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lieselstarwarsgamesMos Eisley time!
I always get excited when these games get to Mos Eisley – I wonder why that is. It couldn’t POSSIBLY have anything to do with a certain someone showing up.
But alas, the certain someone doesn’t show up right away. First we have Obi-Wan and Luke arriving at Mos Eisley and Obi-Wan performing that famous mind trick on the stormtroopers, then we can explore the spaceport to our heart’s content.
As you can see, Mos Eisley is huge and there’s a ton of stuff to destroy for studs – though of course there are also stormtroopers all over the place.
In one corner, Obi-Wan can use the Force to planet a carrot in the sand – plant three and you make a minikit appear, but it’s in a spot we can’t access yet. Amazing how the Force can make carrots grow in the desert, isn’t it?
Speaking of making plants grow in the desert, Obi-Wan can also use the Force to plant these seed-brick things and make flowers grow. Always nice to see Obi-Wan helping out the environment.
He can also grow these pretty icy blue flowers.
Also, up the stairs is something new – a DOUBLE SCORE ZONE! All the studs you collect in this little area are worth twice as much as normal – awesomeness!
Anyway, break everything apart (and sometimes a womp rat will go leaping out of the trash cans you break – HA!), go in all the doorways, and jump on all the roofs to get as many studs as possible. You can shoot apart this bunch of little trash cans for studs, but DON’T DO THAT YET!
Instead, have Obi-Wan use the Force to open the lids and get a bunch of bricks to fall out, then use the bricks to build a doorway and an activation panel. R2 can open the door and voila – the Power Brick!
Incidentally, if you’re low on hearts, you can actually attack civilians to get hearts, but don’t be surprised if the civilians start attacking you (and each other) back. You can start a full-on street fight if you want!
Also, Obi-Wan can build a bicycle, though I don’t think a bicycle is the most practical mode of transportation in the sand.
Once you’ve got all the studs that are to be gotten, have Obi-Wan use the Force to make a ramp to the upper area so 3PO can unlock the door to the next area.
In the next area, there are not one but TWO giant-ass gates blocking our way out.
How the hell do we get to the cantina now? Well first thing’s first – let’s break shit for studs and have Obi-Wan use the Force to stack up these boxes to reach a minikit.
Now, you’ll notice there are a lot of bricks just lying around. In fact, have R2 and 3PO open these doors and you’ll find even MORE junk.
Whatever could we build with all this shit? Maybe something to blast through the gates?
Yes . . . yes . . . IT’S AN AT-ST!!
You won’t have much time to have fun with it, though, since a stormtrooper will immediately jump in and start shooting at you. In fact, the thing can even FLATTEN you if you get too close. You’ve got to QUICKLY shoot it enough times to make the stormtrooper jump out so you can jump in and blast through the gates.
If you move the walker up to this roof, you can jump on it and use these bricks to build a pair of turret guns.
Once you build the guns, a bunch of womp rats will come running in and out. Well, Luke’s good at bulls-eying womp rats, so let’s blast ‘em!
Blast ten and a minikit appears. Yes, we’ll do anything for minikits, even blast apart nature’s creatures.
Blasting open one of the gates leads to another Double Score Zone!
You’ve gotta be quick collecting studs, though, since stormtroopers will be constantly trying to take your walker. By the way, this billboard is hilarious.
Also, if you’re so inclined, you can go back to the beginning of the level and drive your speeder into this car-wash – er, speeder-wash. It doesn’t really do anything, but your speeder emerges all clean and the Jawas will want it.
Anyway, when you blast through the other gate, you’ll run into . . . a SECOND AT-ST WALKER! The two walkers will have to duke it out over and over since stormtroopers are always coming by to jump into the walkers. I wasn’t able to get a screenshot of the intense battle, but after the duel, I notice that 3PO had gotten himself buried in the sand and was kicking his legs in the air – HA!
Okay, enough walker battling, let’s head inside . . . yes, we’re here . . . THE MOS EISLEY CANTINA!
Ah yes, that classic tune’s already playing, but there’s a bit of a problem since they don’t serve droids and these laser gate . . . things prevent 3PO and R2 from entering. Well, all we need to do is shoot the projectors on the walls and we can sneak the droids in – after all, we need them to step on these switches.
A cutscene plays (during which you can see 3PO in a top hat and R2 in funny nose glasses if you look closely) with all the iconic cantina moments – Obi-Wan’s face-off with Ponda Baba (which almost makes Chewie throw up), Han’s face-off with Greedo (yes, Han shoots first, though that got old a long time ago), and Obi-Wan and Luke hiring Han (ha, I love how Han scratches his head with his blaster!). Then, WOOHOO, we get to play HAN!!!
Let me take this moment to say I LOVE LEGO HAN! He’s got the trademark Han Solo grin and so much of that awesome Han attitude. Anyway, we could go to Docking Bay 94 right away – after all, our customers are probably waiting for us, but nah! First Han needs to commit a lot of vandalism and shoot all the chairs for studs. There’s also a minikit, but shit, it’s behind a forcefield for some reason.
And of course, I need to show you the band.
And if you look closely you’ll see . . . PONDA BABA’S HEAD! (Look by Han's feet.)
Holy shit, I guess they want to hide the evidence of what Obi-Wan did.
If you want, you can shoot the customers and start a barroom brawl, but you might lose hearts that way. Anyway, after shooting all the chairs and making sure there’s no place for customers to sit, let’s head outside.
Now we’ve gotta prioritize here – which of course means that we’re gonna shoot apart trash cans to get studs. People sure throw away a lot of money in Mos Eisley. One of the trash cans also has a FAT carrot – revealing three of these will cause another minikit to appear somewhere, but you can only get two in Story Mode.
Anyway, use the handy ascension guns to get to the next area.
By the way, when Han slides down the fabric roofs, he tumbles down head-over-heels. I wasn’t able to get a screenshot, but it’s HILARIOUS! Anyway, after shooting stuff and collecting studs (of course), pull this lever to make a box appear.
Push the box up to the door, then shoot the box to make the door blast open – though if you get caught up in the blast, you’ll break into pieces, so be careful. In the next area you’ve got to blast up a bunch of stormtroopers and you can ride dewbacks to get to higher areas.
And look at that, HAN RIDES THE DEWBACK BACKWARDS!!! OH MY GOD THAT IS SO FREAKIN’ HILARIOUS!!!
(clears throat) Ahem, there’s also a movie theater where people are waiting in line to see “Lego Star Wars: The Movie.” Yes, seriously.
We can’t go in yet because for SOME reason you need an astro droid to open the theater. That’s a weird security system you have there – but hey, at least the movie theater admits droids, so that makes it more progressive than the cantina.
Oh, and Obi-Wan’s not the only one who can do Tatooine gardening – Han can shoot these seeds to make pretty flowers grow.
On top of one of the buildings is a disguise lever – but unlike the previous ones we’ve seen, this one only contains stormtrooper helmets. How does Han look?
If you want to, you can actually go back to the beginning of the level in your stormtrooper disguise to open the stormtrooper doors. This one just takes you to the other side of the wall, so nothing special there, though it's amusing to see Han wave at the door.
The other door, however, leads to a Tatooine . . . spa thing.
Look there are even showers, but you need the Force to turn them on for some reason.
Han can take a bath in his stormtrooper helmet, though. I wonder if the hot tubbing stormtroopers would let him join them.
Well, after that backtracking, now we’re FINALLY at Docking Bay 94!
Of course, it won’t be so simple. The Imperial spy arrives and summons HOARDS of stormtroopers. I hope you have True Jedi by now because you’re guaranteed to fall apart. You’ve got to fight through three waves of stormtroopers, plus the spy himself. After you’ve taken everyone out, the Falcon’s ramp lowers. Enter and blast off!
We get treated to a cutscene of Han sending the Falcon into hyperspace – and then we actually see Alderaan’s destruction, with Tarkin being over-the-top evil.
So ends the level. In addition to MY HAN being unlocked, we can now buy a sandtrooper . . .
. . . Greedo . . .
. . . and the Imperial spy.
The Power Brick also made the Super Lightsabers powerup available – it does exactly what it sounds like, but I couldn’t afford it yet.
Whew, that was quite a level, but it’s one of my favorite levels in the whole game. Not only does it unlock HAN, but it’s full of surprises.
I always get excited when these games get to Mos Eisley – I wonder why that is. It couldn’t POSSIBLY have anything to do with a certain someone showing up.
But alas, the certain someone doesn’t show up right away. First we have Obi-Wan and Luke arriving at Mos Eisley and Obi-Wan performing that famous mind trick on the stormtroopers, then we can explore the spaceport to our heart’s content.
As you can see, Mos Eisley is huge and there’s a ton of stuff to destroy for studs – though of course there are also stormtroopers all over the place.
In one corner, Obi-Wan can use the Force to planet a carrot in the sand – plant three and you make a minikit appear, but it’s in a spot we can’t access yet. Amazing how the Force can make carrots grow in the desert, isn’t it?
Speaking of making plants grow in the desert, Obi-Wan can also use the Force to plant these seed-brick things and make flowers grow. Always nice to see Obi-Wan helping out the environment.
He can also grow these pretty icy blue flowers.
Also, up the stairs is something new – a DOUBLE SCORE ZONE! All the studs you collect in this little area are worth twice as much as normal – awesomeness!
Anyway, break everything apart (and sometimes a womp rat will go leaping out of the trash cans you break – HA!), go in all the doorways, and jump on all the roofs to get as many studs as possible. You can shoot apart this bunch of little trash cans for studs, but DON’T DO THAT YET!
Instead, have Obi-Wan use the Force to open the lids and get a bunch of bricks to fall out, then use the bricks to build a doorway and an activation panel. R2 can open the door and voila – the Power Brick!
Incidentally, if you’re low on hearts, you can actually attack civilians to get hearts, but don’t be surprised if the civilians start attacking you (and each other) back. You can start a full-on street fight if you want!
Also, Obi-Wan can build a bicycle, though I don’t think a bicycle is the most practical mode of transportation in the sand.
Once you’ve got all the studs that are to be gotten, have Obi-Wan use the Force to make a ramp to the upper area so 3PO can unlock the door to the next area.
In the next area, there are not one but TWO giant-ass gates blocking our way out.
How the hell do we get to the cantina now? Well first thing’s first – let’s break shit for studs and have Obi-Wan use the Force to stack up these boxes to reach a minikit.
Now, you’ll notice there are a lot of bricks just lying around. In fact, have R2 and 3PO open these doors and you’ll find even MORE junk.
Whatever could we build with all this shit? Maybe something to blast through the gates?
Yes . . . yes . . . IT’S AN AT-ST!!
You won’t have much time to have fun with it, though, since a stormtrooper will immediately jump in and start shooting at you. In fact, the thing can even FLATTEN you if you get too close. You’ve got to QUICKLY shoot it enough times to make the stormtrooper jump out so you can jump in and blast through the gates.
If you move the walker up to this roof, you can jump on it and use these bricks to build a pair of turret guns.
Once you build the guns, a bunch of womp rats will come running in and out. Well, Luke’s good at bulls-eying womp rats, so let’s blast ‘em!
Blast ten and a minikit appears. Yes, we’ll do anything for minikits, even blast apart nature’s creatures.
Blasting open one of the gates leads to another Double Score Zone!
You’ve gotta be quick collecting studs, though, since stormtroopers will be constantly trying to take your walker. By the way, this billboard is hilarious.
Also, if you’re so inclined, you can go back to the beginning of the level and drive your speeder into this car-wash – er, speeder-wash. It doesn’t really do anything, but your speeder emerges all clean and the Jawas will want it.
Anyway, when you blast through the other gate, you’ll run into . . . a SECOND AT-ST WALKER! The two walkers will have to duke it out over and over since stormtroopers are always coming by to jump into the walkers. I wasn’t able to get a screenshot of the intense battle, but after the duel, I notice that 3PO had gotten himself buried in the sand and was kicking his legs in the air – HA!
Okay, enough walker battling, let’s head inside . . . yes, we’re here . . . THE MOS EISLEY CANTINA!
Ah yes, that classic tune’s already playing, but there’s a bit of a problem since they don’t serve droids and these laser gate . . . things prevent 3PO and R2 from entering. Well, all we need to do is shoot the projectors on the walls and we can sneak the droids in – after all, we need them to step on these switches.
A cutscene plays (during which you can see 3PO in a top hat and R2 in funny nose glasses if you look closely) with all the iconic cantina moments – Obi-Wan’s face-off with Ponda Baba (which almost makes Chewie throw up), Han’s face-off with Greedo (yes, Han shoots first, though that got old a long time ago), and Obi-Wan and Luke hiring Han (ha, I love how Han scratches his head with his blaster!). Then, WOOHOO, we get to play HAN!!!
Let me take this moment to say I LOVE LEGO HAN! He’s got the trademark Han Solo grin and so much of that awesome Han attitude. Anyway, we could go to Docking Bay 94 right away – after all, our customers are probably waiting for us, but nah! First Han needs to commit a lot of vandalism and shoot all the chairs for studs. There’s also a minikit, but shit, it’s behind a forcefield for some reason.
And of course, I need to show you the band.
And if you look closely you’ll see . . . PONDA BABA’S HEAD! (Look by Han's feet.)
Holy shit, I guess they want to hide the evidence of what Obi-Wan did.
If you want, you can shoot the customers and start a barroom brawl, but you might lose hearts that way. Anyway, after shooting all the chairs and making sure there’s no place for customers to sit, let’s head outside.
Now we’ve gotta prioritize here – which of course means that we’re gonna shoot apart trash cans to get studs. People sure throw away a lot of money in Mos Eisley. One of the trash cans also has a FAT carrot – revealing three of these will cause another minikit to appear somewhere, but you can only get two in Story Mode.
Anyway, use the handy ascension guns to get to the next area.
By the way, when Han slides down the fabric roofs, he tumbles down head-over-heels. I wasn’t able to get a screenshot, but it’s HILARIOUS! Anyway, after shooting stuff and collecting studs (of course), pull this lever to make a box appear.
Push the box up to the door, then shoot the box to make the door blast open – though if you get caught up in the blast, you’ll break into pieces, so be careful. In the next area you’ve got to blast up a bunch of stormtroopers and you can ride dewbacks to get to higher areas.
And look at that, HAN RIDES THE DEWBACK BACKWARDS!!! OH MY GOD THAT IS SO FREAKIN’ HILARIOUS!!!
(clears throat) Ahem, there’s also a movie theater where people are waiting in line to see “Lego Star Wars: The Movie.” Yes, seriously.
We can’t go in yet because for SOME reason you need an astro droid to open the theater. That’s a weird security system you have there – but hey, at least the movie theater admits droids, so that makes it more progressive than the cantina.
Oh, and Obi-Wan’s not the only one who can do Tatooine gardening – Han can shoot these seeds to make pretty flowers grow.
On top of one of the buildings is a disguise lever – but unlike the previous ones we’ve seen, this one only contains stormtrooper helmets. How does Han look?
If you want to, you can actually go back to the beginning of the level in your stormtrooper disguise to open the stormtrooper doors. This one just takes you to the other side of the wall, so nothing special there, though it's amusing to see Han wave at the door.
The other door, however, leads to a Tatooine . . . spa thing.
Look there are even showers, but you need the Force to turn them on for some reason.
Han can take a bath in his stormtrooper helmet, though. I wonder if the hot tubbing stormtroopers would let him join them.
Well, after that backtracking, now we’re FINALLY at Docking Bay 94!
Of course, it won’t be so simple. The Imperial spy arrives and summons HOARDS of stormtroopers. I hope you have True Jedi by now because you’re guaranteed to fall apart. You’ve got to fight through three waves of stormtroopers, plus the spy himself. After you’ve taken everyone out, the Falcon’s ramp lowers. Enter and blast off!
We get treated to a cutscene of Han sending the Falcon into hyperspace – and then we actually see Alderaan’s destruction, with Tarkin being over-the-top evil.
So ends the level. In addition to MY HAN being unlocked, we can now buy a sandtrooper . . .
. . . Greedo . . .
. . . and the Imperial spy.
The Power Brick also made the Super Lightsabers powerup available – it does exactly what it sounds like, but I couldn’t afford it yet.
Whew, that was quite a level, but it’s one of my favorite levels in the whole game. Not only does it unlock HAN, but it’s full of surprises.
