Take the Emperors Throne Room and an ice skating, mix the two together and what do you have? No, not the missing rink but Return of the Jedi… On ice!.
It seems like ages ago that the LEGO Community Engagement Team sent out a load of Winter Skating Scene sets to the registered Lego User Groups with a simple challenge: show us what you can do. As Brick Fanatics is part of the ambassador network, we’re on the list so we got some too.
The rest (pretty much) of the UK LUGs held a big ‘alternate’ building competition so I wanted to do something different. My first idea had been more photography based, using the sets to build a larger version of the base model into which I would place and artistically photograph different figures. Imagine a ‘Rebels’ and ‘Empire’ team playing hockey; that kind of thing. I’ll be honest though, I didn’t rate it much as ideas go… I like minifigure photography but it’s photography, not MOCing and I wanted to MOC.
It was while I was building the Final Duel set (which I’ll be reviewing in due course) that I started to think: what about blending the winter skating scene with another setup? The Emperor’s throne room seemed like a good fit as both sets shared some black and trans-blue elements that would tie in the colour schemes.