Hasbro announces two Star Wars: The Mandalorian-themed board games
Fans of The Mandalorian can now expand their family board game night with a special themed-edition of Operation and Trouble.
Fans of the Star Wars Disney+ show, The Mandalorian, are in for a treat with a new line of Hasbro board games. The company responsible for some of the greatest family game nights are introducing a new take on some classic favorites: Operation and Trouble. Thankfully, you won’t need to travel to a galaxy far, far away to get your hands on these and you won’t be waiting a long time either!
The Mandalorian-themed board games coming soon from Hasbro
The original Operation game had players digging around the body of a man with a pair of tweezers. The goal of this was to remove items without setting off a buzzer. The Mandalorian version of Operation (Operation: Star Wars The Mandalorian Edition) swaps out the man for Baby Yoda. Fear not, you will not be performing surgery on the child, instead, players will need to collect objects this mischievous scamp has pilfered.
The other board game Hasbro is adding a sprinkle of Star Wars to is Trouble. Officially titled, Trouble: Star Wars The Mandalorian Edition, this version has players circling a planet with the goal being to rescue Baby Yoda. Players can use characters seen in the show including the Mandalorian, IG-II, Cara Dune, or Kuill.
Both Operation: Star Wars The Mandalorian Edition and Trouble: Star Wars The Mandalorian Edition will be available in Spring 2020 through Amazon and Walmart and will retail for $19.99 USD and $14.99 USD respectively.
The Mandalorian has dramatically shifted the conversation around Star Wars. While the fan response to the last trilogy has been mixed, The Mandalorian has been universally loved. Fans have also become feverishly obsessed with The Child, colloquially known as Baby Yoda. Hopefully we get to see more of Baby Yoda in various board games! Be sure to check out the Shacknews and GamerHubTV YouTube channels for more reviews and unboxing videos of our favorite toys and board games!
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Jesus Christ.
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Worth it.
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It seriously does, it's amazing.
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Has Baby Yoda been given an official name or is he still just colloquially known as Baby Yoda (for now)?
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Boda or Babda
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Worst possible crossovers, fantastic move Hasbro.
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Gina is looking THICC and for trouble on that one.
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Wow.... The Operation one in particular is really bad. I have a BB-8 one I got for the kids when Episode 7 came out and it's nowhere near as lazy. They at least attempted to put the pieces in places that made sense and were funny.
I guess they didn't want to have kids operating on poor little Baby Yoda, but still haha. -
A tiny bit of context is missing here, not sure it matters though.
Apparently as much as people think it’s easy to make new toys - design toy, manufacture, done - it’s actually apparently a pretty detailed process that takes months to complete.
Star Wars is no stranger to this as Kenner didn’t think the original movie was going to do business so they didn’t start working on the toys until it was too late to make Christmas so they literally sold an empty box with a mail-in certificate to kids who bought them like crazy.
https://www.denofgeek.com/us/culture/star-wars/251879/star-wars-how-an-empty-box-became-a-must-have-item-in-1977
Disney/Lucasfilm wanted to keep Baby Yoda a secret. A really big secret. They never revealed him in marketing materials and it was this big “holy shit” moment that they totally pulled off. And it worked - people fucking loved Baby Yoda.
But it meant that they couldn’t start working on toys or funko pops or whatever until after the show debuted. They couldn’t run the risk that someone at a factory making Baby Yoda toys would leak it out.
Which means, yes, they missed Christmas. They announced back in November or December that the first toys with Baby Yoda wouldn’t come out until March. So, next month basically.
Which is probably why these games are just now coming out - they’re coinciding with the toys coming out next month. By themselves they don’t seem like much but come March you won’t be able to set foot in a Target without seeing lots of Baby Yoda doot doo doo doo doo doo. Whole goddamn store is going to be sherbet green .
As for the complaints that they’re lazy - eh, it’s the same thing Hasbro has done with tons of other properties. Not every franchise can be Lord of the Rings RISK worthy.-
Just because it’s the same shit they’ve always done doesn’t mean we can’t still call them out for being lazy.
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Lol. Trouble was a terrible game decades ago. How is it still around? The only appeal as a kid was that dice popper thingy.
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