Whose idea was it to combine the Star Wars Universe with Legos?
DAVID: The credit on that really has to go to the guys at TT Games over in the UK. When LEGO Interactive disbanded several years ago, TT Games (then known as Giant Interactive) snatched up the rights to do LEGO games, and with the Star Wars LEGO sets being among their best sellers ever, the idea for LEGO Star Wars was bornÉ MONKI: Which Star Wars movies come in to play during the course of this game? DAVID: As the subtitle indicates, we’re tackling the Original Trilogy here. So it’s the adventures of Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie Ð the whole gang you grew up with. However, there is the option to import characters you unlocked from the original LEGO Star Wars. So you could feasibly have Darth Maul and General Grievous be big heroes of the Rebellion. MONKI: Do we see any worlds that weren’t in the movie? Any extra scenes? DAVID: The game sticks to the same locations you saw in the movies, but for the sake of gameplay we had to embellish in places, of course. For example, there’s a whole level
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