# Ancient Web: S. Fujita Spent 2,500 Hours Shooting LEGO Star Wars Japanese fan S. Fujita photographed an entire LEGO Star Wars trilogy before licensed LEGO Star Wars sets existed, then put the handmade results online around 1999. 2026-10-12 :: Switchboard Tech Services ![Ancient Web: S. Fujita Spent 2,500 Hours Shooting LEGO Star Wars](https://switchboardtechservices.com/static/images/defaults/articles.webp) Part of the [Ancient Web Collection](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/). Before anyone could buy a licensed LEGO Millennium Falcon, one determined fan had already spent years turning the original Star Wars films into brick-built photographic stories. [Visit the surviving LEGO Star Wars Trilogy homepage](https://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/). The old Japanese personal site belongs to a builder identifying himself as **maestro S. Fujita**. The landing page retains a badge announcing it as LUGNET's Cool LEGO Site of the Week for **January 30–February 5, 2000**. That is a concrete trace of the network of independent LEGO enthusiasts through which such work circulated. The English-language [introduction](https://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/snowe.htm) insists that the photographs are a personal project and have no official connection with LEGO or Lucasfilm. There is no modern storefront, community ranking system or slick template—just a handmade invitation to explore another person's work. ## The original trilogy, one photograph at a time Fujita's [December 10, 1999 explanation](https://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/scane.htm) is wonderfully specific. He began taking the pictures in the summer of **1992**, spent about **155 weeks** on the undertaking and completed the full trilogy in autumn **1996**. His first version contained 48 photographs; the expanded work became **three series of 60 pictures each**. He estimates that the project consumed around **2,500 hours** of his free time. The production was emphatically physical. Fujita used an ordinary camera rather than digital effects. He arranged brick-built characters, props and scenery, altered only four LEGO heads, and experimented with backgrounds made from ordinary materials. Real snow served for a snow scene. Objects too enormous to construct, such as the Death Star, appeared through handmade collages photographed again after being cut and assembled. His explanation adds a useful wrinkle: he did not photograph scenes in movie order. As more bricks became available, later-built scenes could be more elaborate than earlier ones. The resulting trilogy was therefore assembled as much like a small film production as a toy collection. Fujita also mentions unpublished photographs of the making process and plans for vehicles including the Millennium Falcon and Star Destroyer. Those references do not establish that the additional material remains downloadable. The site predates the mass availability of official themed sets, and its preserved captions capture a period when fans often had to invent their own bricks-and-camera solutions. [Read Fujita's explanation of how the trilogy was made](https://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/scane.htm). Part of the [Ancient Web Collection](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-collection/). - Categories: [Ancient Web](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/categories/ancient-web/) - Tags: [#ancientweb](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/ancientweb/), [#fandom](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/fandom/), [#starwars](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/starwars/), [#photography](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/photography/), [#lego](https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/tags/lego/) [Articles RSS](https://switchboardtechservices.com/feeds/articles.xml "Subscribe using an RSS reader") --- Canonical URL: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-s-fujita-spent-2500-hours-shooting-lego-star-wars/ Language: en-us Content type: article Author: Switchboard Tech Services Published: 2026-10-12T07:09:25+00:00 Modified: 2026-10-18T21:04:25.843231+00:00 Description: A preserved Japanese fan gallery shows 180 LEGO storytelling photographs, analog compositing and a 1999 creator's explanation of the painstaking project.