{"id":15885,"date":"2016-12-23T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15885"},"modified":"2016-12-03T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T09:39:55","slug":"lego-dimensions-gremlins-team-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/lego-dimensions-gremlins-team-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Dimensions Gremlins Team Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LEGOGREMLINS1\"<\/a>When I was a kid, I loved the Gremlins movie.\u00a0 Way more than other popular movies at the time like E.T.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if that made me a messed-up kid or not, but I do find it strange since Gremlins really isn\u2019t THAT great of a movie (but I still like it).\u00a0 But as a kid I was pretty into it for a while.\u00a0 I had a couple of Gremlins action figures, a coloring book, t-shirt, and a Gizmo plush.\u00a0 So I was thrilled when LEGO Dimensions added Gremlins characters to their lineup, and even more excited to have the opportunity to review them!\u00a0 LEGO Dimensions is available for nearly all current game consoles, but reviewed on Wii U here.<\/p>\n

LEGO Dimensions is essentially like Skylanders, except you build and play with LEGOs instead.\u00a0 I even wrote a big article about it a year ago that you can read<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The Gremlins Team Pack includes two playable figures: Gizmo and Stripe, as well as two vehicles.\u00a0 The vehicles are the R.C. car that Gizmo drives around in the toy store from the movie, as well as a camera (yes it is ridable), as Gremlins hate bright light.\u00a0 The game gives you instructions on how to build the vehicles once the LEGO characters are on the pedestal.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a closer shot of the box they come in.<\/p>\n

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As a playable character, Gizmo isn\u2019t very useful, but he\u2019s so gosh darn cute.\u00a0 His regular attack move is just rolling into a ball and falling on his butt.\u00a0 He can aim and shoot with a flaming bow and arrow, though, which is something he did in the second movie.\u00a0 I wonder if they got Howie Mandell to reprise his role as Gizmo?\u00a0 Stripe is a bit cooler to play as.\u00a0 He has a neat running animation where he gets on all fours, and he can fire at distant targets with a gun!\u00a0 If Gizmo or Stripe fall into water in the game, they don\u2019t multiply, but instead just fall to pieces like other LEGO characters.<\/p>\n

When you first put Gizmo on the pedestal, you\u2019ll be prompted to build the R.C. car that he drives around in the toy store from the first movie.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a car and doesn\u2019t really have any special abilities that I could see.\u00a0 When you put Stripe on the pedestal, you\u2019ll build the camera.\u00a0 What\u2019s strange is that you actually climb on the back of the camera and ride it around.\u00a0 But what\u2019s even weirder is that the camera\u2019s ability is firing a laser!\u00a0 Like other LEGO Dimensions items, you can upgrade and rebuild the vehicles into different things if you wish.\u00a0 Here is a shot of the Gremlins characters and vehicles out of the box and put together.<\/p>\n

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While playing as Gizmo or Stripe, you\u2019ll unlock the Gremlins hub world and battle arena.\u00a0 The hub world is like any other hubs in LEGO Dimensions, with missions to complete and structures to build.\u00a0 The main area of the Gremlins hub world is of a snowy suburb and shopping area. Since the movie is set at Christmastime, you can do things like decorate a Christmas tree in the town square or help someone deliver trees.\u00a0 Unfortunately, to complete the missions, you\u2019ll have to use other characters.\u00a0 Which is a bit annoying but I guess that\u2019s the nature of the beast with these kinds of games.\u00a0 You can also visit places like the department store, movie theater, the old lady\u2019s house with the banister chair elevator, and even the indoor swimming pool where Stripe and his crew multiplied to terrorize the town.<\/p>\n

At first I thought the hub world would just have settings from the first movie, which made me a little disappointed.\u00a0 But then I found a side road that took me to a more urban downtown area.\u00a0 You first see a Chinatown style street where you can visit the store where Billy\u2019s dad first bought Gizmo.\u00a0 But after that you can see the Clamp Tower building and take on missions and mini-games from the mutant Gremlins from the second movie, like the smart talking Gremlin and the female Gremlin.\u00a0 So I was glad to see both movies represented in this game.\u00a0 I love how the first movie is a spoof of horror films, but the second movie is just a spoof of itself.\u00a0 The Gremlins flicks may not be very good movies, but I still think they\u2019re fun films anyway.\u00a0 But maybe I\u2019m just weird.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

LEGO Dimensions is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Cartoon Violence and Crude Humor. It\u2019s a LEGO game, so it\u2019s pretty safe for kids.\u00a0 Anything you destroy just falls to pieces.\u00a0 However, I will say that while I loved the Gremlins movie as a kid, I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s a very good kid\u2019s movie, especially for younger viewers.\u00a0 The movie itself is a bit more violent and scary than your typical kid fare, and while the violence in the LEGO game is WAY toned down, Stripe the Gremlin still wields a gun and says stuff like \u201cGizmo caca!\u201d\u00a0 So some parents may not like that.\u00a0 While I would recommend most LEGO games to all ages, I think LEGO Dimensions is best for older kids.\u00a0 One, the things you build are pretty complicated sometimes, so they would need to be experienced LEGO handlers.\u00a0 And like other LEGO toys, the sets are pretty expensive so kids would need to know how to keep up with and take care of their toys, as the game is useless without them.\u00a0 And plus using the pedestal is not very intuitive.\u00a0 Also don\u2019t forget the whole choking hazard thing with small LEGOs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, I loved the Gremlins movie.\u00a0 Way more than other popular movies at the time like E.T.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if that made me a messed-up kid or not, but I do find it strange since Gremlins really isn\u2019t THAT great of a movie (but I still like it).\u00a0 But as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15887,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15885\/revisions\/15887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}