History VideoGame / LegoDimensions

* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}[[note]]Packaged with the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 Starter Pack from September 2016-March 2017; also playable though Hire-a-Hero as of April 2017.[[/note]]

* ConsoleCameo: Unsurprisingly, a [[UsefulNotes/SEGAGenesis SEGA Mega Drive]] appears in the level: ''Sonic Dimensions''.

** Vehicle/Gadget: [[VideoGame/{{Defender}} Arcade Machine]] and [[VideoGame/SpyHunter G-6155 Spy Hunter]]

** The hint markers come in three colors; blue (for characters / vehicles you already have), purple (ones you do have but aren't on the pad) and gold (ones you don't have).

* {{Feelies}}: In early 2019, Wal-Mart helped promote ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'' by bundling LEGO's three previous theatrical movies with overstock of Wyldstyle, Gandalf, and Batman, complete with their tools from the Starter Pack.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Unikitty]]

** [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Emmet Brickowski]] tells [[Film/JurassicWorld Owen Grady]] that he seems familiar, unknowingly because Creator/ChrisPratt voices both of them. Unikitty also comments that Owen sounds like Emmet.
** Unikitty tells Bad Cop that she has "a particular set of skills", a nod to the Film/{{Taken}} films which stars Bad Cop's voice actor Creator/LiamNeeson.

** Near the end of the game, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Lord Vortech]] dismantles [[Creator/DCComics Robin]], [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Frodo]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Metalbeard]], and then fuses them with a chunk ripped out of his own body, turning them into a grotesque monstrosity called “The Tri.”]] Everyone else present, [[EvenEvilHasStandards notably including villains like]] [[Creator/DCComics the Joker and the Riddler]], is absolutely horrified by this.

** Averted with certain adventure world quests, where the characters giving the quests never recognize the characters they're talking to, even when they're talking about them (Scooby's parents talking about him, Lego Movie!Batman talking about DC!Batman, Madame Vastra worrying about Cybermen) or when they're talking to themselves (Unikitty, Benny, Slimer and Doc Brown). However, this is lampshaded a bit in the main ''Doctor Who'' level where the Doctor appears in the opening cutscenes but then leaves, explicitly implying that he doesn't want to run into himself - which technically would happen if the player has the Doctor as a playable character.

* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Robin, Metalbeard, and Frodo do this unwillingly thanks to Vortech, becoming the Tri.]]

** ''The LEGO Movie'': Metalbeard's treasure
** ''Lord of the Rings'': The One Ring/The Palantir[[note]]This dimension has a unique distinction of having two foundation elements[[/note]]

** {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the main story, as the word LEGO, (aside from the Toy Pad on Vorton [[spoiler: and on Joel [=McHale's=] desk]]) is only mentioned verbally ONCE per save file; Unikitty runs off to "pack some rainbow-colored LEGO bricks" in the prologue, which can never be replayed unless the player starts another save file.

** The ''Back to the Future'', ''Simpsons'', ''Ghostbusters'', ''Mission: Impossible'', ''Ghostbusters (2016)'', and ''Goonies'' level packs compared to their respective franchises.

** ''Meltdown at Sector 7-G'': Squishees[[note]]Also serve this role in the ''Simpsons'' level pack.[[/note]]

* CouchGag: The one from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' gets crashed by Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle as they fall into Springfield.

** [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Homer]] does manage to get away with saying "Oh my God" a few times, and the piece of paper saying "God bless this mess" is still present in the Simpsons' kitchen during the opening of The Mysterious Voyage of Homer. While the instances of "Oh my God" were later changed through patches, "God bless this mess" still remains intact.

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* RhymingWizardry: In the level "Follow the LEGO Brick Road", the player is introduced to a mechanic that binds the currently playable character in a red aura in the Wicked Witch of the West's first battle. When using a spell to do so, she says:
--> ''"A spell to halt the progress ahead, to freeze, to bind my foes in red!"'' and ''"Stay in the red mist, that's just fine! Your thoughts, your moves, your actions are mine!".''

* RhymingWizardry: In the level "Follow the LEGO Brick Road", the player is introduced to a mechanic that binds the currently playable character in a red aura in the Wicked Witch of the West's first battle. When using a spell to do so, she says ''"A spell to halt the progress ahead, to freeze, to bind my foes in red!"'' and ''"Stay in the red mist, that's just fine! Your thoughts, your moves, your actions are mine!".''

** Level: ''Film/BackToTheFuture''

** The idea of the game is similar to ''Toys/LEGOTimeCruisers'', which had the premise of traveling between universes. The game even features the license that was the inspiration for at least one of the sets, ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* AdaptationDistillation / CompressedAdaptation:

** There are a few notable Midway Arcade games that do not appear, such as ''Ms. Pac-Man'' (which is currently owned by Namco Bandai), ''Mortal Kombat'' (which was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen considered,]] but ultimately dropped because TT Games would have to heavily censor the game for it to be playable, [[DoingItForTheArt which they believed would take away much of its charm]]), and ''Tapper'' (still unknown, likely for the same reason as ''Mortal Kombat'').