Star Wars Advent

As i mentioned earlier in the month i had a Star Wars Lego Advent Calendar this year. Well all the items were opened before Christmas of course but i took a photograph every day and you can see them in this Flickr set here. My favourite was the mouse robot on the Death Star which Chewie so memorably scared away.

Advent calendar Star Wars Lego style

Its been years since i last had an advent calendar, in fact i can't remember the last one i had. No doubt i was at primary school and probably opened all of the days early so i could scoff all the cheap chocolates! Well i have more will power these days and won't cheat with my Star Wars Lego advent calendar. Every day there is a new toy to build and here is the first. It looks a bit like a Rebel Alliance blockade runner to me but then again i do have a good imagination. I will be photographing each days new toy up until Christmas Day, and uploading them to this Flickr group.

Comics : Star Wars #42

I enjoyed reviewing the old Star Wars comic i found in my loft so much that i bought another of the Marvel comic series on Ebay. Number 42 this time, which i did have as a childhood as oddly i remember Han Solo's buff body in one scene as he is stripped to the waist and having steam or some kind of vapour blown over him. Er... yeah moving on...

Set in between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back this has the Rebel gang stuck on some kind of massive space station. Luke and Leia and the 2 droids are on the run from a Senator Greyshade meanwhile Darth Vader is searching for a cyborg rival. In the exciting cliffhanger Han Solo is forced into a gladiatorial combat where he is shocked to find out his opponent is Chewbacca!

The highlight of everything is the cover though, and boy does Darth Vader look angry! I suspect The Emperor erased all his unseen episodes of Masterchef off his Sky Plus.

Look Sir, Droids!

Years ago when i worked at Tw2 we had a great laugh about this amazing bit of stop-motion animation showing breakdancing stormtroopers. Glad to see the Suck Lord has put it on Youtube nowadays. Currently on a bit of a Star Wars high, reading my first novel on the Kindle and watching the films again. They never grow old. Except Jar Jar maybe.