Here you select the required feature and mark out an area in the world by dragging the blue cordon. They can take a while to get started so if you don’t see any result straight away just give them a minute or two while you carry on with other elements of your creation.Īlongside the helpers you can use the Builders and Creators section to add in larger generated features such as towns, castles and racetracks. This generates a wide range of interactive structures - castles, treehouses and the like. Select an item to place it individually, or use one of the toy box Helper characters to build something for you. These are grouped into different categories determined by their appearance and function in the game. This displays a palette of the items available to you. On PlayStation 4 you click down the touchpad, while on Xbox One you press the option button. This is accessed differently on each platform. To populate this terrain with features you need to pull up the Editor menu. In the Toy Box menu select New Terrain Toy Box, this gets the game to generate a starting world for you rather than doing this by hand. Planning things out in advance on paper can also help. It’s important to keep things tidy and work systematically, particularly for more complex creations. The basic process of creating a toy box is the same each time, although the resulting games will differ greatly. Once you have worked through these basics, unlocked more items and have a good feel of the basics you are ready to create your first toy box world. The Sidekick zone introduces how the in-game helpers can assist you. Flynn’s Arcade offers online multiplayer challenges. the El Capitan Theater enables you to see what other people have created. Again it’s worth talking to each character in turn to get a feel for what’s on offer here. The tutorial revolves around the central fountain zone where you have colored pads to select and a set of host characters. Other items can be purchased as required.
Some items will be made available as you complete the play set adventures and toy box tutorials. Not all the toy box items are unlocked at the beginning, only a small fraction. It’s worth spending some time here working through the different tasks as this introduces the basics of the toy box functions in a systematic and playful way. To start, select Toy Box Hub from the main menu and access the tutorial area. This means you can use any Disney Infinity character in these games, old and new, and again find some bargains second hand. The play-set adventures limit characters to a particular universe with the toy box stand alone games sit somewhere in-between the two. The toy box is the part of Disney Infinity where you can mix and match any characters. Old creations can leap forward to the newer game when you upgrade. The older versions have fewer helper features than more recent iterations, but the basics are the same.
Here again, if you are unsure about investing heavily, you can purchase an older version of Disney Infinity for much less to try the Toy Box out.
Otherwise, the choice is a Starter Pack or download of the game on PlayStation 4 or PS3, Xbox One or Xbox 360, or Wii U.
On consoles, you need to buy the game, unless you are on Wii U, where the 1.0 version is available for free and just needs the purchase of an Infinity Base peripheral.
This version usually lags behind the console Toy Box but still offers all the basic features - currently PC and iOS are on 2.0 while console is on 3.0.
On PC, iOS, (and soon on TV OS) a free download can get you started. If you don’t already have a new starter pack, a few cheaper alternatives are available. If you have purchased any version of Disney Infinity 3.0 starter pack, the Toy Box mode is included.
It has improved each year, to access the latest 3.0 version there are a few options. You can access Toy Box in a variety of ways, if you have any version of Disney Infinity in your shelf you already own it.