Thread 11473439

New lego Death Star set will be the most expensive ever
Is it too much for a toy?
>9k+ pieces
>38 minifigs
>October 1st release date
>Still no pictures
Cop or Drop?

What's the most expensive toy you've ever bought?

>>11473439 (OP)
People will unironically spend 1000$ on a model kit, and refuse to buy an airbrush for $100

Lets say you buy the 1000$ death star. Where are you going to store it? It reminds me of all the people who bough the haslab unicron and stuck it in their living room and never touched it again.

At this point, just pick up the bandai x wing or tie fighter, and paint it to look like the movie prop, instead of a cheap amazon mass produced funko pop-esque collectible.

This and the At-at were $800 so I don't know why people are now freaking out over an extra $200, it had already hit ridiculous levels

>>11473439 (OP)
Fuck off Paul Poncet.

>>11473439 (OP)

With the cost of living, $1k isn't that insane to drop on a collectible.

That lasts me like 3 weeks on rent. If adults are the main audience, it's not out of reach.

I would expect something pretty spectacular in that price range though. I have the original 10188 death star that was $400 back in 2008. That's near $600 inflation accounted for today and this new one has more than double the pieces.

I think Lego is kind of missing the plot on offering mini sets though. As a kid, picking up tiny sets on allowance money was most of the magic of the toy. Big sets were only special occasions like Christmas or a birthday.

>>11473439 (OP)
nice gray ball, fag

>>11473444
that's my concern, i'll have to see the dimensions to know what kind of shelf i'll need to fit it
>>11473449
i agree, it's a lot, but the death star was always the set to push the price point
>>11473459
i miss the high quality scene small sets like this and jedi defense
>picrel is jedi defense 1 and 2

I am begging you. Pick up the 10$ death star, some hobby stray paint, and black acryllic wash.

Reject lego consumerism. Embrace making things on your own. I promise you will be happier.

>>11473469
how do i play with it?

>>11473473
How did you play with the original?

>>11473474
didn't have it
this one will be like this one though

>>11473467
I recognize this pic as a Tie the Lego Guy thumbnail

RIP

>>11473442
$300 Sideshow 12" Baroness, and the original Crimson Strike Team, but they're a pack of figures.
There's some vintage pieces I'm looking at over $500 but I'll wait to move to a new place with more space.

>>11473442
$300 on discount, retails for $360

>>11473439 (OP)
The world had to be running slowly out of Star Wars fans who will spend this kind of money on insane impractical shit like this.

Especially since the last 15 years did not attract new fans at all, actually turned people off to the whole franchise, and the shit they are selling are the exact same repackaged 5 or so ships they have been selling since the early 80s.

How many super dooper special limited edition Millennium Falcons, X-Wings, and Vader's TIE does one buy?

>>11473506
the prequels made (and continue to) make new fans that are now adults

>>11473444
People who built with Lego like the aesthetic, they don't want to try and make realistic miniatures with airbrushed effects.

>>11473442
I count my firearms so probably my M1 Grand or my AR-15. Both are well over $1K. My M1 was like $1200 and my AR after all the upgrades and shit I've done to itl like $1400.

>>11473442
Figma Rem, i spent almost 200 USD on her in 2020 a little before the reissue

>>11473442
If statues count, this 1/4 Creamy Mami was almost $400. If we're not, then $220 for Figma Goro Inogashia White Shirt Yakiniku for One Edition.

>>11473459
Sometimes it's not just cost but space and just mental space to dedicate to owning it and caring. I could buy a $200 toy a week, but would quickly stop caring about many of them or run out of space.
>in b4 "buy a bigger house if you have money"

-ACK

>>11473449
These are the same people that get tricked by the $X.99 price tag and think they're paying less.

>>11473439 (OP)
Idk dude, if i had a spare $1000 id get it. Honestly it sounds like a fun project and idc about lego or star wars enough to blow a grand on either of them.
>swmpy

>>11473439 (OP)
Drop.
>9,000+ grey pieces
>A New Hope (most likely) set so it will have all the generic figs you already have
>Probably a lazy tie fighter small build
>Just a big hollow dollhouse

>>11473444
Yeah, like the other anon said, model kits are cool but with Lego I like it as like an abstract recreation of the THING I like.

>>11473756
>Watch video of guy who bought the UCS $800 ATAT
>He's fucking around with the legs to see it's articulation
>You can hear the thing making awful cracking sounds from the weight because the legs are not meant to move beyond a few little movements.

>>11473756
Tiago hurled that gray disc into a box because his orbs are enormous. I think I've seen him unbox decade old sets to make points in videos before too, funny Portuguese man.

>>11473507
Prequels would be before the 15 year cutoff date in that reply.

I don’t really understand the appeal of the Death Star Lego sets I’d be interested to hear your guys thoughts on this.


To me the Lego deathstar no matter how big you make it looks like a deathstar tree house. It obviously is not remotely to scale so I don’t understand why you would spend hundreds of dollars on it. It’s obviously a display piece but it being intended to use with mini figures ruins the aesthetic of it. Wouldn’t it be better to have no open sections in it and to display it with micro star fighters or something that only use like 5 parts?

Furthermore if you are spending 1000 on a display piece to use with mini figures, wouldn’t it just be better to spend 600 or something on a scene which is movie accurate and to scale with the mini figures? Surely there are lots of displays they could make. Even just a few detailed deathstar hallways or a hangar or something seems like it would be more fun to use as a diorama. And if you went the 1000 dollar route I feel like they could make an amazing play set which is based on Endor or geonosis or hoth which would be more of a landscape packed with like 20 mini figures and various smaller builds and a backdrop.

>>11474207
It's main purpose is to milk "hardcore" Lego Star Wars fans, the type to buy anything that comes out. Many will probably get it as a centerpiece to an already big collection or aimply because they feel compelled to own the "Most Expensive Lego(tm) Star Wars(tm) Set EVER". Keep in mind it also comes with 40 minifigs many of which will certainly be exclusive to this. Lego SW fans have an obsession with minifigs to the point they'd buy a $200, $0.30 price per piece set just because it comes with one exclusive Glup Shitto fig. Lego knows this and are capitalizing on it. I'd bet that only a few years after the set retires the aftermarket for the figs alone would be enough to pay off the $1000 build.

As for the set itself in a vacuum, there's a possibility it actually turns out as a good build and play/display piece. A big ball with small vignettes and dioramas from iconic scenes inside that can be closed off with panels. The playscale Death Star was a bestseller for a reason. It's a fun concept you can't really get anywhere else, especially with model kits.

>>11473439 (OP)
I'm really more interested in the execution of the Enterprise D, hoping it will be one of the first MOC comparable ships.

>>11473469
These people will never be happy. They use toys and fantasy to fill a void.

>>11473469
Agree with the Bandai models
They were peak Star Wars toys during the 2010s
Helped me forget about the doo-doo sequels that came out during that time.

>>11473991
>>11473569

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>>11473439 (OP)
Seems like you could double your money within a year if you want to scalp this but this seems excessive

>>11474243
If you were to use bricklink which may or may not be a good example and you bought 600 dollars of parts you could probably make an extremely impressive minifig scale diorama that’s like 2x2 or 3x3 square feet of Felucia with all sorts of foliage and space plants and you might have enough left over for a bunch of droid and clone figures I feel like that is a lot cooler. It isn’t even the money itself that confuses me. When you bought the old starwars sets and got something like a big vehicle set you would always have a picture in the front of the box of the area they were fighting in with crap happening in the background and I’m surprised more people don’t just want to make that which you can view from multiple sides like a war diorama
For 600 or 800 or 1000 you could probably make a museum quality recreation of the battle of Endor

>>11473459
oh i loved these small lego packs. I had the Bib fortuna and R2D2 and C3PO as akid. do you guys think it would be worth tracking down some of the others (especially the emperor and Vader one)?

>>11473478
The retail price for that set in 2016 was $499.99 and the new set will be $999.99 but has over twice the pieces. Not a bad value, considering. And the 2008 Death Star set #10188 with 3,803 pieces was $399.99

>>11473442
I have a few sofubi that I've gotten for around $3000.

There's a couple of sofubi makers out there with stuff regularly going for upwards of 20k. Way outside my price range. Even the ones I have are wildly out of my price range but I prioritized making it happen.

I can't really imagine spending that kind of money on what is essentially a mass market toy, even if it is very large. My next biggest purchase outside of stupid expensive sofubi is the super7 classics Snake Mountain which at least is sized right to feel massively expensive.

>>11473439 (OP)
>>11473449
You cannot lie and say that LEGO has just become another form of "adult hobbying" that a yuppy or some other retard drops money on when depressed.

>>11474756
I think you should sell your bib fortuna, it's prolly worth decent money now

>>11473478
>>11474757
>75159 added 200 pieces to 10188
>nearly identical build
>$400 to $500
>new Death Star adding twice the pieces
>$500 to $1000
It's going to be 10188 again but with a bunch of shitty panels on the outside, isn't it?

>>11474823
Pretty much, yeah.

>>11473439 (OP)
Insane, if they're going to ask a thousand jeepskins for that shit it could at least be the pre-destruction death star

>>11474840
It will be(Though it might still feature the emperor room like >>11473481. The background is just a suggestion with little to do with actual product

>>11474195
there has been a huge resurgence in prequel popularity over the last five years, it made me a fan

>>11474756
you can check bricklink. i'm gonna part our jedi defense 1 and 2 in the near future

>>11474641
You seriously don’t get it you if you think your pic related has any of the history/charm/playability of Lego.

>>11474765
Post high end sofubi pics please, super curious

>>11474786
No one wants to acknowledge this. It's not a toy for children anymore that adults happen to enjoy. It's an Adult Collectible(TM) for Adults.

>>11474823
I don't know how they can double the piece count without doubling the size of it too. The shitty panels won't account for 4,000 pieces. Either it'll legit be twice the size of the others, with rooms twice as big or twice as many rooms. Or, it will be 10188 plus some added tie-fighters or other unconnected bits.

>>11475193
10188 was 16" in diameter, my prediction is 22" for this new one, which would be slightly more than double in volume. i think they'll piece farm but not so much

>>11475008
Here's a few. The top left picture is my own, the rest are considerably more expensive. Some high end sofubi are huge, some are extremely complex from a production standpoint, and some are just pure hype beast nonsense with little to admire.

For reference this crap costs $500. Even if they double the size it really won't be all that substantial

>>11474823
And none of those panels will have a smidge of SNOT

>>11473756
If he can find all the pieces theres no reason he can't just out this back together.

>>11475193
even worse; it'a literally a scale model of Death star, so it's going to look like a huge ball of ABS blob and the movie scenes will not be minifig-scaled and completely concealed inside the thing unless you remove the panels.

GWP details
>3 minifigs
>236

>>11482840
this was 246 pieces for reference, though I'd expect it to be the rebel style rather than vaders

this is 155 pieces
>>11482843

>>11482840
$50

>>11482952
you wont be able to buy it, it'll be free with the death star

Lego looks like shit.

kys yourselves you fuckin morons.

>>11473442
10497 explorer 100 bucks

>>11485843
>10497
kino

sucks

minifig reveal

>>11473756
Oh no, the interlocking block toy I had to put together out of the box has become disa**embled! Whatever shall I do?
Am I the only one that rotates what I have on my shelves?
>he doesn't keep unassembled sets bagged by initial poly number along with collapsed original boxing out of direct sunlight
Kid toys, adult enjoyment.

they're really holding out on these leaks