And Philip Seymour Hoffman was clearly speaking the same body language as his red-headed son Cooper at Madison Square Garden Monday night. Speaking at a pre-E3 event, Traveller’s Tales co-founder Jon Burton said that this was the game his studio had been building toward for 10 years, ever since it made the hit Lego Star Wars. Of course Lego Dimensions can’t just automatically sense the bizarre thing you’ve just made out of old Batmobile parts because it would require every little Lego piece to have an NFC chip in it. ‘If you’re playing well, you don’t hear a thing. We’re likely to hear more about Warlords of Draenor — and maybe what comes next, either in patches or a future expansion — but it’s more likely that other games will be the stars of this year’s show. The gathering has had a long past spanning more than a decade and more than a few memorable moments (some of them not fit to print!). We also offer curbside pickup and same day delivery options to fit your schedule. But their enthusiasm is just as valid as those who play The Division 2 every day.

Lego Dimensions still feels like a game from eight years ago when you actually play it. By that measure, Disney is doing impressive work while Lego Dimensions demonstrates just how limiting the toys-to-life tech can be. If you find a single flaw in her costume it’s time to get your eyes checked, because as far as we can tell it was like sharing a hallway with the intergalactic bounty hunter herself. It’s about what it’s like to be a kid, put on a blue cardboard outfit, and imagine that you’re a huge, awesome robot. Costume Wall features popular video game characters like Lara Croft from Tomb Raider, Link from The Legend of Zelda, or Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat. When you need to break a special box to free an item inside, you have to rebuild the Batmobile into a noise-powered drill, but in Lego Batman 2, you could solve an identical puzzle by just switching to Robin in a quick menu and using his demolitions costume. Consider Lego Dimensions. Particularly since this will be the first toys-to-life game with figures and vehicles that can literally be pulled apart and reassembled, it should be a fundamentally different beast than its competitors.

Lego Dimensions toys can be mixed and matched to your heart’s content, but the game isn’t built around that quality. Lego Dimensions nails the feel of its characters’ worlds. They are not nearly as inherently fun as Lego Dimensions’ little yellow brick people, which feel wonderfully distinctive even if they aren’t used to great effect in the game. Let us know in the comments — and feel free to share screenshots if you’ve got a new look. What: Sharkey’s in Liverpool will show the classic movie musical, offering free prop bags to advance ticket buyers. Just like The Lego Movie — whose co-starring couple Batman and Wyldstyle join Lord of the Rings’ Gandaflf as the game’s pack-in figures — Dimensions is a grand mix of pop icons. In a demo stage like Oz’s Yellow Brick Road and a new world that acts as a hub between all these characters’ realms, Dimensions is indistinguishable from every other Traveller’s Tales Lego game.

Twilight of the Republic was very simple in the demo on hand at Disney’s pre-E3 event, but no less fun because of it. Game is so simple you can play it with just hte mouse but allows deeper, more satisfying combat. The little plastic Yoda and Anakin Skywalker you can make fight through the Clone Wars in Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic are appealingly rounded and cartoony, as with all the Disney Infinity toys. Ninja Theory, the same studio behind such excellent combat games as DmC: Devil May Cry, is the studio making Twilight of the Republic. We’re pleased to see good PS1 games becoming available on a weekly basis — even if Silent Hill mysteriously disappeared this week. Going off of that, it’s always amazing to see cosplayers at a convention, especially those cosplaying from beloved classic video games. Just like in the movie, it’s fun just to see these faces mingle. For all the polish and charm of its icons, though, Lego Dimensions still feels like a game from eight years ago when you actually play it.