The Star Wars UCS X34 Landspeeder by Psyence- is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The Landspeeder is based on Luke’s vehicle in A New Hope and this version hopes to become a set to be sold under the LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Series tag as there hasn’t been one before. As we all know, these larger projects added with an existing license usually don’t make it far in the Review Stage but we’ll see if this one is able to pass it.
The Star Wars UCS X34 Landspeeder now joins Voltron – Defender of the Universe, Spaceballs – Eagle 5, The Addams Family Mansion, the Merchant’s House, the Large Hadron Collider, LEGO Observatory – Mountain View, Modular Construction Site, and the Women of NASA as the projects that qualify for the Second 2016 Review Stage.
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Looks great but will fail simply because
-till now, no ‘Idea’ from an already existing license that LEGO owns, has been approved so far. Too big as an Idea product.
– Ideas mostly range between 30-50USD, this UCS is too big and too expensive
– it is not an original idea, they won’t “waste” an ‘Idea’
– not one of the very attractive vehicles of Star Wars, I do collect a few UCSs and I’d for instance consider that one not very interesting
Maybe LEGO will release a UCS Speeder one day but it won’t go under the LEGOIdeas domain
No, don’t hold back buddy.Please,why dontcha tell us how you REALLY feel.
Yeah, because being unrealistic is so much better, right?
This one would actually be the first UCS I’d have bought.
Same here. It looks awesome, and is my favorite project on Lego Ideas after Lothlorien.
It is technically under 3000 pieces, which is what Lego’s guidelines say is the limit. If they are going to set the piece limit so high, why would they reject ALL projects that are that big?
I do believe the fact it is Star Wars is going to kill this project though. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a nearly identical “official” set a few years from now that is exactly the same. I mean, look at the Ghostbusters HQ and Mighty Micros. They were both based off failed ideas projects.
It’s not that LEGO rejects all projects of that size. They’ve just rejected all projects of that size so far. The Saturn V is a meter tall and has nearly 1,200 pieces, but it got approved. I imagine the price will be over $100 given both the piece count as well as the size of the elements. LEGO is open to making to making large Ideas sets, they just have to be able to sell.
The Ghostbusters headquarters wasn’t a “failed” project. Did no one consider that LEGO designed their own firehouse headquarters independently at the same time, or even before the Ideas submission? They already had the Ghostbusters license. And to all the people who say the LEGO set and Ideas submission are very similar, like no duh; they’re both based on actual buildings. But when looking at the two side by side, the techniques used to build the two are drastically different, and they function in different ways.
I don’t understand why people continue to submit ideas that fall into existing LEGO themes (eg. Star Wars, Super Heroes, Ghostbusters, modular buildings, et cetera). Many submissions are probably similar to what LEGO already has in their development pipeline, and if I were LEGO, I wouldn’t want to waste one of the four (on average) sets released each year on something that can easily be released in another theme.
You know, it is not the size but the part count that matters. The B-Wing is also a huge set by boundary dimensions but its true volume is small due to its flatt wings. The Slave-1 is very hollow underneath what makes it really fragile while holding.
And the Saturn V appears to be a mostly hollow, yet tall model while the speeder looks tight and high in part count.
Size absolutely plays a factor in price. Do you think a 1×1 plate costs LEGO the same to make as a 4x4x6 quarter cylinder? One requires far more raw materials and utilizes a more complex mold. If piece count were the only factor, the Parisian Restaurant and Brick Bank would sell for almost $250, assuming the average price of ten cents per piece.
Even discounting the size, I mentioned that the Saturn V submission has nearly 1,200 pieces. At the average price of ten cents per piece, and the precedent LEGO has set with printed elements, this set would be at least $120. It has over 50% more elements than the previous largest (by piece count) Ideas set, the Maze.
Maybe read the entire post next time before you get triggered. If we’re not just talking about price, but difficulty, most Ideas sets are rated 12+, which is at the high end of the spectrum for most LEGO sets. Either way, the Saturn V is proof that LEGO is willing to make large Ideas sets (by SIZE, PIECE COUNT, and PRICE).