Mandalorian at the Mall

Outside the Lego Store at the Chandler Fashion Center, Chandler, Arizona, October 23, 2010

Giant Lego Yoda

The new Lego Store in Glendale, Arizona hosted a build event for their grand opening. Each kid got to participate in building a giant Yoda model.

Here is how it works: The kids make scaled up verzions of the classic 2 x 4 Lego brick and turn that in to the professional builder who assembles them into the model. The model stays on display for a while and then they take the whole thing apart and move it to the next venue.

She's captured a bounty hunter!

Photo taken at the Lego store at the Mall of America:

"Spooky Star Wars" Lego Contest

Over at Reasonbly Clever, the "Spooky Star Wars" Halloween Lego contest is wrapping up. The catgories are :

1. Spooky Vehicle

2. Spooky Scene

3. Spooky Impulse (limited to 50 pieces)

4. The Final Moments of Jar Jar Binks

The winner is expected to be announced soon. My favorite is "Order 67", pictured above. See all the entries at this link.

Darth Binks

Way back when, just after the release of The Phantom Menace, I made a stop-motion animated film called Darth Binks that explored what would happen if Jar Jar responded to all the resentment of him by turning to the dark side of The Force and becoming a Sith Lord. It is made with Lego minifigures and with audio clips found online. Enjoy.

You get bonus points if you can spot IG-88 in the background.

Director's commentary: It was originally going to be much more grandiose with Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber duel with a spaceship piloted by Binks, but do you have any idea how long stop-motion animation takes?

35,310 Lego Star Wars Clone Trooper Army Invades Earth

Over at Gizmodo.com, there are some excellent photos of an army of Lego clone troopers. Why build an army of clone troopers? Because it's cool. Um, I mean it's for charity.