Star Wars Rogue One Toys Were In The Works For Disney Infinity

Absolutely adored Rogue One; may have even bought a few of these figures despite zero interest in Disney Infinity.

It would have all come down to how they handled K-2.

Imagine the collector's tax on one of those! Employee's sale on eBay in 5 years time?

they can still do these. not like they stopped licensing. some enterprising individual can make use of the idea, but not bet so much that it requires billions to make sense.

Just walked past about 400 iron fist and drax infinity figures in Smyths that are reduced to £2.50 or 2 for 4 quid. That's why the game was canned.

And I was in there to order my Switch!

I thought Rogue 1 was fantastic. This should have been Episode 3 (Ep 1& 2 should have been combined to make Ep1, cut out a lot of the [email protected]@cks, and Ep3 should be Ep2)
Only thing missing from Rogue 1 is the original score

no surprise here. I think toys to life has had its day. Nintendo should really try and be a bit more Innovative when it comes to content offered with amiibo, when it comes to Switch, otherwise collectors will lose interest. I have all released Smash amiibo simply because of the nostalgia factor, and having plastic representations of some pretty obscure characters. The Animal Crossing amiibo really don't carry the weight that some of the Smash figures do.

Loved Rogue One, and Baze would have been particularly awesome to play as with that machine gun blaster of his!
(And if they made him, there must be a ton of others...he was a very minor character).

Eh...the disney infinity games were horrible and boring...Toys To Life areas I think are dying quickly...too much and too expensive to collect, I'm sure Skylanders will be the next to go here soon, they're all the same. I have collected nintendo's Amiibo figures, but it's only because I enjoy collecting nintendo items and I have interest in Lego Dimensions, but it's still too expensive to buy the packs...guess the companies need to realize that they can't charge too much for them.

They should've shut down after the movie was out

Hopefully Star Wars becomes added to Lego Dimensions sooner than later!

2016: Disney cancels 'Disney Infinity' line of toys-to-life games and figurines.

2017: Disney licences Star Wars, Marvel and Indiana Jones to Travellers Tales

2017: Year 3 Lego Dimensions add-ons include Infinity War/Episode VIII Adventure Packs, Marvel Character Packs and Indiana Jones Level Packs

2018: I assemble the greatest DC/Marvel crossover superhero team to ever exist. (Cap, Bats, Ironman, Mr. T, The Doctor and Indy)

Got the Star Wars infinity stuff dirt cheap for my sons for Christmas and they are having fun with them. It's a shame they didnt get to finish rogue one or work on a rebels playset

Too bad infinity ain't what it used to be. Wait, does this mean we're now beyond infinity as in Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase?

I feel so... futuristic, man.

Damn, I would have bought all of these. Love DI and the Star Wars playsets have all been awesome.

This thread gives me another excuse to say I'm glad everyone is enjoying Rogue One, and point out that I'm an actor in the movie! Yeah, I was mostly cut out, but you can see me in a few scenes and they kept 2 of my lines! Currently awaiting my Oscar

I certainly would pick the figurines even without the game content. But that's just me...

For toys to life to work, the games should be free and the toys unlock levels. That's the only way to really make it work, in my opinion.

Poor ninja theory.. they were probably happy to work on that until Disney pulled the plug

I think Amiibo and Lego Dimensions will be the only ones soon. Now that disney is out maybe they will let Lego dimensions have star wars, marvel and disney characters. Marvel vs dc or team up would be awesome

RIP Disney Infinity. Arguably best Disney video game product in ages (if not to date) and now half the reason I bought PS4.

Loved Disney Infinity but I'm so glad it's over. I couldn't reign in my spending and ultimately bought everything.

They confirmed work on a Rogue One playset way back in spring of last year, if I recall correctly. It's a shame, as content for that movie would be downright amazing, but it's also a blessing because my wallet isn't constantly empty anymore. I still love going back and playing the game with my family; I'd definitely recommend giving the franchise a go now that it's dirt-cheap!

@samuelvictor Really? Stormtrooper, Rebel, or random alien backgrounder?
I need to know!

@2CUTE4YOU I was a rebel U-Wing pilot, handle "Blue Two". Most of my scenes didn't make it to the final edit, but at the rebel alliance meeting around the 1:15 mark you can see me and hear me yell "Just let the girl speak!". Here's an interview I did on BBC Radio about it, and a picture of me in the uniform: https://youtu.be/CnY-oQZCCFQ

And a sneaky picture I took in the cinema of me with Felicity Jones & others: http://twitter.com/samuelvictor/status/811685753470251008?s=09

@samuelvictor U-Wing Pilot... Impressive. Most impressive.

@2CUTE4YOU Lol thanks mate. I know it's a minor thing but I'm still buzzing about it!

@samuelvictor Hah, nice! I loved the movie and remembered the line immediately. It's notable. Part of Star Wars history. What should I check out from your IMDB page?

I have one credit on IMDB myself as a writer for the story on a short film (was a bit more involved than that, it was awesome seeing some of my concept art enhanced and shaped into props and costumes by a master: Jose Fernandez ).

Would have purchased a Rogue One set in a heart beat. The Star Wars playsets were the highlight of the entire Disney Infinity line. I still don't completely understand why it couldn't be salvaged or reinvented without abandoning the whole thing to be honest. For a company like Disney to scrap it, there must have been regular and heavy losses.

@samuelvictor In your bio... Woah, I'd love to hear anything about your experience with Don Bluth. I thought I might be a traditional animator at one point and his style was inspiring. Went to college for film/video/animation but never had real art training besides my own meandering. (If interested you can see some of my film/animation related stuff here: http://www.buzzabit.com/portfolio/create.html )

@aaronsullivan Hi mate. Haha thanks I'm glad you remembered me from the movie! You're right, it definitely feels like part of history & I feel so privileged to be involved in any way, no matter how small. I've been a huge Star Wars fan all my life so it's a dream come true to be a part of it.

Don't mean to hijack the thread and make it all about me, but as you asked, here's a mini showreel of shots from stuff I've directed and produced over the years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MfQ8y4H5Qo its a couple of years out of date, but to give a quick idea

My latest project is "Live Justine", you can find a trailer easily on Youtube by searching for it, I won't post the link here as it has some adult humour Its quite low budget but I'm super proud as I wrote, directed, produced and starred in it, alongside Lucy Pinder, which was a nice bonus This year I have some more high budget and ambitious things planned, I'm working with Paul Franklin (vfx supervisor on Inception, Interstellar, Dark Knight Trilogy) on some pretty cool things

As for Don Bluth, he's an absolutely lovely guy & super talented. I was in contact with him at least once a week for just over 18 months, a group of just under 20 of us attended regular masterclasses and seminars with him to learn traditional animation, some online via Skype, others in person. The idea was that he felt that traditional animation as an artform was in danger of dying out & he wanted to train a new generation of artists, as he was trained by Walt & the "9 old men" at Disney. He was hoping to make a feature and have us all work on it, but thusfar it's not happened. I got pretty darn good at it, and have always had an ambition to make a proper traditional hand animated feature. Unfortunately, it is VERY difficult to get "2d" animation projects funded. It will happen one day though, even if it means making a whole trailer entirely myself and going the kick starter route. I've work for Disney a lot over the years, so maybe once I have something off the ground and gaining interest, they might jump in and help. But that's a big maybe! Once I've got enough funding to be able to pay a respectful amount, I hope Don would come on board too, in some advisory form maybe. His films were a huge part of my childhood and very inspiring to me.

I had a look at the link you gave, I really like the concept art you've done, and the short film looks great!

@samuelvictor Sweet. Thanks for sharing. Hope that animated movie gets made. It's sad that Western studios have mostly given up on it.

Yup I would have gotten these. My di collection is pretty big. Such a fun game, and an active community. Sad to see it go...

@Rogue76 So true, my collection is near complete save about seven power discs from blind bag purchases and four crystal figures. I have a near complete Amiibo collection as well, but Disney Infinity as a franchise was the most innovative with gameplay through their toybox in my opinion. Amiibo have done well, but Nintendo has played them well in not over producing figures. It would be nice if Nintendo could make at least one amiibo-centric game that had innovative uses of the figures. As is they are just amazingly detailed figurines with minimal practicality for in-game items, aside from Smash Bros of course.