Star Wars Is Coming to Disney Infinity
Toy-game wonks, listen up Disney's Infinity video game series will, as rumored, mark its third outing by packing Luke, Han, Leia, Darth Vader and many more into all new Star Wars-themed play sets when version 3.0 arrives for all the current and last-gen consoles, PC and mobile iOS, Android platforms this fall. With Star Wars The Force Awakens debuting this December, I'm sure you're totally surprised!, Disney, which harbors some of the world's most iconic entertainment franchises Star Wars, The Muppets, Marvel, and of course all the core Disney IP, announced Tuesday that Disney Infinity 3.0 will hit this fall. The Star Wars The Clone Wars-focused starter pack, which includes a "Twilight of the Republic" play set, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, will set you back 64.99. That's a little lower than its typical asking price, says Disney, and all of the 1.0 and 2.0 figures and power discs will be compatible with 3.0. Disney says it plans to release three Star Wars play sets, the first above set during Episodes I-III, the second during the original trilogy Episodes IV-VI and the third, available a bit later this winter, based on Star Wars The Force Awakens. In addition to those, expect new 3.0 play sets that tie into Infinitys previous Pixar- and Marvel-angled installments, a few tweaks to Toy Box mode new gameplay types, including racing, platforming and farming and new characters, including Ultron The Avengers Age of Ultron, Sam Flynn and Quorra Tron Legacy, Mulan Mulan and Olaf Frozen. Back to Star Wars, because that's why you're here, Disney says that in addition to the Clone Wars-themed "Twilight of the Republic" play set, another dubbed "Rise of the Empire" will check various original trilogy boxes, letting you play as Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca and Vader, pilot X-Wings or the Millennium Falcon in space battles, or poke around planets like Tatooine, Hoth andwait, sorry, not a planetEndor. And that's just for starters. Disney says to expect more figure and play set announcements in the lead up to the game's release.