Teenage Hell

Star Wars Lego is just the most fantastic thing according to my 11 year old son. He has been building legos since he was around 8 years and he has built Bionicles and the other City sets but Star Wars Lego Sets are by far his favourite.

There are many Star Wars Lego to choose from, you can either be a good guy Jedi or maybe  the Dark Side. He first was building some of the basic Star Wars Lego Sets and is always looking for the next good set to get. Each time we go to the toy shop we need to check and see if there is a new Star Wars Lego Set out.

The biggest Star Wars Lego Sets he has built so far must have had 400 pieces. I remember it was around fifty dollars and kept my son busy for a couple nights. Every so often he would come over and show me how some part went together and what it could do. One of my favorite Star Wars Lego Sets he built is one of the walkers, the Imperial AT-ST (All Terrain Scout Transport). It was a bit hard to build because so a lot of the pieces are gray. It looks really great on display. The Millennium Falcon lego set has more than 5,000 pieces and is the biggest and hardest to build the Lego company set made!!

Star Wars Lego comes in sets start around $10 and right up to hundreds of dollars!!. All the small Star Wars Lego Sets are fairly simple to construct because they only have a few bags of parts, some of the bigger Lego sets have many part bags and multi instruction manuals. One thing we found is the parts bags are logically grouped so that similar parts for a particular assembly portion are grouped together. So when my son builds a Lego set, he puts each bag into a little bowl rather than putting them all together in one big bowl.

One thing I have noticed about Star Wars Lego, and it probably holds true with any Lego set, is my son always wants to see what Star Wars Lego minifigures come with the kit. Some of the Star Wars Lego Collectable sets come with 4 or 5 Star Wars Lego minifigures. This is the most important thing in the Star Wars Lego building world. In fact all of the main characters of the movies are in Lego minifigure form. Yoda has his own easily recognisable head and head shape, as do Chewbacca, Kit Fisto and other Lego minifigure, including Darth Vaders. Yes, Star Wars lightsabers are available with some minifigures as well!

Just when I thought that my son had every Star Wars Lego Set available, I went online to see how big the range is. Wow!! That’s where I found out just how big some of the Star Wars Legos can be. You can even build the 10188 Death Star set, if you can afford it and you have the patience ‘cos its huge. My son says he will buy it oneday. Also available of course is the cool Jedi Starfighter. Other available vehicles and ships include the Imperial AT-ST, TIE fighters, a Rebel Blockade Runner and Lukes speeder. There are also location sets like the 4501 Mos Eisley Cantina, it’s a really great Star Wars Lego collectable.