If only I had yellow Han Solo... I have everyone else, even the Emperor.

Han shoots... never. Even his holster appears empty. Maybe he's supposed to be Jabba's prisoner to fit with the Ep 6 theme, but SW0015 from the same year is the Jabba-arc accurate figure. I guess they wanted to have an exclusive (at the time) figure so they changed his pants. Overall it's a bizzarre situation.

@Norikins said:
"Han shoots... never. Even his holster appears empty. Maybe he's supposed to be Jabba's prisoner to fit with the Ep 6 theme, but SW0015 from the same year is the Jabba-arc accurate figure. I guess they wanted to have an exclusive (at the time) figure so they changed his pants. Overall it's a bizzarre situation."

The longest running argument in all of Star Wars.

@Maxbricks14:
This set can't afford a Cloud City Boba Fett.

@Norikins:
Well, yeah, but your holster _would_ be empty after you've drawn your gun to shot, wouldn't it?

And these are the last standalone Star Wars minifigure packs for decades, since Hasbro owns the exclusive rights for SW action figures, and that somehow affects Lego minifigures too.

I love these sets, as they got me out of the Dark Ages and back into Lego again. I was on honeymoon in Brussels and found four different sets in a comic shop An instant buy, and years of collecting ensued!

Every time these sets come up I lament not buying the whole lot when I saw them in Legand Windsor as a child. This and the copper kanohi pack.

@MCLegoboy said:
"A set of 3 minifigures being this expensive in the aftermarket is outrageous. But in all honesty, it's more the limited release and the cards that people are really paying for. I'll probably never complete my collection of these guys I accidentally started when I received 3340 and 3342 in a bulk lot that was gifted to me."

Not just limited release, iirc you could only order this off the Lego site online. The consumer internet still was really new in 2000, only a small amount of people had acess to it, and most likely didn't understand online orders. I also imagine alot of people prefered mail order, due to it being what they already were familair with. The Rahi Creator Kit from 2002 Bionicle has the same reason for its rarity.

Boba Fett? Boba Fett where!?

If people hadn't pointed out the different pants color on Solo I never would have guessed.
This Luke is interesting in that the hooded version only appeared 3 years later again in Jabba's Palace. The hoodless version did appear in 2000 though.

Something interesting to observe here: There is no transparent 1x1 on Boba's blaster. This was actually the norm for both him and Han in the earliest years of the theme, I guess designers wanted to differentiate blasters at least a little bit.

My brother had this one--while I had the somewhat more awesome Sith one (Vader, Maul, Sidious). I already had Boba and 7104, so I had all these characters, though the Han and Jedi Luke were clearly superior to my 7104 copies. It would take another six months before I'd have saved up enough to get 7190, at which point at least I had a comparably detailed Han (and, you know, enough of a Millennium Falcon to have regained "primary Han" rights).

I've since picked up what is probably parts of this set, since I got the bases and a brown-legged Han. He'd be languishing on a shelf somewhere had I not got recognisable bits to 10123 this past summer. He and my 20th Anniversary Lando have since moved with with a stolen stormtrooper to join the Princess Leia that was the sole fig that I got out of the set. It's not at all the "real" thing, but you might not notice at FIRST glance.

I found one of those baseplates in a used lego store pick by the pound pile of lego and wondered where it was from. Now I know!

@Atuin said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"A set of 3 minifigures being this expensive in the aftermarket is outrageous. But in all honesty, it's more the limited release and the cards that people are really paying for. I'll probably never complete my collection of these guys I accidentally started when I received 3340 and 3342 in a bulk lot that was gifted to me."

Oddly the card is among the least expensive parts in Chief from (basically) the same series.

Oh and be careful bout those cards - the stands will leave permanent indents on them over time.

Also I think the old brown Han Solo legs were exclusive to this and the waaay more expensive Cloud City (I guess he's the exclusive minifig promised in the catalogue...). Funny I got this only because it was the cheapest way to get Boba Fett in 2000..."

Luke with the hood and cloak were also unique when this was released.

@Pekingduckman said:
"And these are the last standalone Star Wars minifigure packs for decades, since Hasbro owns the exclusive rights for SW action figures, and that somehow affects Lego minifigures too."

That's odd. Lego has produced big buildable Action figures from Star Wars in the last couple of years. Besides there are standalone starwars minifigs added to monthly magazines and books.

I have a bad feeling about 2025…

This and 3340 Sith are the only two of these Star Wars packs that I own... but they were also amongst the first Star Wars things I got. I've mentioned before that 7121 Naboo Swamp was my very first Lego Star Wars set, before I had ever seen a SW movie or knew much about them - I just thought it looked a set with very cool minifigures! - but this was a year or maybe two later, after I'd started picking at the Star Wars movies for real. My horrendously out-of-order watching progress stared with Return of the Jedi, which not only got me hooked but also meant that I knew who five out of the six minifigures from these packs were, packs which I'd seen advertised in the Christmas-2000 Shop-@-Home catalogue, and / or the website.

For someone who was only just poking a toe into the franchise, these minifigure packs of major characters were an IDEAL starting point at a cheap price - £6 for three minifigures! My parents ordered me those two packs, because I couldn't decide which one I liked more, and the figures have been very, very well played with over the years. My only regret at the time was not being able to get the Chewbacca pack as well; but my parents didn't think that one was as good value due to the other two minifigures being identical to each other, so I never did get that one, and wouldn't acquire a Lego Chewie until 7260 Wookiee Catamaran some years later.

To my regret I no longer have the display cards, which are these days an uncomfortably expensive prospect to replace on Bricklink; only Luke's is available cheaper than the original price of the set, and none from the UK at all. I'm also down a Boba; when I had three minifigures of him from various sets, I traded two of them away when I was younger because I saw no value in duplicate minifigures, only keeping the one from my 6209 Slave I. As much as I'd like to re-complete this set, I'm under no illusions that I'll find a classic-greys Boba for anything even remotely resembling an affordable price...!

As a kid, I was a bit frustrated that this Luke had the hood. I get that it makes him a unique version, but he wore it so briefly in the movie (plus I already had identical hoods from Maul and Palps in the other set!), that I would have preferred a hairpiece for him. I would often steal the wig from the green player in 3401-2 to give Luke hair instead... given what I said about Obi in yesterday's set, this must sound like a running trend with me, but it really was only those two I did it with!

This hooded Luke (or rather his fleshie equivalent) also had the curious distinction of appearing in the Lego Star Wars II video game... but the single cutscene that showed him wearing the hood as he arrived in Jabba's Palace, before discarding it, didn't actually trigger when playing that level of the game (instead you just open a door at one point and Luke's there and joins you with no particular fanfare), and could only be found by accessing the cutscenes through the in-game shop interface.

I remember seeing this in the catalog, not remembering the ~30 seconds where Luke wears a hood in ROTJ, and wondering if they'd made a mistake and had Luke dress like the Emperor for some reason.

I don't know if this was a case of Lego Shop at Home shuffling unsold stock to a brick and mortar retailer after a certain period of time, but I bought this, 3340 , and the City pack 3350 at KB Toys in 2002.

Although now that I think about it, it may have been a KB Toy Liquidators, which would seem to make the most sense in this scenario. I don't remember which store it was, and my usual stomping grounds used to have four KB locations within less than an hour's travel.

Basically, this set and it's three counterparts were Star Wars collectable minifigures.

Imagine if TLG did that today...

@Pekingduckman said:
"And these are the last standalone Star Wars minifigure packs for decades, since Hasbro owns the exclusive rights for SW action figures, and that somehow affects Lego minifigures too."

And, thanks to Hasbro's objection of these, we then got the "birth" of the battlepack!

Probably why they have never featured as a CMF Series yet, despite the persistent rumours of one coming...

Given the price of Hasbro action figures nowadays, even the $10 budget ones with limited articulation, LEGO minfigs would still be considered a threat to their sales.

I got these sets while visiting LEGOland Billund. I think I emptied the wall.
They only had 1 copy of this particular set.
I went back to the store several times during my stay, but it was never replenished.

Classic. I got the Chewbacca version of this set from a bulk box with the cards in near mint condition. I thought they were fake until the set made RSotD.

I have one of these for sale in my Bricklink store that has not moved in over a year. They do have the slightest cracks in the arms (which I disclose in the description). So that is probably why. Maybe I need to drop the price too….

@winbrant said:
"Probably why they have never featured as a CMF Series yet, despite the persistent rumours of one coming..."

That's no different than the persistent rumors that Hasbro had anything to do with the line's cancellation, despite the utter lack of proof to corroborate that theory. In truth, they probably sold terribly at the time, but later on they would have been seen as a threat to the theme's success. By 2009, they figured out that unique and exclusive minifigs would help drive sales of sets, at which point something like this would undercut sales if you could acquire the same minifigs without having to buy the rest of the set.

I remember the day clearly when these were like 5€ in the Lego Shop.

And I thought: Nah, don’t need them.