by MechaSanta » Fri Sep 06, 2013 6:17 pm
Actually, there's a lot more to the Cars playset than racing. Or do you consider driving a car racing, just because it's a car? There are tons of missions where you need to find stuff all over, and several where you pull off stunts. The actual 'racing' missions are the minority, to my experience. I enjoy this playset a lot more than I thought, but haven't used the characters at all in the toybox yet. Then again, I'm considering making adventure-toyboxes specifically for them.
As for Lone Ranger, I think this has some interesting set-pieces for use in the toybox, but the adventure itself bored me. I still haven't finished it, actually. (and I finished Monsters Inc in one sitting, thought it was mostly because I was so freain' annoyed by that guy telling me what to do *all the freakin' time*. Make of that what you will.)
Also keep in mind Toy Story In Space is out in a month or so. The starter pack and toy box might last until then, especially if you don't play often or find yourself playing other games too a lot.
That leaves us with figures. Which ones to get? That's easy: Get the ones you want. All of them are optional, and none of them brings anything useful to the game. Oh, sure, you can get Mrs Incredible's Elasti-hand and Violet's Invisibility as tools, but neither are worth the price of a figure. So if there is a charater you really like, get it. If not, just save your money for the next playsets.