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LEGO Star Wars: Padawan Menace on Blu-Ray and DVD
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- Category: toy reviews
- Published on Sunday, 25 September 2011 21:21
- Written by Carrie Anne
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We love the LEGO video games like The Pirates of the Caribbean and the Star Wars series; I think we own most of them (and are looking forward to adding to our collection the new Harry Potter Years 5-7 version we spotted at the Xbox Holiday Game Preview).
We were pleasantly surprised when LEGO ventured into films with Clutch Powers, a movie the whole family enjoyed. Now LEGO Star Wars fans can enjoy a new animated special LEGO Star Wars. The Padawan Menace available exclusively in Walmart stores on Blu-Ray and DVD September 16, 2011.
The stand-alone 22-minute original special is full of family-fun action and cheeky humour that viewers have come to expect from the LEGO Star Wars collaborations.
Synopsis from Twenty Century Fox:
A routine Jedi Academy field trip is turned into a rip-roaring comic adventure in LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace. Tour guide Master Yoda leads a group of rambunctious Jedi Younglings through Senate chambers when he senses a disturbance in the Force. Summoned to help save the Republic, he discovers that one of the Younglings secretly boarded his ship…and has a taste for adventure! Meanwhile, C-3PO and R2-D2 are put in charge of the boisterous group and find themselves in over their heads. As the evil Sith prepare to wreak havoc, it’s up to Yoda and the Droids to ensure that their young charges aren’t torn to bricks!
The LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace has some of your favourite characters and locations (like Mos Esley’s, and the Hoth Planet). Kids will love Darth Vadar’s unscheduled cameos and adults will enjoy some of the hidden humour (like the Darth Mall shopping center or the Las Vegas styled Welcome to Jabba’s sign).
The special features are as much fun to watch as the main feature:
- The Quest for R2-D2 and Bombad Bounty are funny short animation stories incorporating LEGO (though not as thoroughly as the main feature).
- Star Wars in 2 Minutes (part 1 and part 2) give you a quick snap shot of the main elements in the two saga’s: part 1 covers years 4 to 6, part 2 covers years 1 to 3. These are shot with stop motion using actual LEGO elements (versus animated elements with a child narrator taking you through the highlights. These are well done and very funny.
- The Clone Wars Animated Comics consists of a few animated segments following other aspects of The Clone Wars animated series.
The Blu-Ray/DVD combo set means we can watch a higher definition version at home and still enjoys the DVD version in the van on road trips. The included mini figure of young Han Solo is a nice extra too.
