{"id":16534,"date":"2017-06-09T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16534"},"modified":"2017-05-18T01:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T01:45:55","slug":"lego-dimensions-harry-potter-fun-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/09\/lego-dimensions-harry-potter-fun-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Dimensions Harry Potter Fun Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Please don\u2019t kill me, but I\u2019m just not a big Harry Potter fan.\u00a0 I read through the fourth book and got tired of it after that, same thing with the movies.\u00a0 But just because I\u2019m not a fan, it doesn\u2019t mean I HATE Harry Potter.\u00a0 I think the books are great for kids and the Harry Potter area at Universal Studios is AMAZING!\u00a0 I wish they could make a set for LEGO Dimensions based on Chronicles of Narnia, now that was a book series I was really into as a kid.\u00a0 But if you\u2019re a fan of Harry Potter, there is a new Fun Pack out for LEGO Dimensions that you\u2019ll think is pretty magical.\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 the figures you get are made out of LEGOs that you must build.\u00a0 I even wrote a big article about LEGO Dimensions a while back that you can read if you want more information<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The Harry Potter Fun Pack includes a playable character and vehicle and also unlocks a special hub world and battle arena.\u00a0 Here is a closer shot of the box.<\/p>\n

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Like with other LEGO Dimensions sets, first you build the figure and you get the instructions to build the vehicle in-game.\u00a0 The character you get is Hermione Granger.\u00a0 She can do pretty much what any other LEGO wizard can do: fire blasts from here wand, create a shield, and build and operate magic blocks and structures.\u00a0 The vehicle you get is Buckbeak the griffin.\u00a0 You can mount him and fly around.\u00a0 And you can upgrade him if you so wish.\u00a0 Here is a picture of the characters all built and out of the box.<\/p>\n

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With these characters, you can unlock the Harry Potter hub world.\u00a0 Like any other hub in the game, you can explore and take on missions for gold bricks and other goodies.\u00a0 You\u2019ll visit locations like Hogwarts, the Quidditch fields, Hosgmeade, and many other places I don\u2019t know much about since I don\u2019t get into the books and movies and such.\u00a0 But Harry Potter fans should love it.<\/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. \u00a0If you\u2019re OK with your kids reading the books and watching the movies, they\u2019ll be OK with this game.\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":"

Please don\u2019t kill me, but I\u2019m just not a big Harry Potter fan.\u00a0 I read through the fourth book and got tired of it after that, same thing with the movies.\u00a0 But just because I\u2019m not a fan, it doesn\u2019t mean I HATE Harry Potter.\u00a0 I think the books are great for kids and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16534","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\/16534","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=16534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16536,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions\/16536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}