![]() Newman: What makes a set more playable than another set?Ĭhee: I think with Overwatch being a very new IP to the LEGO group, and also we're hitting a different age group than we're usually targeting, a little bit higher age mark, we spent quite a fair bit of time trying to strike a balance between a set that has play features, versus a cool model that they can just display. The Gibraltar set, which retails for $90 and has 730 pieces. So in a way, the first set links to the last set, and it completes a nice little cycle. You can connect that drone to the back of this rocket, which is what the game actually does when you complete the map. The good thing about this set is, the set Tracer versus Widowmaker, it comes with the payload of the Gibraltor map, which is a sort of like a drone. And then it comes with Reaper, because in the game, Reaper has his normal mode, and then he goes into his Death Blossom mode and we sort of include that as well in this set. We wanted to bring this sort of understanding and detail into the play set, sort of defense. That's also because the combo of Mercy and Pharah is very meta at the moment in the game. Because of the scale of the set where it's a tall rocket, we make use of the scale and introduce two flying characters, Mercy and Pharah. It's the Watchpoint: Gibraltar, and its set consists of a big rocket, and it comes with Winston, which is one of the characters that we really wanted to put in a set. Newman: What other set are you releasing?Ĭhee: The last set will be the biggest of the assortment. It also comes with a light brick that allows you to change the eye from blue to red, which is one of the thing that they showed in the animation, and it's one of the feature that we wanted to include. I n the game, Bastion transform from recon, essentially a robot form, to a turret, and that's what we have achieved. ![]() It is the first time you're getting a LEGO model that fully transforms. Newman: Talk with me about the big version of the set available now: Bastion.Ĭhee: It's a detailed model of the character from the game that transforms. Tracer, Widowmaker and the payload retail for $15. In that set you're literally building two characters of the game, and two of the most popular tanks. We included that as a physical way of playing with it.Īfter that you get the $40 price point, which is D.Va & Reinhardt. And in that set, we included the payload, which is one of the play modes of the game. We included two other characters that have a lot of history in terms of story telling, Reaper and McCree. It features the Shrine, which is one of the iconic locations within the animation.Īfter that you get Dorado, and in that set we feature Soldier: 76, which is one of the founding members of Overwatch, and he too got an animation called "Hero." And again, that's sort of where the inspiration came from. That speaks about conflict between the two brothers. That one was highly inspired by one of the animations that they did, which is the dragons animation. The next set is the Hanzo versus Genji set. ![]() ![]() And also they are the classic rivalry in terms of story telling, and that's why we put them together. They're probably two of the most recognizable characters from the game, just because Tracer pretty much appears in most of the communications of the brand. Woon Tze Chee: So the first set is Tracer versus Widowmaker. Newman: Can you walk me through the sets that will be available? And through collaboration we ultimately got to the six play sets that we announced here. There's a lot of research that LEGO team did in trying to understand which play sets come together the best for the audiences. The lens of what do we want to deliver for the fan experience? The lens of playability. We really spawned a lot of ideas, and we started looking at those through different lenses. spent a lot of time together just kind of ideating, brainstorming together with the designers that came from LEGO. ![]() Newman: How did you decide which characters to feature?īeecher: On the front end, we invited LEGO to our campus to spend time with a couple Blizzard immersion days, with the Overwatch game team, including Jeff Kaplan, and the Overwatch leadership team. Dorado, with Reaper, McCree and Soldier 76, retails for $30. ![]()
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