Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga: 64 Easter eggs and deep cuts

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker SagaThe Star Wars galaxy is yours for exploration, destruction, and reconstruction. Play through the abbreviated and kid-friendly comedy versions all nine Star Wars films. Explore two dozen planets. Cycle through over 400 character and costume variations. The Skywalker SagaIt may offer the most accessible and complete Star Wars experience yet.

The game is also overflowing with jokes, references, and background gags for attentive players, particularly if you’re a chapter-and-verse Star Wars fan with one foot in its expanded universe of comics, novels, and video games. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best hidden treats we found during our playthrough.

Environmental Storytelling

While many recognizable Star Wars landmarks from the nine episodes are incorporated into the game via puzzles and side missions, there are a few artifacts — plus some foreign objects — hidden away in nooks and crannies:

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• At Lars Homestead on Tatooine, you’ll find a T-16 Skyhopper parked outside Luke’s garage. You can unlock a T-16 elsewhere in the game, but this one’s just a piece of scenery.

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• On Dagobah, if you wander up to the clearing in the northwest of Dragonsnake Bog, you’ll find a tripedal artificial structure. That’s an E3-standard starship lifeboat, the craft that Yoda took to Dagobah to escape the Jedi purge.

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• While sneaking about Starkiller Base The Force Awakens, if you disguise yourself as a Stormtrooper and unlock the door directly across from the interrogation room, you’ll find the janitor’s closet, with a cleaning cart and a holographic blueprint for a motorized floor-buffer. Presumably, this used to be Finn’s workspace.

Aurebesh You Didn’t Catch All of These

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As with most Star Wars visual media, The Skywalker SagaAurebesh is used extensively, as it’s the written version of Basic. It’s the language that most characters speak. The Latin-script alphabet corresponds to every letter of the Aurebesh alphabet, so it is easy for them both to be translated into English. You can therefore stop at any street of the Uscru District in Coruscant to translate every shopfront’s name and discover a few jokes. These shop names are:

• A Leg and an Arm
• Hutt’s Headgear
• Corellian Catina
• Crispy Fried Dewback
• New Homes

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There’s also Aurebesh aplenty in the game’s cinematics, most of which go by too quickly to translate without grabbing a screenshot. (Unless you’re actually fluent. We know you’re out there and we salute you.) Each boss gets an introductory card with their name and subtitle in Aurebesh. Here’s the full name card for every boss in the main story campaign:

• Anakin Skywalker: Former Sith Podracer
• BB-9E – First Order BB series Astromech Droid
• BB-Boss: BB-9E’s Big Brother
• Boba Fett: The Galaxy’s Most Infamous Bounty Hunter
• Captain Phasma’s Chrome Dome
• Count Dooku: His head is never lost
• Darth Maul: Red Dude With a Bad Attitude
• Darth Vader: Loves the Dark Side and Hates Sand
• Darth Sidious: Also known as the Senate
• Dianoga: Keep One Eye Open
• Emperor PalpatineReturn of the Jedi(): Emperor Sith Lord, Senate
• Emperor PalpatineSkywalkers Rise): Yes, Him Again
• FN-2199: Traitor!
• General Grievousness: More Sabers Than Sense
• Jabba The Hutt, Crime Lord of Outer Rim
• Jango Fett: Donor to the Clone Army
• Kijimi Crooks: Local Enforcers
• Knights of Ren: Friends make the worst enemies
• Krayt Dragon: Krayt balls of fire
• Kylo Ren: Serious Daddy Issues
• Luke Skywalker: Have You Ever Done It?
• Red Guard Redemption for Praetorian Guards
• Rancor: Jabba’s Pet Monster, Pateesa
• Sovereign protectors: They not only protect but they also attac

Aurebesh offers many extras that go beyond the main bosses. These are some of our favorite:

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• Revenge of the Sith contains the game’s most brilliant background gag, which begins during the opening cinematic when Anakin and Obi-Wan’s Jedi Interceptors blast through a battle droid’s retirement party on the hull of a Trade Federation cruiser. ObiWan finally arrives in Utapau, searching for General Grievous. He speaks with Pau’an leader Tion Medon, who shows him a tablet computer displaying an intercepted text message thread between Grievous and a battle droid. These messages can only be seen for about one second. However, the attached conversation is about organizing the surprise retirement party Obi-Wan crashed into earlier.

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• In the first mission of A New HopeC-3PO and R2-D2 rush towards an escape pod on the Tantive IV. The outer door of the escape pod reads “Droid-O-Matic.”

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• At the Imperial security checkpoint in Mos Eisley, a Stormtrooper is reading a newspaper with the headline “Blue milk sales up!”

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• During Dagobah The Empire Strikes BackLuke has a photograph of Han and Leia taken in the same moment they were photographed. A New Hope. The caption on the photo is “Family.”

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• In the Endor mission briefing at Home One The Return of the JediMon Mothma pushes a button to reset the counter at zero. The text above it reads “Days Since Bothan Incident.”

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• In Maz Canata’s castle on Takodana, there are three posters hanging up featuring images of musicians. We’re stumped on the first two, but the poster on the right, reads “Jazz Hallikset” and features a character playing a guitar-like instrument from Naboo called — you guessed it — a hallikset. First, we see the hallikset as a backdrop prop. The Force AwakensThe character has appeared in several expanded universe works such as Jedi: Fallen Order. (The instrument is almost certainly named after the balliset from Frank Herbert’s Dune.) The game makes a rare error here, though — “Jazz” is not a genre of music in the current Star Wars canon. The swingin’ tunes heard in places like Jabba’s Palace and the Mos Eisley Cantina are more properly (and Thank you unfortunately) categorized as “jizz music.”

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• End of The Last Jedi, Chewbacca sits at the wounded Rose Tico’s bedside reading a book. After a moment, he throws that book away and picks up a new one, entitled “Among Clouds.” The cover features a young Lando Calrissian offering a bouquet of flowers to the droid L3-37, referencing their romance subplot from Solo: A Star Wars Story.

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• While walking through Kijimi’s streets during Skywalkers Rise, one member of your party will hide under a crate labeled “jogans.” While they never appear in the core films, jogans are a popular fruit introduced in 2008 in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. They’ve been referenced in numerous novels and animated episodes since.

Expanded Universe Deep Cuts

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The Skywalker Saga’s roster is incredibly deep, with 384 playable minifigs available to unlock at launch, including background characters like Willrow Hood (a.k.a. Ice Cream Maker Guy) and every single astromech shot off the hull of Queen Amidala’s ship during the escape from Naboo. Since the game is already pretty crowded with obscure references to all nine numbered episodes, this doesn’t leave much room for nods to the wider expanded universe from the comics, novels, TV shows, and video games — but we’ve cataloged as many as we could find:

• Mama the Hutt (mother of Jabba Delijic Tiure) is a quest granter who employs the player for the capture and retrieval of Sy Snootles. Mama first appeared in “Hunt for Ziro,” a 2010 episode of The Clone Wars. In The Skywalker SagaMama wants revenge on the murder of Ziro (her son), which Snootles also murdered. Clone Wars episode. Mama becomes available in the character store after completing her side mission, “Silencing Snootles.”
• Mister Bones, a modified B1 battle droid rebuilt by a young Temmin “Snap” Wexley in Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: AftermathA playable character is the novel trilogy. Snap and his friends are protected by Bones, who is violent but with a playful side. You can unlock Mister Bones as a playable character by entering the code “BAC1CKP” in the Extras menu.
• “Rebel Friend,” a trooper dressed like all the other non-descript helmeted Rebel officers in the opening of A New Hope, except for his bright red shirt, originates in the 2006 Traveller’s Tales game LEGO Star Wars II – The Original Trilogy. “Rebel Friend” becomes available in the character store after completing “The Healing Power of Crystals” side-mission on Hoth.
• Roger, or RO-GR is a friendly modified B1 battle droid that is original to animated series LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures. Roger becomes available in the character store after completing “A Search for Knowledge,” a side-mission on Naboo.
• Final boss battle Attack of the Clones pits your party — consisting of Mace Windu, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Kit Fisto — against Jango Fett. In frustration, Fett calls his opponents “Jedi dogs,” to which Fisto replies that, since his planet has no dogs, it would be a more fitting insult to call him a “wooriid.” Wooriids are beasts from Fisto’s as-yet-unseen home planet of Glee Anselm.
• One civilian in Mos Eisley (who you’ll encounter either during A New Hope(or Free Play mode), expresses concern over two locals, Pondababa and Dr Evazan. These are two strong men who fight Luke at the Cantina. A New Hope, which ends when Obi-Wan slices off Baba’s hand. The game’s unnamed civilian remarks, “Man, that Doctor Evazan is a real kook! Can’t believe Ponda let him try and fix his arm. I knew it wouldn’t work. Evazan ain’t fixing anything on his own.” According to the 2016 edition of Star Wars Character Encyclopedia, Dr. Evazan does indeed attempt to reattach Baba’s arm himself, and it doesn’t go well. They make their appearances again in the Dr. Aphra comics see Evazan try again with a prosthetic arm, but that doesn’t really work, either.
• The Death Star Infiltration Mission was in A New HopeOver the intercom, an Imperial Officer complains to his troops about the incontinence of Rebel incursions at the detention level. He also complains that he is prevented from going to the Hard Heart Cantina because of the emergency. Hard Heart, a bar on the Death Star that first appeared in 2007’s novel, is where he complains. Death StarSteve Perry and Michael Reaves.

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• Admiral Holdo’s role in The Last JediThis game is actually played by three LEGO minifigs with different hair colors. This might be a reference to Holdo’s habit of changing her hair color in the expanded universe.
• Walking the halls of First Order Star Destroyer in the early hours The Force AwakensStormtroopers and Stormtroopers chat about their recent trip to Benathy. Kylo Ren was the one who jumped into the mouths of a Zillo Beast. This is the comics 2019 one-shot. Kylo Ren: Age of ResistanceBy Tom Taylor, Leonard Kirk
• Poe Dameron has to dress up as an officer of the First Order during that mission. After changing outfits, he says, “If my mother could see me now …” Though never mentioned in the films, Poe’s mother is Lt. Shara Bey, a Rebel A-Wing pilot who first appears in the 2015 comics series Shattered EmpireIt is now an ongoing presence on the pages of core Star WarsComics Title
• Rey is the first to sit at the Millennium Falcon’s helm. The Force Awakens, she can be seen reading the ship’s Haynes Owner’s Workshop Manual, an actual book which was published by the makers of real-life automotive technical guides in 2011.
• Festival of Ancestors in Pasaana Skywalkers Rise, one tourist says that the event is one of the weirdest collections of folks he’s ever seen, “and [he] witnessed the Ewok-Dulok wars!” The Ewok-Dulok wars were the subject of the animated series EwoksThis was a 1985-86 ABC program that aired in English on the ABC channel.

Behind-the-Scenes

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The Skywalker SagaThere are also inside jokes about Star Wars’ behind-the scenes history, the movies that inspired it, and some pop-cultural spoofs.

• We first made the cut to R2-D2 on Tatooine and C-3PO early in Return of the Jedi, there are two skeletons sitting on a cliff next to a banner that reads “Hidden Fortress” in Aurebesh. This is an allusion to Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 movie. Hidden FortressOne of the most important influences on Star Wars. Artoo and Threepio were originally designed by George Lucas. Hidden Fortress characters Tahei and Matashichi — that’s probably their bones up on the hill.
• In Mos Eisley, there’s a side-mission, “Ma Klounkey Most Foul,” in which Stormtroopers ask you to interrogate witnesses to the Han Solo/Greedo shootout and determine which of the two scoundrels fired their weapons first. This is the fact that the scene has been edited almost in every instance to alter the event. A New HopeRe-published. When A New Hope first arrived on Disney+ in 2019, the scene was changed yet again so that Greedo says the Huttese phrase “Ma klounkey!” to Solo just before he fires. The meme quickly became popular.
• The side-mission to track down Malakili, Jabba’s runaway rancor trainer, is entitled “Green Harvest.” “Blue Harvest” was the secret production codename for Return of the Jedi.
• While infiltrating Star Destroyer Skywalkers RiseRey needs to use mind tricks to get a Stormtrooper open a door. Poe wonders aloud, “Can she do that to us?” In Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connelly’s discarded Episode IX script, Duel between the FatesRey accomplishes exactly what she was told to do, forcing Poe to abandon her so that she can finish her deadly final mission on her own.

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• In the last duel at Exegol Skywalkers are on the Rise, Palpatine exclaims “Rey. Pah! I wanted them to call you ‘Kira.’ Sounds so much cooler.” Kira is the name of Rey’s closest counterpart in George Lucas’ unused outline for Star Wars: Episode VII.
• In the Southeast corner of Lake Paonga on Naboo, and you’ll find what appears to be a copy of the original LEGO Star WarsVideo game suspended in water from a container. (You can’t pick it up, unfortunately.)
• Inmitten of the chase through asteroid fields, in The Empire Strikes Back, there’s a gag in which we can see the Millennium Falcon from above as it spins around, firing projectiles in all directions, like in the classic arcade game Asteroids.
• In the aftermath of the boss fight against First Order Stormtrooper FN-2199, The Force AwakensHe raises his hand and attempts theatrically to dazzle Finn or Han Solo. Solo responds by shrugging and lazily points the pistol at him. The famous gag is echoed in this staged scene. Raiders of the Lost ArkIndiana Jones is also played by Harrison Ford and co-created along with George Lucas. He brings his gun to the swordfight.

Clairvoyant Call-Forwards

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The Skywalker SagaThe original trilogy also allows storytellers the chance to make jokes that refer to stories created later.

• While installing the Falcon’s sensor dish at Docking Bay 94 in A New Hope, Han remarks, “Do you know how hard it is to find a round dish? Quit shooting it!” After the Falcon’s round sensor dish is lost during the Battle of Endor, it’s replaced with the rectangular one seen in The Force Awakens The Last Jedi.
• The Empire Strikes Back, during the mission to reconfigure the signal towers to boost the missing Luke’s signal, Han asks General Rieekan why the Rebels haven’t thawed out the bridges to the third tower yet. Rieekan replies: “In his climate? That’d be about as fruitful as herding rathtars.” That’s exactly what Han and Chewie are up to at the beginning of The Force Awakens.
• Lando Calrissian is invited to Cloud City by the Millennium Falcon crew. The Empire Strikes Back, a wig falls onto C-3PO’s head. Lando, instead of coming onto Leia like Calrissian in the movie did, delivers flirtatious dialog to C-3PO. This again refers to Lando’s romantic relationship with L337. Solo.

Final Reward

These are the highlights we’ve discovered after one playthrough of the full story mode, and completing a mere 36% of the game’s puzzles and mini-games. We’ve yet to experience it ourselves, but a Rebel trooper on Yavin 4 teases that there’s a special reward awaiting players who reach 100% game completion. Once you’ve collected everything there is to collect in The Skywalker SagaContinue on to the Temple of Yavin 4, near the top. Han and Luke receive their medals here. A New Hope). There, you’ll find the main cast of the series standing around a single switch giving you a round of applause. Throw the switch, and enjoy a dance remix of the saga’s musical themes and an endless fountain of studs to spend on … well, nothing. You’ve already bought everything.