We’ve talked about this back in March but it looks like LEGO Dimensions has been officially cancelled. A source that is close to to TT Games has told Eurogamer that the game is over and done, a year earlier than expected. There isn’t expected to be an official announcement as it seems that TT Games wants it to be silently cancelled. This news was first talked about by Bricks to Life back in March as well.
A reason for the game being going away is that the sales for the Year 2 content did not meet expectations as the whole toys-to-life genre has been slowly fading away. One interesting tidbid is that some of the Year 3 content included Lord Vortech to round out the story. Some other planned expansions included LEGO Minecraft, another Doctor Who pack to feature Missy, and DC Comics Super Heroes Flash. The company also had an idea to have a camera scan a LEGO build and replicate them in the game but this idea was shot down.
TT Games studio manager Dave Dootson sent a memo to the company when it was for sure the LEGO Dimensions was cancelled:
Thanks so much to everyone for making Dimensions possible. As difficult as it has been, it is worth celebrating the incredible achievement it represents in the quality of the game, the amazing blend of IPs and the challenging technical demands it presented. It stands as a real testament to the talent within TT.
LEGO Dimensions has good while it lasted and many fans did have a good time with it. What was your favorite memory of LEGO Dimensions?
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We’re missing out on Missy 🙁
My thoughts exactly.
Same here.
Would have been nice having Lord Vortech – hopefully he returns in some form in the future… :/ Was going to use his design for an Omega figure.
Only missing out on Missy and The Flash. Don’t care about the rest at all.
Welp. That sucks. I wonder if they got to manufacturing and if there are copies of these minifigs just lying around somewhere.
Now to wait for the right moment to buy my missing dimensions packs from the final wave.
Sad… I don’t play the game, but I really wanted a Lord Vortech figure.
I do, and I did too (Dimensions has been a great source of really cool minifigs). I also kinda want to see if it’s possible to incorporate a Dimensions portal pad into a layout, and get it to light up without having to leave a console hooked up to it.
can you plug it into a usb wall outlet charger?
It’s got a USB connection, so yes, you can. I’m just not sure what will happen if I do.
It’s probably possible to modify it… honestly you might even be better bricklinking a spare portal and just removing everything inside.
Or just put LED’s around the portal.
I play on Wii U, but I got a spare PS4 portal pad thanks to Supergirl (at half price, compared to aftermarket prices for just Supergirl, it was like getting the Starter parts pack for free).
So were oficially not getting vortech?!? and all we get is PPG 2016 and a teen titans go that nobody likes…….THANKS A LOT CN!!!
Now if u excuse, ladies and gentlemen… Ill be getting myself ready to hang myself <:..( DX<
TTG is awesome! I’m glad they finally made a Raven minifig, but I’m still really hoping for official TTG Robin and Cyborg minifigs now. I did a pretty good job making a few different versions of Robin, but Cyborg really needs to be white when all three current or announced versions will be silver. I’ve never really been into the PPG, then or now (though my first DVD was a CN sampler with them and Samurai Jack that came with my first DVD player), but they did a crossover episode with TTG, so I’ll probably add them to a display in that regard at some point.
This was a very expensive game for me, I am a little relieved it is over. The minifigure is what I really care about, and this game was a gold mine of rare minifigure we might have never seen. Let me name some of my favorites, ET, Gizmo, Stripe, Sloth, Mr.T, the Stay Puft Marshmallow man, Beetlejuice, Knight Rider, Raven and tons more. I also really like the round bases they stand on. I suppose the clearance prices will get cheap soon and I’ll be able to finish my collection
I would have really liked a Missy figure … sad. But through the life of this series, I got some really neat minifigures, like Mr. T, Knight Rider, Beetlejuice, etc. So there’s that. Now to wait until some of the pricier ones go on sale so I can pick them up … I def want a Newt Scamander, for instance.
My hope is that while some of these sets might not have sold as well as expected, that at least they can make a profit producing some of these (less main stream?) licenses.
You can’t tell me that they were all set to produce these figures with Dimensions, and now all of the sudden it doesn’t make sense to produce them at all.
We’ve heard rumors about a revival of the HP line tied to the next Fantastic Beasts movie, so that may well include some FB sets which would logically include both Newt and Tina. They may be wearing different outfits, or they may revamp the deco for their FB1 look, but if all you care about is getting _a_ version of those characters it might be a better value than buying the Story Pack for just Newt…or just buy the minifig on BL. Tina might be easier to snag on discount since you can already get the Fun Pack for $12.
Oh, I picked up Tina a long time ago, but yeah, looking forward to snagging a Newt … the story pack build is okay, nothing too special so I would not mind missing out on it if I get the chance to get a cheaper figure.
A pity, but rather inevitable.
Nooo! I never played the game, but the figs were great! I am so mad that they cancelled it when they were going to do Flash ones. 🙁
They made a lot of missteps here.
The game was incredibly glitchy. To the point where my eight year old just got frustrated and lost interest all together. (It really was that bad)
While I really enjoyed a game of mixed licenses, my wallet would really prefer we get mixed licensed CMF packs.
I honestly believe once these packs are no longer available in stores, the secondary market for these things will go up, not down. Starter sets they won’t be able to give away though.
My biggest issue with the whole “physical product into game market” is the lack of longevity. It’s the same with Skylanders or Amiibo or whoever, when you tie the game content to a physical product that has a limited release, there is a point at which it may be impossible to actually play the game anymore due to this.
In the case of Dimensions, this is probably countered since Lego had no intentions of you playing it years later, but say someone wanted to? They’d have to find the specific materials necessary to play the game, which would be quite taxing.
Going back to my comment to you on another article, I am definitely interested to see the pirated or emulated setup for Lego dimensions, and how it will work. Something will inevitably fill in the gap, since none of the money will go to Lego and the secondary market will inevitably get too expensive or simply not exist for certain packs eventually.
You can complete the story from the Starter Pack with nothing but the three included minifigs and Batmobile. You only need other stuff to nail all the collectible items, gain access to other Story Worlds, or unlock other levels. You can get 100% completion on Year 1 without adding a single Year 2 character to the mix. The market for Dimensions-exclusive minifigs will likely climb, but the pucks aren’t super useful outside the game except as stands for minifigs and small models. Those might actually start to drop in price once people stop playing the game and start trying to unload the pile they’ve accumulated. Long term the bigger problem could be getting access to the downloads. Unless LEGO maintains a commitment to keeping the game server running in perpetuity, there will come a time when you can load a fresh copy of the game and it won’t be able to download any patches or Year 2 content.
pretty much agree with everything here. Figure prices will rise, the stands with the digital content will drop. How long it’s supported is anyone’s guess.
I’m still a big fan of the X-box 360, because with System Link (not available on X-box one) I can play an offline game with multiple players on multiple TVs (of course this requires multiple X-box 360s but they are cheap enough). It’s really a ton of fun.
Unfortunately I’m already seeing games out there that are ‘online only’ and when you read the reviews you see things like “WARNING: Severs down, game is a coaster.” It’s just an awful business practice.
The biggest misstep in my opinion is that whenever I reported a bug (and I reported several, ranging from game-crashing to simple visual glitches), the response I got was inevitably that my saved game must be corrupted, I should delete it, and then replay everything up to that point again. This was mostly taking place during Year 2, after I had attained 100% completion on Year 1 and maxed out all of the mini-models up to that point. For the amount of work it took to get that far, your go-to answer simply _CANNOT_ be to delete and start over. I think I had one time when I reported a bug and got a response saying it was something they were aware of and working to get fixed. The fact that most of the bugs I reported got fixed at some point simply proves how horrible and overused that suggestion was. I never once deleted my saved game and restarted. I think most of what was left the last time I checked were simple visual glitches, like a persistent Gold Brick marker on the radar that points to a place off the edge of the map. The most problematic one I know of that wasn’t fixed the last time I checked is that in the Portal 2 World, I get no radar markers showing where either of the minigame locations is, and it’s like navigating a 3D labyrinth in there.
As for the secondary market, it will depend on the specific pack. Some of the characters are only part of Dimensions. Others are available in other themes but the specific minifig is significantly different from anything outside of the game. Then there are the ones where you might think the same minifig is available elsewhere but the head has slightly different deco or wears a different cape. And finally there’s stuff like Chima where the minifigs are identical and not very popular either. I don’t think the Chima packs will see much of a price increase, but Stay-Puft, the Cyberman, Excalibur Batman, and many of the more popular Dimensions-exclusive IP like Chell and ET should see some serious price spikes once the supply has dried up.
BTW, it should be noted that some game systems (like the Wii and X-box 360) they will allow you to load game saves. On the wii, it’s incredibly easy. X-box 360 a little less so. I’ve done it for both. So there is no reason they can’t at least offer to send you a game save at like 70 to 100 percent complete. For the X-Box this is the same procedure you would use to load custom maps into MineCraft.
Okay, okay, the game is cancelled. BUT NOT OFFICIALLY. The title of this article should be changed; it isn’t really accurate, as no “official” cancellation has been made.
Still on this? If they’re tossing around memos about reevaluating the future of the game, it’s not cancelled. If the person in charge decides it’s time to pull the plug, it’s cancelled but not officially. If that person sends out a memo telling everyone it’s done and they start reassigning resources, it’s very much official. It’s just not publicly announced yet.
My favourite memory now is that I’m glad I didn’t buy into collecting it. It got cancelled. Sure it went on and on, release after release but it died
So, I’d better go by Sloth and Gizmo now?
I want Missy!
Just make a Doctor Who theme already LEGO, or at least a minifigure series.
Bought Beetlejuice, Slimer, the Gremlins, the powerpuff girls, Stay puft and thats all. Only for the minifigs, which remembers me for my childhood. Never bought the game platform anyway, the game itself is not for me (30+). Not to mention that in the eastern-european countries Warner bros not selling it, so only amazon.de orders remain, or ebay, bricklink. At high prices of course.
Which I miss badly from my collection is Chell (portal) and Sonic, but I simply wont give out 30-40 euros for them.
In my opinion, thats was a sufficient try from Lego to break in to the electronical gaming market and I am sure, that they made a surplus in income.
Anyway, it’s a pity that it’s ended. Who knows, based on PPGirls, in the future we could have seen Samurai Jack, Dexter and Deedee, or Cow and Chicken… But this dream is no more.
I’m Disreported about the lego Dimensions being canceled because I want to get lego dimensions game for Christmas.
Never even had a chance to buy it been waiting for the price to go down for a long time.