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Sad news Infinity fans, Disney has announced the final details regarding the end of Disney Infinity.

Unfortunately, the details are not as cut and dry as they should be. There are a ton of dates, catches, and exceptions. Starting off with the console version of Disney Infinity 3.0, support for sharing Community Content will cease on September 30.This is just the ability to share, or upload, Toy Boxes, not download them.

Effective immediately, players can no longer make in-app purchases on Disney Infinity 2.0. As a reminder, this was only a feature on non-console versions of the game. As for non-console versions of 3.0, in-app purchases can be made only on the Steam version for now.

Thinking back to September 30, it looks like all versions of Disney Infinity will be removed from mobile app stores, Apple TV, and PC. In addition to being removed from stores, the game will also become unplayable. However, the Steam versions of both 2.0 and 3.0 will remain like the console versions and still work as normal, just without the online functionality.

As mentioned before, sharing through Community Content will end on September 30, but players can still download Toy Boxes until March 3, 2017. This will be available for all players playing on consoles.

Regarding players on Apple TV and Windows 8/10, January 3, 2017 is the day that in-game purchases will be discontinued. Unlike the console versions, these versions of the game will become entirely unplayable on March 3, 2017.

That is a lot of jumbled information, but the most important thing to note is this, March 3, 2017 is the day that Disney Infinity will shut down online functionality completely. From that point on, no more Toy Boxes will be available for download. I encourage players to get on soon and download all of their favorite Toy Boxes before it is too late (Disney Infinity 3.0 let’s you download and save up to 300 Toy Boxes).

Remember the classic Disney games during the days of the NES, Sega Genesis, and SNES? Well thanks to GOG.com, you can now buy and play 16-bit versions of The Lion King, Aladdin, and The Jungle Book.

All three games are ports of their respective Sega Genesis originals, which is great because those versions still burst with a beautiful 16-bit era art style. The games are DMR free, and available on Windows, Mac, and even Linux. Each game costs $10, or you can buy a bundle which comes with all three for $30. However, right now a launch sale is underway and you can grab each game for $9, or the bundle for $20.

All three of the games were originally developed by Virgin Interactive, with Aladdin being released in 1993, while the other two games launched later in 1994.

As reported by Kotaku last month, the Disney Infinity team had a lot of figures and Play Sets that were set to release this year.

Among the many plans for the game was a set of premium 12-inch figures. The list of planned characters included Elsa, Darth Vadar, Buzz Lightyear, Hulk, Hulkbuster, and Jack Skellington. The figures would have been sold at $45 a piece, lit up, and have different features that their standard figure counterparts did not.

Thanks to Twitter user Infinite Adventures, we now have concept images for both the premium Hulkbuster and Jack Skellington figures. Check them out below!

(Photo Credits: Infinity Inquirer)

According to the Kotaku article, the premium figures would have multiple light up pieces. Just imagine how those jack-o’-lanterns would have looked glowing on a Disney Infinity base.

(Photo Credits: Infinity Inquirer)

The Hulkbuster figure appears to have been more in the pre-planning stage, but still looks really neat. Hulkbuster would have been massive as a 12-inch figure, despite the regular Hulkbuster figure already being huge.

Although it is sad that we will never get our hands on these figures, at least we can get an idea of what they would have looked like.

Once again, Kotaku has dug up more information on the cancelled Disney Infinity plans. This time, we’ve got images of the Moana Play Set.

Below are pictures of the characters in the Moana Play Set.

Sources: Kotaku

The Play Set looks absolutely beautiful. Judging by the photos, it seems like development was far along, and perhaps a playable build of this game existed. It is too bad that we’ll never get a chance to play it.

Shortly after the Play Set was shown off, Infiniteer Adventures scooped some photos of the actual figures themselves.

Sources: Infinity Inquirer

Much like the 3.0 lineup, the figures look fantastic, especially Maui who oozes detail throughout. Compared to other concept photos we’ve seen in recent weeks, these ones seem to be final renderings of the retail versions.

Disney Infinity would have possibly had miniature figures based on NPC characters from the game.

News comes from the latest episode of the Inside Infinity podcast, where Will Kelley and Steven Operach were joined by Disney Infinity artist Thomas Estrada. You can watch the video version of the podcast below, many more fun bits of information were provided.

https://https://youtu.be/Kmi2HhqdNiU

Though it is unclear what role these miniature figures would have played, we do have a concept of what they would have looked like.

Perhaps these figures would not have made it into the game at all. They were never official by any means, but they were far enough along that they had this awesome concept art.

It is believed that perhaps Disney would have used the figures purely as collectables for those who wanted the toys, but did not necessarily want to play the game. This would have been a similar concept to Disney’s popular Tsum Tsum plushes, or their Funko Pop line of Disney licensed characters.

We now have images of three more of the cancelled 12-inch premium figures that were in development for Disney Infinity.

Thanks again to Infiniteer Adventures for digging up and sharing all the latest news on these cancelled Disney Infinity plans. Just as a reminder, these figures were going to have unique moves and animations separate from their standard figure counterparts. These figures also would have lit up on various places.

Photo Credits: Infinity Inquirer

The Darth Vader one looks a lot more menacing that the regular Darth Vader figure. I imagine this figure would have lit up on the lava base and throughout the lightsaber.

Photo Credit: Infinity Inquirer

The premium Elsa figure looks like a huge improvement over the 1.0 Elsa figure. She is noticeably wearing her outfit from Frozen Fever rather than her dress from the film. The cape of her dress would have looked so pretty glowing, but it seems like we will just have to “Let it Go” seeing as plans have been scrapped.

Photo Credits: Infinity Inquirer

Finally there is the Buzz Lightyear premium figure. Alright, this one is just straight up awesome. It is clear that the blue streak coming from action wing pack would have been the part that lit up. Buzz Lightyear could have benefitted so much from all the improvements of a 3.0 figure. It is a shame that we will never get our hands on this one.

Disney just released a fun new way to unlock tons of cool emojis for you iOS or Android device.

https://https://youtu.be/n1Ve2ZfD9X0

Disney Emoji Blitz is a match-3 puzzle game that has you beating high scores and unlocking your favorite Disney and Pixar characters. The game also features keyboard support for your mobile device with over 400 unique emojis to unlock.

Each character has a unique ability that can be unleashed once the blitz meter is filled. For example, Sully can scare emojis off the board for extra points, while Elsa can Freeze away the entire board. The game features tons of prizes and wonderful animations.

It is really exciting to unlock new emojis for your keyboard that you can use to send to your friends through text messages. Some of the more interesting emojis include: churros, Mickey ice cream bars, Mickey ears, and the Matterhorn.

Disney Emoji Blitz is available now on the App Store and Google Play.