LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace is a LEGO-brick non-canon thirty-minute TV special. It aired on the television channel Cartoon Network on July 22, 2011. It is set to be released on blu-ray disc and DVD on September 16, 2011.

Plot summary
Grand Master Yoda has just arrived back on Coruscant from the Outer Rim with a group of Younglings on a field trip. They arrive at the Senate Building to take a tour, headed by C-3PO and R2-D2. As they enter a young child who had snuck away from an orphanage manages to get into the building and joins the group on their tour. Meanwhile, Assajj Ventress is in the Senate Building, having just stole secret battle plans with the intention of delivering them to Palpatine and plan an attack on Coruscant.

While on the tour, the young child, now known as "Ian" stirs up trouble causing C-3PO, R2-D2, and the rest of the younglings to flee into space, where they find themselves in the middle of a space battle between Republic and CIS forces. While avoiding destruction, and with a quick check in on Anakin Skywalker and General Grievous fighting, they accidentally end up on Obi-Wan's hyperspace ring sending them to Tatooine. During which time Yoda and Commander Cody battle with Ventress and a small group of battle droids.

On Tatooine, C-3PO, R2-D2, and the other younglings look for passage off planet and back to Coruscant after their ship is scavenged by jawas while 3PO had his back turned. After heading to Mos Eisley cantina C-3PO sneaks in, disguised in a cloak so he is not seen as a droid, in the hopes of finding a ride, meanwhile the younglings are mistaken for the house band. When C-3PO is seen to be a droid the group is captured and sent to Jabba the Hutt where the younglings are caged and C-3PO has to fight R2-D2 for Jabba's amusement. After encouragement from the younglings, the two droids help free the children and escape custody of Jabba.

Ventress is captured but a battle droid escapes with the plans, causing Yoda and Cody to go into pursuit. While in space it is revealed that Ian had snuck aboard Yoda and Cody's ship. The droid ship was tracked to Hoth where Yoda and Ian go after the plans. In the cold they find a tauntaun for shelter where they find the battle droid with the plans hiding in it. After recovering the plans they are attacked by droidekas and after a brief battle escape with the plans and head back to Coruscant, after picking up the others off of Tatooine.

They arrive back on Couscant where they are rewarded for bravery and in the end it is revealed that Ian's name is Han Solo and that the "H" on his name tag was sideways, while Admiral Ackbar screams, 'ITS A WRAP!".

Behind the scenes
The special featured many references to the Star Wars saga.


 * The beginning has an opening crawl simiar to the six Star Wars movies.
 * The introduction also has a homage to the very first scene of the Tantive IV pursuit in A New Hope.
 * Lobot is seen as the driver of the school bus
 * When Ventress and Yoda are fighting, their saber lock resembles the one between Luke and Vader in the Return of the Jedi.
 * Han saying "I have a bad feeling about this."
 * When Yoda tells Han they have to go into the tauntaun for shelter Han says "And I thought they smelled bad on the outside," like he did in The Empire Strikes Back when putting Luke into the tauntaun for shelter.
 * Yoda begins to make a speech to Han similair to the one he made to Luke about the Force in his hut on Dagobah.
 * Darth Vader frequently makes appearances, causing George Lucas to have to go an set and escort him off, telling him he is not in this scene, and calling him "Darth" the same way Obi Wan did in A New Hope.
 * When Yoda is talking to the Jedi Council, Han changes the channel to a show called "Keeping up with the Calrissians." Also Bib Fortuna is seen singing in a performance much like American Idol.
 * Mos Eisley Cantina is visited and the same policy of "We don't serve their kind in here" for the droids. It also features R2-D2 playing a archived clip with Luke and C-3PO from A New Hope.
 * The ending features a medal ceremony similair to the one seen at the end of A New Hope.
 * Han shows a lack of respect for C-3PO during the medal ceremony much the way he does in the Original Trilogy.
 * Admiral Ackbar says "It's a wrap!" At the end, referencing his line "It's a trap!" from Return of the Jedi.
 * The shot of the school bus flying through the squadron of separatist fighters in the beginning of the Battle of Coruscant echoes the shot of the Millennium Falcon flying through the squadron of Imperial fighters in the beginning of the Battle of Endor in "Return of the Jedi."