With Disney Infinity 2.0 pretty much done and dusted, attention turns to what is next from the House of Mouse's big toy-video-game cross over. In a nutshell, Star Wars.
Although no official word has been given, news of an unlock-able Landspeeder vehicle alongside last year's Lightsabers suggest that work is well underway on recreating the Star Wars franchise in toy and cartoony video game form.
To acquire the Landspeeder in Disney Infinity you need to have a full set of 2.0 characters in the game and have them levelled up. Some who have already achieved this have gone on to include the item in shareable Toy Boxes that enable those without the full collection of figures access to the Landspeeder.
With this year's new movie it would make sense for Disney Infinity 3.0 to be focused on Star Wars. Perhaps the more interesting question is how the franchise would be broken down into toy-sized chunks.
Whether this will be an episode by episode retelling of the storyline or something that pulls in the broader Star Wars properties (like The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels) remains to be seen. There will also be key decisions for the developer to make around which characters are included, and in what form. Will Anakin be in young, Jedi or Sith Lord form -- or maybe all three?
Disney Infinity 2.0 Marvel Superheroes clearly aimed at drawing in an older audience, the inclusion of Star Wars would further underline these ambitions. Getting this right, and persuading more mature players that Disney Infinity is more than a child's play thing will be the real test.
With competitors like Playworld Superheroes and Anki Drive taking children's video games in different directions it will be interesting to see how more established products like Disney Infinity and Skylanders respond in 2015.
Andy Robertson is a freelance family gaming expert for the BBC and runs Family Gamer TV on YouTube.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
