Disney Universe

I died 6 times and still got a gold, don't worry about deaths too much.
My bare minimum to get was all 3 stars, at least 2 arcade challenges and at least 1600 gold.
Limit yourself to 4 deaths if you have too (I don't know if the 6 were a fluke)

does this include any installed dlc as well or just the original characters

I got the achievement to pop without completing the Nightmare Before Christmas characters. Looks like they weren't required. It also helps if you play multiplayer. With four players you can get three stars per board and fully upgrade a character.

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Deaths don't matter a jot as long as you have at least 1600 gold, and at least 5/6 stars and challenges. Plus all 9 collectables.

On the matter of this achievement, if you work on this while doing your 2 playthroughs of the game and redoing levels for Gold grade, you should get over 75% of this achievement done easily. So it's probably not wise to ignore this achievement completely while doing the other achievements.
Just have to hunt out the stars on every single level to upgrade one character fully and make sure you change character at the end of each stage.
Doing this, I had only 10 characters left with 1 star and everyone else was on 4 stars. Even if you miss a star or two on certain stages, you can always go back to finish these characters later but just start with a fresh character each stage if possible.

I'd like to add something: as Flopsy86 said, some characters may be with 1 star left. If it happens to be more than 1, then you can do the following:

- start the Pirates' level normally with one of the 3-star-characters;
- Finish the first level part. You'll see the saving icon. Start the second level, let it save and launch the guide button and then the dashboard.

I'll save that 'lonely' star to the character and when you reload the game you can choose Pirate's again and continue with another 3-star-character for the second level.

The effect when launching the dashboard is different than pausing and quitting (as this won't save the star).

@Alacant7: You don't have to dash out. As the 2nd level begins, you'll see the auto-save icon appear. Immediately after that you can pause and quit out. It will save the upgrade you just got.

Hey all, just thought I'd add that based on time it is actually quicker to do the first and second stage quick then when the third starts quit and restart the first for the final star for each character.
This method was averaging around 6 minutes where as just doing the first took around 7 minutes, I know its not much of a difference but it will save you having to play this more than necessary.