LEGO STAR WARS: DROID TALES - New Series Coming This Year

While we wait for J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney XD is going to take us on a whirlwind trip down memory lane of a galaxy far, far away with a new TV series set in the Star Wars universe. THR reports that the network has picked up LEGO Star Wars: Droid Tales, a five episode limited series that will re-tell the story of the movies through the eyes of C-3P0 and R2-D2 (in animated LEGO form, of course).

Set after the Rebel Alliance victory on Endor seen at the end of Return of the Jedi, the droids are regaling the assembled of their adventures that led them to their present situation.  An accidental kidnapping leads to a new adventure that progresses to the re-telling of the saga in the chronological order, starting from The Phantom Menace to Return of the Jedi.

C-3P0 and R2-D2 were intended to be the connective tissue in the original trilogy - the ones who "bind the galaxy together," as Obi-Wan might say. But this LEGO series sounds like it will really put them front and center this time and give them the floor to tell their version of the story. All five episodes will be twenty-two minutes long, and all five will air before The Force Awakens bows on December 18th.

Interested in seeing the whole saga told from the droids' perspective?

GeekTyrant Homepage