Day 72, Quasi-Quarantine: Piece By Piece, Echo Base Emerges From The Landscape

As part of our ever-expanding Echo Base build in a depiction of Hoth that now takes up most of our sitting room (yes, apparently, we have one of those), my son and I drew inspiration from a new book called, appropriately, "LEGO Star Wars Ideas Book."

We added 10 new, small elements from the book, ranging from a planning table to a communications center to a floor lamp. Then, we built a tiled floor and combined the new elements with the Hoth Medical Center to make a surprisingly intricate Echo Base.

These simple additions alone have made the ideas book worthwhile, and we've already created a couple of other items as well. While my son's involvement is, perhaps ... inconsistent ... I like that he is stretching his imagination to involve re-envisioning and re-imagining how disparate pieces can be used in a number of ways.

It also keeps him us busy, which is a bonus that can't be taken for granted in this day and age.