Full Update on Disney Infinity 3.0 From D23

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If the Disney Interactive Panel at D23 on Sunday started with a bang, it then ended with an equally loud bang. Disney Infinity 3.0 took center stage and introduced us to the last bit of news before its upcoming release!

We got a glimpse at some of the new upcoming figures, including the previously unannounced Spot from Disney and Pixar’s upcoming film The Good Dinosaur. We also saw a set of Power Discs that will bring some of the film's amazingly unique dinosaur characters into the Toy Box as rideable mounts. After seeing the T-Rex Family in the animated features panel a couple of days earlier, I can’t wait to see what it’ll be like having them in Disney Infinity. Then we saw our first look at the two main characters from Disney’s upcoming Zootopia, Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps, whose figures look amazing!

Marvel got some love on the stage as well, as the first Marvel Playset for Disney Infinity 3.0 was introduced. We’d already seen the two new figures, Hulk Buster Iron Man and Ultron, but the name of the Playset was revealed on stage to be Marvel Battlegrounds, and we saw a short video demonstrating the two characters in action.

For a fun reveal for the Ultimate Unlock (a special reward you get in-game only if you have all the new figures for that iteration), they brought Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto back on stage who very eagerly revealed the addition of a Keyblade as a new weapon. Shortly after that, it was revealed that along with an early release of the Disney Infinity 3.0 Mickey figure that everyone was leaving the hall with that day, we were receiving a Kingdom Hearts 3 “King Mickey” Power Disc exclusive only to D23. No doubt this collector’s item is going to be fetching a pretty penny online.

Star Wars-wise, we saw a lot of the same things we’d already seen, but there were a couple of major announcements. The first was that limited releases of special edition figures would be released with lightsabers with real light up effects when placed on the gamepad. This adds a cool new level of collectability to the already high-demand Star Wars figures! And lastly, in a huge reveal as people were literally already clambering out the doors to get their free Mickey figure, they announced the first two Star Wars: The Force Awakens figures on stage and handed them to the actors themselves, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley. In classic “look how cool we are and we love our fans” fashion, they came down off stage and signed and handed the figures to two young Star Wars fans. It was an incredibly adorable and endearing affair, especially since Boyega had just talked about how amazing it was that an action figure of himself existed.