The starter pack will have 269 Pieces, which means that will be $25-ish to $30-ish USD
It will include Batman, Wyldstyle, Galdolf and a mini Batmobile
The packs I see are:
Ninjago with Cole and Kai, with small Ninjago style bikes 97 pieces. Called the “Team Pack”
Back to the Future, with Marty, a mini DeLorean, and the pink hoverboard 94 pieces. Called the “Level Pack”
The Lego Movie, with Benny, and a mini Benny’s Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! 46 pieces. Called the “Fun Pack”
There will also be a DC Comics, Lord of the Rings, and Wizard of Oz packs
Level Pack ($30): Marty McFly w/ miniature DeLorean and hoverboard.
Team Pack ($25): Kai & Cole w/ miniature Blade Cycle and Boulder Blaster.
Fun Pack ($15): Benny w/ miniature spaceship; Emmet w/ miniature crane; Unikitty w/ miniature Cloud Cuckoo Land plane; Legolas w/ miniature ballista; Wonder Woman with miniature Invisible Jet; Cyborg w/ miniature mech; Nya w/ miniature Samurai Mech; Gollum w/ miniature spider; Gimli w/ miniature battering ram; Wicked Witch w/ miniature blue flying monkey. There are others, but those are the only ones I’ve found so far.
That’s what I’m thinking, because each stand has a stamp on it (I saw the Batman symbol on the stand Batman was on) in order for the user to recognize which figure goes to which base. Some of the figures appear to be slightly unique to the game.
They might have Bionicle for future versions. I can imagine two ways for Lego to do this: 1) make miniature Toa (like HF in Invasion from Below); 2) have a mask and a head for a certain Toa mounted on a disk.
I really hope they add some sort of way to include Bionicles, they were able to do it in the Lego Movie so its canon for the lego universe to have Bionicle!
It’s like Skylanders with the swappable characters, but it’s Lego. You need to build the characters, vehicles, gadgets and portal yourself (but Lego gives you the parts and instructions).
Seeing as your typical Lego set is expected to price out at $10 for every 100 parts in addition to the 60 dollar game included that’s actually an acceptable (though not optimal) price.
The starter pack is $100. The amount of Lego parts is about 269, meaning that the price for the pieces alone is within the $20-25 range. So the price for the portal base, 4 character bases, and any other hardware is about $75.
well that is until we factor in the fact that I used optimal prices for sets so many sets go above or below that limit. That and there are some pretty big licenses being used here.