Interplanetary Arctic Explorer

In a large box of sets purchased last summer we had a few Ice Planet 2000 sets.  Among them were some small impulse sets that had some neat white wheels for driving around on a snowy planet.  It seemed like a good idea to combine as many as we could find onto a single vehicle.  From here my helpers dug through the parts looking for interesting white pieces.

We then applied some various shades of translucent blue to give it some color.  This particular model made use of many studs and white 1x2 grates.  Coincidentally we had just stocked up on those at the Lego store before building this particular creation.

So far the explorer has been unsuccessful at finding alien life, but we are still hopeful it will find success.

The Limo

One of the most fun sets we have built is 3222, the awesome Helicopter and Limousine set our 5 year old got for her birthday.  It was a fun build, and has been very fun to play with.

But then the Rebel Scum showed up and starting making trouble in the neighborhood.

They even corrupted a noble Snow Trooper into the gang. Oh my!

A Ride on a Trailer

This entire model was built by my 5 year old daughter without any help.  The day this was built she really wanted to build a trailer to pull people around on, making use of a pulley she found in the parts bin.

It seems we were short on traditional posts to hook the tow rope to though, so she improvised with the obvious replacement of some poor guys neck.  Surprisingly this almost worked, although since he wasn't centered on the trailer, it did tend to pull to one side pretty sharply, especially if one drove it too fast.

The car itself was a bit spartan, but it seemed to have the horsepower to get the job done.

I particularly enjoyed the posing of all of the passengers.  I would imagine any trailer of that height being pulled by a rope around a guys neck is going to be a pretty wild ride.  I'm sure the steering wheel is also very important, although I have no idea what it was intended to do.