Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is what the bonus level A New Hope looks like in Free Play mode in the Japanese PS2 version of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game. There are no aesthetic gameplay changes in Free Play mode aside from C-3PO not being in the container and there are no collectibles so you don't have to play this level in Free Play mode at all. However, one reason to play this level in Free Play mode in The Complete Saga version is that you can play as a Rebel Engineer via Extra Toggle which you couldn't do in the first game as it did not have Extra Toggle. Also, in The Complete Saga version, the "To be continued..." message is omitted in both Story and Free Play mode and the end credits are omitted in both modes. At the end, I even show the Tantive IV superkit model that you construct with True Jedi Status in all seventeen normal levels to unlock this bonus level.
When I was a kid during my time while attending McKenzie Elementary School in Wilmette, a perfect example of how a "YouTube Kids" platform would've helped me a lot if one had existed at the time and I would've benefited from it is that I would’ve realized a lot sooner that Family Guy is not for kids, most notably during my 2nd Grade year of 2007-2008, my 3rd Grade year of 2008-09 and the summer of 2009 since I mostly ignored the fact that it's rated TV-14, much like how South Park is rated TV-MA. It culminated in me getting into trouble for talking about Family Guy at the start of 4th Grade and it got worse throughout the school year, because I had to thwart attempts by students who asked "Do you like Family Guy?" and when students were mentioning it. I continued watching the series on TV, only talking about it outside of school and getting the Volumes 3 & 5 DVDs and watching them when I shouldn't have done any of that. I even came across students who were only into the Family Guy parodies of Star Wars and not the series itself when they should've avoided those parodies as with the show itself However, by the end of of 4th Grade, I had phased out of Family Guy completely and I avoided the series until my freshman year of high school. It was my fault because I should've known better that Family Guy is not for kids.
I even had a bad experience with a teacher in 8th Grade social studies which I kept hidden as a safety precaution in an effort to avoid bad publicity and getting myself into trouble where the teacher criticized Family Guy for being gross in front of students and a paraprofessional while doing Adam West's birthday which was a waste of time and it had nothing to do with social studies class. Remember, for a K-8 school district, staff should only talk about Family Guy with any adults as long as there are no students or any other children nearby and only mention it to students and other children if they reference it in any capacity since it would never be shown to students in a K-8 school district.
For Brenda Leigh Johnson from the crime drama The Closer, she can be a bad influence for kids, due to how she is unethical and unprofessional as a deputy chief like her ego-driven crime-solving methods and the depiction of incompetent police staff which can cause children to question what Brenda would be like as their teacher and they would get the wrong message since she would be problematic as a teacher or administrator in any school or college, due to how her complex, often morally ambiguous, and sometimes dark character traits are not for kids while her tactics in interrogations like depiction and manipulation, are not aligned with the values typically promoted in children's programming. What I mean is that she often uses depiction and manipulation to get suspects to confess, often pretending to be naive or less intelligent than she is which can be seen as promoting dishonesty and trickery as acceptable tools for problem-solving which is not a positive message for kids. Her methods sometimes involve questionable ethical decisions, like releasing a suspect by knowing they will be harmed or using info gained through questionable means. These actions could normalize harmful behavior and blur the lines of right and wrong for kids. Her arrogance, stubbornness, and insensitivity towards others, while adding depth to her could be seen as negative traits to model for children. Despite being effective at her job, she lacks many qualities that are typically valued in kids' shows like empathy, patience, and a focus on cooperation. she is portrayed as someone who will use others like her own team members and those she's supposed to be working with to achieve her goals so she is described as being inflexible and self-centered, only trusty interested in cooperation when it benefits her which is not okay for kids. Her manipulative tendencies, insensitivity, disregard for rules, and the context of serious crime she operates within are unsuitable for kids. Coincidentally, that series began in the same year that both this game and Revenge of the Sith came out.
This is what the bonus level A New Hope looks like in Free Play mode in the Japanese PS2 version of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game. There are no aesthetic gameplay changes in Free Play mode aside from C-3PO not being in the container and there are no collectibles so you don't have to play this level in Free Play mode at all. However, one reason to play this level in Free Play mode in The Complete Saga version is that you can play as a Rebel Engineer via Extra Toggle which you couldn't do in the first game as it did not have Extra Toggle. Also, in The Complete Saga version, the "To be continued..." message is omitted in both Story and Free Play mode and the end credits are omitted in both modes. At the end, I even show the Tantive IV superkit model that you construct with True Jedi Status in all seventeen normal levels to unlock this bonus level.
When I was a kid during my time while attending McKenzie Elementary School in Wilmette, a perfect example of how a "YouTube Kids" platform would've helped me a lot if one had existed at the time and I would've benefited from it is that I would’ve realized a lot sooner that Family Guy is not for kids, most notably during my 2nd Grade year of 2007-2008, my 3rd Grade year of 2008-09 and the summer of 2009 since I mostly ignored the fact that it's rated TV-14, much like how South Park is rated TV-MA. It culminated in me getting into trouble for talking about Family Guy at the start of 4th Grade and it got worse throughout the school year, because I had to thwart attempts by students who asked "Do you like Family Guy?" and when students were mentioning it. I continued watching the series on TV, only talking about it outside of school and getting the Volumes 3 & 5 DVDs and watching them when I shouldn't have done any of that. I even came across students who were only into the Family Guy parodies of Star Wars and not the series itself when they should've avoided those parodies as with the show itself However, by the end of of 4th Grade, I had phased out of Family Guy completely and I avoided the series until my freshman year of high school. It was my fault because I should've known better that Family Guy is not for kids.
I even had a bad experience with a teacher in 8th Grade social studies which I kept hidden as a safety precaution in an effort to avoid bad publicity and getting myself into trouble where the teacher criticized Family Guy for being gross in front of students and a paraprofessional while doing Adam West's birthday which was a waste of time and it had nothing to do with social studies class. Remember, for a K-8 school district, staff should only talk about Family Guy with any adults as long as there are no students or any other children nearby and only mention it to students and other children if they reference it in any capacity since it would never be shown to students in a K-8 school district.
For Brenda Leigh Johnson from the crime drama The Closer, she can be a bad influence for kids, due to how she is unethical and unprofessional as a deputy chief like her ego-driven crime-solving methods and the depiction of incompetent police staff which can cause children to question what Brenda would be like as their teacher and they would get the wrong message since she would be problematic as a teacher or administrator in any school or college, due to how her complex, often morally ambiguous, and sometimes dark character traits are not for kids while her tactics in interrogations like depiction and manipulation, are not aligned with the values typically promoted in children's programming. What I mean is that she often uses depiction and manipulation to get suspects to confess, often pretending to be naive or less intelligent than she is which can be seen as promoting dishonesty and trickery as acceptable tools for problem-solving which is not a positive message for kids. Her methods sometimes involve questionable ethical decisions, like releasing a suspect by knowing they will be harmed or using info gained through questionable means. These actions could normalize harmful behavior and blur the lines of right and wrong for kids. Her arrogance, stubbornness, and insensitivity towards others, while adding depth to her could be seen as negative traits to model for children. Despite being effective at her job, she lacks many qualities that are typically valued in kids' shows like empathy, patience, and a focus on cooperation. she is portrayed as someone who will use others like her own team members and those she's supposed to be working with to achieve her goals so she is described as being inflexible and self-centered, only trusty interested in cooperation when it benefits her which is not okay for kids. Her manipulative tendencies, insensitivity, disregard for rules, and the context of serious crime she operates within are unsuitable for kids. Coincidentally, that series began in the same year that both this game and Revenge of the Sith came out.
