(photo by Larry Lars)
This holiday season show off your creativity and the Christmas spirit by making your own Star Wars-themed nativity scene. Check out this LEGO Star Wars Nativity made by fan Larry Lars who has a few tips of his own for others who want to make one as well.
What made you decide to make a nativity scene from LEGO Star Wars figures?
I made the scene to be my entry in a contest held by a SW LEGO fan site FBTB.net. Limited to only a baseplate with 12×12 studs you’re supposed to combine Christmas and Star Wars and hopefully show your creativity and building skills. This idea came to me when trying to think up a reason, for the amount of different characters I wanted to have, to actually have a meeting on such a small space.
What is your favorite part of the nativity scene?
The twins of course. I also really like how the stable and the star tricks you into thinking it is the traditional setup before you take a closer look.
Any inside jokes in it that fans will appreciate?
The characters, besides the main family, are chosen for the most variety and Star Wars feel. But with this combination of characters from different movies and with the weight of the nativity story there’s going to be some interesting details to think about. Why so many evil ones? Who is the trooper on the roof? and so on. I think the biggest appeal for fans is going to be the depiction of the Skywalker family together in a moment they were bound to never have.
Any advice for fans who want to make their own Star Wars nativity scene?
Try to find a balance in the scene. I think you need to have a few things that really connects to the traditional scene. You have to know when to stop adding clever Star Wars references. And that can actually be kind of difficult.
Get a closer look here:
LEGO Star Wars Nativity (Flickr)
Tags: Christmas, Holidays, Interviews, LEGO
You forgot the Dewback as the mule or ox
Nice work & very funny 
very funny and well done:)
very cool. and very funny. i could never make that.
ps. i love your lego’s
Brilliant! But have you seen the entire collection of Lego Star wars figures online at http://www.legostarwarsfigure.com – now we can see which ones are missing from our collections.
wow that is so cool. i like the whole thing just i wish you could have made it a little bigger and use a tauntaun or dew back in it to add more but 5 stars.