It looks like there’s more information coming out today that gives more details of the rumored LEGO Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon. Stash2Sixx over on Eurobricks has reported that it will be at least $600 and it will be released around October. He also has given some info about some of the minifigures that will be included in the set such as Hoth Leia, Hoth Han, Chewbacca, Finn, Rey, BB8, Old Man Han, and possibly a Mynock. These minifigures correspond to the ones my source gave me a few months ago of the original trilogy minifigures.
If you haven’t heard of Stash2Sixx before, they have given correct information before in the past about LEGO Star Wars sets so I consider them be a credible source.
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Oh man, this better be good, because I almost finished building my custom MF
$600?!!! Yikes!
600 Dollars?
Am I also getting a trip in the actual Falcon too?
That’s far too much money, parting ways with £170 for the Slave 1 was painful enough.
And why the same old characters again? Nien Numb, EpVI Lando, Cloud City Luke?
Would Luke be the first minifig they ever sold with an empty wrist socket?
The minifigs for 10179 were all taken from Ep4. It sounds like these will be from Ep5 and that Disney abomination. So, same characters, different costumes, and probably a lot of new deco. When 10179 came out, Chewbacca was the only minifig who wasn’t exclusive to that set (but considering they’ve only updated his standard deco once in 18 years, that’s not even remotely surprising). Luke, Han, and Leia all appeared in the first Death Star playset, Han had his third and final appearance in the Endor Bunker, and Leia had her third and final appearance in the Tantive IV. Luke never had a third release. Obi-Wan is still exclusive to 10179.
Possible minifig sets they could go with besides Hoth Han/Leia and Chewbacca (plus C-3PO) include Bespin Leia, Bespin Lando, Chewbacca, and handless Bespin Luke; Han Solo Lando and Chewbacca; Carbon Freeze Han, Slave Leia, Jedi Luke, and Chewbacca; Nein Nunb and General Lando (plus maybe a couple generic Rebels for gunners).
As for the set itself, improvements they could make would include beefing up some of the connections (the ventral hull sections tend to fall off very easily because they’re large but only attached by a few studs), adding the ventral quad cannon interior (they did put the cannon itself on the outside, but only the dorsal cannon seats a minifig), and adding some portion of the actual interior sets (10179 has a seat for the dorsal gun, a cockpit that seats four, and the boarding ramp lowers, but otherwise the interior is just a Technic frame)
$400 tops.
the previous one was $500.
Not if you were smart and preordered it…
It was still $500, right? Can you even preorder a Lego set?
When they announced the 10179 UCS MF, they had a preorder offer in place where you could get it for $400 if you placed your order within a specific time period (can’t remember if you paid up front, or if they collected only after the set was ready to ship). You’d also get a 1st Edition copy instead of the regular version that was later sold in stores. They actually sold out of the 1st Editions on preorders alone (10k copies!). I was the only member of my LUG who took advantage of this, because everyone else was (predictably) saying that even $400 was more than they could afford. Now even a used regular copy will regularly sell for ten times that much, and I’ve seen a sealed 1st Edition listed for $10,000 once (but don’t know if it ever actually sold at that price).
What’s even more ironic is that many of the members of my LUG who once complained about the $400 price tag have been buying every Modular, and sometimes multiple copies.
In recent times, the closest S@H has come to offering a preorder that I can recall is letting you place orders for stuff that’s on backorder. You place the order now, you wait a few days/weeks/months, the product eventually ships, and your payment is collected. The two major differences are that these are sets that have already been sold in the past, and you don’t have a fixed date when you can expect your set to ship. Otherwise, you have to be a commercial buyer, or you have to buy from another retailer who does allow preorders. And the latter option won’t work for D2C products like this will almost certainly be.
They did that with the death star too. I think it was £200 and jumped to £275 after the pre order.
I don’t recall that, and I know they didn’t do a 1st Edition for any Death Star. I never got the Death Star II, but I picked up the original playset version the first time I went to Brickworld. The two stores near the convention were both sold out, so I had to drive into Chicago to get it. But at the time, they offered a convention discount in the US, so I think I was able to get it for 20% off. That made driving into downtown Chicago on a weekday worthwhile. Well, that and possibly being the first person in the US, and definitely the only person at Brickworld 2009, to have a Classic Space tote bag.
It wasn’t a first edition as such, but just solicited as pre order in the UK if memory serves me.
Insane
Actually that’a not entirely corrent. It was $500 TEN YEARS AGO, which according to an inflation calculator I found with a quick google search would be $587.44 today
And if it was released today, it would cost…$500. LEGO prices, with a few isolated hiccups, have remained fairly stable at $0.10 USD per piece for _FORTY_YEARS_. Yeah, that’s right. Back in the late 70’s, you could get a 100pc Classic Space set for $10, or a 500pc Castle set for $50. Just about nobody would have been able to shell out for the thing, but the 10179 UCS MF released three decades earlier would have still cost $500, and for the foreseeable future it would still cost $500. Yeah, sure, there will come a time when they probably can’t keep finding ways to reduce manufacturing costs enough to keep the price schedule stable, but we’re probably at least another decade away from that happening.
Thats because price per piece is a rubbish measurement for comparing price over time. If it released today it’d probably have a much higher piece count. Compare the 2017 A-wing to the 2013 one. They’re prettyy much the same size, but the new one has more than twoce the piece count. Similarly, those 500 piece castle sets were 500 pretty large pieces, 500 piece sets these days are far smaller. I’d like to see the data (prices for older sets arent readily available), but I wouldnt be surprised if price per unit weight was increasing.
And the price does depend on the size of the pieces. For example, the LEGO Sydney Opera House is only 2,900 some pieces but was priced at $319 USD. At first, it seems like sticker shock to you, but $319 for the Sydney Opera House is going to be chump change when people decide they need the set because it is retired. I confidently predict that the set will be going for about $2,000 to $3,000 USD in the not so near future, and that is used while a new 10179 is going for upwards of $5,000 USD.
The price of all lego sets is determined by weight.
It is simply the amount of plastic that goes into the model that determines the price.
In most cases it amounts to roughly 10 cents/piece, but that is not always accurate.
No way this is going to sell. That price is too steep. I mean, $500 is the highest a Lego set has ever been.
It will sell if they make few enough of them, and then it will become 6000$ suddenly when they run out.
I hope this set will include Leia (Hoth), Han Solo (Hoth), Luke Skywalker (Tatooine), Han Solo (Tatooine), Darth Vader, 2 stormtroopers, C-3PO (either pearl gold or chrome), R2-D2, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, Nien Nunb, Finn, Rey, BB-8, Han Solo (old) at the least…
Just hope it comes with a new cockpit piece 🙂 The cockpit is the only weak thing about the original.
The cockpit on the 1st Edition and some of the earlier regular copies isn’t actually that bad, in my opinion. I understand that later copies of the regular release had the 6.6L umbrella stands replaced with the newer 6L version, and that caused unsightly gaps between the radar dish at the front and the umbrella stands on the sides. On the original release, the umbrella stands nicely fit inside the rim of the radar dish so it looks like they’re connected. An actual molded cockpit windscreen would be nice, but of very limited potential for reuse in other sets. Still, they did make a new windscreen for the UCS Slave I, which has never been reused. And the windscreen they made for Jango Fett’s Slave I 15 years ago has only been used in six other sets (two of which are different models of Slave I).
Christmas prezzies for my two sons and I? Sorted!
N. Hampshire? You couldn’t type the ‘ew’ in New? lol
For $600, LEGO should include mini figs of every crew configuration that set foot, wheel or tentacle on MF from ep IV to ep VIII, since there will not be a third installment, at least for the next 50 years or so.
I think it’s too early to re-release a new version of the UCS Falcon personally. There are still plenty of other sets from the original or new movies to release in UCS fashion. I am still holding my breath for a UCS AT-AT. That’s the holy grail IMHO. Just think what type of model they could build for a $600 retail price. It would be epic!
I’m glad they’re releasing a new version of the UCS snow speeder next month. That’s one I’m missing from my collection (I started collecting UCS sets after that set was discontinued). That set is much older than the falcon and is due for a refresh.
UCS ATAT was submitted and rejected through Lego Ideas. Was insanely huge.
If you hunt online you can purchase the instructions for around $35
I would love to see a UCS A-Wing
If they do an interior on this new Falcon I wonder how sturdy it will be. There were a lot of technic beams in the old one holding it together. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just do the cockpit and one quarter of the Falcon interior (preferably from the boarding ramp through the lounge area with the chess game to the nose of the ship) to prevent it from falling apart. I think most fans would be content with that.