LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Could Open the Door to Surprising New IPs

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Considering LEGO's history of licensed sets, it's no surprise that Traveller's Tales' series of LEGO Star Wars games is such a success. Although LEGO has adapted tons of famous IPs into buildable sets over the last few decades, LEGO Star Wars has remained a core part of its brand, adapting all kinds of specific Star Wars moments and bringing every new movie or show to life. With that in mind, the hype around LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga makes sense. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga looks like a highly ambitious game that brings LEGO Star Wars' rich history together under one roof.

Naturally, The Skywalker Saga's ambitious design raises questions about what's next for Traveller's Tales. While The Skywalker Saga has new mechanics that it can offer future games, the work that went into making it also creates some intriguing possibilities for what kind of IP Traveller's Tales adapts next. According to one of its recent developer videos, many of the NPCs and playable characters in the game had to be designed from scratch rather than being based on official LEGO figures. That experience could help TT make a LEGO game for an IP that hasn't interacted with the core brand much, if at all.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga's Campaign May Run Longer Than the Movies

As a general rule, the LEGO Star Wars series and its peers base each minifigure off the designs found in real-life LEGO sets. That makes sense; Traveller's Tales would be making a lot of extra work for itself if it made its own design for every character rather than capitalizing on familiar minifigure designs. However, The Skywalker Saga has so many characters from such specific corners of Star Wars lore that Traveller's Tales didn't always have real counterparts