There are thousands of creations on Rebrickable with good instructions, plenty to keep you busy. For kids it's actually a good introduction to computer aided design as well as being a decent alternative to Minecraft. That's me caught up with all my set mods for now! In late December I'm going to make all my micro build instructions free, if you or your kids feel the need to do something creative then I can heartily reccomend downloading Bricklink's Studio and having a play, hopefully my instructions will help you learn the ropes :) The Studio software is completely free, easy to learn to use and runs well on old and slow computers (my own machine is 7 years old).

I've rebuilt the stand to be more streamlined, completely by luck it's also ended up very slidy so swooshing the podracer on carpets has become very easy, adding wheels for hard floors is as easy adaptation too! If a clean display is more your thing then removing almost all the stand parts for display is entirely possible, the only one that needs to remain is the clear liftarm between the engines. The whole set becomes bigger and there's a substantial amount of extra parts needed, it’s mostly brackets and modified plates for the engines which aren’t expensive but the cost of the extra parts ended up being about half of the cost of the set.

Since the engines and pod are so small maintaining the original build wasn't really going to work, so as much as I don't like rebuilding sets this one became a complete overhaul. As a teenager I rushed to buy the old 1999 Podracer right after seeing The Phantom Menace, so building the 20th anniversary set was a big fat nostalgia trip! I tried modifying it last year but never worked out how to make the engines bulkier without using curved slopes, which looked too smooth, but recently I saw JohndieRocks’s Podracer and immediately stole his excellent idea to use the octagonal bar frame (he was okay with it).

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