User blog:BeyondCarl/A Star-Wars Rebels playset was planned! - 04-04-2021

By: BeyondCarl and Eidan Yoson

Remember how we concluded that the reason Rebels didn't get a playset was because they would cross over with Rogue one? Well... New info has made us change our opinion. This new info proves that a Rebels playset was indeed in development. So hang on as we go down this rabbit hole of information!

reb = rebels

Mission Givers
It all started with a file called reb_ashokamg.dnax. At first we wondered what mg meant but as we decompiled the file it was obvious. It means Mission Giver. An Ashoka mission giver? But for what playset? We know that Rebels character used the psz (playset z / rogue one) prefix if it was for that playset. So we realized that maybe rebels was gonna get it's own playset?

We started out by looking for more mission givers. In total there are 16 mission givers with the reb prefix:


 * 1) reb_vizagomg.dnax
 * 2) reb_ahsokamg.dnax
 * 3) reb_childslave1mg.dnax
 * 4) reb_childslave2mg.dnax
 * 5) reb_choppermg.dnax
 * 6) reb_cleanerslavemg.dnax
 * 7) reb_droidmechanicslavemg.dnax
 * 8) reb_electricianslavemg.dnax
 * 9) reb_escapedslave1mg.dnax
 * 10) reb_escapedslave2mg.dnax
 * 11) reb_motherslave1mg.dnax
 * 12) reb_paintbomb.dnax
 * 13) reb_villageeldermg.dnax
 * 14) reb_villagefarmermg.dnax
 * 15) reb_villageherbalistmg.dnax
 * 16) reb_villagereyalmg.dnax

Why would Rebels need mission givers without a playset..? So we kept digging.

Mouse Droid
The next thing we'd stumble upon would be an enemy called reb_mousedroid. So we opened up the model in-game!



Now we do indeed know about the other Mouse Droid in-game. And as they might look like the same at first they truly aren't. Here is psx_mousedroid (psx = playset X / The Force Awakens):

So as you can see the psx version is much less detailed. As well as it not being marked as an enemy like the rebels version but as an animal.

Phantom
There isn't much to say but we found a file called reb_phantom.dnax

Following is the Rebels ship by the same name.



Paintbomb
Now we have something really interesting. Paintbombs. A mechanic that seems to never have been implemented.


 * reb_paintbomb
 * reb_paintbomb_ability
 * reb_remotepaintbomb

From this list we can see there would have been a remote paint bomb too! Here is a paintbomb from the Rebels show:

IG-RM bodyguard and enforcer droid
Now we come to our second enemy. The IG-RM bodyguard and enforcer droid from the rebels show as well. It was identified from the file: reb_igrm_droid. Following is an image from the Rebels show:



Airspeeders
We can confirm that 2 different airspeeders were planned from these files:


 * reb_airspeeder_xj_6_pn_clip.oct
 * reb_airspeeder_xj_6_clip.oct
 * reb_airspeeder_xj_1_pn_clip.oct
 * reb_airspeeder_xj_1_clip.oct

This confirms the well known XJ-6 and the one I've never heard of. XJ-1. I couldn't even find any art of an XJ-1 so that's interesting. Here is the XJ-6:



Huge map | reb_moonsystemtestbed_01
So there has been this map in existence someone I don't remember found. As we saw it had the reb prefix we loaded it up and WOAH it's amazing. So I recorded footage of it. The big planet in the background is just a skybox though :( Anyways! There is stuff like working gravity on these mini moons and a huge star destroyer.



Kessel
The planet Kessel would be in this playset too! We found out by looking at 2 particular animation files:


 * reb_kes_boulder01
 * reb_kes_boulder02

Kessel was a planet that debuted in Rebels so Kes most likely means Kessel. Unfortunately it's not possible to view animation at this current time. Here is Kessel:



Interior toys
We know some of these toys were indeed already added but we'll put the list here if anyone wants to check which ones was and which ones wasn't released.


 * tbi_reb_bed_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_cabinet_corner_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_ceilinglight_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_chair_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_couch_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_counter_tech_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_crate_orange_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_crate_purple_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_crates_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_doorframe_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_ezrafamily_holoprojector_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_ezrazeb_painting_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_fruittable_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_graffiti_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_joganfruit_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_kitchentable_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_meiloorunfruit_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_painting_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_paintsplat_floor_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_paintsplat_wall_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_pillar_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_poster_ezra_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_poster_kanan_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_poster_sabine_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_poster_zeb_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_poster01_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_poster02_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_poster03_0.ibuf
 * 5 tbi_reb_poster04_0.ibuf

Conclusion
And finally we have our conclusion. As sources close to Infinity has informed as that the playset was cancelled we still do believe that the Rebels were planned for Rogue One. Now we just have a bigger picture. Our theory goes like this: The Rebels playset was cancelled so they had to compromise because they wouldn't be able to just quickly come up with 4 (5 if you count Hera) new characters and create them this far into development. So they put them in Rogue One instead. or at least they wanted to before the shut down.

And that is all of the info about the scrapped Rebels playset for now.