Dec 21 2017
Day 21 of the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar proves that for every rule I have there exists an exception. At best I had felt blasé about the Resistance officer minifigure and the Imperial officer minifigure. Generic LEGO Star Wars minifigures aren’t my bag. Unless, it turns out, they are totally bad ass like this Imperial …
Dec 20 2017
I can forgive LEGO for the First Order snowspeeder. There was a pretty long chase scene featuring snowspeeders that was excised from the final cut of The Force Awakens. LEGO finalizes sets before the movie is released so they had to make the best of it. However, there is no excuse for the Imperial hovertank. …
Dec 19 2017
Talk about esoteric. Day 19 of the LEGO Star Wars advent calendar is the sk x1 experimental air superiority fighter, or TIE striker for short. When I looked at the instructions at first I thought it was just the top half of Kylo Ren’s TIE fighter, but nope this a whole spaceship from an entirely different …
Dec 18 2017
If you want to be official, day 18 of the LEGO Star Wars advent calendar is a BTL-A4 Y-wing starfighter. Although you’d have to be a hardcore fan to know its model number. I’m guessing most casual fans don’t even realize there are other Y-wing variants. I admit that I never gave it much thought before …
Dec 17 2017
Just as the prophecy predicted, Day 17 delivered the minifigure who would bring balance to the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar, the generic imperial officer. The ying to today’s yang of course being Day 5’s resistance officer. At least the resistance officer got points for sharing a hair style with me. This imperial officer is …
Dec 16 2017
I’m not sure if this is my favorite build from the 2017 LEGO Advent calendar so far, but if not then it’s a close second to the luggabeast. What I can say for sure is that it took me longer to put together Director Krennic’s imperial shuttle than everything from the first 15 days combined. It …
