Gift for free For the users
The fact is that from Warner they have seen fit to give all users of LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga a goodie to celebrate May 4th and what they have chosen has touched the hearts most vintage of all the history of Star Warsbecause it is a new playable character that we can take and bring through all phases of the game as if he were one of the cast.
To receive it, you will not have to do anything beyond updating the game and, when you enter the list of available characters, select it to start another adventure. And know that when you do that, you will be carrying out an experiment that could not be seen on the big screen because that Luke Starkiller died long before Darth Vader himself stormed the consular ship Princess Leia was traveling on at the beginning of Episode IV.
Where does Luke Starkiller come from?
Those responsible for LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga they have had no qualms about dive into some of the most classic files in the entire saga. Specifically in the conceptual sketches that gave rise to Star Warswork carried out by the second most important person in the success of the franchise -after George Lucas- as was Ralph McQuarrie.
This American designer, who passed away in 2012, worked at Boeing in the 1970s before embarking on the project Star Wars and it was to him that all the concept art qwhich were later used for put faces and eyes to the main characters like Darth Vader, C3-PO, R2-D2the Jawas and their vehicles –the sandcrawler–, the inhabitants of the sands and their Banthas or the arid places of Tattoine, the frozen steppes of Hot and even the AT-AT Walkers as well as the rest of the settings of the first three films.
Well, when Ralph McQuarrie conceived the hero, whom we know today as Luke Skywalker, he was not going to call himself that and the American decided to design a protagonist that everyone knew in the original story as Luke Starkiller. And it was he who decided to wear a bulky mask on his head, a kind of stellar glasses and a suit that was far from resembling that farmer outfit that we later saw in the movie.
So it’s been from those concept art by Ralph McQuarrie who LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga wanted to allow us to visit with a beta character the same scenarios that, initially, someone devised that the Jedi apprentice named Luke Starkiller, tasked with saving the Galaxy from the tyranny of the Empire, would go through in episodes IV, V and VI.
you can buy LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga for PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox and PC.
Opening image: Ralph McQuarrie’s concept art for Star Wars.
