This LEGO collecting is getting addictive. Since my last post, I have expanded my collection, but haven’t had a chance to take any pictures of them yet.

I’ve managed to get:

Rebel Scout Speeder #7668 which includes a small speeder craft and for rebel soldiers. These rebels are, I think my favourite minifig so far. This image shows how cool they are:

That brings my total rebels to 5. Not quite an army, but should be good for some photo set ups.

Imperial Dropship #7667 which has 3 storm trooper minifigs and a dark trooper (I think that’s what it’s called) which is basically a black storm trooper plus a little craft. No pictures of that yet either I’m afraid.

Finally, for this post anyway, I picked up Anakin’s Jedi Starfighter #7669 which includes R2-D2 and Anakin with brown wavy hair. The fighter is pretty cool, although I’m not too sure about the amount of detail on Anakin’s head. I think there is just a bit too much and just doesn’t look LEGO enough, but I’m sure I’ll cope.

Anyway, more collection updates soon with more pictures too.

I’m not a big gamer, but I do like games that you can just put on for ten minutes to kill a bit of time. I’ve been playing the LEGO Star Warson the PC for a while now and just love it. The way they have made the game and the game play is a nice departure from the usual shoot everything types games, or games that need 3 weeks of solid game play just to get past the welcome screen. This game is based on Episode I, II & III so you get characters like Anakin, Darth Maul, General Grevious and Mace Windu.

Then came LEGO Star Wars II which is pretty much the same thing, but based on Episode IV, V & VI with characters like Luke, Han and Princess Leia.

Recently a new game has been released that joins the two together and brings a few additional levels to the game, and best of all, if you play it on the Nintendo Wii, you get to use the light saber by waving your Wii remote around. For any Star Wars fan, that has got to be a reason for buying it! Oh, it’s called LEGO Star Wars Complete Saga.

So that’s Star Wars covered, but what else is there? I was also browsing through Brothers Brick again and saw them mention some screen grabs from a LEGO Batman game. My eyes lit up as it looks just as cool as the Star Wars games, so I’ll be keeping an eye out for any more news on that one.

I’m hoping the new Indiana Jones sets spark off plans for an Indy game too, and looking at the Lucasarts web site, this may not be too far away.

This is the younger version of Anakin Skywalker from the Episode I pod racing themed LEGO sets. He has the crash helmet and goggles which really give the minifig the right look.

There is also another version of the young Anakin Skywalker figure with a brown crash helmet, from the Naboo fighter scene when he ends up flying a Naboo fighter and blowing up the droid control ship.

The Anakin Skywalker character has several versions in LEGO Star Wars themed sets. Obe Wan Kenobe, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker all have several versions, some rarer than others.

Anyway, back to Anakin. This one is a, I think, a combination of the mini figure from some of the Episode III sets. He has his black hand from when it cut off in Episode II fighting Count Dooku, but I’ve got a feeling the head pictured here is from the Darth Vader Transformation kit as his face is a little more scarred than it should be for this version.

Right, after my slight error with what I thought could have been an Indiana Jones minifig, there’s no denying who this is. It’s another minifig that makes use of some great headgear to really make the character look right.

It’s Bib Fortuna, Jabba’s messenger from Star Wars VI Return of the Jedi.

Bit of an ugly figure really, but one that stands out from the rest as something a little bit different.

Here is another of my favourite LEGO Star Wars minifigs, although it’s a character that doesn’t feature a great deal in the films. It’s the Emperor’s Royal Guard and like the Darth Vador mini figure, it’s the head gear that makes it so good in my opinion.

The red stands out really well too, which is great for images and the future desktops I’ll be adding soon.

Obe Wan is one of the star wars mini figures that has several different versions. If you go through from Episode I - The Phantom Menace, you get the young Obe Wan, then in Episode II - Attack of the Clones you get this version, with beard. There are also hooded versions too which I also have in my collection so pictures will appear soon of them.

While we are on the subject of Boba Fett, here is the young Boba mini figure. Notice the shorter legs to make him shorter than a standard minifig, as he’s a kid. The legs don’t move though like the normal legs on a lego figure.

This, again, was one of the rarer figures a while ago, like Jango Fett, but seems to be a little more common recently.

This was one of the first figures that rekindled my interest in LEGO and started off my obsession fascination with LEGO minifigs and was one of the first in my collection of around 200 figures (at the time of writing).

This is one of those figures that has magnets in it’s legs and the body is fixed together. The magnet versions were produced as a collectable and a ‘fridge magnet’. Purists will probably not like these versions, but they look exactly the same so it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. The only slight problem is when you stand a few with magnets close together to display them. Let’s say they get a bit attached to each other if you get them too close. If you have lots of figures on display like I have then this can cause a bit of a domino effect. Funny the first time, amusing the second, but down right annoying the third, fourth and fifth time!

Jango Fett is one of the rarer minifigs as it doesn’t appear in many sets. It was only a short while ago that the Jango Fett figure was fetching up to £40 on ebay for just the figure. I think either more sets are available now, or LEGO might be producing more of the figures as prices have come down a fair bit, although it still fetches a good price for what is just a small piece of plastic.