Hasbro made the Telepods figures for Angry Birds Star Wars II.
Hasbro’s Telepods were a toys-to-life system: physical figures could be placed on a special base and scanned into a compatible game. In Angry Birds Star Wars II, the figures represented characters from the game’s Star Wars crossover, allowing players to unlock or access digital versions of those characters through the device camera.
The partnership linked Rovio’s mobile game with Hasbro’s established toy-making and licensing business. Telepods were not ordinary action figures; their bases incorporated a magnifying lens and QR-code technology to help the phone or tablet recognize each figure. That is why the feature is sometimes mistaken for a standard merchandise line or confused with products from Lego, Mattel, or Bandai. Hasbro also produced Telepods for later Angry Birds games, but Star Wars II was the first title in the series to use the system. The game launched in 2013 as a sequel to Angry Birds Star Wars and added both new characters and playable pigs.