I was planning on getting my daughter Looping Louie for Christmas, but I now see there is a Star Wars version. Other than the attraction of the Star Wars license, Loopin’ Chewie is, while great for kids in its own right, pretty much inferior to the original, which permitted four players (instead of three), features a Louie figure that’s better done than Chewie, and with retails for less than the Star Wars version. Rather, the closest inspiration for Risk: Star Wars Edition is probably The Queen’s Gambit, a classic (2000) original design Star Wars game set during The Phantom Menace.

How to Play: Start with Chewie upright and turn on the switch on the side (love that this game uses AA batteries which are easy and we always have them around) and Chewie drops down and starts spinning around in a circle.We do not believe in updates for the sake of updates - and we will never share your details with a 3rd party. The players must balance the need to destroy the shield generator (or delay its destruction) with the need to maintain a viable tactical position in space to destroy the Death Star (or prevent its destruction).

But what you can do is hit it too hard, it goes up in the air spins on the spot and lands directly on your own Stormtroopers! My daughter is familiar enough with Star Wars to where that theme is fine but not such a big fan that I'd choose it over Louie, necessarily.We promise we will only send relevant content , and only when we have something worth sharing with you! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Variations: I'm told that the original Loopin' Louie game is used as a drinking game in some colleges, so perhaps this could be used for the same purpose if you're cooler than me and can handle more than one drink in the evening.

I ended up with one left over copy that I originally thought I’d use for parts in case the first copy broke down. The storm trooper tokens are a little precarious in their slots and if you have a young child who bashes on the flipper it can be enough to jostle a token and have it fall below, which is a bit upsetting for the child and 3)This does not fit back into its original box without being dismantled so you have to choose between storing the awkwardly shaped game somewhere or you have to unassemble and reassemble each time you want to play.But if you can flip him out of the way with your paddle, he'll go after someone else's Stormtrooper! Loopin’ Chewie is a simple one… It runs on batteries and an arm swings around with Chewie in a Millennium Falcon. Every time he flies by in his Millennium Falcon vehicle, he'll be out to knock another Stormtrooper off.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Players control the levers of their respective barracks, in time to Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon doing flying loops overhead, trying to stop it from knocking a Stormtrooper token off the barracks and into the channel. Loopin' Chewie is out and about and he's going to come after the Stormtroopers with his piloting skills! My other notes about this game are: 1)You have to play with three players to make the game work well.My five-year-old has loved it, and while the two-year-old doesn’t understand what’s going on and can’t really play, they still have a lot of fun watching Chewie fly around and mashing the lever. I really enjoy simple dexterity games like this, they're fun and require some good reflexes and the process of "figuring out the game" is great for younger kids. A purely dexterity game, the main draw of Loopin’ Chewie is that the motor at the center of the game will flies Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon around. It’s great fun for adults and children alike, so much that it was one of our games we got out for Christmas Day last year!