Lego Star Wars uses the force, sells 1.1 million copies

by Kevin Kelly { Sep 21st 2006 at 4:25PM }

LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy has sold over 1.1 million units in just over a week. That's a lot of LEGO blocks. Someone please keep this information away from George Lucas, if at all possible. Or else we could be seeing LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, Enhanced With New CGI Midichlorian Edition.

Still, possible future linings of Lucas' wallet aside, kudos to him and LucasArts for continuing to put out new editions of this game, which really have an irreverent take on the Star Wars universe. The back of the box alone features Darth Vader wearing Princess Leia's bra from her slave girl outfit. That's hot.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MiThRaZoR @ Sep 21st 2006 4:31PM

Mmmmm, Darth Vader in a bra.

Phoenix42 @ Sep 21st 2006 4:34PM

"Luke, I am your moooother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

--Thumb Wars

Chessasaur @ Sep 21st 2006 4:37PM

Wow, is this a new record?

While we are on the subject, does anyone know of a site that has kept track of how many copies of certain games have been sold?

jc @ Sep 21st 2006 4:37PM

This game is a blast to play... and perfect to get one's girlfriend interested in next-gen gaming.

I hope a few other developers out there see these impressive sales as incentive to put multiplayer co-op into their games as well.

Derbeste @ Sep 21st 2006 4:39PM

@Chessasaur

Check out Amazon. They usually rank their games based on sales.

V. Watermelon @ Sep 21st 2006 4:46PM

George Lucas: due to technical limitations, all the characters looked like they were made of plastic. But in this new enchanced version the characters will look like they are made of flesh and blood. This is what we originaly intended for lego starwars.

Also it needs more Jar-Jar!

Every Gamer on the planet: Noooooooo!

Artimus @ Sep 21st 2006 4:51PM

Considering that's like 6 (or 7?) platforms, meaning less than 200,000 per platform, it isn't really that impressive.

LuigiHann @ Sep 21st 2006 4:55PM

Has anyone started a petition or something for Lucasarts to recall and re-release the DS version? The general consensus seemed to be that the bugs were unforgivably terrible.

RobT @ Sep 21st 2006 5:26PM

The DS version is so broken it's not even funny. The bugs are so bad that it is literally impossible to get 100% completion.

crono141 @ Sep 21st 2006 5:27PM

Because we all know internet petitions work ALL The time.

ihya @ Sep 21st 2006 6:06PM

"Considering that's like 6 (or 7?) platforms, meaning less than 200,000 per platform, it isn't really that impressive."

In a week????

where2go @ Sep 21st 2006 10:02PM

I want the LEGO plans for that SSD :)

FrankTheCrank @ Sep 21st 2006 11:22PM

Hey Lucas...

I'm still waiting for the sequel to Howard The Duck...

Enough with the Star Wars...the last good movie was Empire Strikes Back...remember, the one you didn't direct. Go figure. Everything after that was CRAP.

Ethan @ Sep 21st 2006 11:49PM

http://www.vgcharts.org/welcome.php
this site has info on the amount of games sold.

elnico @ Sep 21st 2006 11:51PM

that is an awesome star destroyer in the picture, the force is strong with that kid

Lord_Satorious @ Sep 22nd 2006 12:21AM

The official Lego Star Destroyer isn't nearly as cool as that kid's Super Star Destroyer. I'd like to build one.

Mitsuo @ Sep 22nd 2006 12:37AM

I....Want....that...STAR DESTORYER!!! Damn me not having $200+ OR a job when it came out. I wonder if it's still around...*zooms to the lego website.*

Oozer @ Sep 22nd 2006 2:17AM

I actually have a picture some where on my hard drive of a Super Star Destroyer that the official LEGO builders made. It took 4 people just to hold it up and was the coolest thing I've ever seen.