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TIL Lego Star Wars: The Video Game, based off the prequel trilogy, released over a month before the third and final movie of the prequels, Revenge of the Sith, with a level based on clones disguised as jedi being based off an earlier script. This spoiled the film ending, although only in Lego grunts

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