It looks like there’s a new The LEGO Ninjago Movie polybag that has surfaced on eBay in Germany featuring Lloyd (30608). The polybag features the Green Ninja in a kendo outfit sort of paying homage to the kendo outfits back in 2012.
If you look closely at the bottom left corner, there’s a code H7HGT3 which may suggest that this Lloyd (30608) will be a promotional polybag for The LEGO Ninjago Movie game. Although nothing has confirmed at this time of a game, Arthur Parsons over on Twitter may or may not have been dropping subtle hints about a new game coming soon. E3 is just over a month away and he has stated that he will be there at the convention so I’m assuming there will be an announcement during that time.
The little code on the corner is a trend that has been going on with standalone LEGO video games including the Plastic Man (5004081) from LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, Silver Centurion (5002946) from LEGO Marvel Avengers, and Finn (30605) from LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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It only makes sense. Dimensions has been downgraded to the lowest priority, from what we’ve heard, and they’re looking to get back into stand-alone games. Dimensions also can’t be played on any handhelds or the Nintendo Switch because there’s really no way to connect the portal base. And if you’re looking to get back into stand-alones, what better way to do that than adapting a theatrical movie from an in-house IP?
I’m pretty surprised that they wouldn’t be able to adapt the portal base to a Switch, considering that Skylanders got itself working for the Switch.
Can’t they just take half of the Wii U’s programming and put it in the switch?….
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Nobody?
Anybody?
Nevermind…
They can’t do that because the Switch lacks a Gamepad.
I was joking.
That’s because Skylanders only really uses the portal to bring in characters, Dimensions uses it to solve puzzles and activate actual mechanics.
When you load a character in for Skylanders, is it a one-time thing, or do you need to leave the character on the pad to keep it in the game? In Dimensions, removing anything from the portal pad unloads it from your game. Putting it back on reloads it. There are six new types of puzzles that are, and will remain, exclusive to Dimensions because they largely rely on shuffling pucks around on the portal pad to complete the solution. Of the original five keystones, Locate is the only one that you can solve without moving things on the portal pad, and therefore the only one that you could solve on the Switch without any major changes to the game (since an image of the pad appears in the lower right screen, and changes colors along with the physical pad). I haven’t played the Fantastic Beasts story yet, but it sounds like the Creation stone yields an inconsequential result, meaning you could just randomize the animal that it creates, or even just let the player pick one. The other two Story Pack keystones are just as tied to the portal pad as most of the originals.
Besides that, they’ve modified the boss-level attack that freezes you in place. Instead of jumping to a different character to break free, you move the locked character to a different section of the portal pad. So that’s eight major forms of interaction that are fully tied to the presence of a physical portal pad. Sure, they could just let you load characters into storage and move them around with some sort of drop-down menu, but that would require a massive overhaul of the entire game to allow you to play it on a single console during what is intended to be the final year of the game, at a time when rumors suggest it may even be cut short. So, all signs point to a snowball’s chance of happening.
Would this be a fall game?
What about the usual July game? Is that not happening this year? Are there any rumors of another Lego game apart from this one?
Not sure what you mean by not a full game. If it’s going to be standalone it will probably be like the last Lego movie game.
Lego might not be releasing a game in July because they’ve already released Lego Worlds this year, and don’t want to compete too hard with that.
Well, yeah, but LW isn’t your typical Lego game. It is kind of a side thing, like Lego Dimensions. I know LCU rerealesed as well, but I was hoping for something new…
No, but it is an original IP from Lego, so maybe they want to try to make it good.
I’m sorry, LW or LCU?
Uh, both I guess, since they’re both Lego’s in house labels.