One day not too long ago — I believe it was the Twelfth Day of Christmas, or may be the 11th day of Boxing Day — my kids decided it was Christmas Eve for their Littlest Pet Shop pets. They made a bunch of presents out of legos and asked me to help them make a sleigh. I noticed we had a number of funny shaped orange bricks, and I thought I could do something with them. Well, one thing led to another and I ended up making a space ship instead of a sleigh. Still the pilot was a right jolly old elf and the payload was toys for all the good little girls and boys. Jeannie then started collecting purple bricks and made a cool companion starcraft. Not sure who the pilot of that one is, I think he’s from a Stranger In a Strange Land or Mission to Mars set. Making Lego spaceships is fun because the subject is fantastic, so it’s more about how cool it looks than how realistic it is. Kinda like making dragons in origami.
