LBP levels that come on the disc have an interlinking story

[Torillian]

According to an interview by Joystiq: "Around 50-ish. There'll be an interlinking story, too, so it's not just a random selection of levels."

Now I know there's more than enough threads on LBP out there already.  But I was reading through this interview and this portion caught my eye.  I've often seen the complaint that LBP won't have a storyline.  Why exactly a 2d platformer now needs a storyline I don't know, but rest assured that there is a story, and the levels are not just random smatterings of whatever the developers cared to design in order to teach you how to play the game.

full interview: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/27/joystiq-interview-littlebigplanets-pete-smith-and-jim-unwin/