From Austin to Adelaide
8915 Miles!Seattle
weeks-9-5days0-2hours0-1minutes-2-1seconds0-2January 2026 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Categories
Friends of Picayune
Meta
Tag Archives: Star Wars
Creative Brick Builder helps out in making another starfighter
This weekend, our favorite used Lego place had a sale. All the Lego bricks you can fit in a box for the great price of $3.99! As much as we love the (official) Lego Store way down at the Barton … Continue reading
Brick Fiesta 2018 in San Antonio
The annual Brick Fiesta was held in San Antonio this year (it will be back in Austin next Summer) and since any kind of vacation we’re taking will probably be scheduled around 2019, so we took a quick weekend trip … Continue reading
Howard Chaykin and his contribution to Star Wars
First major guest I met and bought a commission from was Howard Chaykin. He’s been illustrating comics since at least the Seventies, when I first saw his work. His biggest, most famous material everyone would recognize is Star Wars in 1977 … Continue reading
My first Star Wars figure, the 40th anniversary edition
Star Wars may have turned 40 last but it took another whole year before Kenner cranked out the first 12 figures. For reasons I don’t remember I chose a bad guy. As my brother and I accumulated more alongside Fisher … Continue reading
Solo: Must See*
* That’s the rating for the fans, for the rest of you it’s Worth Seeing. It seems the non-episodic movies for Star Wars are the great ones (Rogue One) and Solo seems to perpetuate this. I loved Force and Last but Rogue and Solo really deliver on my expectations. What … Continue reading
The Toys That Made Us, part one
I discovered and got on the bandwagon late with this show, I wholeheartedly admit it. However, it was so great, I’ve watched all four episodes TWICE since I love toys, even at my advanced age. Not just playing with them but … Continue reading
Posted in Action Figures, Toys, TV
Tagged Cold War, Eighties, Fantasy, Seventies, Star Wars
Leave a comment
AT-ST on the move!
This kick-ass mini came with the core game Imperial Assault. Like most Fantasy Flight games, it uses D&D dice but with goofy symbols on them instead of numbers. For me, I just picked up the game and expansion packs to have Star … Continue reading
Edible and lethal
All I need now are some Y-Wings made of marzipan to cripple the Star Destroyer with milk torpedoes a la Rogue One.
The Last Jedi: MUST SEE!
NO SPOILERS…SO RELAX! The saga picks up shortly after the end of The Force Awakens as Rey meets exiled Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, obviously asking him to train her because the Force appears to be strong in her. Meanwhile, General Leia … Continue reading
Hank Hill would mostly approve
A co-worker recently went to a Sci-Fi-Comic Book-Fantasy convention in Bell County. It’s north of Austin and very south of Dallas. Probably closer to Waco culturally. He had numerous cool pictures but I had to show off the Star Wars models … Continue reading
Happy 40th Birthday Star Wars
What else can I say? The movie changed so much and I don’t have much time today, maybe later this weekend.
Tsk, tsk. Silly Stormtroopers
These guys were supposed to be the best soldiers in the Empire.
New Star Wars shirt
This awesome tribute to Star Wars and VJ-Day was purchased sadly right before Carrie Fisher died. It will be my personal memorial to her.
One childhood dream achieved
You have to weave through some junk at the core site, but you can go directly here to make your own pilot. I went with my Lego guy despite his lack of a chin for the strap.
RIP: Carrie Fisher
I really thought she was going to make it when Carrie was moved to stable condition, but hey, 2016 didn’t think it was craptacular enough. Like most people my age in Gen X, I first encountered Carrie as Princess Leia … Continue reading