The Giz Wiz, Week of June 25th 2014, Show # 1474

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On June 19, 2014 LEGO introduced LEGO FUSION, a play experience that combines traditional LEGO brick play with familiar app-based game themes. It’s designed for children ages 7 and up, but pretty much everyone should enjoy this new way to play. The LEGO FUSION collection includes four titles: Town Master, Battle Towers, Create & Race and Resort Designer.Each game consists of a distinct set of LEGO bricks, a corresponding free downloadable app and the new FUSION capture plate. It’s the capture plate that’s impressive. It enables a smart phone or tablet’s camera to identify the size and colors of the LEGO bricks that kids, or you, built onto it. It then imports that structure into the game. Once in the game, a series of challenges and interactions requires that players turn away from the device and return to the real world to use their LEGO bricks to build new solutions in order to move game play forward. Each game encourages this back-and-forth between physical and virtual, keeping kids (of every age) engaged in both worlds. Three of the games are coming in August and Resort Designer is coming in the fall. Also beginning in September, LEGO FUSION will incorporate the ability for players to access their digital LEGO creations and game play anywhere. Using their LEGO ID, players can sign in on any compatible device and access their gallery and game play from within the LEGO FUSION app. LEGO FUSION games will be under $35.00. 

Giz Wiz Video: http://youtu.be/D2dpCr_VxVk

-Company website: http://www.lego.com/en-us/fusion/teaser

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