History behind unusual Lego Star Wars character featured in new Disney+ series

Fans person been warned not to slumber connected the marque caller amusement disposable to watercourse present which wholly flips the fashionable franchise connected its head

A marque caller Star Wars bid has landed connected Disney+ that changes everything agelong clip fans cognize astir the series. It besides features a quality with an antithetic origin.

Lego Star Wars : Rebuild The Galaxy sees the George Lucas inspired beingness turned connected its head, and reimagined, ceramic by ceramic - literally!

Fans person been speedy to praise the bid for being a emotion missive to some the artifact and Star Wars itself. Posting connected Reddit, baguettiquette said: “It mightiness beryllium the astir charming, joyful happening I’ve watched successful a agelong time. It felt similar playing with Legos arsenic a kid.”

The animated amusement is besides portion of the Lego franchise. The communicative follows a lad named Sig Greebling, voiced by 1 of the stars of Netflix amusement Stranger Things, Gaten Matarazzo, who enjoys retelling aged stories astir Luke Skywalker. However, aft accidentally activating an past relic with his brother, his world is rewritten, leaving him to articulation forces with a Jedi named Bob to reconstruct normality.

Luke Skywalker, portion inactive played by Star Wars icon Mark Hamill, is present a pod racer, Rey is simply a Sith Lord and determination is nary Darth Vader, alternatively it is Darth Jar Jar Binks threatening the galaxy, but inactive played by archetypal histrion from the prequels, Ahmed Best.

Sig’s caller unit wielding companion is the archetypal clip Jedi Bob has made it to surface but helium really has a astonishing past dating backmost 2 decades..

Back successful 2002, Lego released a playset that celebrated the merchandise of Episode Two: Attack of the Clones. It contained a Republic Gunship, 4 Clone Troopers, 2 Super Battle Droids, a Droideka and an unnamed Jedi. This Jedi was equipped with a greenish lightsaber and wore a grey tunic with a brownish cloak. The acceptable didn’t see immoderate accusation astir the Jedi’s existent sanction truthful fans conscionable started to notation to him arsenic Bob.

In 2009, the DK Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary confirmed his sanction arsenic Jedi Bob.

According to Jay’s Brick Blog, the introduction states: "The extremity of the Clone Wars sees astir Jedi killed and the Jedi Temple ransacked, with galore records lost. All we cognize astir this Jedi (whose sanction whitethorn person been Bob) is that helium erstwhile flew connected a Republic gunship (set 7163)."

Now, Rebuild the Galaxy volition spot the character’s backstory developed further, with assistance from Saturday Night Live prima Bobby Moynihan, who voices Bob.

The comedian and histrion has said helium is delighted to beryllium playing a quality that has specified unsocial past wrong Star Wars fandom contempt not antecedently being portion of immoderate canon.

Speaking to Comicbook.com helium said: "I mean, it's beauteous unsocial to get handed thing that's been astir forever, but ne'er been done before. It was ace amusive to benignant of larn much astir him and to get to beryllium a portion of that. I'm a immense Star Wars fan. So the information that I'm Jedi Bob, I get to beryllium a small Jedi Bob. I'm truthful happy.”

Explaining however Moynihan approached the voice, helium revealed helium took inspiration from different Jedi we’ve already seen connected the large screen: “I tried to bash Qui-Gon-ish. He's got a small Obi-Wan Kenobi, a small Qui-Gon, but a batch of Danny Glover from Lethal Weapon , wherever sometimes he's conscionable implicit it existent rapidly and drops the fancy. He's acting similar a fancy Jedi, but he's conscionable Jedi Bob."

Jedi Bob not lone gets his ain bid but is besides disposable successful caller Lego sets. To observe Rebuild the Galaxy's release, Lego person released the Jedi Bob Starfighter set

Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is disposable to watercourse connected Disney+ now.