https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/tie-fighter-with-imperial-hangar-rack-40771

There's a few of the officers I want to pick up - the cap/hair piece is interesting.
Can happily pass on the rest of it

My wallet, my precious wallet!!!!!!

Who is the guy in a green uniform standing next to Director Krennic on the display plaque?

If anyone in the US wants $50 off this set, I would love to buy the random Astromech this set comes with.

Nice set. …I would have suggested LEGO release an ultra low cost/piece count version for people who can’t go for this full display but want to (sort of) experience it. …Similar to how they did Micro M. Falcons.

A decent investment set if you can get past the potential shipping costs to sell it. …and the storage space you’ll need.

I thought it was a 4+ set when I first saw it! Honestly I'd buy it as a 4+ for the figures and the parts and the tie fighter rack ...

If you ARE going to buy it, do NOT get it until 2x points - that's an extra $50 of points you're missing out on just to get the $15ish "GWP" (that should've been included in the build in the first place) that doesn't seem to require any unique pieces

@Beren_Luthien said:
"Who is the guy in a green uniform standing next to Director Krennic on the display plaque?"

Grand Admiral Thrawn's brother.

At least it comes with Dr Ball MD :-)

Piece of cake, literally.

Lego could've done a flat-ish cover for the Death Star, that would've changed opinions completely.

Are there any reasonable customizations of 75229, 75246, 75352, and 75339 I can do to just get roughly the same result?

@mr_skinny said:
"At least it comes with Dr Ball MD :-)"

"What the?! Are you trying to drown that kid?! What are you injecting there? Is this the bloody Dark Ages?! Why don't you just throw some leeches in there?! Oh, nobody listen to Dr. Ball, he's just an old fool!"

It looks dumb

When rumors of this set were circulating, I was truly excited. Now that I have seen the pics, I will pass. I’ll spend my $1000 on other sets.

@merman said:
"I did save €100 a month since January and the result is less bad than I feated. It is quite huge. But for a €1,000 set stickers are a big let-down. "

Same here, I will have to save 2 month more to buy prints from „Steindrucker“ ;-)
Hopefully they will be finished by Christmas.

Some really deceptive photography right here! My first thought was: "They are seriously making a flat display set on the front and leave the rest to be a round shell filled with air?" but somehow the actual set is even more disappointing.

It includes ton of detailed diorama's and it's disc-shape makes it take up a lot less space than a grey sphere. Good choice.
But at 9000 parts, that is a 700 - 800 USD/EUR set all day long.
Which is what it will quickly get marked down to.

That's no moon... It's a pie!

@8BrickMario said:
"Who is the person in purple? Fairly certain I've never seen them before. I feel like I'd remember someone so vibrant standing next to Vader. Is this figure from the Original Trilogy or a Disney project?"

He's one of the Emperor's advisers from Return of the Jedi. Him and several others like him arrive on the Death Star II with Palpatine, and are briefly seen in his Throne Room later.

The purple color on the minifigure is far more muted and toned down on the character in the movie.

Cool, but I’ll stick with my 75159. Not worth the $1000

$1500 here. And the back looks horrendous. This isn’t appealing at all

Nice diverse figures!

Really split on this. I'm almost certainly not going to get it, especially at that price, but I can at least admire how impressive it's designed. But stickers in a set like this, and the really awkward look of it from the side? Ugh, I'd much rather spend half of its price in Australia and get Rivendell.

And that TIE Fighter looks SO bad. Nice that it can be combined with the set, but why does it look so malnourished? I'm not saying the TIE Advanceds from the last two were great, but they look like masterpieces compared to this lousy excuse. I was thinking the Death Star would see its peak sales in the first few weeks because of the promo and would then turn into a shelfwarmer, but seeing this GWP already makes me doubt those low expectations.

As a whole though, it might be the best looking LEGO Death Star other than the 2005 Death Star II. The 2008 and 2016 versions are legendary, but are a little awkward to display as spherical models without any plating.

I would be less on the fence if it had included a “half shell” so we could play/display something that actually looks like the Death Star. Without the exterior, I don’t quite understand the impetus to make it circular as that doesn’t appear to add any value.

Death Disc? Death Slice? Death Ninja Star?

Not a big fan of the 'lots of cubicles with scenes in them' sets, and then it's not even a sphere either. And $1K my god...

$1,321 on the swedish Lego store..

@damien said:
"Funny... They don't show pictures of the back. Probably just as bad as 21062. A lot of money for a set just 14 studs wide."

I was wondering about that, too

@Timsterino said:
"I think it will make a great build and a lovely wall display, I will enjoy it greatly and will be the queue on release day."

Fixed it for you!

I don't feel a lot of hate for it and I'm sort of glad some people are actually liking it. I kind of like it too, but not €1000,- worth of like. Kid no.1 asked me if I wanted it and I said "No, not for a 1000 euros". She kept asking me prices and we settled somewhere between 300 and 400. So I would buy it if it was somewhere in that price range. I know that is ridiculous, but it's just the what-is-it-worth to-me-scale of things. I would like the building process and all the parts, but there is no way I would display this.

10188 was missing the cover for the thermal exhaust port. I hope they fix that in this version.

This is it? Seriously? Massively underwhelming in everything but the price tag.

@Arcade_Cat_ said:
"I just wish they'd show the hot tub. There's a Hot Tub Stormtrooper in the set, so there's gotta be a hot tub somewhere in there. I guess I won't see it until reviews come out"

The 360 view on the website shows a hollow space in the back with a minikit, but a wall blocks most of the view to see what's going on back there... I think that's supposed to be the hot tub space, which looks like it funnels into the trash compactor?

Wait, no, that same turnaround shows the hot tub trooper on the topmost room, and the minikit space is too hollow to have a tub...

@Derp_Riot said:
"To get the completed set, you must buy at release (GWP). Terrible. This whole thing is so disappointing.."

I don't see the target audience of this set being all that fussed over a 4+ TIE Fighter that doesn't blend in with the scene at all.

Oh, i really dig it! I like the Death Slice!! Actually this is exactly what i wanted for a Death Star set. I don’t want a globe, i can’t house that. I want this. On my wall! It’s just so expensive :-(, so probably not going to get it. But it is in my opinion the best Death Star set so far.

Very impressive, and indeed much easier to display this way. If only I had 1000 euro to spare.
(TIE fighter beging a GWP is an offense though)

@CapnRex101 - when you review, can you talk to the stability? It would seem to be tip heavy, especially for those of us without small moon spaced shelves.

@MegaBlocks said:
"Darth Vader's breathing chamber wasn't even on the Death Star, it was in his Super Star Destroyer."

This what ruins it for me , I can’t get past the decision to have a scene from different film/ship. It’s a crazy decision, makes no sense.

Add to the comments around stickers and min figures, also disappointing for the price.

The gwp is awful for the price point, by comparison the lightsaber with the sail barge last year was great and hugely valuable relative to the set cost. This gwp will be worth £20 for a £900 set? Dreadful by comparison.

I was kind of wanting the sphere but could see the room slice approach working, and parts look really good, but overall huge disappointment. This won’t be on the shelves long it’ll be the worst selling ucs set for a very long time. Lessons will be learnt I’m sure future ones will be much better as a result.

I think it's very good, but for that price - not that I'd ever buy anything near this expensive - it should have top tier figs across the board. The hot tub trooper has dual-molded legs, great, but why not C-3PO and the officers? For a thousand big ones, they should have side leg printing for the stripe on Han Solo's pants and continuing Luke's white garb.

@xoddam said:
"Can people be specific about what they want instead? Do you want a similar sized but fully enclosed Death Star? Cos that would be 10x the price and wouldn't fit on a shelf. Do you want a fully enclosed version for a reasonable price? Cos I don't think that would be able to feature interiors. Do you want 75159 for the third time? That's boring."

I would like a new and updated 10143

I appreciate the design of it, and the want to make a new version for 2025 that separates it from previous versions, and look forward to the review. However, I will stick with my 9676-1. Set 75339-1 retail price was £79.99 - 11x less, but does it all add up?

@MegaBlocks said:
"Disappointing."

"I find your lack of faith disturbing!"

Seriously, have to agree that it's not a lot of set for £900, did think originally they had doubled the radius of the last DS, so the volume would be 8 times the volume.

Alas no. Although having said that, it would be impossible to lift!

Wow, it is an impressive set. But not for me.

No Millennium Falcon in the hangar bay?

I will enjoy visiting the display model at my local Lego store. The small details missing for $1000 are a miss for me.

It's absolutely hysterical that this thing costs £899.99 and you don't even get the whole thing - you need the GWP to complete it.

Over the moon (or space station) that I'm looking at Star Wars in the rear view mirror.

@Zander said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @8BrickMario said:
"Who is the person in purple? Fairly certain I've never seen them before. I feel like I'd remember someone so vibrant standing next to Vader. Is this figure from the Original Trilogy or a Disney project?"

He's one of the Emperor's advisers from Return of the Jedi. Him and several others like him arrive on the Death Star II with Palpatine, and are briefly seen in his Throne Room later.

The purple color on the minifigure is far more muted and toned down on the character in the movie."
He’s called Dave.

"
Oh man, you beat me to it!
;-)

I like this set I love the The fact it has so many figures I don't have however I'm not paying 3 weeks wages for it just to get a new Yularen, Moff Tarkin, and krennic hopefully they plus the Royal Guards will be in a cheaper set soon!

Love the Imperial shuttle but that Gwp Tie fighter isn't the best one I've seen id certainly alter it if ever got my hands on it

I want an updated Ewok Village and Hoth Echo Base next year Lego with a new Tauntaun and Wampa ..

I actually think the diorama slice is a pretty cool idea. I really like the little bit of storytelling it brings. That said, I get why some UCS Star Wars fans might be a bit let down if they were hoping for a full on scale model of the big grey ball. The only real disappointment, yet again, are the stickers. Come on, Lego… at this price, can we please get printed parts.

I do think that the more expensive the kit is, once you hit these hundreds and hundred of pounds sets, the lower the price per piece ought to be, and 10p is only slightly below average for Lego Star Wars. I love the design (looooove it) but man, it would be hard not to feel just a bit ripped off.

$1,000 diorama, I think I'll pass. The piece count says $900, but the actual value feels closer to $500-600. It's essentially dioramas stuck into a $500 shell/slice of the death star.

@xoddam said:
"Can people be specific about what they want instead? Do you want a similar sized but fully enclosed Death Star? Cos that would be 10x the price and wouldn't fit on a shelf. Do you want a fully enclosed version for a reasonable price? Cos I don't think that would be able to feature interiors. Do you want 75159 for the third time? That's boring."

I would’ve rather had a playscale Death Star at 1/5 of this price. Something to pair with 75365. Or a completed midi-scale Death Star meant for display. This is a weird hodgepodge that doesn’t feel satisfying for anyone. I’d also just rather Lego not get comfortable releasing sets this expensive.

And a Hot Tub Trooper battle pack.

It looks awesome. I love the details and the scenes. I think this dollhouse style works just fine. Yes, the round version of the past was neat, but this captures it well I think. But I'll never spend that much on a LEGO set, so it doesn't matter how awesome I think it is.

Bwahaha. HaHaHa. HAA HAAAA HA HA HAAAAaaahh...... oh boy....

Does it come with a sticker book now?

@ohrmazd

He was actually from the LSW video games.

First of all I am not paying a grand for something not being grand, I absolutely see no value here. As people have mentioned, this a glorified, overpriced dollhouse. Or maybe it was stupid of me to expect a full sphere, that you could display closed as a gray ball of destruction, and openable via hinges so you could display the exterior (2 halves beside each other), something like LKC 10305 . Plus the back, which you can see in the interview article looks atrocious.

SW Episode X: The Imperial Death Slice.

Is there a pic of the backside?

No thanks. I'll continue my 10143 rebrick, I'm at 98.58% anyway (yes, I made an Excel sheet to keep track of it).
It took me a decade to get to this point, hunting cheap parts and alternatives, and I probably saved about 50% over buying a second hand copy (I didn't track the changes in values of the parts, just at the time of purchase of them).
You may say I could just buy the remaining parts from BL, but I would have to split into 5-10 orders because no vendor has all of them, and I have to count shipping.

@Studnotontop said: "I would’ve rather had a playscale Death Star at 1/5 of this price. ]

$200 is 40% of the retail price of the last Death Star, and that was (re)released almost 10 years ago now.

What sort of Death Star playset do you really think you are going to get for $200? The trash compactor diorama was $90 and the Throne Room was $100. So $200 gets you essentially two well designed rooms and maybe an extra couple of figures. If you go for smaller rooms, maybe you'll get four. There is no way you'll get anything like a Death Star for that price.
"

Is it at least better than Assault on Hoth?

@The_Cellarer said:
"Look at the size of that thing - it's Emperor Palpatine's Space Station (or at least a slice of it)!"

Cut the chatter Red 2!

The best Easter egg is that Palpatine was originally in bag 67 or 68. So they decided to move some stuff around for the build and put him in bag 66.

Since it's flat, I wonder if you can hang it. Probably not, because of the weight of 9000 bricks, but that would make it an easier buy for me. Although, at a max of €800 for me.

All the comments remind me that time when UCS Cloud City was revealed. And see the prices of that set now. Is a good UCS model, for sure not for all tastes, and it's true that is maybe 20-30% overpriced. But apart from that, is the best way of doing a display Death Star with this level of detail.

I like it, but then I wasn't planning to buy it and didn't have the same expectations. I love the detail and the scenes recreated, and it's far more displayable in "slice" form--good luck getting one of the previous spherical models to fit on a fireplace mantel, for example. Even the SW tax doesn't seem too bad comparing to piece count. I know that's a little inflated these days since we've been getting a lot more small tiles and details, but it still seems "fine". Hopefully people enjoy it. I'm personally done with UCS and have all the models I've ever wanted unless we ever get a TIE Bomber.

No pictures of the outside?

I actually kinda like it, but I'm not spending 1000€ on a Lego Set. That same price nets you some pretty complex Synthesizers and massive TV screens.

@WolfpackBricks63 said:
"Wow. I don't usually complain about dual-molded legs and arm printing (that's MandR's job), but... this set is $1,000. Objectively, every single minifigure should be the best they possibly can to justify that price point. And unfortunately they just don't.

Also that TIE Fighter easily takes the cake for the ugliest LEGO Star Wars set of all time. I'm curious whether they'll have the GWP available for longer than the first week, given how expensive the set is and how few people will probably buy it."

It actually somehow looks worse than even the 4+ Tie Fighter. Kind of an achievment in itself.

I wanted to like it, but I don't. And the GWP is a bad joke.

@Hiratha said:
"… I don’t understand why people keep using doll’s house as an insult on Brickset (not just in this thread). Doll’s houses are super fun to play with and they look nice."

I loved the Playmobil Knights Castle that was actually a dollhouse rethemed I had as a kid alot.

I also have to wonder how TLG is going to explain why the Black Pearl has these prices ($379.99 / £299.99 / €349.99) and then for this set there is no difference between the US and Europe pricing...

I’m sure I’m just projecting my own feelings, but I can’t imagine anyone still caring enough about Star Wars to buy this thing.

Batman cares.

@kyrodes said:
"No pictures of the outside?"
https://images.brickset.com/news/124598_Stardust%206.jpg

That's no moon... That's a black hole in the wallet of SW fans.

@Doctor_Hugh said:
"By far the most expensive in the UK. Using current exchange rates the USD price = £746 and the EUR price = £869, so £900 is just insulting."

Does the US price include tax? The UK one will.

And yet, with all that bashing, in a year or two, 10k AFOLs will be proud owner of this...

This thing is quite big and it is 27cm (10.5 in) thick (I know there is just a small ramp at the bottom for added thickness). All of the important rooms/scenes are present. Easier to display, you don't have to rotate it to see other parts of it. Removing the Tie fighter and giving it as a GWP is incredibly crass. Stickers for a set like that is 'inconceivable'. Minifig selection is excellent - I don't see the spring break storm trooper in the diorama though. Eventually, people will recover from the shock and then start to find the positives - hence the initial comment. If I had the money for this (I assume 1400 in Canada) I would be interested (thus I voted no, it's too expensive). And, Lego can still (re)do an unfinished version of Death Star II and that would not be a duplicate as this one is definitely DS1. As usual, I think Lego will do just fine.

Most expensive slice of pie I've ever seen.

@Tuzi said:
"hahaha I'm so glad I'm not into starwars, a thousand bucks for a display piece? Really?"

true, it is way better to buy 4 overpriced 250€ display pieces....

In itself I don't dislike what I see....my biggest issue is that it just doesn't look like twice the old ones. There's more of everything, but just more doesn't neccessarily make it better. And considering the insane price tag, it should have been the absolute non plus ultra. I just don't see that. If anything, this reminds me mostly of the 75222 Cloud City.

Meanwhile this is a €1000 set. 1000 bucks for just cheap plastic. No motors, no electronics, no lights.....nothing but cheap plastic. Yet still stickers galore. That's obviously nothing new, but at this price point it feels all the more egregious. And to add insult to injury, to truly have have the complete thing, you have to it directly from Lego at full RRP, otherwise that missing GWP will always leave a gap. Isn't that just the biggest middle finger Lego ever shown their customers?

I'm not the biggest SW fan (though my ever growing droid collection might suggest otherwise), but in case of something like the Millennium Falcon, I could totally see the appeal. That felt like the designers got free rein, and the marketing department followed. In this case it feels like exactly the other way around: Just make something that somewhat resembles the Death Star, can be sold for 1000 bucks but cut every corner imaginable to keep production cost low. Even if the promotional videos might suggest otherwise, I can't imagine the designers being truly happy with this.

@Crux said:
" @Hiratha said:
"… I don’t understand why people keep using doll’s house as an insult on Brickset (not just in this thread). Doll’s houses are super fun to play with and they look nice."

Dollhouses for life. I don't understand why some people insist on converting <10228 into a modular, but those people are forever uninvited to my birthday."

I'm working on a Haunted House rebuild project, one aspect of which is planning to have its interior access *both* ways. I like the dollhouse aspect a lot, but there are aspects of planning it top-down that are also valuable to me (like the fireplace being allowed to be placed well when the house is closed or being able to view the attic ladder touching floor minifigures can actually stand on) and it'll be fun to be able to see the house's floors in one piece as well as having more of a minifig's-eye view in dollhouse mode.

@iwybs said:
"First off, this would be an absolutely amazing MOC at a convention. I can imagine this winning big awards at Brick Slopes or Brick Fair Virginia.

But not every concept that makes a good MOC makes a good retail set. I don't think this makes a good retail set. It's too big and too disconnected from the rest of the retail lineup, and too many corners have been cut in its budget and production. Furthermore, something like this makes sense as a halo product to cap off a full lineup of retail playsets, but there are very few OT playsets on Shop-at-Home right now. The gap between a $1000 Death Star, a $160 Imperial Star Destroyer, and a $80 Desert Skiff (itself terrifically overpriced) is a microcosm of income inequality in America - and the world at large - today.

It's great to make one big Death Star set all in one go, but not without affordable Death Star playsets to go with it. "

I really doubt people that buy this will be in the market for small playsets to go with it. It is pretty much complete by itself and adding more smaller sets to it would just add clutter. It wouldn't surprise me if some businesses buy this, pay someone to assemble it, then put it behind glass as a display piece.

I think the point of it is that it is big and expensive. If the did a slightly smaller one at the high end of current UCS sets, say $800, I doubt it would get quite the same press and online chatter or people wanting to see it as the first $1000 set.

@AustinPowers said:
" @Zander said:
" @BabuBrick said:
" @8BrickMario said:
"Who is the person in purple? Fairly certain I've never seen them before. I feel like I'd remember someone so vibrant standing next to Vader. Is this figure from the Original Trilogy or a Disney project?"

He's one of the Emperor's advisers from Return of the Jedi. Him and several others like him arrive on the Death Star II with Palpatine, and are briefly seen in his Throne Room later.

The purple color on the minifigure is far more muted and toned down on the character in the movie."
He’s called Dave.

"
Oh man, you beat me to it!
;-) "

Moff Dave, I think you mean.

@CCC said:
"I really doubt people that buy this will be in the market for small playsets to go with it. It is pretty much complete by itself and adding more smaller sets to it would just add clutter. It wouldn't surprise me if some businesses buy this, pay someone to assemble it, then put it behind glass as a display piece.

I think the point of it is that it is big and expensive. If the did a slightly smaller one at the high end of current UCS sets, say $800, I doubt it would get quite the same press and online chatter or people wanting to see it as the first $1000 set. "

I meant "to go with it" in the sense of "being sold alongside it", not so much in the sense of "to expand the set itself". Using the Hogwarts example again, the playsets went with the D2C UCS castle in the sense of being part of a full retail lineup, but they didn't "go with it" in the sense of expanding the build. Sorry for the confusing phrasing.

So for 3896 parts I can get Death Star sphere ( 75159 - probably one of the best loved SW sets) but for an extra 5127 parts I can’t?

Also, I don't know who was running Lego’s 75419 Death Star focus group, but they seriously need to consider their career choices.

But where is goldbug now?
Or in this case StyleCounselor?

@Hiratha said:
"… I don’t understand why people keep using doll’s house as an insult on Brickset (not just in this thread). Doll’s houses are super fun to play with and they look nice."

In this particular instance, it's a derogatory term because dollhouses and model kits are two different things, and they're selling a dollhouse in their model kit line. Nobody serious hates dollhouse-style builds for play even if they prefer clamshell builds, they work well for roleplay and as a cut-away display, but selling adult Star Wars model kit builders on a thousand-dollar dollhouse is a market mismatch.

@xoddam said:
"Can people be specific about what they want instead? Do you want a similar sized but fully enclosed Death Star? Cos that would be 10x the price and wouldn't fit on a shelf. Do you want a fully enclosed version for a reasonable price? Cos I don't think that would be able to feature interiors. Do you want 75159 for the third time? That's boring."

Well, I'd much prefer 75159 for the third time, or at least a spherical shell in front that could open up to expose the diorama/minifigure display. Sadly, such a shell would probably be very fragile unless it were extremely thick, and the minifigure display would have to be reduced, which would be sad. As an assembly of vignettes, it's very handsome. As a representation of the Death Star--it isn't.

The way the Harry Potter sets have been handled almost from the start works very well to capture an enormous construction with many, many important details. Count me among those who would have preferred something along those lines for a suitably impressive Death Star!

@transamman6585 said:
" @The_Cellarer said:
"Look at the size of that thing - it's Emperor Palpatine's Space Station (or at least a slice of it)!"

Cut the chatter Red 2!"

Great shot kid, that was one in a million!

@CCC said:
"They aren't focusing on whales in the adult market. There are multiple hundreds of different sets available, many at much lower price points. This set existing, or other sets aimed at adults, does not change that. There are more sets aimed at children now than when I was a child, and I reckon most children now have way more LEGO than the average child when I was a kid. LEGO can be more than a toy aimed at children while still being primarily a toy aimed at children."

Of course, that's true overall - just not within the specific IP of OT Star Wars. In that specific niche, 18+ sculptures and other gimmicks have been notably crowding out retail playsets in the past few years. Case in point, the 75353 Endor Speeder Bikes diorama from 2023 that was an $80 18+ set with fragile display-focused models when the last regular Endor speeder bikes playsets were 7956 and 9489 in 2011 and 2012, and before that in 8038 in 2009. In this case, the resources put into the 75149 Death Star most likely do use up all the budget for OT playsets for a couple of years.

But now I'm starting to complain about under-representation of a certain niche IP (a fairly popular niche IP, but still a niche IP) compared to other niche IPs, and that can get pretty tiresome pretty quickly. We all want our favorite IPs (or non-licensed set concepts or niches) to get both good playsets and good display sets, and obviously there's not enough resources to satisfy everyone. So it's just a question of priorities and interests (shrug emoji)

As a person who does not like Star Wars at all, I find the looks of this set nice to look at. As a Lego set, it looks like a very annoying build that you'll end up hating by the end of it, GWP is weird and not needed and the price tag is beyond talking about. Still, it's Lego and Star Wars, so it'll sell well and TLG will be happy.

Archive, and move on to next week's 18+ set.

I had pre-ordered the upcoming Game Boy set but I just cancelled it because I no longer wish to support this company. I am officially done.

I have a sudden craving for deep pan pizza…

@MisterBrickster said:
" @Hiratha said:
"… I don’t understand why people keep using doll’s house as an insult on Brickset (not just in this thread). Doll’s houses are super fun to play with and they look nice."

There's a pretty obvious and depressing answer."

If I can toss my own two cents into the ring, I think part of it has to do with the contrast between this and a dollhouse. This is meant to be more of a collector’s item you display rather than play with, but a design like this is more for something you would play with.

But do those who have $1,000 to blow on a decoration really want to play with something like this? This feee like it’s marketed to the complete opposite audience of a dollhouse. Dollhouses are (relatively) inexpensive ways to make a large toy packed with features for tons of play. This is big, expensive, and being sold to a crowd that would rather look at their favorite scenes rather than re-create or make new scenarios.

It’s $1250 here.
We’re moving on.

In the end you buy a few small diorama's that are but together on a shelf.
The shelf being made of Lego makes this an obscenely expensive set and there is no value in it.
Skip.

I'm absolutely not the target audience for either this or the various things a lot of you wish it was instead, but can I just say I'm confused by the idea that the GWP is vitally important to the build?

Not to be a pendant, but isn't this Death Star really an amalgam of 2 different space stations pretending to have been the same?

@MisterBrickster said:
" @Hiratha said:
"… I don’t understand why people keep using doll’s house as an insult on Brickset (not just in this thread). Doll’s houses are super fun to play with and they look nice."

There's a pretty obvious and depressing answer."

I agree. I hope it doesn’t apply, of course.

@PixelTheDragon said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
" @Hiratha said:
"… I don’t understand why people keep using doll’s house as an insult on Brickset (not just in this thread). Doll’s houses are super fun to play with and they look nice."

There's a pretty obvious and depressing answer."

If I can toss my own two cents into the ring, I think part of it has to do with the contrast between this and a dollhouse. This is meant to be more of a collector’s item you display rather than play with, but a design like this is more for something you would play with.

But do those who have $1,000 to blow on a decoration really want to play with something like this? This feee like it’s marketed to the complete opposite audience of a dollhouse. Dollhouses are (relatively) inexpensive ways to make a large toy packed with features for tons of play. This is big, expensive, and being sold to a crowd that would rather look at their favorite scenes rather than re-create or make new scenarios. "

Doll’s houses have always included versions that are aimed at adults for display. The history and present of both adult and children’s doll’s houses is really quite fascinating and worth a look, even if all you look at is the pictures.

But even if that wasn’t the case, if the problem was that people felt this kit (and other kits which have attracted similar comments) was a bad or poorly aimed doll’s house, then the phrasing wouldn’t typically be along the lines of “glorified doll’s house” or “just a doll’s house”. Those are comments that suggest there’s something wrong with being a doll’s house.

@Andrusi said:
"I'm absolutely not the target audience for either this or the various things a lot of you wish it was instead, but can I just say I'm confused by the idea that the GWP is vitally important to the build?"

Yes. I think the GWP is cute and a fun addition, but I imagine there’s a not inconsiderable portion of Star Wars fans who would prefer it without the GWP to let the fun star backdrop shine a bit more and give room for the minifigs to breathe. I think if I had both I’d probably remove it sometimes to change the display.

I feel like the term "compact foundation" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for this thing, whatever marketing exec came up with that one deserves a pat on the back, preferably in front of an open window.

And who the heck is that purple guy Palpy's hanging out with? I don't remember seein' them in Return of the Jedi, or is that a new special-er Disney edition feature?

@SideSalad said:
"I feel like the term "compact foundation" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for this thing, whatever marketing exec came up with that one deserves a pat on the back, preferably in front of an open window.

And who the heck is that purple guy Palpy's hanging out with? I don't remember seein' them in Return of the Jedi, or is that a new special-er Disney edition feature?"

No, that character was in the original film. Look up “Emperor’s Adviser” on wookieepedia and you’ll them with their buddies. Their appearance is extremely brief but I always liked them, the costumes are fun.

It's going to be hard for me to justify purchasing this. I collect UCS Star Wars sets, but the fact that it's not really a UCS Death Star (despite the UCS label) is probably going to be the deciding factor in me passing this up. In a vacuum, I generally like it for what it is. It looks cool and could make a great display piece. But it is not what I wanted out of a $1000 UCS Death Star, and for that reason (and that price) it's probably not going to be something I'm picking up.

It's kind of crazy to me that despite the insane price for this set they didn't even bother giving dual-molded legs to Han or the imperial officers.

When I started hearing the rumors about this set, I started savings. Haven't bought any of the August sets yet. I am also going to sell my 10188 to help pay for some of this. 10188 is a better toy / playset, while this new set is I feel a better display piece for adult collectors.

WTF! Bi-annual April Fools perhaps?!

I appreciate the time and effort the team spent on this but, in a broad sense, I feel they totally missed what we, their customers - and fans - wanted.

We were excited to see an updated version of the old Death Star. It would have made a lot of people happy. They’ve said it would have been too expensive to have interiors and covering plates - but it wouldn’t have had to be this big.

The more I look at this the worse it gets - small dioramas and big empty spaces, poorly laid out, non-premium figs, stickers. So disappointing…

@Hiratha said:
"No, that character was in the original film."

I really, really didn't remember those guys, then.

@SideSalad said:
" @Hiratha said:
"No, that character was in the original film."

I really, really didn't remember those guys, then."

The appearance is extremely brief so I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

Halve the price.
Then we're talking.
There is no world where a slice of Death Star is worth 1000 bucks.
This is a wall decoration. Do people pay 1000€ for a single wall decoration?
I don't think this set is a disaster per se, it is a cute idea, and it's got a lot of minifigs.
But it's nowhere near worth the price tag. If I pay 1000€ for a LEGO Death Star, I'd expect it to be the whole thing, not just a slice of it.
As the first 1000-buck LEGO set, it's very disappointing.

@Alemas said:
"This is a wall decoration. Do people pay 1000€ for a single wall decoration?"
Not even that actually.....as it's not entirely flat at the back, it has pieces (particularly the throne room) jutting out. So forget about hanging it against a wall.

I feel that's quite the missed opportunity....though I can imagine the weight of the thing being a reason for that.

Still baffled by the design choices on the TIE Fighter GWP. Microfighter proportions, the central cockpit is more bloated than it has to be for a miniaturized companion to a larger set while still holding a minifigure (check: 75251 75159 10188), I know from MOCing experience that the "espresso pot" on 2L technic pin technique they're using will be needlessly loose (why not just use a 3L bar??), the lack of complete trim around the panels (while techniques are limited at this scale) is a regression on the standards for adult-targeted TIEs, the red interior parts that leak into the exterior (if they want to pass them off as the red glow from the "chin cannons," tell that to the measly handle piece attached flimisly underneath), the dish on top doesn't follow the curvature well so it looks more like a skullcap, and I'm pretty sure that the pod in the middle isn't spherical - I think the front and back dishes are thinner than they should be, which the angles of the stock photos conspicuously leave ambiguous. If you don't have it in your copy of the $1000 set, there's a gaping hole, but actually putting it in the whole diorama makes it look worse with its cheap proportions and build. There is no winning.

I know it's technically a freebie, but it's your "gift" for buying the $1000 main set, I don't think you can get it separately for smaller purchases, so that makes it effectively the TIE Fighter LEGO thinks you deserve for a $1000 purchase. Just to add more on top of the mountain of salt in the cut corners...

Oohh... six stormtroopers, plus another two with the GWP.

An inexpensive army builder ;o)

@WizardOfOss said:
" @Alemas said:
"This is a wall decoration. Do people pay 1000€ for a single wall decoration?"
Not even that actually.....as it's not entirely flat at the back, it has pieces (particularly the throne room) jutting out. So forget about hanging it against a wall.

I feel that's quite the missed opportunity....though I can imagine the weight of the thing being a reason for that."

By "wall decoration" I actually meant something you put on a shelf flat against the wall! ;)

@Alemas said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
" @Alemas said:
"This is a wall decoration. Do people pay 1000€ for a single wall decoration?"
Not even that actually.....as it's not entirely flat at the back, it has pieces (particularly the throne room) jutting out. So forget about hanging it against a wall.

I feel that's quite the missed opportunity....though I can imagine the weight of the thing being a reason for that."

By "wall decoration" I actually meant something you put on a shelf flat against the wall! ;)"

Still....won't quite work unless you're okay with it being a few centimeters removed from the wall.
(and looking at said wall from the throne room)

Inflate the price and number of pieces so it is the most expensive, big... Star wars set ever.
This is pure marketing genius! Or pure marketing bullsh!t depending on your point of view.

After 15 years of collecting Star Wars I am definitively out.
It's not the first time, I stopped buying Technic sets several years ago when the second model was dropped and power functions required a smartphone.

:clown emoji:

@elangab said:
"As a person who does not like Star Wars at all, I find the looks of this set nice to look at. As a Lego set, it looks like a very annoying build that you'll end up hating by the end of it, GWP is weird and not needed and the price tag is beyond talking about. Still, it's Lego and Star Wars, so it'll sell well and TLG will be happy.

Archive, and move on to next week's 18+ set."

And that set should help answer the question of "Who would win in a fight between the Death Star and the Enterprise?"

Lego just jumped the shark

@Alemas said:
"Do people pay 1000€ for a single wall decoration?"

I know you must not have been thinking about them at all, but briefly entertaining the possibility that some Lego fans might not have heard of paintings did make me laugh. :)

Lots of problems here, but the one that bothers me most is the decision to make this a mashup of both Death Stars instead of just first. The first film's plot actually revolves around the Death Star and a good chunk of the story takes place there. This is not at all the case with Return of the Jedi, and yet the two biggest sections of this model are dedicated to it. But overall it just makes it feel disjointed and weird. There are at least a couple wasted or empty spaces, and the meditation chamber doesn't belong at all. Keeping it to the New Hope version only would have made for a better display while also giving the option for a lower piece count/price and/or a spherical or half-sphere design.

The figs suck. Fire the head of Lego SW!!

Not really sure where to put the rest of it.

@ELbricker said:
"It does not deserve any of those milestone titles."

Well said. In all the discussion of this thing over the past month, I don't think I've seen this very valid argument angle yet.

Not even a star wars fan, let alone a lego star wars fan, but this looks terrible. 999 dollars is absurd you may as well just build your own.

@MegaBlocks said:
" @Beren_Luthien said:
"Who is the guy in a green uniform standing next to Director Krennic on the display plaque?"

Le Chiffre."

Jurgen Voller from Indiana Jones and the Dial Of Destiny.

the next Cloud City. Wont sell well initially but will double/triple in value when its retired by 2027.

I have 0 star wars sets, and I'm not interested in starting collecting them. But I'm trying to look at this as if it was a theme I was into.
Then it's like an art piece. Loads of little details and references to the theme, displayed nicely in a frame that's in itself a reference to the theme. That sounds great! But, because it was marketed as a Death Star set, I would have been disappointed. It should simply have been called something else to set expectations right.
I think the biggest problem is that the source material doesn't lend itself to brick form. Because of that, I (even if I continue to pretend I'm into the theme) didn't like the previous Death Stars either.
First, it's a sphere. Sure, spheres can be made from Lego, it's even a classic challenge. But then storing and displaying one is a bit awkward, especially the larger it gets. And if it's to have an interior, it's always going to be a challenge to make it accessible.
Secondly, the "real" Death Star is ridiculously huge, so a model can't be made in actual minifig-scale, or it would be more than 3km in size! Yeah... So then it has to be some form of nano-scale, or be made cartoonishly deformed. This set looks like it's mixing scales in order to make it minifig-compatable, which I'm not a fan of. And what little there is of the exterior, lacks detail.
Then there's the price point, coupled with stickers and far from top-quality figures. So I can understand the outrage.
And finally it's topped off with a GWP that is purely and specifically for a certain set. That should just be part of the set then. Why ship those bricks in a separate box? Again, especially considering that price point.
Anyway, I was never going to buy it. But if you genuinely like it and can afford it, I say go for it, you deserve it. It may not be a Death Star, but it's kinda cool if you see it for what it is. But please, for all of us, don't show TLG that idiots will spend 1000 bucks on something they don't truly like through-and-through.

I had high hopes for an updated 10143 (which is crazy expensive on the after market), even as the first death star, but no such luck. The sliced diorama look is not my cup of tea. A full death star sphere would have much more visual interest, and a conversation starter for anybody seeing it on display.

Man that is a lot of Castle Parts mixed in with Space Parts.

Good thing All Parts Are Space Parts!

I think I love the idea of these giant sets more than the sets themselves. I REALLY want a UCS Falcon. But I have no place to display it properly. I don’t even have a place to display it out of the way! It would need to be inside a piece of furniture or something.

But at least with this I could maybe build a shelf somewhere on a wall. Maybe. But my wife already said no, LEGO. You’ve got to convince her!

I’m fine with the dollhouse attempt here. IMO, they did well with the similar though horizontal Cloud City dollhouse. But $350 is much easier to accept than $1000, especially with all the shortcuts taken and the lack of any type of closed display aspect.

I could get SEVERAL high dollar sets from my wishlist or the ENTIRE AMAZING BLDP SERIES 6.

I kinda want this but I just don’t see how it would ever be worth it. Too bad because I really really wanted that 4+ Tie fighter. ;o)

I'm predicting most reviewers / influencers / apologists that receive it for free from LEGO will praise it, only really mentioning the price as a weak and laughable attempt at making themselves appear credible and unbiased.

The truth is it's nowhere even close to justifying the price. If someone is willing to drop that amount of money at once on something such as this, I'd expect it to provide an excess of value to the point of being a bargain--checking every box imaginable and capturing the Death Star in every form seen onscreen, including its spherical shape from the outside. In fact, I'd even go as far as proclaim I'd expect LEGO to make next to zero profit from it.

The fact that it only appears to be a slice of the Death Star presented in the format of a dollhouse composed of dioramas LEGO has previously visited numerous times is incredibly disappointing and uninspiring, to say the least.

The apparent inclusion of stickers is especially mind-boggling. Imagine spending enough money to purchase a moped and then being informed you need to paint and apply the factory decals and warning labels yourself, all of which are included in the box. It's absolutely mental.

Thankfully, I am not a Star Wars fan but as a LEGO fan, I can't help but allow myself to become further convinced that LEGO is no longer the incredible company it once was. Now it's just an ordinary business like any other--the ideals of Ole Kirk long dead and only now preached in the form of empty words, without any legitimate understanding to their meaning or value, falling lifeless upon the ground the very instant they leave the collective lips of the LEGO company.

@yellowcastle said:

I could get SEVERAL high dollar sets from my wishlist or the ENTIRE AMAZING BLDP SERIES 6.

No you can't, the total for BLDP is $1110. This is what I am doing. Lego can keep the Death Star and I'll get all of series 6 which is a much better deal as far as I'm concerned.

This is essentially about a dozen vignettes made into a death star facade, with Lego asking $1,000 for it. And many of those vignettes have been their own sets before. It's just not good whatsoever.

The designers seem pleasant enough and the assertion that the absence of dual molded legs for instance is because they are given set criteria to work within-a trade off between number of figures and new features, is mind boggling in a $1000 set.

That stickers are used is frankly an insult at this price.

But worst of all is a GWP that forms an integral part of the set. If I were to be buying this I’d need the GWP for completeness sake. It is maddening to have a GWP specifically designed to fit this highly expensive set.

The set itself is interesting and I can at least applaud them for trying something new. But it doesn’t blow me away and doesn’t represent what a Death Star model should be-it’s spherical shape is so fundamental to its nature that any model should also be spherical. It also looks ugly from behind.

Sadly a big no from me.

It is not detailed or attractive enough to serve as decoration for an adult collector (as previous dioramas did), but it is too expensive and not even particularly good as a playset for childrens. For example, the little ships are ridiculous; the 4+ Tie Fighter was a lot better. Meanwhile, the figures lack the detail expected in 2025, especially in this price range. The figure selection is also highly questionable in many places. At the moment, I can't imagine buying this.

By the way, I'm glad that the GWP turned out to be so lame. FOMO would have been much more frustrating if they had given away a cool, exclusive minifigure that would have cost €600 on the secondary market.

For half the price I would get it :)

@The_Boba_Brick said:
"I had pre-ordered the upcoming Game Boy set but I just cancelled it because I no longer wish to support this company. I am officially done. "

*flounce*

Wow, could you be any more over dramatic.

It has so much stuff in it. Impressive. If I had 1000$ to spend, I'ld love it on my wall. But let's face it, it's no Picasso.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @Alia_of_AGL said:
"I know it's technically a freebie, but it's your "gift" for buying the $1000 main set, I don't think you can get it separately for smaller purchases, so that makes it effectively the TIE Fighter LEGO thinks you deserve for a $1000 purchase. Just to add more on top of the mountain of salt in the cut corners..."
It's a Tie-in Fighter!"

Our German neighbours have the word "fremdschämen", which I guess we would call "plaatsvervangende schaamte". Google suggests "vicarious embarassment" as the English phrase.

There needs to be the opposite as well. I'm just so proud FOR you right now. I am beaming with how proud I am of the comment you just made. I am going to call this "fremdstolz".

10/10, no notes.

@oldtodd33 said:
" @yellowcastle said:

I could get SEVERAL high dollar sets from my wishlist or the ENTIRE AMAZING BLDP SERIES 6.

No you can't, the total for BLDP is $1110. This is what I am doing. Lego can keep the Death Star and I'll get all of series 6 which is a much better deal as far as I'm concerned.
"

Yes I can. You’re not my dad.

when this becomes available at other retailers it will soon be discounted at 30-40% as the number of sales will be very limited (other ucs sets also get these discounts regularly in our area)