Comments on: Lego Star Wars IRL

By: diegochung

diegochung — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:09:16 +0000

There is something so very right with Legos and Star Wars.

By: TokenFemaleGamer

TokenFemaleGamer — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:54:22 +0000

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. =)

By: darktouch

darktouch — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:19:10 +0000

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.