After a record-breaking debut on Cartoon Network, The LEGO Group and Lucasfilm announced today that LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out is coming to DVD on March 26, 2013. The 22-minute original standalone special will bring the same tongue-in-cheek humor fans know and love in a brand new epic adventure featuring everyone’s favorite LEGO Star Wars characters. In LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out, the original Death Star has just been destroyed, but Luke, Han, Chewie, and Leia can’t celebrate for too long — a new Imperial threat has arisen. And while Luke has become a household name as “Death-Star-Blower-Upper,” he finds that not even the Force can protect him from a new menace: crazed fans! Things aren’t looking so good for Darth Vader, either, who finds himself locked in a hilarious “Sith-ling” rivalry with Darth Maul. LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out is an action-packed, comedic romp, perfect for fans of any age. When LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out premiered on Cartoon Network, it became the number-one telecast of the day with kids ages 6-11 and boys ages 2-17.
Written by Emmy Award-winner Michael Price (The Simpsons), the special features many of the beloved Star Wars voice actors fans know and love, including Anthony Daniels, Sam Witwer, Ahmed Best, and more.This minifigure of Palpatine is based on when he was the Emperor of the Galactic Empire. He was deformed after he dueled with Mace Windu in his Chancellor Office on Coruscant, causing his skin to turn grey and wrinkled. He was the master to the Sith Lord Darth Vader who was the fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. This minifigure has a black torso, legs, hood, cane, and cape and either a yellow or gray head. The gray skinned Emperor Palpatine is a flesh version of the yellow skinned Emperor. He was first included in the Imperial Inspection set, which was released in late 2005.As per usual with a Lego game there's a vehicle minikit to find scattered across every level, in the form of ten white canisters with a red and green lights. Some stick out in the open, others will require a little more exploration and cunning.
Some of them need you to have played through the story and unlocked characters with certain abilities before you can collect them; we let you know what abilities you'll need for each one. Here's how to get all ten canisters in the first level of Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. All Minikits at the Endor Shield Generator in Lego Star Wars: The Force AwakensYou should be able to see the canister floating on the ledge in front of you, on the right. Once you've taken out enough Stormtroopers to trigger the level progression use the building bricks that drop to build a trampoline on the right, and bounce up to get the canister.After getting past the first AT-ST with the log swing, progress through to the cover shooting area. Once you've taken out the second AT-ST by shooting the explosive at its feet, look up to the tree on the left hand side. You should see a kind of wall sconce thing that can be interacted with if you have a character that can use force powers (e.g. Luke). Using the force powers on it will pull out the canister.
Once you've used the group of ewoks to destroy the third AT-ST with logs, use the debris from it to build the gun and destroy the log blocking the rest of your party. You can then smash the gun and rebuild the bricks into a lift on the far left, under a tree with the canister on a walkway. The lift has a pressure plate, so you'll need one character on it, and one character operating it. Go on up and grab the canister.After doing the above, smash the bricks again and build a lift on the right hand side for BB-8 to power up. Once you're up to this next level, don't swing into the AT-ST, but use a character who can swim - the first you get will probably be Admiral Ackbar, who you unlock by playing the Poe to the Rescue mission (you can find this by talking to C3PO at the rebel base on J'Qar, but you need a certain number of gold bricks before it'll unlock. Akbar says "It's a trap!" and humorous variants thereof). Use your swimmer with the pool on the left to dig out some dynamite, and build a bomb on the tree to your left.
Once this is opened up you can enter the tree, and come out in an Ewok village in the tree. Smash everything in sight and you'll be able to build three instruments for the three Ewoks up there, and when they start playing it spits out the canister. Once you've raised hell in the AT-ST you'll reach the actual entrance building leading to the death star shield controls. Before you get out of the AT-ST look for three heaps of gold brick boulders and use the AT-ST to blow them up. There's one on top of the entrance, one on the ground to the right, and one at the very back of the arena on the left - don't miss the last one. Destroying all three gets you a canister.When you've jumped out of the AT-ST, look on the ground on the right side of the area. There's another AT-ST that's collapsed. Nearby are a group of rebel soldiers; use a command character like Leia or, incredibly, J. J. Abrams, who is a playable minifigure in this, to get them to help you pull the lid off the downed AT-ST. The canister is hiding inside it.
All Minikits at the Death Star Throne Room in Lego Star Wars: The Force AwakensIn the boss fight with the Emperor use a character with thermal detonators to destroy the silver bricks on the right. You can then build a command console for BB-8 to use, and with him you can play a side scrolling mini-game on the screen nearby where you guide the Millennium Falcon through a trench to destroy the death star (you just move it up and down out of the way of obstacles). Get through this and you get a canister.After the Emperor chucks your two characters down to the second level in the boss fight, go to the left hand back corner and use dark force powers to pull a panel off the wall. Behind it is one of those grills for a tiny character, so use one (BB-8, an ewok, that kind of thing) to go through onto a walkway. On the right hand end of said walkway is the cannister. All Minikits at the Death Star Attack in Lego Star Wars: The Force AwakensDuring the trench run of the Death Star there are large black turrets firing at you from both sides;