Lego Star Wars: Bible Stories TV Series (2009– ) Add a Plot » Do you have any images for this title? Add content advisory for parents » Release Date: 30 April 2009 (USA) See full technical specs » This FAQ is empty. Add the first question. Review this title » Contribute to This PageIf the Skywalkers are looking for father and son activities to do, they just found it.Star Wars: The Force Awakens is getting the Lego treatment, and the trailer for the new video game debuted on Tuesday.In the classic style of the block builders, the clip is a shot for shot remake of the very first teaser for JJ Abrams epic, with visual gags aplenty thrown in. The Force Awakens: Lego has hilariously re-created Star Wars teaser trailer for the new video game, including Finn's own awakening with an alarm clockTo John Williams' instantly recognisable score, the trailer opens on that wide empty shot of the Jakku dessert.'There has been an awakening,' Andy Serkis' sinister voice growls off screen as Supreme Leader Snoke.
'Have you felt it?'Suddenly Lego Finn pops up... clutching a ringing alarm clock.Next the panicked BB-8 is seen trundling across the sand - with a deckchair, beach-ball, buckets and spades in the background - before suddenly careening into a sand castle, which eagle-eyed fans will recognise as Jabba's palace. Messer: The flickering light in that tense shot of the Stormtroopers aboard the landing ship is explained Beach ball: Next the panicked BB-8 is seen trundling across the sand - with a deckchair, beach-ball, buckets and spades in the background - before suddenly careening into a sand castle, which eagle-eyed fans will recognise as Jabba's palaceThe tense shot of the Stormtroopers standing in formation aboard a landing ship as a light flickers overhead makes an unexpected pan to the left to reveal another trooper fiddling with the light switch, before he is summarily clocked in the head by a thrown helmet.Rey - whose absence from the front lines of Star Wars toys caused uproar among fans - makes an appearance here on her speeder, complete with 'BB on board' bumper sticker.
As Poe Dameron pilots his X-Wing fighter just above the water on Takodana, he flicks one of the controls - the wrong one - as the music switches to the infamous Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes ditty from the Mos Eisley Cantina. There she is: Rey - whose absence from the front lines of Star Wars toys caused uproar among fans - makes an appearanceRey's speeder even has a cute bumper sticker RTFM: Poe struggles to find the correct controls in his Lego X-Wing Force a wake: He is so distracted he upends the Ithorian fishing on the lake belowHe never finds the correct switch either, as he bashes at the windscreen wipers, targeting computer, seat adjustment and toaster... and gets so distracted he upends the Ithorian fishing on the lake below.'The Dark Side... and the Light,' Serkis concludes as Lego Kylo Ren struggles to get his funky lightsaber to work properly.The trailer ends with the goosebump-pumping shot of the Lego Millennium Falcon pulling a loop-de-loop amid Williams' blaring brasswind, as the pursuing Tie Fighters fly through the giant Lego face Rey just made with her vapor trail.
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens will feature all the characters and locales from the film, and hits shelves on June 28.According to Xbox, 'the game will also feature exclusive playable content that bridges the story gap between Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.' Is this thing on? Lego Kylo Ren struggles to get his funky lightsaber to work properly Main theme: The trailer ends with the goosebump pumping shot of the Lego Millennium Falcon pulling a loop-de-loop amid Williams' blaring brasswind, as the pursuing Tie Fighters fly through the giant Lego face Rey just made with her vapor trail. Coming soon: Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens will feature all the characters and locales from the film, and hits shelves on June 28Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Gifts for Star Wars Fans Music CDs & Vinyl Apparel, Electronics & MoreYOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsOpinion
There's a war against Legos.I know what you're thinking: How could anyone have a beef with those colorful, plastic toy bricks with which you can build cities, stage your own Bible stories or reenact the Trojan War, the Civil War or Star Wars? And hasn't "The Lego Movie" been No. 1 at the box office for three straight weeks?But here's Lego's problem: The main market for the $4 billion company's traditional plastic bricks and mini-figures is boys. Certainly some girls enjoy making castles or skyscrapers out of the bricks, just like their brothers, but in 2011, Lego's market research boys found that 90% of Lego users were boys. And now, the company's attempt to address the disparity has outraged the sizable "gender-neutral toys" contingent.They're the people, in case you've escaped their preaching, who insist that segregating toys into "boys" and "girls" categories — even if, as with Legos, the toys aren't labeled as such and the segregation is strictly de facto — sends a message to girls that they can't do certain jobs, discourages them from studying science, technology and engineering, and perpetuates stereotypes of women as wives
, mothers and homemakers.The anti-Lego campaign started in 2011 when Lego, after years of research, decided to do something to attract more little girls with its Friends line of bricks and mini-figures. Unlike the bright primary colors of the regular Lego sets, the Friends colors tend toward pink and purple and soft pastels. The comical mini-figures of the regular Lego lines have been replaced by five slender and stylish plastic tweens of various ethnicities, each with her own narrative story, along with puppies, kitties, "My Little Pony"-style horsies and baby animals ranging from penguins to lions.Little girls are encouraged to build things, all right: patios, cozy kitchens, cafes, beauty shops, doghouses for the puppies, stalls for the horses, all characterized by a level of decorative detail unknown in the regular Lego universe.Little girls love Friends. By the end of 2012, Friends was Lego's fourth-best-selling product line and the number of girl consumers of Legos had tripled.But the gender-neutral people went ballistic, and they've been that way ever since.
online petition was launched calling on Lego to stop selling the "body dissatisfaction"-promoting Friends line. Carolyn Costin, an eating-disorders specialist in Malibu, told Time magazine that the Friends line "promotes damaging gender stereotypes and limits creativity and healthy role development."Not long after the Friends line came out, its critics uncovered a 1981 magazine ad for regular Legos that featured a Lego-loving redheaded girl in pigtails and scruffy overalls. The anti-Friends people posted and reposted the ad, demanding that Lego resume its gender-neutral marketing campaign of 30-plus years ago.A few weeks ago, a blogger found and interviewed the model for that ad, Rachel Giordano, now 37 and an alternative-medicine doctor in Seattle. That sent the ad viral again, this time with its original model beating the gender-neutral drum: "Gender segmenting toys interferes with a child's own creative expression," she scolded. "I know that how I played as a girl shaped who I am today.
It contributed to me becoming a physician and inspired me to want to help others achieve health and wellness."Furthermore, even those supposedly nonsexist regular Lego sets have come in for attack from the gender-neutral crowd. In a Feb. 7 post on Speaking Out, the blog of the Texas Assn. Against Sexual Assault, Emiliano Diaz de Leon complained that his son's Lego City sets contained nearly 100% male mini-figures: policemen, firefighters, city workers and the like. "I must make him aware of this subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) re-enforcement of gender roles," Diaz de Leon wrote. In the name of breaking down "gender stereotypes," he urged parents to buy girlie Friends sets for their sons, and he urged those same sons to write letters to Lego protesting the dearth of female mini-figures in the regular Lego sets.Lego can't win for losing with the gender-neutral crowd, it would seem. But here are some thoughts: Maybe Lego stopped running those 1981-style ads featuring girls in rumpled blue jeans because the ads didn't sell many conventional Legos to either sex.
Maybe little girls actually like the colors pink and purple, and they actually like pretend-home decoration and pretend-mothering of baby animals.And boys — maybe they're more interested in building vast mechanical and architectural projects with their Lego bricks because, as neuroscience has demonstrated, their brains are different and they, as a group, have superior spatial skills, whereas girls tend to gravitate toward interpersonal connections and stories.Maybe, in other words, there's more than a grain of truth in the gender stereotypes.And parents, if your daughter wants to make herself a fort or a skyscraper out of regular Lego bricks, there's no law preventing you from crossing the aisle in the toy store to satisfy her desires.Charlotte Allen writes frequently about feminism, politics and religion. Seizure Led to FloJo's DeathHis 104 scores make his caseRestaurant review: South Beverly GrillBrutal Murder by Teen-Age Girls Adds to Britons' ShockComaneci Confirms Suicide Attempt, Magazine Says