The Arcade consists of twelve levels, each with three different modes. Most of the levels are familiar locations/planets, but in a slightly different area than in story mode. The three different modes are: Battle Enemies, Collect Studs, and Stud Hunt. In Battle Enemies, you need to eliminate 50 enemies, in Collect Studs, you need to collect 500,000 studs while avoiding enemies, and in Stud Hunt, you can only pick up studs that you see laying around, and there are no enemies. Once you complete all three modes in a level, you will be awarded a Gold Brick, giving you twelve Gold Bricks in total once you finish all of the levels. When you play these levels, you can select any unlocked character, and you will also be given randomly selected characters that, in total will cover every single character ability. Most extras can be used, but ones that help you collect more studs, like the Stud Magnet and stud multipliers, are disable in Collect Studs and Stud Hunt.
The Menu for the Arcade. You can click through to
select the level and the mode.
Hints, Tricks, and Extra Information
In all modes, you find power ups inside objects that you need to destroy to access them. Grabbing these will make the level go by faster.
In missions where you collect studs, you do not get to keep any of the studs you collected.
Destroyed objects will regenerate and still yield studs and power ups.
There tends to be a lot of studs and power ups in metal modules
Often times, there seems to be more enemies present in Collect Studs mode, compared to Battle Enemies Mode.