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Hey all,
The community team would like to present the new Ultimate Collector’s
Millennium Falcon. I’m excited to show this off to you all. Below is the
official announcement for the set as well as some links to images. I hope
you’re all as excited as we are about it. Enjoy.
Steve and Jan
The LEGO Community Team
10179: Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon™
Pictures:
From
Behind
Front
From Behind Above
Side
Above
Side with minifigs
- Pre-orders begin February 10, 2007 around 8pm – should be live online between 8pm and 8:30pm
- FREE SHIPPING on pre-orders of item #10179 Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon placed before March 31st. Offer expires March 31, 2007 11:59pm EST.
- Randomly numbered Certificate of Authenticity included in package for First-Edition. Please note: we have no control over which certificates go into which box. If you are FIRST to order this product, this does NOT mean you will receive certificate #1.
- First-Edition packaging
- Pre-orders will beginning shipping on October 1, 2007
Key Consumer Benefits
- This is the ultimate Millennium Falcon!!!
- The most important and most iconic model within the Star Wars universe
- For the fist time in correct minifigure scale!
- Noted as one of Lucas Licensing’s favorite Star Wars models for 2007
- BIG stable model
- The biggest LEGO model ever
Product Features
- Dimensions: 33” long, 22” wide and 8” tall! (84cm long x 56cm wide x 21cm tall)
- Weight: 13.23 lb (6 kg)
- 5,195 elements
- Ages 16+
- Retractable boarding ramp
- Cockpit top can be removed to access minifigures
- Guns in top and bottom turrets can rotate
- Top gun turret can be removed to sit minifigure
- Model can also be lifted in the black TECHNIC beams when gun turret is off
- Radar disc can rotate and elevate
- Five minifigures: Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa
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In lugnet.announce, Steve Witt wrote:
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Hey all,
The community team would like to present the new Ultimate Collector’s
Millennium Falcon. I’m excited to show this off to you all. Below is the
official announcement for the set as well as some links to images. I hope
you’re all as excited as we are about it. Enjoy.
Steve and Jan
The LEGO Community Team
10179: Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon™
Key Consumer Benefits
- This is the ultimate Millennium Falcon!!!
- The most important and most iconic model within the Star Wars universe
- For the fist time in correct minifigure scale!
- Noted as one of Lucas Licensing’s favorite Star Wars models for 2007
- BIG stable model
- The biggest LEGO model ever
Product Features
- Dimensions: 33” long, 22” wide and 8” tall! (84cm long x 56cm wide x 21cm tall)
- Weight: 13.23 lb (6 kg)
- 5,195 elements
- Ages 16+
- Retractable boarding ramp
- Cockpit top can be removed to access minifigures
- Guns in top and bottom turrets can rotate
- Top gun turret can be removed to sit minifigure
- Model can also be lifted in the black TECHNIC beams when gun turret is off
- Radar disc can rotate and elevate
- Five minifigures: Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa
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in a word: WOW
In more than a word, I am very pleased to see another large “ok huge” Lego set
catered to adult Lego and Starwars fans. You have to remember the mere idea of a
set this large was literaly just an idea untill people talked about it, asked
for it, dare i say begged for it. Obviously community dialog along with good
sales of the star destroyer made this set possible.
Ondrew
p.s. how about a UCS Big Boy locomotive =) ok now i’m dreaming
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In lugnet.announce, Steve Witt wrote:
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Hey all,
The community team would like to present the new Ultimate Collector’s
Millennium Falcon. I’m excited to show this off to you all. Below is the
official announcement for the set as well as some links to images. I hope
you’re all as excited as we are about it. Enjoy.
Steve and Jan
The LEGO Community Team
10179: Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon™
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Awesome!
I really like that you made the UCS set compatible with minifig scale, and hope
you’ll apply the same concept to other UCS sets (AT-AT) in the future.
-Steven
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Can you say Millenium Falcon Timed build at Brickfest?
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In lugnet.announce, Steve Witt wrote:
SNIP
Cool set! I like this one and will order it as soon as my wife regaines
contiousness. Oh, on the shop at home website, the pictures won’t load. This may
keep some shoppers from ordering one (or 5).
Mark
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Indeed, it all looks great, except for the plates around the engine. They’re
quite bowed. I hope that’s just a sign of hasty assembly.
Even though I probably won’t buy this set because it’s in the new colors, it
does look they did a superb job with the proportions and detailing. I hope the
words “BIG, stable model” mean that you can swoosh it a little!
David Simmons
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In lugnet.announce, Steve Witt wrote:
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Hey all,
The community team would like to present the new Ultimate Collector’s
Millennium Falcon. I’m excited to show this off to you all. Below is the
official announcement for the set as well as some links to images. I hope
you’re all as excited as we are about it. Enjoy.
Steve and Jan
The LEGO Community Team
10179: Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon™
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A very cool set indeed, though I am another person stuck in my dark ages due to
bley so probably won’t get one either.
I do have a couple of questions about it though...
1. Is the landing gear retractable?
2. Is the whole interior detailed and accessable, or only the cockpit?
3. Any escape pods, missles or other action details included?
4. How many sets will be in the first edition run?
Thanks, and great set! Wish you would add the old greys back to the pallate in
addition to the new so I could easily get out of my dark ages with this set...
-Matt :)
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In lugnet.lego, David Simmons wrote:
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Indeed, it all looks great, except for the plates around the engine. They’re
quite bowed. I hope that’s just a sign of hasty assembly.
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I don’t believe they are bowed - it looks like the “roof” is mad of large
circular sectors, which when tilted to get the conic shape produce what looks
like bowing.
ROSCO
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In lugnet.lego, David Simmons wrote:
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Indeed, it all looks great, except for the plates around the engine. They’re
quite bowed. I hope that’s just a sign of hasty assembly.
Even though I probably won’t buy this set because it’s in the new colors, it
does look they did a superb job with the proportions and detailing. I hope
the words “BIG, stable model” mean that you can swoosh it a little!
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You can, but it’s about 15 pounds:
The superstructure is musing Technic beams and pins, so it can be held from the
center and moved. The top cannon plate does have to be removed though.
It’s a gorgeous model.
Joe
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In lugnet.announce, Steve Witt wrote:
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10179: Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon™
Key Consumer Benefits
- This is the ultimate Millennium Falcon!!!
- The most important and most iconic model within the Star Wars universe
- For the fist time in correct minifigure scale!
- Noted as one of Lucas Licensing’s favorite Star Wars models for 2007
- BIG stable model
- The biggest LEGO model ever
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Not forgetting (from
this
pic):
- Tall, thin ratlines in light grey!
Cheers
Richie Dulin
FUT .pirates
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In lugnet.lego, Joe Meno wrote:
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You can, but it’s about 15 pounds:
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Hi Joe,
Along with this picture I think I recognize him as the same guy who designed the Death
Star II. Am I right? Did you get a chance to talk to him? I’m curious what
other LEGO sets he’s designed over the years? He’s obviously a very talented
guy! Of course maybe a better question is what set is he working on now, but
I’m sure he couldn’t share that!
Thanks,
Paul
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In lugnet.lego, Paul S. D’Urbano wrote:
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Along with
this
picture I think I recognize him as the same guy who designed the Death Star
II. Am I right? Did you get a chance to talk to him? I’m curious what
other LEGO sets he’s designed over the years? He’s obviously a very talented
guy! Of course maybe a better question is what set is he working on now, but
I’m sure he couldn’t share that!
Thanks,
Paul
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Yep, that’s him! His name is Jens Kronvold Frederiksen - you can find an old
interview with him here. I got talk to him for about fifteen minutes before things started (and
people found out who he was:-)) and he’s a great guy - very open to answer
questions, except the ‘secret’ ones:-)
He started in 1998, and he was first on Rock Raiders (he designed the large base
set for that theme - Rock Raiders HQ - 4990) then he went to Star Wars and has
been there ever since. His first work on the Star Wars sets was sketching the
first generation Y-wing that came with Vader’s Tie fighter (7150).
Besides that, i didn’t ask for any other specific sets he worked on. I’ll be
talking to him later this year for BrickJournal.
Joe
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In lugnet.lego, Paul S. D’Urbano wrote: • ...
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I think I recognize him as the same guy who designed the Death Star
II. Am I right? Did you get a chance to talk to him?
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In lugnet.lego, Joe Meno wrote:
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Yep, that’s him! His name is Jens Kronvold Frederiksen - you can find an old
interview with him
here.
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Well, you have to love this part from that interview:
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MPb: We see the Death Star Set as being one of those “Ultimate Fantasy Sets”
that finally came true. Are there any “Someday I hope we can make the...”
that you hope becomes real?
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Jens: I feel pretty much the same about both the Star Destroyer and the
Death Star II. We have a lot of ideas, but I don’t think that we will
make LEGO Star Wars set, for trade that are bigger than these!!!
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Quite nice that it didn’t actually come true! :)
-- joshua
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In lugnet.lego, Matthew J. Chiles wrote:
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Thanks, and great set! Wish you would add the old greys back to the pallate
in addition to the new so I could easily get out of my dark ages with this
set...
-Matt :)
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Along with everyone else I second this. It is an awesome set but some part of me
says that I wouldn’t buy it due to the new grey. If I do buy this it would be
treated like a stand-alone kit -- not even Lego -- just a model.
-mark
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In lugnet.lego, Mark Rideout wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, Matthew J. Chiles wrote:
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Thanks, and great set! Wish you would add the old greys back to the pallate
in addition to the new so I could easily get out of my dark ages with this
set...
-Matt :)
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Along with everyone else I second this. It is an awesome set but some part of
me says that I wouldn’t buy it due to the new grey. If I do buy this it would
be treated like a stand-alone kit -- not even Lego -- just a model.
-mark
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The big question though is this: Would you ever WANT to break this baby down.
I cannot imagine a reason why I ever would (other than lack of space).
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In lugnet.announce, Steve Witt wrote:
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Hey all,
The community team would like to present the new Ultimate Collector’s
Millennium Falcon. I’m excited to show this off to you all. Below is the
official announcement for the set as well as some links to images. I hope
you’re all as excited as we are about it. Enjoy.
Steve and Jan
The LEGO Community Team
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I would love to buy this but it’s a bit out of my price range. Would be a great
model and when (if) you break it down it looks like it could transform a bley
collection into a true powerhouse. For SPACE! builders this could really be the
set that lets you really embrace the more realistic new colour.
Tim
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In lugnet.lego, Timothy Gould wrote:
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I would love to buy this but it’s a bit out of my price range. Would be a
great model and when (if) you break it down it looks like it could transform
a bley collection into a true powerhouse. For SPACE! builders this could
really be the set that lets you really embrace the more realistic new colour.
Tim
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I have to whole-heartedly agree with this post. $500 US is VERY steep. Yes,
it’s got a huge part-count, but it’s just not affordable for this middle-aged,
middle-income guy.
James Wilson
Dallas
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In lugnet.lego, James Wilson wrote:
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$500 US is VERY steep. Yes, it’s got a huge part-count, but it’s just not
affordable for this middle-aged, middle-income guy.
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Yeah, I’m hoping this will pay off for Lego, but it is quite a leap from the
$300 price point of the ISD (which did phenomenally well) and the Death Star II
(which I’m guessing did NOT do so well). But my guess is that it’s pretty much
in the same target market as the ISD-- the Star Wars enthusiasts who have lots
of cash to spend, of which there appear to be plenty considering the ISD’s
success.
The only other real downside to the set is the fact that it’s in the new
colors-- which I’m sure will deter a few would-be buyers out there. But then
again, the ISD itself (even in the old colors) wasn’t a great *parts* pack per
se. Lots of gray plates and wings, very few bricks. It had some wonderful
specialty elements, but lots of stuff that... well... we already had, or didn’t
need in bulk. Who needed 32 more pairs of gray 6x12 wings, for instance?
So, assuming that the ISD was NOT purchased a lot as a parts pack by rabid Lego
fans, and since we know that it still did well, I’m guessing that the majority
of the market for the ISD was more Star Wars fans who wanted a good display
piece. And that’ll certainly be true of the Millenium Falcon as well. So I hope
the bley-ness of the set won’t affect it negatively too much.
Otherwise, this is a PHENOMENAL looking model. It’s always been an iffy set to
make considering that it’s so large and complicated. I can’t imagine the
difficulty in trying to design a Millenium Falcon that *looked* great and was
plausibly affordable. I mean, there have been a bunch of fan-designed MF’s that
have looked amazing, but they’d be $1000+ if Lego were trying to sell them.
Also, the decision to make it “minifig scale” and come with a selection of
collectible minifigs is simply beautiful. They could have tried for a smaller
set which might *fit* minifigs (but not be to scale), but you’d probably have
people clamoring that it was so-close-but-not-close-enough to minifig scale.
Hopefully, this model will do well enough for Lego to keep them venturing
further into the adult market. What would we see next?
DaveE
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"Steve Witt" <steve@lego.com> wrote in message news:JD9xpI.7rG@lugnet.com...
> [Hey all,]
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> [The community team would like to present the new Ultimate Collector's
> Millennium Falcon. I'm excited to show this off to you all. Below is the
> official announcement for the set as well as some links to images. I hope
> you're all as excited as we are about it. Enjoy.]
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> {Steve and Jan}¬
> {The LEGO Community Team}
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> [10179: Ultimate Collector's {Millennium FalconT}]
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Needs lights. ;)
-Rob
www.brickmodder.net
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In lugnet.lego, Rob Hendrix wrote:
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> Needs lights. ;)
Lights would be great. How about EL lighting? Take a look at the blue/green EL
strip on this page:
<http://www.luminousfilm.com/el_lamp.htm>
Stick a nice blue filter on top of the EL strip and I think you'd have a winner.
:-)
Jeff
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Ahh, the old robot arm for the cockpit side window trick. :-)
This plate surfacing technique is much more realistic than my conventional use
of plates and slopes (circa 2000), and makes attaching surface detail easier
(and reduces the mass and parts count). This style of construction (starting
with the ISD) is facilitated by the newer wedge plates with more gradual angles.
I’d like to see more official Lego models built this way, and more types of
wedge and wing plates.
As for pricing, that’s pretty close to what it would cost you to build a custom
model with this parts count.
This is a very impressive model.
K
ps. The Falcon only had five landing legs when Obi-Wan was a passenger. ;-)
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In lugnet.lego, Stephen Hurn wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, Mark Rideout wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, Matthew J. Chiles wrote:
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Thanks, and great set! Wish you would add the old greys back to the
pallate in addition to the new so I could easily get out of my dark ages
with this set...
-Matt :)
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Along with everyone else I second this. It is an awesome set but some part
of me says that I wouldn’t buy it due to the new grey. If I do buy this it
would be treated like a stand-alone kit -- not even Lego -- just a model.
-mark
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The big question though is this: Would you ever WANT to break this baby
down. I cannot imagine a reason why I ever would (other than lack of space).
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I agree -- that is why it would be great as a standalone model!
-mark
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In lugnet.lego, Timothy Gould wrote:
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I would love to buy this but it’s a bit out of my price range. Would be a
great model and when (if) you break it down it looks like it could transform
a bley collection into a true powerhouse. For SPACE! builders this could
really be the set that lets you really embrace the more realistic new colour.
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Sheesh, I only wanted a roof pack... ;-)
Jason R
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In lugnet.lego, Jason J Railton wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, Timothy Gould wrote:
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I would love to buy this but it’s a bit out of my price range. Would be a
great model and when (if) you break it down it looks like it could transform
a bley collection into a true powerhouse. For SPACE! builders this could
really be the set that lets you really embrace the more realistic new
colour.
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Sheesh, I only wanted a roof pack... ;-)
Jason R
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Hahaha. Actually you’ve just given me an idea. Light bley is pretty close to the
colour of corrugated iron so I wonder if you couldn’t use large numbers of the
new light bley one by one slopes to do something.
Tim
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I would love to buy this but it’s a bit out of my price range. Would be a
great model and when (if) you break it down it looks like it could transform
a bley collection into a true powerhouse. For SPACE! builders this could
really be the set that lets you really embrace the more realistic new colour.
Tim
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This really makes me understand even more deeply how individual we all are when
it comes to so many things like music, art and food. The main reason I don’t
like the new colors is that I find them less realistic. I guess it’s a good
thing that not everyone is disappointed with them. I envy you that you can look
forward to new product with this perspective!
Dave S.
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Wow, now that is a NICE set. If only they’d release the Republic Star Destroyer
built a few years back so I have to mortgage the house ;) Free shipping is
always good too, I definitely have to find a way to get this one.
My only problem is the price. At 6 kg I think it weighs less than the ISD and so
with 5000 bricks it must have an extraordinary number of small pieces. Why is
the price almost double? I would think it should be 25% less than the asking
price. Also its the same as a lot of S@H items in that the price for those Down
Under is 50% more than in the US, and that can’t be pinned on taxes or exchange
rates :( C’mon TLC, please give us some competitive pricing and you’ll find
more eager customers hint, hint ;)
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Bit-tech.net has a “challenge” of sorts - turn this set into a PC case-mod
project. They’re not offering any prizes, but it would certainly make an
interesting addition to an AFOL’s office.
Read it here.
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In lugnet.announce, Steve Witt wrote:
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Hey all,
The community team would like to present the new Ultimate Collector’s
Millennium Falcon. I’m excited to show this off to you all. Below is the
official announcement for the set as well as some links to images. I hope
you’re all as excited as we are about it. Enjoy.
Steve and Jan
The LEGO Community Team
10179: Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon™
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I do believe that I need a change of underwear. That is awesome!!! Now, to find
money on my cards.... Which bank to rob?
I just... Cant... Stop... Staring... Greeblies!!!
I always wondered if TLC would make something like this, and how they’d do the
details, now I know! :D
mmmmmmmmmm *goes back to drooling*
-Matthew
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When I was a kid I dreamed of when I would grow up and my allowance would allow
me to buy any lego set I wanted. $500???. Well, now I am grown up and my
allowance still isn’t big enough (At least according to my wife).
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In lugnet.announce, Steve Witt wrote:
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Steve,
Do you know if LEGO will be providing the inventory for the set, like they did
for the Star Destroyer? Thanks!
-Joel
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In lugnet.lego, Matthew Bower wrote:
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When I was a kid I dreamed of when I would grow up and my allowance would
allow me to buy any lego set I wanted. $500???. Well, now I am grown up and
my allowance still isn’t big enough (At least according to my wife).
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Hmmm.... 500.00
I am passing on this one....
Rather put that money into a Playstation 3 or some other cool gadget you can
actually interact with, and have endless hours, days, or weeks of fun. Not
picking up dust in a shelf.
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