Lego House and Liam's Missing Tooth

During play I recently made a house.  Originally, it was supposed to be something for a Lego car to run into and break down, but Liam decided he wanted me to build a regular looking house.

I decided to make it so the top could come off.

The flowers on the top were just for fun.

Liam eventually decided the house should be turned into a Star Wars lightsabor store... as in, a place where you go buy lightsabers.

On another note, Liam lost his first tooth this week!  The new one is up and coming.  My little boy is growing up!  Slow down time!  Slow down!!!!!

Great Lego Bridge

Raid of Scone 4, a photo by Blake's Baericks on Flickr.

I've building bridges, and this one's pretty sweet. Very nice.

Lego Instructions for an Elephant

Liam and I made a Lego zoo the other day.  It was a lot of fun, but it didn't last long.  Pretty soon lasers got attached to the walls (to keep the animals from getting out), and before long... the zoo pretty much exploded.

I kept, however, an elephant (made from Lego bricks, of course), and I made instructions on how to build it.  Click here for the instructions.  Sorry, no individual brick list/count yet, but I may add it later.

Lego Ewok Adventure

Liam and I built the LEGO Star Wars The Battle of Endor set today.  It was great fun.  He's asleep at the moment (it's pretty late), but I stayed up and set up a big adventure for tomorrow.  He's going to love it.

Here's a video of the set up... so fun!

By the way, the LEGO Star Wars The Battle of Endor set is fabulous.  It came with a lot of really fun pieces (e.g. several dark green plates, ton's of angled pieces, 4 fishing poles, etc).  The ATST isn't as hard as it looks like it might be.  My only advise is that when you build the big building at the end, be sure not to mix up the dark grays and the blacks.  It's a bit tricky, but totally doable.

We also got the set 7956, the Ewok tree & speeder set.  It's pretty fun too, and much less expensive.  Though I will say, it goes great with the big one.

Enjoy!

Lego Power Rangers

Liam wanted to watch Power Rangers this morning.  As he did so I started building their "Power Chamber," or headquarters.  The picture above shows Zordon, the magical floating head that tells the Power Rangers what's up.

Here's a little bit of a closer look at Zordon's head.

This is Alpha 5, the Power Ranger's robot helper.  Mine looks a bit more "robotic" than the original, but it's true to the idea.

Here's the rest of the Power Ranger's headquarters...

Liam made sure I included the big screen they use.

This is the big overview.

Zordon and Alpha 5 in action.

Finally, although not directly from Power Rangers, this is the villain our Lego Rangers had to fight today.  Along with a not-so-great Rita Repulsa look alike, this "dragon" like character tried to destroy the Power Rangers today.  Fortunately, the Rangers won.

Building a Lego Jungle Adventure

Today our story started out with a pirate capturing a princess, but before we got too far we started building sets/scenery. My favorite. This is the pirate king's jungle throne room.

I suppose I may have gone overboard with the foliage, but it was just too fun putting it in.  Here's a closer look at the throne. The back moves on a hinge, just in case the pirate needs to relax a bit.

This is the cage hanging outside the pirate lair.

I wrapped the string around some 1x1 cylinder pieces.

I then sent it through a 1x1 with a little thing on the side,

I like the skeleton. So fun.  I had fun building the rock, too.

My favorite of Liam's creations (keep in mind he's 5) was his flying surf board. This is what the hero rides.

He also created an interesting set with several computer terminals and guns.

We'll be playing the adventure in the morning after we build our new Ninjago set. Speaking of which, Toys R Us has lots of new sets. They must have just come in. Liam and I were pretty excited. So fun!

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.  :)