Legos, anyone?

[Tking22]

I saw the leaked image of the box for the Icons Black Pearl and yup, I'm gonna need that, it looks phenomenal. 

[Raikkonen]

23 hours ago, Chronocidal said:

That's kind of the funny thing though, they're already way past that point in some cases.

For the most part, I think the prices still tend to float around 10 cents per piece on average (lots of exceptions in both directions, depending on the size of the parts included), but they keep pushing out bigger and bigger sets.

At the end of the day, I'm ok with spending more if I'm still getting what feels like my money's worth in parts.  I think this might be pushing that envelope a little, but it's also just a set I really want to build to see how they made it (and how difficult it will be to convert it into a Nebula ).

Lego has become time-killer hobby for the upper class mainly for accumalation bragging rights. Hence Lego releases more sets these days that only selective adults can afford while kids with allowance can only look at a 10-20$ city or puny ninja mechs.

Myself, I checked out a while ago. I only bricklink pieces and minifigs for mocs these days and sometimes get cheap sets max 20$ on sale. Last set full price set I got and won't take apart was the 2021 Tumbler. 

I'll only drop green this year if they'll make a Tron Ares set. 

 

[Raikkonen]

23 hours ago, Tking22 said:

I saw the leaked image of the box for the Icons Black Pearl and yup, I'm gonna need that, it looks phenomenal. 

It will be a wallet breaker of note.

And  then...

They revealed this poodoo...

Edited August 7 by Raikkonen

[renegadeleader1]

18 minutes ago, Raikkonen said:

It will be a wallet breaker of note.

 

Good god it's beautiful. Now this is something I wouldn't mind dropping $400 on, which means the MSRP will be $750.

[Raikkonen]

2 minutes ago, renegadeleader1 said:

Good god it's beautiful. Now this is something I wouldn't mind dropping $400 on, which means the MSRP will be $750.

Supposedly 380 in the US. 

[renegadeleader1]

10 minutes ago, Raikkonen said:

Supposedly 380 in the US. 

So four and a quarter lego X-men jets?😆

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Brick Veteran's 1st Phantom set is going to be a gorgeous example of a USN F-4J, and here I am with a depleted play money budget:

[renegadeleader1]

15 minutes ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Brick Veteran's 1st Phantom set is going to be a gorgeous example of a USN F-4J, and here I am with a depleted play money budget:

There's always Cobi if you need something cheaper. They're a great display piece if remove the pilots.

[Raikkonen]

I love the phantom since my dad built and painted a Tamiya kit of it for me when I was a kid. 

But if I would to invest in a display piece of it, I'd just get a Hobbymasters diecast to fully show all it's sexy lines. 

That said, I really appreciate Brick Veteran's efforts in his, minus the canopy and the general underneath of the wings in all such mocs. Lego needs to invest in more variety of inverted curved and angle tiles. 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

22 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

There's always Cobi if you need something cheaper. They're a great display piece if remove the pilots.

I haven't kept up with the Cobi catalogue lately, that Phantom looks cool.  My boys and I had fun building their Concorde and Huey kits so I'll probably get their Phantom too.

[Scyla]

Images of the $1000 UCS Death Star have leaked: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/the-lego-thread.173890/page-2169#post-23592282

While I think the idea of a huge (i.e. bigger than a free standing orb can be) Lego Death Star that you can display with one side to the wall (maybe even hang it up like a picture frame) I think the realized product by Lego ultimate falls flat, because it is missing an exterior hull, that you can fold away to reveal the interior.

Edited August 10 by Scyla

[Raikkonen]

2 hours ago, Scyla said:

Images of the $1000 UCS Death Star have leaked: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/the-lego-thread.173890/page-2169#post-23592282

While I think the idea of a huge (i.e. bigger than a free standing orb can be) Lego Death Star that you can display with one side to the wall (maybe even hang it up like a picture frame) I think the realized product by Lego ultimate falls flat, because it is missing an exterior hull, that you can fold away to reveal the interior.

A toy company that takes a kids brand to make a playset for kids as a display piece not aimed for kids, instead for adult collectors but only for the 1% of those collectors and cost's $1000.00.

Their marketing team is drunk during office hours.

I would have rather had each room sold seperately over the span of some years to assemble the full final Death Star as above. Covers both toys for kids and the displayability for adults, and gets money from all of them. 

 

Edited August 10 by Raikkonen

[M'Kyuun]

1 hour ago, Raikkonen said:

A toy company that takes a kids brands to make a playset for kids as a display piece not aimed for kids, instead for adult collectors but only for the 1% of those collectors and cost's $1000.00.

Their marketing team is drunk during office hours.

I would have rather had each room sold seperately over the span of some years to assemble the full final Death Star as above. Covers both toys for kids and the displayability for adults, and gets money from all of them. 

 

I agree with that approach. Individual rooms would make it far more accessible to both kids and adults and the stackability would give long-term collectors a nice goal of completing the entire ring. As is, price tag notwithstanding, it is a nice set for what it offers, but I still prefer my original spherical Death Star playest, which I have on permanent display on my desk. I dig the mini-Imperial Shuttle. I made my own years ago, but LEGO's version looks pretty good. It could be its own set and I'd certainly buy it, the Lambda Shuttle being my favorite SW ship design. I wish they'd do a line of ships at that scale and with that level of detail, as the Microfighters just aren't as fulfilling.

[Raikkonen]

18 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

I agree with that approach. Individual rooms would make it far more accessible to both kids and adults and the stackability would give long-term collectors a nice goal of completing the entire ring. As is, price tag notwithstanding, it is a nice set for what it offers, but I still prefer my original spherical Death Star playest, which I have on permanent display on my desk. I dig the mini-Imperial Shuttle. I made my own years ago, but LEGO's version looks pretty good. It could be its own set and I'd certainly buy it, the Lambda Shuttle being my favorite SW ship design. I wish they'd do a line of ships at that scale and with that level of detail, as the Microfighters just aren't as fulfilling.

It's literary one of these... 😑

 

[Chronocidal]

Yeah, happy I can skip that mess.  I'd rather they make something actually accurate to some of the designs that they still struggle with.

Speaking of accuracy though.. I'm gonna be that guy and point out that it's cute that they included the ROTJ throne room in an otherwise ANH Death Star I.  

[Raikkonen]

35 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Yeah, happy I can skip that mess.  I'd rather they make something actually accurate to some of the designs that they still struggle with.

Speaking of accuracy though.. I'm gonna be that guy and point out that it's cute that they included the ROTJ throne room in an otherwise ANH Death Star I.  

The largest section is the Shuttle landing from ROTJ. 

But why is Vader's meditation chamber there (beneath the meeting room)? 

It also includes figures of Galen and Krennic on the base. 

[rsvictor1976]

Why is this $1000? You can buy the entire Titanic for under $700 and this thing is only a slice of the Death Star?!

Edited August 11 by rsvictor1976

[Scyla]

5 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

The largest section is the Shuttle landing from ROTJ. 

But why is Vader's meditation chamber there (beneath the meeting room)? 

It also includes figures of Galen and Krennic on the base. 

This is the part that also sits wrong with me. To my knowledge the Death Star 2 is much bigger than the Death Star 1 (and much cooler looking with a much better looking main laser shot).

Yet we have dioramas from both movies, and Darth Vader’s meditation chamber was shown to be on the Super Star Destroyer from ESB.

I know why they did it, because they wanted to catch all iconic scenes from both Death Stars but for me this makes the set even less desirable, because it is confused by its own identity what it wants to be.

So it is clearly the Death Star from ANH. You can tell by the shape of the laser bean and because in the hull section below the main laser there is no interruption in the hull, where it is not finished shed.

And while I could argue away that the first Death Star had an Imperial Shuttle (even if there were no Imperial Shuttles in ANH I believe) and a similar looking landing bay than the one from ROTJ the throne room diorama sits really wrong with me.

In the first movie there was little talk about the Emperor or that the Death Star was meant as his personal vessel so I find it really off putting to have it there (again I understand why it is there).

It could be that there was a scene with that throne room on the first Death Star in other media (and the meditation chamber) that I am unaware of.

[Raikkonen]

4 hours ago, rsvictor1976 said:

Why is this $1000? You can buy the entire Titanic for under $700 and this thing is only a slice of the Death Star?!

Because Lego + Disney know there's a large number of SW fans that got to have it all regardless the price. They could package in a SW branded box actual rubber dogpoo and sell out. First key in any business "Know your customer". And do they know it. 

1 hour ago, Scyla said:

This is the part that also sits wrong with me. To my knowledge the Death Star 2 is much bigger than the Death Star 1 (and much cooler looking with a much better looking main laser shot).

Yet we have dioramas from both movies, and Darth Vader’s meditation chamber was shown to be on the Super Star Destroyer from ESB.

I know why they did it, because they wanted to catch all iconic scenes from both Death Stars but for me this makes the set even less desirable, because it is confused by its own identity what it wants to be.

So it is clearly the Death Star from ANH. You can tell by the shape of the laser bean and because in the hull section below the main laser there is no interruption in the hull, where it is not finished shed.

And while I could argue away that the first Death Star had an Imperial Shuttle (even if there were no Imperial Shuttles in ANH I believe) and a similar looking landing bay than the one from ROTJ the throne room diorama sits really wrong with me.

In the first movie there was little talk about the Emperor or that the Death Star was meant as his personal vessel so I find it really off putting to have it there (again I understand why it is there).

It could be that there was a scene with that throne room on the first Death Star in other media (and the meditation chamber) that I am unaware of.

As I brought up earlier, this isn't a Lego toy for kids nor an actual display piece for adults seeing all the inaccuracies for that price.

It's just a expensive slapped together "homage" gimmick for those willing to spend this kind of money for home deco.

PS, the shuttle section really is intended to be from ROTJ.

Edited August 11 by Raikkonen

[Scyla]

4 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

Because Lego + Disney know there's a large number of SW fans that got to have it all regardless the price. They could package in a SW branded box actual rubber dogpoo and sell out. First key in any business "Know your customer". And do they know it. 

As I brought up earlier, this isn't a Lego toy for kids nor an actual display piece for adults seeing all the inaccuracies for that price.

It's just a expensive slapped together "homage" gimmick for those willing to spend this kind of money for home deco.

PS, the shuttle section really is intended to be from ROTJ.

Yes, of course the shuttle scene is from ROTJ but most of the dioramas in the set are from ANH.

In my head I’m trying to come up with a story why all these dioramas should be inside the first Death Star.

That’s why I said I can explain away the shuttle ramp since the first Death Star probably had one, even if it was not shown on screen in ANH.

However, with the throne room I cannot do that. Probably because it features so prominently in an iconic scene from ROTJ and there was little to nothing of the Emperor in ANH.
 

So in my mind the Death Star 1 was Grand Moff Tarkin’s flagship while the Death Star 2 was the Emperor’s one.

[Tking22]

I think it looks good, it's a nice looking "slice" of the Death Star for sure, I don't care that it's part ANH and part ROTJ, that works for me. My main issue, it's just far too expensive, $1000+ tax for that? Yikes, I'd do, maybe, $800 max. 

[Raikkonen]

1 hour ago, Tking22 said:

I think it looks good, it's a nice looking "slice" of the Death Star for sure, I don't care that it's part ANH and part ROTJ, that works for me. My main issue, it's just far too expensive, $1000+ tax for that? Yikes, I'd do, maybe, $800 max. 

It's recycled mass produced plastic that barely has a lifespan of a few decades. Certainly not even $400 on my end... let alone $800... 😅

[sh9000]

Giant Death Star at the Melbourne Museum Star Wars Exhibition.

[Raikkonen]

And that there... is a Lego Death Star!!!

[renegadeleader1]

On 8/9/2025 at 4:49 PM, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

I haven't kept up with the Cobi catalogue lately, that Phantom looks cool.  My boys and I had fun building their Concorde and Huey kits so I'll probably get their Phantom too.

As of right now there's five different versions of Cobi's Phantom II out or soon to be released.

F-4F Luftwaffe

F-4S Black Bunny

F-4N Midway Mig Killer

F-4C Robin Olds

F-4M/FGR.2 RAF

 

I'm really hoping for a Jolly Rogers at this point.