Today Bunny built the engine for the Lego Millennium Falcon…it included some cool blue pieces that kind of look like straws!
I can’t believe we’ve already finished the first week of Advent!
Advent 2021–Day Seven
Lego Star Wars
Advent 2021–Day Six
It might not look like much has changed since yesterday…Turkey finished the instructions for bag four the the Lego Millennium Falcon, which consisted mainly of plating and floors, and that isn’t too easy to see:
Advent 2021–Day Five
Today Chickaee (with an assist from Ladybug) starting bag four of the Lego Millennium Falcon. They added Han and Leia (I love her snowsuit!) and some more interior details:
Every little bit helps it take shape:
Advent 2021–Day Four
Moose finished the instructions for bag three of the Lego Millennium Falcon. There wasn’t a lot to build, but he did add a seat for a gunner and some nice texturing:
Not too much size difference this time:
I can’t wait to see what bag four contains!
Advent 2021–Day Three
Today Ladybug got to add the first crew members to the Millennium Falcon (including, unbelievably, the first-ever C-3PO in any of the Lego Star Wars sets any of us have ever built!), as well as a recognizable spot on the ship:
Even after just two-and-a-half bags complete, the set is pretty big already!
Advent 2021–Day Two
Today Bunny added the landing gear to the Millennium Falcon. The set is already so much taller just with that addition!
Advent 2021–Day One
We have been waiting for this year’s Advent Lego project for a long time!
Almost two years ago now, I purchased a set that everyone in the family dreamed of building, but no one person could afford…the Lego Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series Millennium Falcon. The plan was to build it last Advent, in advance of the big trip to Orlando, and especially Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge at Disney, that we were supposed to take this summer.
Of course, COVID-19 happened, and we quickly realized that we would need to postpone our trip to (God willing) summer 2022. So I offered the children the option of building the Falcon anyway, or building another set I had on hand and saving the Star Wars set for the Advent before our vacation as planned. They chose the latter, and so the GINORMOUS box for this set became a fixture in our den while we (kind of) patiently waited to build it. Seriously…it could play the part of an end table it’s so huge!
Today Turkey got started on the build. He took care of bag one of seventeen. I know seventeen bags doesn’t sound like enough for 27 days of Advent, but this set has over 7,500 pieces, making it one of the largest Lego sets created, so one bag is more than enough for one day…we’ll be splitting many of the upcoming bags in half, and that will still be plenty of building for a day! He took care of the base of the frame, and looking at it right now, you wouldn’t necessarily have any idea what the completed set will even be! Also, check out the enormous, spiral-bound instruction book…that’s definitely something new!
I’m very excited about this set, because of what it represents: a dream that had to be postponed that will hopefully be all the sweeter for the wait!
Lego Build Day
Today is LEGO Build Day!
I’m not sure exactly when LEGO came up with the idea, but it’s the perfect way to spend the day after Christmas, especially for a family that always receives at least a few LEGO sets as gifts!
The Fab Five received The Child as a Christmas present, and I’ve also been hanging on to 123 Sesame Street for a special occasion, so those were the two sets we built today. At the same time. On the same table. Which was a bit confusing, but we managed to keep the pieces separate for the most part.
They’re both beautiful sets!
Of course, pretty much any day is LEGO Build Day in our house (we just finished Lego Diagon Alley as an Advent project), so I’m sure it won’t be too long before we have another set to work on!
Advent Calendars
Sadly, the Advent calendars are now finished. The nice thing about Lego Advent calendars, though, is that the fun doesn’t end!
Lego Stars Wars, complete with “Darth Maul Claus” and a “Snowball Droid”
Lego Friends…a traditional Christmas scene in Heartlake City
