Lego Ultimate Millenium Falcon

[MaxTheVool]

Oh Dear Jesus I Must Have It (http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=10179&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US).

I have the Star Destroyer, which is awesome. This has 60% more pieces. Oh and it costs $500.

My inner geek just exploded.

[Bosstone]

Ho..ly.

Normally I think Lego sets are vastly overpriced. But if I had it, I would drop the $1100 in a heartbeat for the Collector's Falcon, Star Destroyer, and DSII. Those are the prettiest Lego sets I've ever seen.

[N9IWP]

I was about complain that the mobile crane was no longer available. (it wasn't for a while) But it is! whoop!

http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=8421&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US

Brian

[gazpacho]

Do you just build them and leave them assembled? Or is there a fair amount of reuse that can be done?

I am not really a lego user any more but back in the day the point was to build different things so I was never really into the kits to do very specific things. In fact I don't think they had such things back when I played with legos. I remember building imperial walkers out of regular blocks when the movie first came out. They obviously didn't look as cool at the at-st models they have now.

[Maus Magill]

Ya know, I was pefectly happy not knowing this exists.

Now, I must have one. I don't have to feed my family this month, do I?

[Robot Arm]

What a piece of junk!

[MaxTheVool]

What a piece of junk!

You'd insult the lego Millenium Falcon in this thread of presumed Lego and Star Wars nerds?



You're braver than I thought...

[Arnold Winkelried]

You'd insult the lego Millenium Falcon in this thread of presumed Lego and Star Wars nerds?

You're braver than I thought...No no no! The proper response is "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself. "

[UncleRojelio]

You're braver than I thought...Oh come on Max, even I caught that one. It may be time for you to turn in your geek card.

[Voyager]

I saw that in the Lego store, and my wife had to restrain me. :)
When I get old and senile (in a few weeks at this rate) I'm going to lock myself in a room with Legos and 3d puzzles.

BTW, I have a Puzz-3d of the Falcon - but it sucked, since Puzz-3ds don't work very well without a flat base. Ditto for the Star Destroyer. But I have a much better Puzz 3D R2D2 (with voice box!) in my office.

[pravnik]

It looks complicated, but you can assemble it in less than 12 parsecs.

[Hypno-Toad]

It looks complicated, but you can assemble it in less than 12 parsecs.
Hydro-spanners and Fluvial Dampers are required for assembly.

[smiling bandit]

Hey, at 10 cents a peice...

[Mtgman]

Oh come on Max, even I caught that one. It may be time for you to turn in your geek card.
I think you've been whooshed. Arnold gave the next line in the film, but I think Max was going for a tie-in with the events in the thread by choosing a different line.

Luke says "what a piece of junk!" when he sees the Falcon in the hanger at Mos Eisley. Leia says "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought" when she sees the Falcon in the hanger on the Death Star.

Enjoy,
Steven

[GuanoLad]

It looks more like Meccano than Lego. I'll give it a miss.

[MovieMogul]

I actually saw the Lego Jawa sandcrawler on the shelves for the first time today. Nowhere as big as the Falcon, but it does have more pieces than the ISD. No way I can justify the expense, though (uh, uh, it's for my nephews, yeah! I'm just breaking it in!)

[MaxTheVool]

I actually saw the Lego Jawa sandcrawler on the shelves for the first time today. Nowhere as big as the Falcon, but it does have more pieces than the ISD. No way I can justify the expense, though (uh, uh, it's for my nephews, yeah! I'm just breaking it in!)

To be honest, the sand crawler, death star 2 and Yoda just don't look as good as the ISD. It must be the gray.


I've been thinking for years they needed to make the falcon. The only other thing I can see looking anywhere near as good in lego form would be an AT-AT, and there's already a pretty big non-ultimate-collector's-edition AT-AT.



By the way, did everyone in this thread see the huge episode 1 proto-ISD made of Legos from one of the big fan celebrations a few years back?

[Operation Ripper]

Shall I purchase it and send pics of kit to spite ye?

[Terrifel]

Hmmm... I'm not seeing any pictures of the model interior, or indeed any hint that the thing has an interior at all. It mentions that the cockpit can be opened and the ramp can be extended, but you'd think there'd be at least one picture of LEGO Ben Kenobi standing next to the LEGO holographic game table while LEGO Luke Skywalker fights off the LEGO Flying Ass-Drone.

Is it even possible that the Ultimate LEGO Millenium Falcon doesn't feature detailed interiors? That would instantly reduce its coolness quotient by about a factor of fifty. I've seen custom LEGO Falcons built to about that level of detail which had pretty creative solutions to interior space design.

[Frylock]

Yeah but what else can you build with it?

-FrL-

[Number]

For those who can't afford the LEGO version, the paper Falcon from here (http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/Gallery/Gallery.html) is pretty sweet. I haven't tried building it yet, but the AT-AT and Star Destroyer from that site came out pretty well.

Just don't let your cats walk on them. They don't look so good after that.

[cactus waltz]

Yeah but what else can you build with it?

-FrL-

Concidering the amount of pieces... A whole lot.

[Zakalwe]

For those who can't afford the LEGO version, the paper Falcon from here (http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/Gallery/Gallery.html) is pretty sweet. I haven't tried building it yet, but the AT-AT and Star Destroyer from that site came out pretty well.

Just don't let your cats walk on them. They don't look so good after that.
Sweet! Have you found that a particular weight of paper stock works best?

Looks like the large format printer at work is about to get a workout!

My son is a couple of days from being born. He is sooooo getting a mobile made out of these bad boys! Let's see, the Falcon, Enterprise, BattleStar Galactica (http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_scifi.html), and the Eagle (http://www.websamba.com/paper_eagle/eagle.html).

Yep, sounds about right. Should be done in time for his 4th or 5th birthday...

:cool:

[UncleRojelio]

I think you've been whooshed.Here is my geek card, and I'll punish myself by watching 1, 2, and 3 four times in a row.

[Sapo]

Hmmm... I'm not seeing any pictures of the model interior, or indeed any hint that the thing has an interior at all. It mentions that the cockpit can be opened and the ramp can be extended, but you'd think there'd be at least one picture of LEGO Ben Kenobi standing next to the LEGO holographic game table while LEGO Luke Skywalker fights off the LEGO Flying Ass-Drone.

Is it even possible that the Ultimate LEGO Millenium Falcon doesn't feature detailed interiors? That would instantly reduce its coolness quotient by about a factor of fifty. I've seen custom LEGO Falcons built to about that level of detail which had pretty creative solutions to interior space design.
It says that it is made to minifigure scale and that minifigures can sit and man the controls. I take that to mean that there are some controls in the interior.

At any rate, I don't dig these new sets with panels at all weird angles. To me, the fascination with LEGOs was the pixelated look of things made with orthogonal blocks.

[MostlyClueless]

More pictures of the falcon (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=233228). (Scroll down for interior shots. This model seems to be a prototype)

[Number]

Sweet! Have you found that a particular weight of paper stock works best?I've been using 24 pound Office Depot laser paper. It seems to be rigid enough for these models -- the AT-AT would stand unassisted (right up until the unfortunate cat incident). There is stock made specifically for papercraft which might work better, but I have not experimented with it yet.

My son is a couple of days from being born. He is sooooo getting a mobile made out of these bad boys! Let's see, the Falcon, Enterprise, BattleStar Galactica (http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_scifi.html), and the Eagle (http://www.websamba.com/paper_eagle/eagle.html).Cool. Thanks for the pointer to that site. There are some great-looking models on there. The Galactica is huge! Unfortunately they didn't use .pdf for the parts pages, so it may take some fiddling to get them a uniform size.

[bonzer]

Do you just build them and leave them assembled? Or is there a fair amount of reuse that can be done?

I am not really a lego user any more but back in the day the point was to build different things so I was never really into the kits to do very specific things. In fact I don't think they had such things back when I played with legos. I remember building imperial walkers out of regular blocks when the movie first came out. They obviously didn't look as cool at the at-st models they have now.

I was considerately given the Lego Arc-170 Starfighter (http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=7259) as a birthday present a couple of years ago. Offhand I'd estimate that perhaps half the pieces are generic Lego blocks, while the other half are customised pieces designed for the specific kit. Or at least are sufficiently weird that they're nor what I'd consider legit blocks, based on what I was familiar with from extensive playing with the stuff as a kid a few decades back. There were a few kits back in the Seventies that were beginning to have specialised blocks, but it wasn't the norm.
There are a couple of suggested alternate models using subsets of the same set of bricks, but I built the Starfighter and left it like that, apart from repairs when it gets knocked over. Or, umm, crashes.
Many of these currents kits are extremely cute - and I'd love someone to buy me the Falcon - but there's a part of me that still nostalgically insists that, dammit, they're not proper Lego.

[Hypno-Toad]

Two or three years ago I was watching tv with my roommate when a commercial for the Lego X-wing came on. It was November so toy commercials were all over the prime time. I sort bitched about how they didn't have that when I was a kid. It would have been the coolest thing ever.

Sure enough, he got it for me for Christmas.

It has a place of honor on my shelves.

[MaxTheVool]

I was considerately given the Lego Arc-170 Starfighter (http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=7259) as a birthday present a couple of years ago. Offhand I'd estimate that perhaps half the pieces are generic Lego blocks, while the other half are customised pieces designed for the specific kit. Or at least are sufficiently weird that they're nor what I'd consider legit blocks, based on what I was familiar with from extensive playing with the stuff as a kid a few decades back. There were a few kits back in the Seventies that were beginning to have specialised blocks, but it wasn't the norm.
There are a couple of suggested alternate models using subsets of the same set of bricks, but I built the Starfighter and left it like that, apart from repairs when it gets knocked over. Or, umm, crashes.
Many of these currents kits are extremely cute - and I'd love someone to buy me the Falcon - but there's a part of me that still nostalgically insists that, dammit, they're not proper Lego.

I've built the Lego Imperial Star Destroyer, and while almost none of its 3000+ pieces are the traditional 4x2 rectangle, there are also almost none that are unique to the ISD model. There are lots of "standard" lego pieces these days that are used for lots of models which are pretty far out there by several-decades-ago standards.


Which is not to say that there are never 100% unique custom pieces for sets.

[sturmhauke]

At any rate, I don't dig these new sets with panels at all weird angles. To me, the fascination with LEGOs was the pixelated look of things made with orthogonal blocks.
I believe the people who work for Lego have been taking cues from the fan community. The concept is called Studs Not On Top, or SNOT (don't look at me like that, I didn't invent the term). Take a look at some of these crazy ass fan creations and tell me they aren't totally awesome:

the Nebuchadnezzar hovership from The Matrix (http://www.brickfrenzy.com/index.php?m=nebuchadnezzar)
a Valkyrie VF-1S from Robotech (http://www.foundrydx.com/vf1s.html#)
a custom six-legged artillery mecha (http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/MMP.htm)
a custom bounty hunter's spaceship (http://www.fleebnork.com/?m=neverwhere2)
a spaceship I made (http://mocpages.com/moc.php/1843)

[Coil]

For those who can't afford the LEGO version, the paper Falcon from here (http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/Gallery/Gallery.html) is pretty sweet. I haven't tried building it yet, but the AT-AT and Star Destroyer from that site came out pretty well.

Thanks for that link. Those look awesome. I will definitely have to try building some with my daughter (who is becoming a big SW geek).

Do you have to print them on a large format paper or does normal letter/A4 paper work?

[Number]

Do you have to print them on a large format paper or does normal letter/A4 paper work?Letter works fine. I don't know about A4.

I'm currently building the AT-ST using light card stock and finding it a lot easier to work with than ordinary laser paper. I'd recommend using it if possible.

[Greywolf73]

Ya'all are gonna love this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEc8v1OWeE4

:D

The last 30 seconds or so is the best part, I think.

[Hypno-Toad]

So that's how Peter Gabriel builds the Millenium falcon.

[straight man]

Personally, I'm in love with the larger (http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=8145&cn=112&d=70) Ferrari (http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=8674&cn=112&d=70) models. They make me drool more than the cars themselves! That said, the Millenium Falcon is every kind of awesome. :)

[Zebra]

NO! THAT ONE GOES THERE and THAT ONE GOES THERE! Got it?