Disney Infinity devs 'always looking for way to expand on characters' - CNET

Since Ant-Man can change size, was there any challenges in figuring out his design?

All the characters like Ant-Man or Tinker Bell, their relative size to the other characters is just tiny. When you make a figure out of them, you obviously don't want to make them tiny. You want to show them off as well as possible. It's always kind of a challenge to figure how we'll handle those characters. With Ant-Man, we went over and over about what kind of thing we could put with him to indicate what his scale was. The thing I was really happy about was we were able to put him in the same environment as the other characters coming out with him, but we made him feel he's at a much smaller scale by having him sitting on top of a screw head. That tued out pretty good.

Was having a really small Ant-Man on a regular-size base ever considered?

It was actually talked about a little bit. We didn't feel we could do the character justice or the fans might feel ripped off if they just had a little spec on the base. It was discussed. We just dismissed it pretty quickly.

From this group, which character has been your favorite to work on?

I get asked that quite often. I have to say, quite honestly, I'm not saying this as a PR thing, my favorite is always the character I'm working on right at the time. Each one had challenges that made it hard and made it fun. Ant-Man is a very busy character. Although he's very dark overall, there's a lot of different things going on with his costume--the piping, the red and the black, and so forth. He was challenging, but he was fun to figure out.

With the release of Black Suit Spider-Man, even though we have discs that offer costume changes, what are the chances of seeing other character variants like this?

I think we're always looking for ways to expand on the characters. If you're a fan of a character, we want to be able to give you as much value as we can.

For the Star Wars figures, we saw light-up lightsabers. Are you exploring other options like this?

We're trying to create something for collectors at a reasonable price. We're always looking for ways to expand on the value and make them cooler.

We were told new play sets are coming for Star Wars, Disney, and Pixar. Can we assume this means more figures for those as well?

I think you can assume that. The figures are the character unlock. That's how you get the figures into the game.