Warner Bros. Confirms That LEGO Dimensions Is No More

Well, since I'm always late to the party nowadays, the only fond memory I'll have is of not knowing what I've missed, or if I've missed anything in the first place, since I haven't played a single one.

Maybe now they'll drop the ridiculous price on some of those little expansion packs. I was never going to pay $29.99+ tax for a little lego Sonic The Hedgehog set. I just wanted the figures.

"Ryan’s that annoying kind of guy in multiplayer games - you know the one, the kind of person that throws a temper tantrum if he can’t be Yoshi in Mario Kart or gets stuck with the controller with the dodgy button"

Well, we've probably all bickered at some point about not being able to select a certain character in whatever game we were playing with friends at the time, and "dodgy-buttoned" controllers is something that most of us won't be a stranger to either.

And in my case, sometimes even a flying controller. But I've calmed down quite a lot, now that I'm older...

So, as long as Ryan isn't that REALLY annoying kind of guy in multiplayer games that knows where all the respawn points are and subsequently shoots you back into oblivion every damn time the moment you reappear, I'm sure we'll gladly accept him into the community...

Well, it's a shame, but these things happen. Looks like amiibo might be the only toys-to-life line left.

On the plus side, I can get the rest of the packs I need. And hopefully a Supergirl figure that's not $60.

As long as the same won't happen to amiibo,I couldn't care less about all the others game-compatible figures.

Let's be honest, does anyone really care?

They made their money and with that close out the plastic to life trend. Now retail employees get to rearrange some shelving...again

I enjoyed the game. What I didn't enjoy was the crashes it caused my Wii U to have due to not extensive work on development. Rest in Peace Arcade Machine.

Vindication for Nintendo's amiibo approach. Nintendo focuses on building fully realized games. Amiibos can open small, inconsequential game features. They're largely just collector's items for fans. Keep production small, keep the risk low, and turn a tidy little profit for a non-essential product that is not part of the company's core competency.

Conservative values sometimes hurt Nintendo. Not jumping on the toys to life bandwagon is not one of those instances.

@audiobrainiac Yes exactly. I just want some damn Lego Gremlins. Time for Target to mark that junk down.

This would be so bad if anybody actually cared.

@Muddy_4_Ever

True. Kinda funny that Disney mocked Nintendo for their approach, not only to axe their own toys lineup not that long after. I definitely prefer how amiibo work across numerous games(and counting), rather than being tied to only one game.

Can this whole sub-genre just please go away now? Physical microtransactions are the ultimate manifestation of shaking down gamers, as though it wasn't bad enough when microtransactions were limited to the digital world...

I got a handful of the original Skylanders before jumping to Disney Infinity when that came out... and have a near perfect collection of DI figures, we all know what happened there. After their cancellation, then Skylanders, and now Lego Dimensions (which I've never even tried), all that's left is Amiibo. Guess we'll have to see if Nintendo's strategy of using them for multiple games will continue to keep them aloft, but it could be possible we'll see their end too. Only, unlike DI which figures haven't really gone up in price much, the Amiibos will remain impossible to purchase without paying ridiculous prices, keeping a small portion of their games' content locked forever from most players. That kinda irks me more tbh, if you missed out on Lego Dimensions you missed out on one game, if you missed out on Amiibos you missed a small amount of content from most first party Nintendo games - I'd love the fierce deity outfit in BotW or Fusion mode in Samus Returns or the special equipment from Splatoon 2, etc etc... but none of that is worth $15+ individually, let alone the scalper prices that'll always exist. As much as it sucks they may be gone before they ever become affordable or gain enough uses to make most of the Amiibos worth the price, at least we can have games without that locked content again, we already got season pass DLCs for so many games, let's just keep it at that...

On the other hand, sucks for my friend who's collected EVERY Amiibo since they first came out, but I've had to endure that pain from DI cancelling so... it was inevitable for every Toys to Life franchise.

@Racthet916 in theory the physical ones should be better as you get a physical item and have access to the content even if the servers shut down (and you lose your data). Problem is, these toys to life have always been overpriced for what they offer and stock issues make finding them a chore unless you wanna pay four times as much to scalpers...

Don't really care about these toys to life games. I've tried some of them but they never really caught my interest.

Then again, who am I to talk with my 15 amiibos. I won't be buying any more of them unless they'll make Wolf O Donnel amiibo and Ridley amiibo. Latter won't happen as it's too big.

And another one bites the dust. It's always sad to see things one has spent so much money in discontinued but it's the classic Guitar Hero burnout. I just hope we'll get a proper Pokemon line as well as Bowser jr. and Toadette amiibos before those die out. I refuse to believe they've made amiibos of two minions but none for the Prince of Koopas.

@GoldenGamer88 There has been a Bowser Jr. amiibo since 2015..... https://www.nintendo.com/amiibo/detail/bowser-jr-amiibo-super-smash-bros-series

Knight Rider, Lord of the Rings, E.T., Simpsons, Adventure Time, Batman, Back to the Future, and the Ghostbusters, all in the same universe. Plus many more. They achieved something unprecedented here.

Does anyone actually care? I mean it was really expensive and was centered around kids. It’s not really a surprise.

@BezBot Yeah, I know, I mean a proper one inside the Super Mario line, preferrably outside his Koopa Clown Car.

@Drac_Mazoku What about that UBISOFT one that's coming out 'sometime'? It looked kind of cool

EDIT: It's called Starlink: Battle for Atlas

Hopefully this will allow LEGO to put the full weight of their software development into LEGO worlds.

Gonna look out for some deals during Black Friday as retailers try to unload their stock. This is something I would like to play with my son in a few years. He is getting into lego now and he loves watching me play video games. This seems like a great father-son thing. I'll just grab stuff now and have it ready to go.

Glad I didn’t get into this. Still have a bazillion Disney Infinity figures though. Actually wish they would make a downloadable Switch version of it so I don’t have to break out the Wii U for the kids to play it.

I’ll wait for a price markdown before getting some expansion packs, despite never getting the main game.

@RyanCraddock Figured you weren't, hence the tongue in cheek/sarcastic comment, with a touch of actual annoyance, albeit my own.

And who hasn't done (either one or the other of) the things that your colleagues are "accusing" you of?

@RyanCraddock P.S. Speaking about ourselves in the third person, are we?

The sale prices should have been the retail prices honestly. I only paid full for maybe 2 of them. The rest I waited for a sale on since they kept these things in stock pretty well. I guess I will have to wait and see on some prices with leftovers for some I didn't pick up yet.

The problem they all have, amiibo included, is that it just gets ridiculous for people who like them. The collection gets massive.

I still think Nintendo can take one extra step and make cool cards or flat artwork with the NFC chips in them to offer inexpensive amiibo collectibles that don't take up so much space and offer an alternative to open up all those features.

I'd be just as happy with cool artwork of favorite characters to hang up as mini-posters for some of the amiibo I have, but I'd still collect select statuettes, as well.

Anyway... Disney Infinity got a ton of play and was a pretty cool, there, for awhile but I'm happy to let it go, and LEGO came at a time when I wanted to reduce collecting anyway so we never bothered.

For those that enjoyed it, though, I do remember the sinking feeling when Disney Infinity died out. That was a shame, too, because they were making some big strides. The 3.0 was what 2.0 should have been... maybe it's just too many toys and too little content and too much rushing.

I think the main problem was after you completed the core game there was much else to do. They should have released a sequel game or some dlc that continued the story, but woyld intergrate the new pack characters with it

An interesting idea, but it was just too expensive. I know Lego has its fandom that are willing to pay a fortune for sets, but for the gamer that may of been interested in 1 or 2 franchises?

Guess all these toys to life toys are going to fill up the secondhand sections with the likes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band's many instruments and other gaming fads. Just Skylanders to go, though something tells me Nintendo's not gonna stop the amiibo train anytime soon (Not when sets like Zelda still get scalped).....

I'll get the Sonic lego one on a sale DAT they'll rev up eventually (Toy's R Us recently had a buy one get four free for Disney Infinity and Skylanders, and those lego dimensions have a lot of stock, so0o0o eventually). Shame a TF2 set wasn't revved, since Portal had a set or something.

Skylanders is next I guess.

I still want to get the fifth game...

maybe they will make it so we don't have to connect to the slow ass servers soon.. is a fun game, outside of the updates and slow servers

Toys to life is almost dead, as expected! I won't be crying!

I'm not surprised at all by this, considering that Skylanders had decided to take a yearlong hiatus until 2018 and Disney Infinity biting the dust beforehand. It also goes without saying that Lego has had a history of not investing enough financial resources, marketing/promoting, and just overall blundering until they decide to tuck their tail between their legs and cancel their toylines that don't immediately reach Lego Star Wars/Ninjago levels of success and profits & proceeding to cancel particular lines (i.e.: Bionicle G2 (and to a lesser extent, Bionicle G1), Hero Factory, Exo-Force, Power Miners, Atlantis, Pharoah's Quest- the list goes on, and that's just a small handful from within the past 9 years of Lego products.

Regardless, I will be looking forward to buying level/story/character packs dirt-cheap for MOCing purposes, so at least there's that.