Actually that's not true about *none* of the costume packs being free - so far around half a dozen have been free (thanksgiving, plant, kubuki, tv, santa... few others). But yes I imagine a big collection like wipeout will be priced. The charged costume packs have been a little pricey so far IMHO but for wipeout i'll defintely bite.

LBP was definitely my favourite full price game last year and wipeout was my favourite download (awesome pixel junk monsters also got a lot of love) so the combination of the two is great... should be a bit of a laugh. Pity there won't be a level pack though, oh well there are a few user levels already... maybe i'll try one, i've made coaster levels before, if you rigged a rollercoaster up with a spring system between the wheels and the chassis you could perhaps simulate wipeout "floating"... hmmm... maybe a periodically firing rocket on the bottom of the ship to press against the springs and create "bounce"...