Having been involved in many activities from 4-H to OHS Magnet to youth groups at his church, Parker Erickson has always had something going on. One thing that has never lost its joy for him is LEGOs.  From a young age Erickson has been enthralled with building things. He enjoys working with his hands and doing things that challenge him. At around three or four years old Erickson began building with larger blocks called Duplos, and progressed to smaller blocks from there. Erickson said, “My parents said one of their favorite stories is that they were lucky enough to have kids who didn’t shove LEGOs up their nose.” 

As Erickson grew, so did the sizes of the sets he was building. When he was younger he built anything he could get his hands on, play with it for a while, and then take it apart and stash it in color coded bins. Erickson remembers having some LEGO Atlantis sets that are now worth quite a bit. He said, “I look back and they don’t make that series anymore, so I kind of regret taking all of those apart.” However, Erickson’s favorite sets to build come from the LEGO Star Wars series. One of those sets is the Millenium Falcon. Erickson said, “When I built my Millennium Falcon I had to have been maybe 10 or 11 and I built that thing in two hours. Everyone was so surprised because my grandma got it for me and I sat there at the table and put it together and a couple hours later, I showed it to them and they weren’t even done watching their movie yet.”