One of the cornerstones of the LEGO® Star Wars 25th Anniversary celebration is the release of the art book ‘The Force of Creativity.’ Written by editor of Blocks Magazine, Graham E. Hancock, the book promises to be “The ultimate treat for yourself or a Star Wars gift for a fellow fan,” but priced at $AUD239.99/USD149.99/£129.99, a lot of people have expressed reservations at making the investment, particularly for a book that is essentially unseen at the time it goes for sale on LEGO.com.

I got to know Graham when attending the LEGO Fan Media Days in Billund a few years ago, so I thought I’d give him a call in order to find out a bit more about what might find inside…

How things began

Richard Jones/The Rambling Brick:   Graham E. Hancock, thanks for joining us here. How are you?

Graham E. Hancock: I’m great, Richard, really, really nice to be talking to you really excited to finally.

RJ: Congratulations on the new book. How did it come into being? 

GH: Well, it was definitely 25 years in the making!  As a child, I was often was a little bit grown up for my age. Whereas now as an adult, I’m very childish for my age, I suppose. But, I got to an age where I felt like I shouldn’t be playing with toys anymore. I wanted to put  the LEGO Pirates, the LEGO Western and all these cool themes that I grown up with to one side. But alongside loving LEGO as a kid, I really loved Star Wars: I started reading the novels and the comics and things. And that’s the kind of stuff that I was gravitating towards.  

I found myself in Toys R Us, and there was this end cap full of the first ever LEGO Star Wars sets. My jaw was on the floor. I was just delighted: my two favourite things had come together. The only thing in the world that could have kept me in LEGO at that moment in time was Star Wars. 

And that was how Star Wars managed to keep me engaged with LEGO.  I’m completely disabused of all this now of course, but at the time, I thought, “Oh, well, I’m not playing with these toys. I’m collecting these, this is a very high minded thing compared to what I was doing before.”

 So I was able to buy a couple of those first sets that I saw on that end cap, take them out and then the just incredible experience of sliding the Darth Vader helmet onto the Darth Vader minifigure for the first time. I still visualise doing that at the kitchen table, like it was such a special special thing to do. And ever since then, you know, I never had a dark age.  

When I got into adulthood. I kept buying LEGO Star Wars and that was the gateway into all sorts of other themes that I ended up buying loads of sets from as well. The hobby just snowballed from there really. 

But then, when it came time to write the book, I got all of this knowledge and all of this experience of LEGO Star Wars stood up, I just immediately had an idea. I mean, the conversation with the publisher was about doing a nice big coffee table book for adults about LEGO Star Wars. I’ve got a really strong idea of what we should do for this, how we should structure it, what we want to include it how seriously we’ve kind of wanted to treat it and treat the material to kind of do something that to make something that I would love to read and that hopefully other LEGO Star Wars fans will really love to read as well.

What’s Inside?

RJ: So what sort of content of what have you got in the book? What’s the narrative pulling it all together?

GH: So I wanted to make sure that we do justice to the LEGO Star Wars brand, and we tried to touch on all the different things that have been done over 25 years. Because when you picture a LEGO Star Wars set in your head, you picture a minifigure play scale set. But, there’s so many other things that have been a part of this over such a long period of time. So we’ve got a chapter that kind of goes into how the how, how is the LEGO Star was set developed? Where does it come from? How does it start? What are these first conversations where they’re setting the assortment and deciding what they’re going to make? Right through until the finish point when it goes through model review where other professionals come in and make sure that this is something that other people are going to be able to build at home by following the instructions and all of these, all the very rigorous quality tests that it goes through. So we tell that story. 

But then you know, the minifigures mean so much to people. So we get really deep into how they’re designed. And again, we look at how that’s evolved over time. If you go back to the 1999 minifigures, and then if you look at a minifigure from today, the evolution in that time period is huge. And so we do that and see how the kind of design standards were codified. And now if you get any two LEGO minifigures, modern ones, and put them next to each other, they belong together. But it was a little bit less coherent in the late 90s. So that chapter kind of tells that story. And also not just minifigures. We  look at Wampas, Jabba the Hutt and things and all of the other.

RJ: And then there’s evolution of different head moulds and the like both both heads and helmets?

GH: If you like that stuff, we’ve got some great pictures and things of sculpts, moulds and prototypes. In the minifigure chapter in particular, we’ve got all sorts of good stuff like that: some nice sketches and things. Show you some of the things that go into making minifigures, the material that is generated on the way to getting to that final, minifigure or character.

RJ:  So, did you come across things that were news to you? I know you have a good knowledge of the company’s processes with design. Is there been anything that you’ve discovered during the time that you’ve been putting the book together?

GH: Yeah, definitely. I mean, I did have a good background knowledge to start with. But of course, the kind of depth that we’re going into with the book, and the kinds of we really wanted to get some really nice specific stories into the book, things that people hadn’t heard before, aspects of the process that people might not be aware of. So we did a whole bunch of new interviews for the book.  And yet, there’s some fascinating stories about things like how elements are tested so that when they go into the moulding machines and things they can kind of be pumped out at the speed that’s necessary like things like that.

To say nothing of how some of the reference used to be delivered by Lucasfilm and things back in the day versus how it is now. How the processes were set up that the design team works through. 

RJ:  You mentioned about material being delivered from Lucasfilm,  I have this image of the days of pre-broadband of men in trench coats with briefcases handcuffed to their wrists making clandestine Trans-Atlantic flights to deliver a couple of reference images for the Phantom Menace. 

GH: Well, apparently, it was all delivered on CD-ROM back then, but the kind of the reverse of what you’re describing.  To get approvals [for designs] in those early days, the designers used to travel with their models out to California, to take it to Skywalker Ranch and Lucasfilm’s headquarters to show them the model in person. And it’s just amazing to think that, you know, the designers would be taking these models on a Trans-Atlantic flight unboxing them there in you know, on these big meeting rooms at Skywalker Ranch and then, you know, reassembling anything that’s fallen off and then having it looked over by the Lucasfilm licencing team. 

There was a LEGO Technic Droideka back in 2000: apparently, right up until the point that they were taking it for approval, they hadn’t quite got the mechanism right, that made it unroll and pop up. They were in that meeting room, not knowing if it was going to work or not. But then, you know, The Force came through for them, because when they rolled it along the table, it popped up first time. And apparently, the guy was so excited that this thing worked and was just so thrilled by it. But as the designers walked into the room with it, and they were 50/50 on whether or not it was actually going to work. 

RJ: I suppose we had quite quite a varied range of Star Wars material back in the day, when it first rolled out, between busts,  minifigure scale and Technic material and then the early UCS. But I suppose that the Technic line of Star Wars was quite a different approach  for the sets compared to what a lot of people might have been anticipating at the time.

GH: Definitely. And it’s one of the things I was really keen to look at in the book is that. Like we said before, people think about minifigure scale for LEGO Star Wars. The [Ultimate] Collector Series has obviously been a mainstay. But if you look back at the 25 years, there’s so many things like Technic, Planets, Micro Fighters, mechs, mini building sets, buildable figures, Mindstorms. There are things that have come and gone. So we’ve got a chapter of the book that’s about those innovative types of sets, those things that surprise you. 

And I think I think they’re really key to the LEGO Star Wars experience. Because, even if you’ve been into this thing for 25 years, even if you’ve been collecting for a really long time, you can be sure that there’s going to be something surprising coming down the track. It’s never always going to be the same formats of sets. There’s always going to be something new, something that’s going to make you go “Oh, wow, that’s different.” Yeah, I see what I really love about it. It’s what really keeps me engaged.

RJ: What what sort of materials do we have to look forward to, in your book?

GH: Obviously, there are a lot of, really nice, big, big, full-spread photographs of LEGO Star Wars sets as they were released; the final models and things. But we have also got some nice treats in there in the form of some sketch model images. 

One of the things that I’m super thrilled we were able to get in there are two unreleased LEGO Star Wars sets: For the buildable figures line, there were two sets that weren’t released, because they were planned for release, but the series was cancelled –  A battle droid and the clone trooper on AT-RT. And it’s just really nice that these are two sets that fans have been aware of, that they were sort of planned for release, but weren’t released. 

Being able to actually show these sets, and give people a taste of what they would have been, is just really cool. Because one of the things that’s so fun about collecting any toy line, but in particular for the LEGO fans, we’re always curious about the things that could have been, the things that didn’t quite get released, or you know that and getting to see that stuff. We’ve also got some great images of minifigure sculpts, and moulds and sketches, and all that sort of nice material, it’s really fun to kind of look at and appear really closely out and look at all of the detail

RJ: A lot of that and particularly with some of the sculpts we’ve seen over the years, those have been one of those areas where Star Wars has always pushed the envelope as it were, in many figure design and allowing for a lot of other things to then be able to develop in their own stories, particularly and I and the like.

Who’s there?

RJ: Another thing that I was wondering: you need to have had the chance to talk to a whole bunch of people for this. Who’s been essential to help you  able to get this book together?

GH: We’ve had some really, really fantastic interviewees who really were just so open to sharing their stories. And so you get to talk about it and without all of them being such generous participants like this, it wouldn’t have been possible. I am so grateul to people who kind of gave me that time. 

Some of the key people at LEGO were the Design Director for LEGO Star Wars Jens Kronvold Frederiksen, and Design Manager, Michael Lee Stockwell, they both gave me such wonderful, wonderful insight into the kind of overview of LEGO Star Wars and their experiences working on this this for a number of years. And they, they’ve all the stories, they’ve got so many stories, they’ve forgotten some of them, you know: their level of insight is fascinating.

A lot of different designers at the LEGO Group spoke to me about their specific models and things or specific periods of time on LEGO Star Wars, which was, again, super, super useful and super fascinating to be able to dig deep into specific sets. 

Within the book, although we talk generally about how models were designed, and  we’ve got a chapter specifically on the ultimate collector series models. In order to tell the overall story of this, we do focus in on certain models that are kind of milestones, or tell us something bigger about the LEGO style. So yeah, there’s some great stuff there. But I was super conscious that because this is a LEGO Star Wars book, we should also talk to people who are involved with Star Wars. And we should hear the Lucasfilm and Disney side of the story. Because of course, you know, LEGO Star Wars is only like a ‘Star Wars’ because of the Star Wars. 

So we kind of set the tone for the whole book. And to kind of get off on into the mindset of how designers think of how stuff is conceptualised, we were able to arrange a conversation between Doug Chang who is the concept artist who George Lucas handpicked in the 90s, and still runs all of the concept art and everything and the visual language of Star Wars over the last 30 years.  So we got Doug and Jens Kronvoldt Frederiksen, the design director of LEGO Star Wars, to have a conversation about their experiences, one designing films and streaming series and theme park worlds and all of the other things that come out of the Star Wars design department, and then Jens’ talking about it from a LEGO Group perspective and all of the work that they do on the LEGO side. And it’s fascinating to hear the similarities between those two worlds and the differences and kind of see and hear about what Doug thinks about knowing that the Star Wars designs are going to become LEGO sets, and what Jens thinks about when they see the store’s designs for the first time and think, wow, we’ve got to turn this into a LEGO set. And the conversation is fascinating and really sets up the book in the right way.

And yeah, I mean, there were a number of other people. Someone else to mention that we spoke to is Anthony Daniels, who plays See Threepio in Star Wars. We’ve got a chapter on the animated specials in series that have been made over the years. And I was thinking, how do we convey how different the LEGO minifigure versions of these characters are to the movie versions? Because when you’re watching LEGO Star Wars animation, it’s it own spin on Star Wars. And because Anthony Daniels has done this for so many years, he’s been so embedded in that character, he was able to really articulate what it is about LEGO Star Wars that is different to the Star Wars movies, the Star Wars series.

RJ: And you had Billy Dee Williams write the foreword to the book?

GH: That was a dream. We were thinking about who might be a good person to write the foreword and it occurred to us that Billy Dee Williams has voiced Lando Calrissian in loads of Lego animation over the years in the film, voiced the character for LEGO Star Wars. And in the Lego Movie, when there’s that amazing cameo by the Millennium Falcon, and Lando Calrissian and Batman have a conversation and you know, Billy Dee Williams voiced the character there, so we were just so so fortunate that he was available to write that for us. And, and when I read it for the first time, it’s the absolute note perfect introduction to the book. His perspective on creativity, play, imagination, and of course, Star Wars is just just exactly the right way to kind of kick things off and get you into the into the groove to read about like Star Wars.

RJ: Did you have access to the archives in the LEGO Group and the corporate history team? 

GH: The history team at the LEGO Group were super helpful in providing us with certain assets and things particularly, as you can imagine we really wanted to look at some old sets in the book and get some really nice imagery of those. So it was useful, being able to be able to request that sort of thing, and being able to see what was available. 

What was fascinating, though, was a lot of the questions I was asking, a lot of the lines of inquiry that we were following, were things that haven’t necessarily been documented before.

I think there’s been times at the LEGO group’s history when the record keeping was stronger, and there was times when there’s not necessarily as  many records as others. So yeah, the history guys were great at helping us out with things and being being there to answer our questions. But a lot of it was first hand research as well; a lot of it was digging into these things and asking new questions.

RJ:  So we’d expect that there’s going to be perhaps a lot of stories that haven’t necessarily been told previously?

GH: Yeah, I mean. The chapter that kind of comes to mind with in particular, is the chapter on how the whole LEGO Star Wars concept came about in the first place, how the LEGO Group and Lucasfilm started talking to each other, what their reasons were for wanting to collaborate. And then moving into how that very first batch of sets was designed. A thing I’ve always been curious about is that the deal for LEGO Star Wars was signed in February 1998, and the first LEGO Star Wars sets were released in March 1999.

RJ: That is an amazing turnaround, when you consider what happens with sets these days.

GH: Exactly. And back then, the development time was longer than it is now. So it would have usually taken two or three years for sets to be developed, and particularly for a brand new theme. And they had started working on Star Wars sketch models and kind of thinking about it beforehand. But it was still super crunched. And a lot of the ways of working that they came up with when they were working on that batch of LEGO Star Wars sets became adopted more widely within the design department. So yeah, that was really interesting that that the kind of necessity of developing these products more quickly than usual, then had a knock on effect to how LEGO sets are designed today.

RJ: Now I’m just I’m just trying to think there’s always this temptation to say that Star Wars was one of the was one of the first IPs that LEGO worked with generating its own specific theme. I can’t help but think that Disney had existed in the form of the Fabuland sort of scale Mickey Mouse and Minnie figures, but I think there must have been some other

GH: Yes, I think the deals are being signed at a similar time. The Disney and the Star Wars deal. Yes, the year 2000 The Mickey Mouse sets actually came out. Winnie the Pooh though? DUPLO Winnie the Pooh would have been 1999. So those would have been the products that came out at the same time.  That’s another IP that has has a lot of longevity

RJ: Absolutely. And and indeed, now all under the all under the same big umbrella of Disney.

GH: Yeah, Winnie the Pooh was a much earlier acquisition than Star Wars.

RJ: But I’m, I’m going to hazard a guess just knowing what I personally did as a 10 year old kid back in 1979, that perhaps a few of the designers had  been experimenting with some Star Wars MOCs over the years anyway. 

GH: I bet. Well, what a fascinating story in the book that one of the Product tests that the designers do with kids in the mid to late 90s. This would have been after the test was finished. They were just chit chatting amongst themselves just sort of kicking things around. And they would just say like, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could do Star Wars.” But it didn’t cross their mind that it would be a possibility, because at the time Lego didn’t work with external IP partners. So we knew that it was just an idle speculation that it was just people talking and giving each other ideas, but but then just a few years later, it all came to pass.

Getting Personal

RJ: So I’ve got a couple of quick questions for you, Graham. Oh, yeah, first LEGO Star Wars set?

GH: It would have been the 7150 (Darth Vader’s) Tie Fighter versus Y-Wing, fantastic.

RJ: Your favourite LEGO Star Wars set?

GH: I’ve been giving this an enormous deal of thought knowing that people will ask me, and I think I’m having to settle on the first Death Star playset 10188.  Of all the LEGO sets that I’ve had on display over the years, I think that one stayed up for the longest. And just like, I mean, this happens a lot with LEGO sets, but I particularly remember it happening with this one, with the kind of what I call “next-bag-syndrome,” where like, you just can’t start building, you just turn the page next, and you think I could leave it until tomorrow. Or I could stay up till two o’clock in the morning and finish it. And you know, I ended up staying up until two o’clock in the morning and finishing it and, you know, just playing with that set and fiddling with it when it was on display, it was one of those ones, you can’t keep your hands off. It’s so wonderful, so joyful. And I could put myself back in the mind of the eight year old kid who would have just, you would have spent even longer playing with it. 

RJ:I’m envious that you’re able to say I could stay up until two o’clock and finish it. And then finish it at two o’clock. Because I know every time I’ve said I could stay up until two o’clock and finish it. It’s been four.

GH: I probably thought it was going to be midnight. I probably had I had more ambitious expectations.

RJ: And what’s your most disappointing LEGO Star Wars experience?

GH: Oh, that’s that’s a tricky one. Let me think. It’s reassuring that nothing jumps to mind. So you said most disappointing experience? I remember turning up at Lego Land Windsor for Lego Land, Star Wars fireworks weekend and the traffic had been a little bit worse than we anticipated. So we got there about 30 minutes after the gates opened. And there was an exclusive brick being given out for LEGO Star Wars fireworks weekend, we went and joined the queue. And we got the front of the queue. And they had run out of the exclusive event brick and we’re giving out posters instead.  I can still remember getting to the front of that queue and not being able to get the brick to this day. So it stayed with me that one. It’s an experience that certainly certainly stuck out forgot that that leads again, if there was an event exclusive brick, I was always there at gate opening after that.

RJ: I can imagine now. Was this was this teenage Graham or was this adult Graham?

GH: That is an excellent question. This would have been young adult Graham, I think, but I would have to check the date of which LEGOLAND weekend it would have been. It would have been somewhere around 2010 I suspect. I’d have to double check. I’m curious now we’ve talked about it though. I feel like I’m gonna have to look at which brick it was because I can picture it. I just don’t know what year it

RJ: Would it be the one that’s missing in your collection?

GH: I think I probably bought it on eBay since.

RJ: Ok…Your favourite UCS set?

GH: Oh, excellent question. So I would always have said the 10179 Millennium Falcon first, that would have been my go to answer. But the 75313 AT-AT (2021), having it stand on the four legs and having it be so sturdy and balanced and everything, just the sheer delight and just surprise that at that model, both it being announced, seeing the pictures, then building it myself having it out afterwards. That was such a special set and so improbable that they would ever be able to do it. But then the fact they were able to do it, they were able to do it to that standard. And that in your hands. The big AT-AT Hasbro toy I had when I was a kid –  the UCS LEGO one, felt the same size as that did when I was small. So there was something really wonderful about that as well. Having this massive toy that made me feel small again, that was really, that’s really about it. Yeah,

RJ: A couple of years later, the classic Space Galaxy Explorer was released in the same way, with the set scaled up so it still felt as big to a grown up as it did to a kid back then!

The Time Capsule

Well, tell us about the sort of things that might we might find in the time capsule.

GH: If we were going to do 25 years of LEGO Star Wars. And we were going to have extra items in with the book, a time capsule, that kind of had different artefacts from different points in that time seems like a really nice way of really complementing the material that you’re reading about and everything. And it was such a wonderful experience collaborating with the publisher and the support we had from from LEGO and Lucasfilm because, you know, some of the ideas that that we were talking about felt quite ambitious, and I wasn’t sure exactly what we would be able to do. But all of the really fun ideas that we had came off in the finished thing. 

The first one that sprung to my mind was that in at New York Toy Fair in 1999, the first ever LEGO Star Wars models were shown for the first time to Toy buyers and the media and so on. To invite those people to that event, Lego sent out this little cardboard box. And it’s a scene of the Emperor’s throne room. There’s a little scene with the very first Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader minifigure fighting on little black base. Now, we couldn’t include the minifigures in the black base. But we could include a replica of that diorama that comes flat in the book and you fold it up yourself. Now you can build your own scene to put inside of it. And this thing is so rare and so impossible to own because, you know, not many were produced, it was only used to invite a very select number of people to this event. So basically, very few of us can have one, it’s not something that LEGO Star Wars Collectors can obtain. So this replica is the next best thing. You can have it on display, put your own minifigures in there. You can build Darth Jar-Jar on the Emperor’s throne and put him in there or you know, whatever you want it to be. And then last year, there was an exclusive model given out to Lucasfilm employees that made specially for me the fourth and the model built the Yoda fountain that sits outside the Lucasfilm had offices. But again, it’s something that was only for Lucasfilm employees. It wasn’t for the general public. But we were thinking, Well, if we include the instructions for that, in the time capsule, people can gather the bricks themselves build their own version, and they know this is the official version built with the official LEGO instructions for this model. And I’ve checked the lego.com: all of the parts you need except for the Yoda minifigure are currently available on Pick a Brick. So it’s entirely buildable.

RJ: That’s, that’s an exciting prospect there.

GH: But yeah, that’s just two of the things that kind of bookend the time capsule. But yeah, it’s, it’s filled with fun stuff.

RJ: Have they tucked an exclusive minifigure into the time capsule?

GH: There is there’s no minifigure there’s no brick. There’s no physical Lego in that everything’s. Everything’s flat, everything packs nicely against the book,

RJ: So, the time capsule is all documentation, ephemera and the like from across the years?

GH: Exactly. We’ve got like a postcard with an early version of the LEGO Star Wars logo. We’ve got a sketch from 1998, I think it must have been that we became a print advert. We’ve got some,  some elements sketches in there. So there’s some nice things that you could frame and put up on the wall in your Lego room as well. There’s a nice mix of things in there.

RJ: Yeah, yeah. Fantastic. last question for you, I think, what was your first first Star Wars movie experience? 

GH: Well,I mean, this is going to shock people of a certain generation.  But the moment I felt truly deeply in love with Star Wars, was seeing A New Hope: Special Edition in the cinema first time. Yeah, because I had seen it before on TV. And I did like it, but seeing it the cinema, switched it from something that I just liked, and was curious about, to something that was like, “Oh, my goodness, this is incredible.” And then we went to see the Empire Strikes Back a week or so later, then Return of the Jedi. Yeah. Not only did that create my love of Star Wars, but thinking on it, I think that gave me my love of cinema, because it showed me the difference in such a visceral way of watching something home on TV. And obviously, as you remember, as everyone remembers, the TVs we had at home in the 90s weren’t great. It wasn’t like now where we have a lovely, big widescreen flat thing. It was you know, it was a bit boxy and small and in the corner.

RJ: But they were better than what we had at home in the 70s and 80s! For me, my first experience was my ninth birthday party, and we saw A New Hope (or simply ‘Star Wars’ as it was called back then). It had already been out for about  eight months or so. So sort of released around about May-June in Australia and my birthday is at the end of March. So it was still going in cinemas. There was some kids that had seen the film five or six times. I hadn’t even seen it once yet, but I had devoured every book,  every color-in sheet, every rub-on Letraset thing and you know I bought I had every action figure that I could afford – both of them. But to actually go and see the film was just something else. Yeah!

GH Yeah, I think it’s amazing. Like the impact that the sort of Kenner action figures and everything had on the generation that grew up with Star Wars. I feel like LEGO Star Wars has that that impact on the children who grew up with the prequel Star Wars. I feel like that LEGO was their action figures, I think.

RJ: Don’t tell Hasbro that:  them’s fightin’ words. Did you have some discussion about the difference between, you know, sort of the few minifigure packs that Lego put in and and Hasbro’s response to that did that, does that come up in the book,

GH: I didn’t actually include that in the book. Because those minifigure packs were so short lived, there wasn’t really a place for it. And this was actually one of the most challenging things about the book, what some of those little stories that were tempting to put him or, you know, very short lived product lines that you kind of, really, in some ways wanted to put in. But at some point, you still have to be brutal. And you still have to know when to leave something out, when something isn’t really slotting in. And in the case of those minifigure packs, there was just no real good place for them. I did think about the fact that they’d been talked about before and people seem to be aware of the kind of story around them.  But yeah, they I mean, they’re a good example of one of those interesting little artefacts of LEGO history, you know that, that crops up for a very short period of time disappeared. There were a whole bunch of them for different themes as well weren’t there.

RJ: There were Ninja, there were Rock Raiders, among others.  But I suppose from that point of view, that also becomes the genesis of the whole Star Wars Battle Pack.

GH: Yes, yeah. I mean, the battle pack. It was just so wonderful to get such an affordable way of accessing those minifigures and be able to, to build an army and really go for it if that’s what you wanted to do. And yeah, that’s, that’s one of those formats that started and it’s just kept going ever since it’s one of those things. It’s a mainstay of the theme, now. It’s a recent one this year. Even paid homage to that one from 2007: the Clone Trooper, speeder and things that come in the same colours and everything that the original claim Trooper Battle Pack was, which is just one of those fun little easter eggs that the designers I guess, have put in for fun in case you notice it. 

RJ: Fantastic. All right. Well, it’s getting late where you are and it’s starting to become time of the day will might wrap up our recording there. Graham Hancock, editor of Blocks magazine. Congratulations. Tell us just remind us again of the name of the book. 

Graham E. Hancock: Thank you so much, Richard. It’s called LEGO Star Wars The Force of Creativity. It will be available through lego.com on May the fourth weekend. It’s a LEGO.com exclusive at this stage, so go and get some Insider points on it!

Richard Jones

Okay, thank you. Graham,Thanks again for your time.

LEGO Star Wars: The Force of Creativity will be released in July, 2024. It’s available for preorder from May 1, 2024 at LEGO.com. The RRP is $AUD239.99/USD149.99/£129.99. I haven’t been sent a copy of the book to review, but I am sorely tempted after finding out the sort of things tat are in it.

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