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Fly a plastic Millennium Falcon in the demo for ‘Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

By Dan Isacsson Published June 15, 2016

One of the world’s cutest game parody series is soon getting a Star Wars game. Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens grabs a hold of your skepticism toward such playful things as Lego blocks and disposes it like yesterday’s tissue remnants. The game is due to launch this summer on consoles, portable platforms, and Windows PCs.

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Disney is working with Warner Bros. and developer TT Games, and together they’re bringing the vision of Lego Star Wars characters to life. That means all of the stupid and edgy puns you can muster along with some of the most playful narratives among all game franchises. The game will contain exclusive content that binds Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens together, but we wouldn’t bet on it being canon considering the series history of making fun of the franchises it takes on.

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Players looking for something more than just a trailer, and who happen to own a PlayStation 4, can download an exclusive demo for the game from the PlayStation Store today. Included in the demo are Blaster Battles where you utilize the environment by unknown means to drive back the invading First Order. If you’re more of a space fan, there will also be high-speed dogfights in space, and you can make use of a variety of different vehicles including the Millennium Falcon.

The first Lego Star Wars game was released back in 2005 and the series has been a runaway success ever since. To date the Lego Star Wars franchise has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens will premiere for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PS3, PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and PC platforms on 26 June.

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Rey explors Ahch-To in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

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Lego rey fighting kylo.

There are dozens of LEGO titles out there now. From brand new IP to retelling the most popular stories of film history, these little brick people have been giving us a new, lighthearted, and fun way to experience these classic franchises all over again. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga isn't just the latest LEGO game on the market, but it's also the biggest and most ambitious one the developers have ever made. This single game encompasses all the mainline films in the titular franchise, starting with Episode 1 and going all the way to the conclusion of Episode 9, with nothing cut or missing in between. That is a lot of game, as you might imagine, which can feel incredibly intimidating to jump into when you look at all there is to do -- and especially to collect.

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Promotional art of Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga.

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Released last week, The Skywalker Saga has quickly risen to the top of Steam's top-sellers list, bumping Elden Ring down to third place. This is just the latest piece of good news for Traveller's Tales' newest Lego title, though, as it's already broken the record for the series' most concurrent players on Steam and became the second-biggest physical release of the year in the U.K.