Unlocking Jabba the Hutt’s Bounty Hunter Missions in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

This is definitely not “news” but it’s kind of new to me, so I thought I would post about it. My son and I have been playing the video game “LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga” and have enjoyed it quite a bit. We liked the Jabba’s palace level in particular (you fight the rancor at the end) but were disappointed that you never really see Jabba there. But as it turns out, there is a way to unlock Jabba in the game. At first when I heard this, I thought he might be a playable character, since part of the fun of the LEGO video games is saving up “LEGO studs” (their version of money) and spending them to unlock new characters and features. Sadly, you can’t play as Jabba (although there are a number of people from the palace that you can play as, including Bib Fortuna, a Gamorrean Guard and Slave Leia to name a few.

When you unlock Jabba’s office area (which, from what I can tell, requires that you finish all of the levels in the game and unlock all of the bounty hunter characters from the original trilogy), you can then visit him and select from 20 “bounty hunter missions.” In these missions, you play through some of the same levels that you played through in the normal game, but this time you play as the bounty hunters (and can switch freely between them). The goal is to find your bounty in the level before your time runs out. I’m not sure if anything happens when you complete all 20 levels, but I was happy to finally see Jabba in the game at least.