Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures

Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
Genre
Created by
  • Bill Motz
  • Bob Roth
Based on Star Wars
by George Lucas
Voices of
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Torsten Jacobson
Jill Wilfert
Running time Approx. 22 minutes
Production company(s)
Distributor Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network Disney XD
Original release June 20 (2016-06-20) – August 29, 2016 (2016-08-29)
Chronology
Related shows

Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures is a computer-animated action comedy television series that is based on the Lego Star Wars theme, and premiered on Disney XD on June 20, 2016.[1]

Overview

Set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, The Freemaker Adventures centers on a family of three young siblings—young boy Rowan, his sister Kordi, and their brother Zander—known as the Freemakers, who salvage parts from destroyed or damaged ships which they use to build new ones, which they sell in order to make their living. They are accompanied by their salvaged battle droid Roger. However, the family become enmeshed in the battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance when Rowan discovers part of an ancient artifact known as the Kyber Saber. He then becomes aware of his own connection to the Force and meets a mysterious Force-wielder named Naare before embarking on a journey with his siblings that leads them to meet with new and old Lego faces from the Star Wars universe.

Cast and characters

Main

The Freemakers

Recurring

The Empire

Guest

Crime Lords

Bounty Hunters

Rebel Alliance

Force-users

Droids

Civilians

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date[2]Prod.
code[3]
U.S. viewers
(millions)
1"A Hero Discovered"Michael HegnerBill Motz
Bob Roth
June 20, 2016 (2016-06-20)1010.51[4]
During a briefing on the creation of the second Death Star seen in The Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader explains to an unimpressed Darth Sidious that they have come across information in the Jedi Archives regarding the mysterious Kyber Saber. Elsewhere, a battle between Imperial and Rebellion forces is capitalized on by the Freemaker family of ship salvagers, who collect parts from the destroyed vessels until youngest boy Rowan inadvertently destroys an Imperial transport. Returning to their home of the Wheel space station, the three find themselves in urgent need of a completed ship to sell in order to pay off their landlord Furlac, and head to a planet on which a Clone Wars battle took place in order to find a needed part to repair one of Zander's "Z-Wings." Despite being told to stay on the Star Scavenger with Roger the salvaged battle droid, Rowan leaves the ship to warn his siblings Zander and Kordi of stormtrooper activity in the area only to experience a strange call that leads him to the handle of the Kyber Saber. He is then greeted by Naare, who explains that the Kyber Saber is the first lightsaber and was broken and scattered in order to keep its vast powers out of evil hands. The pair then work together to rescue Kordi and Zander from the Imperials, and Naare accompanies the Freemakers back to the Wheel where she uses the Force to get Furlac off their back for the time being before he can throw them out for not paying their rent while also renting a shop on the station for her own use. Unbeknownst to the Freemakers, however, their new "ally" is a Sith in the employ of the Emperor, who seeks to help Rowan master his newfound connection to the Force only so that she can recover the fragments of the Kyber Saber for her master.
2"The Mines of Graballa"Martin SkovJames W. BatesJune 21, 2016 (2016-06-21)1020.26[5]
Naare's efforts to train Rowan are frowned upon by Kordi, who doesn't want her younger brother getting involved in such dangerous activities. Naare then tries to use the Mind Trick ability on Kordi, but it has no effect on her. Unfortunately, Rowan is determined to help out and tricks Roger into helping him take a ship out in search of another Kyber Saber crystal, which they find in an asteroid belt. Unfortunately, the belt is run by Graballa the Hutt, whose men bring the pair to him after they recover the crystal. Alerted to the importance of the artifact, Graballa demands Rowan tell him how to find the rest of it's pieces and threatens to feed him to his pet if he refuses. Zander, Kordi, and Naare arrive to rescue the pair, and after a harrowing encounter manage to do so. The Kyber Saber crystal is lost in the belt but then recovered, while Graballa sets his minions on the hunt for the Freemakers in order to obtain the crystals for himself.
3"Zander's Joyride"Per Düring RisagerRuss Carney
Ron Corcillo
June 22, 2016 (2016-06-22)1030.36[6]
A wealthy client brings his classic N-1 Naboo Starfighter to the Freemakers, and the starstruck Zander defies Kordi's wishes by stealing the ship and taking it on a joy ride that lands him in Imperial custody. With the somewhat reluctant aid of Naare, Zander's siblings board the ship in order to rescue their brother and the fighter while Roger distracts their client. Believing the Freemakers to be Rebels, Darth Vader attempts to interrogate Zander and later hold him and his siblings captive until he sees the N-1 and, between his own love of ships and the nostalgia of his piloting one in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, takes off on a ride in the craft himself. The Freemakers are able to trick the Imperials and recover the fighter, but it is left badly damaged and it's owner infuriated until he spots Zander's pride and joy, the Blazemaster, sitting in the shop. Taking the ship as recompense for damages, he flies out only to be left adrift when the incomplete ship explodes.
4"The Lost Treasure of Cloud City"Michael HegnerJohn BehnkeJune 23, 2016 (2016-06-23)1040.44[7]
During the evacuation of Cloud City as seen in The Empire Strikes Back, Lobot is captured while attempting to recover "precious cargo" from Lando's quarters. Some time later, Rowan is struggling with moving objects using the Force, and Zander tries to cheer him up by taking him to the Wheel's lower ring. While there Rowan meets Lando who is offering a reward to anyone who can recover the cargo from Cloud City, and Kordi quickly agrees to the mission. However, Dengar and his bumbling partners Baash and Raam have also learned of the mission, while Naare comes to suspect that the Freemakers may have learned of her allegiance to the Empire and are gathering the Kyber Saber Crystals without her. The three parties soon arrive on Cloud City, and Rowan ends up frozen in carbonite while Kordi is retrieving the package. A chase soon ensues as Dengar and co. seize Lando's case-which they and Naare believe contains a Kyber Saber Crystal-and the frozen Rowan, leading Zander to a desperate plan: damaging Cloud City's repulsorlift systems so that the city begins to plummet into the depths of Bespin. They manage to free Rowan, and after being freed from the carbonite he is able-due to not being able to rely on his eyesight-to use the Force to repair the repulsorlift system and get the city back to it's proper altitude. Lando soon rewards the Freemakers for retrieving the cargo-his much longed for wardrobe-while Dengar's crew are imprisoned on Cloud City but now know the identities of the Freemakers.
5"Peril on Kashyyyk"Jens MøllerDavid ShayneJune 27, 2016 (2016-06-27)105N/A
Due to business being slow and their rent being due in a matter of days, the Freemakers accept a dangerous mission: obtaining a wood panel for a Twi'lek businessman's starship that can only be obtained from Kashyyyk, the Wookiee homeworld under Imperial blockade. Despite Rowan's insistence that he can speak Wookiee, Kordi wants a translation droid, but settles for installing a translation program in Roger after learning what a real protocol droid costs. Their attempt to sneak in earns the attention of Lieutenant Commander Durpin, who is eager to keep the matter quiet so as not to draw attention to himself and risk getting promoted. After meeting party of Wookiees, the Freemakers receive the wood but then learn that they must free the son of the Wookiee chief from a Trandoshan prison in exchange. Despite some hiccups they succeed, but Rowan then senses the presence of a Kyber Saber Crystal inside the prison and insists on going after it despite the Wookiees starting their attack. The Freemakers manage to recover the crystal but the wood panel is damaged in their escape, while Durpin's failure to stop them is blamed on his lack of resources, leading to his reassignment and promotion to the rank of general.
6"Crossing Paths"Martin SkovBill Motz
Bob Roth
July 11, 2016 (2016-07-11)1060.49[8]
The Freemakers receive a special visitor in the form of Luke Skywalker and his soon-to-be-revealed twin sister Leia Organa, who have escaped a quartet of TIE Fighters through the surface of a moon. After a brief reminder from the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi telling him to use the Force, Luke blasts a crater that destroys the remaining two fighters and his Y-Wing is overheated, taking him to the Wheel. Prior to Luke and Leia's arrival, Wick Cooper is successful in adverting Zander from his speeder bike and Naare is going on a secret mission that does not involve Rowan Freemaker, who is forbidden from his exposing his Force-sensitivity to anyone, including Mr. Cooper, as she fears that they will be exploited and/or he will be virtually exterminated by the Empire. Naare leaves just as Luke and Leia crash land in the hangar. Luke and Rowan introduce themselves after he is exposed by a female officer by the name of Estoc announcing their current whereabouts in a hologram. Leia coaxes an offer to Kordi to pay her five times the price of her Y-wing. Roger's antics of clumsily fiddling with the complex controls of the StarScavenger sends himself, Luke and Rowan into hyperspace. Estoc and her command of Stormtroopers follow them, but when they miss the incinerator, they throw Leia and their trash into it, convincing Estoc for the time being. ("That's not the first time I've escaped through a garbage chute." Leia comments after getting herself out.) Luke opens the doors and deactivates the hyperdrive, which sends the StarScavenger headed towards Felucia. His masterly landings and the revealation that he is a Jedi is enough to make Rowan ecstatic for questions. Roger, however, is disgruntled by this, even after he is consumed and spit out by a fly trap. Back on the wheel, Leia, Kordi and Zander are on the run from the stormtroopers and Zander uses a probe droid to fling canisters at the stormtroopers while the girls take the elevator to the upper ring with the help of Leia's House of Organa card. There, after devouring a tray load of hors d'oeuvres from a protocol droid, Kordi finds herself in the penthouse of Mr. Cooper and uses a plant pot to pass her off as a droid disguise. Meanwhile, Naare lands the Eclipse Fighter at the Senate Rotunda on Coruscant where she rendezvous with Palpatine and Darth Vader in his office and is questioned relentlessly about the Kyber Saber crystals in the form of a pop quiz. On Felucia, Luke uses the Force to repair a bulkhead on the StarScavenger and Rowan notices a unique type of flower blooming every time the Force comes within range of the buds. Roger regrets to inform the two force-sensitive humans that an acklay is in possession of the ship's hyperdrive generator. After a discriminating joke by Mr. Cooper that reminds her too much of the tragic day that saw her adoptive parents and fellow Alderaanians killed by the Death Star, Leia drop kicks the nobleman out of his penthouse allowing Kordi to reveal herself. But this only causes Mr. Cooper, after discovering the real cleaning droids arrive, to alert the Stormtroopers. On Felucia, later that night, Luke levitates the generator out of the pit while the acklay is sleeping it off, but it awakens and the loud roar sends Rowan into the pit with him. Only does hitting the acklay with a duo of rocks, thanks to Luke, sends the three running from the enraged leviathan. On the Wheel, Kordi and Leia hide in a diner and the princess saves Kordi from being arrested. Zander arrives in time to save the women via Mr. Cooper's speeder bike. Rowan, inspired by Luke's words of the Force acting as a natural order, uses flowers to lure the acklay away from the nest while Roger obtains the hyperdrive. He is soon swallowed for the third time by a fly trap and this only tests his patience. With a Y-wing decoy intentionally destroyed by two TIE fighters, Kordi and Zander convince Estoc otherwise that Leia forced them to co-operate and she submits, celebrating her victory with the Stormtroopers. Roger, Rowan and Luke return, but without a proper ship, they use one of Zander's Z-wings to leave. Sometime later, Naare returns as well, frustrated with her quiz and Rowan presents her with a flower that immediately wilts. Suspicions revolving around the Fallen Jedi's true nature begin to click for the boy.
7"Race on Tatooine"Frederik BudolphDavid ShayneJuly 18, 2016 (2016-07-18)1070.52[9]
Dengar, Baash, and Raam escape from prison on Cloud City and report to Graballa, who had just made another failed attempt to convince Jabba to let him open a resort. Rowan is troubled by the revelations of last episode and fears that Naare is a villain, but is unable to tell his siblings due to their concern over their cash flow. Podracing champion Ben Quadinaros then approaches the family about serving as his pit crew in a race on Tattooine, but it turns out to be a setup by Graballa. Fortunately, the Freemakers are able to escape on a stolen Podracer after Jabba arrives to investigate Graballa's presence, but end up stuck in the desert after the podrace leads to the destruction of their vehicle. They manage to take refuge in an abandoned Jawa sandcrawler, and the elder siblings contact Naare despite Rowan's half-hearted attempts to convince them not to do so. Graballa's forces arrive and attack, and are about to capture the Freemakers when Naare arrives and overcomes them with relative ease. During the battle, however, Rowan hides in her Eclipse Fighter and discovers her red-bladed lightsaber and dark side connection when the Emperor calls to check on her progress. Unfortunately, the elder Freemakers are more convinced than ever of Naare's "heroic" nature, leaving Rowan at a loss as to how to deal with the deceiving sith.
8"The Test"Michael HegnerBill Motz
Bob Roth
July 25, 2016 (2016-07-25)1080.45[10]

Official Synopsis: After the Freemakers escape from Naare, they end up on another planet where their collision with a ship owned by Hondo Onaka has them doing a favor to Hondo as a way to work of the damages to his ship.

Rowan reveals to the other Freemakers that Naare is a Sith, and the group manage to escape her after being pursued by her in the Eclipse Fighter, though the Star Scavenger is badly damaged. Naare ends up making a deal with Graballa to hunt down the Freemakers and the crystals together, while the Freemakers crash land on Takodana, home to Maz Kanata. They lightly damage the ship of pirate Hondo Ohnaka, who is convinced to spare the Freemakers harm in exchange for them retrieving three golden orbs from one of Takodana's moons. Rowan, to his surprise, senses a Kyber Saber Crystal in Maz's castle, but assumes that he is imagining things and accompanies his siblings and Roger to the moon. Unfortunately, they find that the orbs are in a pit surrounded by adult Varactyls, giant carnivorous lizards, and resort to lowering Roger into the pit from their smaller ship while the creatures are asleep. Unfortunately Roger wakes the creatures up after attempting to take more than Hondo's requested three orbs, and Rowan then discovers that the golden objects are Varactyl eggs. The group then return and confront Hondo over his dirty deal, and Maz then kicks Hondo out before gifting the Freemakers with a needed piece for their ship and another Kyber Saber Crystal. She then advises Rowan that, when things become desperate, he should seek out the Maker of Zoh.
9"The Kyber Saber Crystal Chase"Jens MøllerRuss Carney
Ron Corcillo
August 1, 2016 (2016-08-01)1090.44[11]

Official Synopsis: The Freemakers are in hot pursuit of the remaining Kyber Saber Crystals, but each time they find one, Naare steals it away.

The Freemakers continue to search for the Kyber Saber Crystals while being pursued by Naare, and lose one on a water planet before traveling to Naboo, where they discover one hidden in the Emperor Palpatine Museum. Sneaking Roger into the museum, they find that Durpin and Plumestriker are in charge of security. Unfortunately, the contents of the museum prove distracting to the various members of the Freemaker family, and Rowan accidentally causes the Imperials to become aware of their presence. Fortunately, he is able to bluff his way into getting the Imperials to leave, only for Naare and Dengar to arrive in search of the crystal that Rowan has found. Roger and Dengar engage in a fire fight while Rowan battles Naare, only to find himself greatly out matched for his former master. Fortunately, he manages to bring down the museum and recovers Naare's blue lightsaber after she steals back her red lightsaber and gets the crystal from him, and the Freemakers escape. The Freemakers then learn that Naare has been using Roger to track them; Naare, learning of their discovery, is unconcerned, as the final crystal is known to be located on Hoth.
10"The Maker of Zoh"Per Düring RisagerJames W. BatesAugust 8, 2016 (2016-08-08)1100.44[12]

Official Synopsis: The Freemakers travel to Zoh where they meet the Maker, who teaches Rowan how to build using the Force.

Realizing that Naare will be waiting for them on Hoth and has six of the seven Kyber Saber Crystals, the Freemakers ponder their next move after removing Roger's transmitter, which has been communicating to Naare since they contacted her from Tattooine. Remembering Maz's counsel, Rowan suggests that they travel to Zoh in search of the Maker; despite Zoh turning out to be a supposedly uninhabited junk planet, the group decides to go there. Upon arrival they find several cobbled together droids who attempt to drive them away only for them to be saved by the Maker, who is revealed to be Jek-14; Rowan then persuades him to teach him what he knows of building with the Force. Jek's droid companions become fearful that the Freemakers will take Jek with them and scheme to turn Roger to their side and destroy the unwanted interlopers; however, Roger proves faithful to his "family" and reactivates his transmitter, which brings Naare and Graballa to Zoh in search of the Freemakers. Jek confronts Naare while the Freemakers escape and is buried in junk; however, after the Freemakers and their enemies depart for Hoth, his hand is seen emerging from the pile as his droid friends rebuild.
11"Showdown on Hoth"Frederik BudolphJohn BehnkeAugust 15, 2016 (2016-08-15)1110.34[13]

Official Synopsis: The conclusion for the race for the Kyber Saber Crystals looms on the horizon.

The Freemakers fly to Hoth with Naare and Graballa's forces hot on their tails, but are able to land safely on the planet while Graballa's ship crashes. Unfortunately, Roger causes the Star Scavenger to sink after thawing out a frozen lake, while the Freemakers encounter a baby Wampa before finding the last Kyber Saber Crystal. With their ship frozen the Freemakers are forced to enter Echo Base, where their old enemies Durpin and Plumestriker are now stationed, and Plumestriker inadvertently alerts Naare to the Freemakers' location while trying to capture them and secure promotions for himself and Durpin. However, the Wampa's mother arrives just in time to see the Imperials firing at her cub, and chases them off while the Freemakers are left to prepare for Naare's imminent arrival. Using their tools and Rowan's Force abilities, they repair some of the Rebel and Imperial technology left behind on the planet and fight against the arriving forces, unexpectedly freeing the Star Scavenger from the frozen lake in the process. Kordi shoots down Naare only for her to cause an avalanche with her Force powers and capture them, only to be knocked down when Durpin and Plumestriker come running by with the Wampa still in hot pursuit. Rowan briefly ponders surrendering to Naare in exchange for his family's safety, but instead tricks her with an ice crystal that melts when Naare attempts to form the Kyber Saber, enabling the Freemakers to escape with the real one. However, Rowan then takes Roger and the family salvage pod and leaves in order to protect his older siblings from Naare's continued pursuit.
12"Duel of Destiny"Jens MøllerBill Motz
Bob Roth
August 22, 2016 (2016-08-22)1120.46[14]

Official Synopsis: Rowan and Naare enter into a lightsaber duel with unbelievable consequences.

The Emperor continues to demand that Naare hand over the Kyber Saber Crystals as she and Graballa search for the Freemakers; meanwhile, Kordi and Zander search for Rowan to no avail. The youngest member of the Freemakers has secluded himself on an unknown planet with Roger, using the battle droid's recorded memories of Clone Wars Jedi to learn new lightsaber techniques. Giving up on finding Rowan and resigning themselves to him finding them, Kordi and Zander decided to return to the Wheel only to be overheard by one of Graballa's spies, who informs the villains; they then ambush the pair on the wheel. Naare subjects the pair to individually tailored tortures-ripping apart Zander's ships with the Force and destroying Kordi' credits-in order to lure in Rowan, who senses their pain and leaves the last crystal on the planet before flying to their rescue. Arriving on the Wheel, he engages Naare in a full-on duel while the freed Kordi and Zander battle Graballa and his bounty hunters; though he performs well, Naare overpowers him and learns that Roger knows the location of the last crystal. Removing the battle droid's head, she then double crosses Graballa before burying Rowan under a pile of ship parts and departing to recover the crystal; however, Rowan survives her assault and has an epiphany regarding what must be done to stop her.
13"Return of the Kyber Saber"Martin Skov
Michael Hegner
Bill Motz
Bob Roth
August 29, 2016 (2016-08-29)1130.45[15]

Official Synopsis: The exciting final battle for the Kyber Saber comes down to Rowan vs. Naare vs. the Emperor.

It's Empire Day on Coruscant, and the Emperor sends Vader off to investigate Rebel activity before learning that Naare has almost claimed the last Kyber Saber Crystal; unfortunately for him, Naare has had enough of his belittling and, upon recreating the saber, claims it for herself and sets her sights on becoming Sith Empress. Meanwhile, Rowan uses his Force abilities to rebuild the Star Scavenger before proposing a desperate plan to his siblings; the trio then make their way to Coruscant and attempt to sneak into the Emperor's palace through the planet's sewer system. The Emperor desperately recalls Vader as Naare begins tearing her way through the Imperial fleet using the Kyber Saber, and he quickly determines to evacuate only to run into Rowan, who is disguised as him, and mistake him for a decoy. Rowan then waits in the Emperor's throne room for Naare, while Roger-his head discarded by Naare-informs Kordi and Zander of Naare's plans to claim the Empire; Naare soon discovers Rowan's ruse. The Emperor then attacks with a force of walkers and fighters only for Naare to dispatch them easily, who declares herself Empress and then drops a load of civilians off a ledge when they refuse to acknowledge her. Rowan is then able to use his ability to call to the Kyber Saber Crystals to tear the saber apart and out of Naare's grasp, and reforms the Saber in order to face Naare in a final showdown. After overcoming her, Rowan contemplates using its power to take revenge on her and is encouraged by the Emperor, but rejects the Sith Lord's offer and departs with his siblings and Roger's head. Pursued by TIE Fighters, they deploy Zander's masterpiece, the Blazemaker, as a decoy while the Star Scavenger is reconfigured into a new form to enable it to slip past the planetary defenses. The Freemakers escape while Naare is abducted and frozen in carbonite by a vengeful Graballa, and the Emperor has Rowan placed on his list of top enemies, after the leaders of the Rebellion. Rowan then tosses the Kyber Saber into a volcanic crater to ensure that it will never fall into the wrong hands again, and are then invited to join the Rebellion by Admiral Ackbar.

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