LEGO Star Wars : The Quest for R2 - D2 ( film ) LEGO Star Wars : The Quest for R2 - D2 is a short film made by M2Film to celebrate the ten year anniversary of LEGO ’ s Star Wars license . The film premiered on August 28 , 2009 in the 9 : 00 ( 8 : 00 ) time block on Cartoon Network . The movie was shown in two parts in the breaks of a rerun of Cartoon Network ' s " " . It was later made available on the official LEGO Star Wars website . Synopsis . R2 - D2 strolls across the desert planet he landed on after getting shot out of Anakin Skywalker ' s starfighter . Artoo eventually comes upon on an oasis . Meanwhile , Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano leave Coruscant in a Y - wing and Jedi starfighter respectively . The two arrive at an asteroid field where a space slug lunges for Skywalker . The slug misses Skywalker ' s ship and its mouth closes around an asteroid instead . Tano then shoots the rock out of the space slug ’ s mouth . On Tatooine , R2 - D2 is relaxing at the oasis . Three Jawas sneak up on him , disable Artoo with their ion blasters , and take him to their sandcrawler . Elsewhere , the search for Artoo continues . The elite squad of clone troopers searches a snow planet led by Commander Cody and Captain Rex . Cody and Rex follow the direction given by a droid finder , only to discover an army of Separatist battle droids . Cody and Rex slide across the ice and whack the top of the droid finder into the army . The top of the finder collides into droids and disables an AT - AT until the whole army is neutralized . Cody and Rex then build an attack shuttle over the wreckage . The search for Artoo continues as the Jawas hold a sale back at their sandcrawler . R2 - D2 is one of the droids on display and gets the interest of one General Grievous . Grievous takes Artoo to his base but the droid eludes his captors and sends distress signal before hiding in a closet . Onboard the " Twilight " , Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano detect the signal . The " Twilight " jumps into hyperspace along with the attack shuttle , a V - 19 , and an ARC - 170 . Meanwhile , Artoo finds a pink astromech , named R2 - KT had already occupied the closet just as Grievous discovers Artoo ’ s hiding place . Skywalker ' s force arrives at the base and heads toward the Separatist ship . Droid starfighters rush to intercept but the Republic ships blast their way through . Skywalker and Tano land in a hangar and fight their way through battle droids . Elsewhere , Cody and Rex race down a different corridor . Meanwhile , Count Dooku , Asajj Ventress , and Grievous watch as a machine is lowered to extract Artoo ' s secret . Skywalker and Tano arrive and take out both the machine and the battle droid holding down Artoo . Dooku , Ventress , and Grievous ignite their lightsabers just as Cody and Rex arrive alongside the Jedi . Obi - Wan Kenobi and Yoda show up and Kenobi ignites his lightsaber . Yoda , however , uses the Force to open a hole in the floor beneath the Separatists and the three fall into space . Yoda continues to move pieces to assemble a CR90 corvette . Everyone boards the starship and the Separatist ship explodes after they leave . Aboard the corvette , Kenobi has R2 - D2 turn on his holoprojector . After bringing up a hologram of a ship , Artoo displays the correct hologram ; an advertisement for the grand opening of Skywalker World . He then gives everyone VIP all access tickets to Skywalker World . The last scenes show the characters enjoying their time at Skywalker World . Skywalker and Tano each get cotton candy . Kenobi and Yoda try out the " Force - O - Meter " . Rex and Cody play a shooting game . Finally , Artoo enjoys a boat ride with R2 - KT . Behind the scenes . Anakin Skywalker lands the " Twilight " in Hangar THX - 1138 . This is yet another reference to the film " " . Shortly after landing the Twilight , a TIE Advanced x1 starfighter catches Anakin ' s eye . During this short time , the shadow of Darth Vader can briefly be glimpsed behind him . And in Skywalker world , when R2 - D2 goes on a boat ride with the pink astromech , 2 X - wings can bee seen making a smoke trail in the shape of a heart , and the " Tunnel of Love " entrance is the helmet of Darth Vader . On Hoth , some clone troopers are shown building a snowman with Darth Vader ' s helmet . Also , when Anakin and Ahsoka are getting cotton candy , Princess Leia is the one selling it . Another well - known George Lucas character , Indiana Jones , appears at the Jawa " garage sale " , removing C3 - PO ' s head from a cardboard box . The theme music played at the beginning of the film is Kevin Kiner ' s variation of the " Star Wars " theme from " " . The short was released as a bonus feature on the Blu Ray / DVD combo of " " .