Friday, July 29, 2011

Epic Lego Adventure

Today Liam, his mom, and I had an epic Lego adventure.  We started by building several different "levels" on Lego baseplates (they're fabulous, by the way) - three green baseplates, two blue baseplates, and one grey baseplate).
Level "0", as Liam called it, was built by him.  This is where the adventure began.  He built a house with  his "main character" and three friends.  Suddenly my character came up in a boat and told him his character's dad, the "professor", was missing.  My character told him he needed to go to the "labyrinth" (build by Liam) to find him.  So off they went.
Once to the labyrinth, they accidentally woke up an evil monster (found in this set).  The monster attacked them, but failed (of course).
One freed, the four guys in the middle were quite happy.  However, and unfortunately, the "dad professor" was not there.  One of the freed men said the "lady at the refueling station knows everything.  For a price, she'd be sure to help you."  So off they went to the refueling station (built by Mom).
Here they refueled.
They also noticed a lady inside the station.
Her station was clean, and conveniently offered the use of a toilet.  Liam loved that part. His mom must know him well.
The lady in the station told them she knew where the professor was, but that she required 20 gold pieces in return for the information.
Taken aback by the need to come up with 20 gold pieces, they happened upon a pirate, who for some odd reason, felt like helping them out.  With the aid of his giant pirate boat, the crew sailed to an island (built by me) that "can only be found by those who had already been there..."
Shortly before they arrived, an older gentleman and his daughter arrived at the island, unaware of the foreboding "sign of the spider" that marked it's gate.
The older gentleman gazed happily upon the island.
His daughter enjoyed the flowers...
...unaware that an evil mummy was waiting for the perfect time to catch them.
Suddenly, the mummy jumped up and captured the older man and his daughter.  They were sure to be killed, but the pirate boat arrived just in time.  The crew jumped out, saved the man and his daughter, killed two menacing scorpions, and found a secret chest.  Inside was a book that told them how to open the pyramid.  Inside the pyramid were 20 gold pieces!
In a flash the crew made it back to the refueling station where they gave the money to the lady.  In turn, she told them where the professor was.

Turns out he was trapped by meltrocks (a rock monster).  My character, Liam's character (named "Zap"), and Mom's character quickly saved him.  The professor then explained that the "grand leader of the bad guys" were the aliens.
Professor Dad then took them to the alien base (built by me).
Once they arrived at the alien base, one of the alien activated a switch.
The switched turned the ninja statue into a living monster.  Thankfully, the crew was able to defeat him.
Once he was defeated, they crew had to fight off a second alien.

It was then, however, that they saw who the real villain was...

It was Buzz Lightyear!  He'd turned EVIL!
Thankfully, he wasn't too hard to beat either.

Everybody was back together and happy (except the evil bad guys).  The end.

So fun.  :)

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Mechanical Lego Wampa

I love the creative things people do with their Lego play. I saw this from zane303's flikr account. I thought it was fun:


You can see it from his account here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46252788@N05/5478430354

So fun!

Here's the original set the monster (or "Wampa") come from:

Monday, July 11, 2011

Lego Pod Racer / Speeder


The picture above is one I had fun messing around with in Photoshop.  Here's the original:


Here's a pod racer Liam and I were playing with yesterday.  I saw it today and thought I'd post it up.  The coloring isn't perfect - I'm a little bothered by the tan slope pieces... but I still like it.


Sunday, July 10, 2011

Rocket-Launch Station


Liam and I were playing "Lego" again.  I made a rocket-launch station as part of our play.  It was pretty fun.  My favorite part is the guy inside the little glassed-off room.

The hardest part was finding all the "tile" pieces, but surprisingly I managed.  Liam added the laser gun thing in the back.  Turns out it had a mind of it's own... and unfortunately decided to become a bad guy.  This was particularly unfortunate for R2, as I recall.


The reason the rocket-launch station is on a blue baseplate is because it's supposed to be floating in water.  There was a "water" space ship (not shown) that docked to it's side.


Great fun.

I don't plan on posting instructions for this one because it required several "pick-a-brick" parts that I ordered a while back (e.g. the blue window, the fences, etc.).  However, if anyone wants instructions, just let me know, and I'd be happy to put them up.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Centaurs

So Liam's been reading the Narnia series at night with his Mom (he loves it when his mom reads to him), and he's convinced Lego has some "Narnia" set. Unfortunately, that's not true... and Lego doesn't have much in the way of Narnia-like pieces. In particular, I was trying to figure out how to make a Lego centaur.

Looking around I found this centaur:
Centaurs by SlyOwl
Centaurs, a photo by SlyOwl on Flickr.
This fabulous centaur from SlyOwl (please check out their Flickr site, it's amazing) was the coolest one I found.  However, the piece they used for the legs isn't one I've got, so I kept looking.

Turns out if you're really looking for a "real" Lego centaur character the closest you can get is this:


These are custom lego pieces made by BrickForge.  Pretty cool.  Here's the link to their site.

The problem with BrickForge is that I can't have it NOW.  So looking around at what I had (which honestly isn't that much), I made these: