Wednesday, January 6th 2016, 7:35 pm
What's the equation to turn our love for the Star Wars movie franchise into one of the best Christmas gifts a kid could hope for?
You need a dad, and his dad, plus time and imagination.
"Knox, do you want to take Mr. Wells for a ride? I'll get it ready.”
Look what Knox Davis got for Christmas.
It is what they call the full-Falcon experience. It's the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. You know, Han Solo's ship from Star Wars.
"We'd been planning on building a playhouse for a while," Dustin Davis said.
“We” is Knox's dad Dustin and his dad Ron. Knox loves flying and spaceships so....
"Why not combine the two ideas and make a space ship playhouse?" Dustin said.
And so they did.
They started back in mid-November. PVC and strips of aluminum. Plexiglass and lots of LED lights. Inside, they found some flight simulator parts on eBay, some aircraft instrument gauges and pretty soon they had themselves a Millennium Falcon.
“A little imagination and a little hard work you can build about anything,” Dustin said.
But wait, there's more. On top of the Falcon there's a projector, so they can sit in their Millennium Falcon and watch the other Millennium Falcon and Star Wars movies projected on the wall.
Dustin and his dad spent a month together building it. Now they can watch Knox have the time of his life.
What a gift -- for everyone.
“Doing something a little bit crazy, and a whole lot of fun,” Dustin said.
Even for old guys.
“You must be Chewy. Make the calculations, Chewy."
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