@CaptainRogerRedbeard said:
"I love how the price for a used sealed copy (per this article) is substantially lower than the most recent version"

Used...sealed? So you take it apart and glue the box shut?

@Jo3K3rr:
And it's not truly complete unless there's arm printing with the mismatched gauntlets. Man, that seems weird that they haven't done this outfit more. Hasbro was the other way for a long time, only producing the Ep6 version, and only producing the Ep5 version as part of a two-pack with IG-88, I believe. I prefer Ep6's armor, but I ended up splitting a second copy of that two-pack with someone I knew in college because I wanted that specific version of Boba Fett to customize an action figure of Jodo Kast from some appearance in something Dark Horse published around that time.

@GarSaxon said:
"I loved this set so much I bought 6 on sale back in 2012. I recall 6876 Boba to be a pretty cool version. The leg printing, backpack, and cape are nice, even more so for 2012. If this version of Boba had arm printing, it might have been considered one of best Boba ever."

What's the reason for having 6 of these? *scratches head*

I love collecting Bubba Feets, so of course that includes various renditions of the Sarlacc pit. But dang these prices aren’t getting a bit ridiculous.

I’m in no hurry to get the most recent one, even though it looks great.

@BabuBrick said:
"Love this set! This is from right around when I started getting into LEGO, so I'm very nostalgic for it. I have this proudly on display alongside 75005 and 75020 on my shelf. It's still my favorite LEGO Sarlacc, actually."

Yes. This. However, I have two of these with a moc-ed up Sarlacc pit, 9516, and a moc armory under the gatehouse to fully support it.

I also have a few prison cells leading from a moc of a droid torture room where EV-9D9 holds dominion.

@StyleCounselor said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"Love this set! This is from right around when I started getting into LEGO, so I'm very nostalgic for it. I have this proudly on display alongside 75005 and 75020 on my shelf. It's still my favorite LEGO Sarlacc, actually."

Yes. This. However, I have two of these with a moc-ed up Sarlacc pit, 9516, and a moc armory under the gatehouse to fully support it.

I also have a few prison cells leading from a moc of a droid torture room where EV-9D9 holds dominion. "

I hope they make a new EV-9D9 someday. He's got a cool design.

I know it’s just supposed to be the huge of a chest, but man it really looks like those tiles in the middle of the craft are designed for catapulting people right into the sarlaac

I bought this set when it came out a couple of years ago. But, this article says it was 13 years ago, that can’t be right.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I hate it when Lego themselves displays minifigures with the lightsaber hilt backwards."

can you explain which side of the lightsaber hilt is the front and back

There was a remake of this set for the anniversary

My favourite version. Simple is sometimes better

@yodaloop said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"Love this set! This is from right around when I started getting into LEGO, so I'm very nostalgic for it. I have this proudly on display alongside 75005 and 75020 on my shelf. It's still my favorite LEGO Sarlacc, actually."

Yes. This. However, I have two of these with a moc-ed up Sarlacc pit, 9516, and a moc armory under the gatehouse to fully support it.

I also have a few prison cells leading from a moc of a droid torture room where EV-9D9 holds dominion. "

I hope they make a new EV-9D9 someday. He's got a cool design."

Truly overdue.

@theguru1974 said:
" @GarSaxon said:
"I loved this set so much I bought 6 on sale back in 2012. I recall 6876 Boba to be a pretty cool version. The leg printing, backpack, and cape are nice, even more so for 2012. If this version of Boba had arm printing, it might have been considered one of best Boba ever."

What's the reason for having 6 of these? *scratches head*"

I also bought multiples of this when it was sold off at half price. I bought 8. 4 got sold at Christmas to pay for the whole order. The figures of three more sets got sold too, Boba was a particularly good seller. With the parts of four sets you can make a skiff almost twice as long and wider to fit all the becessary figures and make Sarlacc have more tentacles.

Crazy how back then this was only the third Skiff. Personally own this one.

@yodaloop said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"Love this set! This is from right around when I started getting into LEGO, so I'm very nostalgic for it. I have this proudly on display alongside 75005 and 75020 on my shelf. It's still my favorite LEGO Sarlacc, actually."

Yes. This. However, I have two of these with a moc-ed up Sarlacc pit, 9516, and a moc armory under the gatehouse to fully support it.

I also have a few prison cells leading from a moc of a droid torture room where EV-9D9 holds dominion. "

I hope they make a new EV-9D9 someday. He's got a cool design."

EV-9D9 is female, but yes, she does have a pretty cool design.

@Binnekamp said:"My favourite version. Simple is sometimes better"

As long as you don't take it too far and get 7104, right? (Although that one *did* have that nice brown panel at the nose, which only appeared in brown in that set.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I hate it when Lego themselves displays minifigures with the lightsaber hilt backwards."

Personally, I think it depends on the lightsaber. Granted, that point of view was kind of forced on me when, on Luke's hilt in my used 7965, the wider end had lost clutch so is literally incapable of holding the blade that way around; I had always had the blade be in the wider end on all the lightsaber hilts of my childhood, but didn't have any choice in that case! But lightsabers like Vader & Anakin's are canonically wider at the bottom of the hilt than at the blade end, so them holding the hilts the way depicted here does feel like a better representation of the way they look in the movie.

Also granted, Luke's new saber is not one of those with a wider end, so it doesn't make much sense for him here. But I just think that it's not necessarily wrong in every single case ^^

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On the set itself; got to admit that it's definitely an improvement over the version of the skiff I had, the one from 6210. Nicer use of colour (dark tan existed in 2006 but wasn't widely used) and more effective shaping, especially around the cockpit station at the back. Looks pretty solid to me ^^

@TheOtherMike said:
" @yodaloop said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @BabuBrick said:
"Love this set! This is from right around when I started getting into LEGO, so I'm very nostalgic for it. I have this proudly on display alongside 75005 and 75020 on my shelf. It's still my favorite LEGO Sarlacc, actually."

Yes. This. However, I have two of these with a moc-ed up Sarlacc pit, 9516, and a moc armory under the gatehouse to fully support it.

I also have a few prison cells leading from a moc of a droid torture room where EV-9D9 holds dominion. "

I hope they make a new EV-9D9 someday. He's got a cool design."

EV-9D9 is female, but yes, she does have a pretty cool design."

I think I knew that, a memory of a memory.

9496-1, $24.99 in 2012.

79356-1, $79.99 in 2024.

Yes, the newer model has more pieces and more figures, plus an anniversary fig. But there is not a snowball's chance in hell it should be more than three times the cost of the older set. You can get a sealed 2012 version on Ebay or Bricklink for less than the current price of the 2024 version on Lego's website. That's insane.

@Binnekamp said:
"My favourite version. Simple is sometimes better"

I think so, too!! I have all but the most recent skiff (no one else seems to mention 7104, but it's also a skiff). This one has the best balance
Great figures and 4 of them. Not a battle pack but great for the collection.
Good skiff. it doesn't need to be too complicated.
Pretty decent price. Doesn't need to break your wallet for a small skiff.