Summer Vacation 2007: Star Wars Exhibit

On our last day in Texas Robby found out about an exhibit at the science museum in Fort Worth that was all about the making of the Star Wars movies. Since Little Robby is a huge Star Wars Lego fan we knew he would think that it was totally awesome. And we were right! We also had the fun of going to the museum with Logan, Wendy, Molly, and baby Will.

Robby and Uncle Logan are standing by their mag-lev Lego cars. Some parts of the exhibit were about how some of the technology ideas used in Star Wars are actually used today. This one was all about using legos and magnets to create a car that levitated and moved by magnetism.
Aunt Wendy had to help Jenna remove her thumb so we could see her smile.

Little Robby is developing the "My parents take to many pictures of me" complex, which explains why he looks so happy in this one.

If you saw Wendy's blog then you saw Molly playing with one of these. Well, I think Jenna was following suit by playing with this audible exhibit reader just like Molly. (They were for the visually impaired so that they could have a voice read the exhibit explanations.)

Many of models that we saw in the exhibit were actually used in making the films. This X-wing was one of Little Robby's favorites, especially since he has his own Legos X-wing at home.

Here they are examining the Y-wing.

We are standing in front of the Millenium Falcon. It was really cool seeing the details the creators put into the models. (This lego set would be the ulitmate for Little Robby, but he'll have to save up his money till he's an adult for it since a Millenium Falcon set cost $500!)

We all thought the Millenium Falcon was cool! Here's Uncle Logan standing with it, too.

One thing I didn't realize about wookies was that they were 2 meters tall! And here's our favorite wookie, Chewbacca!

Okay, so Robby thought this one was cool... It was a remote controlled tree cutter by John Deere. You'll have to ask him about it!

One of the later parts of the exhibit let the kids build their own robot and then give it a simple program to tell it where to go. Little Robby thought this was cool because the concept was exactly like his Lego Mindstorms set.

Jenna wanted part in the building fun too!

Okay, this is totally ridiculous so I had to include it. Since Molly decided that she wanted to ride in Jenna's stroller, Jenna decided that she wanted to ride in baby Will's stroller. So here she is crammed into Will's baby car seat!

I think she overflows it, don't you?!

And lastly, we have a trip to the pretend grocery store. When we first arrived Jenna was determined to stuff her basket full of produce.

She worked hard place each produce item she found into her basket.

She was so thorough that she almost cleaned the produce shelves off single-handedly.

But, what I liked best was the item she balanced carefully on the top of all of her healthy produce! It's okay to eat some, but only after you have your vegetables!

And now a highlights video for your viewing pleasure! (Correction: See Logan's blog to watch him juggle.)