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Intergalactic LEGO Toys

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'The Force Awakens' LEGO Includes New Star Wars Characters

— September 2, 2015 — Life-Stages
This Star Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO includes characters and spaceships from the highly anticipated new installment of the Star Wars series.

Star Wars and LEGO have a long and illustrious shared history. Since both are beloved by the world's preteen boys, they form an ideal partnership. Star Wars fans revel in being able to build, break apart, re-imagine and replicate the sets and ships from the epic space saga. The Force Awakens LEGO continues the legacy with added locations, vessels and characters, including a little droid called BB-8.

The Star Wars: The Force Awakens LEGO is just one of many toy collaborations that the intensely hyped film will surely spawn. A whole new generation of fans is about to be introduced to light sabers, Jedi mind tricks and aliens with highly imitable speech patterns.
Trend Themes
1. Star-wars-themed Merchandise - Entrepreneurs can take advantage of the Star Wars brand by creating unique products or merchandise, such as LEGO sets and toys, that cater to fans of the series.
2. Interactive Toy Sets - The addition of BB-8 to the LEGO set presents an opportunity for other toy companies to create interactive and technologically advanced toys that interact with users.
3. Licensed Theme Toys - The success of the Star Wars themed LEGO sets shows the potential in creating licensed theme toys revolving around popular movies and TV shows.
Industry Implications
1. Toy Industry - The toy industry can benefit from creating toy sets and merchandise based on popular movie and TV show franchises like Star Wars.
2. Entertainment Industry - Collaborating with toy companies to create merchandise and toys based on movies and TV shows can provide additional revenue streams for the entertainment industry.
3. Retail Industry - Retailers can take advantage of the demand for Star Wars merchandise by creating themed aisles or displays in their stores during the release of new movies in the franchise.
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