Hey gamers, welcome back to the blog for Thing of the Week! First off, sorry I missed last week; had some stuff on so didn't have quite enough time to write it up. I'll haphazardly say that I should be back on track for the forseeable future, though.
Anyway - this week, we're talking LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy! Yeah that's right, we're being TOPICAL! Talking about Star Wars on May 4th! Yeahh!!!
ahem -- so, I probably don't need to introduce you to the concept of a LEGO Star Wars series - basically all of them are the same thing at their core - a light-hearted parody of the Star Wars franchise - and Rebuild the Galaxy is basically the epitome of that thinking. In this four-part series [which totally could've and should've been a movie with its total runtime of around 90 minutes; no idea why it wasn't], we follow Sig as he and his brother accidentally pull out the ''Cornerstone'' of the galaxy, causing it to completely shuffle up, like you got the LEGO bricks which comprised it and made something new with them [which is such a good concept for a LEGO movie, by the way]. In practice, he basically travels to another universe where everything is almost completely different to how it was before, with Sig's brother now being a Sith Lord [along with Rey, Kit Fisto and Jar Jar Binks], many bad guys including Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine and Jabba the Hutt being Jedi, and a bunch of other smaller stuff. He then has to travel alongside Jedi Bob - a minifig from the original LEGO Star Wars sets that was dubbed ''Jedi Bob'' by fans - as well as his battery droid, Servo, and friend Yesi to fight back against the Sith and restore the Cornerstone.
The plot was very enjoyable and engaging, and whilst I won't lie to your face and tell you that this was the deepest, most emotionally moving series I've watched in my life; it was a really good LEGO series and, considering what Disney has put out recently, a pretty damn good Star Wars show. Naturally, it also looked really good, and I really loved how much they leaned into the stop-motion style they used in The LEGO Movie. Whilst it wasn't quite as realistic as in that movie, it definitely felt more like it had been stop-motion animated than some of the older LEGO media [think Clutch Powers or Ninjago]. That said, my one little gripe with how the movie looked were that a few of the backdrops were distractingly bland, as if they just got a blank floor and copy-pasted a few trees around the place without really giving it much though. That was only in a couple scenes, though, so it's very easy to disregard.
Anyway, Rebuild the Galaxy was an absolute blast that I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone who enjoys LEGO Star Wars and has an hour and a half to kill. Thanks for reading, and May the Fourth be with you!
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