Disney Makes A Jump To Light Speed With D23 and Star Wars

Disney Interactive took to the stage at D23 to talk about, not just Disney Infinity, but all that is coming from the house of mouse.

They kicked off the presentation talking about Kingdom Hearts 3 and how Big Hero 6 is joining the game and producer of the movie Roy Conli talked about what fans could expect.



There is no release date for Kingdom Hearts 3 yet, but it will becoming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. In the meantime, you can check out this awesome artwork.

Next Disney Mobile took to the stage, but this time it was talking about the latest movie tie-in, instead this was something no one expected, Disney's Magic Kingdoms an all new game where anyone can create their own Disney theme park.

Developed by Gameloft, Magic Kingdoms will let players build their Disney Park of their dreams by recreating and placing down iconic attractions such as California Screamin' Space Mountain and the Haunted Mansion.

In Disney Magic Kingdoms, fans can also interact with characters from more than 90 years of Disney history, including Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Buzz Lightyear, Mike Wazowski and countless others. Players will also face numerous quests that will unravel an exciting tale of adventure to save the park from villains including Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent, Toy Story’s Emperor Zurg and Tangled’s Mother Gothel.

Disney then took a break from the world of video games and took players to the outside world for Playmation, an all new interactive experience that has kids and kids at heart taking on the roles of some of their favourite heroes.

Think laser tag, but made with modern gear and you have the right idea, in fact check out this video to see how it works.



Taking a step back into comfort, some seats were brought on stage that showed of the all new Star Wars Battlepod, an all new type of arcade machine that will literally immerse you into the world of Star Wars like never before.

No word yet on a local release, but here is hoping.

After that Electronic Arts came onto the stage to talk about Star Wars Battlefront, a game I am very excited about. But rather than me talk about what happened, just watch for yourself.



Next PlayStation came out on stage to debut the all new Star Wars Console, which is coming to Australia, check out the post located on the front screen.

Then John Vignocchi took to the stage to announce a whole slew of announcements for Disney Infinity 3.0, first up is the ultimate unlock. Fans of Disney Infinity are rewarded if they collect all of the figures and in 1.0 it was a Lightsaber, in 2.0 it was Luke's Landspeeder but in 3.0 fans of Kingdom Hearts will be the lucky ones as the unlock this time is a Keyblade.

Next up, some new details were provided for the upcoming Marvel Playset, which now has a name in Marvel Battlegrounds and will be the first playset to offer up 4 player local co-op. A new trailer showing Ultron and Hulkbuster off was also shown.

Then it came time for the new announcements, first up 3 new figures were announced, Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps from the Walt Disney animated movie Zootopia will be joining the ranks as Toy Box characters

The final new figure announced was Spot from the Pixar movie The Good Dinosaur, which is coming out this year.

Both Zootopia and The Good Dinosaur will be represented in Disney Infinity 3.0 with Power Disc packs, you can see one above as well. No release date for these figures yet.

Next up the Toy Box Artists from the Toy Box Summit had their choice revealed and the winner was Peter Pan, which means that next year Peter Pan is coming to Disney Infinity, no other details were released about it though.

Finally, we were given some details about what the Magic Bands would unlock in the game, for those that have them of course. Magic Bands are for guest that stay at Walt Disney World or take a Disney Cruise and have a host of functions from room keys to park tickets and if you place a Walt Disney World band down, you will unlock the Partners statue

For those that have the even rarer Magic Band from the Disney Cruise ships, also known as an Oceaneer Band, they will be able to unlock a wealth of options in game, including a Disney Dream Ship Toy and they can recreate their own ship interior as well.

But to cap off the presentation, we got our first look at the figures coming to the Star Wars The Force Awakens playset, featuring the characters of Finn and Rey and the actors from the movies came out onto the stage and then proceeded to give away their figures to members of the crowd.

And then that was it, a massive amount of information was contained with one presentation and it was all good. Until Disney Infinity 3.0 releases here, you can help pass the time by checking out some new screens.