Dec 04 2017
Finally a build not from Rebels. Well, it’s not from Rebels per se because Day 4’s blaster cannon is generic enough that it could have been from any Star Wars movie or animated series. I remember seeing the the Snowtroopers lugging and setting up one of these when they assaulted the rebel base on Hoth, …
Dec 03 2017
I’m beginning to think that it might be Rebels all the way down. It’s day 4 of the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar, and we’ve got another spaceship from the animated series Rebels. Although it was eventually lost over the gas planet of Yarma, the modified VCX-series auxiliary starfighter known as the Phantom served Ezra Bridger …
Dec 02 2017
Day 2 of the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar is keeping it Rebels, and that is more than ok with me. Minifigures are my favorite, and Mandalorian warrior turned rebel Sabine Wren is a new one for my collection.
Dec 01 2017
Day 1 is finally here, and it was well worth the wait. The first build from the 2017 LEGO Star Wars Calendar is a mini version of The Ghost from the animated series Rebels. Piloted by Hera Syndulla, The Ghost has, in the three short years of the cartoon’s, run become as iconic as any …
Nov 30 2017
23 long days I’ve waited to open this box up, and in less than 20 hours I will find out what’s behind door # 1. For now my appetite has been whetted by the calendar’s backdrop: Starkiller Base hovering over a Jakku littered with Star Destroyers, AT-ATs, and Christmas trees. That’s not quite how I …
Nov 07 2017
If you want to get your hands on a LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar, you need to buy it in early November. That is a lesson I learned the hard way last year. The downside of planning ahead is that once you’ve got it, it will be several weeks before you can tear into day …
Jan 25 2017
By the time December of last year rolled around, my family had been participating in the World’s Biggest Marble Hunt for several months. During that time we had found many breathtaking marbles created by some of the most talented artists in the world including Geoffrey Beetem, Topher Reynolds, and Tucker Heebner. One artist whose iconic …
Dec 27 2015
I’m almost ashamed to admit it, but my daughter got a robot for Christmas, and I had absolutely nothing to do with it. As a matter of fact, I was totally unfamiliar with Dot, the cute, roughly 3.5 inch, sensor-packed, “brains of a robot” by San Mateo-based Wonder Workshop, Inc. Now that I’ve had some …
