Your new LEGO Star Wars adventure begins at the Mos Eisley Cantina. It is just the place for intergalactic travelers to unwind.
The Mos Eisley Cantina on the planet Tatooine is a nice place to find disreputables when you’re looking for somebody to do a dirty job. Try to keep a low profile, but if someone comes after you, break him into little pieces.
The cantina is the only way to get from place to place, and episode to episode, in the universe. As you walk around the cantina, you see many doors.
Not all of these doors are open at the game’s beginning, but the more you play and the more missions you complete, the more doors open up for you to explore.
Six doors with Roman numerals over them stand along the outer walls; they lead to different episodes. Enter one of these doors to find another room with six episode chapters and a bonus area.
Other doors off the main cantina include one with a picture of clashing lightsabers above it for multiplayer and a door with a picture of a question mark above it, with a few bonus rooms inside.
An open doorway in the left wall takes you out to the dusty parking lot.
As you play through the game and discover more characters along your journey, they begin to frequent the cantina.
When you start the game, the place is pretty dead, but after you complete eight or nine missions, the cantina gets kind of crowded. These new bar patrons are at your disposal; you can switch to them at any time to add them to your party.
Some characters at the cantina just want to be left alone, however, and you can’t switch to them.
Before you start your first mission in Episode, it’s a good idea to explore the cantina area. As you move about, you’ll see many things to do in this place.
You can break all the chairs in the cantina to find hidden studs and hearts. You can use the Force on the blue lights around the place to find even more hidden treasure.
Be sure to use the Force, blast, or assemble loose LEGOs on all the unique items you see in the different rooms to find all the hidden goodies you can.
When you’re finally ready to fight the evil Galactic Empire and save the universe, move through the large door marked “I.” Each door with a Roman numeral leads to the corresponding episode room.
This room contains seven smaller doors, each one leading to a different chapter of the story with the seventh room being the bonus room.
These chapter rooms are where most of the action takes place, so move into the first one and start your journey.
The episode rooms have doorways to the different chapters you can play.
Bar Counter
At the main bar in the Mos Eisley Cantina, the not-so-friendly bartender is waiting to sell you his goods. Along the wall behind the bar you can buy hints, characters, extras, or even gold bricks.
The hints give you bonus information about the game and won’t cost you very many studs. The characters option lets you buy characters and vehicles that you won’t otherwise be able to get by playing the game.
If you want the Emperor on your side, you’ll have to pay the studs for him. The extras option lets you buy bonus features, such as giving everyone a disguise or getting super fast Force abilities.
Some of the extras become available for purchase only after you find the corresponding power brick as you play the game. The last thing you can buy at the bar are the gold bricks that help you get into secret and hard-to-get-to places.
The items at the bar range in price from cheap to really expensive. Spend your studs wisely because some of the really good characters and extras cost a lot of studs.
The bartender drives a hard bargain on some of his wares, but you have to pay because his is the only shop around.
Create a Character Area
On the right side of the cantina is the character creation area where you get to create and name your very own unique character. Look for the two large tanks with characters inside, which are the building blocks for your new creation.
Press up or down to choose what part of the character you want to change: the head, body, hands, weapon, etc. When you have selected the part you want to change, press left or right to change the color or style of that object.
Options include different hats, hairstyles, faces, weapons, colors of clothes, etc. You can customize these characters any way you like, depending on the options you have available.
Put Luke’s head on top of Vader’s body so he can carry on the family tradition. Or put Bossk’s head on top of Princess Leia’s bikini-clad body.
Or put the face of a droid on the body of a human with a large blaster to create your very own deadly cyborg. Mix and match the parts to come up with your own fun and exciting creations.
If you are having trouble thinking of things to do, use the random option and the game will create a character for you.
After you have the character you want, give your creation a name. After you create your two unique characters, you can always go back and make more changes.
No wonder droids aren’t allowed in the cantina. That one is packing heat!
Cantina Parking
Inside the cantina, the open door on the left leads outside to the parking lot. Go outside and smash all the containers you find to get lots of hidden studs.
Assemble the loose LEGOs on the ground to the right of the cantina entrance to create a huge piece of machinery and lots of valuable studs. Smash it for even more goods.
After you destroy the containers near the front of the screen, assemble the loose pieces on the ground to create a small vehicle and grab the studs that spill out.
Run over the center of the area to reveal large flat green and gray LEGOs. Push on the green side of the turnstyle nearby to create a small road at the center of the area with gold studs for you to collect.
As you complete missions, you’ll collect LEGO canisters hidden in the chapters.
Each canister is a part for a vehicle that is put together on the right side of the cantina parking lot on the conveyer belt that corresponds to the different chapters.
As you play, you can check the conveyer belt and see what you’ve built so far. Collect all 10 canisters in a chapter to complete the vehicle for that chapter.
Also in the cantina parking lot is the doorway to Jabba’s shop, where you can pick up missions to find different bounties, which is a quick and easy way to get gold bricks.
The more canisters you collect, the more vehicles are built outside.