Disney's Infinity interactive toys franchise adds to the Star Wars lore
Disney Infinity 3.0 will feature characters such as Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader from the original Star Wars trilogy, Yoda and Anakin Skywalker, and all-new recruits from The Force Awakens
It probably would have been easier to break into the Death Star.
For the video game makers working on Star Wars: The Force Awakens content in the forthcoming instalment of the "Disney Infinity" toys-to-life franchise, getting their hands on the top-secret script involved high-security protocols rivalling the Galactic Empire.
"We had to go through biometric scanning and there were codenames for everything," says John Vignocchi, vice-president of production at Disney Interactive Studios and emperor of the "Infinity" franchise. "It was without a doubt the most complicated thing we've ever worked on in the five years I've been here."
That's probably not hyperbole considering the ambitious "Infinity" has featured a wide variety of characters from across Disney's alliance of intellectual properties. Everyone from Iron Man of Marvel's The Avengers to Elsa of Disney Animation's Frozen has appeared as playable characters that can uncharacteristically play together.
Similar to Activision's Skylanders series, Infinity requires users to place a physical toy figure on a reader to virtually portray that character on screen, either in franchise-specific "playsets" or in the open-ended "toy box" mode, which allows users to design their own levels with an array of Disney characters, vehicles and props.