@Infigamer @BlendThree Which would be great... if the toy box let you do that. But instead to get the toy box you read about there you have to spend a great deal on toys, so you can level them up, so you can get spins, so you can play a slot machine, so you can get items to actually play with.

I personally enjoy that this was written about the sort of experence you'll be getting with the starter pack.

Too many of the reviews have been written about the whole set - as if most famlies will be blowing $300+. The game you get when spending over $300 and the game you get for $100 are very different games.
Heck, the game you get if you buy all the figures might be worth a 7 or 8, but that's not the game that most people will be playing. Most people will be playing without most of the character unloackables, and with a limited roster that won't even allow them to unlock most of the normal/standard peices to build with.

“People who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. ...
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

― C.S. Lewis

Yes, you think the game is amazing BECAUSE you brought every figure.

Anyone who buys only the core game is going to have much different (worse) experience. They'll be missing many of the interesting toys unlocked by the play sets and that family can't play co-op in the campaigns either... and good luck building anything fun, because less characters means less spins, so they'll also be missing most of the normal/standard pieces too.

This game is terrible value - people with the starter pack are very limited, and if you buy all the peices, it costs hundreds of dollars. I mean, the game you get is fun - but not $300 fun.

So you're partly right... But what you should have said is that it's an adventure only limited by your wallet.

Came here on a link from Penny Arcade. Saw the line, "...complete sentences, proper punctuation, and paucity of spelling errors, we began to suspect that the user reviews were not the product of actual players..." Remembered why I no longer visit Gamespot.