The announcement of the LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) was a pretty exciting event a few days ago but the actual release of the set on September 14 may be one of the most stressful things you will experience while purchasing a LEGO set. I’ve heard from a very trusted source that the set may be extremely limited upon its release, at least at LEGO Brand Stores, so much that you may have to line up early for a chance to get it. When I say early, I mean very early. Think of something like lining up for Hall H for the Marvel panel at San Diego Comic Con. I’ve been talking to some fans and they’re telling me that they will be lining up in the middle of the night to be one of the first people in line when the store opens.
As for online ordering, I expect it to be backstocked then temporarily out of stock in the first few minutes it goes live. I’ve also heard that if you’re lucky to get your order in, the set will be shipped triple boxed so it won’t be damaged during shipping. Even at the $800 price point, I have a feeling that the UCS Millennium Falcon (75192) will be more hard to get than the LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V (21309).
Of course, this is all hearsay but I trust my source enough to do a dedicated post on it. You may say that this might cause a ruckus but if you’re a LEGO Star Wars fan, you’ll do what it takes to get the most definitive Millennium Falcon set that LEGO has produced to date.
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Is it expected to go live at midnight in the timezone you live in?
I’d like to know this too!
so they will sell out to the scalpers as per usual then, lego, massive wankers.
Well, at least its not a limited release and it does not look like there are any bonuses for buying early.
It’s almost like they are catering to scalpers since they are “limiting” orders to 5 instead of the usual 2.
There’s a strong possibility I’ll scare up the scratch to buy this at some point, but I guarantee you one f-ing thing:
I will not be lining up to hand Lego $800 for a toy. If it’s not on the shelf when I walk in, there are lots of other things I can spend $800 on.
I was told each store would only get 4 – yes 4 copies only – which makes no sense seeing how popular this set is/will be….I don’t know what corporate lego is thinking….
The Saturn V is hard to get? I’ve seen them on shelves in multiple Lego stores
Well it sold out and was restocked.
With the Falcon it does not seem to be limited but the initial shipment might be, or stock levels kept low to either limit risk of overstock at the price point, or increase demand. With a set of this price I imagine quite a few will wait until double or triple points as the savings will be significant.
So this is not a limited edition set? And it will be cheaper later? (I think for previous Falcon it was the opposite, it only gained on value over time).
All the more reason to win the Rebrick contest. 🙂
‘Artificial Scarcity’
*cough* Lepin *cough*
*cough* 1/3 the price *cough*
*cough* already pre-ordered *cough*
where???!?
Well I visited a Lego Store yesterday to check out the Falcon on display and I asked an employee there if the rumor of the extremely limited release was valid. She told me that they would probably be getting a single-digit amount of copies of the set, so unfortunately, this rumor is true.
ClearPC will have a clear acrylic display case for it.
These really large sets tend to have a surge of initial sales (since shipping is free and gas is not, many will probably just try to order it online). After that, sales will slow down quite a bit, because anyone who is determined to buy one either has the money to pay for it right now, or will have to wait until they can save up for it. They also take up huge amounts of space. Figure the box on this is designed to fill the full depth of a LEGO Store shelf, and will probably occupy the same amount of space as half a dozen sets in the $150-200 range. They’re going to put an empty box on the shelf, so it won’t kill any curious kids who want to look at it, and they’re going to leave the actual sets in corrugate in the stock room until they’re sold. For sets that size, they’ll want them in the attached stock room rather than any off-site storage. The more copies they try to cram in there, the more often they’ll have to send someone to the offsite stock room to replenish their supply on other sets.