- Accidentally-Correct Writing: An In-Universe example for Doctor Who - for gameplay reasons, the Doctor can regenerate with infinite lives, and Peter Capaldi will inexplicably regenerate back into William Hartnell. As the show was still in its Steven Moffat era by the time development of LEGO Dimensions closed, suffice to say TT Games did not expect to be given lore explanations for both of these points years later by Chris Chibnall's "Timeless Child" origins story for the Doctor (long short story, the Doctor is retconned to have possessed infinite lives all along) and Russell T. Davies beginning his second run with the Fourteenth Doctor who is played by David Tennant in his second Doctor role (in other words, in the LEGO Dimensions universe Hartnell would also double as the Thirteenth Doctor instead of Jodie Whittaker playing the character).
- All-Star Cast: Just look at the actors who landed roles in the game! Some are reprising their original roles for the first time in decades.
- Ascended Fanon:
- The fan-submitted DeLorean from LEGO Ideas appears here, which is also the reason why LEGO had the license in the first place.
- Some of the brick-built Companion Cubes in the Portal 2 Adventure World have HUMAN REMAINS inside, a likely reference to the Game Theory episode suggesting this.
- Sonic suggests to the Ghostbusters that there's something paranormal about the Tails Doll.
- Ascended Meme: Some throwaway lines from their respective franchises that got popular are reused in the game, and other memes are mentioned.
- The... obsessed Space Core channels a certain infamous Shrek meme and the Doge meme by respectively muttering "Space is love, space is life"note and “Such space, very orbit, such black hole. Wow space.”
- Rattmann's infamous graffiti returns, although this time the cake is not a lie. Skilled players can actually catch glimpses of Rattman himself.
- The Daleks desperately tries to stop the trio from taking their food, shouting at other Daleks to "Secure the unlimited rice pudding!"
- Sonic occasionally declares "Gotta go fast!" when he enters the game.
- Two of the quests in the Sonic the Hedgehog world are titled "Big's Big Fishing Adventure 4" and "LEGO Dimensions & Knuckles".
- Omochao tells you that the early inhabitants of Carnival Night Zone noted its barrels (a source of Guide Dang It! in their original game, enough to be the image for the trope's Sonic page) as The Barrels of DOOM. They then tells you probably the most helpful advice given in the series and suggests you stay away from them because "they sound dangerous".
- It turns out that Sonic himself didn't like the barrels either, when you face him with a puzzle he can't solve.
- After helping Big the Cat find Froggy, wait around a little bit and he'll get a phone call from someone named Sanic.
- Someone finally steps on a LEGO.
- The pain of doing this in real life is shown horrifyingly as when the character who does this tries to take their foot off one, a slow ripping sound plays while it slowly falls off. He then clutches his foot in agony.
- Blooper: The end credits misspell Paul Feig's name, calling him, "Paul Fieg".
- Colbert Bump:
- The developers invoked this so younger audiences can explore the included franchises like the older ones such as Knight Rider and the more-contemporary ones such as Adventure Time.
- Since the announcement that DC Cyborg can become TTG Cyborg when in the latter's adventure world and beyond, demand for Cyborg Fun Packs shot up and left them sold out for a while. It didn't help that LEGO has discontinued the set on their website.
- Cross-Dressing Voices:
- Some of the male Goonies have female voice actors.
- Like in Back to the Future Part II, Michael J. Fox voices Marty's future daughter Marlene.
- Nonbinary actor Kaitlyn Robrock voices Abby Yates.
- Cut Song: The original Vorton hub music was replaced by a longer musical piece sometime after release. However, it could still be heard through the Adventure World jukeboxes until the v.1.3.0 update in January 2016, which replaced it with the new BGM.
- Development Gag:
- The trapped Cave Johnson core is a nod to a cut idea in Portal 2 where Cave's mind would be uploaded to a cube, and he begged to be killed, and Chell had to do so to progress. Also, some of his lines from this game were previously found in Dummied Out subtitles in Portal 2.
- As well as several other gags and references to past Sonic titles, the title for "Sonic Dimensions" itself is a reference to a Working Title for Sonic Generations. Other examples in the level include:
- Sonic taunting Eggman about his moustache, claiming it is fake. A Dummied Out line from Omochao in Sonic Adventure 2 states the same fact.
- Shortly after, Sonic calls Eggman "Fatty Lobotnik". This was one of the working names for Eggman during the franchise's western transition which was one of the names suggested by former game counselor Dean Sitton.
- The Goonies Level Pack makes the octopus from a Deleted Scenenote a recurring character.
- When Betelgeuse climbs into the flowery Mystery Machine, he declares, "Looks like I'm going Hawaiian after all!", a reference to the oft-delayed Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.
- Dueling Games: With Skylanders, Disney Infinity, and amiibo. Disney eventually dropped out of the race despite leading at some point.
- Dummied Out:
- The game includes unused icons for young Harry, Hermione, and Ron in their Hogwarts uniforms as well as graphical assets for the Chaotix.
- A video of a glitch achieved with the drivable TARDIS seems to indicate that the 1996 version of the ''Doctor Who'' theme, a notable exclusion from the "In-TARDIS Entertainment" playlist, is in the game files and partially programmed to play in the Eighth Doctor's TARDIS interior. The exclusion was likely due legal complications with Fox intertwined with the TV movie, much like the audio shortcomings with the Simpsons content.
- Skylor, Vitruvius, and Ron Weasley all have models and textures in the files, but none of them appear in the full gamenote . Notably, Skylor has seemingly original assets while Ron's and Vitruvius's are ported from LEGO Harry Potter and The LEGO Movie Videogame respectively.
- Similarly, Barney Grumble has a character icon but is absent from the game.
- Executive Meddling: LEGO has decided to retire some packs, such as the Portal 2 Level Pack, before the Starter Pack goes out-of-print.
- Exiled from Continuity: Due to the fact that the game started around the time Disney Infinity did, Star Wars, Marvel, and Pirates of the Caribbean characters were off-limits due to Warner Brothers and Disney being rival companies, despite the three brands having prominent history with LEGO. Indiana Jones, despite not appearing in Disney Infinity, was also absent because of this, despite again being prominent in the LEGO franchise.
- Fake Shemp:
- Inevitable, due to the sheer number of licenses and some actors being dead. Most characters usually have only voices from sound clips in their material.
- Some recorded material from Year 1 was reused in Year 2.
- Feelies: In early 2019, Wal-Mart helped promote The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part by bundling LEGO's three previous theatrical movies with overstock of Wyldstyle, Gandalf, and Batman, complete with their tools from the Starter Pack.
- The Original Darrin: The LEGO Movie's video game adaptation used sound-alike voice actors, but the main characters' appearances here see the return of their voices from the film.
- The Other Darrin:
- Tom Kane stands in for Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
- As does Nolan North for Will Ferrell as Lord Business.
- All of The Wizard of Oz characters had to be recast due to the deaths of the original actors years before. It's a 1939 film, after all.
- All the Ninjago and Chima actors. Both shows are recorded in Canada, and some bureaucracy/union/money issues likely discourage recording studio The Ocean Group from just directing cross-country via the Internet, preventing the actors from reprising their roles.
- Travis Willingham voices Lex Luthor in place of Clancy Brown.
- Scott Menville takes over as Lego DC Robin from Charlie Schlatter.
- Steve Blum is now Commissioner Gordon, replacing Townsend Coleman.
- Chris Hardwick takes over as Green Arrow from Stephen Amell.
- Nolan North replaces Townsend Coleman as General Zod.
- Ghostbusters characters Janine, Louis, and Vigo have new dialogue recorded by Courtenay Taylor, Mick Wingert, and André Sogliuzzo, respectively, as opposed to speaking only in audio of Annie Potts, Rick Moranis, and Max von Sydow recycled from the movies.
- Back to the Future: Karen Strassman replaces Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton, while William Salyers replaces the late Hugh Gillin as Mayor Hubert.
- In a bizarre case of double-Darrining, Big the Cat is not voiced by Kyle Hebert, his actor from the DS version of Sonic Colors, but by his predecessor Oliver Wyman, who played Big in Sonic X and Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.
- Similar to Big, Brian Bloom and Steven Jay Blum reprise their respective roles of Aquaman and Bane from Lego Batman 2, Darrin'ing their actors from the third game, Scott Porter and JB Blanc.
- Almost everyone from The LEGO Batman Movie has a new voice actor in this game, save for Batman (Will Arnett), Barbara (Rosario Dawson), and Mayor McCaskill (Mariah Carey).
- Harry Potter's Hermione Granger speaks in new dialogue from Erica Lindbeck rather than stock audio of Emma Watson.
- The Goonies all have new actors, since the ones who played the kids in the movie have all become too old to reprise their roles, and Sloth's actor died several decades before this game came out.
- Betelgeuse is voiced by Christopher Swindle instead of Michael Keaton or Stephen Ouimette. Several of his movie's other characters also have new actors.
- The Mexican Spanish dub has the similar problem as well, as many of the franchises depicted in the game were dubbed in different countries like Doctor Whonote , their voice actors died like in the aforementioned The Wizard of Oz or they were never dubbed in Mexican Spanish in first place like (Portal, Teen Titans Go!, and Sonic the Hedgehognote )
- Since most Italian dubs of video games are produced in Milan, many of the Roman voice actors had to be replaced:
- The Lord of the Rings: Antonio Paiola replaces the late Gianni Musy and Gigi Proietti as Gandalf, and Stefano Pozzi replaces Davide Perino as Frodo.
- The LEGO Movie: Katia Sorrentino replaces Barbara De Bortoli as Wyldstyle, and Pietro Ubaldi replaces Edoardo Stoppacciaro as MetalBeard.
- Back to the Future: Simon Lupinacci replaces Teo Bellia and Sandro Acerbo as Marty McFly.
- Scooby-Doo: Jenny De Cesarei replaces Rachele Paolelli as Velma.
- Ghostbusters: Luca Semeraro replaces Sergio Di Giulio as Ray, Benedetta Ponticelli replaces Emanuela Giordano and Cristiana Lionello as Janine, and Matteo Zanotti replaces Oreste Lionello as Louis Tully.
- The Other Marty: Early demos of the Ghostbusters (2016) Story Pack reused voice samples of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon from the movie. The final game replaced them with impersonators.
- Product Placement:
- Release Date Change: Wave 8 (including the Goonies Sloth Level Pack, the LEGO City Chase McCain and Harry Potter Hermione Fun Packs, and a general release for the LEGO Batman Movie Excalibur Batman Fun Pack), got pushed back from March 2017, to May 2017. This also threw off the date of Supergirl coming to Hire-A-Hero, to late April.
- Role Reprise:
- Many characters from the original properties retain their actors/voices, such as Ellen McLain as GLaDOS and Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown.
- Michael J. Fox returned as Marty McFly — a role he hasn't played for 25 years unless you count the Telltale episodic games. He also reprises Marty Jr., Marlene, and Seamus.
- Alison Brie reprises her role as UniKitty, And... don't... make... her... feel... the... OPPOSITE... of... HAPPY!
- Heck, there are dozens of these. Michelle Gomez as Missy, Nolan North as the Space Core, the list goes on and on. Very few sound-alikes were used, with most of the voices being the original actors, either through reprisal or Fake Shemp.
- Apart from Peter Capaldi, all the other preceding Doctors use archive audio in the game, allowing the first three actors who played the role to reprise their parts years after they passed away.
- In the Latin American Spanish dub, Humberto Vélez is back voicing Homer Simpson after not having voiced him for over ten years.
- The Italian dub has most of the voices replaced, since videogames are usually dubbed in Milan and most of the franchises covered by the game are dubbed in Rome. The only voice actors reprising their roles are:
- From Batman: The Animated Series: Marco Balzarotti as Batman, Davide Garbolino as Robin and Riccardo Peroni as Joker.
- From The Batman: Daniele Demma as Riddler.
- From The Simpsons: Massimo Lopez as Homernote and Fabrizio Mazzotta as Krusty.
- From any Scooby-Doo production since the first live-action movie: the Baldini brothers (Oreste as Shaggy and Nanni as Scooby).
- From The LEGO Movie: Massimo Triggiani as Emmett and Claudio Santamaria as Movie Batman.
- From Adventure Time: Alex Polidori as Finn, Alberto Angrisano as Jake, Alessandra Chiari as Marceline and Valentina Mari as Princess Bubblegum.
- From Mission: Impossible: Roberto Chevalier as Ethan Hunt.
- From Sonic the Hedgehog: Renato Novara as Sonic.
- From Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Davide Perino as Newt Scamander.
- From the 1985 redub of The Wizard of Oz: Raffaele Fallica as the Cowardly Lion and Silvano Piccardi as the Scarecrow.
- Screwed by the Lawyers: The Simpsons representation is notably spotty in some places the rest of the Year 1 third party franchises aren’tnote , indicating issues with licensing from Fox.
- Serendipity Writes the Plot: Possibly why MetalBeard and his treasure are taken rather than Emmett and the Piece of Resistance. MetalBeard has no easy way to make him small enough to work with the whole toys-to-life thing, so he was written out to justify his absence.
- However, while no physical version of it was released, a minifigure version of MetalBeard was featured in The LEGO Movie Videogame.
- Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy: An unusual case, as the toys are directly used in the game. Several of the vehicle/gadget builds look different in-game, either because the physical models are too small, or have omitted filler parts that are used in the upgraded models. Some of them are just different for no reason, like Cragger's Swamp Skimmer's final build.
- What Could Have Been:
- One of the ideas for the game's villains was the original LEGO family, upset that they had been replaced by minifigures.
- TT Games wanted to include Mortal Kombat (1992) and APB (1987) as part of the Midway Arcade series but were unable to due to age rating concerns.
- If one takes a look at the list of product numbers, there are several sets apparently missing (71208, 71224, 71225, and 71226). Exactly which characters they might have been is unclear.
- Year Three would have seen:
- Dimensions based on Angry Birds and Minecraft.
- Packs for The Flash, Missy, and — as a proper Grand Finale — Lord Vortech. Gary Oldman and TT Games already recorded dialogue for a playable Vortech, and coded them into the game.
- A camera that could import any LEGO model, small enough for a 5x5 baseplate, into the game.
- There is an unused pack number right in the middle of the Ghostbusters 2016 content, suggesting an unused G16 character. A common theory was that Rowan was meant to fill this role, yet it is unconfirmed. There is no official cancellation reason, however the leak that uncovered it was part of Wave 9, the game's last wave, suggesting it may have gotten cut with the game getting cancelled.
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