{"id":16255,"date":"2017-04-07T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16255"},"modified":"2017-02-25T06:17:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T06:17:11","slug":"lego-dimensions-doctor-who-level-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/lego-dimensions-doctor-who-level-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Dimensions Doctor Who Level Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So the last in the batch of dollar store LEGO Dimension sets that an online friend in California sent me is the Doctor Who Level Pack.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have to pay my friend back, he just wanted me to review them.\u00a0 The Doctor Who set is the one I actually wanted the most.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOh wow, Cary, you\u2019re a Doctor Who fan?\u201d you may be thinking.\u00a0 Nope, absolutely not.\u00a0 I know next to nothing about the franchise.\u00a0 But my brother Jeff\u2019s girlfriend loves Doctor Who, so when this set came out, my original plan was to buy it so they could come over and have fun building and playing the level.\u00a0 But around that time, I lost my last job, so I went into \u201cmoney saving mode\u201d and didn\u2019t buy it.\u00a0 So I\u2019m glad I was able to get it after all so they could enjoy it.\u00a0 Anyway, two warnings before I start the review.\u00a0 Like I said earlier, I know next to nothing about Doctor Who, so if I seem uninformed in my review, that\u2019s why.\u00a0 But not knowing about something has never stopped me from writing about it before.\u00a0 And the other warning is that there may be an accidental spoiler alert here and there, so please go easy on me, Doctor Who fans.\u00a0 LEGO Dimensions is available for nearly all the 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 while back that you can read<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Anyway, the Doctor Who Level Pack comes with a character and two vehicles.\u00a0 You get Doctor Who (his father must\u2019ve been an owl), as well as his robot dog K-9, and a big purple box that looks like a port-a-potty.\u00a0 You also unlock a special level and hub world in the game.\u00a0 They give you instructions on how to build the vehicles in the level.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a closer shot of the box they come in.<\/p>\n

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So Doctor Who, or more specifically the Twelfth Doctor according to Jeff\u2019s girlfriend, holds an item called the \u201cSonic Screwdriver.\u201d\u00a0 Who does he think he is, Tim \u201cThe Toolman\u201d Taylor?\u00a0 The Sonic Screwdriver sends out a green beam in the game that can break certain LEGO blocks and repair others.\u00a0 The Doctor\u2019s pet robot dog is awesome!\u00a0 I called him \u201cGoddard\u201d because he reminds me of the robot dog from Jimmy Neutron.\u00a0 Anyway, you ride on top of him like any other LEGO vehicle, but he moves super fast!\u00a0 Like, way faster than any other LEGO car in the game!\u00a0 Even better, you can make him shoot rapid fire lasers from his eyes for massive LEGO block destruction!\u00a0 Lastly is the purple port-a-potty.\u00a0 You can fly it around, which is handy, but you can also land it on certain stands in the game, and then you can travel through time.\u00a0 Essentially it unlocks new parts of levels for you to explore.\u00a0 Also, when you\u2019re flying around in the purple port-a-potty, they play the Doctor Who theme song in the background of the game.\u00a0 At least I think that\u2019s what it is, it\u2019s what Jeff and his girlfriend were humming as we were playing.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a picture of the pieces built and out of the box.<\/p>\n

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With this set, you also unlock a special Doctor Who themed level and hub world to explore.\u00a0 According to Jeff\u2019s girlfriend, the level is based on an episode where the Twelfth Doctor dies, but she\u2019s not completely sure since she\u2019s not a big fan of the Twelfth Doctor and doesn\u2019t know as much about his adventures.\u00a0 But he doesn\u2019t die in the level anyway.\u00a0 You\u2019ll start out in London, and must travel through time to change things in the level so you can progress.\u00a0 Then you\u2019ll go to a strange planet and fight these invisible alien things and also these robots that look like R2-D2 wearing a skirt.\u00a0 And they like to say EXTERMINATE a lot.\u00a0 And then you\u2019ll battle the leader of those robots.<\/p>\n

In the hub world, you\u2019ll use portals to travel to a city, a snowy mountain, and the same planet where you fought those robots that look like salt and pepper shakers.\u00a0 I think they\u2019re called Tardises or something.\u00a0 In the hub world, you can also go inside your purple port-a-potty and see what it looks like on the inside.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot bigger than what you think.\u00a0 Inside, you can activate a panel and switch your character to be any one of the twelve doctors!\u00a0 Jeff\u2019s girlfriend was excited about that, but you have to unlock them first and I\u2019m not sure how to do that yet.\u00a0 Anyway that\u2019s all you can do with the Doctor Who Level Pack!\u00a0 I imagine Doctor Who fans will enjoy it.\u00a0 Jeff\u2019s girlfriend sure did!<\/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. The content in the Doctor Who Level Pack is pretty kid-friendly, but I imagine the show it\u2019s based on is better for older kids.\u00a0 I tried to watch Doctor Who when it was on PBS back in the 80\u2019s when I was a kid, and I found it extremely boring so I\u2019m not too terribly encouraged to watch it now.\u00a0 Plus I don\u2019t have time to watch most shows on TV nowadays anyway.\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

One thing I learned from this Level Pack is that there is more than one Doctor Who.\u00a0 Twelve in fact.\u00a0 So Doctor Who fans, any speculation on what the thirteenth one will be like?\u00a0 Well I\u2019ve got a proposal for you.\u00a0 I bet I could be a great thirteenth Doctor!\u00a0 Yeah!\u00a0 I could fly in a purple port-a-potty and fight annoying British robots while riding on a robot dog with pew-pew-pew lasers that come out of his eyes!\u00a0 Plus, I\u2019ve played lots of Chrono Trigger and watched Back to the Future so many times that I\u2019m probably an expert on time travel.\u00a0 So how about it, BBC?\u00a0 What say you, Doctor Who fans?<\/p>\n

And yes I know I\u2019m being silly.\u00a0 I have to let the sillies out here sometimes!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the last in the batch of dollar store LEGO Dimension sets that an online friend in California sent me is the Doctor Who Level Pack.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have to pay my friend back, he just wanted me to review them.\u00a0 The Doctor Who set is the one I actually wanted the most.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOh wow, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255","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=16255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16257,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions\/16257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}