Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – the funniest Easter eggs and references found so far

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As the biggest Lego game so far, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is filled with fun references and Easter eggs, from Crazy Taxi to Lord of the Rings.

You can always count on a licensed Lego game to make some cute tongue-in-cheek gags about the franchise it’s based on. So, with Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga covering all nine mainline films, it’s stuffed to the gills with in-jokes and Easter eggs.

It’s not just limited to the Star Wars franchise either. There are numerous references to wider pop culture, including other films and video games – especially if one of the film or voice actors starred in them.

With it only being a day old, there are no doubt loads that have yet to be uncovered, but here’s a rundown of some of the best, funniest, and surprising ones so far.

While The Skywalker Saga may be the definitive Lego Star Wars experience, there were five other games beforehand, and developer Traveller’s Tales has a couple of neat tributes to the pair that started it all.

In the first The Phantom Menace level, you can spy the box art for the first Lego Star Wars game, which only covered the prequel trilogy of movies but kicked off Traveller’s Tales legacy of licensed Lego games.

The box art of the second Lego Star Wars games, which adapted the original trilogy, can be found during the first A New Hope level, as Princess Leia attempts to escape Darth Vader and his Stormtroopers.

A bit of an obscure one, but some players may be wondering why Leia speaks with a British accent during the beginning of A New Hope but, upon escaping the Death Star, drops it for an American one.

Believe it or not, this is not an oversight on the game’s part, but a direct reference to the