LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace

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You wouldn’t expect a new cartoon on the Cartoon Network based on the LEGO Star Wars video game to be any good, would you? Just 22 minutes of crap designed to sell toys to 7-year-olds. I wouldn’t have bothered with it myself if I didn’t have a 7-year-old.

But holy crap, it’s hilarious! Lots of jokes that only adults will get, tons of throwback references to the original trilogy, a couple great appearances by George Lucas, and some truly well-done action scenes. They pack more belly laughs into 22 minutes than most network sitcoms.

Do yourself a favor and watch it.

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[Paraphrased from memory]

“Darth - You’re not in this scene.”

“I know, George, but…”

“Do you want a doughnut? Someone get Darth a doughnut!”

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Loved it when the kids started reading the on-screen “translation” of Jabba’s lines at the Cantina.

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The LEGO games are all packed with entertaining and near-subversive humor themselves, so it’s not too much of a surprise that a LEGO show would have the same.

I didn’t even know there was a show until this thread, though. I’ll have to look into it.

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Wait, so let me get this straight: We now have a cartoon based on a game based on a crossover between a toy and a movie? And it’s expected that soon we’ll have toys based on a cartoon based on a game based on a crossover between a toy and a movie?

Life is weird.

EDIT:
Another thought. Officially, in the hierarchy of Star Wars canon, anything that’s appeared on screen has a higher canonicity than anything that has not. The eight movies are highest, then the various TV shows, as I understand it. So, that means that these cartoons are, canonically, more canon than, say, the New Republic novels.

Life is weirder.

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If that’s true, well, that means that so is the Holiday Special.

Take it away, Leia!

-Joe

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As well as the Robot Chicken parodies.

“That was so wrong.”

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Then by the latest one, Jar Jar is actually the true Sith Lord pulling all the strings.

-Joe

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It goes like this:

Episodes I-VI (in their present forms)
The Clone Wars CG film and TV series
Most of the books, comics, etc.

The rest is just non-canon.

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Sounds fascinating – shall have to find.

It may also be worth noting that there are two distinct versions of the LEGO Star Wars games. The first was based on the movies (more than one game, but with the same look & feel) and one is based on the animated Star Wars: Clone Wars TV series…

So… one has an animated LEGO minifig that’s modelled on Ewan McGregor playing a young Obi-Wan Kenobi… and the other has an animated LEGO minifig that’s modelled on a re-imagined CGI rendition of Ewan McGregor playing a young Obi-Wan Kenobi…

I think: Life is weirder than you think… is reasonable. :slight_smile:

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I’ve never been comfortable with CGI representations of the LEGO universe. I think the show would look a lot cooler if all the sets were built entirely with real LEGO parts, or at least rendered to look more like they were.

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You could actually see tiny scratches and worn edges to the ink on the characters.

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Having watched it last night I thought there was a hell of a lot of funny in it. Highlights were…

“IAN”

Jar-Jar getting killed

…and the funniest joke of all, Lobot as a bus driver was quite clearly supposed to be Otto from the Simpsons.

-Joe

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And a few out-of-place bricks — because you ran out of gray floor tiles and had to substitute some red ones.

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Depressing thought

Wait, these aren’t the chlid padawans that Anakin killed, are they? When is this set?

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Sure. Well, except for “IAN”.

-Joe

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The whole thing was written by a former Simpsons writer, in fact!

BigT: It sort of seems like it took place circa Attack of the Clones, but they are obviously pretty loose with timelines.

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The best line… “It’s a WRAP!”

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It really was hilarious, especially Yoda.

“Ah, forgive me. One of those days, it is.”

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Is this going to be a series, or was it a one-off?