{"id":16246,"date":"2017-03-24T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16246"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:09:11","slug":"lego-dimensions-knight-rider-fun-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/lego-dimensions-knight-rider-fun-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Dimensions Knight Rider Fun Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was a little kid, I mostly watched cartoons on TV.\u00a0 But there were some live action shows that caught my interest.\u00a0 One was The Dukes of Hazzard.\u00a0 Mainly because it had cars that jumped over ramps and stuff.\u00a0 I would get out my Pac-Man TV tray and play with my Dukes of Hazzard cars while the show was on (keep in mind I was like, five years old).\u00a0 I wish they could\u2019ve made a Dukes of Hazzard LEGO Dimensions set, but I think I may know why they didn\u2019t (but we won\u2019t get into that here).\u00a0 Anyway, another show I liked as a kid was Knight Rider.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember as much about the human characters in the show.\u00a0 I know David Hasselhoff was in it, but I don\u2019t know what he did (did he even have a job?).\u00a0 But the most important part of the show to Little Cary was that it had a TALKING CAR!!!\u00a0 Back then, all of us kids had Big Wheels and I remember when the Knight Rider Big Wheel came out and it has a brake mechanism that would make your Big Wheel spin out.\u00a0 I was so jealous of the kids who had that, but not too jealous since I was still pretty happy with my Pac-Man Big Wheel.\u00a0 Anyway, now you can relive the action of the TV show in LEGO form with the Knight Rider Fun Pack for LEGO Dimensions.\u00a0 The game is available for nearly all current home 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 while back that you can read<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Anyway, the Knight Rider Fun Pack comes with a character and a vehicle.\u00a0 You get LEGO David Hasselhoff, er, excuse me, Michael Knight.\u00a0 And you also get K.I.T.T., the talking car from the show.\u00a0 The game gives you instructions on how to build K.I.T.T. once the David Hasselhoff LEGO man is on the pedestal.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a closer shot of the box they come in.<\/p>\n

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LEGO Hasselhoff can punch and kick, but he doesn\u2019t really have any other special powers.\u00a0 K.I.T.T. is a bit more useful.\u00a0 He\u2019s a vehicle you can drive, of course.\u00a0 But you can also aim and shoot lasers while riding him (I could\u2019ve sworn in the show he also shot machine guns, but not here).\u00a0 And he talks.\u00a0 I expected him to drive himself around when you\u2019re not in him, but he doesn\u2019t do that.\u00a0 However, if you walk away from K.I.T.T., and then adjust the camera around, he\u2019ll usually be right there!\u00a0 Only problem is I wish he drove a little faster.\u00a0 Like other vehicles in the game, you can upgrade him if you so desire.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a shot of the two characters built out of the box.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be cool if they could somehow put a red LED light on the front of LEGO K.I.T.T.?\u00a0 I bet that would be really hard and expensive to do, but it\u2019s cool to imagine anyway.<\/p>\n

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The Fun Packs don\u2019t include a new level, but you can visit the Knight Rider hub and battle arena with Michael Knight.\u00a0 The Knight Rider hub is like the other ones in LEGO Dimensions.\u00a0 You can visit Las Vegas, the Knight Mansion, a junkyard, and a racetrack, as well as drive around the California hills and canyons.\u00a0 All the while cheesy 80\u2019s sounding action music plays in the background.\u00a0 In the hub world, you can use studs to build things as well as tackle missions to earn red and gold bricks, among other goodies.\u00a0 Some of the missions will require other characters to finish, though.\u00a0 There are plenty of roads to drive around and ramps with billboards to crash through, too!\u00a0 While there isn\u2019t as much content in this pack, and LEGO sets can be pricey, I think Knight Rider fans will enjoy this one anyway.<\/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. I can\u2019t imagine too many kids today knowing about Knight Rider, so I think this set was made for the parents in mind.\u00a0 But I think that it would be fun to share with your kids the kinds of TV shows you liked at their age.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the show, they\u2019ll definitely be OK with this game, too (is there a way to watch Knight Rider now, like on Netflix or something?).\u00a0 While I would recommend most LEGO games to all ages, I think LEGO Dimensions is best for older kids. \u00a0One, 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 little kid, I mostly watched cartoons on TV.\u00a0 But there were some live action shows that caught my interest.\u00a0 One was The Dukes of Hazzard.\u00a0 Mainly because it had cars that jumped over ramps and stuff.\u00a0 I would get out my Pac-Man TV tray and play with my Dukes of Hazzard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246","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=16246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16248,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16246\/revisions\/16248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}