With BrickJournal helping out with the LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary launch, it's appropriate to write something about the sets and the phenomenon behind it. Another blog came up with a top ten list of LEGO Star Wars sets. There have been reviews of the book too (I will post one pretty soon), but I decided to give a more personal reflection of what the sets are to me.
When the sets first came out in 1999, I was working at Disney World (Downtown Disney at DisneyQuest). I needed to get a second job to get things financially stable, so I decided to apply for a job at the LEGO Imagination Center. Working at DIsney, it wasn't had to get in at the LIC, and after training, I was placed on play area duty..outside.
One of the benefits, though, was the discount, and the first set I bought there was the first version of the Star Wars X-Wing. The set was grey and had the fighter and a support vehicle. And I opened it and built it outside the store. It was a nice day, and I just found a space in the shade and started building.
After six weeks, I left the LEGO job - it was too hot working outside. But I kept on buying sets, which led me to finding LUGNET and Ebay online, and after that I became an AFOL.
So for me, the Star Wars sets were a new beginning for me. I know that more than a few AFOLs came back to the hobby because of the Star Wars sets which one got you back into building?
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7131: Anakin's Podracer.
In 1999, I was quite geeked over the new Star Wars movies, and was gushing to my wife about how they were going to make Lego sets from Star Wars.
I had just retrieved all my space Lego sets from my Mom's house, and decided to build them all in celebration of Lego coolness. On the day Star Wars episode I came out, my wife surprised me with a gift of this set (7131).
I found it to be quite a cool creation, and very swishable! (A key factor in all space sets.)
Since that one, I have been in love. I collected every SW for the 1st 10 years. I have calmed down a bit, but I still browse the SW sets first.
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