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GAME · 2015 · UK

Lego Dimensions

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Lego Dimensions is a 2015 toys-to-life game that sends Lego figures through levels built around other franchises, from Back to the Future to Portal 2.

11 Interesting Facts About Lego Dimensions

Interesting Facts (10)

  1. #001

    Given the game's crossover premise, certain characters exchange special dialogue when paired together. Doc Brown (voiced by Christopher Lloyd) from Back to the Future (1985) and the Doctor (voiced by Peter Capaldi), for example, critique each other's time-travel vehicles.

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  2. #002

    The Fourth Doctor is the only incarnation of the Doctor with two TARDIS interiors in the game. His second console room is modeled on the Secondary Console Room from Season 14 and can be reached by entering the TARDIS on the fourth day of a month's cycle (the 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th and so on).

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  3. #003

    Tom Cruise is known for refusing to let his likeness appear on toys or in video games. He made an exception for this game: he approved the Ethan Hunt Lego figure and personally signed off on using the character's archived audio.

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  4. #004

    Because Sonic is afraid of water, he wears a scuba mask and life jacket in the game and swims on his back.

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  5. #005

    At one point in the Portal story mode, GLaDOS says: "Which is good news because I've almost finished rebuilding the test chambers after Wheatley's incompetence". It is one of the few, if not the only, times GLaDOS has addressed Wheatley by name.

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  6. #006

    During the Back to the Future level, Gandalf hears Doc Brown shout "Great Scott!" and takes it to mean the scientist's name is Scott.

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  7. #007

    In the Portal 2 level, players use the HAL 9000 to distract GLaDOS, then head into a basement and put out fires on the way to a cake.

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  8. #008

    One level opens inside the arcade game Defender and then passes through Gauntlet and Super Sprint before ending in Robotron 2084.

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  9. #009

    In one level, a man in a blue police box pulls the player out of a rift; the player then rebuilds a giant killer robot and pursues it into a holographic graveyard.

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  10. #010
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    Once Lord Vortech falls in the final level, the closing cutscenes show a Lego figure on Foundation Prime picking up a piece of Vortech that survived.

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Easter Eggs & References (1)

  1. #011

    The Riddler's puzzles in the eighth level describe the Balrog of the Mines of Moria, a nod to Gandalf's well-known line.

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