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Cartoon Network Announces LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace

Source: Lucasfilm

July 7, 2011

First revealed by ComingSoon.net last month, Cartoon Network is preparing a thirty-minute "LEGO Star Wars" special. Though the initial teaser art had indicated that it would hit this fall, an updated press release reveals that it will debut even sooner. Entitled "LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace," the standalone adventure will air at 7pm on July 22nd. Full details from the press release are as follows:

After the runaway success of their wildly popular building sets, video game collaborations and animated shorts, The LEGO Group and Lucasfilm will join forces once again for an all-new adventure – their first-ever original television special. Premiering on Cartoon Network on Friday, July 22 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT) in high-definition computer animation, the 30-minute original standalone special – LEGO® Star Wars: The Padawan Menace – will feature the charm, action and irreverent humor that have become the signature style of LEGO Star Wars animation collaborations.

Featuring situations, characters and locations from throughout the entire Star Wars Saga, the original adventure is written by Emmy® Award winner Michael Price (The Simpsons) and produced by Academy Award-winning Animal Logic, the production company behind Happy Feet.

"We're certain that fans of LEGO play and the Star Wars universe will be as excited by this new original animated LEGO Star Wars episode as we are," said Jill Wilfert, vice president of licensing and entertainment for The LEGO Group. "Developing original animated content leveraging the LEGO and Star Wars brands is incredibly rewarding for us because it not only engages and entertains fans in original stories and adventures that further their imaginative play, it authentically delivers on the inherent values and fun that LEGO play brings to the partnership."

To date, Star Wars is the first and most successful LEGO licensed product collection in the company's history, generating more than 200 LEGO models and approximately 275 LEGO minifigures inspired by the Saga, which has also spurred a blockbuster collection of videogames, selling 25 million units to date worldwide. In addition to its popularity among younger fans, a significant portion of the LEGO Star Wars consumer fan base is made up of nostalgic adults and franchise collectors.

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace is scheduled to air multiple times on Cartoon Network during the weekend including: Friday, July 22 at 7 p.m. (ET/PT), Saturday, July 23 at 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. (ET/PT) and Sunday, July 24 at 4:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

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!

COMMENTS (26)

Posted by:

DarkFather

July 7, 2011

This is just BAD! Lucas just defiles his own creation over and over again. I don't want SW comedy or SW cutesy crap. I want real SW, or nothing. It's enough with this milk milk milk garbage. Seriously.

Posted by:

john

July 7, 2011

dude if you had 1% of GL brain power would would milk it too. Don't be a fool anyone with that kind of talent is going to cash in my not, don't be such a prude dude.

Posted by:

hoofhearted

July 7, 2011

the star wars lego craze is getting larger every day! my two children love the lego universe, as do all of their friends... this show will be a hit!

Posted by:

t itty fu ck

July 7, 2011

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Posted by:

bobo

July 7, 2011

I just love the SW fans (Or should I say Ex fans?) who make a hoopla every time something new comes out.

Were talking about a kids show here. I have no doubt you fell in love with the original trilogy when you were a kid and loved playing with those toys too. Which kid didn't?

And yet now that you're older you want the kids of today to have none of that fun. You're just selfish, and you can't stand the fact that kids today love the Prequel SW universe.

I can see it now...

"daddy daddy I want a clone trooper!"

"No. You can only play with Stormtroopers. Clone troopers are stupid!"

"Daddy, you're weird."

Posted by:

BigEZ

July 7, 2011

Have to agree with "hoofhearted", my kids love all the Lego Games and the actual Lego Star Wars products. I have to admit some of teh lego models are pretty cool. I'm sure I'll be buying this when it comes out on DVD or Blu-ray

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DarkFather

July 7, 2011

@ John. Do you know Lucas's brain power? He lost it long ago. He has become the very thing he was against when he was younger. He created an Empire to go against another Empire. And no, I would not milk anything to death like he does. When you milk things you lose focus and creativity. That's why everything is a rehash and lackluster now days.

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bobo

July 7, 2011

@DarkFather

You know a lot of people prefer ROTS over ROTJ, including many critics, right? And given that most people seem to love the Clone Wars TV series, it sounds like GL has done everything but lost it.

Posted by:

james

July 7, 2011

1. its not a show. its a "30 min. standalone special".
2. i like when people complain that star wars is "for kids now"... uh, when was it NOT for kids?
3. the clone wars tv show is great entertainment. so, it doesnt seem like lucas has lost anything.

Posted by:

Who is Rinzler?

July 7, 2011

wow....adults niggling over a cartoon that they dont have to watch if they choose not to.

to be pitied...all of you.