The LEGO Star Wars games are some of the fondest childhood memories for many Star Wars fans, myself included. You didn’t have to be big on LEGOs to enjoy this light-hearted rendition of the Star Wars saga. The aspect of this franchise that I enjoyed the most was the fact that none of the characters spoke. Up until a few years ago, all LEGO characters communicated in grunts and mutters. To me, this was the most endearing part of any LEGO experience: classic Star Wars dialogue being expressed in grunts. So when I heard the characters talking in LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I wasn’t sure how to feel. Whether it was a video game or an animated TV short, LEGO Star Wars characters followed a golden rule of speaking without words. It became the signature storytelling style for all their games, including Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and Batman. That changed in 2012 when LEGO Lord of the Rings became the first LEGO game to feature spoken lines. Dialogue and sound effects from the movies were reused in cutscenes and gameplay.
This didn’t take away from the game’s goofy antics, but it gave it a more cinematic feel. From then on, LEGO games followed new style. Grunts and yells were replaced by actual words and phrases. Some games used dialogue from the films they adapted, like The Hobbit. Others, such as LEGO Marvel Superheroes, even wrote their own lines with new voice actors (leading to some insufferable fart jokes). With LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the horizon, developer Traveller’s Tales is sticking with that trend. This will be the first LEGO Star Wars game to have dialogue, so to me, it feels a little odd. Should they keep traditional LEGO dialogue? Or carry on the new trend of recycling lines from the films? It’s a fair point both ways. “It is oddly freeing to have no dialogue to have to follow,” remarked David Collins, voice director for LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. You could say LEGO Star Wars III helped set the new trend in motion. It was among the first LEGO games to bring in the original voice actors for its characters.
However, it did so in the original LEGO Star Wars fashion: grunts and shouts in the characters’ original voices. That was a key part of the charm of LEGO games. You play in the world of Star Wars, but it’s a different experience from the story. You already know the story and can follow it without understanding the characters. Instead, you play a wackier version of that story where there is no dialogue and you destroy everything in sight. That whimsy is heavily rooted in the nonsensical grunts of each cutscene. Seeing your favorite characters in such a goofy format gives you the freedom to play however you want. That’s what makes each LEGO game so much fun. With that in mind, a lack of dialogue isn’t altogether crucial to the free-spirited fun of LEGO games. Traveler’s Tales is fully capable of making an ingeniously comical game out of The Force Awakens while using dialogue. You get a little closer to the original story, but it’s still the classic LEGO treatment.
From what I’ve seen of the game so far, it’s every bit as light-hearted as the games before it. Besides, there’s really not too much that can take away from the whimsy of smashing LEGO bricks left and right. There are certain advantages to having dialogue as well. LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens features six brand new missions that serve as the backdrop to The Force Awakens itself. One mission entails Han Solo and Chewbacca’s capture of the dangerous rathtars we see in the film. Admittedly, scenes like that will need some dialogue. Unlike the original film, we haven’t seen these stories yet; we’ll need some verbal explanation (even if it’s not in Harrison Ford’s voice). We still get a few puns in there, such as “Wookiee Cookies,” but dialogue can indeed enhance the LEGO game experience. Should LEGO Star Wars games have dialogue? There are good reasons for and against it, so it really boils down to preference. I prefer to stick to the endearing grunts of the old days, but dialogue isn’t all bad either.
As long as there’s a lightsaber to swing and bricks to smash, that’s good enough for me. LEGO The Force Awakens promises to carry on the tradition of free-spirited gameplay, combining the action of Star Wars with the levity of LEGO. It feels odd hearing actual words coming from the characters, but it doesn’t stop the laughs LEGO Star Wars is known for. Would you like to be part of the Fandom team? Lego Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 is a 2009 comedy short film directed by a director Peder Pedersen and produced by M2Film for Lego and Cartoon Network in collaboration with Lucasfilm. It was made as a follow-up to Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick (2008) and premiered on Cartoon Network on August 27, 2009, "in celebration of 10 years of LEGO Star Wars".[2] The story follows the characters from the 2008 series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Similar to Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick the film also includes several inside-jokes that pay homage to the Star Wars series, the Indiana Jones films and George Lucas's THX 1138.
The story begins with Anakin Skywalker and R2-D2 on a Separatist cruiser where they have completed an important mission and attempt to escape in Anakin's Jedi starfighter. But they are attacked by Hyena droid bombers and R2-D2 is blasted out into space. When he returns to the Jedi Temple, the Jedi masters scold him and tell him to find the droid and his special blueprints. Meanwhile, the Separatist leaders are desperate to recover the droid, and Chancellor Palpatine has dispatched a special squad of clones to Hoth to do the same. In Tatooine R2-D2 uses an umbrella. Meanwhile, Anakin in his Y-Wing fighter and Ahsoka Tano in her Jedi Starfighter begin their search through an asteroid field, where they encounter an Exogorth. When it tries to eat Anakin, the Jedi pilots his fighter so that the Exogorth gets an asteroid stuck in his mouth. Then Ahsoka blasts the giant rock and they escape while the slug is too occupied with coughing. Back at the oasis on Tatooine, three Jawas find R2-D2, jamm his sensors and carry him back to their sandcrawler.
The clones the chancellor sent out have begun their search on the ice planet Hoth. While their troops have fun at the camp building snowmen looks like Darth Vader's helmet, building igloos and having snowball fights, Captain Rex and Commander Cody use a droid scanner to find a hundred battle droids with a spider droid, a Corporate Alliance tank droid, and an AT-AT walker. They slide along the ice as Cody takes the light off of the scanner and Rex uses his blaster as a hockey stick. Returning to Tatooine, the Jawas are having a garage sale and are busy negotiating with Ewoks. Indiana Jones is seen as a cameo, rummaging in a box containing the head of C-3PO and Darth Vader's breathing mask. They are also selling Han Solo in a carbonite block, a rancor, and R2-D2 hooked up to a vacuum cleaner hose. R2-D2 is bought by General Grievous and two battle droids and taken to a Trade Federation battlecruiser with the Death Star holding a "Super Secret Bad Guy Base" sign. Grievous leads the droid down the hall, but R2-D2 is able to escape and send a message for help, before hiding in a supply closet.
Out in space, Anakin and Ahsoka are aboard the Twilight flanked by the clones' attack shuttle, a V-19 Torrent starfighter, and an ARC-170 starfighter when they receive R2-D2's message. Meanwhile, back in the supply closet, R2-D2 has met a pink feminine astromech droid and apparently become attracted to her. Outside the base, the Republic has come out of hyperspace and an epic battle is taking place. The Twilight lands in a hangar and the two Jedi hurry towards their little blue friend. Anakin is momentarily distracted when he sees a TIE Advanced starfighter. He admires it with Darth Vader's shadow cast against the wall until they are attacked by battle droids. They fight through the droids and continue. Grievous has taken R2-D2 to a room where Count Dooku and Asajj Ventress are standing by a machine designed to dissect the droid to get his plans. Anakin and Ahsoka arrive in time to save R2-D2 and are then joined by Captain Rex and Commander Cody. The three villains then draw their lightsabers and prepare for a fight.
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda then appear. Yoda uses the Force to take apart the platform Dooku, Ventress, and Grievous are on, dropping them as they fall into space, and reassemble the platform into the Tantive IV, which they use to escape the exploding base. Safely past the danger and with R2-D2 recovered, the droid projects a holographic image of the Malevolence. Then he projects a sign that talks about the grand opening of a new Star Wars themed amusement park, Skywalker World. The group all go to Skywalker World and play fun games, including Bumper Landspeeders, Wak-A-Wok, C-3PO's souvenir shop selling Lego sets, the Jedi Force O Meter and Leias cotton candy. R2-D2 is on a tunnel of love boat ride with his droid girlfriend, and as they ride into a building shaped like Darth Vader's helmet, he screams his famous astromech wail. In October 2009, Lego announced a free online video game tie in to The Quest for R2-D2 created using the Unity engine.[ features four playable characters (two to start, two unlockable) and the ability to save the player's progress.