Since the dawn of game, power-ups, enhancements and special abilities have enabled video game characters to go that extra mile; faster, bigger, and better equipped than they’d otherwise be. So what great game would be complete without them?

Jet Pack

Let’s fly, up, up, here we go! The Jetpack allows Sackboy to soar around LittleBigPlanet free from the normal constraints of gravity. It really is a rather nifty way of getting about, as long as it isn’t tethered to the ground of course.

The Paintinator

Splat splat! Shoot friends or foes and cover them in paint - The Paintinator brings ballistics to LittleBigPlanet, but the super-colourful, non lethal, easy to wash out kind.

The Paintinator is available as part of the Metal Gear Solid Premium level kit

Scuba Gear

Sackboy may be a little stuffed ball of hessian, but he still needs to breathe underwater, and he can only hold his breathe for 30 seconds. The Scuba Gear fixes that, enabling Sackboy to explore the ocean’s depths.

Scuba Gear is available as part of the Pirates of the Caribbean Premium Level Kit

New to LittleBigPlanet 2

Grappling Hook

The Grappling Hook is a stupendous, shooty, grabby thing. Use it to grab onto things that would be out of reach for a normal, un-super Sackboy. Press and hold the grab button to fire the Grappling Hook and it will attach itself to any close object that can be grabbed. You can pull things around, activate switches from a distance, or coolest of all, swing from the tree tops like Tarzan.

The Grabinators

These marvellous gloves give you the power to lift impossible things. You can try to pick up anything that is grabbable simply by holding the grab button when you’re next to it. Then you can throw things around the place, but make sure to pick up after yourself, we just had the cleaners in.

The Creatinator

The Creatinator is the coolest, trendiest piece of headgear this side of Fab-Hat Street, Hip Town, Groovyshire. just think of it as an emitter strapped to your bonce. It will shoot whatever the Creator Curator has defined, be that water, fire, plasma, balls of icing of even whole cows.

Bounce Pads

A Bounce Pad uses precise imagineering to fling you exactly the same distance every single time. It doesn’t even matter how hard you hit it. Some will bounce you high, others not so high, catapulting Sackboy into the air, and allowing him to show off his acrobatics, Weeeee!

New to the LittleBigPlanet 2: Move Pack

The Brain Crane

The Brane Crane is the latest must-have gadget to take over Craftworld. Once the wearer places this snazzy looking toy upon his or her head, they are suddenly able to use the power of their mind to pick up objects and whizz them about the place. You can even grab other sackfolk and lift them up to the highest of heights.
Most importantly of all, the Brain Crane makes slapping all the more enjoyable. Cruel, but fun.