withdrawal.

And just as my yearning for  3.0 reaches the breaking point, enter… Lego Dimensions. (cue fanfare).

Instantaneously, I knew my son would want this as he’s a Lego Maniac. Not too longer after that, I was wondering how my wallet was going to survive this latest entry into the Toys To Life playing field without me getting a second job.

Rather embarrassingly, I also got a little defensive. What is Lego trying to do? Raise an army of cool franchises to topple my beloved Infinity and somehow seduce my son away from the game that has brought us so much shared enjoyment?! Kids are fickle, which the forgotten Bionicles and Ben-10 figures in my son’s room can definitely attest to.

After my pixels settled, I realize there’s no need to hop on a fanboy road of mine-is-better-than-yours so prevalent in gaming culture. Fun is fun, right?

Especially since a lot of what we’ve seen so far for Lego Dimension is so brickin’ [sic] cool. I’m a Lego fan myself and all the properties they’ve gathered together are uber favorites.  I mean they’ve got Marty McFly for God’s sake!

I’m also on record as saying what appears in Dimensions to be different franchises playing together in a narrative based game IS a functionality I do wish Disney Infinity had.

Yes, you can bring Loki and Maleficent into the Toy Box, but I don’t always want to build a whole game, story, and interactivity that goes along with it. I want to see if Angelina Jolie can get the best of the Asgardian God of Evil in the Avengers playset, and I want it NOW, not after multiple hours of toy boxing.

I also would be totally jazzed if you could–stay with me here–build a mini fig with the head of Batman, the body of Dana Barrett, and the limbs of Barney Gumble and bring THAT into Lego Dimensions.

As Roger and Abe mentioned in their recent webcast, the cool features in Lego Dimensions can only result in making Disney Infinity raise their game and vise versa, and we the users get to reap the rewards.

It’s just too bad those rewards come at such a high price. Next stop, the nearest job website.