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A Galaxy Far, Far Away is Coming to your Disney Infinity Toy Box

Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Starter Pack

This is a pretty monumental upgrade to the Disney Infinity series. With 5 new Play Sets (3 Star Wars, 1 Pixar and 1 Marvel) as well as some new Toy Box games plus characters from Disney, Marvel and Star Wars, we’re looking at a whole lot of fun come this Fall. You’ll also see more improvements for the fans like selling power discs in packs where you can see the discs. The press release states “Power Discs will be sold in labeled franchise-specific packs of four”. That is great news especially because it is a total waste to buy a bunch of power discs only to get the same ones over and over.

This new release of Disney Infinity will also be including a Play Set and Characters from the upcoming Star Wars™: The Force Awakens™ movie. That will come out this Winter after the game has launched. I figure this is being kept under wraps for the time being because the movie hasn’t been released. It will be great to play a game based on that movie soon after it is released and we won’t have to wait too long.

The Press release states that there will be a new Marvel Play Set and there will be characters like Ultron, Iron Man in the Hulkbuster Armor and The Hulk. I wonder if existing Marvel characters will be able to play in this set. I would be so happy if this was finally something possible. It would take into consideration that fans have spent plenty of money on Marvel characters in Disney Infinity 2.0 and many of those characters should definitely be playable in this Play Set. To exclude them would be a missed opportunity and another blow to the fans. Being playable in the Toy Box alone is not going to cut it for me. Time will tell.

Below I have the Announcement trailer and also the full press release for you to read. I’ve been critical of this game many times (see above paragraph) but I think there are some improvements coming that might make me want to play all the more.

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#AvengersEvent – Taking Aim with Hawkeye and Maria Hill – An Interview with Jeremy Renner and Cobie Smulders

Jeremy Renner and Cobie Smulders with 25 #AvengersEvent Bloggers - Photo Credit - Disney
Jeremy Renner and Cobie Smulders with 25 #AvengersEvent Bloggers – Photo Credit – Disney

Our very first interview during the #AvengersEvent press junket was with Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill). I attended an expense paid trip by Disney to press events for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (#AvengersEvent, #AgeofUltron), all opinions as always are 100% my own.

I was looking forward to this interview because, after seeing the movie, I had a better respect for Hawkeye as a character. There was a lot of character development for Hawkeye in this movie including something that I wanted to ask him about right away, but it is a spoiler and so I’ll have to leave that question for the spoiler episode of Dad.FM podcast that I did.

Each time I hear people talk about the movie and the female characters they always mention Black Widow and Scarlet Witch but they don’t mention Maria Hill as much. Maria Hill certainly is a strong female character in the movies and she also shows up in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. once in a while. It think that it is because she isn’t in the movies as much as the other characters and there hasn’t been much of a story around her so far. The first question that I can talk about was for Cobie. Continue reading #AvengersEvent – Taking Aim with Hawkeye and Maria Hill – An Interview with Jeremy Renner and Cobie Smulders