I unveiled this new LEGO creation at Emerald City Comic Con earlier this year as a tribute to Carrie Fisher, who had originally been scheduled to appear there. After Fisher's passing, there were many LEGO tributes, most of which depicted a demure Princess Leia shoving a floppy disk into some poor hapless droid. But I wanted to reimagine a moment from the original trilogy that really captured her feisty character!
The project began with the construction of the Leia figure, which was relatively straightforward as most of my LEGO creations are human characters. I was particularly pleased with the use of two croissant bricks for the bra!
The Jabba model was much more complex and took about 4 days to put together, not including the 2 days I spent building a version that turned out to be not to scale with the Leia figure. The process involved finding and editing a 3D model of Jabba and then running it through an app that renders the surface as a lattice of floating 1x1 LEGO bricks pointed in all different directions. The "fun" part was then figuring out how to actually build this in a way that allowed all the pieces to connect together. This was made more complicated by the fact that my available supply of "sand green" LEGO consisted of only 1x2 not 1x1 pieces.
