Considering LEGO’s history of licensed sets, it’s no surprise that Traveller’s Tales' series ofLEGO Star Warsgames is such a success. Although LEGO has adapted tons of famous IPs into buildable sets over the last few decades,LEGO Star Warshas remained a core part of its brand, adapting all kinds of specificStar Warsmoments and bringing every new movie or show to life. With that in mind, the hype aroundLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagamakes sense.LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagalooks like a highly ambitious game that bringsLEGO 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. WhileThe Skywalker Sagahas new mechanicsthat 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 aLEGOgame for an IP that hasn’t interacted with the core brand much, if at all.
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The Skywalker Saga’s Character Design
As a general rule, theLEGO Star Warsseries 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 Sagahas so many characters fromsuch specific corners ofStar Warslorethat Traveller’s Tales didn’t always have real counterparts to design characters around. It had no choice but to manually design minifigures for many ofThe Skywalker Saga’s characters.
This process undoubtedly created a lot of extra work for developers over the last few years. However, when looking to the future, that extra work could turn out to be extremely valuable. Now that Traveller’s Tales developers have so much extra practice designing minifigures from scratch, it could design characters for other franchises. There are tons of IPs that only have a limited number of LEGO sets but all the right stuff to makea compellingLEGOgame.
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Possible Future LEGO Games
There’s no shortage of short-lived LEGO sets that could inspire elaborate new games from Traveller’s Tales. For instance, there’s a few classic TV shows that LEGO has touched on only briefly, likeAvatar: The Last AirbenderandScooby-Doo. Alternatively, Traveller’s Tales could make its own adaptations of certain recent sets based on video games likeOverwatchorHorizon Zero Dawn.There may not be many official LEGO products to base a game on for these IPs, butThe Skywalker Sagamay have prepared Traveller’s Tales to design all the assets it needs.
ALEGOgame based on a surprising property would be a breath of fresh air afterThe Skywalker Saga.As great as the upcoming game looks,LEGO Star WarsandLEGOsuperhero gameshave dominated Traveller’s Tales' library in recent memory. Now is the time for something entirely new to join theLEGOgame family. AfterThe Skywalker Saga, Traveller’s Tales ought to use its new experience to take its core franchise in a different direction.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagareleases July 06, 2025 for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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