The first completed scene is the trash compactor scene. As you will recall, our heroes find themselves in the trash compactor after rescuing Princess Leia from her cell and dropping down the garbage chute.
Shortly after arrival, the walls of the compactor start to close, threatening to crush them all. The Lego model attempts to re-create this and is successful in capturing the sentiment behind it, but due to the shape of the model, it's not really a crushing motion so much as it is a pinching one. The walls do not come together fully as they do in the movie but rather just pincer together at one end. Theoretically, our heroes could just stand by the door and be perfectly safe.
The door to exit the trash compactor is a simple, yet clever contraption. You manually open and close the door using a long "handle" that is attached to the bottom of the door and slides along a track. The door itself is sandwiched between the 2 pillars making up the middle structure. The whole things moves very smoothly. Below you can see that the door is half open. The red stud that sticks up from the floor in the right-most room is the handle to control the door movement. You can see the flat tile that acts as a track.
Of course, one can not mention the trash compactor room without talking about the hideous dianoga that makes its home there. I like the fact that Lego has included it in this set. You can see its head poking up from the surface, as it looks for its next victim.
On the underside of the floor is a hatch that can be manually moved up and down in order to raise and lower the level of the eyeball. You can see in the picture below that the dianoga is actually sitting on this platform.
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