This sequel serves up more gaming with a new cast of interactive toy characters and brand new environments to explore.
Ralph is reminiscent of Toy Story with smooth, bubbled characters complete with humanizing facial expressions and lovable personalities.
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Harry Potter, "Star Wars" and Indiana Jones characters have been made into toy-like video games with some success.
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We moved on to talk about Disney Infinity, a new competitor for Skylanders that also uses toy-figures to access in-game characters.
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The game allows kids and families to build their own LEGO worlds, or take part in epic adventures featuring LEGO characters and themes inspired by the popular toy lines.
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While the last crop of robot dogs looked like squared-off, stylized versions of toy terriers, this new bunch resembles such Sanrio characters as Hello Kitty and Chococat, with big, circular heads reminiscent of cartoon characters.
Imagine a sprawling Skylanders-esque game featuring characters and environments from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Toy Story, iconic fairy tale films, and the multitude of properties in their creative stable.
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Developed by the company Traveler's Tales, the latest in the LEGO series, "LEGO The Lord of the Rings, " puts Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn and the rest of the characters from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy into block toy form as they trace storylines from the popular books and movies.
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Maintaining this number one position will be harder this year though, with Disney Infinity offering a similar toy-meets-video-game experience, and one that can leverage the family favorite Disney characters.
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While Hollywood has done its best to muck up the story, the key characters, and everything else we love about the property, Transformers is very much a toy property, giving Hasbro another major source of revenue.
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Feeney keeps a toy model of the Terminator in his office, along with hundreds of other familiar 10-inch plastic characters.
There, you can combine characters from different worlds, so Mr. Incredible could fight Jack Sparrow or race Woody from Toy Story.
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