Lego Star Wars IRL
Legos are quite the event at our house. For my husband it’s the hobby of choice, second only to computer games. Put Star Wars and Lego together, you get a veritable orgy of giddy joy.
Most of the lego-gasm results now decorate our house, the easiest (and safest) place to keep them being the top of shelves. Sharing the Lego love seemed like a good follow-up the Lego Star Wars Game Review.
It might be apparent that all of the sets we have are old school Star Wars only. The banning of episode 1-3 runs even to Lego. Although its not something I am going to argue with, since we are seriously running out of display room. In fact my husband has relegated the unfinished (super huge) Millennium Falcon set to the garage, because we have no place to put it.
I’m limiting the pictures to Star Wars sets only (and not even all of them!) Maybe at this winter I can convince my husband to set up the Lego trains.
Yeah we love Legos here!
<3 TFG
ps. Ignore the dust!
July 15th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
When I was a kid in high school, I have vast notebooks dedicated to various weirdness. (Lets not discuss the d20 based Xanth RPG right now). One of the items that I ended up saving from those old notebooks was my train layout. It was a fairly straight forward 90 degree oval afair designed to be set up in a corner. The big difference was that it was fantasy themed with two lines. One was the deomer express but I forget the other with a mountain range in the middle dividing the desert/arabian area from the more germanic/medieval section. It was somewhat inspired by the Sierra On-Line games of the time, though the execution now reminds me more of the areas from Princess Maker 2.
The main problem with execution is that train sets aren’t set up for that level of fantasy. The layouts you see in Model Railroader magazine are all pretty much efforts to get as much realism as possible into the set. I was wondering if perhaps a lego based layout would be more friendly to that sort of whimsey.
July 19th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
There have been lots of ideas thrown around here about huge fantasy train set ups. I think Lego Trains are uniquely suited to this endeavor. They already have a ton of different types of background options available. And really Lego is all about mixing and matching.
There are some really interesting things people do with Lego. Oh you should go look at my flickr site. I have a whole set from a Lego set up that a local Lego Club did for Winter ’08. =)
July 20th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
There is something so very right with Legos and Star Wars.