R2D2's Dad's Dog's Dead

Son is very happy - we finally collected all the gold bricks in Lego Star Wars and found that they fitted together to make a money machine - a strange contraption which spits out studs continuously. Not that we need this having reached the maximum score of 4 Billion studs collected. With the help of his sister, the boy completed the old version of the Pod race and voila all 160 bricks "belong to us". I am slightly deflated at realising that this does not get us 100% completion due to several other challenges which need to be done against the clock, one of which was given an hour and we did in 59 minutes and 32 seconds. Phew!

300 Million

Much fun in the deWeyden house - Lego Star Wars has taken us over - after getting enough points to buy various score multipliers which stack we are now taking home close to 4000 times what we were doing all those weeks ago when the cellophane came off. Small boy now has 300 million points and has rushed off to the sweet shop (bar to you my friend) to purchase all the Bounty Hunters. Daughter, as ever the feminist has decided to buy all the girls as she thinks there are not enough in the game. Pity she was playing as Bikini-Clad Princess Leia all of yesterday.

Me? I'm just happy with what must be the closest thing on this planet to a real light sabre. Even with the TV not switched to the Wii, the controllers buzz and clash as if some distant brawl is still going on. Happy we are.

Impossible Frog

For what I think is the first time ever, I have actually completed a large section of a video game. Actually to tell the truth, while it was me who pressed the buttons, waggled the joysticks and waved the controllers, it was my son who worked out what to do, which red buttons to stand on, which walls to slide and which objects to move where. Still, we jumped on those Jawas, stupefied those Stormtroopers and Tarried with TIE Fighters until all that was left was a long trench and a hole about the size of a Womprat. We bulls eyed that in no time and returned for Smoked Kippers before breakfast. Or is that the wrong show? Anyway, much cheering, many fist-bumps and lots of dancing occurred all to the sound of the Cantina Band. We are going back to Tatooine tomorrow 'cos we need R2D2 to get us into the movies.

Really Spoiling Us

(From the Light Sabre Room)

Well two mentions of Pykrete in a fortnight. The piles of compressed snow that were scooped up by the tractor two weeks ago are still occupying a few car park spaces here. They are very grubby which makes me think that they have picked up quite a lot of stuff that isn't water which is rendering them almost indestructible. Enough of this wittering.

I didn't read much yesterday. Both children were out which gave me a chance to use the newly-acquired Wii on my own. They clubbed together at the weekend to get The Complete Lego Star Wars Saga and a fine thing it is. Not only do you get to wield a light sabre, the remote buzzes like the real thing and so is the closest you can get to the real feeling of one. All those mock-ups have some sort of light-up solid at the front which adjusts the swing as if it were a sword or baseball bat. Not so with a Wii remote. All very enjoyable. I'm not really sure about the comedy interludes with Obi Wan as dork though. Onto Level Four.