Disney Inifity: Printing Money

Disney recently announced a new game called Disney Infinity. The game itself is not that new of a concept, especially if you have younger kids in the house. Disney Infinity is an action platformer title similar to that of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, both in the play style and in the fact that the game is played by using an NFC reader to scan figures (purcahsed with the initial game and in separate packs) and playing as the scanned figures in the game. I think even though this idea is not the most original it is still genius. Adults collect everything Disney to recapture their youth that was squandered (guilty) and purchase the toys because kids (and everyone) likes Disney.

Earlier today Disney Interactive Studios announced pricing for the game and the figures which up until now was only speculated as "Really Fucking Expensive" because A: Its Disney and B: Skylanders shit was really expensive. So, the starter set, which includes the game, the NFC scanner base, and 3 Figures:Mr. Incredible, Sully, and Jack Sparrow along with the character's playsets, which equates to levels of play which are The Incredibles, Monster's  University, and Pirates of the Caribbean respectively is priced at $75 in the us for consoles and a little less for 3DS.  Just like Skylanders there are plenty of figures to buy separately, 20 to be exact, a 3-pack will be 29.99 or individually for 12.99. There will be power discs, which is different from Skylanders, that imbue your characters with special moves, they run 4.99, no news as to if these are packaged as single powers or multiple in a package. 

  

Right now the only release date announced was the European street date of June 28th. Normally in similar situations the US date is a bit ahead of the UK so it will probably be the 25th as US release dates normally fall on Tuesdays. Seeing as this is 6 months out there is plenty of time to save up. I for one will be an early adopter, but only under certain conditions, there must be a Nightmare Before Christmas level, also Lion King is a must. I have seen the trailer for the game that does show Jack Skellington rendered in game so I don't think I'm too far off the mark but I want to play a full level as well. So, Disney, you know what needs to be done.