Update: The official Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer and information has now been released from Warner Bros. Warner send word that they're now ready for the world to see the full length version of the trailer for the next Lego game, based on The Force Awakens. It's got about twice as many lightsabres, laser blasts, homages, pieces of toast and minutes in its runtime as the ad from this morning. They've also officially announced all the information that we reported from the leaked Xbox page earlier. Will it fit into our list of the best Star Wars games? That's the important question. Without further ado, here's the trailer: Definitely a BB-8/8 on the adorable scale, and paying dues to what must be one of the most watched trailers of all time is a good call. That water-skimming moment with the X-Wings is an all time classic for me, now. I've only really gotten into the first Marvel Lego game, but I'd really like to see what they can do with this film. There's some more screenshots and talk of exclusive content we won't get our hands on (but then probably will later down the road) in the announcement post on the official Playstation blog.
Otherwise, read on for the post from this morning with all the details. Original Story: Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, perhaps the most inevitable game in the history of anything, has had its existence leaked via a number of sources. It will be coming to PC, consoles, old-gen and various handhelds on June 28th and there's a 30 second trailer as well as a batch of screenshots been revealed. A listing on Amazon Italy was spotted last night, while a YouTube ad for the game also played before various videos and Xbox erroneously put the store page up before an official announcement went out. Whoops on all fronts, folks. First up, here's the trailer, screen-capped from a YouTube ad by user Games Cage. We'll replace with the official version when it inevitably appears: Usual Lego comedy, brand new Star Wars shell. Lego BB-8: could there be a cuter thing? And poor Kylo Ren seems to be taking from his Twitter persona more than movie one. Maybe it will have a happier ending?
Meanwhile, as spotted by AGB, an Amazon page went live on the Italian version of the site, showing various prices. As far as PC goes, it was €29.99, slightly below the norm for triple-A games but in keeping with the standard price of Lego titles. It has a different, presumably placeholder, date listed, as the official trailer and Xbox page agree on June 28th. Speaking of, here's that page on the Xbox store. There's a load of screenshots on there, which we've mirrored to this imgur album in case it gets taken down. It also has this tidbit about what will be in the game: "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." The only stuff we've seen from that era so far is the Battle of Jakku in Battlefront and one tie-in novel, I believe. The labyrinthine mess that is Star Wars expanded universe content is alien to me, so I may be missing something. As for the game itself, it has two new features on top of everything you'll be used to from every Lego game you've played or seen.
Multi-Builds allow for branching paths that can be altered on the fly, using bricks to build one way, blowing it up, then building another. It also has something called Blaster Battles, which sound like a cover-based shooter element whenever you come across the First Order bad guys. This is likely what Warner Bros. teased yesterday, saying they had an announcement that involved "two of the world's most popular entertainment brands." We'll update this post when they plug all the gaps and release a proper trailer.The crew over at The Star Wars Show have decided to pay tribute to the critically slammed Holiday Special (that’s still hidden deep down inside the Lucasfilm vault). Long before the idea for anthology film Rogue One: A Star Wars story was dreamt up, the infamous holiday programme debuted on CBS back in 1978. And weekly web series The Star Wars Show decided to use their final episode of 2016 to poke fun at what was a seriously, seriously bad programme. ‘We absolutely love The #StarWarsShow Holiday Special, and you will too!’ they wrote on Twitter.
We absolutely love The #StarWarsShow Holiday Special, and you will too! https://t.co/qsfAYKAnehOn a related note, this account knows. — Star Wars (@starwars) December 23, 2016 As for the original Star Wars Holiday Special? Well, the made-for-TV sci-fi musical special (yes, that’s right!) featured guest spots from Dynasty’s Diahann Carroll and American rock band Jefferson Starship. Chewbacca’s family got some decent screen time, with his father Itchy, wife Malla and son Lumpy in popping up in scenes that strangely resemble My Wife & Kids. While you patiently wait for the Han Solo Star spin-off, don’t forget there’s a whole menu of other seemingly unforgotten Star Wars gems, including Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, Ewoks: The Battle For Endor and Lego Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2. MORE: John Williams has never seen Star Wars – despite composing the iconic theme MORE: Star Wars opening crawl creator isn’t happy with Rogue One’s lack of opening crawl
MORE: 11 things you may not have known about Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryLego’s Star Wars constructions kits are legendary. Even though the company has dozens of cool kits based on popular movies, there’s still nothing like seeing your favorite Star Wars characters miniaturized and given the proper Lego treatment. YouTube user Bar Van Dijkwent went a step further. He built the new Lego Death Star (Item #75159 to all the collectors) in front of a camera and put together a nice little stop-motion video for everyone. The results are incredible. Not only do we get to see how difficult it is to connect all 4016 Lego pieces in the right places, but we also get to watch iconic scenes on the Death Star come to life—like the ones in Emperor Palpatine’s throne room and the trash compactor. The creator even spliced in some audio from the original movies to really set the scene. This is by far the most satisfying Star Wars Lego video we’ve ever seen.Your channel is the face of your brand on YouTube.
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