Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-5791028-20150709160234/@comment-1857410-20151107204917

I vote that most of the things you can find in the game are easter eggs.

The game's cutscenes make it clear which characters are experiencing the story at any given time, so I'd say anything that involves characters outside of that is just a gameplay-based easter egg. Previous LEGO games made this a bit more straightforward by separating "Story Mode" from "Free Play mode," so while this game is a bit more open-ended, it seems like the same philosophy is in place