The History of Lego Star Wars World Records 

Thanks to the following people for help with research! They helped a LOT and this video wouldn't have been possible without them. Be sure to check their channels out: Zac: www.twitch.tv/zacmuffin ejpman: www.twitch.tv/ejpman Chimkin: www.twitch.tv/chimkin WiiSuper: www.twitch.tv/wiisuper Pickletoe: www.youtube.com/@pickletoe Eroadhouse: www.twitch.tv/eroadhouse Scynor: www.twitch.tv/scynor_ And check out the Lego Star Wars leaderboards for more top runners: www.speedrun.com/lswtcs

Want to say thanks to Salt for making this video for us, I can speak for the whole community when I say it's been a dream for us for a long time. The friends I have made along the way and the lessons I've learned have been nothing short of incredible and have meant the world to me. Hope you guys enjoyed!

Thank you so much to everyone in this community who made this possible. A special thank you to Evan (Eroadhouse) who has pushed this game with me further than we ever thought it could go. Hope you guys enjoy

I love how Ginger was just so damn happy to be there lol Like he didn't get very close to the record, but the fact that he did so damn well compared to his previous runs was enough for him to freak out and get hype.

That section of Zac narrating the run was special even by the high standards of your work. Not a runner and haven't even played Lego Star Wars, but the way you edited it and his obvious passion for the game gave me butterflies in my stomach. Would love to see more runners given the spotlight to narrate their own key moments in that way.

This game has held a close place in my heart the past 4 years and I am honored for salt to cover its history! I plan on continuing to improve my time and try for more WRs!

I love getting 37 minutes into these thinking “there’s no way it could get faster”

The funniest part about the Ultra Kill glitch is that you kill the Emperor the exact way that he dies in canon. Just... Push 'em.

“Lego Star Wars will never die, only the people who play it and the characters in it” -Qui Gon John

As the world record holder in Lego Batman, I’m honored to even be mentioned in this video. It’s been a pleasure being in the community and I want to thank you so much for giving the Lego community the recognition it deserves!

Thanks for watching! This game is close to my heart and it is so cool seeing it get this level of recognition. Looking forward to seeing where the record goes in the future!

Those live events are a great idea!

UPDATE: Zac has pushed the record down to 2:22:52 about three months ago, where it stands uncontested. Good stuff Zac! :)

The story between WiiSuper and Scynor was truly a tale for the legends

I love how you were able to make me root for about 5 separate people throughout this video. That’s a sign of good writing.

What I love about this history of world records is that each "chapter" that covers each Champion builds them up and makes them feel like actual world champions of a more physical sport and gives them this strange amount of gravitas. Love Salt's vids.

I can never believe when the video ends. It always feels like there could be one more record

Normal summoning salt videos : "And that's how they saved 0.5 seconds" This one : "So that's how 70 seconds were chopped off the time, and then next week another 50!"

This game having an “ultra shortcut” was the best dramatic twist in modern cinema. Keep up the great content sir.

I love how, as we move to games with younger communities (meaning more thoroughly documented origins), the beginnings of these videos have gone from: 'There are no records of how set this time, but its considered by top runners to be legitimate to: ''s Speedrun strategy mainly revolved around running the game speedily...'

imagine being darth vader finally having the fated battle with your son that you have been anticipating for years that will decide both of your fates forever and then he just starts noclipping around

Working on research for this and watching it develop was some of the most fun I've had in a while. Thank you Salt!

I gotta say, the final zoom out of the world record chart at the end of every episode is always super satisfying. No matter how many times I see it, it's just... a perfect way to end these videos.

After loosing my closest friend 2 days ago this was the fist 1.5 hour break I've had in my thoughts. Thank you.

I love how the best runners actually meet up and help each other out. It's so nice to see :)

I love how in the Ultra Kill (20:27) you just do what the cutscene shows. This almost feels like an easter egg instead of an exploit.

Getting the world record in the rubber match against your long time rival is actually the most baller thing I’ve ever heard of in speed running

I love the time lowering chart. You should look into using vector graphics for these instead of raster graphics so it's not so blurry when zoomed in. Great video as always, you make any speed game seem like the most interesting one out there

I love the contrast between how grand all these records feel and the names of tricks like "discoskip".

Only 24 hours after this video, the world record was broken by Zac! Records achieved after this video will be shown here: 2:24:26 by ZacMuffin (December 16, 2022) 2:24:25 by ERoadhouse (December 21, 2022)

it’s cool that the speedrun strats for the Emperor are what canonically happened to him

Just wanted to let you know you were credited with inspiring the brand new King of Contra crowned 6 days ago. You’re an incredible boon for the speed running community and your content is impeccable. So much props to you king.

The part of these videos that always get me is the fact that at the end of the video a new chapter is about to begin in the history of that game. The video will bring so much attention to the scene that it would cause a explosion of popularity.

Imagine the time required to research the history of a 3 hour speedrun. Then my man makes a feature length film about it, never loses steam. What a legend.

The timeline addition is a huge aid in visualizing all these records. Your videos have become noticeably more enjoyable with their inclusion.

This might be the best Summoning Salt video, and that's saying a lot considering the amount of absolute bangers you've published over the years.

The thing I love the most about the speedrunning community, is how much of a group effort it all is. Everyone is working together to find all the best tricks to shave off a few extra seconds, and in the end it's all about your individual skill if you're able to be the best one at executing it all.

Wow. Not only is it so exciting to see my name just for a brief moment in one of these videos after watching the channel for so long, but to see my favourite speed game chosen for a video made me so excited when I saw it come up this morning. Although I wasn’t around much in the community after my times, I have still been actively keeping up with the leaderboards up to the recent 2:24s and I’d really like to just note how absurd these times seem to me. I remember when I was most actively running and I spent my summer holidays from school playing over 6-9 hours most days consistently grinding out ILs for hours on end or I was strat finding looking for the smallest of movement optimisations just to make sub 3 more viable. A large time was also spent streaming for hours going for new records. Through this i had been under the impression sub 3 was barely viable, but unfortunately I believed that the game would hit a huge holt as it seemed very hard to even achieve this at the time. HOWEVER after the HUGE improvements, time and effort put in by the new gen runners, I was no less than shocked with just what can be done when you have a highly motivated team of runners. So i thank them massively, for not only making so many huge milestones become reality, but for being an amazing community. I remember when I had just started speedrunning and the record was in the high 3:30s and I had caught a few of tsgs records live and from there I knew the game had so much potential and it wouldn’t have been done without everyone’s hard work to achieve these records the years. It has been an amazing journey and it’s far from over yet. I can’t wait to see who gets the sub 2:20. Hey, I might even come back and try :) I would like to thank salt too for giving the speedruns of this game one of the, or even the biggest pushes it’s ever had in publicity and through this I hope it not only increases the size of the community massively but also the competition. I believe 2023 is going to be a massive year for TCS. ❤️

ah yes, the true speed run history we’ve all been waiting for

"So grandpa, what did you do in your twenties and thirties?" "I spent 16 hours a day to grind for the world record in a 20 year old LEGO game" "So you got the world record?" "... No"

49:37 We interrupt Lego Star Wars to bring you Mario Kart Wii

as of today, zacc has set another world record of 2:24:26, absolutely insane

I just lowered my sleep time by 1.5 hours, but it was so worth it! Thank you for making those fantastic videos

Holy crap! I love how weirdly appropriate elements of this are - the fact that you can skip the Palpatine fight by throwing him down a pit is so perfect that I wish it was intentional, and then Zach turning off the stream feels like “Luke! You’ve turned off your targeting computer!” Hehe.

The fact that Summoning Salt can fascinate me with a timeline of speedrun world records of a game I never really knew or cared about is simply astounding.

Having the live interview/commentary by top runners (Zacc in this case) truly takes these documentaries to a whole other level. Please please please continue with them!

Never thought I’d see the day. Takes me back, glad I got to be part of this community all those years ago and am happy to see where the community is now.

I love how the most replayed section is just skipping the raid ad.

It's incredible how a community can discover dozens of new tricks for a game every so often and completely break it. I love hearing these stories

Despite being 90 minutes long, I really think Salt does a good job summing up the most important while also diving in depth to how records were broken. This guy sure knows how to make videos.

I love how summoning salts videos make you feel a major bond/battle begin to form against the speed runners. The story-telling makes the whole thing so immersive

Your ability to make us root for so many different ppl is diff, I was so invested in Zacc at the end especially

That chart at the end is all over the place, it's probably the only speedrun where anybody can jump on and find something new and take the endless top spot.

The WR has been beaten two times since this video came out. First by Zacc with 2:24:26, then by ERoadHouse with 2:24:25, just 0,3 seconds faster.

Letting zacc tell the story is absolutely an improvement. Should do this more often

It's amazing how many times speedrunners embark on long, brutal, relentless grinds, absolutely failing to learn the lesson that human improvement just don't work that way.

It's insane this was one of the most intense, interesting, and fascinating speedrun I've ever watched. I loved this. Massive shout out to the runners part of this, nothing but mad respect to you all.

Literally screamed when I saw this in my sub feed

this game is literally my childhood. I'm glad to see that a speedrunning community has grown from it.

Summoning Salt has secured a place in speedrunning history as one of the best filmmakers of all time.

thanks Summoning Salt, with the rise of short-form content such as shorts and tiktok I really appreciate this well made long-form content. It's way better for you're mental health and you somehow have me sitting on the edge of my seat every time :)

1p2c sounds like a droid designation, which is incredibly fitting. Edit: Seeing some of the shortcuts in this and other games makes me wonder how people go about finding them. Would you mind doing a “Speedrunning Theory” type video to explain how some of the weirder ones came about?

What I love the most about Summoning Salt videos is his ability to make me care so much about the players. I am not a speed runner, barely a gamer, but I am so emotionally invested every time in games and people I have not known before the video.

I feel like Scynor and Wiisport were the middle "protagonists"

I just love how the game seems to have a really great community. All the top runners doing streams together and organising these events is just nice to see.

Color coding the records based on who holds them is a fantastic idea.

The Lego Community has some of the best and most dedicated community members in all the Speedrunning communities I've had the pleasure of being a part of, and coming back and watching the development of all the skips and growth of runners fills me with pride knowing that I was there. My favorite part of Summoning Salt videos are the segments where we get to learn about all the new trick discoveries, including who discovered/created them, and I'm glad all of the glitch hunters and tech developers get their proper just due in these videos, so allow me to personally thank Summoning Salt for continuing to include them with every World Record History Video. I haven't ran this game personally since that '2:57' you saw for a brief bit during the race for '2:50' portion of the video. I don't think I was ever as good at the game as the absolute units of talent and dedication (1P2C is not something I grasped very well) that are the other runners, but I enjoyed playing with you guys for the time that I did.

Hello I just found this channel and I gotta say its great. I've been interested in speed running for a few years now but I gotta say the way you add such excellent story telling to really make the history of each game's run so interesting. Thanks and keep it up!

The ending with Zac narrating his own perspective was the most intense thing I’ve ever been invested in before. Then ending it with the *final* world record, with the music? That killed me.

1:11:00 Zac is a real competitor, risking it for the biscuit, pulling out all the stops to get that record. Nothing but respect on his name.

It's insane that we get to see masterpiece after masterpiece for free! Thanks a lot SS for your work and recommending so many cool songs!

Absolutely phenomenal job on this one. Love all your videos but this everything about this one is just top tier. The interview narration of the run by Zac really brought it all together to add so much emotion and stakes to what was already a fantastically written video. Love it

For those wondering as of January 4th 2023 zac has the record of 2:22:11

I'm one of those "I see a Summoning Salt video, I click" people, but seeing one for a game I never played more than maybe 10 minutes of on a demo, never really had an interest in, and don't know anything about... and STILL being glued to my screen for an hour and a half... major props to you, Salt. And it's not just a credit to you as a creator, but a credit to the runners who are so devoted to these games that their fight for WR is so engaging of a story to tell. Your videos never fail to make me sit back in awe with a smile on my face.

Having run this game for over 3 years, it is so emotional to finally see it getting the love this speedrun deserves. Thanks for the video SummoningSalt!

To feel more excited when watching Summoning Salt WR History videos rather than any other Netflix series shows how well done his videos are

I was rooting for zach ever since he didnt get the record after playing for 14 hours straight. Really proud of that dude for real.

Okay so crazily, just hours after this video came out Zacc took the record back with a 2:24:26. Great video though, I love these longer format world record histories.

You think you’ve seen it all, then SummoningSalt hits you with the “Lego Star Wars has an ultra shortcut”

Imagine waking up feeling a disturbance in the force, then quickly checking the leaderboards only to see you've lost the WR.

I live for the names of speedrun tricks. Pod Fraud is a 10/10.

i feel so proud watching this. we were such a small community in the 2016-18 days. we tried so hard to get someone on gdq back then to no avail, so we created legothon. also for fun, we actually thought wii was the fastest platform for a long time because we figured wiimotion force speedups made up for the actual speed difference i focused on super stories myself, had the revenge of the sith record for a while i never thought we'd get here

I would love if you could chart each runners PBs as their own line. When people are trading the record you can see each time the gap is closed and you’d see two different lines racing downwards. It would also be a really neat way to show when a new player moves super quickly towards the top because right now you only show the world record. It’d show a really cool timeline of events with the WRs still being highlighted

This video inspired me to play LEGO Star Wars again for nostalgia

"LEGO Star Wars has an ultra shortcut" I could not hold back my smile. It's as though Summoning salt were destined to make a videoabout this.

It’s honestly insane, I remember watching some of the videos from when summoning salt was just starting to gain popularity and remember thinking “wow these videos are amazing” but they continue to improve with the recent addition of the timeline and now an interview from one of the runners. Keep it up!

Your story telling is incredible, something that happened 4 years ago you can make feel so current

A summoning salt video is also awesome to watch and is such an immersive rollercoaster of emotion. I can't wait to see what other legendary story in gaming history is uncovered next. Runs for games that would be pleasant visits would be some of the Resident Evil games, Symphony of the Night, or Super Monkey Ball

11:18 Use the Force Luke! Nah…I’m gonna skip force pull day this time and just hit the imaginary barrier to elevate my character model so that it can get up there. Semantics dear boy…

Zacs recollection and storytelling of the 2:26 is phenomenal

The “ultra kill” actually makes total sense. In the trick one player is killed and then, with another player tagged in, the emperor can be pushed off the ledge. In the movie, Luke is nearly killed by the emperor and then ‘player two’ Darth Vader throws the emperor off the ledge. This trick is actually just film accuracy. (Sarcasm)

the writing and the music choices is so good, I don't even play Lego Star Wars and I sat through it, absolutely incredible

I'd honestly be interested to see live two-player speedruns

I remember when I joined this community in 2018, when it was just TSG, Zulice and a couple others. The way the community exploded since then has never stopped to amaze me and I think it's thanks in large to the incredible bonding that's present in the community. I've never seen and doubt I will ever see a community like this again, and this video does an incredible job at showcasing that. Thanks for this trip down memory lane

It's really cool seeing all these interviews with the runners in recent videos, really enhances the story behind these records hearing it from the horses mouth, as it were

I just finished watching the video, decided to check the leaderboard and a new record was set just 2 days ago! This was an incredibly fun watch and shoutout to all the runners who have participated in it's history.

9:01 that whole segment was perfect, you literally couldn't have done that better, 10/10

I could actually feel some heart speed up during that final drive. This feels like a masterclass in storytelling. Thank you

The crossover my childhood never knew it needed. Thank you for bringing so much care and love to the speedrunning community Mr. Salt

Eroadhouse dropping the record by like 4 minutes at that stage in the run's history has to be one of the best record sets ever