Talk:LEGO Dimensions (video game): Difference between revisions

::@Shambala, you say "it is policy to not break things up into valid and not-valid; therefore, since part of the story is not-valid, then the whole thing is not-valid". And it is of course true that we don't break apart a single story into valid and non-valid bits. But things like ''[[The History of the Doctor (TV story)|The History of the Doctor]]'' — narrative skits released within documentaries — have been ruled valid in the past. Being that ''Dalek Extermination'' is narratively unconnected from the main ''LEGO Dimensions'' storyline, I think that were there cause to give ''Dalek Extermination'' valid coverage, one ''could'' easily argued that it's a self-contained story released within a wider, invalid context. Again, that's only ''if'' there were reason to consider it valid by itself. Which, no, indeed there aren't. Too much variability.  

::@Chubby, you, as Shambala said, hit the nail on the head concerning the variability. The fact that one of the possible characters to be played in ''Extermination'' is the LEGO Batman is IMO neither here nor there, though. So long as the story's meant to take place in the DWU (or feature characters who got to the story's setting ''from'' the DWU), we've deemed many crossovers valid. If ''LEGO Dimensions'' were an animated series rather than a branching-storyline game, we would likely deem it valid, and acknowledge LEGO Batman, Wyldstyle and the rest as residents of parallel universes who exist within the ''Doctor Who'' multiverse. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:46, October 3, 2019 (UTC)

:::To be clear, I used Batman as an example. But [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108's]] point is relevant here again: there is no way the entire level can be 100% completed without use of characters from other franchises, which is only explicable using the main story.

:::And while I think your point is interesting about the game being a non-variable story like an animated series, this reminds me of something else I failed to mention in my original comment: I don’t believe the Doctor and his universe we see in ''LEGO Dimensions'' is the DWU. While it isn’t explicitly stated, the eponymous "dimensions" in the game are almost certainly not the actual universes the franchises take place in. It isn’t as clear with the ''Doctor Who'' content because it isn’t a representation of an actual story in the series, but rather a bunch of references. However the other franchises sometimes show actual events and don’t line up with their real respective settings at all. I won’t go into detail here, but if you look at any part of the game, the dimensions are smaller representations of their universes, not the actual universes. So, there is another reason why this should be invalid even if it wasn’t variable. [[User:Chubby Potato|Chubby Potato]] [[User talk:Chubby Potato|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:24, October 4, 2019 (UTC)

::::It was actually a big part of the original LEGO debates (about this and about ''The LEGO Batman Movie'') that the DWU is treated differently from other franchises in the game, as no efforts are made to reboot it into a parodical lego form, one just moves ahead with the usual cast and tells new ''DW'' stories that happen to be depicted in LEGO artstyle. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 04:55, October 4, 2019 (UTC)