Chuffed with myself for completing the xmas shopping today without breeching my tat ratio limit.
Just nipped into Game for a mooch around the pre-owned shelves and on my way out this new-fangled Lego Dimensions thing caught my eye. I was vaguely aware of it, and after a brief but, inevitably, unfulfilling moment of exploration with the young blonde (female) Game employee, I came away only a tiny bit better informed.
General gist seems to be, Base Game, with physical “portal”, comes with some characters and a 3-in-1 vehicle to build (£75). These get magic’d into the game.
You can buy additional “levels” (say, the Simpsons level £15-25) and you get to unlock difference characters and vehicles, again by building from the upgrade kit and up-portalling them intp the game.
So a few tech questions:
I assume there’s some kind of NFC token in the characters/vehicles that is read by the upload portal, which itself communicates with the console?
How does the NFC know which configuration the vehicle is built in?
How does the portal communicate with the console? (spec XBOX 360)
Can the expansion levels be used on more than one console? Is there a s/h market in level packs?
When a Level is “unlocked”, is it downloaded to the console? How much space on storage does it need? Once downloaded and the new characters and vehicles unlocked, do you need to place them on the portal to use them in game again or are they remembered?
Have I got this completely rong?
Anyone else investigated this lot yet?
(top xmas prez find though was http://www.bigcheesemakingkit.com/ looks a laugh, and perfect for the cheese monster in your life. You know who you are.)