You'll Have To Pay To See Baby Yoda In LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

The spin off movies are dlc! That’s cool! I was thinking about how that’s how they could add the spin offs. Into a skywalker saga.

UGH, why does Ming Na Wen have to be a big fan of Star Wars so much that she decided to work in the franchise? I have to buy this for Fennec Shand...I don't even LIKE Star Wars. Why do you torture me so???? I'll be waiting for the complete edition or some such. What I would give for her to go to Star Trek.

Uh-oh this is not gonna end well.

I guess I don't mind this. What I'm wondering is if these are just skins, or if they get some story content alongside it. It doesn't seem that way, so I will not be picking these up.

I am guessing you haven’t played many lego games in the past. It is called a dlc pack. Been around since lego Batman 2.

@StarPoint
At most they are just level packs. Which are separate from the base game. The base game is all nine movies. The pack would include a level based off mando season 1. So no you won’t miss out on any story content.

What I really don't like is locking a character behind a pre-order bonus with no option for purchasing later.

Always fun when they announce paid DLC ahead of a game's launch, isn't it?

@Reyren
Same, I am waiting for reviews and gameplay on switch to drop.

@RubyCarbuncle Wasn't that always the case with some games tho? If they wanted a update you would have to buy the game all over again?

The Skywalker Saga will be completed on schedule.

Good. Good. Everything is proceeding as TT has planned.

More likely for them to pay me to play this game than me to give them a single penny. Not to mention this has the nerve to call the Rey fanfiction part of the Skywarker Saga. Maybe they should have gotten the memo that nobody likes the Sequel Trilogy before spending this much time in development hell for this game.

@Troll_Decimator a children's game based off of a children's movie series not being directed strictly at adults... The audacity of it all!!!

@xDeckardx Ah, yes, the "it's for kids!" argument. A classic in the repertoire of Disney apologists. Look, just because something targets primarily children doesn't mean it has to be trash. Case in point, Disney's own output back when they were a company with a spine and quality control.

Lego does what lego does best...

I want Cassian Andor and Ashoka. The rest I will just make do with.

@Ryu_Niiyama
She was better in Stargate

I have the £60 version from Game. The Han Solo in carbonite steelbook case.

Baby Yoda? That's not baby Yoda, but Grogu, like you said in the article itself. It's always a bit triggering when people use that name wrong, and I'm not even that big of a Star Wars fan. The Mandalorian is great, though.

I’m just hoping they re release the Lego Star Wars complete saga someday as well. And lord of the rings.

@RubyCarbuncle But it adds new characters from the spin off movies? If it was back then, we would just be stuck with the current characters. Plus it isn't knew for lego to do, they have dlc packs you can buy, and they actually can be pretty cheap.

Werner Herzog voice "I would like to see the baby"
okay bro that'll be $10

I am somewhat on the fence about whether or not I am interested in playing this... never been into the Lego games, but this one seems different.

This information regarding potential piles of DLC and micro-transactions makes me MUCH less interested.

I am fully aware that I can simply "just not buy" the DLC, and I won't, but it's existence makes it not my style of game, in general.

Hate practices where something is permanently a pre-order dlc and never released after.

I’m confused. I preordered the special edition, does that mean I get all the characters? That’s what I thought I was getting when I preordered

Am I being dumb or... where is the mandalorian himself?

@nukatha aside from June (Joy Luck Club), my favorite role she has done is Agent May (Agents of Shield). Although honorable mention to her playing Chun-Li no matter how the rest of the movie turned out.

Having followed the development of this game closely since its announcement and as a frequent visitor of its Reddit page, where no ounce of info goes missed, I can probably help shed a little light on some of your guys' questions.

First, @KateGray the Classic Characters will look (and possibly behave) as they did in the old Complete Saga game, as opposed to their new appearances in this game. Also, you might want to adjust the list to reflect that the Mandalorian himself is included in The Mandalorian Season One pack, with Grogu as a companion character. We can't have little Grogu just wandering around all by himself!

@StarPoint @blindsquarel They're just character packs; no additional level content has been announced (at this point, anyway).

@Reyren The only difference should be in performance and visual quality; no content differences have been alluded to.

@HolyGeez03 No microtransactions have been announced for the game. The DLC character packs are the only additional paid content that the public knows of at this point. The game is fairly different than past Lego games, though, with attention paid to more advanced combat and so forth, but it'll still likely hold the same family-friendly Lego game spirit as past iterations, so you may want to wait for reviews and more gameplay footage if you're on the fence.

@TDRsuperstar2 The deluxe edition contains all of the listed character packs, just not all of the few physical/digital/pre-order exclusive characters, depending on how exactly you ordered it.

With this and the reported crunch, will probably be saving my money on this one.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this….

@Troll_Decimator yep nobody likes it. Episode ix only grossed a billion dollars. What a disaster.

Steam version is only $50 instead of $60 on other consoles.

Just when I thought this couldn't be anymore of an ultimate star wars game they're adding even more to it! Can't freaking wait!

@Scapetti He comes with the Season One pack. Grogu is a companion character to him, so the first entry in that list should actually read "The Mandalorian (with Grogu companion character)". It's not you

Source: https://www.gematsu.com/2022/03/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-character-collection-season-pass-detailed

@Troll_Decimator if you have the nerve to deny the existence of people who genuinely enjoyed the sequel trilogy, then TT has the nerve to call it part of the saga. Deal with it.

🙄 irritating dlc at launch practice. Should've been in the game to begin with. I agree with previous comments. Absolutley terrible, obvious cash grab.

@imagazelle thanks! It made sense but then I wasn't sure if he was maybe in the base game

Where is the mini figures from Star Wars: Rebels? I need a Thrawn mini figure please!

@fusermarucs I watched it too, does that mean I liked it? No, I was there just to witness the trainwreck and some cheap spectacle, which is exactly what the ST was.

I wouldn't mind this if the game wasn't already $100 in Canada after tax

@MsMaestroon

Painful to say the least, though I really do want that deluxe edition at launch.

Sigh... Canadian dollar... 😔

I miss when DLC announcements were always a good thing. Like when I had already 100% the first Red Dead Redemption and they announced Undead Nightmare, which was amazing. Announcing you can pay more before the game is even out is just slimey.

$10? Credits will do fine.

Crap like this is why you always wait for the LEGO game you want to inevitably go on sale for under $20 USD. They always do.

How outrageous. I wasn't going to play the game originally, and now I'm more angrily not going to play the game! /s

I have no opinion of this. Don't even know why I'm posting. )

Glad to see they're remembering Cara Dune exists.
Lego games eventually see fairly deep discounts, is anyone holding out for an eventual all-in-one on sale type of thing?

Not surprised. After all, they called it "The Skywalker Saga" for a reason, naming it after the saga of the same name.

I hate the pre-release dlc/season pass announcement, but I like that Cara Dune is included. Bad Batch DLC is coming, but there's no Thrawn/Rebels DLC?

Also "Baby Yoda, also known as Grogu"? His name is Grogu, so you address it as "Grogu, also known as 'Baby Yoda' "

My main concern is if runs well on Switch. Given the delays, I sensed much of that time was to get looking good for PS5, etc, and that could have a detrimental effect on Switch due to a sloppy down-scaling. Hopefully it's a specific build from the bottom.
PS: It's not the Skywalker Saga to me. Rey is not a Skywalker. She's the offspring of a failed Palpatine clone regardless of the silly story angle they created at the end.

@Troll_Decimator I didn't debate that you didn't like it, just that nobody liked it.
Millions of kids grew up with these newer films and love them and will be looking forward to playing their favourites in Lego Star Wars.

So I just read an article on another site which makes it sound like the Classic Obi Wan Kenobi pre order bonus is only available for a digital pre order! So you need to choose between that or the Luke minifig that comes with the physical version.

@fusermarucs Do you really think so? You see these three awful films (and their admittedly better spinoffs like Solo) creating lots of new fans? They were clearly just a quick cash-in. They are not going to have the cultural impact the previous ones did. Not even the prequels, at least those had great memes. What memes do these have? "Somehow Palpatine returned"? That's just plain dumb.

@Yosher The game is called The Skywalker Saga. You get the 9 Skywalker Saga movies as the base game. The DLC is for other Star Wars titles.

Ugh..."baby Yoda". I understood people calling him that back when his name was a secret, as we don't know his species' name. Though they could have referred to him as "The Child" as the series itself did, since it was made very clear this was not Yoda. But to defiantly continue calling him Baby Yoda, instead of by his name Grogu. It'd be like calling Din Djarin "Silver Boba Fett" just because they look similar.

@nukatha WAIT, she was in the OG Stargate? Or, one of the spinoffs? I watched almost all of the OG back in 2019 and early 2020, but never quite finished the final season (need to get back to it). I really enjoyed it, but I haven't attempted to watch any of the spin-offs from it.

But, on this, I haven't played and beaten a LEGO game I think since LEGO City Undercover on the Wii U. If you are looking for a solid LEGO game, I would definitely recommend LEGO City Undercover, and it can be found pretty cheap these days with sales.

@imagazelle Thank you! The press release did not mention The Mandalorian himself, which is odd!

It should be considered a crime leaving out OBVIOUS fan favourites, and having already made them to be ready to charge some extra money for. Like characters from movies, and weapon packs in WW2 shooters, we all know what countries used what weapons, put them in or don't, but don't make them and sell them separately. Remember Timesplitters? They made their own characters, a truckload of them, and they were all in there. A new Smash Bros couldn't make its favourite characters DLC again I'd say, which probably makes it hard to even ever make a new one...

edit: reading some other comments, I understand that these characters are not part of the titular saga, so it makes a bit more sense now, but still, LEGO games shouldn't make customisation options DLC. It's bad enough with the limited minifigures included in actual sets so you can't buy one set to just have something complete. I quit buying LEGO a long time ago, and I might have bought some sets had they contained the entire character list, like the Simpsons house I believe I passed on for that reason.

Umm there's nothing really to complain about, lego games are on sale constantly and this game already comes with hundreds of characters sooo...

Still trying to figure out if there's a "Season Pass" that gets us all of the Deluxe content as an upgrade to the "standard" version. I don't really mind some small DLC charge for additional things, though I won't usually bite just for characters. Extra missions and such are much more attractive.

That's interesting because they have this expanded the game beyond the Skywalker Saga then. So understably, in this particular case, it's DLC. A little pricey mind. I like the Disney Plus Star Wars TV shows on the whole so I will be up for this I'm afraid. Ha.

When game companies announce their DLC before they released their full game.. I won’t buy the game on release because it’s not a full game. I’ll wait for a deep sale for the complete edition.. or i don’t buy the game at all because I don’t care anymore.

@All the people who support this.
You are being part of the problem

@TDRsuperstar2 I pre ordered the physical deluxe version and according to what I have read I will be getting all of the character DLC as part of the $70 price tag. I honestly don't know what comes with what any more. Lol