September and October are celebration months in our household. In the span of 4 weeks, we have Caleb, Nate and my birthdays, and our anniversary. I love the fall.
Caleb recieved birthday money this year that put him at his savings goal for the Lego Death Star. He had been saving for a long time for this very expensive lego set. Mark and I had promised him that if he saved up half (tax included!) we would match him. And he did it. I took him to the Lego Store and he proudly counted out his coins. The clerk was very patient.
As soon as we got home, he started to build the Death Star. It has 3803 pieces and there are 261 pages to the instrucion manual. Even though it says it is for age 16+, my seven year old son built the entire thing by himself.
Here is the end result. Very impressive...especially to Lego fans.
It has 3 main levels with an elevator shaft down the middle, surrounding by rooms. Each room displays a famous scene that takes place in the original trilogy on the Death Star. It even shoots a missle from the death star.
Here are some of my favorites rooms:
The trash room, complete with moving walls and a very cool lego trash creature. It also has an entrance to the trash room from the prisoner level...
Speaking of prisoner level, here is detention block AA-23, as well as Princess Leia's cell...
There is a command room...
The famous scene of the dual between Darth Vader, Luke, and the Emperor...
Obi-Wan dismantling the tractor beam...
Luke and Leia, swinging their way back to the Millenium Falcon...
Can you tell I like Caleb' new toy? It took him 10 days to build...he spent every extra minute working on it. He also spent his money on a lazy susan that fits perfectly under the Death Star. The funny thing is that he thought the lazy susan was electric. That it could be turned on and just spin the Death Star with no human involvement. Needless to say, he was very disappointed in the lazy susan reality. He told me to return the lazy susan and asked me to get an electric one. Do they make such a thing? I will have to research that one!
Caleb recieved birthday money this year that put him at his savings goal for the Lego Death Star. He had been saving for a long time for this very expensive lego set. Mark and I had promised him that if he saved up half (tax included!) we would match him. And he did it. I took him to the Lego Store and he proudly counted out his coins. The clerk was very patient.
As soon as we got home, he started to build the Death Star. It has 3803 pieces and there are 261 pages to the instrucion manual. Even though it says it is for age 16+, my seven year old son built the entire thing by himself.
Here is the end result. Very impressive...especially to Lego fans.
It has 3 main levels with an elevator shaft down the middle, surrounding by rooms. Each room displays a famous scene that takes place in the original trilogy on the Death Star. It even shoots a missle from the death star.
Here are some of my favorites rooms:
The trash room, complete with moving walls and a very cool lego trash creature. It also has an entrance to the trash room from the prisoner level...
Speaking of prisoner level, here is detention block AA-23, as well as Princess Leia's cell...
There is a command room...
The famous scene of the dual between Darth Vader, Luke, and the Emperor...
Obi-Wan dismantling the tractor beam...
Luke and Leia, swinging their way back to the Millenium Falcon...
Can you tell I like Caleb' new toy? It took him 10 days to build...he spent every extra minute working on it. He also spent his money on a lazy susan that fits perfectly under the Death Star. The funny thing is that he thought the lazy susan was electric. That it could be turned on and just spin the Death Star with no human involvement. Needless to say, he was very disappointed in the lazy susan reality. He told me to return the lazy susan and asked me to get an electric one. Do they make such a thing? I will have to research that one!
