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when eager star wars fans sat down to watch the trailer for Episode seven the force awakens they were introduced to a man stranded on a desert planet we now know his name is Finn so what happens to thin we won't know that until December but I spoke with the actor portraying him John boyega after his photo shoot for cnet magazine he told me that Finn is on a journey that will turn him into an iconic superhero we also know that boyega will wield a lightsaber at some point in the film is he the next week Skywalker boyega loves that he knows and we don't still some people aren't happy that boy llega is playing the lead role there's been backlash on Twitter against having a black man playing such an important part as for boyega he told me he's just focused on making a great movie meantime Disney is focused on more than just the next Star Wars the company is in the middle of a huge effort to remake its business around a video game and toy called infinity Disney isn't the only one making these either there's also Activision and Nintendo and together they've pulled in more than four billion dollars in the past four years the boom isn't likely to slow down now that Disney is adding the new Star Wars characters including thin to its infinity game so the way it works is that Disney makes these toys well figurines really that have a chip in their base and when you put them on this pad that's connected to your television and your video game console there's a flash of light and suddenly this toy that was in your hand is now in the video game I visited Disney's offices in Utah and saw how the infinity team works they try very hard to make the figurine toys is true to their characters as we see on the TV and movie screens take Darth Maul from Star Wars Episode one the phantom menace in the movie mall has red skinned black tattoos and eight horn sticking out of his head when Disney built the toy the horns were a problem because they were considered too dangerous for kids Disney had to convince the Star Wars teams at Lucas to let them create their figure with six larger horns instead so it would be safer Disney and its rivals believe many of the toys we played with as kids will go the way of the dinosaur in their place will be these new devices that we can play with in the real world and inside a video game as for boyega I asked him what it felt like to be a character on the big screen and in a video game he's a big gamer so for him it's more than a dream come true it's one thing to be in a movie he said it's a whole other thing to be in a video game