Tonight when everyone came home Eva wanted to play with something so I took the build your own lightsaber toy from my latest Cooper & Kid Kit. This new kit is all about Light. I haven’t had time to really dive into it yet but there are some fun activities inside. Once Eva had played with the lightsaber Andrew wanted his turn. The lightsaber building kit is fun. You can switch out lenses to make the light more diffused or focused. You can also choose from 4 different colors. The one thing I wasn’t that impressed with was how easily the color crystals pop right out. They don’t stay in well at all. Sure this isn’t really a playable toy but rather a Science experiment but still. It would have been perfect if it was a bit bigger and if the crystals stayed in place.
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.
