Use the Force to Pick up LEGO® Star Wars®: The Padawan Menace™ Exclusively at Tesco Entertainment Online

LONDON, November 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace, an exciting special available on DVD and Blu-ray, was recently released via Tesco Entertainment Online.

Following on from the popularity of previous collaborations, LEGO and Lucasfilm have joined forces once more for the 22 minute standalone special LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace. Written by Emmy Award-winning Simpsons writer Michael Price and produced by Oscar-winning production company Animal Logic, LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace was created by an all-star team.

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace is the latest in a line of recent DVD releases exclusive to Tesco Entertainment Online and not available to buy anywhere else. LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace is available on DVD for £5 and Blu-ray for £8.

Customers who pick up LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace on Blu-ray will also receive an exclusive LEGO minifigure. Additionally anyone who buys the movies will find 5 extra Star Wars clips to enjoy, including: Hunt for R2D2, Bombad Bounty, Star Wars in Two Minutes, and Star Wars Clone Wars in Cinema.

This all-new adventure opens as tour guide Master Yoda leads a group of young padawans through the Senate Chambers on a field trip. Things take an unexpected turn when Yoda senses a disturbance in the force and has to cut the tour short to embark on an urgent mission, only to find that a young Jedi has stowed-away on his ship.

C-3PO and R2-D2 are charged with taking care of the mischievous young padawans in Yoda's absence, but find they don't assert quite the same authority as the sage Jedi Master. As Yoda fights to stop the evil Sith from enacting their wicked plans, the droids must take part in their own battle to keep order amongst the precocious Jedi.

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace is a fun-packed, exciting short that will delight, amuse and enthral the whole family. With Christmas just around the corner, LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace on DVD on DVD and Blu-ray is an essential stocking stuffer for children, faithful fans of the Star Wars series and LEGO minifigure collectors alike.

LEGO Star Wars is the most successful LEGO licensed product collection in the company's history. The LEGO Star Wars collection comprises more than 200 LEGO models and approximately 275 LEGO minifigures which have become highly collectible. LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace is the latest in a long line of successful collaborations between Lucasfilm and LEGO.

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