New LEGO Dimensions details show off the Toy Pad and more minifigures

Further details have been released in regards LEGO Dimensions with Warner Bros revealing the LEGO Toy Pad.

Arriving with the LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack, the LEGO Toy Pad, functions as an additional game controller giving players a unique way to interact with the toys and game throughout the experience. The innovative LEGO Toy Pad – which allows any combination of seven characters, vehicles and gadgets to be simultaneously brought into the game at one time – features three distinct areas of RGB light technology that produce a broad array of colours to provide hints and puzzles for the player to solve.

Various modes are available on the Toy Pad. SHIFT mode – is activated when characters need to use coloured vortexes in the game to avoid danger or traverse areas, the player must physically move the corresponding LEGO minifigure to the correctly coloured light section that will enable them to transport the character to the vortex of their choice, whilst using SCALE, players can shrink LEGO characters down to micro-size or up to super-size by physically placing the LEGO minifigure on a distinctly colored section of the LEGO Toy Pad. By scaling the character in this manner, the player will be able to access new areas and complete puzzles placed around the level.

Additional modes of the LEGO Toy Pad – CHROMA, ELEMENTAL, and LOCATE – offer further challenges that require a level of interaction between physical and digital play never before seen in the toys to life category.

Further more, A Portal Level Pack with a LEGO Chell minifigure, a ‘The Simpsons’ Level Pack with a LEGO Homer Simpson minifigure and The Simpsons Fun Packs with LEGO Bart Simpson and LEGO Krusty the Clown minifigures, plus a Jurassic World Team pack with LEGO Owen and LEGO ACU trooper minifigures have all been announced.

LEGO Dimensions will launch on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4 and Wii U come Sept 29th 2015.