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Little Big Planet 3 Signature Series Strategy Guide Adventure: Manglewood

High Stakes Heist

Feeling lucky? A smart gambler plays the long odds only when necessary. Security’s tight on the casino floor, so keeping a low profile is key to success in retrieving Oddsock’s marble. Don’t get too greedy: that’s how most folks wind up caught and in the slammer. There isn’t a lot of creativity to be found between four concrete walls.

Still, who can resist the allure of Prize Bubbles? So many of them are just sitting there out in the open, begging to be popped. It’s really the casino’s fault for leaving them so poorly guarded for anyone to collect. The real crime would be to leave them there.

Blink Ball Brilliance!

Gone in the Blink

Your sack person has the spirit to pull off a great caper, but you can’t expect success without a little assistance. Behold the Blink Ball! This delightful doodad lets your sack person cross vast distances faster than a blink of the eye (hence the name).

Simply take aim with the right stick and press to launch a Blink Ball. These round projectiles bounce off of the environment. When they make contact with special Blink Panels that glow and pulse, your sack person is instantly transported to the ball’s location.

Aim for the overhead Blink Panel, and fall down through two Prize Bubbles containing the Casino Table–Lined Material and Magic Orb Decoration.

Two more receptive Blink Panels appear above to the left and right. Fire Blink Balls into each corner to emerge above columns of Prize Bubbles bearing the Working Class Body Sticker and Rope Coil Decoration on the left and Working Class Arm Sticker and Polished Wood Material on the right.

Neato Neon

Ducking indoors to the right, your sack person is getting closer to the action. Chips, cards, slot machines, arrows…arrows? These gamblers take their bets seriously.

Your sack person hardly has a chance to scope out the interior when the voice of security barks over the intercom, announcing the presence of an intruder. Better get a move on!

Use the Blink Ball to get some elevation, materializing through large round Blink Panels rightward and above. Resting below a climbable neon sign are two Prize Bubbles offering the Stained Wood Material and Neon Sign–Handkerchief Sticker.

Use the Blink Panel on the far right to get high enough to leap to the dangling neon sign. Climb up it to the next level.

Immediately ahead to the left are deadly laser beams looking to scorch any woolen trespassers. Luckily, the Blink Panel on the other side lets your cuddly adventurer bypass them. First, though, pop the Prize Bubble for the Smoke Wisp Sticker within.

Continuing leftward, a neon sign continually glides between the background and foreground. Grab onto it and ride it to the back, where your sack person can leap to the neighboring neon leading even higher in the casino.

Use a combination of climbing and Blink Balls to reach the very top, where a bird has its eye on the slots. Jump off to the left and shimmy along the ledge to the foreground, where a Prize Bubble holding the Wired Grid Material sits on the edge.

Propel a Blink Ball to the Blink Panel on the far right. A pair of unfriendly guard dog critters soon confronts your sack person. Bounce atop their exposed brains to pop and neutralize them.

Continue onward, taking the low route. It ends soon, but at least you have two Prize Bubbles awarding the Insert Coin Slot Decoration and Warning Light Object to show for it.

Searchlight Sneaking

Hang tight for a moment at the next Checkpoint to scope out the situation. A speedy spotlight sweeps back and forth ahead. Time your sack person’s scamper, and be sure to pause behind each of the red pillars, notable for the small stacks of Score Bubbles at their bases.

A big dangling die overhead looks like it’s well worth rolling with. To continue onward, jump up and grab on to ride a swerving rail past tall piles of chips. Dismount and pop two Prize Bubbles to the left that yield the Shop Register Sticker and Fancy Moustache Sticker.

Alternate Entrances

Sneak along the right ledge to the front. A security door dropping into place suddenly cuts off the passage back indoors. This casino is about fancy looks for show, but they let their old plumbing rust and fall to pieces. Head left, and drop down into the open pipe.

Travel through it, minding the gaps and snagging a Prize Bubble hiding away the 25 Cent Sticker, until you’re faced with a pair of lethal laser beams. Launch a Blink Ball past them, and it rolls through the pipe to a Blink Panel below.

Easily hop to the left platform. From there, it’s a simple leap up and into the background, where Bounce Pads activate upon your sack person’s arrival and launch skyward to the high roller slot machines!

Games of Chance

Your sack person’s luck is on the upswing! This giant slot machine starts paying out instantly. Collect the trio of Prize Bubbles on each side of the machine. The right side awards the Drive-in Cinema Speaker Decoration, Slot Machine Wheel Decoration, and Vintage Battery Object. The left side yields the Strong Man (Head) Sticker, Lightning Bolt Symbol Sticker, and Shooting Star Sticker.

Another vicious guard dog blocks off the roulette wheel to the right. Hard to believe it’s housebroken, really. Use the Blink Ball to circumvent it and pop its feeble brain to get past, if you wish.

Blink Ball up to the next platform in the center of the roulette wheel. Continue onward past the next Checkpoint, where you’d be sharp to notice the lasers in the background. Unlike before, these flicker on and off.

Your sack person must leap between both platforms and layers carefully. Use the Layer Launchers and Bounce Pads ahead to move into the background and upward while the beams are off, popping a Prize Bubble containing the “High Noon” Audio.

When your sack person is safely past the beams, a Prize Bubble containing the Newton Card Dealer Sticker awaits to the left.

Next comes another neon climb up to a set of Layer Launchers. Rather than setting foot on them too quickly, jump over to reach the Prize Bubble to free the Picture Frame Side Sticker inside.

Play Your Cards Right

After taking the Layer Launcher forward to the front and the next Checkpoint, head left toward the red and green chips. Take a shot at the Blink Panel near them. Unfortunately, the casino pit boss arrives in the nick of time to deflect your Blink Ball and deny forward progress.

The impact of his arrival, however, breaks open a passage through more rusted pipes. Run through it, popping the two Prize Bubbles within in the process for the Embossed Pyramids Material and “Panic Stations” Audio.

A gaping void seems to leave your sack person with nowhere to go. But just on the very left edge of the screen is a much-needed Blink Panel. Launch a Blink Ball there to arrive beside a pair of Layer Launchers. Take them on a leap into the background, and immediately grab the neon sign to avoid falling to a certain doom.

As your sack person begins to climb up, things really start going to pieces. Don’t panic; just leap to the nearest swath of neon lighting to keep climbing up. There are two Prize Bubbles tumbling, so pop them before they whiz past for their Head Lamp Decoration and Chrome Pipe–Straight Decoration.

Scale the slanted slope on the left to get a clear shot at the Blink Panel in the top right of the area.

Bounce off the Layer Launchers below the Blink Panel, where the foreground bears a Prize Bubble waiting for you to nab its Neon Horse Shoe Sticker.

Another powerful beam of incandescent light sweeps side to side in the rain-drenched clearing ahead. Again, getting caught in its blazing gaze is deadly.

Your sack person is getting anything but a raw deal here, though. The light green tracts ahead mark safe areas. Stand above it, and it lights up, summoning a playing card to shield your sack person from suffering a scorching situation.

A Prize Bubble with the Ace of Spades Card Sticker awaits across a gap in the underfoot felt.

Once safely past the light, take a Blue Layer Launcher and Blue Bounce Pad up and to the left. At the base of a stack of chips is a Prize Bubble hiding away the Casino Chip Sticker.

Chips and Dip

This part of the casino is paying out big time, and chips are raining down endlessly from the sky. This luck extends to your sack person, as well. Keep pace behind a casino chip to let it protect from the broiling beam of yet another searchlight. Once clear, leap safely down a slide of playing cards.

Past the next Checkpoint is a Prize Bubble that releases the Neon Sign–Cards Sticker en route to the next Blink Panel. A sweeping wall of laser beams is keeping the ground ahead off limits. Use the Blink Ball to get up past it.

On the other side of a precipitous drop, three yapping guard dogs stand in your way. Pop their brains in smooth succession. Fire at the Blink Panel above to pop the Prize Bubble nesting the Portal Material. Flip the switch below to access the next area, unavoidably activating the security there in the process.

While you’re backtracking, a pair of Layer Launchers is now active. Take them into the background, where a Prize Bubble is sitting at the end of the leap. It’s got the Slot Machine Cherries Sticker inside.

Carefully fire a Blink Ball with precise timing as the Blink Panel moves between the pair of vertical lasers obstructing progress. While your sack person can easily bypass both in one fell swoop, waiting for the Blink Panel to pass between them lets you snag the Tangled Electric Wire Decoration and Fuzzy Dice Material inside their respective Prize Bubbles.

On the other side of the red glare of the lasers, grab onto the dangling die, and ride it along the rail to the next Checkpoint.

Put on Blasts

It seems like the casino bosses have had just about enough, and the real security kicks in. With red sirens blaring, your sack person goes tumbling down onto Layer Launchers shooting toward the background. There’s no time to get your bearings, as your sack person is standing on some heavy-duty explosives.

Race to the right and outrun the explosions. Use the Blink Panel to bypass a vertical laser, dropping your sack person past a Checkpoint and down a card slide. Take a quick sidestep to the left to nab the Prize Bubble holding the Saloon Door Decoration before continuing onward to the right at top speed.

Skirt past the next vertical lasers with another Blink Panel, and zip upward on the Bounce Pads beneath it. A final leap to grab hold of a red die dangling ahead sweeps your sack person along a rail to safety. Land gently beside two Prize Bubbles just begging to be popped for their Decorative Golden Curls Sticker and “Shadow of the Beasties” Audio.

Is It Safe?

Having defeated the last lines of defense, your sack person stands on the threshold of a huge payday. The vault containing Oddsock’s marble is just ahead past the next Checkpoint. Use the round Blink Panels to land on the left and right platforms, pushing down their respective batteries.

With both batteries in place, the laser can cut through the immense vault door and release the marble within. With the marble freed, it’s time for a getaway. Fortunately, another marble is located in the perfect place to lie low: deep space!